History VideoGame / TowerOfFantasy

* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: A serious example. It's revealed in Fenrir's story, messages and the lyrics of ''Chocolate'' that she is [[IronicAllergy to chocolates]] but keeps eating them since [[spoiler:she sees hallucinations of her loved ones whenever she's having an allergic reaction, and admits it's the only time that she feels truly loved.]]

** The 2.0 update adds the ability to use multiple Void Rift/Frontier Clash attempts in one sitting, reaping proportionate rewards for a fraction of the time. The same can be done with blue keys to reduce the need to hunt password chests. The 2.2 update extends this convenience to purple password keys, and also Interdimensional Trials.

* AwesomeButImpractical: A few SSR relics like the Type V armor and Colossus arms look cool to use and are helpful in the early game, but they all have long cooldowns compared to a few SR relics. Over time, these will be outshined once players get decent armor and build up their weapons.

** The level 66 Raid pits the party against Frigg and Valkyrie in separate arenas. If one goes down, the group has 1 minute to defeat the other before the defeated enemy revives with half HP. However, if a boss is unattended for too long, it will reset its behavior and refill its HP fully. The Heroic mode of this Raid instead give the players a 30 second window between the deaths of both bosses, and the bosses can [[TurnsRed enter a berserk state]] if the party takes too long to defeat them.

* The Carnival Party Joint Operation will have players facing against the first two bosses again after the rhythm game.
** A few limited-timed events will have players facing two bosses at the same time.

** Using Lin's skill and Alyss' Latent State can let players float above the maze walls or or platform minigames, making it a breeze to collect the dream machine rewards.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The sidequest "Apartment Anecdotes" has an in-game Hotta employee suddenly [[WriterOnBoard ranting about the complexities of using Unreal Engine 4 and that many of them have never been home for many days]]. This suddenly cuts to a [[FreezeFrameBonus 2 second note]] from the devs thanking the players for sticking to the end and apologizing for all the issues.

** Using Lin's skill can let players float above the maze walls or or platform minigames, making it a breeze to collect the dream machine rewards.

** Saki Fuwa's CN trailer has her mimicking the famous [[Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar Chika dance]] while fawning over her favorite figurine.

* ApocalypseHow: Aida experienced a [[ApocalypseHow/Class3A Class 3A]] after one reactor in one of the 6 Tower of Fantasy exploded after a failed time travel experiment, polluting the planet of Omnuim Radiation before its continents got separated and spread over different dimensions and times. Now each continent has its own very special kind of dystopia/apocalypse to contend with after the explosion that made it impossible for humanity to thrive in each region.

** The Dust Wheeler is a dead ringer to [[Anime/YuGiOh5DS Jack Atlas's D-wheel]], and it's unlocked by reaching Grand Marshall in PvP.

** The level 66 Raid pits the party against Frigg and Valkyrie in separate arenas. If one goes down, the group has 1 minute to defeat the other before the defeated enemy revives with half HP. However, if a boss is unattended for too long, it will reset its behavior and refill its HP fully. The Heroic mode of this Raid instead give the players 30 seconds to take down both bosses, and the bosses can [[TurnsRed enter a berserk state]] if the party takes too long to defeat them.

** For Sadness Valley, it's possible to dash-glide from the starting platform all the way to the boss, bypassing all trash mobs.

* MercyKill: Implied that this was the "rule" Zeke imposed on the inhabitants of Astra Shelter, should anyone become infected or irradiated (it's not that clear how Aberration works). Zeke himself was almost forced to do this to Shirli early on due to getting infected after having her suppressor broken after being attacked but he refuses to do this and seeks the Heirs of Aida for help.

* NiceMice: The Friendly Sand Rats aren't afraid or hostile to humans and will give one Black Nucleus if they're given attention (via emotes) or the food they request.

* PatchworkMap: The Aesperia map has a mountain range where one side is the lush Navia and Crown Mines and the other side is the snowy Warren. The environment changes from lush green fields and sandy beaches to snowy within walking distance. It's much more visible when gazing down at the continent from atop the titular Tower of Fantasy.

