History VideoGame / Wandersong

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:The straightforward example is the Nightmare King (the corrupted Dream King), and he's the character who receives a health bar during the fight. However, because killing him will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end the world,]] the fight instead revolves around protecting him and stealing Audrey's sword. Thus, the ''real'' final boss is [[KnightTemplar Audrey Redheart.]]]]

[[https://wanderso.ng/ Wandersong]], by Greg Lobanov, is a GenreMashup of a game, containing elements of [[PuzzleGame puzzle games]], [[PlatformGame platformers]], [[AdventureGame adventure games]], and of course, [[RhythmGame rhythm games]].

* PsychoSupporter: Played with, for drama. Miriam, especially in the beginning, [[UnscrupulousHero is quite unscrupulous]]: often trying to compel the Bard to use blunt, violent or even illegal methods, and to ignore the plights of others in favor of the mission. However, even though her methods are in sharp contrast to their AllLovingHero personality, [[spoiler: and would have made it impossible to perform the Earthsong even if they did get all the pieces]], she only does so because she thinks it's the only way to save the world in time, and eventually the fact that her suggestions either get ignored or simply fail to work make her begin to feel useless and unfit to be on what was her big adventure. Helping her work through these feelings eventually cause the two to become the FireForgedFriends they are by the story's end.

* PoisonousFriend: Played with, for drama. Miriam, especially in the beginning, [[UnscrupulousHero is quite unscrupulous]]: often trying to compel the Bard to use blunt, violent or even illegal methods, and to ignore the plights of others in favor of the mission. However, even though her methods are in sharp contrast to their AllLovingHero personality, [[spoiler: and would have made it impossible to perform the Earthsong even if they did get all the pieces]], she only does so because she thinks it's the only way to save the world in time, and eventually the fact that her suggestions either get ignored or simply fail to work make her begin to feel useless and unfit to be on what was her big adventure. Helping her work through these feelings eventually cause the two to become the FireForgedFriends they are by the story's end.

* CaffeineBulletTime: During the voyage in Act 3, the crew decides to egg the Bard into drinking their first cup of coffee. The end result was the Bard passing out till the next day after tossing everyone around with their more boisterous than usual voice, and immediately getting banned from drinking any more coffee.

* MissedTheCall: The Bard is alerted to the universe's impending end by a dream where they are tested by being given The Sword and using it to fight the Angel. They later learn that Audrey had the same dream and they speculate that [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone everyone is given that dream]] as an audition to be The Hero, but either forget it or ignore what it might when they wake up.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder "All the things that you will see, and you certainly will be free, if you wander over yonder, just you and me!"]]'']]

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: The Baron]] is actually the Bard's father. This is actually never directly stated but [[spoiler: he is shown with the Bard's mother during the Wandersong sequence and she later confirms that the bard's father has moved back home. He became a DisappearedDad due to being a workaholic and only when he factory was taken over did he realize he should come home.]]

* PoisonousFriend: Played with, for drama. Miriam, especially in the beginning, [[UnscrupulousHero is quite unscrupulous]]: often trying to compel the Bard to use blunt, violent or even illegal methods, and to ignore the plights of others in favor of the mission. However, even though her methods are in sharp contrast to his AllLovingHero personality, [[spoiler: and would have made it impossible to perform the Earthsong even if they did get all the pieces]], she only does so because she thinks it's the only way to save the world in time, and eventually the fact that her suggestions either get ignored or simply fail to work make her begin to feel useless and unfit to be on what was her big adventure. Helping her work through these feelings eventually cause the two to become the FireForgedFriends they are by the story's end.

* WitchSpecies: In Mohabumi's Witch Academy, Randolph briefly mentions that people in this world are either born with the gift of magic or not, and the answer as to why is unknown to them. It seems to mostly lean towards being within families of witches, as there aren't any witches seen outside of Chaandesh besides Miriam, though whether the gift of magic-wielding comes ''exclusively'' from being passed down from a witch family or there's some degree of it being RandomlyGifted is unclear.

* DawnOfAnEra: [[spoiler:The Bard succeeds in earning the universe a second chance at life, the process leading up to it completely reordering everything; all the extinguished stars are replaced with entirely new galaxies and constellations, the landmarks of the now gone Spirit World exist in the material world and the fairies ascend to replace their Overseers. Delphi is revitalized with the band you started, the mermaids have decided to return and run with the pirates, Chismest is in the works of becoming a center of scientific discovery, Chaandesh and Ruule have ended their war and opened their borders to each other.]]

* FantasticRacism: The Kingdom of Ruule and Witches of Chaandesh despise each other.

* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Everyone in the kingdom of Ruule gets one called a Qin.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Miriam went through an entire act's worth of action to get The Bard out of jail after the King of Ruule imprisoned them, but the Bard was knocked out for the entire event.

* PlayingBothSides: It's not directly stated, but it's clear that Audrey spends most of the Moon Overseer arc playing both sides of the Ruule / Chaandesh war to her advantage - taking a job to rescue the Chaandesh princess from Ruule (who never took her), then, upon arriving, promising to help Ruule win the war. This nets her luxury treatment and the Overseer song in both kingdoms, while she does the bare minimum in return, and the player constantly comes across her basking in it. The Bard technically does this as well to get their Overseer songs, but in contrast actually takes part in trying to improve the lives of the people in the meantime.

