History VideoGame / FinalFantasyType0

* GenderEqualEnsemble: The gender split of the 14 playable characters is exactly even: 7 girls and 7 boys. [[spoiler:There are also two others with relations to Class Zero, one girl and one boy, and ''still'' keeps it even.]]

* AlwaysInClassOne: Subverted, actually all of your player characters are a part of Class Zero, a special unit created within the academy that is the focus of much of your time in the game. Class First does exist and apparently had a fair amount of clout before Class Zero came on the scene, though there are those who claim also that Class Eleventh was the cream of the crop before Class Zero.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Subverted with the ''Code Crimson'' missions. From the second playthrough on, the last mission of each Chapter provides a choice between the usual mission[[note]][[NewGamePlus for which you will probably be overlevelled]][[/note]] and an alternative 'Code Crimson' mission. However, it is implied that the usual missions still happen; they're just not done by the player for it.
** Played straight with the alternate Chapter 7 mission in which you play as [[spoiler:Machina under the guise of White Tiger l'Cie Incognitus. While the rest of Class Zero has defeated Qator Bashtar and are returning to Akademeia, Machina's solo mission has him running through the streets of the Militesi capital to kill off any dominion soldier, cadet, or Eidolon in his way.]]

** Expert Trials have no save points ''and'' disable the Abort Mission option (which leaves the mission and keeps the EXP), but this trope is usually averted due to their relative shortness. Then you do the last trial against each opposing peristylium: Colonel Faith's Last Stand has Class Zero run spiral laps around Gewher Base ''twice'', the second round of which ''disables all forms of healing'', and Dominating the Dragon's Nest requires Class Zero to climb a huge-ass Sanctuary and destroy a stupidly durable Dragon Egg.

* DoomedHometown: Subverted. The opening movie sets this up for Rubrum, as Milites has conquered nearly all of Orience at this point, but then Class Zero arrives to liberate the capital.
** [[spoiler:Then it really becomes the case when Tempus Finis happens in the final chapter and Class Zero comes home to find Akademeia in bloodshed and pandemonium…]]

* FissionMailed: At first, Nimbus (Chapter 3), Shinryu Celestia (Chapter 5), and [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]] (Chapter 6) seem to be this. However, it becomes subverted once your characters are stronger enough because it ''is'' possible to not die at either of their hands.

** [[spoiler:Played straight in the final mission. The last "judgment trial" requires the party to quickly ascend a staircase, only for all of them to be immediately KO'ed as the battle text states that they failed the trial. However, this is part of the story and afterwards, they wake up in another hallway ''at the edge of death.'']]

* LazyBackup: Averted. You don't get a game over until all the playable characters are KO'd.

* LetsSplitUpGang: Averted for the most part; Class Zero goes through everything together.

* MagicIsRareHealthIsCheap:
** Subverted for normal gameplay; Potions and Ethers and their variants heal identical ''percentages'', and all healing portals restore HP and MP both. However, Ethers are decently more ''expensive'' than Potions, and HP gradually regenerates for Class Zero with [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon one exception]].
** Inverted for Eidolons, who have the opposite problem; their ''MP'' auto-regenerates, but with the exception of certain Eidolons with a Regen function, it's ''impossible'' for them to restore HP.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Class Ninth is this to the member. They are seen both by themselves, and the general Akademeia student body as bungling fools who have no real place among other cadets. In actuality [[spoiler: they are all secret agents working under Intel Division Section Four, using the "idiot" routine to throw off suspicion.]]. Subverted with Class Twelfth who... actually do seem to be a bit scatterbrained.