** Joining a Crew gives extra perks like access to a Crew Store that yields Relic shards, and a weekly source of Dark Crystals. Bigger crews with more active players can advance to a higher level to unlock better perks. If you enter a Frontier Clash with your crewmates, you also get a stacking damage buff for each crewmate in your party.

* WeCanRebuildHim: [[spoiler:To prevent Shirli from turning into an aberrant, Zeke agreed to have her turn into an "Angel of Clemency" which turned her into the cyborg Nemesis.]]

* BubblegloopSwamp: Miasmic Swamp is a location in Vera that only genetically enhanced animals can thrive there. Some parts are covered with an airborne toxin that makes it hard to explore the poisonous areas, requiring one to do a mechanic to remove the toxic flower creating the gas. It's also the only part of Vera that rains and when it does, it would fill up the lowest parts of the swamp, rendering some exploration points inaccessible until the rain stops and the water slowly drains.

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Alyss was Saki's former captain called M-sec 002, but she was gravely injured protecting Mirroria from a Grayspace invasion and lost all her memories as a result. Everyone who knew her before was given a gag order not to reveal her true identity and to call her M-sec 2000 to protect her mental state. It's revealed is caused by abyssants trying to invade her mind and both her and them are in a stalemate, but since M-sec 002 was bound to the abyssants, this meant that the M-sec 002 also "died" after defeating all of them so Alyss's lost memories will never return.]]

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Alyss was Saki's former captain called M-sec 002, but she was gravely injured protecting Mirroria from a Grayspace invasion and lost all her memories as a result. Everyone who knew her before was given a gag order not to reveal her true identity and to call her M-sec 002 to protect her mental state. It's revealed is caused by abyssants trying to invade her mind, but since M-sec 002 was bound to the abyssants, this meant that the M-sec 002 also "died" after defeating all of them, and Alyss's lost memories will never return.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: A few SSR relics like the Type V armor and Colossus arms look cool to use and are helpful in the early game, but over time will be outshined once players get decent armor and build up their weapons.

* SelfDeprecation: Mirroria has its own version of Hotta Studio, who designs in-universe entertainment citizens for its residents. The player can take on a few sidequests where they do part-time work with the staff and discover that it is understaffed and overworked. To top it off, it values "translation skills" over everything else in its potential recruits, and the whole experience feels like a large self-deprecating joke.

* StarfishAliens: The Grayspace Entities in Vera are robotic creatures that resemble aquatic animals and came out of nowhere after the Catalycsm, with no hints where they come from. [[spoiler:Later variants found in the Compounding Abyss begin to resemble HumanoidAliens and even have human-like qualities like the Abyssal Puppet and Harrah.]]

* TimeCrash: [[spoiler: Hykros initially assumes Vera to be on a different planet, but it's actually another continent that's part of Aida. Later in the story, it's revealed the Omnium accident caused the planet Aida to fall into this, and its continents are scattered into different time planes as a result.]]

** Frontier Clash, Bygone, and Sequential Phantasm require players to kill the enemies or bosses within a tight time limit to receive rewards.

** When you enter Grayspace, you have 8 minutes to do as much as you can before you are kicked back into normal Vera.

* UndesirablePrize: Claire's Dream Machines reward the player with a wide variety of possible prizes, ranging from Nuclei to Matrices to gear upgrade materials. Sometimes it drops equipment, but only of the blue and green tiers (and rarely purple). While that can be handy for the low-level player, equipment of such quality becomes obsolete incredibly quickly, and the prize pool doesn't update to match a high-level player's expected strength.

** Claire's dream machine, training machines, the Mirroria Funzone machines, and events usually feature a random mishmash of minigames that players to earn rewards every day, like a Railway Shooter, a RhythmGame, a climbing minigame, a racing game, and a PlatformGame.

* AntiPoopSocking: In addition to FreemiumTimer and PlayEveryDay mechanics, this game also likes to control player progression:

** The 80th Weapon Special Order is guaranteed to yield an SSR weapon, and the 40th Matrix Order is guaranteed to yield an SSR Matrix.

