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* OneUp: Literally the name of an alchemy spell which fully restores the Boy's health. More traditionally, there's Dog Biscuits which revive the Dog.
** There's an item called Pixie Dust and a call bead spell called Regenerate which will restore a small amount of HP upon the death of the Boy.
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* OneUp: Literally the name of an alchemy spell which fully restores the Boy's health. More traditionally, there's Dog Biscuits which revive the Dog.
**There's an item called Pixie Dust and a call bead spell called Regenerate which will restore a small amount of HP upon if the death of Boy dies before they wear off.
** Literally theBoy.name of an alchemy spell, but it fully restores the Boy's health.
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* CutsceneBoss: [[spoiler:Carltron]] never even gets to raise his hand to fight you. After the boy defeats his robots, Ruffleberg sneaks behind him and presses his 'off' switch. Judging by his sprite, [[spoiler:Carlton]] was preparing to activate some sort of ArmCannon before he froze in place.
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* ManOfWealthAndTaste / ManInWhite: Carltron dresses like a boss, with a white tuxedo and tailcoat.
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An action {{RPG}} ActionRPG modeled heavily from the SNES' [[SleeperHit surprise hit]], ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana''. Despite rumors to the contrary, ''Evermore'' is ''not'' the sequel to ''Secret of Mana'', but was made from whole cloth by Square USA (now part of SquareEnix), Creator/SquareEnix), and is one of the company's few games to have been developed entirely in the United States. It also featured a highly atmospheric soundtrack from newcoming composer JeremySoule, Music/JeremySoule, who went on to provide soundtracks for such classic games as ''DungeonSiege'', ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'', ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', ''GuildWars'' Morrowind]]'' on, ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' and the ''TotalAnnihilation'' ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' series.
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* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The players can only run after they've obtained the Jaguar Ring.
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* FisherKingdom
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...I\'m sorry, but when did Carlton ever fight? The closest things were: Carltron\'s Robot (Which looked like him). And shortly after beating it, where Carltron walks towards you with a flashing light-thingy before getting shut off.
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* BattleButler: Carltron.
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* BeatStillMyHeart: Among other random items pulled from a bag, is a cartoon valentine heart (not a realistic one) that beats (silently).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After taking out the Guardbots with his bazooka and descending down a floor iris, the Boy runs into his dog again, which barks a greeting at him. At first, you notice something off about it, but you figure maybe it's just all the metal around where the Boy's currently located distorting his barking. Turns out that it was an EarlyBirdCameo of the Toaster Dog.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After taking out the Guardbots with his bazooka and descending down a floor iris, the Boy runs into his dog again, which barks a greeting at him. At first, you notice something off about it, but you figure maybe it's just all the metal around where the Boy's currently located distorting his barking. Turns out that it was an EarlyBirdCameo of the Toaster Dog.
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** The Levitate alchemy formula, which serves almost no other purpose.
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* HopeSpot: Thanks to [[spoiler:Prehistoria's volcano]], the heroes are catapulted high into the air. Luckily, they fall into an upended turtle shell that floats them gently downstream. [[spoiler:And then dumps them over a waterfall.]]
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* HopeSpot: Thanks to [[spoiler:Prehistoria's [[spoiler: Prehistoria's volcano]], the heroes are catapulted high into the air. Luckily, they fall into an upended turtle shell that floats them gently downstream. [[spoiler:And [[spoiler: And then dumps them over a waterfall.]]
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* InevitableWaterfall: What first greets you after [[spoiler:escaping [[spoiler: escaping Prehistoria]].
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* LoadBearingBoss: Several, but [[spoiler:Carltron]] is the most outstanding example -- offing him causes Evermore to begin breaking up due to the lack of BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil.
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* OneUp: Literally the name of an alchemy spell which fully restores the Boy's health. More traditionally, there's Dog Biscuits which revive the Dog.
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* TheUnfought: Ruffleberg comes to the rescue and switches off [[spoiler:Cartolron]] before he can fight you properly.
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** A few mazes are confusing as hell unless one actually starts mapping them out.
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* TheCameo: Cecil Harvey from ''FinalFantasyIV'' shows up as a shopkeeper in Ebon Keep, and even [[ShoutOut makes references to his adventures from that game]].
** Also, during the GladiatorGames in Nobilia, you can see [[FinalFantasyVI Terra, Locke, Mog, Strago, Relm, and Umaro]] in the spectator stands.
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* DolledUpInstallment: The game's original title was just "Evermore"; "Secret of" was tacked on to cash in on the success of ''SecretOfMana'', as well as the recycled use of the ring menu system. However, this plan worked against the game's favor when Square decided not to produce an English localization of ''Seiken Densetsu 3'', causing ''Mana'' fans to believe that the decision was made to avoid competition with ''Evermore''.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Most egregious in the desert area, where the player is attacked by a malevolent ''tumbleweed.'' This stuff doesn't just defy the laws of physics by rolling against the wind; it actually ''[[ItCanThink chases]]'' the boy and absolutely will not turn aside until it has [[CollisionDamage collided]] with him. After it has either landed a hit or been blocked, it blows away in random directions.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The '''Desert of Doom'''.
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* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: The above-mentioned cameo of [[FinalFantasyIV Cecil]] and several [[FinalFantasyVI FF6]] characters for Europeans, since ''FinalFantasy'' games were a NoExportForYou until the seventh game.
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* AbilityRequiredToProceed: Comes in three varieties.
** The weeds that your starting bone weapon can't cut down until you get the Spider Claw.
** The switches in a dungeon have to be hit from a distance, and your spear is too light to do the job so you have to find the heavier Bronze Spear.
** Stone barriers and blocked doorways that your current Axe is too weak to demolish so you have to find an upgrade.
** The weeds that your starting bone weapon can't cut down until you get the Spider Claw.
** The switches in a dungeon have to be hit from a distance, and your spear is too light to do the job so you have to find the heavier Bronze Spear.
** Stone barriers and blocked doorways that your current Axe is too weak to demolish so you have to find an upgrade.
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* YouMustBeThisTallToEnter: Comes in three varieties. First, the weeds that your starting bone weapon can't cut down until you get the Spider Claw. Second, the switches in a dungeon have to be hit from a distance, and your spear is too light to do the job so you have to find the heavier Bronze Spear. And then there's stone barriers and blocked doorways that your current Axe is too weak to demolish so you have to find an upgrade.
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* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere
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[[caption-width-right:256:[[LawAndOrder Jack McCoy:]] Not appearing in this game.]]
->''"I'm not really sure where 'here' is, to tell you the truth ."''\\
--The Boy
An action {{RPG}} modeled heavily from the SNES' [[SleeperHit surprise hit]], ''SecretOfMana''. Despite rumors to the contrary, ''Evermore'' is ''not'' the sequel to ''Secret of Mana'', but was made from whole cloth by Square USA (now part of SquareEnix), and is one of the company's few games to have been developed entirely in the United States. It also featured a highly atmospheric soundtrack from newcoming composer JeremySoule, who went on to provide soundtracks for such classic games as ''DungeonSiege'', ''TheElderScrolls III'' and ''IV'', ''GuildWars'' and the ''TotalAnnihilation'' series.
