Ge.ne.sis is a Turn-Based Strategy game with RPG Elements available to play via Adobe Flash. Ge.ne.sis can be found here
and here.
A teenage girl named Neraine wakes up to a strange world that's like a dream. The statue next to her comes to life and she's greeted by the woman who introduces herself as the High Priestess. However, while she's talking to the High Priestess, Neraine gets attacked by a stange wolf like creature. The High Priestess gives her weapons and aids her in the fight. The fight ensues and afterwards, the High Priestess vows to stay by her side as Neraine sets off on her mysterious journey.
The next game, Wings of Ge.ne.sis, is a Spin-Off/Genre Shift to a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter. You can play it here, and it also has a guide.
A third game, named Into the Rabbit Hole, is in development. Details about the game can be found here.
Tropes found in this game include:
- Action Girl: Neraine and Sisily. The former is a Kill It with Ice expert who has no problem swinging two giant ice blades around, while the latter is a Glass Cannon that can hit incredibly hard with her sky-high magic.
- An Adventurer Is You: The characters' abilities tend toward a few different endgame builds:
- All in a Row: Neraine is followed by the other characters in the party.
- Armor-Piercing Attack:
- The Death's Iron Maiden skill, which ignores defense.
- Gelyan's Armor Crusher skill actually deals more damage the higher the opponent's defense is.
- Artifact of Doom: The Fate Diary. It rewrites the past, but it does so in such a manner that it accelerates the Apocalypse.
- Big Bad: Reciful in the main storyline.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory:
- Sisily's second tarot card, The Lovers, is unlocked by donating to the game creator.
- Wings of Genesis also has extra content obtained via donation. In this case, it's the possibility to play as Esis. She can't use a spirit beast, but doesn't need it at all.
- BFS: Neraine, Sisily, and The High Priestess's swords.
- Cast from Hit Points: Gelyan's Soul Pact. Soulbursts are extreme versions of this; they reduce the Tarot's HP to zero, but are extremely useful.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Sisily.
- Chained by Fashion: The Hanged Man.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Gelyan. He first backstabs Neraine and Sisily, then backstabs Reciful, and it only continues from there in Wings of Ge.ne.sis.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: A lot of the characters' outfits reflect their element and/or personality. Elements are also named by their color (I.E. Yellow is basically electric attacks, Blue is ice, and Red is fire.)
- Crutch Characters: Almost every single Tarot. They're very useful during the beginning where you have few playable characters and abilities, but once you get four abilities for everyone and optimize your stat distribution, most of them fall behind your main characters in terms of direct combat power, relegating them to support duty. Emi shares a similar fate, generally being used as battery character in the endgame.
- Dark Is Not Evil: The Death, who, despite being a Duel Boss preceded by a Badass Boast about the inevitability and fear people have of death, still fights for Neraine's side once defeated.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: The Death and The Hanged Man, who both join as Tarots once defeated.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Gelyan tries to do this with Nera, with limited results.
- The Ditz: Sisily, who is even called a ditz in the Wings of Genesis guide.
- Dual Wielding: Nera seems to LOVE Dual Wielding. In Wings of Genesis, she Dual Wields a pair of large ice bayonettes! In a Side Scrolling Shoot 'Em Up.
- Duel Boss: Gelyan and Neraine face The Hanged Man and The Death alone respectively. Fortunately, they're both a case of Optional Boss. Can also be subverted if Neraine and Gelyan summon their tarots, turning the battle into a 2v1 in the player's favor.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors (featuring Fire, Ice, Lightning in the form of Red, Blue and Yellow Natures): Every attack has an element, every character has varying weaknesses and resistances. The two 'unique' Natures are Black, which represents physical damage, and White, which represents non-elemental damage.
- Elite Tweak: Nera can gain str from her magic, str gives her higher hp than the norm, the ability that gives her str from her magic stat also heals her by truckloads, and she has high agililty and gains more from it, do the math. Gely similarly, should be built with high endurance, letting him use his Cast from Hit Points ability to hit like 3 houses.
- Face–Heel Revolving Door: Gelyan shifts between "bahaha, I've betrayed you!" to "oh, right, it was to prevent the destruction of the time stream" to "I don't really care what I'm doing, I'm just BORED!"
Yep. We wish we were making this up. In Wings of Genesis, Gely is back to doublecrossing everyone again when he's not making horrible attempts to flirt with every female cast member. - Flat Character: Very, very few characters get any development and are rather shallow to begin with, unfortunately. Of course, given the whimsical nature of the fantasy world, and the surprisingly robust gameplay, one could argue that this is not necessarily a bad thing.
- Genki Girl: Sisily is this, with her childish attitude towards things and outlandish tendencies.
- Genre Shift: From Ge.Ne.Sis: Down the Road of Tales, a tactical RPG, to Wings of Genesis, a Shoot 'Em Up.
- Genre Savvy: Gelyan knows exactly why the Bandits' cave starts shaking once Nera touches the Fate Diary.Gelyan: Neraine, get away from the book!
Neraine: What, an earthquake?
Gelyan: According to popular cliches, when somebody enters a treasure cave and touches something they're not supposed to, the cave collapses! - Grim Reaper: The Tarot Death.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Emi.
- Guide Dang It!: Finding good stat builds for characters in some cases. Possibly also the Holy Egg. The reason for this is that if the "clock" on it is at a certain point, its resistances block either physical or magical attacks. It is not apparenty why, but the hands move based on the time of the player's computer (so it changes resistances the first round it gets when the time is either XX:30 or XX:00)
- Guile Hero : Gelyan.
