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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces is a Fighting Game, developed by Witchcraft — composed of the people who made Wild ARMs — and released for the Playstation Portable by Namco Bandai in 2010.

As the name suggests, it's based on the Lyrical Nanoha franchise, specifically the second season Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. It is set in an Alternate Timeline where Reinforce was not deleted at the end of the series. Because of this, the corrupted defence program of the Book of Darkness soon returns, shedding "Dark Pieces" that take the form of Evil Knockoffs of the main cast. At the head of this clone army are the "Materials" — three super-powerful clones of Nanoha, Fate and Hayate who have gained sentience.

A sequel, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny, was released for PSP on December 22, 2011. It takes place three months after The Battle of Aces, starting when two mysterious warriors arrive from the future. One of them is searching for the revived Materials, while the other is trying to stop her.

Meanwhile, the Materials have grown from the one-dimensional Omnicidal Maniacs they were in the first game and are searching for something called the "Unbreakable Dark", which seems to be linked to a whole new outbreak of Dark Pieces. Not only are these new Dark Pieces twisting time and space, pulling people from the past and future to the present age, but they are capable of copying long-dead people from the memories of the mages involved.

The Materials have become Breakout Characters, appearing as major and/or main characters in other media. They also get their own manga Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Potable — The Gears of Destiny — Material Musume, a Yonkoma which takes place before the events of The Gears of Destiny.

The Materials, Florian Sisters, and U-D, also appear in the third and fourth Lyrical Nanoha movies, titled Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection and Detonation respectively, which are loose adaptations of the Gears of Destiny storyline.

NOTE: Only general tropes for the series are listed here. For character-specific ones, check out the character sheets.

Playable characters introduced in The Battle of Aces

Playable characters introduced and added in The Gears of Destiny

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    The Battle of Aces 

The Battle of Aces provides examples of:

