History VideoGame / SummonNight

''Summon Night'' is a series of StrategyRPG games developed by {{Creator/Flight-Plan}}. It is their second such series after VideoGame/BlackMatrix and is notably much LighterAndSofter along with being better known. The series also contains three out of the four[[note]](PoisonPink[=/=]EternalPoison being the last one)[[/note]] Flight-Plan games to get a North American release, although all three are action-RPG spin-offs rather than from the main series. The games apply some DatingSim elements to them as well with multiple endings for virtually all the characters that join you whether you play as a boy or a girl. The series celebrated its [[VideoGameLongRunners 10th anniversary]] on January 6th, 2010 and has a [[http://summonnight.net/10thanniversary/index.html commemoration website]]. Unfortunately, the series is now effectively dead with the [[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/04/summon-night-developers-flight-plan-close-shop/ closing of its developer in August of 2010]]... [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/18/summon-night-5-announced-for-psp-summon-nights-1-4-coming-too/ until a new game finally got announced in July of 2012 for the PSP]], alongside ports of all the previous main series titles.

''Summon Night'' is a series of [[TurnBasedStrategy SRPG]]s developed by {{Creator/Flight-Plan}}. It is their second such series after VideoGame/BlackMatrix and is notably much LighterAndSofter along with being better known. The series also contains three out of the four[[note]](PoisonPink[=/=]EternalPoison being the last one)[[/note]] Flight-Plan games to get a North American release, although all three are action-RPG spin-offs rather than from the main series. The games apply some DatingSim elements to them as well with multiple endings for virtually all the characters that join you whether you play as a boy or a girl. The series celebrated its [[VideoGameLongRunners 10th anniversary]] on January 6th, 2010 and has a [[http://summonnight.net/10thanniversary/index.html commemoration website]]. Unfortunately, the series is now effectively dead with the [[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/04/summon-night-developers-flight-plan-close-shop/ closing of its developer in August of 2010]]... [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/18/summon-night-5-announced-for-psp-summon-nights-1-4-coming-too/ until a new game finally got announced in July of 2012 for the PSP]], alongside ports of all the previous main series titles.

** Crimson Nocturnal had [[http://crimson-nocturnal.com/projects/summon-night-x started an English translation]]. Due to [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings people with an over-inflated sense of entitlement whining]] about the pace of progress, the translation was dropped and the group has disbanded.

*** "Come on, (player name)! Let's go forge your manhood!" "...please never say that again."
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Lemmy/Remii in the third game.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Millisar

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [[WholesomeCrossdresser Scarrel]] and [[AmbiguousGender Corel]] ignoring gender restrictions on equipment, [[AnimatedArmor Falzen's]] immunity to possession (and to a lesser extent, also being able to ignore gender restrictions on equipment), the Dragon Child's VoluntaryShapeshifting, and Gian's EvilEye ability.

* TheUnfought: You hear a lot about how powerful various characters are, but you never actually get to do battle with most of them. The game sort of allows you to gauge their strength by comparison--you get to fight two Craftlords directly throughout the course of the game, [[spoiler:Lubert]] and [[spoiler:Ureksa]]. It's also somewhat implied that the average Craftlord is about on the same level as [[spoiler:Sanary]] in the tournament. However, it's still only guesswork--a lot of the fighting involving Craftlords tends to take place off-screen.

* MythologyGag: ''Summon Night 4'' does this for the Summon Night series what FinalFantasyIX did for the Final Fantasy series. ''Summon Night 4'' has the added bonus of sharing the setting with the earlier games. Unlike ''Final Fantasy IX'', ''Summon Night 4'' did turn out to be the last game in the main series... at least until Namco Bandai unexpectedly announced ''Summon Night 5''.

