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''Agarest Senki'' (known as ''Record of Agarest War'' in North America and ''Agarest: Generations of War'' in Europe) is a [[Turn-Based Strategy|strategy RPG]] developed by Idea Factory.
The story begins with Leonhardt, also known as General Golden Leo, turning against his men while protecting the life of a young elven girl and giving his life in the process. He is approached by a mysterious woman known as Dyshana, who agrees to resurrect him in exchange for an oath:
A prequel under title ''Agarest Senki ZERO'' and a sequel under the title ''Agarest Senki 2'' was also released. A spinoff, developed by former members of the then recently defunct Flight Plan, titled ''Agarest Senki Mariage'' [sic], was released on PSP. All three console games have been released in English and ported to the PC. ''Agarest Senki Mariage'' remained Japan and PSP only after these ports were released until a PC port (and only PC) was released on January 31st 2019, making it trail the last PC port by 4 years.
Don't confuse with ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''.
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=== ''Agarest Senki'' contains the following tropes: ===
* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Special mention goes to Lizerotte for this one. If all of your companions were busty...
* [[Action Girl]]: At least one of the love interests in each generation is a strong melee attacker. Noah in third generation stands out, being practically an [[Expy]] of one [[Indiana Jones|Henry Jones Jr
* [[Adventurer Outfit]]
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Zerva, Vashtor, Dyshana, Qua, Ryuryu. Do we need to go on?
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]:
** {{spoiler|Midas}}.
** {{spoiler|Vashtor if you don't redeem him}}.
** {{spoiler|Keith as well counts}}.
** {{spoiler|So does Kasibal}}.
** Dark Knight {{spoiler|Arzest}}.
* [[Anti-Grinding]]: Despite having a lot of things that encourage players to grind, straying out of the main quest to train adds more turns to the total count, [[Lost Forever|which will result some events and characters to be blocked or lost permanently]]. Being stronger than the game expect also cut down battle bonus and benefit you get in the main quests. [[Subverted Trope|US release modded the game so that you can grind in a dungeon all you want without spending turns]].
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Auto-battle, why did you just have the squishy mage jump into melee range and physically attack an opponent who can counter? Why did you spend everyone's AP to ensure an overkill against one monster when there were seven others still on the battlefield? Why did you use an attack that was completely ineffective against/healed the enemy?
** However, auto-battle ''is'' good at moving (since it knows where the computer is going to move, also being the computer), as well as setting up Extended Area Combos. Just don't let it do the attacking as well.
* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Each and every love interest you choose in the True ending (yes, even [[Older Than He Looks|Plum]] and Dyshana)}}.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Rex loves doing this to keep reminding us the players that he is the real hero.
* [[Badass Family]]: The Raglen family.
* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: In the Dark Ending.
* [[Battle Harem]]: Five generations' worth.
* [[Beach Episode]]: Oddly, there is one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phRko7d64SY for our viewing pleasure
* [[Big Eater]]: Faina; oh boy, for an [[Ill Girl]], she sure eats a lot.
* [[Blade on a Stick]]: Elaine (first generation) and Valeria (second generation).
** Ganz (third generation) and Reverie (fourth generation).
* [[Break Meter]]: Empties as the target gets hit and is vital to the strategy to the game. When the meter is emptied after being hit enough, attacks do extra damage, and some Arts get in a few extra hits at the end of their animations. The game encourages you to use high break attacks first, then stack as many Break Arts as you can at the end of the [[For Massive Damage]].
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Everyone does this when they use their 3rd EX along with a [[Badass Creed]].
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "Silver Sword: A sword made of silver" [[Sarcasm Mode|Gee, thanks item description!]]
** Winfield calls Dyshana as this when she points out things he already knows in the fifth generation.
* [[Chaste Hero]]: Ladius is pretty much the epitome of this trope.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Thoma and Winfield's conversation at the hot springs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvYI82nCSs&feature=related It must be seen to be believed
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Interesting example: basically the last generation descendant Rex gets to choose any single girl as his love and some of them [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|might have fought alongside his ''Ancestor'' Leonhardt]].
* [[Combination Attack]]: They must have spent most of this game's budget for those awesome combos.
* [[Combos]]: Which leads to breaks, then to Overkills.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: SO MUCH!
** Until you realize that almost any fight, including Midas, can be won by sticking one character right up in the boss's face and keeping everyone else about six spaces back. Almost all bosses have Impulse Wave or a similar skill, which will toss the dead character back to the others, just in range to be revived and sent right back the next turn. Repeat as necessary until you have the SP needed to just kill the boss in a single turn.