* DesertPunk: The entirety of Vera is a harsh desert wasteland due to the Omnium explosion, with Mirroria City being a Cyberpunk-inspired NeonCity.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Claire's dream machine, training machines, the Mirroria Funzone machines, and events usually feature a random mishmash of minigames that players to earn rewards every day, like a Railway Shooter, a RhythmGame, a climbing minigame, a racing game, and a PlatformGame.

* FakeBalance: Within the library of weapons, the Volt and especially Physical elements get shafted big time. Even while accounting for Limited characters, there's a glaring lack of Volt or Physical Tank weaponry due to the collaboration characters Marc and Bai Yuekui not being available in Global for licensing reasons. The game also has a disproportionate number of DPS weapons compared to Tank or Support ones, which greatly limits player choice if they were to build for those roles.

** For the maze minigame in Claire's dream machine where relics aren't allowed, using King or Samir's aerial attack and dodging at the right moment will let players go up the maze walls to easily collect the trophies. Using Lin's skill can let players float above the maze walls, bypassing nearly all maze or platform minigames.

* NighInvulnurable: Opposite of [[CastFromHitpoints Tian Lang]], it's not an uncommon sight to see Lyra players take 0 damage in a team run. Her RapidFireFisticuffs regenerates health so fast that one can go from low to full health in mere seconds. Her extra healing turn into shields for herself or for the team, and it's easy to maintain it as long as she keeps healing in Benediction stance. Her fifth advancement also negates any fatal damage to her teammates as long as one has Forgiveness or Enlightenment guard buffs.

* ShoutOut: Sometimes, you can find the Hyenas dancing Music/GangnamStyle as an IdleAnimation.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The sidequest "Apartment Anecdotes" has an in-game Hotta employee suddenly [[WriterOnBoard ranting about the complexity of Unreal Engine 4 and that many of them have never been home for many days]]. This suddenly cuts to a [[FreezeFrameBonus 2 second note]] from the devs thanking the players for sticking to the end and apologizing for all the issues.

** For Deepsea Stronghold, equipping Meryl's maxed Simulacrum trait or spamming Frigg's Fimbulwinter can create ice platforms players can stand on, negating the difficulty posed by the water. Using any weapon that can pull enemies, like King's dodge attack, will prevent Thunder Wings prevent from flying everywhere and make it stay close to the ground.
** For the maze minigame in Claire's dream machine where relics aren't allowed, using King or Samir's aerial attack and dodging at the right moment will let players go up the maze walls to easily collect the trophies.

* JackOfAllTrades: The "Balance" resonance, enabled by wielding one weapon of each type in your loadout, gives a small bonus to damage, defense, shield-breaking, and healing, but not as strong as any of the specialist resonances. While this is self-sufficient for solo content, the specialist resonances are more valued in group content.

** The 2.0 update adds the ability to use multiple Void Rift/Frontier Clash attempts in one sitting, reaping proportionate rewards for a fraction of the time. The same can be done with blue keys to reduce the need to hunt password chests.

** There are a lot of points of interest to find across the large overworld map, each of them yielding Black or Gold Nuclei used for the [[{{Lootboxes}} gacha system]], and contributing to exploration progress achievements that give extra rewards. There's very few physical barriers that prevent you from straying off the beaten path so you can theoretically navigate to a quick-travel point on the other side of the map if you know where to go. That said, several chests and interest points meant to be discovered far later into the plot will be inaccessible for a set period of time (some as long as a few weeks!) and this time-gate is player-dependent. It forces players to pace themselves with exploration as opposed to scrounging everything from the map in one go. Fortunately, these time-gates are only present within the Aesperia region.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Make no mistake, despite the {{Animesque}} aesthetic, the [[DeathWorld world]] is basically [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Pandora]].

* DualWorldGameplay: Grayspace Portals dot the desert of Vera, and once you reach level 74 you can use them to enter Grayspace itself, a parallel version of the Vera desert with its own exploration points, overworld mobs, and field bosses.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Some SSR characters from the Standard Banner can be acquired early on even before they'll appear in the story proper or simulacrum stories like Crow, Shiro, and Tsubasa, or only debuted during the Vera Storyline like Zero. For the SR characters, only Bai Ling and Hilda made a story appearance.

