History VideoGame / YggdraUnison

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* TalkingToHimself: The drama CD features a number of scenes where Luciana and Aegina hold conversations and even speak at the same time, so Fujino Tomoko had a lot of recording to do.

* BalefulPolymorph: The class-switching cards.

* SelfImposedChallenge: [[PacifistRun Don't kill anyone!]] Find Mistel and Nessiah on your first playthrough! [[NintendoHard Form an active party of the five key characters of]] ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' [[NintendoHard (Yggdra, Milanor, Gulcasa, Nessiah, and Kylier) and finish the game with them!]]
** Or conversely, ''[[KillEmAll kill everything]]'' and make it through the game with your original roster.

* NatureAdoresAVirgin: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And so does the Angel Halo]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the original cellphone version, [[SecurityBlanket Nessiah's spellbook]] and clothes could only be found in Gulcasa's territory. In the DS version, Gulcasa's castle is only one of a few possible locations to discover the Revelation... and Nessiah's clothes are still there. [[ShipTease For some unfathomable reason.]]
** The Angel Halo can only be equipped by "pure" people. Whether that means [[IncorruptiblePurePureness literal purity of heart]] or something else is not specified.

** Also, if you're in the mood for some hilarity, have Nessiah fight Gordon and Mardym and watch him pitch his composure out the window.
* BloodKnight: Leon, Gulcasa, Emilia, and many more.

* ChessMotifs: Nessiah ([[MagnificentBastard who else]]?) occasionally speaks in chess metaphors.

* DemotedToExtra: [[{{Narrator}} Nessiah]], Marietta, and Nana-chan in the original; in the remake, Nessiah finally has a role in the story (and is an unlockable player character), but Marietta and #367 still don't even get so much as a mention.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Nessiah]]'s ending. Even as hard as he tried, and as long as he had to wait, it's implied that all that effort was useless from the start.

* TheEeyore: Elena.

* HoYay: Oh good lord, the amount of subtext that some characters get.

* LetsPlay: There's one of Milanor's route in five parts, by feral-phoenix on Livejournal. [[http://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/439084.html It starts here.]] They later wrote about runs with [[https://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/444924.html Yggdra]], [[https://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/450463.html Ortega]], [[https://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/456766.html Emelone]], [[https://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/473295.html Nessiah]], and [[https://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/540717.html Gulcasa]].

%%* ProneToTears: Nessiah. [[http://twitpic.com/3f76hl Yes, really.]]

* TheVamp: Amareus.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Kylier in Milanor's campaign, if you keep her with you.

* VillainBallMagnet: Nessiah.

* YankTheDogsChain: Poor Nessiah.

* FragileFlower: Nessiah. [[http://twitpic.com/3f76hl Yes, really.]]

* RoadCone

** Anyone calling Mistel ObaSan is in for a lot of pain.

* LetsPlay: There's one of Milanor's route in five parts. [[http://feral-phoenix.livejournal.com/439084.html It starts here.]]

* StrangeBedfellows: Ortega continues to boss around poor [[ButtMonkey Inzaghi]].
** For an even straighter example, how about Yggdra and Gulcasa fighting under the same banner?

The year was 2007, and with many of their other projects winding down, StingEntertainment needed something to do. The PSP version of ''[[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera]]'' had been released, and the PSP version of ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' wasn't due out for some time yet. Someone or other had the brilliant idea of doing a different kind of promotion for ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion''--and thus the first incarnation of Yggdra Unison was born.

In both of its incarnations, Yggdra Unison is a non-canonical AlternateUniverse retelling of ''Yggdra Union'' similar to such games as ''Fate/unlimited codes''--it retells the story of the war from a number of possible perspectives, asking "What if so-and-so were the main character?" and introducing many changes to the storyline along the way. For the most part, it also happens to run on RuleOfFunny. There are twelve playable characters--[[BadassPrincess Yggdra]], [[LovableRogue Milanor]], [[AllLovingHero Gulcasa]], [[TechnicalPacifist Emelone]], [[TallDarkAndSnarky Roswell]], [[CuteWitch Rosary]], [[BoisterousBruiser Ortega]], [[FauxAffablyEvil Dort]], [[DirtyCoward Juvelon]], [[KnightInShiningArmor Gordon]], [[CloudCuckoolander Pamela]], and [[FallenAngel Nessiah]].

