History VideoGame / TalesOfCrestoria

* AnAesop:
** You can't judge people with BlackAndWhiteMorality. Even the Complete Monster may have a soft side or a MoralityPet, and the IdealHero may have skeletons in the closet or have to ShootTheDog.[[invoked]]
** [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion Convicting people based on public opinion is wrong]]. There's a lot more to every story that you're not seeing. On top of that, powerful people will try to manipulate the truth for their own ends.
** "Are you gonna own your sin, or are you gonna let it own you?" These are not just the ArcWords of the story said by Vicious, but they're also part of the game's HardTruthAesop. You can feel as guilty as you want about mistakes that you've made in the past, but it's not going to change what you did. You can't just suffer and pretend like that somehow makes everything okay. That said, you can still be a good person and make a positive change for the world in spite of the bad things you've done. The key is that you can't let yourself be weighed down by your sins for your entire life.

In the world of Crestoria, every human is born with a Vision Orb which allows the user to record someone's transgressions and broadcast said person's crime throughout the region. If public opinion deems the suspect guilty, their vision orb merges into their body and becomes a "Stain of Guilt", marking them for punishment by a mysterious group called the "Enforcers".

* ObviousBeta: The game upon release was plagued with constant crashes, poor performance on the Android version, softlocks, the inability to use the chat feature without the game crashing, and laggy Raid battles. Rewards from gameplay were often lost to the void and never entered the player's inventory, and time-based missions were often locked for more than half the day for unknown reasons. Patching eventually fixed all of this.

** While players automatically unlock Super-Rare versions of the main characters as they move through the campaign, there are SSR versions of said characters who are capable of Mystic Artes. The two are differentiated by different subtitles ("Aegis, Heart Full of [[KnightInShiningArmor Chivalry]]" for the SR version, "Aegis, [[BladeOnAStick Lance]] that Lights the Way" for the SSR one). Both rarities of the character can co-exist in the same party.

* AdaptedOut: NONE of the crossover characters are returning back.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Chapter 10 Part 2 ends with [[spoiler:an appearance of an transgressor resembling Yuri Lowell]], which was around the time the game announced its shutdown on February 4th, 2022. What prevents this from being NoEnding is because of the manga continuing the story from where it ended.

** The SR versions of the OriginalCharacters serve as a CrutchCharacter, but their Awakened passives either affect all units, or have two effects that affect everyone, and their element. Both Kanata and Misella's SR buffs provide flat party wide attack and defense respectively, meaning if you stick them on the sub-member spot, you can have their buffs apply to the entire team without them needing to be leveled.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Misella will sometimes slap Vicious when he says something out of line. There are even [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misella_slap.PNG specifically made character portraits for these moments]].

On December 15th, 2021, a manga adaption of the game was announced, which will conclude its story. Jun Kumagai will draw the scenario, while the artist Tsubaki Ayasugu will illustrate the characters.

** And finally, the game had not been out for a week before the developers started releasing alternate versions of pre-existing characters. When the game shipped, the Water-aligned "Kanonno Earhart, [[{{BFS}} Greatsword]] Wielder]]" was available as a SSR; during the "Lure of the Forest Fruit" limited quest, a Wind-aligned SSR "Kanonno, [[BeachEpisode Summer Holiday]]" was released with completely different skills. Since ''Brave Exvius'' has found monetary success at releasing different "instances" of the same character this way (its PlayerCharacter Rain has ''seven'' variants and three more as [[SecretIdentity Secret Identities]]; ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' PlayerCharacter Terra has four), it can be assumed ''Crestoria'' will follow suit.

On December 15th, 2021, it was announced a manga adaption of the game, which will conclude its story. Jun Kumagai will draw the scenario, while the artist Tsubaki Ayasugu will illustrate the characters.