The game stars a [[TheresNoBInMovie B-movie-loving]] [[ABoyAndHisX boy and his dog]], who stumble upon an abandoned mansion in the middle of [[EverytownAmerica Podunk, USA]]. After a mishap with a mysterious-looking device, the boy and his canine companion get transported to AnotherDimension, and find out that four other people have been trapped inside for decades, the disastrous result of the Evermore experiment 30 years ago. His goal becomes to explore this strange new world, learn the history of the Evermore project, and find a way to get everyone back to Earth. While the story isn't nearly as involved as it might sound, the game isn't without its highlights, the aforementioned soundtrack being one of them, the subversions of some path-of-least-resistance video game economic tropes being another.
The game itself is rather short, compared to ''Secret of Mana'' and other Square-Enix titles; it's also extremely linear, with no side-quests and a straightforward 'defeat the villain' premise. Otherwise, ''Secret of Evermore'' is fairly entertaining, with the boy constantly comparing his predicament to various (fictional) movies, and the dog shape-shifting into different forms, depending on which part of the game-world they're in.
Over the course of the game, you gradually learn more about the world of Evermore and its inhabitants; specifically, that Professor Ruffleburg designed Evermore as a realization of its inhabitant's '[[{{Utopia}} ideal world]]', each area catering to their own personal desires. For one resident, Evermore is a prehistoric jungle, while for another it becomes an archaeological dig.
Each 'environment' in Evermore seems to exist in its own biome; each is separated from the others in some way (Fire Eyes' village is on a massive plateau, some areas are only reachable by travelling through sewer pipes, and the final area of the game isn't part of Evermore at all). Likewise, each area has its own distinct life-forms, which are unique to the region and do not appear in other locales.
A long-dead post in the 'Secret of Evermore' GameFAQs forum featured an extended (and very interesting) discussion with one of the game's programmers who happened to stumble upon the conversation -- topics covered before the thread 'died' ranged from what the programmers did after work, to an explanation of what the Gourd does (it doesn't do anything, incidentally), and even some personal anecdotes regarding the design process itself.
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* {{Prehistoria}}
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!!Secret of Evermore provides examples of:
* AbandonedLaboratory / BigFancyHouse: Ruffleberg's derelict mansion.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: There are several of these, and each is a maze that must be successfully navigated to proceed.
* AdiposeRex: A female variant -- Queen Bluegarden, whose derrière is the size of a Buick.
* AdventurerOutfit: Horace.
* AirVentPassageway
* AIIsACrapshoot: Ruffleberg outfitted [[spoiler: Carltron]] with an intelligence chip so he would play chess with him. [[PsychoPrototype Bad idea]].
* AnalogyBackfire: Before facing [[GladiatorGames Vigor the Indestructible]], the Boy is reminded of a fight scene ''Dirt, Swords, Sweat and Togas'':
-->I think [[OhCrap the hero got pummeled]] in that picture."
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Verminator.
* BadassNormal: The main character. No, [[FridgeBrilliance stop and think about it for a little while]]: this is a young man who has been transported to an unknown world, who has no real skill in weaponry to begin with, but reacts to every threat to his progress through this unknown world by CLUBBING IT TO DEATH WITH A SEVERED HUMAN FEMUR.
* BadWithTheBone: See above.
* BambooTechnology: Gomi appears to be building a skyscraper using whatever junk he has lying around, and some twine. Averted in the primitive worlds
* BattleButler: Carltron.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Located in Nobilia, and itself the subject of many a FAQ. It's possible to make lots of money with smart trading... or lose lots with the dumb variety.
* {{BBW}}: In the real world, [[http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/snes/soe/characters/camillia.shtml Queen Bluegarden]] isn't afraid to flaunt it. Good grief.
* BeardOfEvil / EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Carltron]].
* BeeBeeGun: The notoriously inconspicuous "Sting" spell. It launches a small swarm of bees at opponents.
* BonusBoss: "The Faces".
* BossArenaIdiocy: The first phase of the final battle consists of destroying some Fans and Speakers, which are virtually indestructible unless you hit bombs at them.
* BossRush: The final area is one, in lieu of a final dungeon.
* BrickJoke: In Antiqua, you find a boulder suspiciously similar to the ones you levitated in Prehistoria. Do the same here, and Tiny comes out and demonstrates his superior strength by picking up the boulder and throwing it away. Far away. When you inevitably end up at the southern end of the desert again, the boulder will land and form a bridge for you to cross. Lampshaded by the Boy.
--> '''Boy''': Wow! That boulder was flying for a long time!
* BrokenBridge: There is an actual broken bridge in Crustacia cutting off access to the west bank of the river. Only the dog can jump across. There is also a raised drawbridge in Gothica cutting off direct access to Ebon Keep.
* [[spoiler:TheButlerDidIt]]: As anyone who's read old crime novels would expect. [[TheUntwist Seriously]].
* TheCameo: Cecil Harvey from ''FinalFantasyIV'' shows up as a shopkeeper in Ebon Keep, and even [[ShoutOut makes references to his adventures from that game]].
** Also, during the GladiatorGames in Nobilia, you can see [[FinalFantasyVI Terra, Locke, Mog, Strago, Relm, and Umaro]] in the spectator stands.
* CanineCompanion
* ChainOfDeals: Used in the desert city, Nobilia. You start out buying small items, and trade your way up to items that give you permanent stat boosts.
* ChargedAttack: Like in SecretOfMana, each weapon has multiple levels of charge. At first, you only have a choice between a piddly little swipe and a full swing, but as your skill with a weapon improves you can charge [[ChargeMeter up to two power meters]] into a single blow.
* ChekhovsVolcano
* AChildShallLeadThem: Elizabeth.
* ClimaxBoss: Aegis is one for Nobilia; he's not the last boss, but he's unleashed by the villain's plan.
* CognizantLimbs: Thraxx, and later his stronger {{Palette Swap}}ped offspring, Choleoptera. Their ribcages shield their [[AchillesHeel hearts]] from damage.
* CommonplaceRare: Some of the alchemy ingredients. How is water so expensive?
** Most likely, it's ''pure'' water, which would be pretty rare in the first two civilizations (and the last two don't sell it).
** Ingredients are priced according to where the seller is located, and the patterns are fairly logical. Water and Clay are cheapest when bought from the man who gives you Acid Rain, and he lives next to a river. The alchemist in the Bugmuck has the cheapest Oil and Wax, and he lives next to tar pits full of bugs and skeletons. Limestone can only be bought from Blimp, and he lives near what looks to be a limestone cliff. Aside from Omnitopia, the best price on Ethanol is a merchant who lives near a pirate city (keep in mind what ethanol is used to make).
* DarkerAndEdgier: Pre-production materials and commercials imply that the game was supposed to be moodier than the final product, but was changed up near the end of development.
* DegradedBoss: Robot raptors and Rimsala Eyes are crawling all over Omnitopia.
** This theme extends even to the scenery; Aegis's face is built into the basement walls.
* DiagonalSpeedBoost
* DinosaurDoggieBone: "Well, it's not exactly a stick, but it'll do."
