History VideoGame / FinalFantasyType0

A companion game called ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAgito'' has been released for iOS and Android. It takes place in the first but a alternate spiral of history than Type-0 but the same settings.

A prequel called ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAgito'' has been released for iOS and Android.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Midway through the escape mission in Chapter 4, a creepy steel giant (番外者 or lit. "outsider") appears out of nowhere and is out to get you. Although you can receive a Ribbon if you defeat it, the default scenario is to avoid him and escape on a train.

* AlternativeCalendar: Orience uses the "Seagull Calendar" (鴎歴, lit. ''ou-reki'') which retains the Gregorian calendar system, but renames the twelve months after elements (e.g. 火の月, "Month of Fire" corresponds to January). The game takes place in the year 842.

* BattleIntro: The party leader will say their variation of "Class Zero, mission start!" (任務開始, ''ninmu kaishi!'')

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The summoning of a Grand Eidolon (秘匿大軍神; lit. "Sealed Great War God"). If summoning a regular Eidolon comes at the cost of one's life, the summoning of a Grand Eidolon requires a group of many to lend their powers to the summoner, gradually sacrificing their life force in the process.

* GetBackHereBoss: Captain Faith (フェイス大佐), who is piloting a flying Helldiver mech, in his first appearance in a Chapter 5 side-mission.

* InfiniteOneUps: The Life Lantern (命のランタン) is an item that puts Reraise on a character, and is dropped by Tonberries. Fortunately, there is a mission where Tonberries make a regular appearance, first available in Chapter 4 of the second playthrough. It’s a short mission too, with only the giant yeti boss to worry about if you’re not up to level yet. But once you are, you can replay this mission over and over to farm those lanterns, because revival items are hard to come by and KO’ed characters who are not revived in time will disappear until the end of the mission or until you go to a location with a Save Point. Reraise will be your new life insurance to keep your characters throughout a tough series of battles, and it comes in a pretty easy source too.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Orience (オリエンス; lit ‘’Oriensu’’) was previously spelled "Oriens" and "Oriense" before receiving an official spelling in ''VideoGames/TheatrhythmFinalFantasy''.

* VictoryQuote: "Mission complete!" (任務完了; "''ninmu kanryou'')

* MenDontCry: In the ending, [[spoiler:Class Zero realizes that their battle has been won, but that includes the unspoken truth that they are also going to die. Some start to cry, others quietly reveal that they are scared. Nine lets out in a hiss that everyone knew they were prepared for this, but no one is calmed by this. Finally Cinque [[IDontWantToDie loses it and sobs loudly]], bringing everyone to sit around her as they all collectively grieve over their impending fate. Their acceptance of it gets better afterwards.]]

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that ''Type-0'' will be getting an [[UpdatedRerelease HD remastered version]], to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne. Interestingly, the announcement of the English localization was made within TWO DAYS of the fan translation being finished. It is set to be released on March 2015, and will contain a voucher for a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' demo. With it's upcoming release in North America for the first time, this will be the first Final Fantasy game in the franchise's history to get various "mature" ratings[[note]]It was given a "C" rating (15+) in Japan which is somewhere between a T and M rating in North America, and a PEGI 12 and PEGI 16 rating in Europe, so it straddles the line.[[/note]] due to its BloodierAndGorier nature.

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that ''Type-0'' will be getting an [[UpdatedRerelease HD remastered version]], to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne. Interestingly, the announcement of the English localization was made within TWO DAYS of the fan translation being finished. It is set to be released on March 2015, and will contain a voucher for a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' demo.

* SigilSpam: Anything that remotely Rubrum will have some kind of gear motive on them, whether it's clothes that its people wear, summons, or architectures.

A prequel called ''VideoGame/Final Fantasy Agito'' has been released for iOS and Android.

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that ''Type-0'' will be getting an [[UpdatedRerelease HD remastered version]], to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne. Interestingly, the announcement of the English localization was made within TWO DAYS of the fan translation being finished.

A prequel called ''VideoGames/Final Fantasy Agito'' has been released for iOS and Android.

