History VideoGame / FugaMelodiesOfSteel

* Drinking game: Take a drink every time Malt mentions himself being the oldest. Say goodbye to your liver…

* Drinking game:take a drink every time Malt mentions himself being the oldest. Say goodbye to your liver…

A sequel to the game, simply titled ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel2'', was officially revealed alongside [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OolRShEoq9I&feature=emb_title a teaser trailer]] on July 28th, 2022, and is set to release on May 11th, 2023. A major quality-of-life update for the original ''Fuga'' was also [[https://noisypixel.net/fuga-melodies-of-steel-sells-100000-sequel-news-january-2023/ announced]] and released on March 29, 2023.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: There's lots of things you can do to take care of the kids, like improving the relationships between them or taking care of them if they're depressed or injured. Ultimately however, the biggest judge of how much you care about the kids (individually, at least) depends on whether you [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential do]] or don't decide to use the Soul Cannon...

* {{Revision}}: A possible example regarding a minor lore detail from ''Solatorobo''. [[spoiler:The Statues of the Upside-Down Wolf in Mau were, in the original game, possibly implied to have been erected during the Hundred Lilies War mentioned in the game's library and supplementary materials, as a way for the Lion Tribe to gain a strategic advantage over the Wolf Tribe. ''Fuga'' however reveals that these statues already existed for centuries before even ''that'' conflict occurred.]]

* GoldenEnding: While it can be difficult, there's two conditions that a player needs to meet to get the best ending: '''NEVER''' use the Soul Cannon, and [[spoiler:prevent Britz's sacrifice by ensuring he has at least ten total levels of affinity with the other characters before he leaves the crew in Chapter 10.]] You'll know you succeeded when [[spoiler:you get a cutscene of Britz showing you the picture in his pendant midway through Chapter 10, [[ForWantOfANail as this is how the children recognize his family members among the liberated prisoners later on.]]]]

** [[spoiler:Wanna get past [[FightingYourFriend the fight]] [[DuelingPlayerCharacters against Britz]] ''without'' killing him? Then you better hope he has at least ten total levels of affinity with everyone else on the Taranis. Also, you better make sure you go after and talk to him following the cutscene where he mentions his family. To rub it in, the game hints at this ''after'' you beat the final boss in the endings where not every child survives.]]
** The game gives zero hints towards how to unlock the secret movie, which is unlocked after the player beats the game three times on the same save file.

* GenreShift: Unlike how ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'' and ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' are bright and colorful ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''-esque ActionAdventure [[PlatformGame platformers]] about exploring the world, ''Fuga'' is a turn-based strategy RPG with a muted color palette taking place within a war setting. Additionally, despite sharing the same scenario writer as ''Solatorobo'', ''Fuga'''s style of storytelling tends to be more subtextual and straightforward, with less focus on direct world-building.

* DubInducedPlotHole: Some relatively minor cases from the Berman Reports:
** Pretzel's journal entries in the Japanese version note that Hax was once his second-in-command, and that Von Stollen and Von Baum were in charge of Gasco's "frontier" (remote regions). In the English version, Hax is vaguely described as having been a "mere aide", and the area of the two old generals is also vaguely described as "this area", which may lead a player to believe this referred to the province of Dale specifically.
** Flam's letter to her father in English says that she's grateful towards him for recommending that she join his garrison. This is stated with a different tense in Japanese, where Flam says that she ''would be'' grateful if he recommended her joining his garrison. She also tells Pretzel to keep her promotion to Lieutenant Colonel to himself due to it being unofficial.
** The final entry from the journal of Berman spy [[spoiler:Spritz Strudel]] has the author refer to [[spoiler:his children Britz and Frita]] by name in both English and Japanese, but he only refers to [[spoiler:his wife Linza]] by name in the Japanese version.

* WaveMotionGun: The Soul Cannon. A life must be sacrificed to use it but in return it obliterates everything in its path, taking down any enemy in one shot, [[spoiler:including a mountain-sized {{Kaiju}}. The Tarascus is also equipped with one, which is only marginally weaker -- while the Taranis can survive a blast from it, but the same cannot be said about the whole Gasco army. The Managarm also seemingly does not require a living sacrifice to fire it, given how it works instead by charging up energy.]]