* DolledUpInstallment: The game's original title was just "Evermore"; "Secret of" was tacked on to cash in on the success of ''SecretOfMana'', as well as the recycled use of the ring menu system. However, this plan worked against the game's favor when Square decided not to produce an English localization of ''Seiken Densetsu 3'', causing ''Mana'' fans to believe that the decision was made to avoid competition with ''Evermore''.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Energize. See Game Breaker on the YMMV page.
* EmpathicShapeshifter: The Dog, whose appearance is determined by what area the Boy is exploring. Feral wolf for Prehistoria, sleek jackal-esque dog for Antiqua, pampered poodle in Gothica, and mechanical Toaster-Dog (with FrickinLaserBeams!) in Omnitopia. He looks like a fairly normal terrier breed in the real world.
** Toaster-Dog is also a GameBreaker, landing critical hits ForMassiveDamage with almost disturbing frequency.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The game opens with the boy having just seen a cheesy movie, and he makes many references to similar movies.
* EternalEnglish: All four lands use the same language. Justified in that they're artificial constructs, not "real" locations.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Most egregious in the desert area, where the player is attacked by a malevolent ''tumbleweed.'' This stuff doesn't just defy the laws of physics by rolling against the wind; it actually ''[[ItCanThink chases]]'' the boy and absolutely will not turn aside until it has [[CollisionDamage collided]] with him. After it has either landed a hit or been blocked, it blows away in random directions.
* EvilKnockoff: Elizabeth, Horace, and Camilla each have robotic clones of them running around and making trouble. Clones of the boy and his dog are encountered during the [[FinalBoss final boss]] fight.
** There's also a battle on a bridge, where the Boy has to fight three clones of himself. Which leads to the line, "[[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect According to my calculations]], [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome you're three times stronger than yourself!]]"
** The third to last battle involves a clone of the Boy (no harder thsm any of the three aforementioned ones) and the Dog (who is a much stronger opponent)
* EyeOfNewt: The alchemy ingredients, often taking the form of chemicals, minerals, or various flora.
* TheFerryMan: There is a desert ferryman who will ferry you across the desert to the Nobilia Trading Market... at the cost of [[NoHeroDiscount one Amulet of Annihilation]]. He's chatty for a skeleton, constantly remarking on the desert scenery like a tour bus captain.
* {{Fireballs}}: At least four different spells have this effect in varying degrees. Most are very effective with a little leveling.
* FisherKingdom
* FlashbackEffects: The prologue is told in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome Deliberate Monochrome]].
* FollowTheLeader: Designed as an ''EarthBound'' killer, and released four months after that game did.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After taking out the Guardbots with his bazooka and descending down a floor iris, the Boy runs into his dog again, which barks a greeting at him. At first, you notice something off about it, but you figure maybe it's just all the metal around where the Boy's currently located distorting his barking. Turns out that it was an EarlyBirdCameo of the Toaster Dog.
* GardenOfEvil
* GirlishPigtails: Fire Eyes.
* GlobalCurrency: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Each world the boy visits has its own form of currency, and there's a steep exchange rate for each of them.
* GlobalAirship: Tinker's [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machine]]. Later one of the Omnitopian escape shuttles.
* GuideDangIt: Good luck finding some of the Alchemy formulas without one. Sting, the formula in the desert, is probably the most annoying one.
* GunsAreWorthless: Averted; the bazooka easily equals or outmatches the various melee weapons you put to use.
** And even if it somehow runs out of ammo, the Boy can still wield it like a club.
** The bazooka does have some drawbacks. The recoil forces the Boy backwards quite a bit, which can be disadvantageous, and using it like a club is woefully underpowered. That being said, ammo (even without the infinite ammo glitch) is very cheap, so you'll likely never run out once it becomes available. The hand-to-hand weapons are more fun, but certainly less useful.
*** Actually the Neutron Blade wins out for highest damage potential if you know how to use it. Trap an enemy in a corner and use a Level 3 attack and you can potentially hit the enemy three times for 1000+ damage. That's enough to one-shot almost any non-boss enemy in the game.
* HedgeMaze: Chessboard Plateau.
* HeroicDog
* HelloInsertNameHere
* HollywoodAcid: The Acid Rain and Corrosion spells, which call down a bubbling, burning raincloud and a [[StandardStatusEffects slow-acting deluge]] respectively.
* HopeSpot: Thanks to [[spoiler:Prehistoria's volcano]], the heroes are catapulted high into the air. Luckily, they fall into an upended turtle shell that floats them gently downstream. [[spoiler:And then dumps them over a waterfall.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns
--> '''Boy:''' ''(after fighting monsters that emerge from stained-glass windows)'' "Those guys were a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar pane in the glass]]."
--> "Or Evermore will be nevermore [[ShapedLikeItself forever more]]!"
* InevitableTournament
--> '''Announcer:''' "And the challenger!...some loser with a stick!" ''(Then the crowd hurls garbage at the player...)''
** [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything The announcer says (slighty) different things depending of the weapon you have equipped]][[hottip:*:"femur" if you've got the Bone Crusher, or "claw" if you're using the Spider's Claw]].
** The Boy lampshades the ridiculousness of being in the tournament before it begins.
--> '''Boy''': I'm about to go up against a bloodthirsty gladiator armed with a bone, a claw, and a stick! This isn't going to end well.
* InevitableWaterfall: What first greets you after [[spoiler:escaping Prehistoria]].
* InstantPlunderJustAddPirates
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The '''Desert of Doom'''.
* IronicNickname: Tiny the Barbarian.
-->'''The Boy:''' You know, it's ironic that you're called "Tiny" as you're actually very large.
-->'''Tiny:''' [[YouNoTakeCandle Yes. Tiny likes irony]].
* KleptomaniacHero: There was one chest in which there was a subversion; you would get an alchemy spell and a new place to buy ingredients if you walked up to it and didn't open it. It was fair game ''after'' said transaction took place, though.
* LampshadeHanging: As a result of growing up on cheesy B-movies, The Boy is very GenreSavvy. Combined with the fact the world is actually made from the imaginations of humans who may be a few decades out of touch but are still educated and familiar with the common tropes of their respective themed worlds, and you've got a lot of this.
* LateToTheParty
* LeanAndMean: [[spoiler:Carltron]].
* LittleMissBadass: Elizabeth, Professor Ruffleburg's geeky, pre-adolescent granddaughter. When she offers her assistance and the hero [[JustAKid dismisses her as a little girl]], she calmly and explosively demonstrates why the local villagers call her [[EyeBeams "Fire Eyes"]].
* LoadBearingBoss: Several, but [[spoiler:Carltron]] is the most outstanding example -- offing him causes Evermore to begin breaking up due to the lack of BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil.
* LongList: In Nobilia, one guard will inform you of all the things he will not permit you to do in the city square. These include laughing, crying, moose-calling, juggling mummified cats, eating pancakes on Monday - and of course, barking like a seal. (It upsets him.)
* LostForever: There's a lot you can miss in this game without even realizing it, a lot of the optional Alchemy formulas and trade items are a case of GuideDangIt. Probably the worst offender is Gothica as a whole: the alleyway shops close once you kill Mungola, the castle doors once you return the worker's key, and if you open the wrong chest in Lance's house you won't meet Lance or get the Alchemy formula of the same name.
