History VideoGame / EpicBattleFantasy5

* AdjustableCensorship: This is the first game in the series that features a set of "NSFW" toggles[[note]]''2'' had a similar option, but it only controlled whether or not blood would appear during some attacks[[/note]], which will remove elements like [[NoSwastikas Lance's Nazi/SS logos]], Natz' {{Stripperiffic}} [[AdaptationalModesty out]][[DigitalBikini fits]] and infamous {{Gainaxing}}, and the bears' new DungFu attacks, among other things. Enemies' death animations are also more cartoonish, disappearing in a puff of smoke rather than the blood effect of the previous games. This is to widen the game's appeal without censoring it completely, something Matt is quite averse to doing.

* SuperstitionEpisode: This is the only game in the series that makes luck into a mechanic, even as just names for specific statuses. Good Luck is a StatusBuff, while Bad Luck is a StandardStatusEffect.

** Equip Remix however ups the ante. There is a weapon for Anna that randomly casts Machine Guns, Sea Mine and M.O.A.B (the last one being Lance's skill with 10 rounds cooldown) between turns for free, at a cost of her being confused half the time.

* JokeItem: Found after beating God, one of [=NoLegs=]' weapons is the Buster Sword, "the strongest sword of them all!". According to the description. It's actually a much smaller replica made entirely out of "100% recycled cardboard" and duct tape. It's as useless as it sounds.

* DrivenToSuicide: A couple of examples in the fifth game:

** A surfer NPC in the lava half of the Premium-version Freezeflame Dungeon will ask the party about [[TooDumbtoLive surfing on lava]], which Matt encourages as long as he films it so that his life doesn't go to waste. If you exit and re-enter the screen, the surfer will be gone, with his surfboard and skull floating in the lava.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:The Devourer. Let's just say its powers include ''soft-rebooting the entire series'' and leave it at that.]]

* TheMissingno: Grey Pixels, Red Pixels, Green Pixels, and Dead Pixels, as well as their EliteMook cousins that have a jumble of garbage and hex characters for a name, are all glitch enemies with weird properties.

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* {{Cooldown}}: In the fifth game, there is no more ManaPoints. Instead, stronger abilities are restricted by giving them a cooldown, in number of turns, until it can be used again. Some food can be used to have players' cooldowns be reduced, and making use of the Haste effect (allowing those with it to take an immediate additional action) does not count toward cooldowns — they only pass by after an entire side's turn. Some enemies can inflict a status called Disable, which immediately places character's cooldown skills (and sometimes skills ''without'' cooldowns) into, well, cooldown.

* LOL69: Summoning the Beholder, which uses a censored attack involving Naughty Tentacles, costs 69 SP. It also has 2169 base HP, though you won't know that unless you look it up on a wiki or in the game's files.

* StoneWall: Matt's Love Blade, which cuts Attack in half, and increases his defenses by 30%. It's description is:

* KarmaHoudini: Lance again in the fifth game. Not only does he plan to take advantage of a global catastrophe to unite the world under a fascist regime, as he does in ''[=EBF2=]'', he also kidnaps several women (including Natalie) to act as "breeding stock" for said regime. Once again, his only punishment upon defeat is to join the party. This time it's justified, as they're only recruiting him for his knowledge of the monoliths and they don't particularly like or trust him (especially Natalie). It's also downplayed: aside from the party's own distrust, several [=NPCs=] are astonished or appalled to see Lance just casually walking around with you. Even Lance himself is surprised that he got off so lightly.

* ShipTease: To go along with [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade when they've fought enough before the end of the game]], Matt and Natalie are a tad more embarrassed when talking to each other while they've just met.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In the fifth game, Matt has an attack where he throws his currently equipped sword at the enemy wave, where it spins around several times and damages all foes with each spin. Approriately enough, it's called "Slicing Cyclone".

* CreatorCameo: The angelic SupportPartyMember in the video game Matt is playing at the start is a depiction of Phyrrna, the composer who wrote the game's music.

** Matt and Lance do this when they're particularly angry.

* YouBastard: PlayedForHorror. [[spoiler:The party are horrified by the nightmarish final glitch area and [[BreakingTheFourthWall plead with you, the player]], to leave immediately and not fight the boss. After you invariably fight and defeat it,]] Matt calls you out on it, and the entire party relate how scarred they feel as though trying to guilt you.
-->'''Matt:''' You sent us in there even though we begged you not to. [[YouMonster You're a monster.]]

