Granado Espada, or Sword of the New World, is a Korean MMO created in 2006 and released internationally in 2007. The brainchild of Ragnarok Online's acclaimed creator, Hakkyu Kim, this MMORPG is regarded as his masterpiece, and this is seen all over the game, from the stunning graphics and soundtrack, to the unique gameplay, as well as the suspensful story, which is far beyond any standard MMO has ever introduced. This game also straddles from the Standard Fantasy Setting, offering players a fresh experience. GE is currently free-to-play, with cash shop.
Granado Espada takes place during a Renaissance/Baroque-era exploration and mass migration. Two explorers, named Gilberto Granado and Ferrucio Espada, set off to the west of Orpesia, the known world at that time, and discovered a new continent. As soon as Vespanola, who financed the expedition, heard news about this, the Royal Family sent Pioneer Families to the new continent, now named Granado Espada, with the implementation of the Reconquista Policy in order to settle it. You are one of the pioneer families sent to this place, and your job is to explore the continent and expand the boundaries of your beloved country. But darkness has also fallen to this land, and you must stop Montoro from taking over Granado Espada and learning it's secrets, Ferrucio's Legacy, to empower himself. Also, your family must define its loyalty to either those who have Undying Loyalty to the crown: Esmero/Lealtad, led by Princess Gabriella, or the freedom fighters: Souveran/Gleichstellung, led by Simon Ayende. The future of Granado Espada is in your hands.
Granado Espada features the "Multiple Character Control" (MCC) System. Yes, instead of letting you run only one avatar at a time and teamwork in a party or a clan, GE lets you form a "family" made of your own characters and gives you control of up to three at a time. Five character classes are available, as well as a crapload of recruitable Non-Player Characters, known as Unique Player Characters (UPCs), or alternatively, RNPCs. There's also a Stance System, which is based on which weapon your character is currently holding. For instance, if your Tank is swinging around a great sword, he'll only have access to great sword-related stances his character class can acquire; if he's wielding a sword and a shield, then he'll only have access to sword-and-shield-related stances, and so on. Finally, the game has an Xtreme AI (XAI) feature that allows your characters to train themselves while you are away from your console.
This game provides examples of:
- Anime Chinese Girl: Soso/Feng Ling, and her little sister Sorang.
- Allegedly Free Game:
- You will need to pay if you want to go beyond just standard gameplay. However, this trope can be averted since it's possible to do the same thing without having to pay, but it takes a painfully longer time to do so.
- It's starting to largely avert this trope, at least for casual players. The more standard and essential stuff like Character Promotion are getting the free-to-play treatment: Stimulation (the more expensive half in upgrading a character) is slated to be removed, and stat upgrades are now reintegrated to Promotion. Much rejoicing was heard.
- Alternate History: The setting of this game is what would have happened if the Spanish overcame the English Armada and successfully invaded England during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- Anachronism Stew: Colonial America... WITH DINOSAURS!
- An Adventurer Is You: Actually, a character's role is determined by the stance he is in. The five basic characters are covered here, while a full list (including all RNPCs) are in this trope's page.
- Fighter: Tank/DPS
- Scout: Healer/Buffer
- Wizard: Mezzer/Nuker
- Elementalist: Nuker
- Musketeer: DPS
- An Ice Person: Karjalainen and Ion Felipe. Warlock and Hellena to an extent.
- Anti Poop-Socking: The entire point of the spacebar "AFK" mechanism. A simple press of a button will allow your team to auto-attack nearby enemies and healers heal wounded allies. You can't loot while you're AFK, though.
- Also as part of the raiding system. Smaller, quick raids usually have a 1 day cooldown, while big, faction-sized raids have a one week cooldown.
- The schtick for the Renewed Gate of Hell raid. The more time you take finishing the raid, the longer the cooldown. Most likely to curb fatigue since it is pretty much the highest level raid for solo.
- Also as part of the raiding system. Smaller, quick raids usually have a 1 day cooldown, while big, faction-sized raids have a one week cooldown.
