History VideoGame / Chantelise

** Elma, a vaguely cute fortune teller with the ability to summon giant monsters. And Chante, who will cave in the shins of anyone who even thinks about hurting her sister.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All human characters have black, brown or blonde hair while Chante has green hair and Elma has pink hair. Though this can be justified as [[spoiler:they are both fairies]].

!! Tropes used by this game:

** There are spells besides just the standard 2-4 gem combinations shown in the menu, by adding in other colors you can change the effect of the spells somewhat. Red gems add power and size or extra attack power during Super Armor, Blue gems add various StandardStatusEffects depending on how many were used, Green gems add more projectiles, and Yellow gems cause spells to penetrate enemies. For example, casting Aqua Splash, and adding in all three other colors will give you [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill three massive homing projectiles that will turn right back around and hit the target again as they pass through]].

* StandardStatusEffects: Poison and Paralysis, via Poison and Paralysis Crystals, and adding Water to non-Water Spells.

*** You've been given... THE BOOT... Aw, I [[Series/CSIMiami don't have any cool glasses]]...\\
*** You caught a taiyaki! Now you've seen the marvelous [[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob breadfish]]!\\

* BadassAdorable: Elma, a vaguely cute fortune teller with the ability to summon giant monsters. And Chante, who will cave in the shins of anyone who even thinks about hurting her sister.
** Don't forget about Elise, she is the one who does the bulk of the combat between the two sisters.
* BlackMagicianGirl: Chante and Elma.

** GiantMook: About three or four giant blue slimes await the player in the room right before the [[MirrorMatch silhouette boss fight]].

* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Fortuna]] pulls one [[spoiler:before the events of the game as part of her plan to destroy the ViciousCycle]], sparing [[spoiler:Elma's]] life and [[spoiler:creating the opportunity for a future swordmaiden to have ''two'' fairies]].

--> My memories of that night are foggy... sometimes I think to myself that it must have been a dream. But...
--> [[gold:"Don't go out at night when the moon is red, or the witch will curse you forevermore!"]]
--> They told us that old fairy tale so often...
--> And on the night of the red moon, five years ago, we went outside. It felt like we were being called.

* GameGourmet: Many items in the game are are various kinds of food. Said foods include oranges, cutlet bowls, candy, walnut bread, shortcake, kid's lunches, and melons.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of capturable fishes in fishing minigame is called [[http://i52.tinypic.com/zkr1h5.jpg Sperm Whale]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything whose sprite showcases white liquid ejecting out of it]].

** On casting a certain spell: "STOP! Hammerball!"

** Yellow = Earth.

* AlchemicalElementals: Chante, with Elise's help, can use SummonMagic to temporarily acquire spirits of the four elements the fire and wind ones are named for the classic AlchemicElementals of their element: Salamander and Slyphie.

* SiblingTeam: Chante and Elise are sisters, on a journey to free Chante from the curse that transformed her into a fairy. [[spoiler:It turns out that the witch's curse does this to a pair of sisters every few years, at least, until Chante and Elise stop the ViciousCycle.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Employed against a rather irritating boss who decided to park himself some distance across a void and flick bullets at Elise.

* WaterIsBlue

* WindIsGreen: The gems used to cast air / wind magic, is are green-colored.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All human characters have black, brown or blonde hair while Chante has green hair and Elma has pink hair. Though this can be justified as [[spoiler: they are both fairies]].

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Like ''VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale'', the demo ends with the fairy companion warning the player not to pirate the game or she "WILL find you and cave your shins in."

* CriticalAnnoyance

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Chante

* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: See BreakingTheFourthWall

** And they go to lengths to rub it in - an early area contains a nice piece of equipment that will save you a few pix in it's hidden chest. By the time the hint system become available, you very probably already have it.

* HomingProjectile: The Aqua Splash spell.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They are small WingedHumanoids that emit fairy dust. [[spoiler:They are former humans turned into fae by being imbued with magic stones by a castle in order to seal away an Archdevil, enabling their partner to slay monsters with ease, but they die if they use up all their fairy dust]].

--> You've been given... THE BOOT... Aw, I [[Series/CSIMiami don't have any cool glasses]]...
--> You caught a taiyaki! Now you've seen the marvelous [[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob breadfish]]!
--> You got a clownfish! [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Looks like we found him!]]

