History VideoGame / IAmSetsuna

* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that unlocks skills. Each character has 16 unique Spritnites, which unlock Techs; there are also Passive Spritnites which anyone can equip. This system has the unintended side effect of ripping the bottom out of the whole "CombinationAttack" idea: while basically every Spritnite has at least one Double or Triple Tech associated with it, there is no guarantee that all involved characters will be ''wearing'' the necessary Spritnites. Besides, even if you get all the InfinityPlusOneSwords in the game, you're still limited to 12 slots per character.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The Game Over screens come with a subtitle that changes according to the circumstances. Typically it's something like, "The pilgrimage ended in failure..." [[spoiler:but in the last part of the game, it says "You were unable to the change the future..."

* ShoutOut: The game gives a LOT of {{Shout Out}}s to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', and is explicitly designed to be a lot like it. There are some others too, though.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dark Samsara.]]

* TheChosenOne: Setsuna is the girl chosen to be the sacrifice and die at the Last Lands to placate the monsters. However, you learn from Sayagi that someone can take her place. There needs to be ''a'' sacrifice, but it doesn't have to be ''the'' sacrifice. [[spoiler:Sayagi knows this because she too was a sacrifice, but her twin sister took her place, successfully.]]

* LazyBackup: as usual for this genre.
* LeakedExperience: present. LazyBackup characters

* TimeMaster: The Time Judge.

* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that unlocks skills. Unlike Materia, all Spritnite that give Techs are restricted to a specific character. Passive ones are universal.

* ShoutOut: The game gives a LOT of {{Shout Out}}s to ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', and is explicitly designed to be a lot like it.

* {{Expy}}: A number of the characters seem to be based strongly on specific characters. Setsuna and Nidr are [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yuna and Auron]], Endir is [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Crono]], and [[spoiler:Fides is Magus]].

The game begins on a snow-bound island, which is regularly beset by angry demons. According to an ancient custom, a maiden is sacrificed to appease the demons. The demons grow restless once again, and a girl known as Setsuna is chosen as the sacrifice. Together with a taciturn mercenary named Endir, a former traveler named Aeterna, and a carefree veteran soldier named Nidr, Setsuna begins her journey to the ritual site on the edges of the known world where the sacrifice will take place. Taken straight from TheOtherWiki.

* BonusBoss: Every boss from the personal quests are optional, but completing the quests gives you the final spell of the character and sometimes [[InfinityPlusOneSword their final weapon]]. Once you cleared all the resurrected bosses in the three ruins, you face [[spoiler:The Ruler Of Time.]]

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: ndir and Setsuna are thrown into the past to follow after Dark Samsara. They meet a human-like form of Dark Samsara, which Endir defeats quickly. Setsuna takes the monster's soul inside her and asks Endir to kill her along with it. Whether Endir kills Setsuna or not is left to the player's imagination. Roll credits. [[TheStinger A post-credits scene]] shows Endir walking alone in the snow, as Setsuna somehow resurrects/reincarnates behind him. Are they still in the past? Is Setsuna alive? Is she a ghost? The game gives no answer on any of this.]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:The game is set in one where the Time Judge has constantly reset time when the party chooses to avoid fighting the boss, essentially forcing her to rewind the clock until a deviation appeared with Endir and the Reaper.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Nidr's one is that he failed to protect the sacrifice during last pilgrimage and she died before she got to perform her duty as the sacrifice. He eventually gets better during his personal quest.]]

** In Morbrise Mountain, towards the exit there is a sprinite-eaten monster called a Glowpoly. It has very high evasion making it difficult to damage, but its actual damage output is quite low, meaning it's easy to just wait the battle out until your hits eventually connect. It gives [[MetalSlime one thousand EXP per kill]] at a time when other enemy encounters aren't even hitting 100, and it respawns. It's enough to get your characters several levels up in a short amount of time.

* SacrificialLamb: The world routinely sacrifices people every so often to prevent the monsters from overwhelming the human villages. Setsuna is the latest among them. It's noted for being dangerous enough that very few sacrifices actually make it to the Last Lands, most of them dying mid-journey or giving up; examples of the latter include [[spoiler:such as Setsuna's aunt or Sayagi]].

