History VideoGame / CrossCode

* OurClonesAreDifferent: The Evotars, copies of a ''[[ShowWithinAShow Crosscode]]'' player's DigitalAvatar running on an AI instead of a player. They generally do not know that they are really clones until somebody explicitly reveals it to them, but they aren't allowed in the Public Playground [[SuperDrowningSkills nor can they survive in water]] due to being made of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Instant Matter]].

* SequelHook: An ''InUniverse'' one: defeating the final boss of the "A New Home" DLC leads to an announcement of an upcoming expansion to CrossWorld, the GameWithinAGame that Lea has been playing for most of the story.

* NonstandardGameOver: [[spoiler:The bad ending becomes this with ''A New Hope''. As it continues on from the good ending, its story cannot happen if Lea and the Evotars are banned and erased/killed. Homestedt wouldn't exist, either.]]

* AndIMustScream: Players in [[spoiler: the Vermillion Wasteland]] are not only unable to teleport out of the area but they also find themselves unable to log out or even disable the {{CrossGear}} neural gear, leaving them trapped in the game. [[spoiler: As it turns out they cannot log out because they are not really players at all, but AI copies of players; however they are still fully sentient and unaware of their nature, thus they suffer the same kind of SanitySlippage that a human would.]]

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** The maximum level is 99, which is probably not something most players are going to reach without bolstering the enemy levels in the fields. Reaching the final boss will have Lea around level 60 or so. Also, even reaching the maximum level doesn't give quite enough circuit points to unlock every ability.
** In-universe, one fellow player in Basin Keep notes that he got to level 99 long beforehand... by killing nearly 98,000 Hedgehags. Ouch.
* AccidentalAimingSkills: Due to the game's mechanics. When you miss an enemy with a charged ranged attack, the projectile can ricochet on a wall and hit them anyway.

* AfterCombatRecovery: When not in combat, a player's health will rapidly recover to full in just a few seconds. It's designed so that if a player misses a jump, falls into water or plummets off of a cliff, the HP penalty is momentary. It's possible to jump into hazards so often that you die out of combat, but [[ViolationOfCommonSense you'd really have to be trying to do that]].

** In-universe, one fellow player in Basin Keep notes that he got to level 99 long beforehand... by grinding on 99,000 Frobbits. Ouch.

* CloningBlues: Discussed. [[spoiler:Sergey talks about how while Evotars were in development, some of them would learn the truth about themselves and ''not'' take it well. Seeing as how Lea reacts to learning she's a clone of Shizuka, how Lukas reacts to being unable to properly log off, and how the Evotars in the Vermillion Wasteland act after being stuck in the game for god knows how long, [[SanitySlippage one could only imagine what the Evotars were going through before the project was shut down.]]]]

* GreenHillZone: Autumn's Rise. You later revisit it through Autumn's Fall, which is a smaller branch of it filled with [[UndergroundMonkey far stronger versions]] of the Autumn's Rise enemies.

** Talatu Lips

* ThemeNaming: The classes are mainly portmanteaus of "[Latin Number] + [Noun]". Triblader, Quadroguard, Pentafist, Hexcaster, with Spheromancer being the OddNameOut. Shadoboxxer outside the Ba'kii Kum Seeker Hub plays with this, saying that she's a Heptalancer in her other account.

* HeroicMime: Played with. Lea is not normally mute, but she quickly gains a limited ability to speak a few words, with more unlocked as the story progresses as Sergey hard-codes them into her speech. Her limited speech is effectively treated as a bug in the game, which is not unheard of in [=CrossWorlds=], and other characters who learn about it are quite understanding of Lea's condition and willing to accommodate her. The First Scholars in particular reassure her that her disability doesn't affect how they think of her. Lea's limited speech is generally unnoticed, because being able to say hello, her name, a few other pre-programmed words over time and use non-verbal communication still manages to get her quite far. (It's PlayedForLaughs when Emilie doesn't even ''notice'' because she tends to dominate every conversation she's in, and just thinks that Lea is the quiet type.)

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: One of the puzzles that a player needs to solve is waiting for a shishi-odoshi to strike exactly twelve times before shooting a target. It not only changes speeds at how fast it doinks, but it also features lots of other creatures making annoying noises while it happens.

* {{Wutai}}: Sapphire Ridge is an area with Japanese architecture and bamboo gardens everywhere. The most common enemies in the area are [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers two types]] of beetle {{samurai}}. The main quest in the area requires you to, among other things, watch TheThingThatGoesDoink and battle a {{ronin}} in an abandoned dojo.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: Gautham, aka the Blue Avatar is the final boss of the main mode as [[OneWingedAngelForm The Creator]]. The DLC has Evotar Sidwell as the very last boss.]]