- Anti-Magic: The Rapiere stance users. Especially Andre, since his personal skill makes him do more damage to mage-type characters.
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit: You can only bring a maximum three characters at a time. Some raids, like Chateau de Bourgogne, are restricted to one character only. Also, raids have a maximum number of families that can join.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: The Ten Nobles of Vespanola. Subverted by Fritz, Torsche, Ulrik, and Ortega, who were formerly members.
- Artistic License – Gun Safety: Lionel Von Hanen. Apparently, using a rifle with only one hand is a mark of a master in military science in this universe.
- Awesome, but Impractical: The ultimates for the nukers. Abyss Flare, Freezing, and Tempest Roar for Warlock/Hellena, Ion, and Beatrice respectively, does look awesome and powerful, however you can't cast them while being surrounded, cause your cast will get interrupted 100% of the time.
- Averted with Veroniff's and Ludin's ultimates Strong Acid and Breath of Fire, respectively. They're particularly useful for crowd clearing.
- Badass Long Coat: Considering the setting, you will have a lot of characters wearing these. Notably Kurt Lyndon.
- Battle Butler: Raven to Montoro. He apparently likes the job but hates the one he's working for.
- Battle Couple: Nar and Ania, Selva and Eduardo/Garcia, post-Eduardo amnesia. Montoro and Novia is the evil counterpart.
- BFG: The Shotguns, especially the Ogre Shotgun. This weapon is wielded as a pistol by the Ogre Tribe.
- Kess's Heavy Rifle. It looks like a real-life anti-materiel rifle, and appears to be as powerful as one. Kess wields it while standing up.
- BFS: The Great Swords, with Regulus' Passion taking the cake.
- Big Bad: Viscount Montoro, one of the Ten Nobles of Vespanola.
- The Starscream: He first starts a low ranking member of the Ten Nobles, then "works his way up" by screwing up and/or killing the rest.
- Big Brother Instinct: Garcia to Eduardo. Long story short, Garcia would go lengths to find his brother and seek revenge on the Big Bad for what he has done especially to Eduardo.
- Lionel hilariously lacks this. He doesn't even know who Ludin is until you introduce her to him. He did make it up to her in the end, though.
- Big Sister Mentor: Veatrice to Bomi.
- Bilingual Bonus: For those who are wondering, Babelfish claims that "Granado Espada" means "distinguished sword."
- Which is probably exactly what the creators did to get that title. The grammar is wrong, and the meaning is archaic: although "granado" does mean distinguished and selected, no native speaker would translate that as something else than "loose" and "selected" in "loose selected grain."
- Actually, "granado" could be translated as "seedy". This Spanish troper has never heard of the meaning cited above.
- For most Spanish speakers nowadays, "granado" refers only to the pomegranate tree (while "granada" is the name of the fruit) So they effectively read "Granado Espada" as "Pomegranate Tree - Sword", just two totally unrelated words put together.
- That, or the developers decided upon names in the same respect as Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, whose names were etched in history as "Columbia" and "America." Granado Espada is this world's version of America anyway.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Kurt and Edward, respectively.
- Boomerang Bigot: Valeria. Her skill Exclusion deals twice its damage on Fighters, Musketeers, and Scouts. Weird, as she is a Scout herself.
- Boring, but Practical:
- The builders (Jack, Diego, and Angie). Manually building their constructs is very monotonous, but you're building an entire fortress that kills mobs for you (the turrets), while protecting your still-squishy characters that you want to powerlevel (the fence), all the while buffing nearby allies, increasing their stats by a small amount (the wards). And finally, the rotating blades are some of the best tools in breaking colonies during the colony war.
- Sniper. The stance doesn't have any normal attack, only has two damaging skills, and involves waiting for cooldown refresh. But boy, the damage from this stance is enough to take down everything from mid-tier bosses and below in one hit.
- Bottomless Magazines
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Inevitable, since it's an Allegedly Free Game. Although you can still walk through the entire game with minimal damage to your pockets, you still need to work hard in-game to obtain items a compulsive spender would easily get.