* WindIsGreen

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Subverted and probably lampshaded. At one point Chante needs to go do something without the character you control, Elise (who with Chante is effectively a MagicKnight). Elma (basically a CuteWitch) unexpectedly volunteers to go along with Chante, and on the way out of town brings up that they've never traveled together and need to get used to working with each other. Chante agrees, and right as the player is expecting to start a new tutorial for controlling a magic user, Elma [[spoiler:casts a spell which ''transforms her into a near-perfect copy of Elise!'' Elma then comments in Elise's voice that by now she should have all of Elise's movements and sword skills down perfectly as well.]]

* ColourCodedWizardry: Averted. Chante is dressed in green but she can do so much more than just [[WindIsGreen wind magic]] alone.
* ContinuingIsPainful: Averted. A Game Over sends you back to town, everything still intact. The only painful part is having to run through the stages again.

* ElectricJellyfish: One of the bosses that can [[ShockAndAwe shoot a line of electricity]] out of its CombatTentacles

** This is mainly because [[spoiler:that new pair of sisters got cursed before the cycle was broken]].

** Averted [[spoiler:with Aira]], who tries to pull this, [[spoiler:but is stopped by Elma]].
** Subverted [[spoiler:with Chante]]. It looks like [[spoiler:she pulled this off at the end of the game]], but it was revealed [[spoiler:that she survived]].

* LevelGrinding: Averted, sort of. On one hand, there ''is'' no level system; as in, you cannot level up no matter how much you kill. Of course, on the other hand, you can grind for money and buy Ferromins to boost your max HP. But then, considering the fact that Ferromins cost tens of thousands (the cheapest starts out at 2000pix, but since [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts Adam Smith hates your guts oh so much]], the cost will exceed 10000pix after buying your third one) and will reach several hundreds of thousands and possibly even millions... uhh... good luck with it, then.

* PlayingWithFire: Chante can cast these using the red gems. The silhouette boss can cast a trail of fire aimed at Elise when it picks up a red gem.

* RodandReelRepurposed : You need to hit an enemy [[spoiler:who is the final boss]] with the fishing rod to get a treasure. And you can also use it as a weapon.
* ShockAndAwe:
** Some spells cast from the green gems.
** The silhouette boss has lightning attacks.
** Also, the Electrojelly boss summons lightning.

*** You've been given... THE BOOT... Aw, I [[Series/CSIMiami don't have any cool glasses]]...
*** You caught a taiyaki! Now you've seen the marvelous [[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob breadfish]]!
*** You got a clownfish! [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Looks like we found him!]]

** [[spoiler: [[FetchQuest She gets better after you get the Blue Rose for her medicine, though.]]]]

** [[WaterIsBlue Aqua]]

** [[FireIsRed Salamander]]
** [[WindIsGreen Slyphie]]

* FairyCompanion: Chante, obviously.
** [[spoiler:Elma was this to Aira the last time the seal weakened. In fact, this is an effect of the so-called 'curse', which selects a pair of sisters and turns one of them into a fairy.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Fortuna pulls one before the events of the game as part of her plan to destroy the ViciousCycle, sparing Elma's life and creating the opportunity for a future swordmaiden to have ''two'' fairies.]]
** [[spoiler:Averted with Aira, who tries to pull this, but is stopped by Elma.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted with Chante. It looks like she pulled this off at the end of the game, but it was revealed that she survived.]]

* LevelGrinding: Averted, sort of. On one hand, there ''is'' no level system; as in, you cannot level up no matter how much you kill. Of course, on the other hand, you can grind for money and buy Ferromins to boost your max HP. But then, considering the fact that Ferromins cost tens of thousands (the cheapest starts out at 2000pix, but since [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts Adam Smith hates your guts oh so much]], will reach exceed 10000pix after buying your third one) and will reach several hundreds of thousands and possibly even millions... uhh... good luck with it, then.

* {{Oculothorax}}: Eyebats: Eyeballs that fly with bat wings.

* ShockAndAwe: Some spells cast from the green gems. The silhouette boss does this, too.
** Also, the Electrojelly boss.