History VideoGame / TowerOfFantasy

* CombatHandFan: Lin's Shadoweave is a huge hand fan capable of generating wind currents in the shape of flowers to attack enemies at long range, can pull enemies together with her discharge, and create a huge field where she can float out of enemy attacks with her skill.

** The limited-time event Zhuyan raid also has an absurd amount of HP that requires mechanics to chip its health down, this causes DPS resonance to become useless and players have to cooperate together as just missing one mechanic is enough to cause a wipe.

** 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.

* TheFourGods: The characters released in 3.0, aside from Lan who released a patch earlier, are based on the Four Gods in Chinese Mythology

** [[spoiler:After the battle in Aesperia, Zeke lost his memory as a side effect of being flung in the space-time continuum. He took up the identity of Ming Jing after finding himself in Domain 9.]]
* AmusementPark: Cetus Island is an Amusement Park on a FloatingContinent and the home of Dr. Claire. It features a rollercoaster, a Ferris wheel, a carousel, and even a firework show during certain times of the day. A claw machine minigame is also available and up to 3 gifts can be acquired here every day.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tsubasa's simulacrum log labels the real one as a friendly person who can get along with anyone, but has a tendency of switching sides as quickly as she joins a group. It's noted she first joined the Hyenas, then ran away to apply for Hykros then backstabbed them after her training to join the Heirs of Aida. Her AI counterpart even questions why her real self can't get attached to anyone and doesn't want to stay in one place.

** Domain 9 is overrun with beings called the Darkness, which are dead people or animals [[CameBackWrong forcefully reanimated]] by the Grayspace Entities to serve as an undead army. While the population is currently holding its own, Ji Yu outright says that they're on borrowed time and their energy supply wouldn't last for a long time unless the invading enemies are dealt with.

* 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. For Limited Banners, Claudia is one of the earliest Limited SSR characters and only made her debut in patch 2.5.

** 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.

** One of the NPCs in Mirroria will tell the player to [[Series/BetterCallSaul "Better call Swall"]] and replicates some lines about bringing (shady) justice as a lawyer from the show.

** Tian Lang is actually the strongest executor in District 7 and is described as Vera's "hidden ace in the hole" just in case Mirroria City faces a crisis. He's also good in business management as he's able to continue funding Mirroria's Nursery despite it's research funds cut off.

* AmnesiacHero: [[PlayerCharacter The Wanderer]] is found by the Heirs of Aida at the end of the tutorial and has their memories wiped. Though they quickly learn their origins as an Executor after visiting Hykros after a few chapters.

** The Aesperia continent, where the reactor in the Tower of Fantasy exploded, has it and the surrounding city completely destroyed and everything is filled with broken-down technology and mutated monsters. The surviving 20% of the population has stripped the planet bare of resources to construct shelters to survive and must heavily rely on their suppressors or cybernetic enhancements to withstand radiation or they will mutate into abberants. The surviving Hykros scientists are more resistant to the radiation, but they [[TimeAbyss never aged a day afterwards in exchange.]]
** Due to the omnium radiation that swept the planet from the explosion, the once lush continent of Vera has been reduced to an arid desert constantly attacked by weird alien beings from "Grayspace", a weird warped version of Vera where tears to it appear all over the continent. The other cities on Vera (the Third City in the depths of the earth and Innis in the depths of the ocean) have been under heavy attack by the alien beings that the Third City is forcefully abandoned and Innars cannot fully establish a habitable environment for civilians, so civilization is now concentrated in the Mirroria capital, with the population shrinking due to the lack of space and resources.

* ToxicPhlebotinum: Omnium is an energy source from the Comet Mara that humans harnessed and researched to help benefit humanity. Unfortunately, scientists realized too late that it is also a radioactive substance that slowly contaminated all the Omnium Towers and gradually spread to the environment, causing a disease where humans and creatures exposed to it will turn violent abberants.

* GuideDangIt: A common criticism from players is the game's flawed user interface. Some menus are nested within menus and the game often does a poor job of explaining certain mechanics (such as how to distribute buffs in Void Rifts or to adjust your role queue before entering any co-op content) which can hinder the experience of an unwitting player.

