History VideoGame / JeanneDArc

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The ''dramatis personae'', many historical events (such as the siege of Orleans, the assault on Les Tourelles,) and the circumstances of Jeanne's capture all correspond with the true history of the Hundred Years' War. We missed the part where the English army was led by an EvilOverlord and his LegionsOfHell, though, and the [[{{Masquerade}} hidden war]] between mankind and the Netherworld. And where did all the PettingZooPeople go?

* PettingZooPeople: The therions are basically anthropomorphic animals, like lions, gazelles, panthers, dogs, bulls, rhinos, tigers...

* TheMentor: Richard tries to be this to Jeanne and especially Liane [[spoiler:after Jeanne's apparent death. Unfortunately, it's not enough to save Liane.]]

* MissionFromGod: [[spoiler:Subverted, as the voice from the armlet was actually its [[FallenHero previous wielder]] Luther, reaching out to a new hero to guide them]].

* ArmorIsUseless: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied only Jeanne's armor prevented her from dying from a cross bolt to the gut, though she's still left heavily wounded from it and the subsequent fall off a cliff.]]

* GreatEscape: Roger tries to help Liane escape from the gaol. [[spoiler:He fails.]]

* MissionFromGod: [[spoiler:Subverted, as the voice from the armlet was actually a [[FallenHero previous hero]]]].

* ShaggyDogStory: Liane, who started out reluctant to go on the mission but accompanied Jeanne and Roger, only to watch them both become distant from her as the war starts taking its toll on all of them. [[spoiler:Eventually she's forced to take Jeanne's place as the Maiden of Orleans, wanting to fulfill Jeanne's last wishes, and she leads the Dauphin's army to Reims, where he ends up crowned just as Jeanne wanted. But then the true enemy conspires against her and her own failure to hold up under the pressure leads to her making costly mistakes, and she ends up dying in Jeanne's place on the burning stake.]]

* BadDreams: Roger suffers through them constantly.

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Not Jeanne. Liane.]] And ''how''! So badly it becomes [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]!

* ImportantHaircut: Jeanne does this after her [[DoomedHometown hometown]] [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive is burned to the ground]] and she decides to join the army.

* KnightTemplar: Jeanne comes dangerously close, increasingly insistent on driving the English out of France after having been "ordained by God" to do so. [[spoiler: Liane is even worse.]]

* MessianicArchetype: Jeanne, though it's not until she puts {{Revenge}} on the backburner does she truly fit the bill.

* RecurringBoss: Talbot, most annoyingly. Also Mawra, Blaze, and Slinker.
** [[spoiler: Despite appearing to be killed off for real much earlier on, he makes a HeelFaceTurn]].

* ShaggyDogStory: Liane, who started out reluctant to go on the mission but accompanied Jeanne and Roger, only to watch them both become distant from her. [[spoiler:Eventually she ends up dying in Jeanne's place.]]

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jeanne is the tomboy as she is always willing to stand and fight and Lianne is the girly girl as she is significantly more shy.

* HeadbuttingHeroes: Gilles and Roger can't stand one another.

* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Averted, but then switched around a lot. Mages other than Richard aren't really that useful except in case of emergencies to cast Heal, and the only thing keeping Richard from being benched is the armlet. Having only two possible defined mage characters in the game, one optional, doesn't help either, since Liane and Beatrix are hybrids. And while everyone's stats are technically linear, it's actually the ''archers'' who wind up becoming some of the most powerful characters, since Sky Dart can make them attack from ''anywhere'' on the battlefield and they can attack without fear of being countered, although they don't create burning auras, which can be an utter GameBreaker. Rose and Rufus, too.

* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:Liane is convinced to do this after Jeanne seemingly falls to her death by Richard, due to the fact that she inherited the Armlet. When she dies, Cuisses regains it, as it was a former family heirloom. ]]

* MurderByMistake: Jeanne accidentally kills the mayor of Chalon under the assumption that he was an impostor in disguise. The real impostor, Slinker, simply posed as one of the villager in order to turn everyone against her, calling her a witch. This... has consequences.

