History VideoGame / TheLastStory

* BerserkButton[=/=]FlatWhat: [[spoiler:[[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Zael can say "no way" to Calista when exchanging his wedding vows with her.]] Cue "What." and a slap in the face. Do it three times and it's a NonStandardGameOver.]]

* SwallowedWhole: This can happen to your party members via three bosses, the Mystic Spider, the Gold Spider and the Queen of Abyss (a giant lizard/dinosaur/flaming t-rex thing). Not getting swallowed is ideal. You can prevent this by using Zael's Wind Spell when your team-mates are trapped in webbing.

* StealthBasedMission: A few of them require you to sneak around, get from Point A to B or elude guards. Some are easier than others when you have tranquilizer arrows on hand, and others require that you don't bash a guard's skull in with the blunt end of your sword. * TheStoic: Yurick in the early game. Later on he starts to loosen up.

* RingOut: Depending on the lay of terrain, sometimes you can knock an enemy off a cliff to kill them. This is important while climbing the Tower of Trials, where you come against a few enemies completely immune to physical attacks.

** The FiveManBand is very similar to the one in ''VideoGame/BlueDragon'', another Mistwalker RPG. Add Mirania and Dagran, and they're similar to ''VideoGame/Chrono Trigger'''s playables.

* MacGuffinGirl: Calista 's royal lineage is important later in the story.

[[Characters/TheLastStory The character sheet is here.]]

** During the FinalBoss battle, Yurick gets his Meteor upgraded to "Big Bang", which shatters the boss's impervious barrier ForMassiveDamage. Unlike Calista's Ancient Summon, this one he ''can'' use repeatedly... but only during that battle, [[PlayableEpilogue not after]].

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: During the battle against Sentinel Beast Atar, Calista can perform the "Ancient Summons" rite, but only once. (Fortunately, once is all you need.) Then there is the battle against the Last Cocoon, where a large sword hanging in the arena can be dropped on the boss ForMassiveDamage, but you only get one attempt at knocking it down.

* [[PunchAWall Kick A Wall]]: Zael has a tendency to kick walls. And this opens them. Syrenne and Lowell comment on how often he kicks walls open. He doesn't do this out of anger however, just convenience. Lowell tries this later and it ends badly for him.

* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Japanese Chanting]]: The final battle theme, "The One Who Rules All." Potential spoilers.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted with the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Gurak,]] but played dead straight with the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Reptids.]]

** Calista does this to Zael while ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything she's sitting on a bed.]]'' See SexyDiscretionShot below.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Once you've cleared the game the first time around, you can upgrade you weapons to +99. You however need to cash to do so first. And gold caps at 999999. Upgrades start costing the 10000s once you've gone past +5. +90 Upgrades start costing around 100000.

** Calista does this to Zael while ''she's sitting on a bed.'' See SexyDiscretionShot below.

* CoyGirlishFlirtPose: When Lowell hits on a maid, it's already clear it's working, as she stands in this pose.

* SexyDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: After Zael and Calista's wedding in the epilogue, the game cuts to a scene with Calista sitting coyly on their bed with [[SexDressed a significant portion of her wedding dress' skirt missing]]. If the fact that they just got married didn't tip you off, her pose leaves no doubt about what they've been up to.]]

* {{And I Must Scream}}: The Outsider. [[spoiler: It is a completely sentient entity that has been trapped beneath Lazulis castle for hundreds of years, with no interaction of any kind until Zael showed up. Also note the fact that it's very purpose for existing is creating new life, and for all this time it's been doing the exact ''opposite'' against it's will.]] Never thought I'd want to give a giant space rock a hug...

* SexyDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: After Zael and Calista's wedding in the epilogue, the game cuts to a scene with Calista sitting coyly on their bed with a significant portion of her wedding dress' skirt missing. If the fact that they just got married didn't tip you off, her pose leaves no doubt about what they've been up to.]]

* AerithAndBob: Names are split between wacky and normal. We've got Zael, Dagran, Syrenne, Yurick and Mirania on the wacky side. Normal names are Ariela (Ariel), Calista (like the actress Calista Flockhart), Lowell, and Asthar (a variation of the name Astor).
** There are also characters in the Japanese dub named Jill and Tasha. Except both of them are men (Jill is Jirall's Japanese name while Tasha is Therius's Japanese name).

** Averted with Count Arganan, who is pretty much useless in battle.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Lowell. He pretty much channels the characters that his voice actor Creator/KeijiFujiwara has voiced.