** The fact that the bosses will still have combination attacks as base skills rather than requiring the attacks that make up those skills still comes across as a bit of cheating though. They also seem to use less AP to pull of these abilities, as though they have the AP reducing Will Power even though they don't or don't even have the SP to have it active.
*** ''[[Cross Edge]]'' has done a similar thing.
* [[Critical Status Buff]]: Some characters have passive abilities that activate when their health drops low enough.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Winfield is cursed by the Bracelet: thanks to it, now he is fated to become a demon and bring the Bracelet to the Demon King, but on the same time, the Bracelet won't let him die until he fulfilled his role therefore making him practically immortal.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: In the second generation, there's Sherufanir, the [[Youkai|Kitsune]]-like daughter of a male neocollom and a god-blooded human woman (which may disqualify her from counting, as she's a [[Half-Human Hybrid]]). She's also a valid choice in the [[Romance Sidequest]].
** You've also got the harpuia Silvi and Murumina (in the fourth and fifth generations, respectively), and Qua the rabbit-type neocollom girl. Not to mention some of the capturable monsters, like the Nekomata-types.
* [[Dating Sim]]: Shades of it. Yeah, good luck choosing.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Played with
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Leonhadt is on all promotional artwork, everyone thought he is the main character. He's not, it's his great-great grandson
* [[Degraded Boss]]:
* [[Design
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Hmm... {{spoiler|Did you just kick an evil god's ass
**
** ''[[Agarest Senki 2]]'' also does this one ''in the [[
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: ''TOO DAMN MANY TO COUNT'', but here are some examples. Beware: you might get the wrong ideas (or the right ones).
** Vira-Lorr's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLkFBsPMrGk&feature=related idea for curing hangovers].
** Yayoi... see yumyum at the bottom for that.
** Luana [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBbkmcW2-U&feature=related with new clothes].
** Fiana's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHobfM_Vrm4 training ideas].
* [[Double Entendre]]: The first boss is Jumbo Cock.
** A lot of the dating sim dialogues are built with [[Double Entendre|double entendres]] '''RIVALING [[Endless Frontier]]'' and ''[[Ar
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Leonhardt dreams that he is killed by a [[Black Knight]]; guess what happens three minutes later.
* [[Dual Boss]]: In fifth generation, the Gurgs start appearing in caster/melee pairs.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: It took five generations, but you finally did. Or [[Bittersweet Ending|did you?]]
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: {{spoiler|Melchior, oh God Melchior! First, he ordered the annihilation of all elves and the syriums, then wage war to the other countries, and he also forms an alliance with some evil monsters, and if you read his profile, you'll know that he and his father is also the one that killed Leonhardt's family before the game even begins, and yet everyone seems to gone all forgiving him in the end! Oh, and do I already mention that he has no [[Freudian Excuse|sympathetic past]], and he [[My Master, Right or Wrong|just following his]] [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed king]]}}?
* [[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: {{spoiler|EVERY previous generations protagonists and heroines}}.
* [[Episode Zero: The Beginning]]
* [[Erotic Eating]]: Happens at least one in every game. Bananas, sausages and other things. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCdtS8pVxM You tell me].
* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Vashtor}}.
* [[Expy]]: Rex(5th generation) is basically Leonhardt (first generation) with different hair.
* [[Fake Longevity]]: All games in the series are long enough with the passing through generations aspect of it, but the sheer number of obligatory fights in each one of them makes it longer than it really is, ''really longer''.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Happens in each generation.
** [[The Hero]]: Leonhardt or his descendants.
** [[The Lancer]]: Hero's love interest usually.
** [[The Chick]]: Ellis (through all the generations).
** [[The Big Guy]]: Depends on who you take.
** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Again, depends on who you take.
*** If we go by the
*** [[The Hero]]: Leonhardt.
*** [[The Lancer]]: Zerva.
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Borgnine.
*** [[The Chick]]: Vira-Lorr.
*** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Ellis (remember, this is generation 1).
*** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Winfield.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Let's just say
* [[Generation Xerox]]: The next generation's protagonist appearance will be based on who his mother was and will take up the same quest his father had. Rinse and repeat until one of them kills the final boss.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Qua.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The promo art could be considered porn, yet somehow the game gets away with a "T" rating.
** The ESRB's explanation? [[It Makes Sense in Context|Despite the constant sexual innuendo, ridiculous amount of fanservice, and CGs of almost completely naked women, nothing strictly warrants an M rating]].