* AllStarCast: The Japanese version features many prominent voice actors, to the point that the final trailer before the release date consists of introducing the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters]] alongside the names of who provides the voice for them.

* BizarroEpisode: [[spoiler:The transition to the final chapter is going to come across as this.]]

** In a meta example, Disc One is where the first and final chapters are played, while Disc Two contains everything else in between.

* DecoyProtagonist: Zig-zags between Ace/the Twelve and Machina and Rem. Sometimes the latter pair is billed after the twelve, other times they are billed ''before'' the twelve. In the end, all of them are central to the plot.
** Machina and Rem were made out to be the main characters, gradually becoming the main representatives for ''Type-0'' in promotional artwork and footage. [[spoiler:However, they become unplayable for the final chapter and it is ultimately the twelve who take on the final mission themselves to perform a HeroicSacrifice that will end the war and bring peace to the world.]]

Viewpoint characters Rem and Machina are made out in publicity as the main characters, despite WordOfGod saying that they are only outside observers to the story's events.
** Except [[spoiler: this turned out to be a lie, as Rem and Machina's actions in this cycle of the world are what end up breaking the ViciousCycle that has plagued Orience, and while they don't succeed in saving Class Zero, they do manage to make sure to rebuild the world for them. Thus making them the most important characters in the story.]]

* FanTranslation: A completed version by SkyBladeCloud and team was released in June 2014. Two days later, ''Type-0 HD'' and ''Agito'' were announced for localization, and the patch has since been taken down at Square Enix's request.
* FetchQuest: Several quests from NPCs are this.

* Golem: Features as one of the Eidolon types you can summon, but it gets a notable appearance in the two Togoreth Fortress missions.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia[=/=]WistfulAmnesia: [[spoiler:Orience's Crystals have a very strange way dealing with the dead -- memories of any recently-deceased Oriensian will disappear from anyone who knew him/her, presumably to spare them the sense of grief and despair. But it doesn't prevent anyone from becoming curious over their missing memory pieces and finding out more. The rest of Class Zero would, in their HeroicSacrifice, ultimately restore Orience's ability to remember the fallen.]]
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:Tiz and Lean Joker are this, appearing only near the end and bearing little impact on the plot overall.]]

* LazyBackup: Averted. You don't get a game over until all the playable characters are KO'd. Whether or not there will be exceptions to that rule remains to be seen.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfSidequests: There are more side missions to be unlocked that are not part of the storyline, as well as quests from NPCs and other little quests around the Academy and World Map that contribute to 100% completion of the Crimson Codex. Many weapons and magic spells also have certain conditions to be fulfilled before they can be obtained.

** Usually storyline missions are this, with Save Points and HealingCheckpoints in between battle zones and objectives. (Note that when replaying these missions, the Save function is not available.)

* NoExportForYou: Was notably that one ''Final Fantasy title'' that had gone without an English translation/localization for three years since its release. Now averted as of E3 in June 2014 with the announcement of ''Final Fantasy Type-0 HD'', which will be getting a translation alongside ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAgito''.

* OminousLatinChanting:

* RedSkyTakeWarning: Finis.

* SternChase: Taken to grand proportions when Class Zero must escape the Imperial Capital in Chapter 4, on the wrongful accusation they assassinated the Concordian queen. The mission takes them from their hotel room all throughout the city, until it's revealed they reached safety in ''a forest in Lorican territory.'' And we're supposed to believe this took place ''[[Determinator all in one day]]?!''

** The names of the Genbu l’Cie who left behind Pyroxenes are named after characters from the EpicOfGilgamesh.

* UpdatedRerelease: The announced ''Final Fantasy Type-0 HD'', which will be remastered for the PS4 and XBox One and will also be translated into English.

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->''It was their destiny, and theirs alone to decide. Free from fear of fate, gazing undaunted into the eye of death.''

