History VideoGame / GuardiansCrusade

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Karmine, though he considers himself not a god but a holy prophet of Xizan.]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Downplayed. Kalkanor and his crew are always one step ahead of you in adventuring, but you tend to clean up some things they miss. [[spoiler: Later this is fully subverted, Kalkanor and his crew get beaten but Knight keeps on going and saves the world.]]
* ApatheticCitizens: Subverted. Once [[spoiler: Xizan is released]], various townsfolks will gesture their concerns and fears of a great omen about to happen.

* AssKickingPose: Both Knight and Baby get an ''epic'' one [[spoiler: directly after they're brought back to life in the battle against the BigBad]].

* BeneathTheEarth: Whenever demons in the game show up, they're most likely from Beneath The Earth. Despite this, apart from caves and such you don't actually go underground at all, [[spoiler: apart from possibly Picard.]] Given the circumstances, said area beneath the earth is most likely {{Hell}}.

* BigBad: Karmine is this for most of the game, [[spoiler: until Xizan is freed, at which point he takes second seat.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Darkbeat tends to pop up seemingly out of nowhere to help you out with a few boss battles. And you go to 'save him' at one point as well, [[spoiler: although it turns out that he doesn't need your help, he's just running a bit late.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: Nehani, who's in love with Knight, but can't say a damn word of her true feelings. Most evident before [[spoiler: the final battle]].
* ChekhovsGun: That random useless treasure you got in the middle of the game? Solomon's Ring? [[spoiler: Turns out it has a use.]]

* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Karmine.]]

* CrystalDragonJesus: [[spoiler: Xizan. Subverted in that he's a pure GodOfEvil almost literally hell-bent on destroying the world.]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler: [[OneHitKill Xizan is using a forbidden spell!]]]]

* TheDragon: Karmine [[spoiler: to Xizan]]. Notably, most of the game he's acting out of his own volition, [[spoiler: but when Xizan is unsealed...]]

* EldritchAbomination: Xizan. The fact that he's a gargantuan tentacled cyclops should be evidence enough. [[spoiler: When you fight him during the final sequence of the game, it's revealed he has two other forms as well; a giant bat/insect/vampire hybrid is his first, and then after you end up nearly killing him by melting a good amount of his skin off he looks more like a wraith than anything else, with spikes of fur hanging everywhere and his two bat wings skeletal fragments of what they were, while his tongue hangs out. Words do it little justice.]]
* ElementalPowers: The Legendary Beasts: Galestork possesses Wind, Kuldo carries fire, Kisa holds Water, and Ruval has Earth. Celeste's power is never stated or shown, but may possibly be Light just based on the name. The only element ingame not included is Darkness, [[spoiler: which is adequately filled by Xizan.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Baby's Guardian transformation. [[spoiler: Sadly, it fails miserably and only succeeds in making Xizan pissed off.]]
* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler: Karmine and Glor. Some other random ones show up infrequently.]]

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* GodOfEvil: [[spoiler: Xizan.]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: The gems. Subverted since Kalkarnor and his crew does most of the work for you. [[spoiler: Played straight later on when you have to search for the Holy Armor parts]].

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Darkbeat went on a journey to [[spoiler: restore his sister Ibkee back to normal]]. Kalkanor and his gang also qualifies.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Nehani uses the Ring of Solomon to defeat Xizan's second form and heal the near dead Knight and baby. In the process, she gets her wish to become human, but you only learn this at the very ending as it looks like she did die. In fact, however, she gets better though.]]
* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler: Knight and Baby die in the fight against Xizan, but are restored only by Nehani and the Ring of Solomon's interference in one of the few CGI sequences in the entire game. After Nehani leaves the battlefield and Knight and Baby are again standing, cue epic AssKickingPose.]]
* HopelessBossFight: Two, once against Darkbeat in the beginning of the game and one against [[spoiler: Kalkarnor.]] Unique in that if you level up to an insane degree to try to beat them, ''they will start leveling up with you.''

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: Darkbeat's sister Ibkee was turned into a dragon-like creature and Darkbeat spends most of the game hiding the fact and trying to get her returned to normal.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Karmine turns Glor into a monster and Glor is promptly killed. Shortly afterwards Xizan turns Karmine into a monster and Karmine's killed too.]]

* MineralMacGuffin: The holy gemstones, [[spoiler: which were used to seal Xizan inside a crystal cage. They're also used to unseal him, however.]]
* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler: Knight gets transported to small island after collecting all part of Darwin's Holy Armor. Here he must fight Darwin himself, who wears the same armor. Darwin has his own attack animations, though]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Gwinladin/Glor, though he's [[ObviouslyEvil horrible at hiding it.]]]]

* ObviouslyEvil: Gwinladin. As if his appearance of a hunchbacked wizard wearing purple robes and a hood wasn't enough, it should be obvious when he starts shouting "Fools! All of them!" in the middle of a crowded room [[spoiler: and later proceeds to gleefully decimate the resident NonMaliciousMonster. Naturally, he reveals his position as TheMole and is promptly told that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he has outlived his usefulness]] and is promptly turned into a monster and killed.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Xizan has two, with "angel" being an ''extremely'' loose interpretation.]]

* OppositesAttract: Knight is a human KnightInShiningArmor who [[HeroicMime never talks]] and [[TheStoic doesn't show emotion often]]. Nehani is a fairy DeadpanSnarker who doubles as the party's ExpositionFairy and [[{{Tsundere}} alternates between getting ticked off at Knight and sympathizing with his issues.]] It's a wonder they can put up with each other at all. [[spoiler: Not to mention become married after the official storyline ends through a RelationshipUpgrade.]]