- Special mention goes to overpowered characters like Asoka or Ralph, or stances Punisher. These can cost you a fortune to get, and almost impossible for non-paying players.
- Butt-Monkey: Taikbin. Everytime you see him, he's bound to get beaten up by someone. Even if that someone is a little girl.
- Camp Gay: Andre Janzur, a fashion maven who manufactures all the costumes in the game.
- Doesn't help that he's based on the real life late fashion designer Andre Kim. Down to his obsession with anything white.
- Child Prodigy: Marchetti.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: You. It would probably take someone an entire chapter of a novel counting the times you drag yourself into "heroic" situations that end up you getting beaten to a pulp. Of course in side-quests, it's most likely for the Rule of Funny. In serious storyline quests however, it tends to be ugly.
- Clone Angst: Grandies, aka the "Red-Haired Girl", Grandice's clone. Her questline has her struggling to find her own identity, as opposed to the Queen of Pioneer herself.
- Cool Big Sis: Daria and Veatrice, arguably.
- Catherine Torsche is this to Catherine the Doll, who she happily accepts as her sister.
- Coup de Grâce: Advance Garde's Mortal Eternity skill. Slashes an opponent multiple times with the rapier, then shoots him once with a pistol. That single shot deals a lot more damage than any of the individual slashes, combined.
- Combination Attack: You can overlap skills on a target for a sudden burst in damage, but skills that knock back cannot be overlapped with each other.
- Combined Energy Attack: Occult Magic's Abyss Flare, which combines the energy from all three basic elements. It doesn't help that it conjures images of Goku's Spirit Bomb.
- Combat Medic: Veronif is this when using her unique expert stance Hermetisme. Sirius also counts since he's a Crusader of Armonia and his personal skill heals while his exclusive Holy Shielder stance has a provoke skill.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Barrel. Yes, that spoiler tag is because of how much he becomes a badass at night.
- Heyran as well. Yes, she dropped that Hard-Drinking Party Girl act and took over the leadership of the liberation army when Olivia betrayed them and Kess went missing. She's still lesbian over her Gracy though.
- Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Since skill hotkeys depend on which slot a character is on, it's easy to fumble with the keyboard when you get too used on one arrangement then suddenly switch to another.
- Dark Is Evil: Kurt, again. Vincent, vaguely.
- Dark Is Not Evil: This is why Vincent is vaguely evil.
- Death Is Cheap: There are a lot of ways to bring a dead character back to life. Average cost is 800 vis per dead character. Before Level 50, you can just wait for a few minutes, and said dead character will spring back to life.
- Defective Detective: Gertrude/Jean-Pierre. With anything that involves Emilia.
- Distressed Damsel: Valeria in her recruitment quest.
- Drunken Master: Barrel. His buff has him drinking wine for a boost in stats.
- Dual Wielding: Everywhere. You can dual wield swords, sabres, daggers, pistols, sword and pistol, javelins and daggers, rifle and pistol
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Ion, much to his chagrin. Marchetti and Friede, too. The latter was justified, he was Raised as the Opposite Gender. Kess as well, he certainly looks like a girl.
- Dump Stat: The now rehashed CHA, or Charisma (duh). Before, it only majorly affects two characters (who are summoners by nature) and minorly affects 4 or so other characters (out of like a little less than 100). It's quite funny how most spellcasters have a high innate CHA stat, but have absolutely no use for them.
- It got replaced by a new stat, SEN or Sense, which keeps the effect of the CHA stat, and throws in a reduction in spell cast time, making it quite good for spellcasters, but not good enough to consider investing in those points.
- Dynamic Entry: Most dash-type skills do this, causing enemies hit to be thrown back a distance, or sometimes make them go flying up into the sky.
- Emotionless Girl: Subverted. The whole point of Catherine's Expert Stance Acquirement quest line is that, despite being a doll, Catherine is in fact not emotionless. She can laugh, be happy, get sad, or even feel jealousy. She just has trouble expressing them as she isn't human.
- Expy
- Soso is one of Chun Li's clones. Her younger sister Sorang is budding to become one as well. There are also pseudo-Shotoclones in this game, Irawan (appearance, he uses Muay Thai instead), and Byakko (style, Karate was inspired by Taekwondo to begin with).