A game in the [[RunningGag dumbfoundingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series and second entry of the ''Franchise/FabulaNovaCrystallisFinalFantasy'' sub-series, '''''Final Fantasy Type-0''''' (known as ''Final Fantasy Agito XIII'' until late January 2011) is an {{Eastern RPG}} for the PlaystationPortable. According to an interview with Famitsu it is still a part of the (newly renamed) ''Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy'', which is a [[PretentiousLatinMotto Pretentious Latin Title]] meaning "The New Tale Of The Crystal", the name change done solely to prevent the assumption that Type-0 was dropped from the ''Fabula'' project. Nevertheless, this game contains similar mythologies with the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 other]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII games]], but is not directly related to them.

In the land of Oriense, there are four regions: Rubrum, Milites, Concordia and Lorica. Each of those regions has a crystal, and this crystal powers their military forces which are trained at four Peristylia (a combination of military academy and WizardingSchool), each represented by one of TheFourGods. The countries have been at peace, honoring the Pax Codex between them.

However, the expansionist [[EvilEmpire Empire]] of [[MeaningfulName Milites]], led by High Commander [[MythologyGag Cid]], has found a way to shatter the crystals and has set their sights on Rubrum and the Peristylium of Suzaku. Twelve students somehow retain their powers from the crystal pact, and it's up to them save their homeland and become Agito, the savior of the world.

A prequel called ''Final Fantasy Agito'' has been released for iOS and Android.

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that Type-0 will be getting an HD remastered version, to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne. Interestingly, the announcement of the English localization was made within TWO DAYS of the fan translation being finished.

* AlternateCharacterReading: The character for "Light" is read as "Hope", where they refer to TheFourGods of Oriense.
* AnyoneCanDie
* ArtEvolution: Being a cellphone game at first, it's not avoidable. Note that in early trailers, Ace has snow white hair [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:XIIIAgitoChara01.jpg and younger facial features]]. Other characters that appeared in the trailers also underwent the same evolution, like how Seven still wore Class Zero's red cape and didn't have her unique shoulder guards as can be seen [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Agito-Flail.jpg here]]
* [[ArtifactTitle Artifact]] TitleDrop: At some point, a Class Zero student is deemed to be the world's "Agito," or "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Savior]]." It's not exactly a TitleDrop, due to the game's name changed to ''Type-0'' instead.

** EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:On the other hand, completing certain criteria convinces Arecia to perform a CosmicRetcon where the crystals [[RetGone were removed from Oriense's existence]], sparing Class Zero and Kurasame and giving them a happy ending reminiscent of an ordinary school day, sort of.]]

* CastFromHitPoints: Summoning in this game requires you to sacrifice a party member.
* ChildSoldiers: Maybe not children, but Suzaku's idea of specialized warfare seems to be sending young teenagers into violent and bloody battle to fend for themselves. It gets even worse when their Crystal only bestows the height of magical ability in one's youth, and further diminishes as they get older, which doesn't leave much choice for youth born in the country.

* CosmicRetcon: [[spoiler:In the secret ending, Arecia, intrigued by Class Zero's actions which [[ScrewDestiny broke Oriense's]] [[StableTimeLoop cycle of war and destruction]], decides to change history such that [[RetGone the crystals would cease to exist]] and all of Class Zero (including Kurasame) [[EarnYourHappyEnding would live together as a happy, if somewhat ordinary, class]].]]

* DecoyProtagonist: Viewpoint characters Rem and Machina are made out in publicity as the main characters, despite WordOfGod saying that they are only outside observers to the story's events.
** Except [[spoiler: this turned out to be a lie, as Rem and Machina's actions in this cycle of the world are what end up breaking the ViciousCycle that has plagued Oriense, and while they don't succeed in saving Class Zero, they do manage to make sure to rebuild the world for them. Thus making them the most important characters in the story.]]
* DragonRider: Concordia relies on the dragoons of the Souryu Peristylium for offensive and defensive combat.
* DualWielding: Machina, Rem, and King.
* EldritchAbomination: The creature simply dubbed "the Darkness of Suzaku" by in-game characters, which appears in your introductory mission. No one knows what it is or where it comes from, but it's a gigantic three-headed bird-like beast that appears in a shroud of darkness obscuring its features.

* ExtranormalInstitute: The Peristylium
* TheFourGods: The symbols of each of the four countries revealed so far, with the protagonists' country being represented by Suzaku, The Vermilion Bird.