  • Adaptational Badass: Zafira in his route. If you include the extra stages, he manages to defeat the Dark Pieces of Signum, Vita, Reinforce and himself, and all three Materials by his own. Don't forget that Zafira is the lowest ranked mage of the Wolkenritter, he lacks any devices and long-range spells.
  • Alternate Timeline
  • Autobots, Rock Out!: One of the possible final battle music is an electric guitar version of A's OP Eternal Blaze.
  • Beam Spam:
    • Hayate and her counterpart Material-D have ranged attacks like this.
    • Fate, her counterpart Material-L, and in particular Chrono have a faster rate of fire for their weakest range attacks then any other character.
    • Let's not forget about Nanoha and her counterpart Material-S as well.
    • Reinforce has one attack like this as well, but she can fire three beams at once.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In Hayate's route, after Unison Hayate defeats Material-D, the Wolkenritter save the former from the latter and Signum kills Material-D in the process. This event is revealed to be canon in G.o.D..
  • Breaking Out: Minigame available for DLC. A NSFW minigame.
  • Break Meter: Doubles as your Mana Meter. Be careful while Beam Spamming.
  • Breast Attack: Signum appears to elbow Reinforce right on her tits (complete with a spring sound) as an odd version of a Dope Slap while chewing her out for attempting a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • The Cameo: NachtWal appears in one of the first CGIs.
  • Charged Attack: Several ranged attacks come with a slower, stronger form when you hold down their respective button.
  • Counter-Attack: Everyone has one at melee range. Zafira has one in ranged combat too.
  • Demoted to Extra: Yuuno and Arf are not playable characters in this game, despite their more or less importance in A's — they are not even in the shot that shows the other characters fighting NachtWal. While Arf is lucky enough to appear in four routesnote , Yuuno only appears in Nanoha's route and has no CGI appearances.
  • Disappears into Light: The Dark Pieces after defeating them.
  • Dream People: The non-Material Dark Pieces, which are copies of Nanoha and crew based on their memories, thoughts, and wishes during A's. They fade away upon losing.
  • Evil Twin / Palette Swap: The three Aces each get one.
    • Hayate is opposed by Material-D, the Ruler of Darkness, whose Barrier Jacket has dark grey where Hayate's is white, along with purple for the inner layer and shoes, as well as being platinum blonde-ish. She also lacks the original's hat.
    • Nanoha is opposed by Material-S, the Starlight Destroyer, whose Barrier Jacket is mainly black/dark purple and crimson, with Luciferion, her version of Raising Heart, being red with a blue crystal.
    • Fate is opposed by Material-L, the Thunderblade Assailant, who has light blue hair instead of blonde, her Barrier Jacket has blue where Fate's was red and her version of Bardiche has a blue crystal.
  • Fighting Game
  • Final Boss: There is always a different Final Boss in each character's story. Some of them are in the aftermath of the "Dark Piece Incident", but they are definitely Final Bosses, because they appear in the Final Stage.
    • Material-S in Nanoha's route.
    • Dark Piece Fate in Fate's route.
    • Nanoha in Hayate's route.
    • Fate in Signum's route.
    • Reinforce in Vita's route.
    • Dark Piece Vita in Shamal's route.
    • Dark Piece Reinforce in Zafira's route.
    • Material-D in Reinforce's route.
    • Dark Piece Hayate in Chrono's route.
  • Gotta Kill Them All: The Dark Pieces.
  • Gratuitous English: Raising Heart again. At one point, she says "Perhaps she is also Dark Peace" instead of "Perhaps she is also a Dark Piece".
  • In Spite of a Nail: In the original Reinforce's ending in Battle of Aces, she and Hayate discuss how she can't maintain Hayate's magic anymore, and they'd have to create a new Unison Device. I.e. Zwei will exist in this Alternate Continuity too. The Wolkenritter also note late in Hayate's story mode that Hayate and Reinforce both know (but won't admit to each other) that Reinforce will fade away relatively soon.
  • Invulnerable Attack: Using Full Drive makes you invulnerable to any attack during its initial activation.
  • Law of Chromatic Superiority: Material-S's Barrier Jacket is mainly black and crimson compared to Nanoha's white and blue, and she's the stronger of the two.
  • Last Episode Theme Reprise: See Autobots, Rock Out!.
  • Let's You and Him Fight: Mostly instigated by Vita accidentally mistaking someone for a Dark Piece (the reason why Fate fights her in her route).
  • Limit Break: Full Drive Burst. It's also the only attack with its own animation.
    • Nanoha's Starlight Breaker.
    • Fate's Jet Zanber.
    • Hayate's Ragnarök.
    • Signum's Sturmfalken.
    • Vita's Gigantschlag.
    • Shamal's Linker Core Removal technique.
    • Zafira's Hagane no Kubiki.
    • Reinforce's Yaten no Ikazuchi.
    • Chrono's Eternal Coffin.
    • Stern's Luciferion Breaker.
    • Levi's Raijin Messatsu Kyokkōzan.
    • Dearche's Excalibur.
  • Mana Meter
  • Matryoshka Object: The Book of Darkness was really a smaller program written on an older Logia called The Book of Purple Sky. And the Book of Purple Sky was written on an OLDER program called the Examia/Eternal Ring; which was hosted by the Unbreakable Dark.
  • Mirror Match: Justified in Story Mode by the existence of the Dark Pieces, which are copies from the heroes based on their memories and wishes during the time of A's.
  • Ms. Exposition: Amy and Reinforce.
  • Nanoha Is About To Shoot You: Look at the boxart.
  • Original Generation: The Materials, "Lord" Dearche, Stern the Destructor, and Levi the Slasher.
  • Overly Long Name: "The Book of Darkness's Darkness Dark Piece Incident" was shortened into the "Dark Piece incident".
  • Purposely Overpowered: Unison Reinforce (Reinforce with Hayate intentionally Unisoning into her), who you could only use at the final battle of Reinforce's story. She comes with all eighteen skills in the game where other characters could only use four, turning the normally powerful Big Bad into an Anticlimax Boss.
  • Smoke Shield: Used as a gameplay mechanic. Big attacks usually generate one of these on impact, and a canny player can exploit the concealment to pull off a counter-attack.
  • Sound Test: Available in the Character Viewer under Archive.
  • Sprint Meter
  • Super Mode: Full Drive, which temporarily gives you infinite mana and unlocks your Limit Break. If you equip the Drive EX (Critical) skill, it will also increase your attack damage while active.
  • Super Title 64 Advance: Gets Portable in the title for being in the PSP.
  • Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Attack beats Throw. Throw beats Counter. Counter beats Attack.
  • Title Drop: Fate's story path ends with her saying the title of her chapter ("When the cherry blossoms are in bloom") in response to Arf asking her when she will tell Lindy her decision regarding her offer to adopt her.
  • Versus Character Splash: Not in story mode.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Lindy and Amy don't appear in Zafira's route.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Nanoha says this when Arf suggests that Fate might have turned out like Material-L if she hadn't met Nanoha, saying that Fate is a stronger person than that and with Arf, she is not alone. Both Fate and Arf are quite grateful to hear this.