- Angie is an expy of Winry. Selva is more of a Shout-Out to the franchise.
- Raven is an expy of Sanji. Both are in a service kind of job (Sanji's a chef, Raven's a butler), both employ a series of flaming kicks as their fighting style, heck, they even share the same voice actor in the Japanese version of the game.
- A little girl who likes playing with fire dragging along a magical teddy bear. Guess what other game has that.
- Beatrice is obviously styled after Storm.
- Vincent's appearance and backstory is peculiarly similar to Sasuke, with a few differences. He is considered a genius among the cult, however, he draws into the Dark Side when he makes a Deal with the Devil. Most notably though, his love for his brother Ban is similar to how Sasuke looked up to Itachi. Their cult Memento Mori draws in inspiration from others as well, such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Claymore and as below, Assassin's Creed
- Friede is this universe's version of Bridget.
- Richelieu is, well, Richelieu.
- Eyepatch of Power: Adelina and Grandice. Also, Bai Hu in his Narciso costume. For Adelina however, it was revealed that she wasn't blind in one eye at all.
- Fake Difficulty: It zig-zags. Before, trying to AFK train in dungeons is usually a bad idea, since waves upon waves of mobs will eventually overload your auto-attacking characters that they die. Nowadays, Meta Game dictates that to be able to AFK, a team must keep up with the spawn, and this is fairly easier to attain now than before. However, when it comes to the high-tier raid bosses, Total Party Kill almost always happens instantly, except when the squad employs a certain strategy depending on the boss that makes it very easy to take down.
- Faking the Dead: Catherine, Dr. Torsche's daughter.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture:
- The continent of Granado Espada is America, obviously.
- Bahamar Swamps points to Florida, which was once believed to be magical.
- Bahia/Gigante Island represents the Caribbean Islands/Hawaii.
- Errac/Zeia is either Maya, Inca, Aztec, or a mixture of all three.
- Castilla is based on Ancient Greece, complete with Spartans and holes.
- Viron/Byron is either Ireland or Newfoundland, depending on the description
- Orpesia, the Old World, is Europe
- Vespanola is the Spanish Empire. Even one of its cities is named Madrid.
- Bristia is England, with an obvious Prussian side (the current ruler is Czerny Kielce, obviously Polish)
- Armonia, a city in Bristia, is based on Glastonbury.
- Illier is France, very touchy with their cuisine.
- Absinia is Northern Africa, obviously with M'Boma being Absinian.
- Targa is the Ottoman Empire, where sabres and firearms are the order of business.
- Esmero/Lealtad represents the Confederate States, while Souveran/Gleichstellung represents the Union.
- The continent of Granado Espada is America, obviously.
- Fantasy Gun Control: Averted
- Fate Worse than Death: Cortes, as he was Taken for Granite. It shows how much of a
Magnificent Bastard Montoro is, he even used him as a weapon, just like his fellow member of the Ten Nobles, Jurgen.- Mercy Kill: As per story. You (as the protagonist of the story) kill Cortes as a raid boss, but in the story, you put him out of his misery.
- Featureless Protagonist: Yes you are using characters to interact with [NPCs], but during quest-related conversations, who in your family (besides the characters that are involved by default) is participating in the conversation? Tip: He's not in your active team.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: The three main elements Warlocks can use. There is also a fourth element called Mental, mainly used by Wizards.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Jack and his niece Angie, who can build turrets. Angie is also a Technical Pacifist in that she cannot equip actual weapons.
- Generation Xerox: Ion Felipe, who apparently looked exactly like his father in his youth. Invoked by Grandies, who mistook Ion to be his father, who, by Grandies' memories, was Grandice's lover at Grandies' mental age.
- Mary as well. Not only does Dr. Torsche comment that she just looks like her mother, Jane, but she also inherits all her traits down to her passion for cleaning and her fascination with shotguns. Bonus points for having said to be destined to follow in her mother's footsteps as being a maid for the Torsche family.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Grace to Olivia.