* HoldingHands: The ending scene contains two instances of this. [[spoiler:Some members of Class Zero held hands as they were dying, and Machina holds Rem's hand to comfort her after they find the bodies.]]

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ace uses cards, Deuce uses a [[InstrumentOfMurder flute]], and Machina uses screw-[[ThisIsADrill drill]]-sword-things. And let's be honest, Sice, a scythe isn't the most practical thing, either.
* InTheHood: All the main characters in one cutscene.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Concordia's armies are full of dragons.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia[=/=]WistfulAmnesia: [[spoiler:Oriense's Crystals have a very strange way dealing with the dead -- memories of any recently-deceased Oriensian will disappear from anyone who knew him/her, presumably to spare them the sense of grief and despair. But it doesn't prevent anyone from becoming curious over their missing memory pieces and finding out more. The rest of Class Zero would, in their HeroicSacrifice, ultimately restore Oriense's ability to remember the fallen.]]
* LazyBackup: Averted. You don't get a game over until all the playable characters are ko'd. Whether or not there will be exceptions to that rule remains to be seen.

* MessianicArchetype: Each of the twelve students is trying to become one as part of Operation Apostle.
* MythologyGag: Several.

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI There's an airship named ''Setzer'']]

* NewEraSpeech: Cid of Milites gives one to his armed forces, before they launch an invasion upon the Peristylium of Suzaku.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Most likely, since all the promotional material has shows the playable characters in their school uniforms.

* PatrioticFervor: The opening movie begins with Cid rallying his troops in a ''Mien Kampf Liebenstraum''-esque speech, and ends with Ace standing tall, driving a pole bearing the flag of Rubrum into the ground before he and his classmates go to war.
* SigilSpam: Anything that remotely Rubrum will have some kind of gear motive on them, whether it's clothes that its people wear, summons, or architectures.

** Rubrum includes towns named [[CthulhuMythos Innsmouth and Arkham]]. Milites has a town named [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Arwen]].
* {{Sidequest}}: The MOOGLE will give them out.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Averted. In contrast to the "three females rule" of other ''Final Fantasy'' games, there are 7 girls in the main party.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Turns out [[PhysicalGod Arecia]] knew all along that Oriense is trapped in one as part of her and the Arbitor of Lulusanth's experiment to see which of them gets to open the gate to the Invisible World -- the latter through [[KillEmAll sacrificing billions of lives]], Arecia through the "mighty souls", which come in the form of the sixteen students of Class Zero. However, within the last ''600,104,971'' iterations of this cycle, [[YouCantFightFate Class Zero has been doomed to fail Operation Apostle each time by becoming l'Cie and dying in battle]], and Oriense to destruction because of Cid's actions, and along the way four such pawns were abandoned, leaving only twelve to try and hold off [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Finis]] long enough for either deity to finish their own experiment, each being apparently an AnthropomorphicPersonification of a given power: Ace represents trust, Deuce to kindness, Trey to knowledge, Cater to courage, Cinque to innocent, Sice to persistence, Seven to understanding, Eight to calmness, Nine to action, Jack to ignorance, Queen to intelligence, and King to resolve. Come the 600,104,972nd cycle, Machina and Rem, two such "abandoned" pawns representing fear and love, respectively, helped the twelve defeat Cid -- [[BittersweetEnding not that this keeps Machina and Rem from crystallizing and their classmates from dying, though]]. Fortunately, their actions, [[ScrewDestiny which changed Oriense's destiny]], convinced Arecia (with some help from Joker and Tiz, the two remaining "abandoned" pawns representing pain and decrepitude, respectively) to revive Machina and Rem and allow them to record their classmates' deeds 50 years later; and at best, she abandons the experiment altogether and [[CosmicRetcon changes history]] such that [[RetGone the crystals would cease to exist]], giving Class Zero and Kurasame [[EarnYourHappyEnding another chance at life as a]] WackyHomeroom of sorts.]]