* '''[[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia Phantasia]]:''' Cress Albane, Arche Klein, Dhaos

* '''[[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2 Destiny 2]]:''' Kyle Dunamis, Barbatos Goetia

* '''[[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia Phantasia]]:''' Mint Adnade, Chester Burklight, Claus F. Lester, Suzu Fujibayashi

* '''[[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2 Destiny 2]]:''' Reala, Loni Dunamis, Judas, Harold Berselius

* AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** If the game ever force quits or crashes during a quest, you can choose to resume that quest right where you left off. In addition, if you choose not to resume the quest, the AP cost of that quest gets refunded to you, even going over your current max AP if necessary.
** In order to help you ease into the battle system, you get a free pull of one Super-Super-Rare character and their respective SSR Memoria Stone upon starting the game for the first time. You're even allowed to choose which character you want; all other SSR characters have to be acquired through random chance in LootBoxes.
** There are various battle quests that offer rewards when you complete a set of six. However, the game tracks records for these battle quests even if you haven't unlocked them yet, so it's possible to acquire the rewards for the quests as soon as you get them if you've already incidentally completed all of the requirements.
** The Version 1.1 update in December 2020 gave players the "Skip" feature which allowed players to simulate completing a quest multiple times in a row as long as they'd already fully completed it once before. This allowed players to get the experience, affinity, money, and items from a quest without having to grind against weak enemies over and over again. However, each quest still costs the regular amount of AP to run it.
** In PVP arena battles, animations for enemy characters' Mystic Artes are automatically skipped. Instead, a cut-in flashes to show you which character is using the move, then the effects just apply all at once. Since you're on a time limit to beat your opponent's characters, skipping the extra long animations for each Mystic Arte gives you a little more of a grace period.
** You can't use healing artes if everybody's at full health. The game will let you know that there are "no available targets" and prevent it from working, which saves you from wasting the healing arte.

* MythologyGag: Plenty, as befits an escort title. Some characters get to bounce off people from their own title, but the fun parts are the crossovers.
** One mid-battle conversation alludes both to Lloyd being a warrior-in-training and Rose being a mentor figure.
--->'''Lloyd:''' [[DualWielding Together, we have four blades! 400 power, Rose!]]\\
'''Rose''': I don't get your math, but I like your energy! Yay!
** Count Senegal [[spoiler:manipulating Luke into causing the destruction of Southvein calls back to Luke being manipulated by Van into destroying Akzeriuth, complete with the guilt trip that follows]].

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: The subject of the traditional ''Tales Series'' {{deconstruction}}. Crestoria's justice system is built around vision orb broadcasts -- before the first chapter is out, someone who was falsely accused of a crime uses vision orb testimony to clear their name. The true culprit is {{Unperson}}ed and brought to justice in short order. However, the dark side of the system is revealed when Kanata forgets this fact when discovering something heinous. As such, his actions don't have their correct "PayEvilUntoEvil" context, and the vision orb recordings -- all taken by bystanders and showing him in the aftermath of a crime of passion -- depict him as a deranged maniac. Additionally, the citizens of Crestoria trust vision orb testimony to be infallible, ignoring all context or rationalization. Therefore, a transgressor's protestations and justifications are written off as self-serving excuses.

On December 7th, 2021, it was announced that [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames all of the servers would be shut down on February 7th, 2022]]. The characters and world are, unlike other spinoffs in the series, treated as full fledged characters and story, and are expected to reappear in the future.

On December 7th, 2021, it was announced that all of the servers would be shut down on February 7th, 2022. The characters and world are, unlike other spinoffs in the series, treated as full fledged characters and story, and are expected to reappear in the future.

On December 7th, 2021, the servers were announced to be shutting down on February 7th, 2022.

* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:Stahn]] was stuffed prior to the main plot. [[spoiler:He]] was killed offscreen while his soul was [[spoiler:fitted into a sword in mysterious circumstances]] solely to motivate [[spoiler:Leon to go out into the world to find a cure.]]

* WhamShot: In the Chapter 9 Part 1 finale, when Kanata and the others follow Kaya in the middle of the night only to witness her glowing in blue light and [[spoiler:turning into a monster.]]