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Last
* [[Guardian Entity]]: Borgnine is this to Ellis.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: The [[True Ending]] is ''really'' easy to miss since you have to keep track of where the [[Karma Meter]] is at and making sure you don't grind too much since a high "turn count" (battles fought) ''will'' lock you out of getting it.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Certain endings for
* [[The Hero]]: Leohardt and his descendants, but with an interesting twist: {{spoiler|depending on who you choose as your [[Love Interest|girl to marry]], the descendants have different appearances; one could have blonde, black or blue hair, long, short, etc... or completely different appearences altogether}}.
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Leonhardt uses swords. Soul breeding will typically result in his descendants using them as well.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Well... in a sense. {{spoiler|When Leonhardt made that pact about his descendants and all, he pledged them to be seals to contain an evil god. Way to go, stupid Ancestor: you screwed your descendants over royally}}.
** However, in the [[True Ending]] Route of the Digest mode of ''Agarest Senki ZERO, {{spoiler|while he does ask for forgiveness from his descendants, he never once regretted his decision on that day to become a Soul Vessel for Dyshana. And besides, if Dyshana never showed up, none of his descendants would be alive anyway}}.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Present throughout the generations. Totally worth the dark karma.
* [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]
* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: There's a sword named [[Infinity+1 Sword|Shining Light]]
** Though if you're just looking for pure physical power, the extra STR given by Leo's Sword makes it stronger than the Shining Light, but just barely.
* [[Instant Death Radius]]: [[That One Boss]] Midas will kill any party member within 2 squares with Phoenix Strike. No exceptions.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: There are some, in pretty much all games so far, in the Gallery; specifically in the characters bio, party members will get an entry in the database as soon as they're introduced, there's the possibility that this member will do something of importance in the next generation, which usually is tied to [[The Hero]] of said generation, and the information about it will be available as sson as their general info became available in the Gallery; of course, this is reserved for the supporting cast, [[The Protagonist]] and [[Love Interest|Love Interests]] of the given genration are free of this.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Each of the generations that has a [[Romance Sidequest]] has at least one non-human girl as an option. Leonhardt (first generation) has a Syrium named Fyuria (basically a flat chested Elf). Ladius (second generation) has Sherufanir, a [[Cute Monster Girl]] [[Half-Human Hybrid]]. Thoma (third generation) has Lavinia or Faina, sisters and High Elf/Dark Elf hybrids. Finally, Duran (fourth generation) has Silvi, a [[Winged Humanoid|Featherfolk]].
* [[Karma Meter]]: The simplified version.
* [[Kill'Em All]]:
* [[Knife Nut]]: Fyuria, Sherufanir
** All four also have a [[Combination Attack]] with each other.
* [[Level Grinding]]: Some grinding to required to beat the crap outta {{spoiler|an evil God that basically started this whole spirit vessel idea
* [[Limit Break]]: Under certain conditions like low health, high SP, etc... your character can pull off a high damage special attack that is basically this.
** More specifically, there are certain passive abilities that greatly increase damage at low health, and all characters gain three unique attacks that can only be used with large amounts of SP, which is gained in small amounts by attacking and being attacked as well as massive amounts to all party members by having characters die. [[Desperation Attack|If both low HP and high SP are met on characters with the right passives]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|they can easily destroy an enemy hundreds of levels over them in a single blow
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: To be expected considering the game spans five generations.
* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: This game's got humans, syriums, high elves, dark elves, onerthes', neocolloms, ryulents, larvas, greers, nelths, harpuias and yulishees.
* [[Love Confession]]: Present throughout the generations
* [[Love Interest]]: Each protagonist has three potential brides per generation except for the last guy, who gets his pick from any of the single women who weren't a previous love interest.
* [[Magic Knight]]: Soul Breeding can result in the main character being one.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Despite all the sexual fanservice the game throws at you, you will never get a glorious [[Panty Shot]] from any of the girls. Even when tentacles are involved.
* [[Marry Them All]]: Plum invokes it toward the end of the fifth generation. It's not an option.
** In [[Updated Rerelease|new scenes in ''Agarest Senki Zero'''s Digest Mode]], it's revealed that in the end, Leonhardt, Ladius, Thoma and Duran settled for this [[Offscreen Afterlife|after death]] with their respective love interests.
* [[Master Swordsman]]: Leonhardt and his descendants are this.