** The various trade items can be acquired in multiple places if you miss them, but it's still very easy to accidentally trade the wrong item away and never see it again. Furthermore, the merchants around the world who trade you these items will offer you something different if you already have what they'd normally offer (Merchant A normally trades the Jade Disk, if you already have it he'll trade the Silver Sheath, thus Merchant B who normally trades the sheath instead trades the Chocobo Egg, and so forth). So not only can certain trade items be lost forever, but which ones you can lose depends on which ones you already have.
* LotusEaterMachine
* MadScientist: Sydney Ruffleberg and his surface counterpart, Tinker.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste / ManInWhite: Carltron dresses like a boss, with a white tuxedo and tailcoat.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: The above-mentioned cameo of [[FinalFantasyIV Cecil]] and several [[FinalFantasyVI FF6]] characters for Europeans, since ''FinalFantasy'' games were a NoExportForYou until the seventh game.
* TheMaze: The desert south of Nobilia, where east and west eventually wrap around to each other. A tame example, compared to the trope's use in other games, since you only have to run straight north or south to reach your destination; but this one contains a difficult-to-find alchemy spell named Sting.
** Gothica is chock full of these. Among them: the [[GardenOfEvil hedge maze]] around the chessboard, the [[EverythingTryingtoKillYou Dark Forest]] (complete with a [[MirrorBoss boss fight]] in the center, and another at the end), and the sewers under both castles to a lesser extent. This isn't even taking into consideration that you have to go through a teleporter maze to even get to Gothica!
* MeaningfulName: Each of the game's 'worlds', not to mention the protagonist's hometown.
** Fire Eyes.
** Tinker's brother, Gomi. ''Gomi'' means "garbage" in Japanese, an appropriate name considering the ramshackle tower he lives in.
* {{Meganekko}}: Elizabeth makes her coke-bottle NerdGlasses look cute.
* MirrorBoss: Bad Boy and Bad Dawg. [[spoiler:And Dark Toaster]]
* MoneyGrinding: Lampshaded in one case, where a shady character is offering the amulet you need to get a ride across the desert and charging an outrageous price for it. To come up with the money in the local currency, you'll most likely have to do a lot of this. When you actually do return with the money, the shady character says something like "You must have been out fighting lots of bad guys to get it!"
* NameTron: Carltron.
* NewWorldTease: The Boy's first visit to Omnitopia.
* NoExportForYou: This game never was released in Japan, but if it did it would have been named [[FanNickname Seiken Densetsu USA: Evermore]].
* NoNameGiven: The Boy and the Dog. But the player is given a ''ridiculously'' huge amount of character spaces to work with, to the point that it's possible to give him a first, middle, and last name, [[FullNameBasis which everyone will then say after meeting him]].
* NonLethalBottomlessPits
** They would be lethal, but the boy exclaims "Boy, I'm glad we missed those spikes at the bottom!". They also don't do any damage and serve nothing more than either a BrokenBridge or an annoyance for those timed bridges.
* TheNoseKnows: The Dog can be used to hunt out alchemy ingredients with a touch of a button.
* NotRareOverThere: Annihilation amulets. 10,000 gems to get one if you don't want to cross the desert on foot, and once on the other side you can easily buy a couple others in the marketplace.
* OminousMultipleScreens: The hidden room behind Omnitopia's shopping mall.
* OurFounder: A statue of [[spoiler:Carltron]] decorates Nobilia square.
* PerversePuppet: [[MeaningfulName Mephista and Old Nick]], a pair of enormous, staring marionettes from the land of Gothica. The king just ''loves'' to watch them dance . . .
* PowerupLetdown / UselessItem: The Magic Gourd, which serves absolutely no purpose other than to deprive you of a valuable [[ShoutOut Chocobo Egg]].
** There's a spot in the Desert of Doom where you can get free 99 Rice and Spice. Trade this for something profitable in Nobilia and you can accrue the 10,000 Jewels a monk is asking for to buy an Amulet of Annihilation in Crustacia (the shipwreck place). He also throws in a Chocobo Egg, as he probably feels guilty about selling you a piece of crap. You can use this to trade for The Magic Gourd, and you can get your Chocobo Egg back when you reach Ivor Tower in Gothica.
* ThePresentDay: Released in October of 1995, takes place a non-specific date from that same year.
* PuzzleBoss: Tiny
* QuicksandSucks
* RealityWarper: The different worlds are manifestations of each of the inhabitants' personal {{utopia}}s, as are the superhuman powers each one's developed during their stay.
* RecurringBoss: Stronger copies of the game's bosses appear in Omnitopia, where their originals were built.
* RibcageRidge: Bugmuck Swamp is named after a giant exoskeleton buried there.
* RidiculousFutureInflation: Sort of; the Omnitopian [[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture Credit]] is the least valuable currency in the game via the exchange rate between civilizations, but to compensate items are ridiculously more expensive.
* RingMenu: It's based on the ''Mana'' engine, after all.
* RobotMaster: [[spoiler:Carltron]]. Who better, right?
* RuinsForRuinsSake: Literally, since Antiqua -- a land based on a pastiche of AncientEgypt, {{Mayincatec}}, AncientGrome and [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Pirates]] -- is created from Horace Highwater's ideal utopia, which involved archaeology.
* RunningGag: In Nobilia and Crustacia, mummified cats. They're part of the desert tour, they're on tapestries, in juggling acts, and in the Great Pyramid they even show up as enemies.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Elizabeth's Call bead animation.
* SceneryPorn: The game is surprisingly beautiful in certain places. ''Especially'' Gothica. The music helps add to the atmosphere, as well.
* SchizoTech: Evermore was specifically designed to be so.
* ShiftingSandLand: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Quicksand Field]].
* ShoutOut: When the Boy and Dog are exploring the Rufflebergs' dilapidated mansion in the introduction, he finds "a chainsaw, a mummy, and a balloon animal". A chainsaw and mummy are also found in ''ManiacMansion''.
* SimpleScoreOfSadness: The music for "Abandoned Ebon Keep".
* SprintMeter: Shared with the ChargeMeter. If you power up any weapon to level 3, you can use the sprint button to run almost indefinitely.
* SprintShoes: The Jaguar Ring
* SquishyWizard: In an interesting twist, the main character is one in this game. Although there is no actual magic in this game, the boy is the only one who can use Alchemy. He also takes a ''lot'' more damage than the dog from enemy attacks.
** MagicKnight: Once he's been outfitted with better armor; and his weapon selection always qualifies.
* ATasteOfPower: The Boy starts out with a bazooka, but it's quickly lost when his space pod lands. Cecil gives it back to you in Gothica.
* TemporaryBulkChange: The Atlas spell causes your hero to spontaneously bust out in [[http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/snes/soe/images/atlas.gif ridiculous muscles]] for a moment. [[RuleOfFunny It's anyone's guess how his clothes survive.]]
* TheresNoBInMovie: The main character is a big fan of these.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Tiny.
* TokenMinority: Horace.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Call Beads, so long as you don't exploit a glitch (see YMMV).
* {{Tomorrowland}}: Omnitopia.