** Subverted during free time, as all the other characters will be wandering out and are free to talk to.

** Subverted for Trey, Sice, and Eight, who get featured in a bonus cutscene that took place during the opening mission.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In addition of being the first Final Fantasy game to have a M rating (compared to the usual T the series have (yes, even Tactics who is just as dark as Type-0) the game handeles the theme of WarIsHell and death without sugar-coating it with how brutal and bloody they can be. In addition, it can rival Tactics with its body count; [[spoiler: with all but two of the main characters dead by the end and many others who dies in between the final chapter and the end.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: Zigzagged between Ace/the Twelve and Machina/Rem. Sometimes the latter pair are billed after the Twelve, other times ''before'' the Twelve. In the end, ''all of them'' are central to the plot. [[spoiler:On one hand, Machina and Rem become unplayable for the final chapter, leaving the Twelve to take on the mission to defeat Cid even if it kills them. On the other hand, their actions have influenced the Twelve's decision to reject becoming l'Cie (which happened on previous cycles) and instead make that HeroicSacrifice, to the point of lending their souls to them to allow them to slowly tear the Rursan Arbiter apart; Arecia is so impressed she de-crystallizes Machina and Rem in order to allow them to honor their classmates' memory and rebuild Orience.]]

* TooManyBelts: Where a normal school uniform would have buttons to close up their shirts and coats, we have buckles here. [[AuthorAppeal Thank]] [[TetsuyaNomura Nomura]] for this.

** When roaming around Akademeia during free time, each character has a series of voice quotes played when they examine points in various areas (e.g. sitting on a bench, pulling out a book from a bookshelf). Beginning with Chapter 5, Machina's quotes change from his usual optimistic outlook to colder, sterner, and mostly one-word reactions. [[spoiler:It's only revealed near the ending that Machina became a l'Cie at this point, and he is slowly losing his humanity in favor of the Focus the Crystal has ordained for him.]]

* FissionMailed: At first, Nimbus (Chapter 3) and Shinryu Celestia (Chapter 5) seem to be this. However, it becomes subverted once your characters are stronger enough because it ''is'' possible to not die at either of their hands.

* {{Frameup}}: When [[spoiler:Queen Andoria is assassinated in Ingram]], Class Zero is framed for the crime. They are innocent, but it earns the wrath of Concordia to declare war on Rubrum. [[spoiler:Turns out it was an inside-job courtesy of the ceremonial Emperor, who always wanted to turn Concordia's long matriarchal dynasty on its head.]]

* TacticalWithdrawal: Done at the end of the Togoreth mission in Chapter 2 when Nimbus appears and Zhuyu is sent to fight him. When a Primus l'Cie is present, everyone had best get far, far away as possible; when two Primus l'Cie are fighting each other, ''that might not be enough''.

** Seven: WhipSword

* PowerFist: Eight wears gloves that enhance the strength of his [[BareFistedMonk punches]].

* KnifeNut: Rem uses two daggers. Odd for this trope, she's also the game's SquishyWizard[[note]]Which provides an interesting [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI call back]]...

* LanguageOfMagic: Concordian has a language used to command dragons, as shown when Celestia sends one to attack Ace and Deuce.

* AlwaysInClassOne: Suverted, actually all of your player characters are a part of the elite Class Zero, a special unit created within the academy that is the focus of much of your time in the game. Class One does exist and apparently had a fair amount of clout before Class Zero came on the scene, though there are those who claim also that Class Eleven was the cream of the crop before Class Zero.

* RealityEnsues: Militesi Supersoldiers empty a clip from their firearms at chest height, and promptly graduate from the ImperialStormstrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Contrast with the standard-issue soldiers, who fire a single shot and WILL hit the cadet they're aiming at if said cadet doesn't move.

** In the HD release, Creator/TetsuyaNomura is represented by King - a character with [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 two guns that need reloading every dozen shots or so]][[note]]Nomura has stated that Xigbar is his favourite character for use in 358's multiplayer mode[[/note]].

An UpdatedRerelease has also been made for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which finally allowed the game an international release in 2015 (March 17 in the USA, 19 in Japan, and 20 in Europe, along with a Steam release on August 18), bundled together with a voucher for the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV: Episode Duscae'' demo. Due to its BloodierAndGorier nature compared to the rest of the franchise, ''Type-0 HD'' is the first and so far only ''Final Fantasy'' game to receive a "Mature" (17+) rating in the USA's ESRB system, and "C" (15+) for Japan's CERO.

