History VideoGame / StarStealingPrince

* NintendoHard: The bosses require the player to be attentive to buffing and debuffing if they want to survive. This is a lot harder in the [[EarlyGameHell early part]] of the game when there are fewer characters to work with.

%%** Relenia: BladeOnAStick
%%** Erio: Knife Nut

* OverprotectiveDad:
** Richard considers himself a surrogate father for Snowe and acts accordingly.
** Hiante to Astra.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The bad ending.]]

* {{Five Man Band}}
** {{The Hero}}: Snowe
** {{The Chick}}: Astra
** {{The Big Guy}}: Hiante
** {{The Lancer}} / {{The Smart Guy}}: Erio
** {{The Sixth Ranger}}: Relenia

* DifficultySpike: The Sepulcher is pretty tough, especially when the party gets split up, but the Western Tower is the most commonly cited. Even the regular encounters are a definite step up from the previous dungeon, and they can utterly demolish you if you aren't careful.

* EndingTropes:
** [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:In the bad ending. While there are multiple villains in the game and by the time you get to the end you have defeated Edgar, Lina, and the Original King, if you get the bad ending, the demon inside Snowe gets the last laugh.]]
** [[spoiler:TheEndOrIsIt: The good ending reminds the player, with Snowe's unnatural stutter and the sounds of ominous heart-beating, that while Snowe has suppressed the demon's ability to control him, [[TheStinger the demon still lives within him...]]]]
** [[spoiler:EverybodysDeadDave]]: [[spoiler: If you get the bad ending, the demon takes control of Snowe and forces him to kill everyone he ever cared about, and then lets Snowe live.]]
** [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]: [[spoiler:The bad ending.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler:The BadEnding, though subverted on one account -- everyone ''except'' Snowe dies, which just makes it worse.]]

* Ronove said that the character of Hiante was inspired in part by Stoic from [[Videogame/MasterOfTheWind Master of the Wind]].

%%** Snowe: CarryABigStick / SimpleStaff

* WeaponOfChoice:
** Snowe: CarryABigStick / SimpleStaff
** Astra, Hiante: CoolSword
** Relenia: BladeOnAStick
** Erio: KnifeNut

* VendorTrash: Which you can sell to Numismatist.

* LighterAndSofter: "Stars in the Distance" compared not only to the game but to the three short stories that preceded it. The game of course has all the various plot revelations, "A Demon" has traumatizing things happening to children, "A Spell of Fire & a Scarecrow" plays around with AdultFear quite a bit [[spoiler:and has a Downer Ending]], and "Transience" briefly shows the point of view of a particular character...and that view is disturbing, and [[spoiler:it also has a Downer Ending.]] "Stars in the Distance" mostly concerns itself with Erio and Hiante going out of their way to make Astra happy.

* AdultFear:
** "A Demon" has quite a bit for Hiante to deal with. The child he's been looking after has been suffering horrible nightmares and he doesn't know how to help her with them, and then another kid he'll have to look after gets horribly mistreated and he just wants to send him home but can't.
** Looking at "A Spell of Fire & A Scarecrow" is disturbing whether you're reading it from the point of view of Lina or Snowe's friend. From Lina's point of view, her son has been interacting with a very dangerous person without her knowledge and this person could very easily harm him. From the point of view of Snowe's friend, Lina is [[spoiler:a terrible mother who has already harmed her son greatly and he doesn't want to allow her to do any more harm.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Edgar and Lina want Relenia, the best damn guard they have, to guard the entrance of the Sepulcher for them, but she doesn't want to because she'll be separated from her daughter. Their solution? ''Erase her daughter's memory of her and stick her with some other family.'' [[SarcasmMode There, problem solved!]]]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Relenia and some of the [=NPC=]s have unnatural hair colors; Relenia has blue hair, there's a little girl named Anastasia who also has blue hair, there's a couple people with green hair. [[spoiler:That Anastasia and Relenia both have blue hair is a huge hint that they're related.]]