Line #105 VideoGame/Unlight


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4	[[caption-width-right:341:Pictured: Abel, the resident {{BFS}} wielder. Not pictured: the other 60+ characters]]
5	->''Wake up. Wake up.''
6	-> ''My avidyā child.''
7	-> ''Now I give you a mission.''
8	-> ''My rage shall burn the world.''
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10	'''''Unlight''''' is a Facebook CardBattleGame by the Japan-based developer Glozcus. ''The Saint of Flame'' in the Roaring Mountain is seeking a chance for revenge. She organizes an [[NightOfTheLivingMooks army of dead]] warriors (and [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits musicians, doctors, scientists...]]) who were killed in the Mundane World and are now wondering souls in the Underworld. The Saint proceeds with the army to undertake the world she hates.
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12	[[PlayerCharacter You]] as a Saint's Child assists the cause by gathering those warriors strewn across the SteamPunk GothicHorror world and help them retrieve their lost memories. Hopefully, they will be able not only to understand the mistakes they and others made but also eventually [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnate]] so they can change the world directly for the better as Agents of the Saint.
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14	Notable gameplay elements include:
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16	* Character Cards: At the core of each deck are up to three characters with their own status and skills. Each character card has a level of up to 5 and can be upgraded to a higher level by collecting lower-level cards and, for Rare and Rebirth cards, fragments. Rare cards give out stories and Rebirth cards signify that the character has reincarnated.
17	* Combat: Combat starts with the drawing of cards from a shared deck (the content depends on the field of battle). The first phase is Move Phase, where players can move their characters using Move Cards to position their active character. Next comes the Attack and Defense Phase, where the active characters take turns attacking (using Sword Cards in close range or Gun Cards in medium and far ranges). The cards are generally double-sided; you can use up all the cards as attack cards, for example, but if they had defense on the other side, you won't have much to defense yourself with.
18	In each of these phases, characters can activate their skills if they have the proper range and cards.
19	* It's "[[CollectibleCardGame collectible]]": You assemble decks out of your personal collection of cards, categorized to characters, events, and equipments. You can earn these cards by buying them from the store, finishing quests and duels, or drawing cards using Rare Tickets. Be careful not to exceed the deck cost or you won't be able to duel with other players.
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21	The official ''Unlight'' Facebook page can be found [[https://www.facebook.com/UnlightAsia here]]. There are currently five active servers: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and International.
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23	!!This game provides examples of:
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26	* AerithAndBob: Mary, Max, and Hugo fight along with Alicetaria, Noichrome, and Evarist.
27	* AlphaStrike: The player can choose to use up all their cards during the Attack Phase, rendering them unable to defend during the Defend Phase. Some character skills encourage this as they grant bonus damage by using up more cards. Sheri's Let's Knife is probably the most prominent one. Probably counts as DeathOrGloryAttack on certain circumstances.
28	%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: Florence, Salgado, Millian, and Leta.
29	%%* AnimatedArmor: A quest enemy type.
30	* AntidoteEffect: The pricey Holy Water can become obsolete if you have characters that can remove StatusEffects, such as Marseus or C.C..
31	* AntiPoopSocking: There's an Action Point (AP) system in place that only lets player commence on quests or duels if they have sufficient number of AP. AP regenerates over time or by consuming items.
32	%%* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit
33	* ArmorPiercingAttack: Several skills let the characters deal direct damage, like Browning's third skill.
34	%%* ArtificialHuman: Sheri, Donita, Stacia, and Redgrave.
35	* ArtificialStupidity: While not overly so, they tend to make less than stellar judgments in using their cards.
36	* AscendedExtra: The Acolytes started as characters tending the game facilities.
37	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The characters who were high-ranking authorities when they were alive.
38	* AttackReflector: Ayn's Body Double move, though it inflicts half of the damage she gets instead.
39	* AwesomeButImpractical: Skills needing complex combination of cards or other prerequisites.
40	** Depends on the area. In areas with low-number action cards, characters like Marseus suffer. While characters like Dino, Max, and Nadine flourish instead. And vice versa.
41	%%* AutoRevive: Higher-leveled Sheri and Donita.
42	%%* AwfulTruth: The lost memories are not always pleasant ones...
43	%%* BadassAdorable: Nenem, Mary, Voland...