- Glass Cannon: Musketeer-class characters (like Bernelli), Elementalist-class characters (like Hellena).
- Global Currency - "Vis" and "Feso"
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: The RNPCs. New RNPCs are introduced every few version updates, current count is 76.
- Gratuitous French: Any stance that uses rapiers.
- Gratuitous Spanish
- Guns Akimbo: Starting off with Double Gun Shot. Then you upgrade to Outrage Shot complete with Gun Twirling. And then Unlimited Shot with Matrix-style skills. And then Barrel's Cobra
- Lionel dual wields with a rifle on one hand and a pistol on another. A rifle on one hand.
- Guns Are Worthless: Totally averted. This game relies on More Dakka as primary DPS.
- Hand Blast: Employed by Warlocks on some of their spells.
- Healing Shiv: Socketing a weapon with any type of Pearl Rumin turns that weapon into one.
- Drain Attribute also has this effect on all characters. Wings and accessories which have the "HP Drain" status as well.
- Heel–Face Turn: Quite a few, with the most notable being Ortega and Sherlin
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Garcia and Raven.
- Hot-Blooded: The Coimbra Trooper and the male martial artists sans Gertrude/Jean-Pierre
- I Am Not My Father: Kess can't get a break, really.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Suggesting by his questline: Alejandro
- Grandice. More than confirmed.
- Ice Queen: Novia. Plus points that she's actually an ice queen.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: Nar's exclusive weapon, the Crescent. It might have been the inspiration for Renekton's weapon.
- Now J.D. can wield this weapon, with one hand.
- Improbable Hairstyle: Gracielo and Dr. Torsche. You'd think they're poster boys for a medieval hair gel.
- Interface Screw: Gloomy Present from Wizard stance Darkness, as well as Claire and Jose's Starlight Flare. They literally obscure the player's view to only a small circle on the middle of your screen.
- Jiggle Physics: Yeah, they pretty much made this game a little TOO realistic.
- Joke Character: Ramiro and Tiburon. They have sub-par Strength and Constitution for a fighter-class character. Also, they use weaker versions of weapons meant for their stances (Swords and Main-Gauches instead of Great Swords and Sabres, respectively).
- Lethal Joke Character: However, when built well, they can turn into this
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- Lethal Joke Character: However, when built well, they can turn into this
- Kid Hero: Ramiro and Tiburon. As if to play up the cuteness, they use one-hand swords for two-hand sword stances.
- La Résistance: Violacea, led by Fritz, a former Ten Noble, and the Bristian Liberation Army, led by Kess Kielce, as well as your family, which is the major tie to these two factions.
- Large Ham: Quite a few characters exhibit this trait, but nobody trumps Veil. Rumor has it that he rose up the army ranks by being this.
- Leaked Experience: Quests give "Experience Cards" instead of straight EXP gains. Justified, since you can have up to 100+ characters but can only control up to 3 at a time.
- Also, introduced recently, the "Training Cards". They add to your active Stance EXP instead of the normal EXP.
- Lightning Bruiser: The melee characters, inevitably. Much can be said that their only weakness are ranged characters. Then again, once they're built up, the only thing that can stop them are kiting Flintlock users.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Heyran. Main reason why Bernelli hates her is that she tries to keep on sticking to her, Kuroko-style.
- Love Hurts: Poor Garcia and Beroniff.
- Love Triangle: Eduardo, Selva, and Garcia. Used to, Garcia decides to give it up.
- Macross Missile Massacre:
- Photon Splash from the Levitation stance.
- Warlock's Absolute Zero is this on a single target.
- So is Hellena's Aqua Pierce.
- Ion's Frost Dust takes this to overkill levels. The number of ice projectiles he shoots is at least three times Absolute Zero's.
- Magikarp Power: The stances are weak at lower levels, but are considerably stronger by the time they hit level 25. Some characters also, like the Warlock Trio (Ludin, Ion, and Beatrice) only have one stance before hitting Expert, and it's the weakest stance of their respective elements.