* PowerFist: Lyra's Vesper weapon is a huge pair of robotic arms floating beside her, and she can dish out respectable damage even if she's a support character.

* BalanceBuff: The 2.4 update (which introduces Lan) would be accompanied by [[https://www.toweroffantasy-global.com/news-detail.html?content_id=63313d77acc6aa4f9ba9989ab91e1e789201 a large slew of changes]] to ease gameplay for solo players and close the power disparity between new and old players:
** New players can now access Vera and combat gear at earlier levels to help them catch up to other players.
** All weapons from the base Special Order banner, including the StarterEquipment, gain significant buffs. Support-type SSR weapons also gain a new "Elemental Benediction" passive that buffs the whole team's elemental attack (corresponding to the weapon type) while their user is in Benediction Resonance.
** The Vitality cap is increased to 360 to reduce the PlayEveryDay pressure.
** The menu interface now gauges which of the player's upgrades are up to standard to guide players along the intended growth curve.
** Resources are easier to obtain -- overworld chests get a higher rate of yielding high-quality equipment, and the same applies for high-level Joint Operations. Raids offer greater Spacetime Dust rewards, and Void Abyss and Origin of War offer additional Vera equipment shards. Spacegates and Dimensional Trials can be instantly completed with a Quick Battle function if you tackle them alone and are at least 5 levels higher than recommended.
** If you've joined a Joint Operation solo or with CS below the recommended level, the game grants you a buff to make it easier to clear the activity.

* {{BFS}}: Meryl's Rosy Edge is almost as big as her body, and she's one of the taller characters in the game.

* BoobsAndButtPose: The first 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. She does a similar pose after the end of the Aesperia storyline.

* CombatMedic: Cocoritter's files state she's been an expert healer ever since she was young and takes her job as a nurse seriously, but she is also capable of defending herself in a fight, unlike the other medical staff who aren't trained in combat.

** The Aesperia continent, where the reactor in the Tower of Fantasy exploded, has it and the surrounding city completely destroyed and everything is filled with broken-down technology and mutated monsters. The surviving 20% of the population has stripped the planet bare of resources to construct shelters to survive and must heavily rely on their supressors or cybernetic enhancements to withstand radiation or they will mutate into abberants. The surviving Hykros scientists are more resistant to the radiation, but they [[TimeAbyss never aged a day afterwards in exchange.]]
** Due to the omnium radiation that swept the planet from the explosion, the once lush continent of Vera has been reduced to an arid desert constantly attacked by weird alien beings from "Grayspace", a weird warped version of Vera where tears to it appear all over the continent. The other cities on Vera (the Third City in the depths of the earth and Innis in the depths of the ocean) have been lost, and civilization is now concentrated in the Mirroria capital, with the population shrinking due to the lack of space and resources.

** Shiro at max advancement has a 100% crit for 8 seconds after casting her skill. Combining it with her skill reset in her A3 when breaking shields, this gives her the best burst and shield shatter for standard weapons.
** Crow's Matrix and playstyle depends on him proccing crits while in the enemies' backside. His A5 advancement even grants a 100% crit chance for the next 4 seconds and increases crit damage by 50% for 10 seconds.

* DanceBattler: Tian Lang's hold skill makes him ''breakdance'' with his spear.

* DiegeticInterface: The screens of Bygone and Sequential Phantasm shows the HUD as this with the player character facing the screen, which becomes a problem as this sometimes causes the [[InterfaceScrew explanation for the dungeon's mechanics to become unreadable.]]
* DifficultButAwesome: Tian Lang's Thunderbreaker sacrifices HP to deal damage whenever a volt skill and discharge activates, and gets an attack bonus [[CriticalStatusBuff the lower the HP is]], requiring players to either perfect dodging enemies to stay alive and/or pair him up with a healer to offset his health drain. But on the hands of a skilled player, one can [[GlassCannon put out insane damage numbers]] and still be nearly unkillable even with minimal investments and no healing weapons.