44	%%* BadassLongcoat: Several examples.
45	%%* BatOutOfHell: The bat-type enemies.
46	%%* BattleButler: Blau.
47	%%* BearsAreBadNews: Orang has a chance to be this.
48	%%* TheBeastmaster: Palmo. Also Kronig to a lesser degree.
49	%%* {{BFS}}: Abel carries an impressive one.
50	%%* BloodMagic: Sheri
51	%%* BodyDouble: ExactWords of Ayn's second skill.
52	* BoringButPractical: Straightforward characters with easy requirements for their skills. A lot of starter characters are like this, including Evarist, Izac, and Abel.
53	* BossBattle: During quests, you need to fight the boss before you can advance to the next area.
54	* BribingYourWayToVictory: Players can buy items and Rare Tickets using real-life money to help them, but the factor of luck still plays a big part.
55	%%* CardBattleGame
56	* CastFromHitPoints: Sheri is the most prominent example, using her own HP to deal a lot of damage. Nenem also relies on this, but with her team mates' hit points instead. Thankfully, she can also heal them.
57	** Noichrome also attacks using her team mates' HP.
58	** Mary's lets her draw more cards.
59	** Rosso, Marseus, and Cobb also have skills that use up their HP.
60	%%* CatFolk: Zodiac people
61	%%* CheerfulChild: Mary, Nenem, and Leta.
62	%%* ClassyCatBurglar: Hugo.
63	* CombatMedic: Nenem, who ''drains'' her team mates' HP to deal a lot of damage. She can also heal, but not as well as Walken.
64	* ComebackMechanic: Certain skills hit harder when your character has less HP or is inflicted with a status effect.
65	** Evelyn's Scarlet Garnet skill lets her cast off the debuffs she likely earned if she used her skills.
66	** Schillerlee's Retaliation quadruples the damage received last turn by the party.
67	* CounterAttack: Skills that let you damage the opponent if you get damaged yourself.
68	%%* CriticalStatusBuff
69	%%* DamageIncreasingDebuff
70	%%* DamageOverTime
71	%%* DifficultButAwesome
72	%%* DudeLooksLikeALady: Kuhn, Kronig, and more.
73	%%* EyesAlwaysShut: Linnaeus.
74	* FacialMarkings: Cobb's face tattoo.
75	* Fanservice: Some cards' illustration is just plainly designed to be sexy or cute.
76	%%* FighterMageThief: Some characters fit into this mold, yet others defy classification.
77	** Fighter: Abel, Konrad, Izac, Evarist, Rosso, and so on.
78	** Mage: Mary, Evelyn, and a lot of characters reliant on the Special cards.
79	** Thief: Jead and Hugo.
80	%%* FlavorText: For character, equipment, and item cards.
81	%%* ForcedTransformation: Marguerite's fate.
82	%%* GambitPileup
83	* GenderBlenderName: Karenberg and Evarist, known to the fandom as Karen and Eva.
84	%%* GenkiGirl: Leta.
85	%%* GlassCannon
86	%%* GothicHorror: It's in the description.
87	%%* GreyAndGreyMorality
88	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Izac and Evarist.
89	%%* HitPoints
90	%%* HospitalHottie: Walken and grown-up Nenem.
91	%%* KnightTemplar
92	%%* LadyLooksLikeADude: Schillerlee.
93	%%* LaserGuidedAmnesia
94	%%* LightIsNotGood: Bellinda
95	* LittleMissBadass:
96	** Nenem, whose bonus attack and CastFromHitPoints skills can greatly damage enemy with minimal set up.
97	** Mary, whose attacking skill can sextuple her attack dice while the defense skill can reduce enemy's attack to ''zero''.
98	** Evelyn, who can both damage and defense a great deal with the cost of being debuffed. Level her up enough and she can get rid of the debuffs while healing herself.
99	** Redgrave, a highly offensive ArtificialHuman who can also heal herself.
100	** Leta, a martial artist equipped with a spear.
101	%%* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Blaise.
102	%%* MadScientist: [[spoiler: Marguerite]]
103	%%* MagicalGirl: Mary.
104	** Evelyn is a darker example.
105	%%* MagikarpPower: As characters get stronger by leveling up their cards or upgrading them to Rare/Rebirth cards, this is to be expected.