''Summon Night'' is a series of [[TurnBasedStrategy SRPG]]s developed by {{Creator/Flight-Plan}}. It is their second such series after VideoGame/BlackMatrix and is notably much LighterAndSofter along with being better known. The series also contains three out of the four[[hottip:*:(PoisonPink[=/=]EternalPoison being the last one)]] Flight-Plan games to get a North American release, although all three are action-RPG spin-offs rather than from the main series. The games apply some DatingSim elements to them as well with multiple endings for virtually all the characters that join you whether you play as a boy or a girl. The series celebrated its [[VideoGameLongRunners 10th anniversary]] on January 6th, 2010 and has a [[http://summonnight.net/10thanniversary/index.html commemoration website]]. Unfortunately, the series is now effectively dead with the [[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/04/summon-night-developers-flight-plan-close-shop/ closing of its developer in August of 2010]]... [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/18/summon-night-5-announced-for-psp-summon-nights-1-4-coming-too/ until a new game finally got announced in July of 2012 for the PSP]], alongside ports of all the previous main series titles.

* HoYay

* ItemCrafting: A huge part of the game and the plot.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: We receive information about Pratty's father in bits and pieces.
* KillerRabbit: Rampage Rabbit from the second game. You can fight him once per day for extra experience and items. Just [[BerserkButton don't call him cute]].
* LesYay: Sugar kisses Pratty and tells her she intends to ''marry'' her, female or no. And that's only their initial meeting. There's so much LesYay in the ''Swordcraft Story'' games it's staggering. And she only kisses her if she's female.
** The company decided that the scene where Pratty is telling Sugar that [[ItMakesSenseInContext really, she kisses girls all the time]] was [[FanService important enough]] to put on the back of the box.
** [[spoiler: Razzy doesn't gain a crush on you ''unless'' you play as Pratty.]]
** Aside from from Sugar related dialog, there's plenty with Sanary. One conversation has her even flat out say she's not interested in (those) boys. Pratty claims that Sanary in a FrenchMaid outfit is "cute".
** The second game features Lynn, who is pretty much LesYay incarnate. One of the main character's options in the second game is to spend a night with Lynn in a secluded area, where she promises to teach you about love. It fades to black after you start discussing kissing. Honestly, this is well past LesYay and straight into GayOption territory.
** Every night you spend with Dinah as Area slowly breaks through that Tsundere exterior bit by bit, and she blushes a lot whenever Area complements or praises her. [[spoiler: By the end of the game when Area says she will be by her side from then on as partners:]]
*** [[spoiler: -->'''Dinah''': I don't have a choice, do I? But if I had one, I would probably stay with you anyway.''']]
* LethalChef: Tatiana, in the second game.
** In the first game, rescuing Sanary from soldiers has her attempt at cooking attack you in a Boss Battle.
* LethalJokeItem: The Red Hot Ladle is actually the best weapon at breaking enemy weapons so that you can forge them yourself. Yes, even better than the InfinityPlusOneSword created by the [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination possessing someone.]] It has an endurance of 200, and you can max your skill in it's use to 255, and even if you don't need it for that, melting it down produces more of the notoriously rare Mystic Ore than it takes to produce it. FridgeLogic makes it even funnier in that the lesson in creating a ladle was one of patience being its own reward. The Main Character is so convinced it has to be more than that that they can make a super-weapon out of it.
* LightningBruiser: Third game, robot buddy Run-Dor[[spoiler:'s true form. Loses the jump prohibition, gains a good chunk of movement speed, his special becomes a powerful projectile, he maintains his excessive amounts of HP and Defense, and he hits even harder than before. Ouch.]]
* LittleMissSnarker: Dinah from the second game.

* NoExportForYou: Not surprising given Flight-Plan's lack of distribution capabilities. SCEA following [[{{Pantheon/Disgraces}} Bernard "Bernie" Stolar's]] policy of disparaging 2D games and [=RPGs=] in the PS1 era likely didn't help.

** In Swordcraft Story, breaking your opponent's weapon is the key to winning the one-on-one battles.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Sugar for a female PC, getting annoying when she starts spending time with other women.

* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler: Falier to Hainel, and dead little sister-in-law to Ardylia.]]

* AmbiguousGender: Arno. The Japanese version implies it's female though.