* 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. There are hints that he was flung to Vera, and thus the player is led there in the 2.0 arc.]]

* 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". Even characters aren't exempt as Tian Lang is called Sirius in the English Dub yet the subtitles show the former.

* 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 [[FoodAsBribe ice cream.]]

* PrayerPose: Lyra's discharge animation shows her praying before spreading her arms while Vesper lets out a AOE attack.

* 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 they are 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.
* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: A serious example. It's revealed in Fenrir's story, messages and the lyrics of ''Chocolate'' that she is [[IronicAllergy allergic 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.]]

** Equipping different combinations of weapons can enable a Resonance that dictates the player's team role. For example, setting two DPS weapons will activate Attack Resonance that increases damage, while setting two defense weapons will activate Fortitude Resonance that increases the player's defenses, DrawAggro rate, and shield-breaking efficiency.

** One of the NPC's in Mirroria will tell the player to [[Series/BetterCallSaul "Better call Swall"]] and replicates some lines about bringing (shady) justice as a lawyer from the show.

** Frontier Clash, Bygone Phantasm, Origin of War, Void Rift/Abyss 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. Twilight zone has a similar timer, but the time limit is [[OverlyGenerousTimeLimit 8 hours]], which is more than enough time to clear up the zone.

** Resources are easier to obtain -- overworld chests get a higher rate of yielding high-quality equipment, and the same applies for high-level Joint Operations. Raids offer greater Spacetime Dust rewards to help with purchasing the newly added eyepiece in the shop. Void Abyss and Origin of War offer additional Vera equipment shards. Spacegates and Dimensional Trials can be instantly completed with a Quick Battle function if you tackle them alone and are at least 5 levels higher than recommended.

** The Couant relic is the most recommended relic for many players as it creates a shield for 5 seconds that can absorb decent damage. Once it breaks, it provides many buffs(speed increase, final damage increase, damage reflection, decreasing enemy speed) at maximum advancements while only having a half-minute cooldown.

* RelationshipValues: Giving gifts to the Simulacra you've unlocked will increase their Affinity, which at first unlocks their avatar and then enables automated side conversations that expand on their character. At 1200 Affinity you unlock a Simulacrum trait, which is an additional passive that you can toggle (without needing to use that Simulacrum skin), and 4000 Affinity upgrades their associated trait.

* RobotBuddy: Mi-a is Shirli's robot assistant who explains that it was found in one of the ruins. Mi-a later becomes the player's travel companion after her owners leave the shelter.

** Equipping different combinations of weapons can enable a Resonance that dictates their team role. For example, setting two DPS weapons will activate Attack Resonance that increases damage, while setting two defense weapons will activate Fortitude Resonance that increases the player's defenses, DrawAggro rate, and shield-breaking efficiency.

* ShrinkingViolet: It's not very obvious but under her cool and calm exterior, Meryl is actually so shy that she has a hard time communicating with other people. Unfortunately, her frosty attitude and way of fighting also made it hard for others to relax around her and many prefer to distance from her instead.

** 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 Crew level to unlock better perks like a more diverse Crew Store inventory. If you enter Frontier Clash you also get a stacking damage buff for each crewmate in your party.

** Lan's weapon, when out of combat, can generate a floating parasol within a certain range of your character. Using her out-of-combat skill (which has a very short cooldown) lets you teleport to that parasol, increasing your movement options in addition to the Relics you can use.

* AntiPoopSocking: In addition to FreemiumTimer and PlayEveryDay mechanics, the early stages of the game likes to control the player's progression:

** If a player rushes the story too quickly, they'll also find that the game outright timegates its Aesperia story chapters, which will only become available when your account is certain hours old. This last bit also means that players who joined later are still forced to wait through the time-gate instead of being allowed to rush through the story to catch up with the playerbase. These time-gates are not present for the Vera chapters and later.

* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler: Ruby is discovered to be part-human and part Grayspace Entity and the only successful result of Project Listener, an experiment trying to fuse Grayspace Entities with human genetics.]]
* ArtificialGill: The access to the city of Innars is only available once Icarus provides the player character with one of these, and this allows one to freely explore the entirety of the Grand Sea.

* ButtMonkey: Shelly usually gets the short end of the stick whenever she appears, like how her favorite stall ran out of food after sneaking out of work and burning her tongue and being forced to working one month free in Lin's trailer.

* CombatMedic: Cocoritter's files states she's an expert healer ever since she was young and takes her job as a nurse seriously, but she is also capable defending herself in a fight unlike the other medical staff who aren't trained in combat.

* CompanyCameo: Hotta Studio's logo is usually splashed on screens around Aesperia. They also have an in-universe version of their studio located in Mirroria City beside the Oasis Club, and the player character can join them as a temporary worker helping the overworked employees in designing boss monsters before the deadline.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Once the Dragon Breath Volcano far beneath Innars erupts, the area lights up in active lava flows, and trying to revisit the place subjects you to a deadly DamageOverTime effect due to the heat, and you need to finish a newly-unlocked sidequest to be able to survive the depths. However, you don't have this problem with the lava flow in the Great Trench in Innars.

** The Aesperia continent, where the reactor in the Tower of Fantasy exploded, has it and the surrounding city completely destroyed and everything is filled with broken down technology and mutated monsters. The surviving 20% of population has stripped the planet bare of resources to construct shelters to survive and must heavily rely on their supressors or cybernetic enhancements to withstand radiation or they will mutate into abberants. The surviving Hykros scientists are more resistant to the radiation, but they [[TimeAbyss never aged a day afterwards in exchange.]]

* 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). Early on, after Shirli's suppressor breaks when she's attacked by an Aberrant, Zeke considers killing her himself. He can't go through with it and instead turns to the Sage to help save her life.

* VideoGameDashing: Players have 3 dashes that charge up after each use that allows players to sprint and dodge enemy attacks. Dodging an attack with proper timing triggers [[BulletTime Phantasia]] to slow enemies and supercharge your weapons' charge meters.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Heirs of Aida aim to cause a massive planet-wide time retracement to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the Cataclysm by halting Omnium research from the get-go.]] However, they do this without giving consideration for the humans who have adjusted to the post-Cataclysm environment, and they also have not considered the consequences of a second failed time retracement. In the Affinity conversations with Frigg's Simulacrum, the player character goes into a long tirade against the Heirs about their misguided goals.

* PowerCreep: While an inevitable element of the genre, it's much more blatant in the original Chinese version, where the latest Limited banner weapon will be far stronger than everything else, even other Limited weapons. The Global release has tried to downplay this by reducing he numbers advantage of the latest hot weapon, but the effects are still visible -- for instance, Fiona is a fair bit stronger than Lin even though both share the same role of flexible buff support.

* GhostCity: [[spoiler:The Third City in the Confounding Abyss was planned to be an expansion for the increasing population in Mirroria, but the sudden Grayspace Alien attacks and the missing surveillance teams forced the higher ups to seal the entrance. Once the player explores the area, only the ruins and a few malfunctioning droids are left.]]

* 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 [[FoodAsBribe ice cream.]]

** 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.
** Lyra's Vesper is a support weapon but her weapon passives changes depending if she is in the Benediction Resonance or not, allowing her to work with all resonance types while still supporting the team with her shields.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Frigg's Simulacrum has the most antagonistic interactions with the player character -- naturally, since they are on opposing factions -- but occasional messages received at higher Affinity shows that Frigg occasionally still cares for the well-being of the player character and her fellow Angel Nemesis.

* LightningGun: Samir's Dual EM Stars shoots out electrical energy instead of bullets and she can shock enemies by firing an electrical field.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Crow's messages shows that he immediately developed a crush on Shiro. In the next message, it's revealed he made a fool of himself by approaching and making cat noises to her, which Shiro doesn't really appreciate.

* NighInvulnerability: 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.

* AbilityRequiredToProceed: Some ruins grant you Relics that are necessary to complete it the first time you do them, mostly the ones you do early on.

