History VideoGame / RogueGalaxy

The story follows Jaster Rogue, born and raised on the desert planet of Rosa amidst the sprawl of galactic turmoil: purportedly for the protection of the people, the Longardian Federation has set up an occupation of Rosa, much to the locals' displeasure. Rosa, being a resource-rich world, has practically been enslaved by Longardia for the express purpose of combatting their rival, the Draxian Empire. Not caring for any of this, Jaster wishes to leave the planet in the dust and explore the galaxy, with the ultimate goal of becoming a space pirate.

* WakeUpCallBoss

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Burton. He is a noncombatant, but manages to get himself in the thick of danger anyway [[spoiler: including turning himself into a ghost at least once.]]

* BeautyIsBad: MIO. She jails the party not two minutes after meeting, because Lilika is a bit scary.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jupis.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Valkog

* DrowningMySorrows: Deego.

* EvilGenius: Professor Izel.

* IdolSinger: MIO

* LargeAndInCharge: Captain Dorgengoa, almost played for laughs with the big build up. Valkog as well, though not quite as large as Dorgengoa.

* MadScientist: Professor Izel.

* ValleyGirl: MIO speaks this way in the US version. [[spoiler: In a private moment regarding Mark, it's revealed to be part of her stage persona.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Burton is killed shortly after discovering the secret of Eden.

* EpicFail: Millions of the game's currency, years and years of time spent not only decoding the Great Tablets, but also in developing the "perfect being" from genetic code, they finally manage to activate Eden's entrance and have the means to solve the BlockPuzzle... and he can't solve it. All that time and money down the tubes for a being that has the power but not the brains for the puzzle.

* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Jaster's alter ego, being a descendant of the Star King,]] but it doesn't offer any in-game bonuses other than looking vaguely cool and maxing out his HP...which comes out to a 150-200 point increase at most at the point of the game it's initially triggered.
** And his sword acts like a long-range attack whenever he's facing the final boss.

* ValleyGirl: MIO, annoyingly, in the US version.
** [[spoiler: In a private moment regarding Mark, it's revealed to just be part of her stage persona.]]

* AreWeThereYet: Many characters complain about the long distances required to get from place to place. Jupis actually spouts the phrase.

* BlockPuzzle: The gate to Eden is presented in FMV cutscenes as a massive puzzle of giant, [[PowerFloats floating]], [[PowerGlows glowing]] blocks. The player is never actually tasked with solving it; the BigBad [[MundaneMadeAwesome engineered an artificial lifeform to do so, complete with OminousLatinChanting as the blocks go whirling all into place]]. Of course, all the awesomeness of the setup is rendered moot when it turns out that [[spoiler: he can't solve it. Though that arguably just makes it ''more'' awesome when Star King Jaster solves it on the first try]].

* BreakingTheFourthWall[=/=]FourthWallObserver: If Kisala is in the active party, she may comment about how long the player has been playing, or how long it's been since they used the SavePoint. This might actually be a be a bit of FridgeBrilliance, since [[spoiler: she's not from the same dimension as everyone else.]]

* HeroKiller: Seed. Thankfully, the boss battles with him have a time limit, or you'd actually have a problem.

* MiniGame: Insectron, a combination of chess and {{Pokemon}}. It actually requires quite a bit more skill than the main quest (and most likely a [[GuideDangIt guide]] to find the best insects).

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: ([[spoiler:Seed]], as well as Steve, a sentient robot who struggles with the notion of being his creator's "son" while simultaneously serving as an avatar for the creator's actual son [[spoiler:who is actually dead]])

** The Jupis Robot is essentially {{Gigantor}}. Jupis also unleashes it while shouting [[TheShining "Heerree'sss Joooohnnny!"]]

** The Jupis Robot is essentially {{Gigantor}}

** Dr. Poccachio has the same giant schnozz as [[AstroBoy Dr. Ochanomizu]].

* BlockPuzzle: The gate to Eden is presented in FMV cutscenes as a massive puzzle of giant, [[PowerFloats floating]], [[PowerGlows glowing]] blocks. The player is never actually tasked with solving it; the BigBad engineered an artificial lifeform to do so, complete with OminousLatinChanting as the blocks go whirling all into place. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What do you mean, it's not awesome?]]
** Of course, all the awesomeness is rendered moot when it turns out that [[spoiler: he can't solve it. Though that arguably just makes it ''more'' awesome when Star King Jaster solves it on the first try]].

** And, to a lesser extent, some of the game's Quarries are more difficult beasts than others.

* ArtificialStupidity ("''Block'', you sons of- Great, they're dead again. *sigh* SoloCharacterRun, then?")
* AwesomeButImpractical The Burning Strike attacks. Yes, they're exceptionally powerful, but none of them can be used on any bosses: the most ideal target for them are the Mimics mentioned below, and you don't fight them that often to begin with.