- Marionette Master: Catherine the Summoner
- Married to the Job: Ayende. This caused the downfall of his relationship with Beroniff.
- Mayincatec: Errac. Bonus points since Mufasar, formerly leader, is the holder of the Element of Fire, which symbolizes blood.
- Meaningful Name: The two parties Lealtad and Gleichstellung. Lealtad (Spanish for "loyalty") is for those who are loyal to the crown, while Gleichstellung (German for "freedom") are for those who seek freedom from Vespanola.
- More Dakka: Raid Bosses with insanely high HP? No worries, just bring a whole squad of Musketeers.
- Ms. Fanservice: Female Warlocks. Played for laughs here.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Reckless Emilia's outfit has a deep plunging v-neckline.
- Neat Freak: Mary. Her recruitment quest pretty much involves cleaning up the entire Torsche mansion. In fact, she only joins you because she finds a spec of dust on Catherine, thinking that your family isn't cleaning the barracks very well.
- Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Inverted and invoked by game mechanic. Musketeer class characters are often weak to dagger attacks, which deals bonus damage to Soft Armors, the kind of armor Musketeer uses. Although it's given that one cannot evade bullets as most dagger stance use evade as a defense mechanism, Lisa's expert stance allows her to evade bullets, which only makes her more deadly against Musketeers.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Kess awfully looks a lot like Michael Jackson.
- Not So Stoic/Stoic Woobie/Broken Bird: Poor Olivia. First her hometown got blasted into oblivion, then she got forced to be a traitor to his homeland, then finally betraying her own employers by letting the resistance leader escape. When she realized she doesn't have anywhere to go, she turned to the ruins of her house. Her icy and solid personality melted into tears after beiq6w6ng confronted by Raven and Grace.
- One-Handed Zweihänder: J.D. wields Great Swords and giant-dwarfing Crescents single-handed.
- One-Winged Angel: Montoro's final form, as a raid boss.
- Only Six Faces: Unlike many other MMORPGs, this game does not offer character customization making this a very literal example for default player characters. There is the option of changing hairstyles but they are treated as wigs and are not available at the character creation menu.
- Period Piece: It definitely shows when a dedicated team puts effort on designing more than just your usual MMO. And it's not World of Warcraft either.
- Gorgeous Period Dress: If middle-age military gear and ballgowns on a renaissance setting doesn't give it away already.
- Perma-Stubble: Raven's original appearance. Ralph, also.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Several dresses are fancy, and loaded with lace and frills. The Christmas Mode even has plenty of Holiday Dresses and Sexy Santa Dresses.
- Pirate: Adelina Esperanza. Well, former.
- Puzzle Boss: Most high-tier bosses need a certain approach to defeat. Squads oftentimes employ weird character combinations and complicated strategies and positioning to defeat them.
- Quest for Identity: Eduardo/Edward and Grandies.
- Rainbow Pimp Gear: Played straight for the weapons, but averted for the armors and body costumes. For the latter, armors change one's appearance from the neck downwards, and upgrades don't affect appearances. Body costumes override this, with the game preferring the look of the equipped costume over the equipped armor. It does invoke You All Look Familiar, but with the sheer number of looks a single character can take, this is mostly averted.
- Random Drops: This is an MMORPG, what do you expect? Though there are different variations of this trope, such as:
- The infamous "pristine Gimlet Tail" quest from Panfilo. He asks for pristine tails, so it's justified that the drop rate for that is 2%. But he needs 5 of those. Good luck and have fun hunting.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: J.D. It even glows.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted with sisters Natalie and Daria. Natalie, who has a blue-green/turquoise motif, is brash and short tempered in contrast to Daria, having a red/pink motif, who is more level headed and prefers to analyze a situation first. Justified that Natalie is just a rookie Rescue Knight trying to prove herself to her big sister, who is already an elite amongst the Rescue Knights.
- Revenge: A central theme. Everyone from the team buff group "Destiny's Chains," especially Selva and Garcia, has beef with Montoro. Enough beef to actually want to chase him for life and kill him.
- Tora's story, he wants revenge on Adelina for killing his father.