    The Gears of Destiny 

The Gears of Destiny additionally provides examples of:

  • A.I. Breaker: Zafira, because his moveset has fortunately become better like some others. The easiest way to win: just keep pushing the Circle Button. His Grab Move has a good range and you can start with it as your first move. His uncharged long range Circle-attack allows him to rush towards the enemy. Regardless if the enemy use their shield or not, the Grab Move ignores the shield. Repeating this and you win a perfect victory. This strategy is very useful against the SNK Boss in G.o.D.
  • Adaptational Badass: While most of the characters are just as badass as they are in canon, Yuuno's surprising combat ability comes as a shock. During his story mode, he manages to not only defeat the Liese Twins, but also Material-S, Vivio and Amita, not bad for someone who was Demoted to Extra in the series proper.
  • And Zoidberg: Thoma's reveal for the game came off as this, considering how much more of the page Vivio and Einhard took up.
    • When Nanoha replies to Rynith/Linith that Fate and Arf are fine, Nanoha remembers that Bardiche is fine, too.
  • Back in the Saddle: The Liese Twins got pulled out of Retirement by Letty to deal with the Dark Pieces. However, see Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Averted. First, Dearche, who is introduced as the Big Bad, is killed by U-D, the real Big Bad, and when Dearche is regenerating, Stern has persuaded her to ally with the TSAB, so the Materials became Anti-Heroines and Dearche was never really a Big Bad to begin with. And later, when the Dark Piece of Presea found out that a Time Machine existed, she didn't become a second Big Bad because she was immediately fought by Linith and both of them disappeared in the end.
  • But Now I Must Go: Everyone returns to their own time period in the end. And the Materials and U-D come along with the Florian Sisters to future Eltria. And the Adventure Continues for them, because they have their hands full helping restore the planet and fighting monsters. (It is Filgaia, after all.)
  • The Cameo:
    • In Thoma's imagine shot, the Force versions of Nanoha, Fate, Hayate, Signum and Subaru, as well as the rest of the Nakajima family, Mariel (who appears as a minor character in the game), Isis, Steed, and the Hückebein family are seen together.
    • The epilogue of the Final Sequence shows the ViVid versions of Nanoha and Fate, then Isis and the Force versions of Hayate and Vita.
  • Cast Herd: There are two units who fight U-D in the final battle. The first unit fights her in the first round, the second unit fights her in the second round where she has already Turned Red.
    • The first group includes Chrono, Signum, Vita, Shamal, Zafira, Einhard and Kyrie.
    • The second group includes Nanoha, Fate, Unison Hayate, Vivio, Thoma, Amitie and "Lord" Dearche TRINITY.
    • Before this gathering, there are several smaller groups. Nanoha with Yuuno; Fate with Arf; Hayate with Reinforce; the Wolkenritter; the Materials; Vivio and Einhard; Thoma and Lily, both of them allying with Vivio and Einhard later.
      • The groups are later mixed up or separated in some parts of the story.
  • Chewing the Scenery: VITA, LEVI, DEARCHE, AMITIE.
  • Combo Breaker: Activating a Full Drive Burst stock gives temporary invincibility and knocks the opponent back. In some cases, their airborne state makes them vulnerable to be hit with the actual attack.
  • Continuity Nod: This game is good with that.
    • The Dark Pieces in this game are not only from the A's timeline, but also from Alternate Timelines from different seasons.
      • Sankt Kaiser Vivio, with the mind of a six years old girl, is looking for her mother in the Cradle.
      • Dark Piece Yuuno is still looking for the Jewel Seeds, but he doesn't know Nanoha.
      • Alternate versions of Thoma and Lily are evil, because they weren't saved by Nanoha and the others.
      • Dark Piece Einhard is still looking for strong guys to battle.
      • Signum's loss by Cypha is picked up by a Dark Piece Thoma.
    • The whole Testarossa conflict from season 1 is expanded in this game.
    • As well as the conflict between the Yagami family and the Liese Twins.
    • The "growth vampire Erio"-joke is extended here.
    • The relevances of the Cartridge System and the usage of multiple Devices become important in this game.
    • Nanoha and Stern's promise from B.o.A.
    • Dearche remembering her death by Signum.
