History VideoGame / ClassOfHeroes

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gnomes and male Bahamun have blue hair, whilst female Bahamun have bright red hair. There's also the orange haired Dwarves, the green haired Fairies, and white haired male Diablos. Starting with the third game, any race can have any one of a number of different hair colors.

It is with this premise that developer Zerodiv (and publisher Accquire) introduces to us to ''Class of Heroes'' for the UsefulNotes/{{PSP}}. Initially created as a SpiritualSuccessor to the Japan-only ''Xth'' subseries of the ''VideoGame/Wizardry'' franchise (To the point of using all of the same character races), the modest success of the first game resulted in three sequels, two (later three) ports and a spinoff.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted. Want a Diablon (devil-folk) Paladin (required alignment: good)? You can make one.
* BreathWeapon: Diablons and Drakes have this as a racial ability.
* CatGirl: The Felpiers. They can be both male or female though.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Drakes. They are said to be arrogant, don't get along well with most races, and are best suited to melee majors.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gnomes and male Bahamun have blue hair, whilst female Bahamun have bright red hair. There's also the orange haired Dwarves, the green haired Fairies, and white haired male Diablos. The sequel's trailer shows that the Drakes have changed their colors, but both of them still have hair that fits this trope.

* CuteMonsterGirl: At least half of the female Playable Characters.
* DarkIsNotEvil /LightIsNotGood: Nothing will stop you from making a Good [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Diablos]], nor an Evil [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Celestia]].

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. Dwarves in the game are closer to beast-folk, and their description says that they're [[{{Omniglot}} good with languages]].
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: They basically exist only on the astral plane, and need to possess a physical shell in order to interact with the material world.

* StandardFantasyRaces: There are 10 races in the game, including fairies, cat-people, dragon-folk, devil-folk and angel-folk.

* Writing Around Trademarks: The Khulaz race is an Main/{{Expy}} of the Hobbit race from Wizardry Xth. As Zerodiv could not afford to pay the asking price for the Hobbit name from the Japanese licensors of Literature/TheLordOfTheRings, they instead renamed them "Khulaz" as a corruption of the Hobbit/Halfling race's equivalent from Japanese pen and paper RPG ''Sword World'', the ''Grass''runners.

* Writing Around Trademarks: The Khulaz race is an Main/{{Expy}} of the Hobbit race from Wizardry Xth. As Zerodiv could not afford to pay the asking price for the Hobbit name from the Japanese licensors of TheLordOfTheRings, they instead renamed them "Khulaz" as a corruption of the Hobbit/Halfling race's equivalent from Japanese pen and paper RPG ''Sword World'', the ''Grass''runners.

* DarkIsNotEvil /LightIsNotGood: Nothing will stop you from making a Good [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Diablon]], nor an Evil [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Celestian]].

* FantasticRacism: A gameplay element - if two races who are distrustful of one another end up in the same team (e.g. ElvesVersusDwarves), their stats will be negatively affected. Conversely, if the two races like each other, they get a bonus to their stats. Certain items and using Gambits can negate this eventually.

* JackOfAllStats: Both humans and Felpier, in different ways. Humans are the standard "neither great nor terrible in any stat", while the Felpier excel in Vitality and Agility, which are useful for all classes, at the expense of the extremely specialized Luck stat that mostly benefits thieves.
* LuckManipulationMechanic: Gambits, which use up the built-up "Tension" gained from completing quests and fighting.

* NintendoHard: Atlus refuses to localise games that can't reduce the player to a shivering, disheartened wreck. The tradition continues.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Dwarves in the game are closer to beast-folk, and their description says that they're [[{{Omniglot}} good with languages]].
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: In the Japanese version, the Erdgheist are called Gnomes. In either they basically exist only on the astral plane, and need to possess a physical shell in order to interact with the material world.
* PaletteSwap: Many, ''many'' of the monsters.

* {{Whatevermancy}}: Getting progressively more extreme with each game. The latest of which includes [[HospitalHottie Nurses]], [[IdolSinger Idols]], {{Tsundere}}s, [[MagicKnight Older Siblings]], [[FragileSpeedster Younger Siblings]] and [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] as classes.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Erdgeists and male Drakes have blue hair, whilst female Drakes have bright red hair. There's also the orange haired Dwarves, the green haired Sprites, and white haired male Diablons. The sequel's trailer shows that the Drakes have changed their colors, but both of them still have hair that fits this trope.