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Dark Samsara.]]
* BonusBoss: Every boss from the personal quests are optional, but completing the quests gives you the final spell of the character and sometimes [[InfinityPlusOneSword their final weapon]]. Once you cleared all the resurrected bosses in the three ruins, you face [[spoiler: The Ruler Of Time.]]

* {{Expy}}: A number of the characters seem to be based strongly on specific characters. Setsuna and Nidr are [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yuna and Auron]], Endir is [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Crono]], and [[spoiler: Fides is Magus]].

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: Endir and Setsuna are thrown into the past to follow after Dark Samsara. They meet a human-like form of Dark Samsara, which Endir defeats quickly. Setsuna takes the monster's soul inside her and asks Endir to kill her along with it. Whether Endir kills Setsuna or not is left to the player's imagination. Roll credits. [[TheStinger A post-credits scene]] shows Endir walking alone in the snow, as Setsuna somehow resurrects/reincarnates behind him. Are they still in the past? Is Setsuna alive? Is she a ghost? The game gives no answer on any of this.]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:The game is set in one where the Time Judge has constantly reset time when the party chooses to avoid fighting the boss, essentially forcing her to rewind the clock until a deviation appeared with the Endir and the Reaper.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Nidr, the BFS equipped soldier, is actually Setsuna's father, but he never tells her directly. The game implies Setsuna connected the dots.]]
* MeaningfulName: Endir is named エンド/Endo/End is Japan. Feeling it's a strange name, especially for an English release, they changed it for Endir. [[spoiler: His Japanese name foreshadows that Endir is the only character with Setsuna during the ending.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Nidr's one is that he failed to protect the sacrifice during last pilgrimage and she died before she got to perform her duty as the sacrifice. He eventually gets better during his personal quest.]]

* RecurringBoss: [[spoiler: The Reaper. He becomes LastEpisodeNewCharacter since he's playable just before the last boss.]]
* SacrificialLamb: The world routinely sacrifices people every so often to prevent the monsters from overwhelming the human villages. Setsuna is the latest among them. It's noted for being dangerous enough that very few sacrifices actually make it to the Last Lands, most of them dying mid-journey or giving up; examples of the latter include [[spoiler:such as Setsuna's aunt or Sayagi.]]

* YamatoNadeshiko: Setsuna is very prim, proper and polite, despite being cast as the sacrificial maiden.

''I Am Setsuna'', or ''イケニエと雪のセツナ (A Sacrifice and Setsuna of the Snow)'' in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for PlayStation4 and PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for PlayStation4 and MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and set to appear on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2017.

''I Am Setsuna'', or ''イケニエと雪のセツナ (Setsuna, Sacrifices and Snow)'' in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for PlayStation4 and PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for PlayStation4 and MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and set to appear on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2017.

''I Am Setsuna'', or イケニエと雪のセツナ ( Setsuna, Sacrifices and Snow ) in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for PlayStation4 and PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for PlayStation4 and MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and set to appear on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2017.

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* YamatoNadeshiko: Setsuna is very prim, proper and polite, despite being cast as the sacrificial maiden.

''I Am Setsuna'', or イケニエと雪のセツナ ( Setsuna, Sacrifices and Snow ) in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for PlayStation4 and PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, and worldwide for PlayStation4 and MicrosoftWindows in July 2016.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Dark Samsara]].

* SacrificialLamb: The world routinely sacrifices people every so often to prevent the monsters from overwhelming the human villages. Setsuna is the latest among them. It's noted for being dangerous enough that very few sacrifices actually make it to the Last Lands, most of them dying mid-journey or giving up; examples of the latter include [[spoiler:such as Setsuna's aunt or Sayagi]].

* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that unlocks skills. Unlike Materia, most Spritnite are restricted to a specific character.

* PartyInMyPocket: he three characters in your active party all run in a line, as in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. However, during conversation scenes, the LazyBackup characters fade in out of nowhere.

* SacrificialLamb: The world routinely sacrifices people every so often to prevent the monsters from overwhelming the human villages. Setsuna is the latest among them. It's noted for being dangerous enough that very few sacrifices actually make it to the Last Lands and die mid-journey or give up, [[spoiler:such as Setsuna's aunt or Sayagi]].

* PartyInYourPocket: Zigzagged. The three characters in your active party all run in a line, as in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. However, during conversation scenes, the LazyBackup characters fade in out of nowhere.