- Handsome Lech: The only male main character is Gelyan... And he takes advantage of this fact by hitting on everyone. Lampshaded by Reciful, who complains about Gelyan bringing back a harem.
- Heel–Face Turn: Judging from the Wings of Genesis ending, Reciful will make one eventually.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Reciful has a ton of HP and 50% of the damage your characters deal to him is automatically dealt right back. Defeating him results in a glitch.
- An Ice Person: Nera, the High Priestess, and The Hanged Man.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: All over the place. Nera's twin ice BFSs, Gelyan's gun, Sisily's BFS with a circular...chainsaw...thing... And that's only for the heroes, during the first game. The second one ups the ante with stuff like Nera's dual ice bayonettes.
- It Amused Me: Pretty much the only reason Gelyan does anything.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Neraine. Her two choices in a dialogue prompt is "Fine, fine! Stop bugging me!" and "No! Not now! We have other stuff to do!", but she will do what is right, and she objects to Gelyan's attempt to finish the bandits off.
- Light 'em Up: The Lovers.
- Lovable Traitor: Gelyan.
- Meaningful Name:
- Gelyan, Neraine, Sisily. Also, Reciful (Lucifer).
- The mysterious white-haired girl who appears near the end of the main storyline has a brother named Gen, while her name is Esis.
- Mr. Exposition: Gelyan after the Fate Diary is obtained. He goes into detail about alternate timelines, the Apocalypse, and so on.
- Mr. Fanservice: Gelyan seems to be turning into this, judging by Into the Rabbit Hole concept art; his outfit now consists of a sleeveless shirt and shorts.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Gelyan betrayed his "friends" to attempt to destroy an artifact... That they were trying to (and failing to) destroy anyway. Then, he hands it over to his other friend who tries to destroy the Multiverse excluding one.
- Non-Elemental: Gelyan, The Fool, and The Death, who all have Black natures.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Gelyan in the first half of the game, who even hides the fact that he can summon a Tarot.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Reciful comes close. He wants to destroy every single universe except his own.
- The One Guy: Gelyan
- Opening the Sandbox: The game helpfully tells you that several side-quests become available after Gelyan joins you again.
- Playing with Fire: Sisily and the Magician. The former can use Fiery Flowers to blast enemies with Red damage, while the latter has Flame Rush, Flame Fury and Meteor Strike. The Magician can also be Soulburst to cast Solar Wrath, a massively damaging Red attack to all the enemies.
- Point Build System: And gods help you if you mess it up; you only get one chance to reset a single character's attributes — and you have three characters.
- Poor Communication Kills: Gelyan, it wasn't necessary to betray them, ya know...
- Prehensile Hair: A variation: Emi flaps her gigantic ponytails to fly.
- Pride: The official game guide says that Gelyan is very haughty and arrogant.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Three quarters of your party, though Gelyan is a professional fighter.
- Rare Candy: Four of the five "breath" items, one of which can only be unlocked by donating to the game's creator.
- Reverse Grip: Neraine takes this to Willing Suspension of Disbelief-breaking levels with two ice swords with pickaxe grips, both of which she holds in reverse grip.
- Save Point: Oftentimes there'll be a battle as you approach.
- Shock and Awe: Emi, having skills such as Lightning Aura to boost Yellow resistance or Energy Sphere to really lay down the pain, alongside being completely immune to Yellow attacks.
- Side Quest: Doing the storyline-required battles only gets you fifty-six percent completion.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: Gelyan in Into the Rabbit Hole, according to the concept art.
- The Smart Guy: Gelyan.
- Stable Time Loop: The characters go back in time to administer a potion to Chio...the result of which, of course, was what originally led to them being able to get the potion (and go back in time) in the first place.
- Summon Magic: Neraine, Gelyan and Sisily can all summon Tarots to aid them in combat, or to be sacrificed to unleash a deadly Soulburst.
- Superboss: Tale Memory in the first game. Defeating it is necessary to work towards 100% Completion, and a future update will provide an item, upon defeating the memory, that allows you to port your stats and perks to the
secondthird game (which will take a while). Thus, this can be considered "subverted". Though Tale Memory is the hardest Optional Boss, there are numerous other optional bosses as well, most notably the Holy Egg, which is fought at the end of a long sidequest chain. - Taking You with Me: Soulbursts are usually like this, dealing a massive amount of damage to one or all enemies in exchange for reducing a Tarot's HP to 0.
- Tarot Motifs: The Tarots. Neraine can summon the High Priestess and The Death, for example.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Tinkfi. This totally not a squishy whale has eyebrows.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: Despite the characters using swords and guns, none of the (humanoid) enemies ever die - they just get "beat up" and retreat. Neraine even threatens Gelyan when he attempts to finish off a defeated bandit.
- Two Girls and a Guy: Neraine, Gelyan and Sisi form a team of two girls and a guy.
- Up the Real Rabbit Hole: Deconstructed somewhat. Reciful uses this as justification for destroying entire universes, claiming that their inhabitants aren't real and are merely fragments of peoples' consciousnesses. Because he believes his universe is the only "real" one, this allows him to perform such massacres without remorse.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Averted with Reciful, who insists that the alternate universes he intends to destroy aren't real, and merely dream fragments, eliminating any remorse he would normally have in such a situation.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Reciful to an extent. He simply wants to avert the end of the world...though his method of doing so is to destroy the Multiverse.
- Wild Card: Gelyan. The man goes through the Face–Heel Revolving Door like there's no tomorrow in both games.