* TheUnfought: Ruffleberg comes to the rescue and switches off [[spoiler:Cartolron]] before he can fight you properly.
* UselessUsefulSpell: A couple
** Reflect: It reflects magic. The problem is, by the time you get it, it's only useful on the optional boss. And almost immediately afterwards, you can get the GameBreaker spell Barrier, which negates all damage anyway.
** Explosion: More in the sense of its in-game description. Supposedly it can cut through barriers. The problem is, nobody in the game uses barrier spells. And you can get a more powerful version, Nitro, within an hour.
** Super Cure: It combines Cure (removes status ailments) and Heal (restores HP), however by the time you get it, status ailments don't pose much of a problem and Super Heal (completely restores the HP of both characters) has been a staple alchemy spell.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Go ahead. Taunt those chickens. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HDmSUMD32Q We dare]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ulqdDq4Vs you]].
* VideoGameSettings:
** BigFancyCastle: Gothica and Ebon Keep.
** BlackoutBasement / UndergroundLevel: Oglin Cave.
** BleakLevel: Ebon Keep, though it is more melancholy than anything.
** BubblegloopSwamp / NoobCave: Bugmuck Swamp. Lovely.
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Great Pyramid.
** CircusOfFear: Mungola and his puppets.
** DecadeDissonance: Evermore was designed with this in mind.
** DownTheDrain / HailfirePeaks: The Volcano Core.
** DownInTheDumps: Omnitopia's garbage heap.
** FirstTown: Fire Eyes's village.
** GangplankGalleon: Crustacea. Yar.
** ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Gomi's tower.
** TheLostWoods / TheMaze: Dark Forest.
** MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Gothica.
** NoobCave: South Jungle
** {{Tomorrowland}} / WhereItAllBegan: Omnitopia.
** ToyTime: The chessboard.
** WombLevel: The giant skeleton in Bugmuck Swamp.
* WarmUpBoss: The Raptors.
** Which ends with an inverted HeadsIWinTailsYouLose boss battle. If you're successful in fighting off the raptors at the end, you get some free stuff, but if you fail (and you likely will fail), you just continue on with the plot.
* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: Omnitopia's local currency is the credit.
* WhereItAllBegan: The Boy is jettisoned from Omnitopia in the prologue, and it takes him the entire game to get back.
* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who Names Their Dog "Dude"?]]: Elizabeth's reaction to your dog, regardless of what you've named him.
* YearOutsideHourInside: Prof. Ruffleberg's initial experiment with Evermore took place in 1965. Thirty years later, when the Boy finds them, they're not any older, and even comment in the ending that life will be much different now.
** This may be more of a case of WhoWantsToLiveForever as everyone is well aware of exactly how much time has passed since the experiment, but none of them have aged a day. This makes them want to return home all the more.
* YouMustBeThisTallToEnter: Comes in three varieties. First, the weeds that your starting bone weapon can't cut down until you get the Spider Claw. Second, the switches in a dungeon have to be hit from a distance, and your spear is too light to do the job so you have to find the heavier Bronze Spear. And then there's stone barriers and blocked doorways that your current Axe is too weak to demolish so you have to find an upgrade.
* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere
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[[caption-width-right:256:[[LawAndOrder Jack McCoy:]] Not appearing in this game.]]
->''"I'm not really sure where 'here' is, to tell you the truth ."''\\
--The Boy
An action {{RPG}} modeled heavily from the SNES' [[SleeperHit surprise hit]], ''SecretOfMana''. Despite rumors to the contrary, ''Evermore'' is ''not'' the sequel to ''Secret of Mana'', but was made from whole cloth by Square USA (now part of SquareEnix), and is one of the company's few games to have been developed entirely in the United States. It also featured a highly atmospheric soundtrack from newcoming composer JeremySoule, who went on to provide soundtracks for such classic games as ''DungeonSiege'', ''TheElderScrolls III'' and ''IV'', ''GuildWars'' and the ''TotalAnnihilation'' series.
The game stars a [[TheresNoBInMovie B-movie-loving]] [[ABoyAndHisX boy and his dog]], who stumble upon an abandoned mansion in the middle of [[EverytownAmerica Podunk, USA]]. After a mishap with a mysterious-looking device, the boy and his canine companion get transported to AnotherDimension, and find out that four other people have been trapped inside for decades, the disastrous result of the Evermore experiment 30 years ago. His goal becomes to explore this strange new world, learn the history of the Evermore project, and find a way to get everyone back to Earth. While the story isn't nearly as involved as it might sound, the game isn't without its highlights, the aforementioned soundtrack being one of them, the subversions of some path-of-least-resistance video game economic tropes being another.
The game itself is rather short, compared to ''Secret of Mana'' and other Square-Enix titles; it's also extremely linear, with no side-quests and a straightforward 'defeat the villain' premise. Otherwise, ''Secret of Evermore'' is fairly entertaining, with the boy constantly comparing his predicament to various (fictional) movies, and the dog shape-shifting into different forms, depending on which part of the game-world they're in.
Over the course of the game, you gradually learn more about the world of Evermore and its inhabitants; specifically, that Professor Ruffleburg designed Evermore as a realization of its inhabitant's '[[{{Utopia}} ideal world]]', each area catering to their own personal desires. For one resident, Evermore is a prehistoric jungle, while for another it becomes an archaeological dig.
Each 'environment' in Evermore seems to exist in its own biome; each is separated from the others in some way (Fire Eyes' village is on a massive plateau, some areas are only reachable by travelling through sewer pipes, and the final area of the game isn't part of Evermore at all). Likewise, each area has its own distinct life-forms, which are unique to the region and do not appear in other locales.
A long-dead post in the 'Secret of Evermore' GameFAQs forum featured an extended (and very interesting) discussion with one of the game's programmers who happened to stumble upon the conversation -- topics covered before the thread 'died' ranged from what the programmers did after work, to an explanation of what the Gourd does (it doesn't do anything, incidentally), and even some personal anecdotes regarding the design process itself.
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!! Secret of Evermore is the TropeNamer for:
[[AC:General Tropes]]
* {{Prehistoria}}
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!!Secret of Evermore provides examples of:
* AbandonedLaboratory / BigFancyHouse: Ruffleberg's derelict mansion.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: There are several of these, and each is a maze that must be successfully navigated to proceed.
* AdiposeRex: A female variant -- Queen Bluegarden, whose derrière is the size of a Buick.
* AdventurerOutfit: Horace.
* AirVentPassageway
* AIIsACrapshoot: Ruffleberg outfitted [[spoiler: Carltron]] with an intelligence chip so he would play chess with him. [[PsychoPrototype Bad idea]].
* AnalogyBackfire: Before facing [[GladiatorGames Vigor the Indestructible]], the Boy is reminded of a fight scene ''Dirt, Swords, Sweat and Togas'':
-->I think [[OhCrap the hero got pummeled]] in that picture."
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Verminator.
* BadassNormal: The main character. No, [[FridgeBrilliance stop and think about it for a little while]]: this is a young man who has been transported to an unknown world, who has no real skill in weaponry to begin with, but reacts to every threat to his progress through this unknown world by CLUBBING IT TO DEATH WITH A SEVERED HUMAN FEMUR.