* ButtMonkey: Lowell. His attempt to flirt with Ariela is completely rejected when she replies with 'What would like to order?' and 'Call me when you've decided what you want to have'. He then says something to Syrenne and gets pushed over the balcony and when the screen goes black, it sounds like he lands on a table. Hard. He gets beat up by Syrenne constantly. Even in cut-scenes he gets the short end of the stick. While examining a mirror he gets abducted by an evil spirit. He is the victim of a groin attack. All sorts of horrible things happen to Lowell, but he doesn't seem to complain. Much.
** The Gurak Captain also gets the short end of the stick. Each MonsterOfTheWeek he tries to sic on the party ends up squishing him or slapping him into a wall before turning to the party. His presence is pretty much denied by Zael, when Lowell and Syrenne ask if he ''knows' the Captain. Zael kind of thinks about it, shrugs and says no. He then remembers once he sees the Captain getting squished by a monster.

* CutsceneIncompetence: The party pretty much have big huge swords and lots of ass kicking moves... yet for some reason when a cutscene comes up they manage to screw up something royal. Really Zael, you beat the crap out of twenty dudes by yourself no problem earlier, but when three knights show up to take you away, you don't put up a fight?

** The undead in Chapter 1 could count since they resurrect and the idea is you're supposed to run the hell away from them instead of fighting them. Undead soldiers found later either ressurect randomly or not at all.

* FlechetteStorm: The Muruk bosses can cover pretty much the entire arena in a shower of paralyzing spines. The Final Boss also has a flechette attack that inflicts Death (a countdown timer) on anyone it hits. Both can be blocked with the Barrier status buff or by standing inside an active Heal Circle.

* [[GreenAesop Green]] SpaceWhaleAesop: If you start draining power from [[spoiler:an alien god-rock, it's gonna mess your world's ecosystem right the hell up]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Lowell who's pretty much cheerful, happy and hitting on anything that has more than one X chromosome. However he's one of the most reliable members of the mercenary troop and steps up to plate when the situation calls for it.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: The Gurak are Tolkein versions [[spoiler:[[FantasticRacism according to the the stereotype]]. They're actually Blizzard versions that have been pushed into acting like the Tolkein version.]]
** [[OurElvesAreBetter Our Dark Elves Are Different]] the Gurak also resemble Dark Elves a bit, with their dark grey skin, and (usually)white hair. They also are magically talented, which is uncommon for the average orc-like species in fiction. The common, {{mook}} variety looks quite a lot like the dark elf enemies from FinalFantasyI [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV and IV]], when without masks, while the more handsome and important ones, like the brothers Zepha and Zesha, could be easily mistaken for [[TabletopGame/DungeonsandDragons Drow.]]

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Calista. She's pretty much been held in Castle Arganan her entire life, so when she runs away from home to wander the city, there are a few things she doesn't 'get'. Like how to eat food from the street vendor. And that one has to PAY for food from street vendors. Zael's wallet becomes a bit lighter the night he meets her.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Dagran]]'s plan to [[spoiler:kill General Asthar]] would have succeeded without a hitch had it not been for Zael being in the wrong place at the wrong time. [[spoiler:The second half of the game deals with Dagran attempting to keep his plan from falling apart. He frames Jirall to save Zael, but ''that'' plan has enough holes in it that it encourages Therius to PullTheThread. Eventually Dagran has no choice but to kill everyone who gets too close to the truth]].
** [[spoiler: Dagran's overall plan to use the Outsider for revenge]] was hindered, once again, by Zael. [[spoiler: It is implied he went to Lazulis Island to obtain the power himself back at the first mission/chapter. When Zael obtained the Mark of the Outsider, he altered his plans to make him a knight and move up in the world. Between playing both sides of the war and edging Zael to go for his dreams, Dagran's the only mercenary [[WhatTheHellHero who calls him out]] for throwing away knighthood, and isn't seen again until the last chapter.]]

* SplashDamage / SpellBlade: After a magical projectile impacts, it leaves behind a "magic circle" that inflicts continuous damage to survivors and can be used to temporarily imbue your weapons with magical energy.

* StealthBasedMission: A few of them require you to sneak around, get from Point A to B or elude guards. Some are easier than others when you have tranquilizer arrows on hand, and others require that you don't bash a guard's skull in with the blunt end of your sword.
** Zael seems to do a lot of the legwork for the party in the stealth department anyway.
* TheStoic: Yurick in the early game. Later on he starts to loosen up.

* SwallowedWhole: This can happen to your party members via three bosses, the Mystic Spider, the Gold Spider and the Queen of Abyss (a giant lizard/dinosaur/flaming t-rex thing). Not getting swallowed is ideal.
** You can prevent this by using Zael's Wind Spell when your team-mates are trapped in webbing.