* BrokenBridge: the most brokenest one could ask for. [[spoiler:When the party finally arrives at the Last Lands, they find that it is inaccessible: someone has taken a huge bite out of the landscape, resulting in a FloatingIsland within a huge crater.]]

* TheChosenOne: downplayed. Setsuna is indeed the girl chosen to be the sacrifice and die at the Last Lands to placates the monster. However, you learn from Sayagi that someone can take her place. There needs to be ''a'' sacrifice, but it doesn't have to be ''the'' sacrifice. (Sayagi knows this because [[spoiler:she too was a sacrifice, but her twin sister took her place, and successfully to boot.]])
* {{Expy}}: A number of the characters seem to be based strongly on specific characters. Setsuna and Nidr are [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yuna and Auron]], and [[spoiler: Fides is Magus]].

* InterfaceSpoiler: Around Purikka, there are two possible {{BFS}}-wielders who the game hints might join your party ([[spoiler:Freyja and Nidr]]). You are given the option to [[HelloInsertNameHere rename]] one of them. Guess which one joins.

* LadyOfWar: Julienne.

* PartyInYourPocket: zigzagged. The three characters in your active party all run around in a line as in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. However, during conversation scenes, the LazyBackup simply fade in out of nowhere; the game doesn't even bother to, say, animate them running in from the entrance.

* SacrificialLamb: The world routinely sacrifices people every so often to prevent the monsters from overwhelming the human villages. Setsuna is the latest among them. It's noted for being dangerous enough that very few sacrifices actually make it to the Last Lands and die mid-journey or give up, [[spoiler:such as Setsuna's aunt or Sayagi.]]

* TykeBomb: Kir. (Actually his village's [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. [[spoiler:They have extremely powerful magic, but it is CastFromLifespan. Most of them choose to surrender most of their power in exchange for a longer life. Kir ultimately decides he'd rather be powerful than old.]])

* ActionGirl: Aeterna.

* ActionGirl: Aeterna and Julienne.

* VendorTrash: Most monsters drop this. They then need to be sold to the Magic Consortium to unlock Spritnite. The problem is that the components needed to unlock various Spritnite is not calibrated to plot progression. It's possible to get to the end of the game with only about half your techs available for purchase.

* TykeBomb: Kir. (Actually his village's {{hat}}. [[spoiler:They have extremely powerful magic, but it is CastFromLifespan. Most of them choose to surrender most of their power in exchange for a longer life. Kir ultimately decides he'd rather be powerful than old.]])

* CombinationAttack: In pure ''Chrono Trigger'' fashion, you can combine two or three character's spells to make stronger spells. Some combined spells are truly game breaking.

* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that unlocks skills. Unlike Materia, though, most Spritnite are restricted to a specific character.

** You are given a number of dialogue options with Endir, but pretty much all of them don't have any effect outside of maybe getting a few characters to yell at you. As [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]] put it in his review of the game, the options that are offered to the player is often down to agreeing with Setsuna or slightly sarcastically agreeing with Setsuna.

* InterfaceSpoiler: at and around Purikka, there are two possible {{BFS}}-wielders who the game hints might join your party ([[spoiler:Freyja and Nidr]]). You are given the option to [[HelloInsertNameHere rename]] one of them. Guess which one joins.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Nidr, the BFS equipped soldier, is actually Setsuna's true father. But he never tells her direcly in game, the game implies Setsuna connected the dots, but it's not really clear.]]

* {{Minimalism}}: the entire soundtrack is piano. In fact, the entire soundtrack is ''solo'' piano except for battle themes, which involve percussion, an electric bass, and sometimes a second piano track.

** In the Twallusk Mountain, there's a set of enemies called Silvara near the entrance. They're ''extremely'' dangerous due to their high damage output and ability to inflict freeze on your party, but with certain sets of momentum-charged combos they can be killed relatively easily. They yield an enormous 3000 exp. An hour or so, and you'll barely have any troubles for the rest of the game.

* InterfaceSpoiler: at and around Purikka, there are two possible {{BFS}}-wielders who the game hints might join your party ([[spoilers:Freyja and Nidr]]). You are given the option to [[HelloInsertNameHere rename]] one of them. Guess which one joins.