* BadWithTheBone: See above.
* BambooTechnology: Gomi appears to be building a skyscraper using whatever junk he has lying around, and some twine. Averted in the primitive worlds
* BattleButler: Carltron.
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Located in Nobilia, and itself the subject of many a FAQ. It's possible to make lots of money with smart trading... or lose lots with the dumb variety.
* {{BBW}}: In the real world, [[http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/snes/soe/characters/camillia.shtml Queen Bluegarden]] isn't afraid to flaunt it. Good grief.
* BeardOfEvil / EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Carltron]].
* BeeBeeGun: The notoriously inconspicuous "Sting" spell. It launches a small swarm of bees at opponents.
* BonusBoss: "The Faces".
* BossArenaIdiocy: The first phase of the final battle consists of destroying some Fans and Speakers, which are virtually indestructible unless you hit bombs at them.
* BossRush: The final area is one, in lieu of a final dungeon.
* BrickJoke: In Antiqua, you find a boulder suspiciously similar to the ones you levitated in Prehistoria. Do the same here, and Tiny comes out and demonstrates his superior strength by picking up the boulder and throwing it away. Far away. When you inevitably end up at the southern end of the desert again, the boulder will land and form a bridge for you to cross. Lampshaded by the Boy.
--> '''Boy''': Wow! That boulder was flying for a long time!
* BrokenBridge: There is an actual broken bridge in Crustacia cutting off access to the west bank of the river. Only the dog can jump across. There is also a raised drawbridge in Gothica cutting off direct access to Ebon Keep.
* [[spoiler:TheButlerDidIt]]: As anyone who's read old crime novels would expect. [[TheUntwist Seriously]].
* TheCameo: Cecil Harvey from ''FinalFantasyIV'' shows up as a shopkeeper in Ebon Keep, and even [[ShoutOut makes references to his adventures from that game]].
** Also, during the GladiatorGames in Nobilia, you can see [[FinalFantasyVI Terra, Locke, Mog, Strago, Relm, and Umaro]] in the spectator stands.
* CanineCompanion
* ChainOfDeals: Used in the desert city, Nobilia. You start out buying small items, and trade your way up to items that give you permanent stat boosts.
* ChargedAttack: Like in SecretOfMana, each weapon has multiple levels of charge. At first, you only have a choice between a piddly little swipe and a full swing, but as your skill with a weapon improves you can charge [[ChargeMeter up to two power meters]] into a single blow.
* ChekhovsVolcano
* AChildShallLeadThem: Elizabeth.
* ClimaxBoss: Aegis is one for Nobilia; he's not the last boss, but he's unleashed by the villain's plan.
* CognizantLimbs: Thraxx, and later his stronger {{Palette Swap}}ped offspring, Choleoptera. Their ribcages shield their [[AchillesHeel hearts]] from damage.
* CommonplaceRare: Some of the alchemy ingredients. How is water so expensive?
** Most likely, it's ''pure'' water, which would be pretty rare in the first two civilizations (and the last two don't sell it).
** Ingredients are priced according to where the seller is located, and the patterns are fairly logical. Water and Clay are cheapest when bought from the man who gives you Acid Rain, and he lives next to a river. The alchemist in the Bugmuck has the cheapest Oil and Wax, and he lives next to tar pits full of bugs and skeletons. Limestone can only be bought from Blimp, and he lives near what looks to be a limestone cliff. Aside from Omnitopia, the best price on Ethanol is a merchant who lives near a pirate city (keep in mind what ethanol is used to make).
* DarkerAndEdgier: Pre-production materials and commercials imply that the game was supposed to be moodier than the final product, but was changed up near the end of development.
* DegradedBoss: Robot raptors and Rimsala Eyes are crawling all over Omnitopia.
** This theme extends even to the scenery; Aegis's face is built into the basement walls.
* DiagonalSpeedBoost
* DinosaurDoggieBone: "Well, it's not exactly a stick, but it'll do."
* DolledUpInstallment: The game's original title was just "Evermore"; "Secret of" was tacked on to cash in on the success of ''SecretOfMana'', as well as the recycled use of the ring menu system. However, this plan worked against the game's favor when Square decided not to produce an English localization of ''Seiken Densetsu 3'', causing ''Mana'' fans to believe that the decision was made to avoid competition with ''Evermore''.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Energize. See Game Breaker on the YMMV page.
* EmpathicShapeshifter: The Dog, whose appearance is determined by what area the Boy is exploring. Feral wolf for Prehistoria, sleek jackal-esque dog for Antiqua, pampered poodle in Gothica, and mechanical Toaster-Dog (with FrickinLaserBeams!) in Omnitopia. He looks like a fairly normal terrier breed in the real world.
** Toaster-Dog is also a GameBreaker, landing critical hits ForMassiveDamage with almost disturbing frequency.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The game opens with the boy having just seen a cheesy movie, and he makes many references to similar movies.
* EternalEnglish: All four lands use the same language. Justified in that they're artificial constructs, not "real" locations.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Most egregious in the desert area, where the player is attacked by a malevolent ''tumbleweed.'' This stuff doesn't just defy the laws of physics by rolling against the wind; it actually ''[[ItCanThink chases]]'' the boy and absolutely will not turn aside until it has [[CollisionDamage collided]] with him. After it has either landed a hit or been blocked, it blows away in random directions.
* EvilKnockoff: Elizabeth, Horace, and Camilla each have robotic clones of them running around and making trouble. Clones of the boy and his dog are encountered during the [[FinalBoss final boss]] fight.
** There's also a battle on a bridge, where the Boy has to fight three clones of himself. Which leads to the line, "[[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect According to my calculations]], [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome you're three times stronger than yourself!]]"
** The third to last battle involves a clone of the Boy (no harder thsm any of the three aforementioned ones) and the Dog (who is a much stronger opponent)
* EyeOfNewt: The alchemy ingredients, often taking the form of chemicals, minerals, or various flora.
* TheFerryMan: There is a desert ferryman who will ferry you across the desert to the Nobilia Trading Market... at the cost of [[NoHeroDiscount one Amulet of Annihilation]]. He's chatty for a skeleton, constantly remarking on the desert scenery like a tour bus captain.
* {{Fireballs}}: At least four different spells have this effect in varying degrees. Most are very effective with a little leveling.
* FisherKingdom
* FlashbackEffects: The prologue is told in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome Deliberate Monochrome]].
* FollowTheLeader: Designed as an ''EarthBound'' killer, and released four months after that game did.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After taking out the Guardbots with his bazooka and descending down a floor iris, the Boy runs into his dog again, which barks a greeting at him. At first, you notice something off about it, but you figure maybe it's just all the metal around where the Boy's currently located distorting his barking. Turns out that it was an EarlyBirdCameo of the Toaster Dog.
* GardenOfEvil
* GirlishPigtails: Fire Eyes.
* GlobalCurrency: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Each world the boy visits has its own form of currency, and there's a steep exchange rate for each of them.
* GlobalAirship: Tinker's [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machine]]. Later one of the Omnitopian escape shuttles.