** ...Provided who you chose as a wife in the previous generation would allow said descendants to wield swords.
* [[Metal Slime]]: Golden Bats. They typically have levels far higher than normal for the area you in, but have roughly the same health as the monsters you should be fighting, so if you can end the fight quickly, you can see roughly a 600% or higher bonus to your rewards. However, their Will Powers make it so they take significantly reduced damage from everything, they naturally resist magic, and once they hit 25% health, physical attacks no longer work. Oh, and they [[Regenerating Health|regenerate 20% of their health a turn]], can [[Life Drain|drain your health]], and can [[The Medic|easily fully heal all of the other enemies while they're at it
** Your [[Limit
* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: Appears in every generations ending.
* [[Monty Haul]]: Bought all the [[Downloadable Content|DLCs?]] Congratulations, now nothing can stop you from annihilating all enemies from Gen 1 to Gen 4.
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: For all the sexy scenes the game likes to advertise with, the story is a fairly serious war drama. Which makes it all the more jarring when the scene shifts to a bunnygirl fellating a banana.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The mood at the end of Generation 4? Hopeful, and on a high note. And then you're shunted to the beginning of Generation 5, where the very first thing you get to hear is how screwed everything is on the demon-fortified continent, how the best resistance against the forces of darkness fell ten years ago and started the decline, and how victory is highly unlikely, even if one could pull off the herculean task of uniting the remaining human countries in spite of the myriad of demon fortresses.
** Oh, this game has a ton of these. Just check the [[Mood Dissonance]] trope.
* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: It is possible, [[Guide Dang It|with judicious use of a guide]] to have all 3 love interests at intimacy 5 (blushing) at the end of every generation. It's even required to unlock some events.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Three endings: True, Normal
* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: Lavinia tries this with Thoma. It doesn't work.
* [[Ninja]]: First generation love interest Fyuria fits this trope.
** Beatrice fits this better, considering two of her unique abilities specifically state that they're Ninja Arts.
* [[New Season, New Name]]: Leo's Golden Sword seems to change each games
* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]: The 3D monsters. Unlike the standard monsters, they are "giant" monster who fill several squares in the field.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Leonhardt knocks the dark knight off a cliff at the end of the first generation. He's back in the second generation {{spoiler|as Vashtor}}.
* [[No Points for Neutrality]]: Averted. The best ending requires a Neutral karma meter.
* [[Odd Name Out]]: Ellis, Alice and... Fiona?
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: If you have a cleared data on ''Agarest Senki 1'', you can use it to import data to ''Agarest Senki Zero''. Likewise, ''[[Agarest Senki 2]]'' will also be using this setup by importing data from ''Agarest Senki Zero''.
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: Played with: you have to marry one of the girls in the current generation where you are treated to a scene of them with nothing but bedsheets. One of the few [[JRPG]]s to let the player have sex with their love interest
* [[Our Elves Are Different]]: For one, they seem to age to a certain point and then stop; and two, they're not always called elves.
* [[Pals with Jesus]]: Borgnine not only is one of the first characters to join your party, but also happens to be a [[Our Gods Are Greater|Larva]], a lesser god.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Thoma gives a fairly impressive one to a racist elf.
{{quote|'''Young Elf''': B-But... had she not brought you here, none of this would have happened! Even if the dark elf did not draw the monsters herself, this is still her fault!
'''Thoma''': A slow mind will never win a woman's heart, you know. Besides, she has a name--Lavinia. And a pretty name at that. Perhaps you could be a gentleman and use it?
'''Young Elf''': Be silent, outsider! You know nothing of us! You should not profess opinions on that which you do not understand!
'''Thoma''': I may be an outsider, but I hardly see why that deserves such an exaggerated display of emotion. And where, may I ask, were you, while we were fighting to save your village? While Lavinia was fighting desperately to save your village? How pathetic you are, to cast blame on one who risked her life to protect yours. Elf, dark elf, it matters not. A woman is a woman. There are women who surpass me in strength. There are those who I surpass. But many women do not know how to fight. If you are strong, what is your obligation as a man? What must you do when women are in danger? Do you cast aside those whom you do not care for, and abandon them to their fate? Or do you give aid to women in peril, regardless of whether you love or hate them? How can you call yourself a man when you hide from danger and tell the person who saved you to leave? You, my friend, are not only a failure as a man, but as a person as well.}}
** Qualifies to me more as a [[Screw You, Elves]] speech.
*** Not at all. It had nothing to do with the jerk being an elf and more to do with being rude to a woman that saved him while he cowered.
