History VideoGame / SeventhDragon

* AndZoidberg: Pleroma's shelves of stories from the ancient world include titles like Theatre/KingLear , {{Literature/Emma}}, Literature/IClaudius and {{Literature/Twilight}}.

* LoneWolfBoss: The sidequests' [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] include indigenous large monsters from Eden and superweapons that were part of an ancient civilization, with some of them sealed away due to their great powers. And none of them are affiliated with the Dragons' forces.

* MonsterWhale: [[Literature/MobyDick Moby Dick]] himself is a BonusBoss encountered in the Briskilla Ruins.

* TentacledTerror: There are some octopus-liked monsters called Roper[[note]]ローパー[[/note]] and Noble Crown[[note]]ノーブルクラウン[[/note]], who are noted to have elastic tenctacles and slimy skin. And there's also the BonusBoss called ''Sensualist''[[note]]官能の奉仕者[[/note]]. You can imagine how the fanbase [[NaughtyTentacles rolled with that last one]].

Released in Japan March 5, 2009 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, ''7th Dragon'' was developed by Creator/{{Imageepoch}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}}. The director behind this game is Kazuya Niinou, the mind behind the first ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' and ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' game. Music is handled by Creator/YuzoKoshiro and produced by Rieko Kodama (''VideoGame/PhantasyStar, VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'').

* ''7th Dragon 2020'', released on November 23, 2011, for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. It departed from the fantasy setting of the first ''7th Dragon'' for a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. The number of classes was reduced to five and the dragons to only 200.

* ''7th Dragon III Code: VFD'', released on October 15, 2015 for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS. It is the first in the series to be officially released in English, with the release occurring on July 12th, 2016.

* ShoutOut: The designation the ISDF gives to the biggest and nastiest dragons are rather interesting, these includes [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow Sleepy Hollow]], [[Film/BackToTheFuture Jigowatt]], and [[{{Literature/Jabberwocky}} Jabberwock]].

* HurtingHero: It's strongly implied that Murakumo members are like this. After all, your hometown has been doomed ''twice''. [[spoiler:It really shows when they help [=SECT11=] despite the latter having stabbed them in the back, because [=SECT11=] are human too.]]

%%* AnyoneCanDie

* BonusBoss: Massively buffed versions of the game's major bosses are faced throughout the Shadow Realm. At the end is a final battle with [[spoiler:Blaster Raven]].

* {{Scienceville}}: Preloma

* ChristmasCake: Murakumo officer Miya, by her own admission. Also a cool person.

** Female Rune Knights are [[BuxomIsBetter bursting]] from their {{Chainmail Bikini}}s.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Did we say ''anyone''? We actually meant '''[[KillEmAll EVERYONE.]]''']]

** The Duelist class is a big one to the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' franchise, right down to the title. [[spoiler:The Shadow Realm bonus dungeon's name is also a reference to the anime]].
*** The end of the description for unlocking your Duelist's EX Skill has you be told [[Anime/YuGiOh "Believe in the heart of the cards!"]]

* A manga series by Dennou Ouwadan set before the events of the first game. It ran on ''Monthly Comic Rex'' from July 2009 to February 2010.

Gameplay is a mixture of ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'''s point based level up system and class reliance combined with a more traditional JRPG structure not unlike ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''. The player begins by creating and naming their own guild; then selecting guildmates from among seven classes: Fighter, Knight, Samurai, Mage, Princess, Rogue, and Healer. The game’s battles are turn based and utilize a mechanic in the exhaust system where a character can expend one exhaust bar in order to power up their next action. With a short prologue to help introduce the mechanics, soon the player finds the world to be literally infested by both 666 Dragons and Dragonsbane - the Dragonsbane appears directly both on the world map and in dungeons. By stepping on the flower the player permanently eliminates it from the world map, but only temporarily in a dungeon, taking damage from stepping on it. The bottom screen displays a counter of the amount of dragons left in Eden which starts at 666 and slowly ticks down as the player defeats each one. The dragons appear on both the overworld and in dungeons and have the ability to enter random encounters at will.

A spin-off called ''7th Dragon 2020'' was released for the PSP. It departed from the fantasy setting of the first ''7th Dragon'' for a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. The amount of classes was reduced to five and the dragons to only 200. It was released November 23, 2011 in Japan and was successful enough to spawn the sequel known as ''7th Dragon 2020-II'', which centers around new dragon baddies. This was followed up with ''7th Dragon III Code: VFD''. ''7th Dragon III'' is the first in the series to be officially released in English, with the release occurring on July 12th, 2016. The official site for the release can be found [[http://games.sega.com/7thdragon/ here.]]

A useful resource for the first game can be found [[http://7thdragon.wikidot.com/start here]]; [[http://cavespeak.org/ Cavespeak]] released a translation patch for the first game in April 2014, and another for 2020 in March 2016.

!!The 7th Dragon series contains examples of:

* WeaponOfChoice: Each class can only use certain weapons, and most have skill trees dedicated to said weapons.

A spin-off called ''7th Dragon 2020'' was released for the PSP. It departed from the fantasy setting of the first ''7th Dragon'' in favor for a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. The amount of classes was reduced to five and the dragons to only 200. It was released November 23, 2011 in Japan and was successful enough to spawn its own sequel simply known as ''7th Dragon 2020-II'', which centers around new dragon baddies. This was later followed up with ''7th Dragon III Code: VFD''. ''7th Dragon III'' is the first in the series to be officially released in English, with the release occurring on July 12th, 2016. The official site for the release can be found [[http://games.sega.com/7thdragon/ here.]]

Compare ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'', Niinou's previous highly successful dungeon-crawling series, which ''7th Dragon'' takes a number of cues from.

* LazyBackup: It doesn't matter how many of your guild is in the reserves; if your current party bites it, it's GameOver. This gets particularly silly in ''III'', in which you can have two rear teams of three each, yet it's still mission failure if the front line gets wiped even if you have revival items in the BagOfSharing.

* AndZoidberg: Looking over Pleroma's shelves of stories from the ancient world include titles like Theatre/KingLear , {{Literature/Emma}}, Literature/IClaudius and {{Literature/Twilight}}.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Each class has four portraits, two for each gender. One portrait in each class would be a Lucier a race of elvish or cat-people depending on the gender. There are no default names for each portrait except for special names that would give one extra skill point to the class.

* InformedEquipment: Your character model will only reflect the change of the equipped weapon. Probably because the design of the characters are meant to be very memorable.
* LastLousyPoint: To get to the BonusDungeon; you have to kill all 666 of the Dragons. This can require extensive combing once one gets down to the single-digits. Commonly missed dragons are side-quest related ''or'' are in Valorean Forest. Because Haze displaced the "normal" dragons there; after one beats him one needs to use a Bloom Seed to get the normal dragons back in order to kill.

* TraumaInn: In each town, inside each one is a doctor that can revive dead party members if you lack the skill or item.

* DifficultySpike: The main game consists of EasyLevelsHardBosses. The post-game dungeon does away with the "Easy Levels" part, as ''every'' encounter is a dragon ''or four'' and they will easily shred you to pieces.