History VideoGame / NocturneRPGMaker

* DifficultySpike: After Luna officially joins the party, the party can finally go up to four active members. Unfortunately, the bosses become a lot harder to compensate for the advantage of an extra healer.

** The Counter passive allows the user to counterattack physical attacks, with the chance of countering increasing with the skill's level.
** The FinalBoss is a DualBoss with an interesting take on this mechanic. [[spoiler:Khaos]] will cast Illusory Barrier, allowing him and his partner to counter on the other's behalf when their partner has significantly lower HP than them. The only way to avoid triggering the counterattack is to damage both bosses evenly or destroy the barrier with Eye of Souls.

* SoloCharacterRun: The developer actually accounted for solo attempts by including the Falling Star formation, which is a formation that only affects Reviel solo, in contrast to other formations that only work with two or more characters.

** The BonusBoss is [[TheCameo team of main characters]] from ''Cross of the World'', a ''VideoGame/RPGMaker'' game made by one of the staff.

''Nocturne'' is an VideoGame/RPGMaker game made by Cogwheel/Shou and was originally released in Japanese. The original RPG Maker 2000 version was made in 2002 and the ''Nocturne: Rebirth'' RPG Maker XP remake was made in 2009 and translated to English by eplipswich in 2015. The remake has nearly the same story as the original, but extended for one more dungeon.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with ''{{Videogame/Nocturne}}'', a survival horror game, or the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' game usually called ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' for short. It also has no relation to the 2007 French/Spanish animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Nocturna}}''.

* ExtraTurn:
** The Speed Star formation gives player characters a small chance of getting consecutive turns. The enemy skill, Overclock, gives the same effect to the user, but with a higher activation rate.
** Several skills, such as Shadow Ripper, can deplete the target's ATB bar.

* ExtraTurn: The Speed Star formation gives player characters a small chance of getting consecutive turns. The enemy skill, Overclock, also gives the user a chance of performing consecutive actions.

''Nocturne'' is an RPG Maker game made by Cogwheel/Shou and was originally released in Japanese. The original RPG Maker 2000 version was made in 2002 and the ''Nocturne: Rebirth'' RPG Maker XP remake was made in 2009 and translated to English by eplipswich in 2015. The remake has nearly the same story as the original, but extended for one more dungeon.

* BigBad: At first, Ristill seems to be the most antagonistic figure to Reviel by setting a barrier around Algiz to weaken him. [[spoiler:Then it turns out Khaos was the one who made the barrier as a way to make Reviel and Ristill's conflict more interesting and to alert the others to his real plan of destroying and reconstructing the world.]]
* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler:The world is saved, but Khaos ends up committing suicide despite the party's efforts to save him. And while Luna is accepted back into the village, Reviel leaves because he knows his misdeeds can't be forgiven that easily, though he plans to return to Algiz someday. Shylphiel is left without her master and decides to take care of Khaos's cabin for the rest of her life, but she at least has Ristill to lend her mana.]]

Not to be confused with ''{{Videogame/Nocturne}}'', a survival horror game, or the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' game usually called ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' for short.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The game almost seems to have an ending after the party defeats [[DiscOneFinalBoss Ristill]] and Reviel prepares to say his goodbyes to the village. However, the maid in the inn hints that there's someone else who needs to be saved. [[spoiler:Then Khaos attacks the village and challenges the party to stop his plan to destroy the world.]]

* TheCaligula: The Revolutionary War from eight years ago was fought to depose Gilbard, the mad ruler of the region around Algiz.

* AlwaysAccurateAttack: {{Limit Break}}s (other than Eye skills due to status immunity) never miss a target, though sufficiently high evasion allows them to avoid critical hits, [[spoiler:as shown when Khaos uses Laplace's Demon to give himself unparalleled evasion]].

** Jackson Boer is a SocialDarwinist who tries to claim that his status as a vampire means he's entitled to kill humans on a whim. This is turned back on him when Reviel, a vampire Ancestor, starts a CurbStompBattle against him.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Getting killed by random enemies and bosses that "lack killing intent" will result in the party being booted back to the dungeon's entrance, with Reviel and Luna left at 1 HP. Bosses with killing intent will cause a game over upon the player's defeat.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Sorcerous swords will deal elemental damage to the wielder, making them impractical to use unless the wielder can resist the sword's element.

* HopelessBossFight:
** There's only one hopeless battle in the game if you anger Minto from the DevelopersRoom, who summons a bunch of rabbits. Although they look like the weakest random encounters, each one is a KillerRabbit that spams the strongest spell of the FinalBoss. Luckily, losing won't cause a game over.
** Inverted in the second part of the battle against Hypnosis. If any party member falls in battle, they'll automatically be restored to full health.