    • Yuuno being Mistaken for Badass because he's just Nanoha's teacher; this issue was already picked up by Subaru, Teana and Vivio in The Movie 1st DVD Commentary.
  • Cool Big Sis:
    • Amitie.
    • Also Thoma referred to Signum as "Signum-neesan".
  • Crossover:
  • Demoted to Extra:
    • Yuuno, again. While he fares somewhat better here what with him being a playable character, he's the only character in the game who doesn't have a CG appearance. It's even worse, several characters from Force have a cameo appearance in two CG shots, but Yuuno doesn't.
    • Nanoha herself has very few CG appearances. She is first seen in the end of Sequence 10. Justified, she's not the heroine in this game. The Eltrian Gears and the Materials, particularly Dearche, are.
      • Furthermore, Nanoha has not an own side story. There are the Testarossa story, the "Night Sky vs Liese" story, and the story around the four time travelers. Nanoha is still involved in those stories, but she has not a major role. She and Yuuno have the least significant plot relevances in the entire game. You can avoid her plot relevance even more by choosing Vita as one of the main attacks instead of her, that means Nanoha will not use her Mid-Season Upgrade in the final battle.
    • Even the Devices are not immune to this. Raising Heart had many lines in B.o.A., even outside of the gameplay. In G.o.A., she, Graf Eisen and Laevatein have no lines in the story at all, not even when they load their Anti-U-D-Cartridges. The only one who still gets a line is Bardiche, when Fate faces Linithnote .
    • The Forwards from StrikerS don't appear in this game (not including Subaru's cameo). Justified. All battles are in the sky and all of them are ground mages. Even though, Subaru has her Wing Road, Erio has Strada's Düsenform and Caro has Friedrich and Voltaire, they would be odd characters in this game. And Teana has no possibility to fight in air at all. Well, at least Subaru (who has a cameo as mentioned above) and Erio are mentioned in this game. Teana and Caro are main characters with the worst luck.
      • They do appear in Sound Stage A, though. But the ViVid versions of them, not the StrikerS ones.
    • Not only the Forwards, but the other half of Team Nakajima from ViVid does not appear here. Well, at least Rio and Corona (and Nove) are mentioned. Isis from Force is not playable, but she appears in the end of the game.
  • Do Well, But Not Perfect: Due to an oversight, you automatically win the second round of the Final Sequence if the timer runs out after you whittle down U-D's first life bar so that hers has less HP than yours do but don't reduce it to zero and activate her second phase. The timer only recognizes her current life bar, so it assumes she has less life than you do even though she still has an untouched second life bar.
  • Expy:
    • The Nanoha games are being developed by the people who made Wild ARMs. With that in mind, Amitie Florian◊ is practically a mish-mash of Wild ARMs protagonists Rudy, Virginia, and Jude. As part of the story she even has the move, Accelerator. This is confirmed by Word of God in the guide, where an interview with Nanoha creator Masaki Tsuzuki confirms that the Wild ARMs elements were include as a show of respect to Wild Arms creator Akifumi Kaneko.
    • Related to the above, the dying desert world of Eltria is the dying desert world of Filgaia in all but name, complete with monsters to kill, dungeons to explore, and unstable Lost Technology to uncover.
  • Fun with Acronyms: The name of the Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition for Gears of Destiny is "GoD BOX".
  • Future Badass: Nanoha, Fate and Hayate, of course. In Thoma's imagine shot, we see the three Aces in the Force timeline. In the epilogue, we see Nanoha and Fate in the ViVid timeline, and Hayate in the Force timeline. And we all know they will be grown up in StrikerS.
  • Glass Cannon: Presea has powerful attacks, but she is also very vulnerable like Fate and Levi. Though, her armor is already almost as bad as the Sonic/Sprite Form.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: The Materials and Amitie Florian.
  • Have We Met Yet?: Vivio, Einhart, Thoma, and Lily are all from the future, but the latter two are from two years further down the timeline. Vivio and Einhart thus have no idea who Lily is and Vivio only barely recognizes Thoma due to him suddenly appearing older and with a different hair color (Thoma and Lily have no problem telling who Vivio and Einhart are since they're both in their Adult Modes). It leads to them initially mistaking each other for Dark Pieces. This also causes confusion when Thoma and Lily run into the Wolkenritter, since the Wolkenritter don't age.