* [[Regional Bonus]]: The North American version came out nine months after the European version, and fixed much of that version's [[Blind Idiot Translation]]. This version also lets you grind in a dungeon without spending turns.
* [[Relationship Values]]: The better a potential love interest likes that generation's protagonist, the better stats their son gets in the next.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Ellis denies it, but it's pretty much obvious that she loves Rex because he looks like Leonhardt.
* [[School Swimsuit]]: Winfield forces Hildegard to wear one.
* [[Serious Business]]: Winfield (and later Thoma) takes peeking girls at hot spring too seriously, to the point he thinks it's worth dying for.
* [[Sex Sells]]: The US marketing campaign for the game actually managed to exaggerate the amount of [[Fan Service]] [[Up to Eleven|in the game]]
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Fyuria has light-based attacks, her brother Zerva has darkness-based attacks. Together, they have a powerful [[Yin-Yang Bomb]].
* [[Stripperiffic]]:
** Fyuria wear [[Too Many Belts]], and not a lot else.
** Sherufanir wears a dress that combines an [[Impossibly Low Neckline]] with a window in the front to show off her garter-belt.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: Leonhardt's Sword, you'll need it.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: There's is an overkill message if you do so, and a few good items when doing them.
* [[Third Eye]]: Vira-Lorr has one. This is a characteristic of her race.
* [[Timed Mission]]: The true ending is locked out if you take more than 500 turns to get there.
* [[Time Skip]]: The story spans
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Vashtor, as if it wasn't obvious.
* [[Translation Tropes]]: The text gets a full translation, but there was no voice acting done, so all the characters speak in Japanese.
* [[True Companions]]: Each generation gets their own.
** The first generation fits this more than the rest however.
* [[Tsundere]]:
** The "canon brides" are all tsunderes (Fyuria, Valeria, Lavinia and Hilda), with Valeria and Lavinia being the most violent ones.
** Duran, the hero of fourth gen, is a male example, especially in the beginning of the journey.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]:
** Played with near the end: basically, there are more female than male party members and as such it comes to this. Especially in the last generation with Rex who is basically Leonhardt 2.0 with ''ALL'' the girls who the others before him never married or fought alongside.
** Actually weaponized in the combo EX Pink Poison. Queuing up the level 2 EX of Rex, Qua, Beatrice, Murmina, Plum and Reverie plays a skit in which the five of them confront Rex as he faces down the targeted monster. They then begin glowing with menacing auras and charge at him in a [[Big Ball of Violence]]. Rex narrowly escapes. The monster is not so lucky...
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: Reappearance added in more voicing, upgraded the visuals, added in the gallery, as well as new items and a new dungeon. ''Agarest Senki Zero'''s Digest Mode for the first game cut out all non-story battles, locked onto the true end, and added in new scenes to the [[Playable Epilogue|post-game content]] that imply or outright state relations between characters in the two games {{spoiler|such as Shernini being the founder of Sharona's hometown and Alice being Ellis's ancestor or even mother}}.
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Fyuria admits that when she was a kid when there are no wars, she used to be a ''very'' cute generic girl, all she wants is a doll and making a flower crown. Aww...
* [[We Are as Mayflies]]: Of all the races presented in-game, humans are the only ones that noticeably age over the generations.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: Have to
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Sure, you can see
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Most of Rex harem consists of the girls that raised him ever since he was born.
* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: Once you're used to killing [[Dual Boss]] Gurgs, the game throws four of them at you in one fight.
* [[You Are Already Dead]]: A key mechanic to the games
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: {{spoiler|Bad ending has this
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Congratulations! {{spoiler|After dozens upon dozens of hours worth of playtime, you've finally reached the end of the fifth generation and have defeated the [[Final Boss]] who was responsible for the evil that occurred throughout the game. Time to sit back and enjoy the ending? No! Now you have to take care of
=== Agarest Zero ===
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* [[Beach Episode]]: As an event no less!
* [[Big Eater]]: In one of the cutscenes, Leonis is implied to be one.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Much like the first game, the characters call their 3rd EX skill.
** In one cutscene early in the 2nd generation, Tetora does this to Niel with her "Magnificent Descending Cumulus Fist!".
* [[Evil Counterpart Race|Dark Counterpart Race]]: Shernini reveals to Leonis that the Syrium are this to High Elves, right down to their creators; [[Cain and Abel|Lenion and Chaos]].