- Reverse Grip: What differentiates Esgrima from Arnis. Esgrima is the Reverse Grip version, by the way.
- Grandies wields her off-hand Main-Gauche this way in her stance Soul Bringer, as opposed to the way Main-Gauche Garde users wield.
- Robot Girl: Catherine (Depending on which type you chose, either STR, DEX, INT or Summoner) is a marionette created by Dr. Torsche in an attempt to "revive" his dead daughter. Turns out she is alive.
- Roboteching: Photon Splash's energy orbs doesn't really travel a straight line from the caster to the target. Ion's Frost Dust as well, Ion releases a bunch of ice spheres on a cross pattern in front of him, that change angles during the second phase of the animation, sometimes very sharp angles, and accelerate towards the target.
- Scenery Porn
- Shout-Out: Numerous. Including but not limited to:
- Assassin's Creed:
- Calyce's hoods, either black or white. Justified, she is a mercenary-assassin.
- Tora's Assassin Costume Set. His fighting style doesn't help either.
- Not to mention the entire Memento Mori cult, with the exception of Dilos Latemn who dresses in a pontifical garb. Vincent's older brother Ban dresses in a coat very similar to Al Mualim's.
- Selva's arm (Automail notwithstanding) as well as a certain dialogue in her quest, both pointing to Ed and Al's beginnings as an alchemist
- Roht looks like he came straight out of The Elder Scrolls.
- Assassin's Creed:
- Spanner in the Works: You. Yes, you. As with Chronic Hero Syndrome, the second chapter of that book will cover you trumping dozens upon dozens of the Magnificent Bastard Big Bad's plans. Too bad The Worf Effect still applies
- Spell My Name With An S: A lot, especially during translations to localized versions. Veatrice becomes Beatrice, Eduardo becomes Edward, Beroniff becomes Veronif, and so on.
- Spiritual Successor: Can be considered one to Ragnarok Online. One can also draw parallels to locations, such as Granado Espada itself being Ragnarok's New World, Bristia to Schwartzvalt. Heck, even the capital city of Bristia and its ruling family is Kielce.
- Ragnarok's current main theme is exploration, Granado Espada's current main theme is going back home after said exploration.
- Spin Attack: Grandies' expert stances Soul Guard and Soul Bringer involves a lot of spinning attack combos.
- Stationary Boss: Quite a few of the in-game raid bosses are stationary, like Argus Brain (not the one shooting lightning at you, the creepy brain and spine thing you need to kill).
- Also, Fritz, literally. He is the last you have to fight in a Boss Rush quest, but a Good Bad Bug may cause him to stop attacking you and just stand there until you defeat him. Sort of makes him an Anti-Climax Boss, sadly, given that he's a badass to begin with.
- Also, Fritz, literally. He is the last you have to fight in a Boss Rush quest, but a
- Sword and Gun:
- The appropriately named Heaven or Hell stance.
- Rapier and Gun with Advance Garde.
- Adriana's stance Cutlass, which is an upgrade to Heaven or Hell.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Melee > Ranged (ranged characters can't deal much damage to melee characters), Ranged > Mages (ranged characters obliterates mages because of the latter's inherent squishiness), Mages > Melee (melee characters, particularly metal armor wearers, are penalized with increased damage from magical sources).
- Tarot Motifs: The Trump Series as well as the Arcana Series.
- The Clan: Your family works like this, except you can take in or "recruit" other people into your family.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: With that being said, you do recruit various people into your family, including a murderer, a chef, a fashion designer, someone with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, a couple of guys with Royal Blood in them, an amnesiac, the former lover of that amnesiac, the brother of that amnesiac, an old lady, her daughter, her clone... and that's just the icing on the cake.
- Tangled Family Tree: The RNPCs are already given as "recruits," but how about the stock characters you make, where did they come from?
- Badass Family: Still, even with all that being said, in the end, they're still a bunch of adventuring guys killing ferocious beasts that roam around lands that are possibly untouched by people, and take on the Big Bad himself head-on while still looking classy.