  • Hope Springs Eternal: In the end, the Materials and U-D go with the Florian Sisters to Future Eltria. They're able to help a lot through their technical expertise in restoring the land and monster hunting.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: Yuuno to Nanoha, Arf to Fate, and Reinforce to Hayate. Each of the three sidekicks follow their respective partner/master for the majority of the story, and if you play them, they kick asses of characters who are actually much stronger than them.
  • In Spite of a Nail: According to the Drama CD Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha GoD Sound Stage A. There are no significant changes between this timeline and the main series timeline up to at least Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid.
  • Kid from the Future: Vivio during the time of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid is one of the playable characters here.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Done by the protagonist on themselves in the end so that they don't acccidentally alter the timeline. They also make sure to do it in a way so that they remember that the events happen, but the all the time travelling bits are hand waved away as something else, so that they don't try to reverse it. They will also remember everything when they meet the Materials or the Gears again.
  • Last-Name Basis:
    • Discussed during Signum's encounter with Rynith, when Signum remarks that she's the only one who calls Fate by her surname. Signum states that she does so out of habit, but Fate doesn't dislike it.
    • While the Liese twins call Nanoha and Fate by their first names(Aria uses "-chan," Lotte uses yobisute), they both refer to Hayate as "Yagami" without honorifics. Not only does this include Lotte, who's rude to Hayate for most of the story before developing a grudging respect for her, but also Aria, who's somewhat more polite despite everything that has happened.
  • Let's You and Him Fight: Still happens with characters thinking the other one is a Dark Piece. Vita didn't learn the last time.
  • Limit Break: For the old characters, see The Battle of Aces entry above. The Materials got new Full Drive Bursts.
    • Stern's Shin Luciferion Breaker.
    • Levi's Raijin Fusatsu Bakumetsuken.
    • Dearche's Juggernaut.
    • Amitie's E.O.D.
    • Kyrie's S.R.I.
    • Yuuno's Arrester Chain.
    • Arf's Lightning Fall.
    • Vivio's Sacred Blazer.
    • Einhard's Haō Dankū Ken.
    • Thoma's Divide Zero "Eclipse".
    • Lotte & Aria's Mirage Assault.
    • Linith's Plasma Saber.
    • Presea's Crucifixion.
    • U-D's Ancient Matrix.
  • Look Behind You: Used by Vivio to run away from Yuuno after their fight.
  • Mid-Season Upgrade: In Sequence 6, Stern gives these to four of the characters for them to use during the final battle against U-D. Hayate and Chrono gets the Waffenträger and Ostwind respectively. The other two characters who get upgrades depends on who you choose for the third and fourth fights of Sequence 6. If you chose them, Nanoha will get the Nebelwerfer, Fate will get the Hornisse, Signum will get the Wirbelwind, and Vita will get the Brummbär.
    • You can choose either Nanoha/Fate, Nanoha/Signum, Vita/Signum or Vita/Fate.
    • If you choose Kyrie in the first round of the Final Battle and Amitie in the second, Amitie will get a Mid-Season Upgrade, too.
    • "Lord" Dearche gets her Mid-Season Upgrade in the end of Sequence 10, becoming "Lord" Dearche TRINITY.
  • Old Save Bonus: Playing GoD with an existing save from the previous Battle of Aces game will instantly unlock the Valkyrie costume for Nanoha, the Klonoa costume for Fate, and the Wonder Momo costume for Hayate (as seen here◊). Those without a BoA save will need to unlock them by having the three characters finish Time Attack Mode in 300 seconds.
  • One-Woman Army: Linith, as she stomps over Nanoha, Signum and Reinforce Eins in one run.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Mariel Atenza is always referred as "Mari", even credited as Mari in the speech box.
  • Original Generation:
    • The Florian sisters, Amitie and Kyrie.
    • Kudakeenu Yami — The Unbreakable Dark.
  • Playable Epilogue: Chapter X, a Dénouement Episode that could only be accessed after winning all of the pre-climax fights against the Unbreakable Dark in all routes.