''Jeanne d'Arc'' is a TurnBasedStrategy RolePlayingGame for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable from the very talented folks at Creator/Level5. It's [[TheThemeParkVersion based]] on the [[SadlyMythtaken reimagining]] of [[InsistentTerminology Saint]] [[JeanneDArchetype Joan of Arc]]'s involvement in the Hundred Years' War as part of a greater war between mankind and the "Reapers," [[TheLegionsOfHell demonic creatures from the Netherworld]]. Cue the HenshinHero transformations, the half-human warriors, magic spells and, of course, the mystical armlets that make all of this possible.

* StatusBuff: There are spells and skills to taise the various stats.

* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:Liane is convinced to do this after Jeanne seemingly falls to her death by Richard, due to the fact that she inherited the Armlet.]]
* TalkingAnimal: [[spoiler: Cuisses, after a major character death]].

* RPGElements

* CelShading

* MurderByMistake: Jeanne accidentally kills the mayor under the assumption that he was an impostor in disguise. The real impostor simply posed as one of the villager in order to turn everyone against her, calling her a witch.

* StandardStatusEffects
* StatusBuff

* BurnTheWitch: But of course, given the name of the game. [[spoiler:But not the one you were likely expecting]].

** Perhaps unintentionally, Jeanne bears a certain resemblance to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Arturia Pendragon]], ranging from outer appearance (complete with IdiotHair) to facial expressions to general attitude. Ironically, [[HilariousInHindsight the Nasuverse Jeanne would eventually turn out to be very similar to Arturia herself, being considered one of the "Saberfaces"]]. Jeanne's [[Creator/KariWahlgren English voice actress]] would later go on to voice Arturia [[LightNovel/FateZero herself]].

* {{Expy}}: Cuisses is essentially the same character as Toady from Level 5's earlier game ''RogueGalaxy'', except that he doesn't talk. [[spoiler: ...Until later]].

* AwesomeButImpractical: Nearly any skill that costs more than 70 Magic points to cast (nearly because there are some that are worth it), but especially the "ultimate" spells. Sure, you gain Magic points every turn, but you're waiting 5 turns just to cast one spell. By that time you've probably already killed almost everything on the map already. The upside is that most of the ultimate spells hit everywhere on the map at once for large amounts of damage and don't hurt your allies. The downside is, you have to charge another five turns to do it again.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jeanne and Liane were ordinary girls. Then war came to town. They became near-fanatical, astonishing soldiers whose only goal was to drive the English out of France.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Jeanne, of course.

* MessianicArchetype: Jeanne.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: Jeanne falls from a great height after being shot with a crossbow into a river. Said character is believed dead for an entire chapter of the game and then comes back]].

* SadlyMythtaken: So Joan of Arc was a ''[[MagicalGirl what]]''?
** And La Hire was a ''lion''?!
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Liane]].

* TheLancer: Gilles. Literally as well.

''Jeanne d'Arc'' is a TurnBasedStrategy RolePlayingGame for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable from the very talented folks at [[{{Level5}} Level-5]]. It's [[TheThemeParkVersion based]] on the [[SadlyMythtaken reimagining]] of [[InsistentTerminology Saint]] [[JeanneDArchetype Joan of Arc]]'s involvement in the Hundred Years' War as part of a greater war between mankind and the "Reapers," [[TheLegionsOfHell demonic creatures from the Netherworld]]. Cue the HenshinHero transformations, the half-human warriors, magic spells and, of course, the mystical armlets that make all of this possible.

* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: Actually subverted.]]

* NamesTheSame: The Reapers are also the name of a street gang in ''VideoGame/{{inFamous}}'' and [[spoiler: an ancient alien race]] in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', both of which came after this game.
* NoExportForYou: You'd think that a game based on ''Joan of Arc'', of all people, would see the light of day in Europe? Think again. (In all fairness the PSP ''is'' Region-free)

* LoveTriangle: Liane is in love with Roger, who is in love with Jeanne. However, Roger becomes a bit of a Green Eyed Monster because of Gilles, who becomes one of Jeanne's most trusted confidants during the war. However, due to the stress of fighting the English army, Jeanne is quite Oblivious to Love.

* NonLethalKO
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: A character falls from a Great Height... into a river. Said character is believed dead for an entire chapter of the game and then comes back]].

* PlotlineDeath: [[spoiler: ...probably not the one you're expecting]].