- The Conspiracy: Stratavista. Also overlaps with Government Conspiracy as it is also the other name for the new Ten Nobles of Vespanola.
- The Ingenue: Valeria
- Innocent Prodigy: Her healing magic is of the highest standard. Marchetti couldn't even decode it.
- Innocence Lost: as Valeria of Vendetta
- The Mole: Veatrice is currently one in your family. Sharon may or may not be tagging along with her.
- Olivia started as this, ended up as aDoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent.
- The Musketeer: Well, duh.
- The Von Trope Family: Lionel and Ludin von Hanen
- Token Mini-Moe: Claire, Viki, Ludin, and Kano. Ramiro and Tiburon doesn't count, as they're more qualified as Kid Hero.
- Tsundere: Claire. Complete with "I-it's not that I like you or something..." when she 'accidentally' places her character card on a present.
- SELVA, BIGTIME. ESPECIALLY TOWARDS GAVIN. One part of Gavin's recruitment quest has her tending to his wounds after being injured after their fight against Novia and Montoro. That was after Selva was plainly ignoring Gavin for most of the time. Then she returns to her tsun mode right after, leaving Gavin just before he wakes, without a trace.
- Even though she's obnoxiously rude to you in the beginning, Veronif switches from being tsun to dere during her recruitment quest line.
- 20 Bear Asses: Some quests ask for X number of Y item (usually Organ Drops) from Z mob. If it's not this, it's a:
- Mass Monster-Slaughter Sidequest: In the case of Pioneering Merchant Quests, this is the series of quest of choice.
- Two Guys and a Girl: Garcia, Eduardo, and Selva. It's inverted, sorta. Selva is The Lancer to Garcia's Hero (can be interchanged, depending on which quest you are in), with The Heart amnesiac Eduardo rounding it up.
- Prior to Eduardo's amnesia, it was Eduardo The Hero, Garcia The Lancer, and Selva The Heart.
- Two Letter Name: J.D. Which apparently means Judgement Day.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Claude and Grandice. They may bicker all day long over who's the better hunter, but they will stick up for the other when he/she needs it. Such as raising and hiding Grandice's daughter Claire when she's in danger from Duke Felipe.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Irawan and Soho. Some costumes like the beachwear for male stock characters.
- Weapons Kitchen Sink: Weapons range from the usual sword and spear, to the Toy Hammer, to the Great Sword-dwarfing Crescent.
- Western Zodiac: The whole theme of Errac/Zeia.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Averted. The Element of Heart overpowers the rest of the five elements, so much so that even the antagonists kidnap a child who was revealed to possess this power.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Friede. Bonus points that he was raised as a girl.
- Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Pretty much whenever you get in a ship. Plus points on the iron men when you actually get boarded by pirates.
- Wrench Wench: Idge, Claire, and Angie.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: Kess is a master of this. He is also smart enough not to divulge his plans to everyone, even his closest of friends except for Marchetti (because they think alike), because he knows if the Liberation Army knows, Reynolds knows. The effect of this was a Genghis Gambit on top of a Zero-Approval Gambit on top of a Xanatos Gambit on top of a Batman Gambit. That's how good and calculated Kess's plans for Bristia's independece are.
- He also knows just how big of a Spanner in the Works your family is, that he knows you will eventually free Veil, thereby making the Liberation Army earn a valuable ally in him.
- You All Look Familiar: Justified. You, as the head of your family, is the protagonist of the story. Other families are only there since it's an MMORPG. Played straight if you have multiples of the same character in the barracks
- This is played for laughs due to the developers recycling models for young boys (Ramiro) and girls (Isabella). Insert Racebending sentiments here after they made Isabella's model (obviously Caucasian) as a younger Veatrice (obviously Black).
- Hence, everyone, except Tiburon and Viki, was Ramiro as a young boy, and everyone, except Ludin, was Isabella as young girl
- This is played for laughs due to the developers recycling models for young boys (Ramiro) and girls (Isabella). Insert Racebending sentiments here after they made Isabella's model (obviously Caucasian) as a younger Veatrice (obviously Black).
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