** Chapter 11, "Forgotten Songs": [[spoiler:Britz fights the heroes as the chapter's boss. Unless you fulfill the required conditions, he's DrivenToSuicide and kills himself with explosives. Regardless of whether he survives or not, the chapter ends with the Radio Woman revealing her true identity-- Jeanne, the damaged AI of the Taranis, who spread a false legend to the people of Berman about the Vanargand being a "Lost God", with the aim of goading them into reawakening it so that she could fight it again.]]

** Chapter 7, "The Moon Descends Upon the Temple That Once Was", reveals [[spoiler:the full extent of Doktor Blutwurst's experiments, mainly that he was using Felinekos as [[LivingBattery Living Batteries]], draining them of their Nono aka life energy [[AndIMustScream which leaves them comatose and near-death]]]].
** Chapter 10, "The Council of the False Gods", has the first time you [[spoiler:fight Hax, which comes with a number of twists including the reveal of the Tarascus - which proceeds to vaporize the Gasco Army. It is revealed that the Tarascus wouldn't even have ''worked'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if the Taranis remained unused]], meaning that the children got played like a fiddle.]]
** Chapter 11, "Forgotten Songs", [[spoiler:has Britz fight the heroes as the chapter's boss. Unless you fulfill the required conditions, he blows himself up.]]
** Chapter 12, "From Dawn to Noon on the Sea", reveals the [[spoiler:origin of the ancient weapons along with the reason why the Berman Empire is invading Gasco. It turns out the entire conflict is due to the Taranis' damaged AI spreading a false legend of the Vanargand being the "Lost God" among the Berman to goad them into awakening it so that it can fight it again.]]
* WhamLine: %%To be edited/fixed in time

** For anyone who didn't play ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'', the Radio Woman mentions in Chapter 11 that the passage of Malamute has ruins that include the "giants that once laid waste to [[spoiler:mankind]]". If that wasn't clear enough to the player, this line from the first [[spoiler:Jeanne Archive]] obtained after beating said chapter casually reveals that this universe isn't simply a mere fantasy one:
--->''"With the discovery of the first Juno in [[spoiler:[[EarthAllAlong Australia]]]] and utilizing the information gathered…"''

The game is directed by series veteran Hiroto Niizato, has newcomer [[https://twitter.com/YoannGueritot Yoann Gueritot]] as the creative head, and has characters, vehicles and locations designed by [[https://twitter.com/shimipan Yusuke "Shimipan" Tokitsu]] of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' fame, with returning talents from ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' including writer Yasuhiro Noguchi and [=CyberConnect2=] music label [=LieN=] (made up of composer Chikayo Fukuda and vocalist Tomoyo Mitani). The game is notable for marking [=CyberConnect2's=] 25th anniversary MilestoneCelebration, as well as being their first self-published title (whereas Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment published prior ''Little Tail Bronx'' games).

* EarnYourBadEnding: [[spoiler:Achieving the worst ending where every child dies is arguably even more difficult than getting the GoldenEnding where EverybodyLives. The Soul Cannon lets you win boss fights in one shot, but using it actually weakens you in the long run, as it gradually deprives you of people to man your turrets as well as their special skills -- so while you can still beat bosses, actually ''getting to them'' becomes much more difficult, with the last few chapters leaving you with not enough people to even use all of your turrets.]]

A sequel to the game, simply titled ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel2'', was officially revealed alongside [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OolRShEoq9I&feature=emb_title a teaser trailer]] on July 28th, 2022, and is set to release on May 11th, 2023. A major quality-of-life update for the original ''Fuga'' ws also [[https://noisypixel.net/fuga-melodies-of-steel-sells-100000-sequel-news-january-2023/ announced]] and released on March 29, 2023.

A sequel to the game, simply titled ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel2'', was officially revealed alongside [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OolRShEoq9I&feature=emb_title a teaser trailer]] on July 28th, 2022, and is set to release on May 11th, 2023. A major quality-of-life update for the original ''Fuga'' is also [[https://noisypixel.net/fuga-melodies-of-steel-sells-100000-sequel-news-january-2023/ set to be released in the spring]].

