![]() Justified Extra Lives: Well, technically the characters still only have one, but in most cases-while the time loop is still in place-you'll be able to start again from the beginning of the next loop. ![]() It's Always Summer: Initially mentioned by the boatman NPC, then true until you break the loop.Instrument of Murder: The Hero has a sword hidden in a guitar.Mouse's broadsword is normal enough, but whoever heard of fighting Broadsword & Lute? Kyte and his fish, Rind Rinna's tarinba (normal Rinna's mop is more like an Improvised Weapon), Plosi's brush, Ano's book. Improbable Weapon User: Almost everyone.Hyperspace Arsenal: Claire's Time Vault, which can store your money and items between loops.Hello, Insert Name Here: The default name for the minstrel is "Mouse".German isn't so exotic in the West so the name was too sensible hence the current squadaliy. It makes sense since the main character is a travelling musician but all they really wanted it for was to sound exotic. Gratuitous German: It's original Japanese release name was Reiselied which means "Traveller's Song".Guide Dang It: Especially when you have to search outside the town.It is suggested that certain endings depend on who isn't in your party. Gotta Catch Em All: Potentially subverted.Thankfully Mouse dismisses it as something akin to a schoolgirl crush. Speaking of Rinna, her implication about two people and the park.Getting Crap Past the Radar: Recruiting Plosi in general, but specifically if the girl you take to him is Rinna, who's physically around 12 never mind what the time loop's been doing to her.Frothy Mugs of Water: Averted, alcoholic drinks are mentioned by name, and Shark Killer must have an APV that's off the charts.Fake Difficulty: If you want to recruit Grantus, you have to let him capture Rinna a second time.Cast from Hit Points: Any move that Mouse learns interprets from another character.Brainwashed: The time loop magic has also convinced everyone that Xelpherpolis marrying Roleiyu is a great idea.Blind Idiot Translation: "tarinba"? I think you mean "tambourine".Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Justified in that Mouse actually is only taking two party members and maybe a Death Chicken with him.Several of the games characters are already gods or KANNON as they're called in game.A God Am I: Xelpherpolis' ultimate goal.Aerith and Bob: The main character's "gang": Beak, Fang, and Mouse.Tropes used in Ephemeral Fantasia include: ![]() The fact that it was one of the first RPGs for the Playstation 2 also meant that expectations were unusually high.Ĭompare The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, which had the same basic concept but was received far more favourably. ![]() Unfortunately, figuring out the correct sequence of events can be an exercise in frustration. The game uses a compressed real-time system to depict the flow of time over the five day loop, and to recruit most characters, you must be in certain places at certain times. The main weakness of the game comes in the clock system and its high Guide Dang It factor. To do this, you need to break characters out of the time loop by averting the fates they have lived through over and over, thus "proving" that time is looping: for example, in a moment of weakness one character tries to poison another out of romantic jealousy by preventing her from carrying out the plot, you can break the time loop's hold on her. The only way to stop it is to defeat Xelpherpolis, but to do that you need to gain strength and gather allies. You wake up on the sixth day to discover that you're just arriving at the island: you've become trapped in a five-day time loop which only you, Pattimo, Roleiyu and Xelpherpolis are aware of. But nothing as strange as what happens on the last day, when Xelpherpolis freezes time itself and proclaims that he will never let you leave the island. During the five-day ceremony they meet the bride to be - a melancholy girl named Roleiyu - and witness all manner of strange and tragic incidents. They have been invited to the island of Pandule to perform at the cornation of its new king, Xelpherpolis. The game stars a wandering minstral and his sentient lute Pattimo. It's also known as Reiselied, which is German for "Travel Song". A perfect example of "good idea, bad execution", Ephemeral Fantastia was one of the first fully-3D RPGs released for the PlayStation 2.
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