** The 2.5 update adds the Dimension Level, which dictates the strength of overworld enemies, to address the disproportionate level scaling mechanic. Now, the player can manually adjust the strength of overworld enemies, and the game gives CS recommendations so that they don't bite off more than they can chew. It's cathartic to curb-stomp level 10 enemies with your level 90 character, but [[HardModePerks increasing the overworld difficulty]] is incentivized with better chest drops and one-time bonuses for cranking up to certain thresholds.

* DifficultButAwesome: Tian Lang's Thunderbreaker sacrifices HP points to deal damage whenever a volt skill and discharge activates, and gets a attack bonus [[CriticalStatusBuff the lower the HP is]], requiring players to either perfect dodging enemies to stay alive and/or pair him up with a healer to offset his health drain. But on the hands of a skilled player, one can [[GlassCannon insane damage numbers]] and still be nearly unkillable even with minimal investments and no healing 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 gives 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 level 70 Raid pits the party against two copies of Nemesis in the same arena. They must first be separated because if both bosses are too close to each other they will heal rapidly. Defeating one will cause the other to become more aggressive but at least the defeated boss stays down.
** The Carnival Party Joint Operation will have players facing against the first two bosses again after the rhythm game.

* EmptyLevels: Your character's levels contribute little to your combat strength and are instead a limiter for the content you can experience and the extent to which you can upgrade your weapons and gear. However, this means that when the game gives new players a large experience boost to get them to catch up with the level cap without accounting for their equipment strength, the player will feel ''weaker'' for leveling up as enemy strength begins to outpace their own.

* LimitBreak: After dealing enough damage with any of your weapons, you will gain access to a "Discharge" attack that will be unleashed the next time you switch to a different one.

* NewWorkRecycledGraphics: Many aspects in the Vera region, particularly the Grayspace entities and the Confounding Abyss map, have their models reused from another unreleased PWG game called [[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rh411U7Pq/ Project Prism.]]

** The boss theme shared by the Interdimensional Frostfire Dragon and Valkyrie features plenty of foreboding chanting, fitting for the two hardest bosses.

* PowerCreep: While an inevitable element of the genre, the strength of limited-time characters in the original Chinese version has blatantly eclipsed those of the standard characters. The Global release downplays the trope by reducing the damage and modifier numbers of limited-release characters so that the evergreen ones still have viability.

* PremiumCurrency:
** The main currency for the item store and "Special Orders" uses Dark Crystals, and this can be earned by exploring every single map, opening chests and supply pods, weekly missions, events, and the in-game gachapon. Like every other gacha games, they can also be bought with real money alongside Tanium.
** Players can only acquire Tanium by purchasing it with real money. This can be converted into Dark Crystals, acquire premium outfits, or purchase red nucleus packs in the item shop.

* BonusFeatureFailure: The "Build Mode" in Artificial Island gave players the impression that they'd develop their own private base with the opportunity to craft their own SSR Matrices, but in reality, it's a very un-involved side mode where you gather exclusive resources to develop the same set of buildings, and you have a minuscule chance to get the Matrix you're trying to craft.

** 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.

* VideoGameDashing: Players have 3 dashes that charge up after each use that allows players to sprint, dodge enemy attacks then counterattack, and have a chance to activate [[BulletTime Phantasia]] to slow enemies.

* WalkOnWater: Maxing Meryl's Simulacrum trait will allow the use of the Frosted trait, freezing the air around her and will even freeze water if swimming, allowing players to walk on water.

* 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 it can be handy for the low-level players, equipment of such quality becomes obsolete incredibly quickly, and the prize pool doesn't update to match a high-level player's expected strength.

** Lan's weapon, when out of combat, can generate a floating parasol within a certain range of your character. Using her skill (which has a very short cooldown) lets you teleport to that parasol, increasing your movement options in addition to the Relics you can use.

** Another zone called Twilight Zone was later added, and like Grayspace, is a DarkWorld version of Vera that is in eternal night and has different mechanics for exploration.