Creator/{{Atlus}} took a chance on localizing the first game, which ultimately flopped. However, it garnered a [[Main/CultClassic cult following]] among fans of the genre, causing minor localization outfit Gaijinworks to use Kickstarter to fund their efforts to localize the second game. The successful kickstarter saw a limited physical release of the PSP edition as well as digital releases of both the PSP and {PS3} editions. A kickstarter for the third game ended in failure, resulting in [[NoExportForYou none of the games past 2G making the jump overseas]].

It is with this premise that developer Zerodiv (and localizer Creator/{{Atlus}}) introduces to us to ''Class of Heroes'' for the UsefulNotes/{{PSP}}. This 2009 game is a throwback to the old days of DungeonCrawling and is heavily based on ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}''. Two sequels have been released in Japan with class, balance, and interface tweaks. The first of them, ''Class of Heroes 2'', had been released in the West in 2013.

* AcademyOfAdventure: Well, it is a school for adventurers.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To the ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' series, of which the game takes it's basic engine and tropes from almost verbatim.
** The dev team of Class of Heroes even created the latest Wizardry title, ''VideoGame/WizardryLabyrinthOfLostSouls''.
** It's more a Spiritual Spinoff than a successor, though, as the Wizardry series is still going strong in Japan. The latest release in Japan is in 2011--''VideoGame/WizardryLabyrinthOfLostSouls'' is actually from ''2009''.
** Class of Heroes 1 is a remake/fork of ''Wizardry Xth 2: Unlimited Students'', and shares some code with it. Wizardry Xth itself was created by Michael software, which upon it's closure had "Team Muramasa" leave to form Experience, Inc. Experience would later re-create Wizardry Xth as ''Generation Xth'' and it's sequel ''Labyrinth Cross Blood.'' These would go on to be remade again as ''Operation Abyss,'' which makes the games spiritual cousins and all direct spiritual successors to the original Wizardry games. This is just a tiny fragment of the extended Japanese ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' family tree.

* FinalDeath: As in ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'', this game's spiritual ancestor, there are three stages of death: normal death, turned to ash, and "Lost". It costs thrice as much to bring a character back from ashes, but if that fails...well, let's hope you had [[SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear removed that character's equipment beforehand]]!

* FiveRaces: Averted, as there are actually 10, including fairies, cat-people, dragon-folk, devil-folk and angel-folk.

* GameBreaker: The Ragnarok spell in the second game. The basic Sorcerer class (and pretty much all the magic-oriented advanced classes) learns it before level 20, and the player can choose one of several beneficial effects to the whole party. 300% defense, 300% resistance, 300% attack, 300% Magic, a magic wall that will cut all physical damage by half and magic damage by a whopping 90%, completely refill your Team Attack gauge (fun to use to cast Magic Double and dealing 2x damage wih magic on the next turn) and the most baffling one - complete MP recovery for the entire party. Yes, by a measly 50 MP, you can recover all the MP of every character in your party (including other mages that will be hitting 500 or 600 MP by that point).
** The Sorcerer class and their race specific evolutions as a whole. While your physical-based party members will be struggling to land hits, the Sorcerer will be hitting entire enemy squads regardless of number with their Bomb spell. With Magic Double, MP Double and the Ragnarok buffs, your mages will be dealing tenfold the damage your Berserker does to one enmy, except on the entire enemy group. And that's if your Berserker is equipping the most expensive axes you can get, while the mages don't need to equip weapons at all.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: Several tidbits were changed to make the second game much more practical and easier, like the MP system change (the tiered system being replaced with a basic "spend as you please" way) and several magic classes being merged together as the new Sorcerer - along with the borderline GameBreaker Ragnarok. Experience and Gold are far easier to obtain, and as a rule of thumb, the dungeons are slight less complicated and the [[{{BossInMookClothing}} enemies that happen to be far stronger than everything else in the dungeon]] are much rarer and usually only found in specific parts of the dungeons.

* {{Whatevermancy}}: Getting progressively more extreme with each game. The latest of which includes [[HelloNurse Nurses]], [[IdolSinger Idols]], {{Tsundere}}s, [[MagicKnight Older Siblings]], [[FragileSpeedster Younger Siblings]] and [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] as classes.

It is with this premise that developer Zerodiv (and localizer Creator/{{Atlus}}) introduces to us ''Class of Heroes'' for the PSP. The game is a throwback to the old days of DungeonCrawling and is heavily based on ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}''. Two sequels have been released in Japan with class, balance, and interface tweaks. Three years after its initial release, the first sequel is slated to come to the US care of Monkey Paw Games, whose prior achievements mostly involve getting Japanese titles and a few English-language cult classics released on the Playstation Network.
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* CombinationAttack

* DungeonCrawling

** Class of Heroes 1 is a remake/fork of ''Wizardry Xth 2: Unlimited Students'', and shares some code with it. Wizardry Xth itself was created by Michael software, which upon it's closure had "Team Muramasa" leave to form Experience, Inc. Experience would later re-create Wizardry Xth as ''Generation Xth'' and it's sequel ''Labyrinth Cross Blood.'' These would go on to be remade again as ''Operation Abyss,'' which makes the games spiritual cousins and all direct spiritual successors to the original Wizardry games.