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: {{spoiler|Vashtor becomes the servant of Summerill and will not join the good guys for 1000 years. The rest of the [[Black Knight|Gurgs]] get [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].}}
** Also, Leonis must survive. {{spoiler|Which makes the [[Heroic Sacrifice|normal ending]] non-canon by default.}}
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: While the game takes itself fairly seriously, the fourth wall is torn down for the post-game Boundary Plane events. For example;
{{quote|
Leonis: "Oh, I see someone has been kind enough to translate his comments for us."
Dana: "That seems rather miraculous as well..."
Shernini: "Only now, Decimal, do you understand! Oh, I shall never let you go!"
Decimal: "Buh...Buk... (Translation: [[Marshmallow Hell|Y-You are choking me, evil woman!]]" }}
** The scene goes on like that for awhile, ending with a [[Fade to Black]] and Friedelinde telling everyone;
{{quote|
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Happens as an event no less!
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: You can capture ''bosses'' in this game! {{spoiler|'''[[Up to Eleven|Even the]] [[True Final Boss]]!'''}}
* [[Running Gag]]: Sieghart dies in the prologue, just as how Leo died in the beginning of the game.
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* [[Sex Sells]]: Averted oddly, considering this is released by the guys who made the first game look like an over-the-top [[Fan Service]] game.
* [[Shameless Self Promoter]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0oMeeVnCI&feature=player_embedded Aksys Games'] response to the [[Catherine]] promo video.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[
** On that note, a number of achievement/trophy names are shout-outs. Among others, there's [[Star Wars|'It's a Trap!']], [[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy|'Stay Classy, Kraltarla']], [[
** There's a smithing item called the [[Harry Potter (novel)|Mirror of Erised]].
* [[Skinship Grope]]: Mimel does this to Sayane during the [[Hot Springs Episode]].
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[[Agarest Senki 2]] (also known as [[Record of Agarest War 2]]) is a sequel in name only of [[Agarest Senki 1]]. It is set in a parallel world opposite the Agarest World of the first game. The story follow a man named Weiss who has an amnesia after he killed a god. He then encounters a woman named Eva who tells him that it was a bad idea, and that he now has to revive them with him and three women as a catalyst. The game then follows him and his descendants trying to revive said gods while finding out who [[Quest for Identity|Weiss really was.]]
Developed by [[Idea Factory]] and [[Compile Heart]], this game was released in Japan on November 18, 2010 for the [[Play Station 3]] console. Gameplay-wise, it looks very similar to ''[[Cross Edge]]'' except that it is now easier to play this game rather than a [[Guide Dang It]] battle system.
There's a confirmation [http://www.siliconera.com/2011/12/09/record-of-agarest-war-2-coming-overseas-care-of-aksys-in-summer-2012/ that the US and Europe are getting it.]
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: If you think all the women {{spoiler|beating up on Janus and Jude is funny whenever they peep at the hot springs}}, then it is this trope.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Danaos}}, we're looking at you.
* [[Accidentally Accurate]]: Black Hole in this game pull enemies into it's mass black body before evaporating into a small white mass which causes a massive explosion. This is actually accurate, Black Hole did not just conveniently disappear like in some other fictions shown, Hawking radiation has proven that after a Black Hole lost it's masses an enormous explosions surpassing nukes will happen.
* [[Action Girl]]: Par for the course.
* [[Adventure Guild]]: What you will be visiting a few times if you want to advance the plot.
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* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Uh yup, definitely present in battle animations. Gets more jarring when Georg's scar is located on his left eye, instead of the usual.
* [[Amnesiac God]]: {{spoiler|Chaos.}}
* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: For a brief while when {{spoiler|Gray's}} not in your party, you can have Jude be the guy walking on the map.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Chaos, he even has to remind the heroes that he is the God of Darkness.}}
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: The [[Elite Mook|garvels]] wield axes in this game
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* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|If you got the Bad Ending.}}
* [[Beta Couple]]: That would have to be Janus and Chloe, and Ignis and Cynthia. Both of them do also have one child who travels with you (Jude and Lizerotte respectively).
* [[
* [[
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Mobius, doubles as a [[Big Bad Friend]] seeing as he's Fasti in human form.}}
* [[Black Knight]]: {{spoiler|The Gurgs are back in this game.}} Unfortunately, they also got [[Demoted to Extra]].
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** [[Combination Attack]]: The bread and butter of the gameplay itself.