* HotterAndSexier: The second through fourth games had a LimitBreak for Natalie, called Kyun, where she did a pose winking towards the screen. ''5'' renamed this 7th Heaven and changed it to an illusion of a full-body shot where she dresses down in to a more revealing version of the costume she was wearing at the time.

* PointOfNoReturn: On the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} store [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/432350/Epic_Battle_Fantasy_5/ page]] for the game, the "The Epic Battle Fantasy 5 does NOT feature..." section mentions: "Points of no return."

* PuzzleBoss:

* RazorWind: Gale > Tempest, a physical skill that does wind damage to one enemy.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Matt and Natalie can become a couple in the ending of the 5th game.]]
* RedFilterOfDoom: Losing the last living party member(s) results in the background turning red for a moment before the GameOver screen...
** [[spoiler:Even '''Auto Revive''' doesn't prevent the red "flash", though it does otherwise work as normal.]]
* RecurringBoss: Chibi Knight, fought 3 times.

* StoneWall: Matt's Love Blade, which cuts Attack in half, and increases his defenses by 30%. "A sword made for healing, not fighting."
* SurpriseCreepy: ''1'', ''3'', and ''4'' all had shades of this, but ''5'' dials it right the way up. You'll find dark underground chambers guarded by masked [=NPCs=] who speak in creepy growls, animals that sometimes turn red and make an equally creepy growl when touched, glitched areas that temporarily mess up part of the game, [[spoiler:culminating in a ''horrifying'' area where the party scream at you to stop moving them while messages like "DIE" and "ROT" flash up on the screen]], a boss who [[spoiler:uses your party members as a mouthpiece to directly tell the player to stop playing the game]] (while likely confusing them so they act without your input), and an EldritchAbomination final boss that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou knows you exist, threatens to invade your reality]], and [[spoiler:''deletes the protagonists' planet on a whim'']].
* SuperstitionEpisode: In the fifth game, luck is a StatusBuff, while being unlucky is a StandardStatusEffect.
* TakingYouWithMe:

* RecurringBoss: Chibi Knight in the fifth game.

The fifth game in the ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series released for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on November 30, 2018. It resets Matt in his room, playing video games. When a meteor hits nearby, it results in a power outage, so he leaves on a journey to fix it. He has a re-encounter with [=NoLegs=] who was scavenging his trash, and after battling it, [=NoLegs=] joins his party, this time proper.

The expanded version can be purchased at UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/432350/Epic_Battle_Fantasy_5/ here]].

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: The battles against the recruitable party members can all be ended through alternative means, instead of just beating the crap out of whoever's about to join your party. You actually get a medal for doing it.

* PowerAtAPrice:

* LesYay: Anna to Natz. Especially when the latter does her bouncy LimitBreak, Anna will have the same hearts [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer in her eyes as the dudes]].

* AttackReflector: There are several types of mirrors, which reflect either physical or magical (or both!) damage types to any active party member, depending on the mirror. Hitting them with a powerful attack can smash them, preventing this effect while giving 3 turns of '''Bad Luck''' to the attacker. Also Voodoo dolls, which return the damage to whoever they represent even if they are in backup, but it also applies to healing.

The fifth game in the ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series released for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in November 30 2018. It resets Matt in his room, playing video games. When a meteor hits nearby, it results in a power outage, so he leaves on a journey to fix it. He has a re-encounter with [=NoLegs=] who was scavenging his trash, and after battling it, [=NoLegs=] joins his party, this time proper.

* LevelScaling: In ''[=EBF5=]'', before the 1.5 patch, in all optional areas. When you level up, so do enemies, but they get more stats per level. It makes it harder, the higher level you are, to account for the RareCandy items that are acquired throughout the game. Stat growth is exponential, so you're punished the more you level up. However, you can do some MoneyGrinding instead and buy stat raising items that modify the stat growth ratio, so with enough patience and level exploring, you can have them enough to overcome the enemy stat growth. But, such items' price doubles with each buy. ... After the 1.5 patches, it changes things so after level 36, it does get easier, even without stat boosting RareCandy.