  • Posthumous Character: Clyde Harlaown, Chrono's late father, is mentioned a few times in the story. Ditto for Alicia.
    • Presea and Linith. Only Dark Pieces of them appear in the story.
  • Power Creep, Power Seep:
    • The travel through time is causing Thoma's Bible of the Silver Cross to malfunction, which conveniently shuts down the Anti-Magic and other abilities that would make him broken in the A's timeline.
    • Reinforce returns, but is slowly dying, which explains the nerfing she got here.
    • On the other end of the spectrum, Sacred Heart and Asteion turned out to be capable of helping Vivio and Einhard gain limited flight capabilities, explaining why they're able to fight in mid-air here when they couldn't in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid.
  • Put on a Bus: Yuuno, Arf and the Liese Twins don't fight in the Grand Finale. Considering how strong the Final Boss is, it's maybe the best.
  • Robot Wizard: The Florian sisters (in this game) in are Ridiculously Human Robots who are just as capable of using magic as the rest of the cast.
  • Say My Name: When Arf goes KO, she screams Fate's name.
  • Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Nanoha and the Florian sisters on the GoD BOX cover.
  • Separated by a Common Language: On Eltria, Lost Logia are called OOPArt (Out of Place Artifacts).
  • Shout-Out: Levi's special FDB line, "Eternal Thunder Sword! Opponent dies instantly!" is a reference to the "Eternal Force Blizzard" meme on 2ch.
  • Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility: Even if this is a What If? Alternate History to the main Timeline, some are still declaring that information that come from this as Non-canon to the main timeline. Examples includes U-D's involvement with the Book of Darkness, and the strength and history of already established characters minus Hayate.
  • Spinning Piledriver: Arf's Limit Break.
  • Super Move Portrait Attack: And it's always the same portray for the same character, even if the costume doesn't match at all. There are three exceptions: Hayate, Dearche and U-D's have extra portraits for their respective Super Modes.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With the Liese Twins and the Wolkenritter due to what happened in the series. They still get along with everyone else.
    • They can't believe how nice Hayate is to the point they suspect her of being a Dark Piece. However they seem to get along later. Lotte says she doesn't like Hayate's ideals, but she respects her persistence.
    • With Vita — really bad to the point you expect them to start ripping each other's hair.
    • With Signum — very professionally to the point of awkwardness.
    • They blame Reinforce for the lives that were lost and how bad their lives had became.
  • Time Machine: Naturally, it's identified as a Lost Logia.
  • Time Travel: First, Kyrie travels to this Alternate Continuity where the Examia exist. Then she's followed by Amitie who tries to stop her. The Time Machine had a side effect that it brings Vivio, Einhard, Thoma and Lily to this timeline, too. In the end, all of them go back to their respective timelines, the Florian sisters being accompanied by the Purple Sky Family.
  • Trailers Always Spoil: Kurokishi Mode Thoma was revealed in the second trailer before it happened in Force.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: The Dark Pieces have some boosts, but In-Universe they are stated to be not as skilled as their original counterparts. The most blatant examples are the Dark Pieces of Vivio, who are in their Sankt Kaiser Mode. They actually must be the among the most powerful characters in this game, yet they are defeated by Einhard and Shamal like any other Mook.
  • Versus Character Splash: Unlike the previous game, it also appears in the Story Mode.
    • During the Story Mode, the character sprites of certain characters change at some point. U-D in her Combat Mode, Amitie with Kyrie's Variant Zapper, Unison Hayate and Dearche Trinity.
  • Villain Shoes:
    • Averted with the Materials, who have became Anti-Heroines, and Dark Piece Linith in Sequence 07-R, who even cannot be called an Anti-Villain.
    • Played straight with Dark Piece Presea in Sequence 07-P.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Just where are Lindy and Amy during this entire incident?

Alternative Title(s): The Battle Of Aces, The Gears Of Destiny, Battle Of Aces, Gears Of Destiny, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

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