** One of the citizens in Ruule has dialogue that's slightly-rewritten from the first verse of ''[[Music/SherylCrow Soak Up the Sun]]''

** After delivering the message of a ghost to the King of Ruule that essentially insulted his character for continuing the war, the King is sensibly furious and the Bard is immediately jailed.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Zig-Zagged. [[spoiler: In the playable epilogue, you come across both people who are either fully aware that the Bard (and by extension Miriam) saved the world, and people who think [[TheChosenOne Audrey]] did it. It mostly skews towards those who know it was the Bard (or those who didn't know either way and only care that the Bard helped them in other ways), largely because Audrey only interacted directly with Ruule and Chaandesh, and the witches of Chaandesh seem capable of sensing that it was the Bard's doing directly. Only a small handful in Ruule express awe for the hero, but among those the Bard remains an unknown.]]

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Earthsong channels the collective will of every living thing in the world. When the Bard sings pieces of it, such as when they make another plea to the monarchs of Chaandesh and Ruule, they sing in a chorus of the kingdom's people pleading for them to end the war and stop further suffering.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: The Baron]] is actually the Bard's father. This is actually never directly stated but [[spoiler: he is shown with the Bard's mother during the Wandersong sequence and she later confirms that the bard's father has moved back home. He became a DissappearedDad due to being a workaholic and only when he factory was taken over did he realize he should come home.]]

* RandomlyGifted: In Mohabumi's Witch Academy, Randolph briefly mentions that people in this world are either born with the gift of magic or not, and the answer as to why is unknown to them. Another student also mentions that different individuals attempting the same thing produce different results.

* BarrierMaiden: The Overseers [[DownplayedTrope downplay]] this with their respective vigil over the different regions of reality near their Nexus Points. Act 1's mayor refers to the Dream King (Langtree's Overseer) as the "spirit protector" of the town, and mentions how Ruby used to sing the Overseer song near the Tree of Slumber (Langtree's Nexus Point) "all the time". However, it's not specifically elaborated what each Overseer protects their native region ''from'' besides general grievances and minor situations like Langtree's ghost problem at the start of Act 1.
** [[spoiler:Played straight in regards to [[RuleOfSeven the seven Overseers]] as a whole. They are the pillars that keep the universe in existence, and their deaths cause discord to take over. The less of them there are, the more adverse effects are applied to reality (mindless and violent monsters begin rampaging, [[TheCorruption the remaining Overseers becoming monsters themselves]] and sometimes [[MookMaker spawning even more monsters]], and [[MergedReality the Spirit World collapsing into the material world]]) until all seven of them die, at which point is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of everything.]]]]

%%* CosmicKeystone:

* ApocalypseHow: On a universal scale.

* AlreadyDoneForYou: In Chapter 3, the Bard is warned of a fearsome monster located on the island. However, [[spoiler:the monster is found in a room, unceremoniously KilledOffscreen by Audrey by the time the Bard arrives.]]

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Zig-Zagged. [[spoiler: In the playable epilogue, you come across both people who are either fully aware that the Bard (and by extension Miriam) saved the world, and people who think [[TheChosenOne Audrey]] did it. It mostly skews towards those who know it was the Bard (or those who didn't know either way and only care that the Bard helped them), largely because Audrey only interacted directly with Ruule and Chaandesh, and the witches of Chaandesh seemed to be capable of sensing that it was the Bard's doing directly. Only a small handful in Ruule express awe for the hero, but among those the Bard remains an unknown.]]

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler:While Bard and Miriam were the ones to save the world (and by extension know the truth behind [[TheChosenOne Audrey]] and her role), Eyala, Saphy and (implicitly) the Spell Squad are likely the only ones who know. Everyone else either believes Audrey was the one to save the world, or they merely thank the Bard for mending their interpersonal issues.]]

* PlayingBothSides: It's not directly stated, but it's clear that Audrey spends most of the Moon Overseer arc playing both sides of the Ruule / Chaandesh war to her advantage - taking a job to rescue the Chaandesh princess from Ruule (who never took her), then, upon arriving, promising to help Ruule win the war. This nets her luxury treatment and the Eversong piece in both kingdoms, while she does the bare minimum in return, and the player constantly comes across her basking in it. The Bard technically does this as well to get their Eversong pieces, but in contrast actually takes part in trying to improve the lives of the people in the meantime.
* PoisonousFriend: Played with, for drama. Miriam, especially in the beginning, [[UnscrupulousHero is quite unscrupulous]]: often trying to compel the Bard to use blunt, violent or even illegal methods, and to ignore the plights of others in favor of the mission. However, even though her methods are in sharp contrast to his AllLovingHero personality, [[spoiler: and would have made it impossible to perform the Eversong even if they did get all the pieces]], she only does so because she thinks it's the only way to save the world in time, and eventually the fact that her suggestions either get ignored or simply fail to work make her begin to feel useless and unfit to be on what was her big adventure. Helping her work through these feelings eventually cause the two to become the FireForgedFriends they are by the story's end.

** Track 16 of the soundtrack includes the same 12 notes as "I'll Be There For You," the theme song from Friends. They're a minor key version to hide them away well.