* JackOfAllTrades: The "Balance" resonance, enabled by wielding one weapon of each type in your loadout, gives a small bonus to damage, defense, shield-breaking, and healing, but not as strong as any of the specialist resonances. While it's self-sufficient for solo content, the specialist resonances are more valued in group content.

** Shielding her brother from incoming fire during the Astra Shelter invasion, saving his life but breaking her suppressor in the process. She nearly turns into an Aberrant before [[spoiler:Zeke sought the help of the Heirs of Aida.]]

* BoobsAndButtPose: The opening screen, where the player picks a server to log in to, shows Nemesis with her back to the player but also turning over her shoulder to glance at the camera.

* BulletTime: Called Phantasia, this can be activated by doing a perfect dodge, meaning dashing out of the enemy's attack at the right moment. The enemies significantly slow down and all weapons will be immediately charged, allowing everyone to use all their discharge attacks for massive damage. If in a group, only the aggro holder can activate Phantasia.

* HiveMind: [[spoiler:The Grayspace Entities are discovered to share thoughts with each other, which is how Rubilia tries to communicate to Lin via the Puppet Singer and Ruby. Unfortunately, this also means that the Hive Mother is also aware of what she can see as well.]]

* SinisterGeometry: The Confounding Abyss below Mirroria consists of unnaturally blocky floating platforms within a cavern with similarly blocky wall, and is populated by numerous Abyssants.

* SupportPartyMember: A few weapons, usually indicated by a support icon, has skills that will heal teammates or sometimes buff their damage. Equipping two support weapons will give a player a benediction resonance, increasing their healing abilities by 100% and a further 100% when in teams.

* FakeBalance: Within the library of weapons, the Volt and especially Physical elements get shafted big time. Even while accounting for Limited characters, there's a glaring lack of Volt or Physical Tank weaponry due to the collaboration characters Marc and Bai Yuekui not being available in Global for licensing reasons, and a thorough absence of Physical Healing weapons.

** Joining a Crew gives extra perks like access to a Crew Store that yields Relic shards, and a weekly source of Dark Crystals. Bigger crews with more active players also are at a higher level and get better perks. If you enter a Frontier Clash with your crewmates, you also get a stacking damage buff for each crewmate in your party.

** New players can partake in a time-limited event that grants a free SSR weapon of their choice; the only limitation being that they cannot obtained Limited Banner weapons this way. The Gold Nucleus Special Order also has a one-time-only guaranteed SSR weapon on the 30th pull, so that new players can at least get started with a full set of three SSR weapons barring duplicates.

* CoolBigSis: Lin fulfills this role towards Ruby, who also holds her in [[BigSisterWorship high regards.]] The two even share a simulacrum story where Lin asks the Player to help organize a concert for the latter's birthday, just because Ruby admits to Sparky that she wishes to go to a concert with Lin.

* DerivativeDifferentiation: ''Tower of Fantasy'' is set in an AfterTheEnd ScavengerWorld closer in feel to ''Videogame/{{Borderlands}}'', compared to its inspirations ''Videogame/GenshinImpact'' and ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' which is set in a HighFantasy world.

* InconsistentDub: The game has shoddy localization and subtitles in-game isn't consistent with the voice dubs everywhere, sometimes even disappearing while a character is speaking. One example is some characters saying "Vela" while the subtitles and the official localization call the planet "Vera".

* InsufferableGenius: Zero is a ChildProdigy talented enough to hack Hykros' security system at a young age so easily that the organization sent a team of Executors to catch him. He certainly likes to brag about his superior mind, even programming his creations to shill himself, and tends to look down on whoever is asking for his help. That said, he is amenable to requests as long as one gives him ice cream.

* LevelScaling: Happens in all areas including previously revisited ones, encouraging players to use elements that are strong against the enemy's element, weapon upgrading, and rolling for SR and SSR equipment. The only exception is main storyline encounters, Ruins, and Bygone Phantasm stages.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: KING clarifies that his primary motivation is money and will work for someone as long as the payments are good. His Simulacrum file even logs that the real one rejected the benefits given by Hykros to be part of the project and prefers to be paid in cash, which the logs note is an astronomical amount that stood out on their financial expenses.