* GuideDangIt: Good luck finding some of the Alchemy formulas without one. Sting, the formula in the desert, is probably the most annoying one.
* GunsAreWorthless: Averted; the bazooka easily equals or outmatches the various melee weapons you put to use.
** And even if it somehow runs out of ammo, the Boy can still wield it like a club.
** The bazooka does have some drawbacks. The recoil forces the Boy backwards quite a bit, which can be disadvantageous, and using it like a club is woefully underpowered. That being said, ammo (even without the infinite ammo glitch) is very cheap, so you'll likely never run out once it becomes available. The hand-to-hand weapons are more fun, but certainly less useful.
*** Actually the Neutron Blade wins out for highest damage potential if you know how to use it. Trap an enemy in a corner and use a Level 3 attack and you can potentially hit the enemy three times for 1000+ damage. That's enough to one-shot almost any non-boss enemy in the game.
* HedgeMaze: Chessboard Plateau.
* HeroicDog
* HelloInsertNameHere
* HollywoodAcid: The Acid Rain and Corrosion spells, which call down a bubbling, burning raincloud and a [[StandardStatusEffects slow-acting deluge]] respectively.
* HopeSpot: Thanks to [[spoiler:Prehistoria's volcano]], the heroes are catapulted high into the air. Luckily, they fall into an upended turtle shell that floats them gently downstream. [[spoiler:And then dumps them over a waterfall.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns
--> '''Boy:''' ''(after fighting monsters that emerge from stained-glass windows)'' "Those guys were a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar pane in the glass]]."
--> "Or Evermore will be nevermore [[ShapedLikeItself forever more]]!"
* InevitableTournament
--> '''Announcer:''' "And the challenger!...some loser with a stick!" ''(Then the crowd hurls garbage at the player...)''
** [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything The announcer says (slighty) different things depending of the weapon you have equipped]][[hottip:*:"femur" if you've got the Bone Crusher, or "claw" if you're using the Spider's Claw]].
** The Boy lampshades the ridiculousness of being in the tournament before it begins.
--> '''Boy''': I'm about to go up against a bloodthirsty gladiator armed with a bone, a claw, and a stick! This isn't going to end well.
* InevitableWaterfall: What first greets you after [[spoiler:escaping Prehistoria]].
* InstantPlunderJustAddPirates
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The '''Desert of Doom'''.
* IronicNickname: Tiny the Barbarian.
-->'''The Boy:''' You know, it's ironic that you're called "Tiny" as you're actually very large.
-->'''Tiny:''' [[YouNoTakeCandle Yes. Tiny likes irony]].
* KleptomaniacHero: There was one chest in which there was a subversion; you would get an alchemy spell and a new place to buy ingredients if you walked up to it and didn't open it. It was fair game ''after'' said transaction took place, though.
* LampshadeHanging: As a result of growing up on cheesy B-movies, The Boy is very GenreSavvy. Combined with the fact the world is actually made from the imaginations of humans who may be a few decades out of touch but are still educated and familiar with the common tropes of their respective themed worlds, and you've got a lot of this.
* LateToTheParty
* LeanAndMean: [[spoiler:Carltron]].
* LittleMissBadass: Elizabeth, Professor Ruffleburg's geeky, pre-adolescent granddaughter. When she offers her assistance and the hero [[JustAKid dismisses her as a little girl]], she calmly and explosively demonstrates why the local villagers call her [[EyeBeams "Fire Eyes"]].
* LoadBearingBoss: Several, but [[spoiler:Carltron]] is the most outstanding example -- offing him causes Evermore to begin breaking up due to the lack of BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil.
* LongList: In Nobilia, one guard will inform you of all the things he will not permit you to do in the city square. These include laughing, crying, moose-calling, juggling mummified cats, eating pancakes on Monday - and of course, barking like a seal. (It upsets him.)
* LostForever: There's a lot you can miss in this game without even realizing it, a lot of the optional Alchemy formulas and trade items are a case of GuideDangIt. Probably the worst offender is Gothica as a whole: the alleyway shops close once you kill Mungola, the castle doors once you return the worker's key, and if you open the wrong chest in Lance's house you won't meet Lance or get the Alchemy formula of the same name.
** The various trade items can be acquired in multiple places if you miss them, but it's still very easy to accidentally trade the wrong item away and never see it again. Furthermore, the merchants around the world who trade you these items will offer you something different if you already have what they'd normally offer (Merchant A normally trades the Jade Disk, if you already have it he'll trade the Silver Sheath, thus Merchant B who normally trades the sheath instead trades the Chocobo Egg, and so forth). So not only can certain trade items be lost forever, but which ones you can lose depends on which ones you already have.
* LotusEaterMachine
* MadScientist: Sydney Ruffleberg and his surface counterpart, Tinker.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste / ManInWhite: Carltron dresses like a boss, with a white tuxedo and tailcoat.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: The above-mentioned cameo of [[FinalFantasyIV Cecil]] and several [[FinalFantasyVI FF6]] characters for Europeans, since ''FinalFantasy'' games were a NoExportForYou until the seventh game.
* TheMaze: The desert south of Nobilia, where east and west eventually wrap around to each other. A tame example, compared to the trope's use in other games, since you only have to run straight north or south to reach your destination; but this one contains a difficult-to-find alchemy spell named Sting.
** Gothica is chock full of these. Among them: the [[GardenOfEvil hedge maze]] around the chessboard, the [[EverythingTryingtoKillYou Dark Forest]] (complete with a [[MirrorBoss boss fight]] in the center, and another at the end), and the sewers under both castles to a lesser extent. This isn't even taking into consideration that you have to go through a teleporter maze to even get to Gothica!
* MeaningfulName: Each of the game's 'worlds', not to mention the protagonist's hometown.
** Fire Eyes.
** Tinker's brother, Gomi. ''Gomi'' means "garbage" in Japanese, an appropriate name considering the ramshackle tower he lives in.
* {{Meganekko}}: Elizabeth makes her coke-bottle NerdGlasses look cute.
* MirrorBoss: Bad Boy and Bad Dawg. [[spoiler:And Dark Toaster]]
* MoneyGrinding: Lampshaded in one case, where a shady character is offering the amulet you need to get a ride across the desert and charging an outrageous price for it. To come up with the money in the local currency, you'll most likely have to do a lot of this. When you actually do return with the money, the shady character says something like "You must have been out fighting lots of bad guys to get it!"
* NameTron: Carltron.
* NewWorldTease: The Boy's first visit to Omnitopia.
* NoExportForYou: This game never was released in Japan, but if it did it would have been named [[FanNickname Seiken Densetsu USA: Evermore]].
* NoNameGiven: The Boy and the Dog. But the player is given a ''ridiculously'' huge amount of character spaces to work with, to the point that it's possible to give him a first, middle, and last name, [[FullNameBasis which everyone will then say after meeting him]].
* NonLethalBottomlessPits
** They would be lethal, but the boy exclaims "Boy, I'm glad we missed those spikes at the bottom!". They also don't do any damage and serve nothing more than either a BrokenBridge or an annoyance for those timed bridges.
* TheNoseKnows: The Dog can be used to hunt out alchemy ingredients with a touch of a button.