* [[Colorful Theme Naming]]: Weiss (white), Schwartz (black), Gray.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Oh [[Villain Decay|Summerill]], you never stood a chance. {{spoiler|And then [[Took a Level
* [[Dancing Theme]]: One of the first few trailers of this game has Fiona and Eva pull off an [[The Idolmaster (video game)|Idolmaster]]. And yes, you can obtain said trailer in the game itself.
* [[Devil but No God]]: {{spoiler|Thankfully our [[Satan Is Good]].}}
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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Happens ''thrice'' in this game. {{spoiler|First was Chaos' consciousness fully awakening inside Gray's body. If you get the True Ending, then Mobius suddenly possesses Chaos' body, and after a few minutes (read as one boss battle), the third one happens when Chaos gets his body back from Mobius, sporting new threads.}}
* [[Guide Dang It]]: This is [[Compile Heart]] we're talking here. We would not have it any other way.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: The father-son duo, Janus and Jude. Being the [[Expy|expies]] of both Winfield and Thoma will turn anyone into this trope.
* [[The Hero]]: Weiss, and his descendants as usual.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Marina Inoue|Far]] [[Kana Asumi|too]] [[Aya Endo|many]] [[Sayuri Yahagi|in]] [[Hitomi Nabatame|this]] [[Misato Fukuen|game]], [[Natsuko Kuwatani|mostly]] from the women.
** Faz is voiced by [[Yuuki Tai]], the famous [[Super Robot Wars|Time Driver, Cobray Gordon]] himself. {{spoiler|Wait a minute...Holy shit! Compile Heart you're a genius!}}
** Fans of ''[[School Rumble]]'' might point out that Hanai has the same seiyuu as Gray. Better yet, he's ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' in ''[[
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: This is Agarest we're talking about.
** Special mention for the final one that has every heroine from all generations.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Danaos pretty much chains Melvina to the floor, [[Abusive Parents|kick her]], and just be a [[Jerkass]] to her.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: As always the protagonist and heroines of non-last generations falls victim to this trope. {{spoiler|But no one ever thought that Janus is going to die too.}}
** [[Death Is Cheap]]: And then {{spoiler|brought back for one last showdown against chaos with every generation}}
* [[Knife Nut]]: All three protagonists, but Schwartz plays this one straight whereas the other two transform theirs into a [[Laser Blade]].
* [[Laser Blade]]: Weiss and Gray's dagger whenever they do their [[Limit Break|Original Skills]] turn into a ''lightsaber''.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Weiss has no memory of what events have transpired prior to him meeting Aina.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: It's hard to tell anyone else about this game without spoiling the opening where Weiss {{spoiler|kills Summerill and Chaos who are the [[Final Boss]] and the [[True Final Boss]] of the first game respectively}}.
* [[Lazy Backup]]: Despite the fact that you can switch party members, if all four main party members die on the battlefield, it's a game over even though you have a lot of characters to choose from.
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* [[Rank Inflation]]: As usual, the highest is S, and the [[F Minus Minus|lowest goes as low as you want.]]
* [[Relationship Values]]: Present in the game as well. The higher the relationship value, the stronger the next generation protagonist will be.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: The final scene before you finally make Ignis and Cynthia be close to each other is {{spoiler|to rescue her from demons at Enhambre.}} The other men in the party even poke fun of him for that.
* [[Restart At Level One]]: What happens to Weiss after he gets blown off from the territory of the gods.
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* {{spoiler|[[Satan Is Good]]}}
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: The flashbacks have a lot of fun with this, like remember that blood on the screen? {{spoiler|It's not Chaos's it's Weiss's blood.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DifdsASUlh0 Ignis' 2nd EX Skill looks] like [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|a certain Gundam attack.]]
** The final animation of Annihilate Circle really looks like [[Super Robot Wars Gaiden|Cybuster's Akashic Buster.]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Even though one of the first few official trailers has Eva's name in English language, some still refer to her as Iva for some weird reason.
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Aside from the fact that overkilling will give you items, this game takes it [[Up to Eleven]] with an Ultimate Strike where your selected party (enemy must be in "Break" state, and you choose whether you attack an enemy with everyone or with just a certain number of people) will attack the enemy with all they've got, and finish them off with a [[Finishing Move]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJq7akpeYc where two or more people will do their EX Combo provided there's one.]
* [[Thunder Equals Downpour]]: At the start of the game no less.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Remember the gag trailer where they're showing off the exclusive
* [[The Voiceless]]: Averted; ''everyone gets voiced'' in this game. Including the blacksmith, the item store owner, the guild attendant, and the fortune teller.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Attacking a fairy. She'll keep apologising until she's either dead or the combo stops.