* SwordPlant: Some bosses require Zael to run up walls or perform a Quick Time Event action to kill them by jumping and planting his sword into their head/chest.
** This is taken to a ridiculous level against the Last Cocoon boss if Zael can successfully drop a ginormous sword on it, skewering it to the ground, so that Zael can the climb up the boss and [[AttackItsWeakPoint stab it in the face]] [[ForMassiveDamage for 99999 damage]], which he repeats until it is dead.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: The party tends to chat a lot during boss fights. This is usually vital in [[BreakingTheFourthWall telling the player how to win against some of the]] [[PuzzleBoss Puzzle Bosses]].

** Any of the New Game Plus bosses are this as some are at least 50 levels stronger than they were the first time around.

* SexyDiscretionShot[=/=]SexDressed: [[spoiler: After Zael and Calista's wedding in the epilogue, the game cuts to a scene with Calista sitting coyly on their bed with a significant portion of her wedding dress' skirt missing. If the fact that they just got married didn't tip you off, her pose leaves no doubt about what they've been up to.]]

* FemaleGaze: In comparison, women in game '''do''' comment on how nice Zael 's ass is. Using both bleach Key Items makes this even more hilarious as Zael will be running around in only his boxer shorts, which happen to be rather form fitting.

* SkinshipGrope: Syrenne starts to check out Lisa/ Calista while they're in the bath. Leads to some LesYay. [[spoiler: Or so it sounds. She's ''actually'' fawning over her money]]. Later Syrenne says that she wants to take a bath with Mirania and her wonderfully smooth skin.

* SexyDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: After Zael and Calista's wedding in the epilogue, the game cuts to a scene with Calista sitting coyly on their bed with a significant portion of her wedding dress' skirt missing. If the fact that they just got married didn't tip you off, her pose leaves no doubt about what they've been up to.]]

** Sentinel Beasts Mitra and Atar are similar to Bahamut and Tiamat from ''DungeonsAndDragons'', and the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. Both are pairs of draconic 'siblings'. Mitra, like Bahamut, is light aligned, more benevolent, and [[spoiler: summonable]], while Atar is darker, and more agressive, like Tiamat.

** [[OurElvesAreBetter Our Dark Elves Are Different]] the Gurak also resemble Dark Elves a bit, with their dark grey skin, and (usually)white hair. They also are magically talented, which is uncommon for the average orc-like species in fiction. The common, {{mook}} variety looks quite a lot like the dark elf enemies from FinalFantasyI [[FinalFantasyIV and IV]], when without masks, while the more handsome and important ones, like the brothers Zepha and Zesha, could be easily mistaken for [[DungeonsandDragons Drow.]]

* DialogueTree: See ButThouMust; you ''do'' get dialogue options but are generally prevented from picking whatever one you feel like. For example, early on you can either talk to Calista or put your arm around her while stargazing. Those hoping to be romantic about the whole thing will be disappointed to learn that, should you pick the latter, Zael just chickens out and staggers back a bit. Tried a second time, Zael will (hilariously) fall into the ocean.

* NonStandardGameOver: As mentioned in ButThouMust above, this is what happens if, during one of the Epilogue chapters, [[spoiler:you refuse to marry Calista three times]].

** Yurick looks just like a male [[FinalFantasyVIII Fujin]].

* TheGreatEscape: Subverted. The party is put in jail after being accused of kidnapping royalty by Jirall. They plan to escape via the underground ruins in the jail. They end up failing miserably after they fight their way through the undead hordes to find that they've reached a dead-end (snowy mountains, which are at least open to the sky), so they give up and head back to the cell. In the meantime, Lowell's been keeping the prison guards busy enough chatting to "forget" how five people are missing from their cell.

It was released in Japan on 27th January, 2011. As one of the games that was part of Operation Rainfall, which also consisted of ''VideoGame/PandorasTowerUntilIReturnToYourSide'' and ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', it saw a release everywhere else in 2012.

* BiggerIsBetter: During the mission where Syrenne asks you to go get some beer, if you go around the back of the tavern and stop at a certain spot, you can hear Dagran and Lowell comparing.....their [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sizes]].
** They also mention Yurick.

* DubNameChange: Okay Sieren/Syrenne & Yuris/Yurick are fine, but how did they come up with Elza/Zael, Quark/Dagran, Jackal/Lowell, Manamia/Mirania, and Kanan/Calista? Averted with Ruli/Lazulis, as "Ruli" is simply Japanese for 'Lapis Lazuli', hence Lazulis.
** Elza/Zael is fine too, because it's just switching the order of the syllables.