* HimeCut: Misumi. Not surprising given that she is a YamatoNadeshiko princess from JidaiGeki {{Expy}} Silturn.

''Summon Night'' is a series of [[TurnBasedStrategy SRPG]]s developed by {{Flight-Plan}}. It is their second such series after VideoGame/BlackMatrix and is notably much LighterAndSofter along with being better known. The series also contains three out of the four[[hottip:*:(PoisonPink[=/=]EternalPoison being the last one)]] Flight-Plan games to get a North American release, although all three are action-RPG spin-offs rather than from the main series. The games apply some DatingSim elements to them as well with multiple endings for virtually all the characters that join you whether you play as a boy or a girl. The series celebrated its [[VideoGameLongRunners 10th anniversary]] on January 6th, 2010 and has a [[http://summonnight.net/10thanniversary/index.html commemoration website]]. Unfortunately, the series is now effectively dead with the [[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/04/summon-night-developers-flight-plan-close-shop/ closing of its developer in August of 2010]]... [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/18/summon-night-5-announced-for-psp-summon-nights-1-4-coming-too/ until a new game finally got announced in July of 2012 for the PSP]], alongside ports of all the previous main series titles.

The SummonNight series consists of:

!!!When adding in examples, please make sure they're placed in the correct area. In other words, Craftsword examples belong in Craftsword section and not in the main series section.

!!The main series contains examples of:

!!The ''Swordcraft Story'' sub-series contains examples of:

!!The ''These'' sub-series contains examples of:

!!''Twin Age'' contains examples of:

!!''Summon Night X'' provides examples of:

* AmbiguousGender: Coral is explicitly this, as a direct result of SchrodingersGun.

* {{Crossover}}: Sort of. Unlike many RPG series, all the games in the main series take place in the [[SharedUniverse same verse]], but at different times and different places. The second and third games feature an extra story with characters from the previous game meeting with the characters of the current game, all aged accordingly. The fourth game overdoses on this, featuring many characters from all three previous games. Some of them even get big roles. Perhaps a more straight case are the [[BonusBoss bonus bosses]] in the fourth game.

* FillItWithFlowers: In ''Swordcraft Story'', Razzy wants to turn Wystern into a city of flowers if she wins the tournament and becomes one of the city's Craftlords.

* LowLevelAdvantage: Flight-Plan loves this in their [[TurnBasedStrategy turn based strategy]] games. To further the Antigrinding, "Brave Clear" requisites for story battles have a level cutoff.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: [=EXeLD=]'s Omni Missile.

* MythologyGag: ''Summon Night 4'' does this for the Summon Night series what FinalFantasyIX did for the Final Fantasy series. ''Summon Night 4'' has the added bonus of sharing the setting with the earlier games. Unlike ''Final Fantasy IX'', ''Summon Night 4'' did turn out to be the last game in the main series.

* NoExportForYou: Not surprising given Flight-Plan's lack of distribution capabilities. SCEA's hatred of 2D in the PS1 era likely didn't help.

* RoadCone: Mostly averted. The ''[[AnotherSideAnotherStory gaiden]]'' crossovers allow the player to choose the protagonist of the previous game while the current game's protagonist might be loaded from a clear save file or not be mentioned directly. ''Summon Night 4'' doesn't mention the previous protagonists. The only exception to this is the ''Summon Night 4'' [[AudioAdaptation Drama CD]], which features the male protagonist and the {{ambiguous gender}} Dragon Child.
* RobotGirl: The named Mechanical Dolls. The generic mechanical dolls appear to be [[RobotMaid robot maids]] as well.

* SaveToken: Save Diaries, which are consumed when used.

* TransformingMecha: [=EXeLD=].

* UpdatedRerelease: The first two games have been re-released on the NDS. Both have the party skill system introduced in the third game added into it.

* GoGoEnslavement: Sanary is victim of this at one point. Creepily, it becomes a running gag.

* {{Save Point}}

[[spoiler: -->'''Dinah''': I don't have a choice, do I? But if I had one, I would probably stay with you anyway.''']]