** Joining a Crew gives extra perks like access to a Crew Store that yields Relic shards, and a weekly source of Dark Crystals. Bigger crews with more active players also are a higher level and get better perks. If you enter a Frontier Clash with your crewmates, you also get a stacking damage buff for each crewmate in your party.
** Helping out low-level or players who have not logged in after a long while grants you Support Points and Return Support Points respectively that can be exchanged for items that are not easily stockpiled. Participating in Vitality-consuming group activities while you don't have enough Vitality yourself also grants you Support Points in lieu of their usual rewards.

* ThemeNaming: A few minibosses are named after Greek Mythology monsters, like Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Claire's dream machine, training machines, the Mirroria Funzone machines and events usually feature a random mishmash of minigames that players to earn rewards every day, like a Railway Shooter, a RhythmGame, a climbing minigame, a racing game, and a PlatformGame.

** Bulk Special Orders using Gold or Red Nuclei and Proof are guaranteed to yield an SR weapon/matrix (or better). The 80th Order is guaranteed to yield an SSR weapon; the 40th Matrix Order is guaranteed to yield an SSR Matrix.
** Duplicate SR or SSR weapons convert into fusion cores that upgrade that weapon. If your weapon is at max stars, further duplicates are converted into Black/Flame Gold (1 for SR, 10 for SSR) and 120 Black Gold can be redeemed for a dupe of an SSR weapon you already own. 120 Flame Gold can be used to redeem for the limited-time weapon (even if you're unlucky enough to not have one after getting that far).
** Special Orders using Black Nuclei are '''exempt''' from this trope, so it's all entirely up to the RandomNumberGod to determine if you get anything good.

* CoolBigSis: Lin fulfills this role towards Ruby, who also holds her in [[BigSisterWorship high regards.]] The two even share a simulacrum story where Lin asks the Player to help organize a concert for the latter's birthday, just because Ruby admits to sparky that she wishes to go to a concert with Lin.

** Matrix Orders are made with Proofs of Purchase, and come in gold and red variants. They have similar behavior to the nuclei but exchange for matrices instead of weapons. Red proofs are used to exchange for limited-time matrices.

* UndesirablePrize: Claire's Dream Machines reward the player with a wide variety of possible prizes, ranging from Nuclei to Matrices to gear upgrade materials. Sometimes it drops equipment, but only of the blue and green tiers (and rarely purple). While that can be handy for the low-level player, equipment of such quality becomes obsolete incredibly quickly, and the prize pool doesn't update to match the player's expected strength.

* StarterEquipment: You start with the EM Blade in the prologue, pick up the Combat Blades as the Discharge skill combat tutorial, and then the Composite Bow to fully fill out your three loadout slots. They (and the Ice Spear) serve as ComMons in the Special Orders.

* UndergroundMonkey: The lizard-type enemies (including Sobek and Magma) in Aesperia and Vera are copy-cats of each other, with only a few differences in attack animations. The in-verse reason for the similarity is the Aesperia lizard-type enemies are actually robotic versions of the wildlife in Vera.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:To stop the time machine from creating another explosion and to atone for his FaceHeelTurn, Zeke risked his life to shut down the time machine engine but was lost in the time-space as a result. Though there are hints that he is flung to Vera.]]

* SelfDeprecation: Mirroria has its own version of Hotta Studio, who designs in-universe entertainment citizens for its residents. The player can take on a few sidequests where they do part-time work with the staff and help with designing an optional boss. The studio is understaffed and overworked and one of the important skills for employment is translation skills -- it all feels like a huge self-deprecating joke.

** A buff called resonance applies to the player character when equipping certain weapons together, which will dictate their team role. For example, setting two DPS weapons will activate an attack resonance and boosts a player's attack, while setting two defense weapons will activate the fortitude buff that increases the player's defenses, DrawAggro rate, and shield-breaking efficiency.

* ShoutOut: Sometimes, you can find the Hyenas dancing Music/GangnamStyle as an IdleAnimation.

* VisualInnuendo: For some reason, some cacti for exploration points have it and the cactus balls arranged in a way reminiscent of a [[Manga/{{Gintama}} "Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstong Cannon"]].