* BareYourMidriff Lilika is more {{stripperific}} than midriffic, but Kisala's default clothing is. [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Jaster too]], in one of his armors.

* BeehiveBarrier
* BetterThanABareBulb Several of the worst cliches are lampshaded by the cast. Including Gladius Towers status as a ScrappyLevel.

* BonusDungeon: The Ghost Ship, a large dungeon with several bosses. After completing it, the player can participate in a PopQuiz for access to the "extreme" version, which is a 100 floors of randomly-generated dungeon crawling.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive Valkog
* CosmicKeystone Literally.
* CopyAndPasteEnvironments You could cut any given dungeon to one-third its size just by cutting all but the first instance of a layout.

* DoomedHometown Okay, it's never completely destroyed, but it does come under attack twice, and there are ''always'' more RandomEncounters popping up all over town.
* DrowningMySorrows : Deego.

* IdolSinger MIO

* InfinityPlusOneSword - multiple, in fact
* InterspeciesRomance Deego is a bulldog-man. Angela is a not-really-an-elf. They're an item.

* LargeAndInCharge Captain Dorgengoa, almost played for laughs with the big build up.

* MacrossMissileMassacre Simon, wielding a rocket launcher, does this with some attacks; Deego calls in a helicopter assault that uses a barrage of lasers to the same effect, not quite BeamSpam.
* MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest You have to kill a certain number of almost every enemy to get a particular achievement/prize/what have you.

* NowWhereWasIGoingAgain The game recaps recent events while loading a save file and sometimes hints at what the protagonists are supposed to do next.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass Occurs as a [[OminousLatinChanting plot]] [[BlockPuzzle device]], sorta, and again in the BonusDungeon, of all places, in order to access the ''extreme'' version of the Bonus Dungeon.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Simon might as well be one, he has the stature, the accent, and almost the attitude, there's already people with pointy elf ears so why not? there's even a dark elf, silver hair, [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]], seriously.

* RecurringTraveller Burton the obligatory hyperactive archaeologist; and Miyoko and Chie, both of which turn up in dangerous places.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots [[spoiler:M10]]

* ShoutOut Steve is, looks-wise, almost a dead ringer for the robot in Hayao Miyazaki's ''Laputa'', as well as ''The Iron Giant''.

* {{Stripperific}}: All of Kisala's and Lilika's outfits.
* SuperMode [[spoiler:Jaster's alter ego, being a descendant of the Star King,]] but it doesn't offer any in-game bonuses other than looking vaguely cool and maxing out his HP...which comes out to a 150-200 point increase at most at the point of the game it's initially triggered.

* TalkingAnimal The Dorgenark's first mate is a talking cat.
* ThoseTwoGuys Henry and Robert, a pair of bumbling guards who are also creepy members of MIO's fanclub

* WaveMotionGun "THE BIG [=GUNs=]" is not an exaggeration, too bad they're only used once
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman ([[spoiler:Seed]], as well as Steve, a sentient robot who struggles with the notion of being his creator's "son" while simultaneously serving as an avatar for the creator's actual son [[spoiler:who is actually dead]])
* YouALLLookFamiliar [=NPCs=], of course, have limited models, but most of them have their own unique names, oddly enough, at least in the English localization.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Sort of. The man in question is a noncombatant, but manages to get himself in the thick of danger anyway [[spoiler: including turning himself into a ghost at least once.]]

* GameBreaker: If you thought Desert Wind was powerful, Supernova (even level 1) can do some major damage on the tougher quarries. And if you manage to get it up to level 3, even the FinalBoss dies in about 5 hits.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: If Kisala is in the active party, she may comment about how long the player has been playing, or how long it's been since they used the SavePoint.

* FacialMarkings Jaster's birthmark [[spoiler:the mark of the Star King]])
* FourthWallObserver: All the characters have flavor lines they say as you move around. These lines might change given where you are, and what events are unlocked. Well... Kisala, when you play for longer than a certain amount of time without saving (or defeating a few bosses also seems to trigger it) she says something along the lines of "shouldn't you get to a save point?" And if you play more than 3 hours or so, "You've been playing a really long time! Aren't you tired?" This is possibly FridgeBrilliance, since [[spoiler: she's actually from another dimension.]]

* HiddenElfVillage Arguably Burkaqua, [[spoiler:Johannasburg]] the Illusory Oasis is a more traditional example, and there's also the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic lost planet Eden]].

* HotAmazon Lilika

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