* StrippedToTheBone: [[spoiler: Xizan's third form, arguably: after Nehani wishes him dead, his skin visibly distorts and seems to melt off of his body, leaving him looking like a wraithlike, half-skeletal husk of his second form. That only weakens him to the point that he's ''killable.'']]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Xizan,]] who was sealed into the can by [[MineralMacGuffin the holy]] [[CosmicKeystone stones]].

* WorldWreckingWave: [[spoiler: A more literal example when Xizan is unsealed: immediately God's Tower and the area surrounding it is blown up in a massive explosion.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Karmine, to Gwinladin/Glor, before turning him into a monster. Later Karmine has the same thing happen to him from ''his'' master Xizan.]]

* DreamTeam: Kalkarnor, Ramal, and Gwinladin. Take three of the most skilled adventurers in the world and set them loose to collect all the {{MacGuffin}}s - and they're ''good'' at it. [[spoiler: To a certain point.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: One village has ''penguin residences''.

** The game in general applies very clever and heavy use of this trope, which is an unusual but welcome sight.
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Of sorts. The [[http://rpgfan.com/pics/guardians-crusade/box-japfront.jpg Japanese box art]] is rather whimsical in looks: showing Knight and Baby doing various activities you can do in the game, all the while looking damn adorable. The back cover is [[http://rpgfan.com/pics/guardians-crusade/box-japback.jpg even cuter]]. The American version is a bit more generic in comparison.

* AerithAndBob: Take a slightly less odd name like Picard, Karmine, or Darwin, and then cross it with names like Kalkarnor, Nehani, and Darkbeat. Though, given that the game has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, this is to be expected.

* SwampsAreEvil: Kuldo. Everybody's scared of it, it's dreaded even in the fandom for its frustrating introduction of the [[StandardStatusEffects Poison and Terror]] status effects, and it has a shrine home to fairly tough enemies at an early point in the game.

* AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair: Played straight early and often. Not only is this a good way of getting important items and [[LivingToy Living Toys]], it also gives you access to an immense amount of dialogue with Nehani.

* CanNotSpitItOut: Nehani, who's in love with Knight, but can't say a damn word of her true feelings. Most evident before [[spoiler: the final battle]].

* DreamTeam: Kalkarnor, Ramal, and Gwinladin. Take three of the most skilled adventurers in the world and set them loose to collect all the [[MacGuffin Mac Guffins]] - and they're ''good'' at it. [[spoiler: To a certain point.]]

* FrothyMugsOfWater: Despite there being buildings in towns that are obviously bars, at least in the English version they're called cafés and the bartenders serve root beer and soda. Alcohol itself is never mentioned, but a subtle {{Lampshade}} by Nehani comes by when she asks why none of the cafés seem to serve lemonade or coffee in Carmarthen. There was also the wedding party in Isten, where Knight might have had some weird tasting 'juice'.

* IAmNotWeasel: Over the course of the game Baby is mistaken for either a pig or a pink dog far too many times to count. Naturally, since both he and Knight are [[HeroicMime Heroic Mimes]], Nehani does the correcting for them.

* PathOfInspiration: [[spoiler:The Church of Artema]].

** Baby (Id): A rather rebellious baby monster. [[ExtremeOmnivore Can eat anything]] and [[BadassAdorable despite not being even a year old has no problems equaling Knight in combat.]]

* RichBitch: Many, including a few mayors and especially [[MeaningfulName Richten.]]

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Xizan,]] who was sealed into the can by [[MineralMacGuffin the holy ]][[CosmicKeystone stones.]]

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The game ''would've'' been called ''[[http://psx.ign.com/articles/065/065772p1.html Guardian Legends]]'' outside of Japan, but there was at least [[VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend one problem...]]
* [[YouCantFightFate You Can't Fight Fate]]: In-game example. At the beginning of the game an angel approaches Knight and tells him that he must take Baby to God's Tower to save the world; the mayor of Orgo promptly tells Knight he's crazy and to go drop Baby off in a cave. Knight does so, and then the angel visits him ''again,'' in exactly the same scene as earlier. You have no choice but to proceed.

* BeneathTheEarth: Whenever demons in the game show up, they're most likely from BeneathTheEarth. Despite this, apart from caves and such you don't actually go underground at all, [[spoiler: apart from possibly Picard.]] Given the circumstances, said area beneath the earth is most likely {{Hell}}.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Of sorts. The [[http://rpgfan.com/pics/guardians-crusade/box-japfront.jpg Japanese box art]] is rather whimsical in looks: showing Knight and Baby doing various activities you can do in the game, all the while looking damn adorable. The back cover is [[http://rpgfan.com/pics/guardians-crusade/box-japback.jpg even more cuter]]. The American version is a bit more generic in comparison.

* AlreadyDoneForYou: On your gem quest, you'll see that Kalkanor and his crew has already snatched most of the gems before you did.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When you finally reach Celeste, [[spoiler: she is clearly seen lying in a pool of her own blood, [[MoralEventHorizon as Karmine opened up her stomach in his attempt to find the crystal cage containing Xizan]].]] This, in a E-rated game.

* [[spoiler: PathOfInspiration]]: The Church of Artema.

This series contains examples of:

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his baby dragon

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* WritingAroundTrademarks: The game ''would've'' been called ''[[http://psx.ign.com/articles/065/065772p1.html Guardian Legends]]'' outside of Japan, but there was at least [[TheGuardianLegend one problem...]]

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* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: One village has ''penguin residences''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When you finally reach Celeste, [[spoiler: she is clearly seen lying in a pool of her own blood, [[MoralEventHorizon as Karmine opened up her stomach in his attempt to find the artifact containing Xizan]].]] This, in a E-rated game.