106	%%* MakingASplash: Ideriha.
107	* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Multiple examples, as straightforward characters and skills get too numerous, the developers add these to innovate.
108	* MirrorMatch: The game lets the same characters face each other.
109	%%* MusicalAssassin: Karenberg.
110	%%* {{Ninja}}: Ashura
111	%%* OvernightAgeUp: Nenem's first skill.
112	%%* PowerCopying: Gregor.
113	* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: You can't put the same character in your deck at the same time, even if they're of different levels. Averted with the opponent's deck though, you can make the same characters face each other.
114	%%* OneHitKO: If you're lucky enough with the dice.
115	** Stacia's fourth skill also invokes this.
116	* PlayingWithFire: Riesz, extending to make his sword a FlamingSword
117	* PowerCopying: Gregor's specialty. Not only can he adds the opponent's stats to his base Attack and Defense, he can outright steal his opponent's skill if he has his fourth skill.
118	* PowerEqualsRarity: Subverted. Other than event-only characters, anyone can get Rare cards with a bit of luck and a TON of effort.
119	* PowerMakeover: The Rebirth character cards have new, usually more modern, looks.
120	%%* QuadDamage: Palmo's specialty.
121	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A hardy knight templar, a very young magical girl, and a panda can fight alongside each other.
122	%%* RedOniBlueOni: Izac and Evarist and Dino and Ideriha are the most prominent examples. Others are more arguable, such as Sheri and Donita.
123	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Queen Alicetaria and Prince Grun.
124	%%* SacrificialRevivalSpell: Nenem's level 4 skill.
125	%%* ScaryLibrarian: Salgado.
126	%%* ScrewDestiny: Jead's characterization.
127	* {{Shadowland}}: There's even an area called Shadowland.
128	* ShoutOut: Linnaeus' name is a reference to Carl Linnaeus, the pioneer of binomial nomenclature.
129	%%* SiblingYinYang: Friedrich and Bernhard.
130	* SignificantWardrobeShift: The Rebirth version of the characters comes with a more modern look.
131	* SkillGateCharacters: Starter characters are simple, but others need careful attention to zoning, teammates, specialized counters, cards on deck and hands, and even whether or not characters' HP is a prime number.
132	* StatusEffects:
133	** Poison, Paralyze, Seal, Fear, Berserk, Stun, Attack, Defense, and Move down.
134	** Disability, Wilhelm's and Evelyn's forte, which decreases their Attack and Defense.
135	* StatusBuff:
136	%%** Attack, Defense, and Move Up
137	%%** Immortality
138	** Palmo's Stigma, which increases her Attack and Defense by one point each and needed to unlock some of her Skills' full potential.
139	%%** Eureka's Critical is also similar.
140	** Konrad specializes in this, either doubling his Attack or Defense.
141	** Stacia's Killer Mode, Nenem's Milk Drink, and Gregor's Miracle Squash increase their status but are not represented as status buffs (and therefore cannot be dispelled).
142	%%* StatusBuffDispel: Marseus' second skill.
143	%%* SteamPunk
144	%%* StoneWall: Millian, Leta, Ada, and Florence.
145	%%* {{Stripperiffic}}: Stacia.
146	* TakingYouWithMe:
147	** Sheri's first skill lets her use all her remaining HP to unleash a powerful attack.
148	** Cobb's Swan Song skill reduces both his and the opponent's HP to one.}
149	* TheMedic: Certain characters can be played this way, with Walken as the most prominent example.
150	** Luka is the second most obvious example. Nenem, a nurse, is more of a CombatMedic.
151	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Depends on the dice roll, you might deal 20 damage to a character who has only 1 HP left.
152	%%* TookALevelInBadass: Rare cards, Level 5 cards, and Rebirth cards.
153	%%* TroubledChild: Voland, Jead, Evelyn, Gregor, and Sprout.
154	** Since they're all dead children in an undead army, perhaps all the children count.
155	* UnskilledButStrong: Mary's Dream Wand needs no setup and very simple cards but might deal up to sextuple the number of attack dice.
156	%%* WillOTheWisp: Another enemy type.
157	%%* {{Wolfman}}
158	* YouWontFeelAThing: Nenem's pre-battle quote.
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