* NotRareOverThere: Annihilation amulets. 10,000 gems to get one if you don't want to cross the desert on foot, and once on the other side you can easily buy a couple others in the marketplace.
* OminousMultipleScreens: The hidden room behind Omnitopia's shopping mall.
* OurFounder: A statue of [[spoiler:Carltron]] decorates Nobilia square.
* PerversePuppet: [[MeaningfulName Mephista and Old Nick]], a pair of enormous, staring marionettes from the land of Gothica. The king just ''loves'' to watch them dance . . .
* PowerupLetdown / UselessItem: The Magic Gourd, which serves absolutely no purpose other than to deprive you of a valuable [[ShoutOut Chocobo Egg]].
** There's a spot in the Desert of Doom where you can get free 99 Rice and Spice. Trade this for something profitable in Nobilia and you can accrue the 10,000 Jewels a monk is asking for to buy an Amulet of Annihilation in Crustacia (the shipwreck place). He also throws in a Chocobo Egg, as he probably feels guilty about selling you a piece of crap. You can use this to trade for The Magic Gourd, and you can get your Chocobo Egg back when you reach Ivor Tower in Gothica.
* ThePresentDay: Released in October of 1995, takes place a non-specific date from that same year.
* PuzzleBoss: Tiny
* QuicksandSucks
* RealityWarper: The different worlds are manifestations of each of the inhabitants' personal {{utopia}}s, as are the superhuman powers each one's developed during their stay.
* RecurringBoss: Stronger copies of the game's bosses appear in Omnitopia, where their originals were built.
* RibcageRidge: Bugmuck Swamp is named after a giant exoskeleton buried there.
* RidiculousFutureInflation: Sort of; the Omnitopian [[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture Credit]] is the least valuable currency in the game via the exchange rate between civilizations, but to compensate items are ridiculously more expensive.
* RingMenu: It's based on the ''Mana'' engine, after all.
* RobotMaster: [[spoiler:Carltron]]. Who better, right?
* RuinsForRuinsSake: Literally, since Antiqua -- a land based on a pastiche of AncientEgypt, {{Mayincatec}}, AncientGrome and [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Pirates]] -- is created from Horace Highwater's ideal utopia, which involved archaeology.
* RunningGag: In Nobilia and Crustacia, mummified cats. They're part of the desert tour, they're on tapestries, in juggling acts, and in the Great Pyramid they even show up as enemies.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Elizabeth's Call bead animation.
* SceneryPorn: The game is surprisingly beautiful in certain places. ''Especially'' Gothica. The music helps add to the atmosphere, as well.
* SchizoTech: Evermore was specifically designed to be so.
* ShiftingSandLand: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Quicksand Field]].
* ShoutOut: When the Boy and Dog are exploring the Rufflebergs' dilapidated mansion in the introduction, he finds "a chainsaw, a mummy, and a balloon animal". A chainsaw and mummy are also found in ''ManiacMansion''.
* SimpleScoreOfSadness: The music for "Abandoned Ebon Keep".
* SprintMeter: Shared with the ChargeMeter. If you power up any weapon to level 3, you can use the sprint button to run almost indefinitely.
* SprintShoes: The Jaguar Ring
* SquishyWizard: In an interesting twist, the main character is one in this game. Although there is no actual magic in this game, the boy is the only one who can use Alchemy. He also takes a ''lot'' more damage than the dog from enemy attacks.
** MagicKnight: Once he's been outfitted with better armor; and his weapon selection always qualifies.
* ATasteOfPower: The Boy starts out with a bazooka, but it's quickly lost when his space pod lands. Cecil gives it back to you in Gothica.
* TemporaryBulkChange: The Atlas spell causes your hero to spontaneously bust out in [[http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/snes/soe/images/atlas.gif ridiculous muscles]] for a moment. [[RuleOfFunny It's anyone's guess how his clothes survive.]]
* TheresNoBInMovie: The main character is a big fan of these.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Tiny.
* TokenMinority: Horace.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Call Beads, so long as you don't exploit a glitch (see YMMV).
* {{Tomorrowland}}: Omnitopia.
* TheUnfought: Ruffleberg comes to the rescue and switches off [[spoiler:Cartolron]] before he can fight you properly.
* UselessUsefulSpell: A couple
** Reflect: It reflects magic. The problem is, by the time you get it, it's only useful on the optional boss. And almost immediately afterwards, you can get the GameBreaker spell Barrier, which negates all damage anyway.
** Explosion: More in the sense of its in-game description. Supposedly it can cut through barriers. The problem is, nobody in the game uses barrier spells. And you can get a more powerful version, Nitro, within an hour.
** Super Cure: It combines Cure (removes status ailments) and Heal (restores HP), however by the time you get it, status ailments don't pose much of a problem and Super Heal (completely restores the HP of both characters) has been a staple alchemy spell.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Go ahead. Taunt those chickens. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HDmSUMD32Q We dare]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ulqdDq4Vs you]].
* VideoGameSettings:
** BigFancyCastle: Gothica and Ebon Keep.
** BlackoutBasement / UndergroundLevel: Oglin Cave.
** BleakLevel: Ebon Keep, though it is more melancholy than anything.
** BubblegloopSwamp / NoobCave: Bugmuck Swamp. Lovely.
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Great Pyramid.
** CircusOfFear: Mungola and his puppets.
** DecadeDissonance: Evermore was designed with this in mind.
** DownTheDrain / HailfirePeaks: The Volcano Core.
** DownInTheDumps: Omnitopia's garbage heap.
** FirstTown: Fire Eyes's village.
** GangplankGalleon: Crustacea. Yar.
** ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Gomi's tower.
** TheLostWoods / TheMaze: Dark Forest.
** MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Gothica.
** NoobCave: South Jungle
** {{Tomorrowland}} / WhereItAllBegan: Omnitopia.
** ToyTime: The chessboard.
** WombLevel: The giant skeleton in Bugmuck Swamp.
* WarmUpBoss: The Raptors.
** Which ends with an inverted HeadsIWinTailsYouLose boss battle. If you're successful in fighting off the raptors at the end, you get some free stuff, but if you fail (and you likely will fail), you just continue on with the plot.
* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: Omnitopia's local currency is the credit.
* WhereItAllBegan: The Boy is jettisoned from Omnitopia in the prologue, and it takes him the entire game to get back.
* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who Names Their Dog "Dude"?]]: Elizabeth's reaction to your dog, regardless of what you've named him.
* YearOutsideHourInside: Prof. Ruffleberg's initial experiment with Evermore took place in 1965. Thirty years later, when the Boy finds them, they're not any older, and even comment in the ending that life will be much different now.
** This may be more of a case of WhoWantsToLiveForever as everyone is well aware of exactly how much time has passed since the experiment, but none of them have aged a day. This makes them want to return home all the more.
* YouMustBeThisTallToEnter: Comes in three varieties. First, the weeds that your starting bone weapon can't cut down until you get the Spider Claw. Second, the switches in a dungeon have to be hit from a distance, and your spear is too light to do the job so you have to find the heavier Bronze Spear. And then there's stone barriers and blocked doorways that your current Axe is too weak to demolish so you have to find an upgrade.
* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere
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