Happily for fans the world over, Sting announced that a Nintendo DS remake of the game (entitled ''YggdraUnison: Holy Sword Stories'') would be released in December of 2009, featuring a new story mode and various unlockable features. The remake no longer features any cooperative or competitive multiplayer modes, though.

The year was 2007, and with many of their other projects winding down, StingEntertainment needed something to do. The PSP version of ''[[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera]]'' had been released, and the PSP version of ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' wasn't due out for some time yet. Someone or other had the brilliant idea of doing a different kind of promotion for ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion''--and thus the first incarnation of YggdraUnison was born.

Originally a real-time tactical MMO playable on the cellphone, ''YggdraUnison: Beat Out Our Obstacle'' allowed players to take control of any army from ''YggdraUnion'' and engage in competitive battles with opponents all over Japan. Because it was made for the cellphone specifically, [[NoExportForYou the game never left Japan]].

In both of its incarnations, YggdraUnison is a non-canonical AlternateUniverse retelling of ''YggdraUnion'' similar to such games as ''Fate/unlimited codes''--it retells the story of the war from a number of possible perspectives, asking "What if so-and-so were the main character?" and introducing many changes to the storyline along the way. For the most part, it also happens to run on RuleOfFunny. There are twelve playable characters--[[BadassPrincess Yggdra]], [[LovableRogue Milanor]], [[AllLovingHero Gulcasa]], [[TechnicalPacifist Emelone]], [[TallDarkAndSnarky Roswell]], [[CuteWitch Rosary]], [[BoisterousBruiser Ortega]], [[FauxAffablyEvil Dort]], [[DirtyCoward Juvelon]], [[KnightInShiningArmor Gordon]], [[CloudCuckoolander Pamela]], and [[FallenAngel Nessiah]].

See also the pages for ''YggdraUnion'', the main title, and ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'', the prequel following the Imperial Army.

** And in the drama CD, most of the cast that doesn't join the Royal Army in ''YggdraUnion'', along with half of the Imperial Army. The fact that Elena seems to be absent has been met with many complaints from the fanbase.

* HeavySleeper: Good ''lord,'' Nessiah. You'd think he would ''want'' to be awake for the events of this war, [[YggdraUnion considering]], but...

* HiddenDepths: Due to the style of the game, the character traits that couldn't get revealed in ''YggdraUnion'' are brought to light here in various ways.

* PuniPlush: Like in YggdraUnion everyone is extremely cutely drawn with huge eyes.

* SelfImposedChallenge: [[PacifistRun Don't kill anyone!]] Find Mistel and Nessiah on your first playthrough! [[NintendoHard Form an active party of the five key characters of]] ''YggdraUnion'' [[NintendoHard (Yggdra, Milanor, Gulcasa, Nessiah, and Kylier) and finish the game with them!]]

* UnholyHolySword: Since it was a big part of the plot in ''YggdraUnion'', this is both a no-brainer and not taken anywhere near as seriously. Having Nessiah show up and ask Yggdra to give it back (when she's never had reason to question her country's JusticeWillPrevail ideology) can actually be a ''large'' source of HilarityEnsues.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: There are at least ''some'' people who would be happy to help him if he just bothered to ''explain himself,'' but he chooses to laugh at the rest of the world rather than try. ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]] given his background; the way he's been treated, the possibility probably wouldn't occur to him at all.) Also a case of YouDidntAsk.