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

* 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. For Limited Banners, Claudia only appeared in her trailer and hasn't debuted in the story yet.

* PuppeteerParasite: [[spoiler:It turns out that Abyssant:Jormungandr has the ability to control humans, as she was able to take over Umi's body and sabotage outpost 10. Unfortunately, it did such a poor job hiding it's actions that Lin and Tian Lang were able to figure out that "Umi" was the one who caused the attack.]]

** One of the NPC's in Mirroria will tell the player to [[Series/BetterCallSaul "Better call Swall".]] and replicates some lines about bringing (shady) justice as a lawyer from the show.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Many generic [=NPCs=] share the same model which gets really noticeable in Vera, where you can see the models in every building.

* RulesAreForHumans: Several bosses, especially Void Abyss bosses, do not obey the Phantasm rules and can move unhindered in the time-slowing bubble. Other enemies have attacks that will not trigger Phantasm even if you dodge them.

* LuckBasedMission: Trying to min-max your gear involves a lot of randomness when you examine the minutiae. Equipment pieces randomly drop from Joint Operation chests, and you'll need to hope you get the one for the slot you want. Then, each piece of equipment comes with four stats, randomly determined. When you upgrade their star rating, the game randomly picks between which stat gets a bonus, and even there, the increment has some variation, so even when everything goes your way and a single stat receives all the upgrades, you have a chance of low-rolling the boost. Most players would just opt to make the best of what they have rather than go the extra mile to get the biggest numbers.

* BalanceBuff: The 2.4 update (which introduces Lan) would be accompanied by [[https://www.toweroffantasy-global.com/news-detail.html?content_id=63313d77acc6aa4f9ba9989ab91e1e789201 a large slew of changes]] to ease gameplay and close the power disparity between players:

** Resources are easier to obtain -- overworld chests get a higher rate of yielding high-quality equipment, and the same applies for high-level Joint Operations. Raids offer greater Spacetime Dust rewards to help with purchasing the newly added eyepiece in the shop. Void Abyss and Origin of War offer additional Vera equipment shards. Spacegates and Dimensional Trials can be instantly completed with a Quick Battle function.

* 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. She does a similar pose after the end of the Aesperia storyline.

** Inverted with the "Skilled Pioneer", "Expert Pioneer", and "Master Pioneer" achievements, which require the player spend 300, 800, and 1000 minutes in a game session. That's 5, 13 and 16 hours respectively, but at least you can be AFK.

* NewWorkRecycledGraphics: Many aspects in the Vera region, particularly the Grayspace entities and the Confounding Abyss map, have their models reused from another unreleased PWG game called [[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rh411U7Pq/ Project Prism.]]
* NewWorkRecycledGraphics: Many aspects in the Vera region, particularly the Grayspace entities and the Confounding Abyss map, have their models reused from another unreleased PWG game called [[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rh411U7Pq/ Project Prism.]]

* XRaySparks: If your character takes [[ShockAndAwe Volt]] damage, this will happen to them.

** All the Standard SR and SSR weapons gain significant buffs. Support-type SSR weapons also gain a new "Elemental Benediction" passive that buffs the whole team's elemental attack (corresponding to the weapon type).

** For Sadness Valley, it's possible to dash-glide from the starting platform all the way to the boss, bypassing all trash mobs. This is made easier with Alyss's dash ability.

** 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 that increases damage, while setting two defense weapons will activate the fortitude buff that increases the player's defenses, DrawAggro rate, and shield-breaking efficiency.
** Certain weapons have an elemental resonance passive that grant a bonus to its element (and enable other skill effects) if you also have a weapon of the same element in your loadout.

** 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 Frontier Clash with your crewmates, you also get a stacking damage buff for each crewmate in your party.

* SocketedEquipment: Matrices, that can be attached to weapons, add additional stats from damage to wielder HP increase.

* ThemeNaming: A few minibosses are named after a few figures in Greek Mythology. Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Vera are named after the Gorgon sisters and the minibosses in Warren are named after the 12 original Titans.

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