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* [[You Lose At Zero Trust]]: If your love rate with the girl in Agarest Senki 2 is low, your character will force himself on her to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUR5IA9RfGQ&feature=related have a kid] as part of the sacrifice.
=== Record of Agarest War
[[File:Agarestmbox.jpg|thumb|240px|Mariage's special edition box art featuring the second generation cast. Clockwise from left: Ciela, Saika, Geolette, Piadina.]]
The newest and seemingly final Agarest game of Compile Heart, however this time they're teaming up with the former staff who worked on the [[Summon Night]] games. The artwork is now done instead by someone named "Blade" instead of the usual artwork by Hirano Katsuyuki.
The story goes that the first generation protagonist will fail to kill the demon king so his three choices of wives will have to carry his soul to pass on to his descendants so that one day, they get to kill the demon king.
Oh and this game
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=== ''Record of Agarest War Mariage'' contains the following tropes: ===
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Rain a few times in the first generation. Subverted in the second generation: Ciela regularly gets into these situations, but as they're both girls the other girl ignores or encourages it.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]: Random encounters will stop if you are sufficiently powerful and you can manually enter fights on demand (instead of running back and forth) by holding both shoulder buttons. Unfortunately the first part only applies on the world map, not in dungeons.
* [[Anti-Grinding]]: In contrast to the very grind heavy previous games, you stop gaining level or job points if you are too powerful for the enemies you are fighting or your jobs are a high enough level compared to current enemies (respectively), eventually reaching the point you will only gain a single point for each kill.
* [[Bokukko]]: Geolette.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: A first for the series as a gameplay mechanic. The less clothing a heroine has, the more powerful she becomes.
* [[Dating Sim]]: Gains a lot more precedence compared to the first three games.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: To release the full power of a heroine's magic clothes, the current lead character must touch the maidens on them as they sit in bed and groan while directing the lead to specific parts of her body.
* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: The second generation if the MC is female.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Several of Pi's equipable underwear are stripped panties with a bear on them
* [[Gratuitous French]]: The title uses the French spelling of Mar(r)iage, though it might just be a mistake.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Pi and Saika. Ciela as well if Kunka was her mother, though Saika implies it doesn't count due to the properties of the hero's bloodline.
* [[Harem Cast]]: Both generations.
* [[Infinity Plus One Sword|Infinity Plus One Panties]]: The ぶーめらんぱんつ ("speedo", for Rain) and セクシィなしたぎ ("sexy underwear", for the first generation heroines) in the first generation as well as the しょうぶぱんつ ("Lucky Underwear", for Ciela), きわどいしたぎ ("Risky Underwear", for the other three second generation heroines) all completely nullify all elemental attacks.
* [[Job System]]: There are only 4 jobs and no two members of the four person party may have the same job at a time, but each character gets different abilities from each job.
* [[Lone Wolf Boss]]: BUTCHER is a group of Orcs lead by a Dark Elf that denies any connection to the archfiend and wants to destroy the world. {{spoiler|They're lying. Long after their defeat in an optional (yet required for the best ending) you learn they weren't even evil, just brainwashed by the archfiend.}}
* [[Marry Them All]]: Possible in the second generation, even if party is all female.
* [[Patchwork Kids]]: Ciela's mom's can be any of 3 wildly different girls. The only change this has on her is her eye color.
* [[Power Floats]]: Pi. Also each supporting girls's plumage floats behind them.
* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: Pi is a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] and at least a generation older than the rest of the gen 2 girls. She still looks like a loli. She does not act like one though and openly lusts after the hero.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Averted with Rain. The only special feature of his red eyes seem to be them being super recessive, ensuring Ciela gets her mom's eyes.
* [[Sarashi]]: Saika's default underwear, but none of her further equips.
* [[Tech Tree]] + [[Item Crafting]]: While the armor of each character is unique and can't be changed, it can be upgraded by sacrificing crafting items. There's 70 upgrades per character. While several are mere stats increases, many branches unlock new abilities entirely. There's also the normal kind of item crafting, including underwear crafting.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Kunka and Pi.
* [[Token Loli]]: Kunka in the first generation, Pi in the second.
* [[Underwear of Power]]: Literal example. The only non-cosmetic equipable item is underwear. As a result this underwear significantly changes stats and elemental resistance.
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Falcia. Averted with the second generation's staff wielder, the giant tomboy Geolette.
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