History VideoGame / AnotherEden

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Earth beats Water, Water beats Fire, Fire beats Wind, and Winds beats Earth. Shade and Thunder are weak to each other but resist Crystal, and Crystal is weak to itself but resists everything else. Hitting weaknesses will contribute a great boost to the LimitBreak meter and significantly extend the Another Force duration. Most elementally-aligned enemies will resist their own elements, but not the element they have an offensive advantage on.

** To compensate to there being no healing items in the game, Inns and Resting Spots are completely free, healing all HP and MP at once. On top of that, most Inns give out Food items, which act as 'portable inns' that restore the entire party's HP and MP at any moment so long as it's out of battle, but only one can be held at any moment. Said Food is extremely useful, as it allows you to be at full strength for an upcoming boss fight even after running through an entire dungeon.

** The Tsubura's Gems, introduced in v1.5.1, function as a BadLuckMitigationMechanic for the rarest Another Dungeon rewards. The player earns them by completing Another Dungeon runs that require 1 red key or 2 green keys, and they come at a pace that lets a player trade for a much-coveted Chant Script or two Treatises/Codexes every month.

** Starting from v3.3.1, older characters eligible for Stellar Awakening upgrade receive massive readjustment on all of their skills to give them more utility in line with the game's current trend with the enemies, allowing them to stand equal with newer units once again. Aldo is the first to receive this readjustment, followed by Suzette and Tsukiha in v3.3.110.

** Completing Chapter 92 unlocks the Omegapolis Another Dungeon, which operate similarly to Garulea and Underworld Another Dungeons while retaining mechanics introduced in the new story chapter such as phase shift. The regular enemies' standard level is ''level 110'' and it is even harder while entering phase-shifted areas of the dungeon, which means the Another Dungeon requires even more party optimizing than before.

* ChainOfDeals: The Elpis Dagger, which is an incredibly strong katana, is obtained at the end of a series of trades initiated at Flotsam Isle. The mek who starts it has a different sense of "value" and is keen to teach it to Aldo, so it deems a shiny crown as WorthlessYellowRocks, exchanging it for a can opener. You then have to journey about the time layer to find the right people who will accept the item you've got, eventually leading to a dusty straw hat. This turns out to be the prized possession of a human that was the mek's close companion, and as a token of its gratitude you finally get the Elpis Dagger.

* SimpleYetAwesome: Erina the Healer maxes out at 4 stars, but her "Energy Steal" is incredibly practical. The problem with Heal spells is that they reduce your Damage Per Turn, since one of your party members casts the heal spell instead of using an attack. "Energy Steal" ''is'' an attack, a fairly powerful single-target nuke, letting you eke out that extra bit of damage.

** The last third portion of ''Wanderer in the Vortex'' final chapter, ''Wanderer in the Binding Night'', introduces all-out battle that turns the gameplay into TurnBasedStrategy where Aldo's group has to defeat a large number of monsters in [[spoiler:White Night Cocoon]] in large, open space. Here, the movement of enemies and allies alike are restricted into grids, with every unit is normally restricted into three movements at maximum. Attacking other unit will result in normal battle where the ambushed unit will get stunned on first turn, and each battle is restricted into two turns before a stalemate is declared. Furthermore, to assist with the situation of the battlefield, all units are equipped with a handful of command and boost skills to help them turn the tides, such as command skill to nullify stun when ambushed and to restrict enemy movement.

Available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.wfs.anothereden Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/another-eden/id1439565347 iOS]], with a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port in the works. A PC port for the global version is available starting from March 31, 2021 through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

** Guiding Light and Luring Shadow are accumulated either through getting duplicates of a character from Dream Encounters or increased from certain Another Dungeon runs for story characters. Through most of the game their influence is rather minimal, but they can have a significant influence in the postgame -- especially at thresholds where they unlock an additional skill slot, badge slot, and Grasta slot. Your point totals also affect the number of additional rewards you'd receive from an Another Dungeon run, giving incentive to accumulate them.

* AbusivePrecursors: In the Western Mythos, [[spoiler:the People of Paradise turns out to be this. They masked as "saviors" for the people of the barren Zerberiya Continent in order to kidnap the "wingless beings" as tools for their own war, and even before that, they callously used the planet as dumping ground for their spirits (real and artificial ones) those were deemed of no use for them - three of which (shade, crystal, and thunder spirits) more or less ended up contributing to Zerberiya's harsh environment. Also, the existence of the geometric-looking {{Bonus Boss}}es such as Imbrium Basin could also be traced back to them (they were failed artificial spirits initially created to serve as energy source).]]

** A side path in Toto Dreamland leads to the Ferris Wheel, where one finds an animatronic for Mimi the Rabbit. If the flashing red Horror icon on the minimap doesn't communicate this trope enough, the fact that she's a level 100 BonusBoss will.

* RetiredBadass: In update 2.2.8 the game allows the Baruoki Mayor to give you tutorials on various combat mechanics. This is conveyed as him being able to floor Aldo in a SingleStrokeBattle, and after all the tutorials he becomes a fearsome BonusBoss.

* TakingYouWithMe: The BonusBoss Kudang in Land of Ro's Dungeon Ruins will unleash an attack that practically guarantees TotalPartyKill on the frontline party upon its defeat, thus necessitating at least one of the members to have Hold Ground buff to survive and for the game to count this victory.

* AsteroidsMonster: The Menreiki, one of the {{Superboss}}es, has a deceptively small health bar and simple attack pattern. Deplete its health, and it splits into two, and these smaller ones can split even further, capping at 4 bodies all with the same strength as the base form. The fight quickly turns into [[WolfpackBoss figuring out how not to be overwhelmed.]]

** The 2023 crossover features ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'', with Cyrus from ''I'', Partitio from ''[[VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII II]]'', and Tithi from ''[[VideoGame/OctopathTravelerChampionsOfTheContinent Champions of the Continent]]''. It also features ''Octopath'' game mechanics like Shield Break, BP, and Path Actions. Like fellow Creator/SquareEnix series ''Chrono Cross'', it has a time limit attached (if a quite long five-year one).

** If you've bested the eight {{superboss}}es of Present Garulea and Antiquity Garulea, you can access rematches with them in the Underworld. You'll be fighting one of the Present spirits with one of the Antiquity spirits, and although their behaviour hasn't changed much they've received a mountain of stats, and having to deal with two boss attack patterns at once can prove very troublesome.

** Aldo received massive readjustment of his skills in v3.3.1 to give all of his skills more utility (and additional bonus for Light characters for some), along with the release of Stellar Awakening feature that gives him more power and boosts his level cap to 100.