* ThemeNaming:
** Twelve of the playable characters are named after playing cards and French dice terms. The low numbers are dice terms, possibly simply for sounding more like names. The other two characters that are playable have Latin and Japanese [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Name]]s.
** The four countries in the world are named for the four Chinese God Beasts. Suzaku (Vermilion Bird) for the heroes and Byakko (White Tiger) for the villains being most prominent in the story thus far.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:Rem, after becoming a Suzaku l'Cie, dies after Machina, made a Byakko l'Cie and clad in Milites armor, accidentally impales her, with neither recognizing each other until it was too late. They soon crystallize after this, but Arecia revives both of them.]]
* {{Vaporware}}: The game was infamous for this for a while; it was announced in 2006 as a cellphone game (that is, something traditionally very easy to put together), and it was 2011 before we got a release date... on the PSP, on two UMD discs. For a long time, people speculated that the project had just been canceled.
** The creators of the game admitted that development on the game didn't even really start until 2008, two years after it was announced, and even then it had to be kept to a minimum for the first year so they could focus on ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Remember Nimbus, the Byakko l'Cie that appears during the early chapters of the game? The developers didn't. [[spoiler:That only a l'Cie can enter the Temple at Finis implies he took Cid there, but he never shows up there so presumably he crystallized off-screen.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Sice, Cinque, Rem, Aria and the female Suzaku soldiers score an easy A in this.
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* CrapsackWorld

* ThemeNaming: Twelve of the playable characters are named after playing cards and French dice terms. The low numbers are dice terms, possibly simply for sounding more like names. The other two characters that are playable have Latin and Japanese [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Name]]s.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7norcRbju7c AIRSHIP BATTLES]].

* WarIsHell

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Mechanical giant]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII scorpions]]
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI There's an airship named ''Setzer'']]

* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie]]

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that Type-0 will be getting an HD remastered version, to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne. Interestingly, the announcement of the English localization was made [[ShaggyDogStory within TWO DAYS of the fan translation being finished.]]

* NoExportForYou: As it stands, game's not leaving Japan and there are no plans to bring it to any other platform. A localization had been planed, but the failing PSP market forced SE to kill the plans.
** This fact really frustrates both fans and people inside of Square itself, as this means ''Type-0'' is the first properly high-budget ''Final Fantasy'' title in '''''two decades''''' to not be exported. It's to the point that, [[http://www.siliconera.com/2013/09/17/square-enix-still-interested-in-bringing-final-fantasy-type-0-to-the-west/ even now]], people at Square are ''still'' looking for ways to feasibly bring it over - either the iOS port, or some form of handheld release, something, they know their fans don't want to be left out in the cold.
** Now averted with the unveiling of Type-0 HD.

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that Type-0 will be getting an HD remastered version, to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne. Interestingly, the announcement of the english localization was made within TWO DAYS of the fan translation being finished.

On June 10, 2014, Square-Enix announced that Type-0 will be getting an HD remastered version, to be released internationally on the PS4 and XboxOne.

''Type-0'' was originally slated to be a cellphone game, but this was changed early in development. It was released in Japan on October 27th, 2011. [[http://www.skybladecloud.net/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-psp-english-translation but there's a fan translation available for download at the project's website]].

''Type-0'' was originally slated to be a cellphone game, but this was changed early in development. It was released in Japan on October 27th, 2011. [[NoExportForYou Currently, the game has no plans for a Western release]], [[http://www.skybladecloud.net/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-psp-english-translation but there's a fan translation available for download at the project's website]].

''Type-0'' was originally slated to be a cellphone game, but this was changed early in development. It was released in Japan on October 27th, 2011. [[NoExportForYou Currently, the game has no plans for a Western release]], [[http://www.skybladecloud.net/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-psp-english-translation but a fan translation is in the works, and is nearing completion]].

A prequel called ''Final Fantasy Agito'' is being developed for iOS and Android.

''Type-0'' was originally slated to be a cellphone game, but this was changed early in development. It was released in Japan on October 27th, 2011. [[NoExportForYou Currently, the game has no plans for a Western release]], [[http://skybladecloud.wordpress.com/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-english-translation/ but a fan translation is in the works, and is nearing completion]].

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