* Subverted also in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' games. Most of your player characters are part of the Thors Academy Class VII. Previously, Class I was well-regarded, being made up entirely of nobles. However, Class VII is a special new experiment containing a mixed group of both commoners and nobles, with your main character, Rean Schwarzer, being a commoner who was adopted as a baby into a noble family.

** Rubrum includes towns named [[CthulhuMythos Innsmouth and Arkham]]. Milites has a base named [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Arwen]].

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The purpose of the yellow Breaksight target.

** The Militesi Empire's Crystal Jammer weapon, when activated, negates the magic power from the Vermilion Bird Crystal, rendering the people of the dominion powerless. Because Class Zero's power source is not from the Crystal, they can bypass this ban, though Machina and Rem are still affected, thus during the Big Bridge mission in Chapter 6, Rem cannot be added to the battle party until the rest of the class destroys a jammer weapon in the area.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Machina and Rem often have dialogue for (parts of) missions they aren't playable in during normal gameplay, [[spoiler:Tempus Finis]] notwithstanding.

An UpdatedRerelease has also been made for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which finally allowed the game an international release in 2015 (March 17 in the USA, 19 in Japan, and 20 in Europe, along with a Steam release on August 18), bundled together with a voucher for the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV: Episode Duscae'' demo. Due to its BloodierAndGorier nature compared to the rest of the franchise, ''Type-0 HD'' is the first and so far only ''Final Fantasy'' game to receive a "Mature" (17+) rating in the USA's ESRB system, compared to "C" (15+) for Japan's CERO, "16+" for Europe's PEGI, and "[=MA15=]" for Australia's ACB, all of which are average franchise-wide ratings, comparable to the ESRB's "Teen" (13+).

An UpdatedRerelease has also been made for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which finally allowed the game an international release in 2015 (March 17 in the USA, 19 in Japan, and 20 in Europe, along with a Steam release on August 18), bundled together with a voucher for the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV: Episode Duscae'' demo. Due to its BloodierAndGorier nature compared to the rest of the franchise, ''Type-0 HD'' is the first ''Final Fantasy'' game to receive a "Mature" (17+) rating in the USA's ESRB system, compared to "C" (15+) for Japan's CERO, "16+" for Europe's PEGI, and "[=MA15=]" for Australia's ACB, all of which are average franchise-wide ratings, comparable to the ESRB's "Teen" (13+).

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

A game in the [[RunningGag war-declaringly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series and second entry of the ''Franchise/FabulaNovaCrystallisFinalFantasy'' sub-series, ''Final Fantasy Type-0'' (originally known as ''Final Fantasy Agito XIII'' until late January 2011) is an {{Eastern RPG}} originally released for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable. As with the other ''FNC'' games ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII the]] ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII]]'' [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII trilogy]]), ''Type-0'' shares some concepts with the other games but are entirely independent of each other. The game was originally bound for cellphones, but this was changed early in development. The PSP original was released in Japan on October 27, 2011, and never saw a stateside release (save for [[http://www.skybladecloud.net/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-psp-english-translation a fan translation project]]).

* AttackItsWeakPoint ForMassiveDamage: The purpose of the yellow Breaksight target.

A game in the [[RunningGag war-declaringly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series and second entry of the ''Franchise/FabulaNovaCrystallisFinalFantasy'' sub-series, '''''Final Fantasy Type-0''''' (originally known as ''Final Fantasy Agito XIII'' until late January 2011) is an {{Eastern RPG}} originally released for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable. As with the other ''FNC'' games ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII the]] ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII]]'' [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII trilogy]]), ''Type-0'' shares some concepts with the other games but are entirely independent of each other. The game was originally bound for cellphones, but this was changed early in development. The PSP original was released in Japan on October 27, 2011, and never saw a stateside release (save for [[http://www.skybladecloud.net/projects/final-fantasy-type-0-psp-english-translation a fan translation project]]).

* BloodierAndGorier: Surprisingly enough, as the ''Final Fantasy'' theme of swords and guns usually hit bluntly or without effect. People are set on fire, maiming and bloodletting are prevalent, death is shown a lot more onscreen, and even the magic system requires magically pulling a life force known as Phantoma out of their enemies' bodies through ''forcibly exploding them'' into a messy pulp.