It is with this premise that developer Zerodiv (and localizer {{Atlus}}) introduces to us ''Class of Heroes'' for the PSP. The game is a throwback to the old days of DungeonCrawling and is heavily based on ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}''. Two sequels have been released in Japan with class, balance, and interface tweaks. Three years after its initial release, the first sequel is slated to come to the US care of Monkey Paw Games, whose prior achievements mostly involve getting Japanese titles and a few English-language cult classics released on the Playstation Network.

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** The dev team of Class of Heroes even created the latest Wizardry title, ''WizardryLabyrinthOfLostSouls''.
** It's more a Spiritual Spinoff than a successor, though, as the Wizardry series is still going strong in Japan. The latest release in Japan is in 2011 -- ''WizardryLabyrinthOfLostSouls'' is actually from ''2009''.

* GameBreaker: The Ragnarok spell in the second game. The basic Sorcerer class (and pretty much all the magic-oriented advanced classes) learns it in their low 20-s, and the player can choose one of several beneficial effects to the whole party. 300% defense, 300% resistance, 300% attack, 300% Magic, a magic wall that will cut all physical damage by half and magic damage by a whopping 90%, completely refill your Team Attack gauge (fun to use to cast Magic Double and dealing 2x damage wih magic on the next turn) and the most baffling one - complete MP recovery for the entire party. Yes, by a measly 50 MP, you can recover all the MP of every character in your party (including other mages that will be hitting 500 or 600 MP by that point).
** The Sorcerer class and their race specific evolutions as a whole. While your physical-based party members will be struggling to land hits, the Sorcerer will be hitting entire enemy squads regardless of number with their Nuke spell. With Magic Double, MP Double and the Ragnarok buffs, your mages will be dealing tenfold the damage your Berserker does to one enmy, except on the entire enemy group. And that's if your Berserker is equipping the most expensive axes you can get, while the mages don't need to equip weapons at all.

* GameBreaker: The Ragnarok spell in the second game. The basic Sorcerer class (and pretty much all the magic-oriented advanced classes) learns it in their low 20-s, and the player can choose one of several beneficial effects to the whole party. 300% defense, 300% resistance, 300% attack, 300% Magic, a magic wall that will cut all physical damage by half and magic damage by a whopping 90%, completely refill your Team Attack gauge (fun to use to cast Magic Double and dealing 2x damage wih magic on the next turn) and the most baffling one - complete MP recovery for the entire party. Yes, by a measly 50 MP, you can recover all the MP of every character in your party (including other mages that will be hitting 500 or 600 MP by that point).
** The Sorcerer class and their race specific evolutions as a whole. While your physical-based party members will be struggling to land hits, the Sorcerer will be hitting entire enemy squads regardless of number with their Nuke spell. With Magic Double, MP Double and the Ragnarok buffs, your mages will be dealing tenfold the damage your Berserker does to one enmy, except on the entire enemy group. And that's if your Berserker is equipping the most expensive axes you can get, while the mages don't need to equip weapons at all.

* ShoutOut: In the English version of ''Class of Heroes 2'', one of the random messages that shows up when you attack an enemy will sometimes be "(name) attacks the enemy like an [[VanguardBandits ATAC]] for (number) damage!"

* NoExportForYou: Japan already has a ''third'' game from the series, as well as PS3 remakes of the second and third game. Only the first has been exported, and the second is only showing signs of an overseas release after 3 years since its original release.

** It's more a Spiritual Spinoff than a successor, though, as the Wizardry series is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff still going strong in Japan.]] The latest release in Japan is in 2011 -- ''WizardryLabyrinthOfLostSouls'' is actually from ''2009''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Erdgeists and male Drakes have blue hair, whilst female Drakes have bright red hair. There's also the orange haired Dwarves, the green haired Sprites, and [[WhitehairedPrettyBoy white haired]] male Diablons. The sequel's trailer shows that the Drakes have changed their colors, but both of them still have hair that fits this trope.

* NoExportForYou: Japan already has a ''third'' game from the series, as well as PS3 remakes of the second and third game. Only the first has been exported.