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Berman Empire is a nation working to annex the surrounding lands in a violent and tyrannical manner, has a military almost entirely comprised of one "race" of Caninu (a fact that it seems to be proud of, given its name), and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver heavily utilizes black and red imagery.]] Just to drive the point home, nearly all of the named characters and units from Berman have German names.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The children have varying viewpoints on this in regards to Berman. Some of them, especially Jin, aren't particularly shy about proclaiming their disdain for the Berman, while others reflect on the likelihood that not ''every'' Berman is evil and hope the war can end so both sides can live in peace. It's also a major focus of [[TokenHeroicOrc Britz's]] role in the story.

** And of course, [[spoiler:the Tarascus, the Taranis' EvilCounterpart.]]

** According to Yoann, it was not uncommon for people to sacrifice Boron to the Soul Cannon for their first choice during the tutorial, a joke that heavily circulated the fandom coming up to the game's release. When the manga got around to adapting the first use of the Soul Cannon, they chose Boron as the one to go.

* AllJustADream: Starting a NewGamePlus after already achieving the GoldenEnding unlocks a report stating that [[spoiler:the entire game is Jeanne simulating events before the kids even uncover her, trying to find the most optimal path to victory, with the "time rewinds" being an in-universe reload.]]

* PrescienceByAnalysis: [[spoiler: The final entry in Jeanne's files implies that the game's events are not happening per se. Instead it is a simulation, with Jeanne trying to use the powers of the Juno to predict the upcoming events and calculate the best possible outcome for everyone involved as well as what she needs to do to reach it. This also explains how the time is getting reversed at certain moments in the story or when you get a GameOver - it's not actually getting reversed, instead Jeanne is rolling back the simulation to an earlier point and trying things differently.]]

The game is directed by series veteran Hiroto Niizato alongside newcomer [[https://twitter.com/YoannGueritot Yoann Gueritot]] and has characters, vehicles and locations designed by [[https://twitter.com/shimipan Yusuke "Shimipan" Tokitsu]] of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' fame, with returning talents from ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' including writer Yasuhiro Noguchi and [=CyberConnect2=] music label [=LieN=] (made up of composer Chikayo Fukuda and vocalist Tomoyo Mitani). The game is notable for marking [=CyberConnect2's=] 25th anniversary MilestoneCelebration, as well as being their first self-published title (whereas Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment published prior ''Little Tail Bronx'' games).

* {{Retcon}}: An AllThereInTheManual example from the ''Little Tail Bronx Archives''. The "Daybreak" artbook for ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' describes [[spoiler:the Reset that transformed Earth into the series' current setting]] as happening three thousand years before the game's events and thus two thousand years before ''Fuga''. The artbook for ''Fuga'' adds two millennia to this number, pinpointing it as happening four thousand years before the events of the game (and thus ''five'' thousand years before ''Solatorobo''). This may have been undone as of [[https://www.famitsu.com/serial/fuga/202302/07291829.html Chapter 22.5]] of the manga where [[spoiler:the history of Belenos is revealed]], returning to the claim that the event happened two thousand years before. %%Not sure if the Wolf Tribe counts, I think it was originally intended that the upside-down statues were erected during the Hundred Lilies War as a way to screw them over, but Fuga takes place before even that

The game is directed by Hiroto Niizato alongside [[https://twitter.com/YoannGueritot Yoann Gueritot]] and has characters, vehicles and locations designed by ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' veteran [[https://twitter.com/shimipan Yusuke "Shimipan" Tokitsu]], with returning talents from ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' including writer Yasuhiro Noguchi and [=CyberConnect2=] music label [=LieN=] (made up of composer Chikayo Fukuda and vocalist Tomoyo Mitani). The game is notable for marking [=CyberConnect2's=] 25th anniversary MilestoneCelebration, as well as being their first self-published title (whereas Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment published prior ''Little Tail Bronx'' games).

* {{Retcon}}: An AllThereInTheManual example from the ''Little Tail Bronx Archives''. The "Daybreak" artbook for ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' describes [[spoiler:the Reset that transformed Earth into the series' current setting]] as happening three thousand years before the game's events. The artbook for ''Fuga'' adds two millennia to this number, pinpointing it as happening four thousand years before the events of the game (and thus ''five'' thousand years before ''Solatorobo''). %%Not sure if the Wolf Tribe counts, I think it was originally intended that the upside-down statues were erected during the Hundred Lilies War as a way to screw them over, but Fuga takes place before even that