The year was 2007, and with many of their other projects winding down, StingEntertainment needed something to do. The PSP version of ''[[RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera]]'' had been released, and the PSP version of ''YggdraUnion'' wasn't due out for some time yet. Someone or other had the brilliant idea of doing a different kind of promotion for ''YggdraUnion''--and thus the first incarnation of YggdraUnison was born.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: It's possible to restart any stage at any given time, and if you get a game over, you can do an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Easy Retry]], much like all the other VideoGame/DeptHeaven games thus far. Also, once you manage to unlock Nessiah, he stays awake for all subsequent playthroughs, saving you the trouble of having to search the world for his event trigger again.

See also the pages for ''YggdraUnion'', the main title, and ''BlazeUnion'', the prequel following the Imperial Army.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After you've played through the canon route of ''BlazeUnion'', Gulcasa's path takes on definite elements of this.

* {{Retcon}}: The Imperial Army's likes and dislikes were changed in ''BlazeUnion''; many of the characters are willing to eat things in ''Blaze'' that they wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole in ''Unison'' (for instance, cheese for Emilia, [[CarnivoreConfusion dragon meat]] for Gulcasa, just about everything for Nessiah). This is also the game that first changed Nessiah's elemental affinity to "dark".

** The Gulcasa/Nessiah undertones are pretty pervasive if you look; turns out [[BlazeUnion there's a reason for that]].

In both of its incarnations, YggdraUnison is a non-canonical AlternateUniverse retelling of ''YggdraUnion'' similar to such games as ''Fate/unlimited codes''--it retells the story of the war from a number of possible perspectives, asking "What if so-and-so were the main character?" and introducing many changes to the storyline along the way. For the most part, it also happens to run on RuleOfFunny. There are twelve playable characters--[[BadassPrincess Yggdra]], [[LovableRogue Milanor]], [[TheMessiah Gulcasa]], [[TechnicalPacifist Emelone]], [[TallDarkAndSnarky Roswell]], [[CuteWitch Rosary]], [[BoisterousBruiser Ortega]], [[FauxAffablyEvil Dort]], [[DirtyCoward Juvelon]], [[KnightInShiningArmor Gordon]], [[CloudCuckoolander Pamela]], and [[FallenAngel Nessiah]].

* {{Irony}}: In the other episode II games, Genocide draws power from Gulcasa's teammates to add to his own. In this game, it actually powers him down slightly in order to spread his strength amongst his allies. Yes, it went from running on ThePowerOfFriendship in a [[WebComic/EightBitTheater Black Mage sense of the phrase]] to a weaponization of the concept of TheParagon. This is not [[TheMessiah symbolic of anything]] ''[[BlatantLies at all]].''

* NoExportForYou: ''AAAAAAAAAAAAATLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS!''

* PetTheDog: The way Nessiah treats his soldiers, especially given [[{{Troll}} his usual demeanor]].

* {{Troll}}: Nessiah has Duel Events with nearly every character, and these Duel Events consist of him cheerfully lambasting a good 90% of them. The only exceptions are [[ShipTease Gulcasa]], Pamela, Yggdra ("May I have my sword back?" ''"what"'' "F-fine, then I'll just have to ''take'' it back!"), and [[BerserkButton anyone from Lombardia]].

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: It's possible to restart any stage at any given time, and if you get a game over, you can do an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Easy Retry]], much like all the other DeptHeaven games thus far. Also, once you manage to unlock Nessiah, he stays awake for all subsequent playthroughs, saving you the trouble of having to search the world for his event trigger again.

* BerserkButton: Anyone calling Mistel {{Oba-san}} is in for a lot of pain. Also, if you're in the mood for some hilarity, have Nessiah fight Gordon and Mardym and watch him pitch his composure out the window.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Oh, Nessiah. There are at least ''some'' people who would be happy to help him if he just bothered to ''explain himself,'' but he chooses to laugh at the rest of the world rather than try. ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]] given his background; the way he's been treated, the possibility probably wouldn't occur to him at all.)
** Also a case of YouDidntAsk.