History VideoGame / CrystalStory

** One of Phoebe's possible in-combat/victory lines is "[[Music/MCHammer Hammer Time!]]"

** The other such equip type is any of 10 ball-and-chain-shaped "Last X" armors. These have the same low-health trigger as above, but they provide standard stat buffs ([[AndZoidberg and/or Regen]]) whose duration is independent of how long the wearer has low health.

*** Another fact to note is that [[ShockAndAwe lighning]] is treated as wind in both games.

* HelloInsertNameHere: In the second game, you can change the party members' names, and rename them later when you reach Port Breeze.

* PercentDamageAttack: Certain strong bosses in the second game have a skill called Judgement [[TurnsRed in their secondary forms]]. This attack hits your entire party, removing ''95%'' of everyone's health, and it [[StatusBuffDispel removes all stat buffs]]. This can turn into an AttackBackfire for said bosses if you have Last (Buff) equips, since the low HP triggers said buffs.

* PercentDamageAttack: Certain strong bosses in the second game have a skill called Judgement [[TurnsRed in their secondary forms]]. This attack hits your entire party, removing ''95%'' of everyone's health, and it removes all stat buffs. This can turn into an AttackBackfire for said bosses if you have Last (Buff) equips, since the low HP triggers said buffs.

* StatusBuffDispel: Variant. A skills exists that dispels '''all''' effects, positive ''and'' negative, and can be used on players or enemies. A stronger version exists that removes all effects from ''everyone on the field''!

*** The [[Pun Carp Dime]] buffs DEF, MDEF, ''and'' gives Regen.

** As outlined above, the UpdatedReRelease does this to on of the optional dungeons, cutting it down to one floor.

* WeaponOfChoice: Every party member has one: bow for Kaeli, hammer for Phoebe, spear for Reuben, guns for Mari, knives for Lina and scythe for Kaz. Tristam and D both have swords, though.

** The very first dungeon has an even shorter one the first time through.

* AnIcePerson: Reuben uses ice-based attacks. This carries over to the sequel when he [[GuestStarPartMember joins D's party]].

** The other such equip type is any of 10 armors with "Last" in their names. These have the same low-health trigger as above, but they provide standard stat buffs ([[AndZoidberg and/or Regen]]) whose duration is independent of how long the wearer has low health.
*** There's one "Last" armor each for attack (ATK), magic (MAG), Physical defense (DEF), (elemental) Magic defense (MAG), post-action recovery, well, speed (SPD), and Regen (restores health over time). Then there's "Last Strength", which combines the ATK and DEF buffs, "Last Wisdom", which combines the MAG and MDEF buffs, and "Last Agility" which combines the SPD buff and Regen status. Finally: [[spoiler: "Last '''All'''", which gives the wearer '''all six''' of the aforementioned buffs, but is ''very'' rare!]]

** The Abandoned Sewer, one of the bonus dungeons in the same game, has two ''huge'' floors, and thanks to RandomlyGeneratedLevels, you're likely to completely navigate ''both floors'' before reaching the Spider King boss, who is luckily not too bad.
This stage deserves specil mention because the UpdatedReRelease {{Nerf}}s it down to one floor.

** The desert stage between Dustop and the [[TempleOfDoom Great Tomb]] in the sequel can get pretty long, especially in the middle of Chapter 2 when you still don't have a lot of MP yet and barely have access to area-of-effect skills yet.

* {{Nerf}}: A patch did this to ''Crystal Story II''[='=]s armors. To prevent MinMaxing, characters can't equip multiple items that add to the same stat. This has obvious effects (no equipping multiple Boots, for example) and not-so-obvious effects (Circlets can't be equipped with Gauntlets , Amulets, or Boots, as Circlets boost all the stats the other three do).

* OneLetterName: The default name of the main character in the second game is "D". [[spoiler:Also "Z", who pops up in a cutscene at postgame.]]

* ContractualBossImmunity: Most bosses in both games are at least 50% resistant to debuffs (Stat X Break/Down) and 75%+ resistant to all status ailments (stun, silence, etc.) except poison. Downplayed somewhat in that bosses are never immune to debuffs and most aren't truly immune to non-poison ailments (just highly resistant), except for one post-endgame boss.

** Every 5th floor of the Evil Cave is this, with a portal back to [[FirstTown Smalltown]] to heal up, upgrade equips, etc. Sidequest dungeons and random dungeons have 2 floors, the second of which is this; however, LevelScaling foes (including the bosses) infest these dungeons and [[CheckpointStarvation you lack the luxury of said portal]]. ** Appears as [[spoiler: floor 2 of [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon the abyss, the entire Rift dungeon]], and floor 3 of Doom Lair]] in the sequel.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Some of the [[ItemCrafting crafted weapons]] can be random and may not give you what you need when (random buff/nerf weapons), or very situational. Unlike the more basic weapons, the stat increases from these are generaally not as high.

** Subverted with quite a few weapon effects, actually. These include: "Buff plus", if you have a dedicated buff caster; "Nerf Plus" the same but with any bad effects, as stat debuffs prove useful agaist bosses despite their resistance to it; possibly "Guard Plus" ([[DefendCommand Guard skill now reflects some damage with improved defense]]), and Vampiric, which causes the user to drain a small percentage of HP everytime they deal damage.

* BoomHeadshot: Said by Mari during her LimitBreak.

* HelloInsertNameHere: In the second game, you can change the party members' names, and rename them later.

** The Abandoned Sewer, one of the bonus dungeons in the same game, has two ''huge'' floors, and thanks to [[ProceduralGeneration random dungeon generation]], you're likely to completely navigate ''both floors'' before reaching the Spider King boss, who is luckily not too bad.

** The Abandoned Sewer, one of the bonus dungeons in the same game, has two ''huge'' floors, and thanks to random level generation, you're likely to completely navigate ''both floors'' before reaching the Spider King boss, who is luckily not too bad.

** The desert stage between Dustop and the [[TempleOfDoom Great Tomb]] can get pretty long, especially in the middle of Chapter 2 when you still don't have a lot of MP yet and barely have access to area-of-effect skills yet.
** The Abandoned Sewer, one of the bonus dungeons, has two ''huge'' floors, and thanks to random level generation, you're likely to completely navigate ''both floors'' before reaching the Spider King boss, who is luckily not too bad.

* TimeSkip: Several years have passed between the two games.