History VideoGame / BeyondTheBeyond

* BalefulPolymorph: An irreversible accident involving transformation powder turned Tont (and another Simone villager later in the game) into a yellow slime.

** SimpleStaff: Annie, Edward, Tont.

** KnifeNut: Domino. Interestingly, when [[PrestigeClass upgraded]], he switches to a more traditional cutlass (he's a pirate), but just like the knives he used before, he attacks by ''[[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks THROWING]]'' it.

''Beyond the Beyond'' was one of the first {{Role Playing Game}}s released during the Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStation's life cycle, and one of the first by game developer Camelot (after changing its name from Sonic! Software Planning and working on the first two ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' games).

* CrystalDragonJesus: Arawn.
* DemotedtoExtra: Everyone, but Finn is subject to this after the Bandore arc, with them only occasionally commenting on certain events.

* FlunkyBoss: Dagoot and Yeon.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Akkadias, the actual final boss.

* {{Pirate}}: Domino.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Finn.
** TheLancer: Percy (sometimes Edward).
** TheSmartGuy: Tont.
** TheBigGuy: Samson.
** TheChick: Annie.
** {{Sixth Ranger}}s: Domino and Lorelei.
** TeamPet: Steiner.

* ATasteOfPower: You've got Samson busting heads for about five minutes after he joins the group before he gets affected by his plot-induced curse. Then he becomes TheLoad for a great long while, as the curse will either occasionally freeze him in place, or hit him for damage.
* BadassPacifist: Or Pacifists,a lot cutscenes imply the entire party maybe this, as they seem to only initiate a fight when backed into a corner, never stops them from kicking butt though.

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* CallAHitPointASmeerp: There are two gauges to measure a character's fighting potential: Vitality Points (VP) and Life Points (LP). If a character's VP run out, they get stunned for a turn and have to use up some of their LP to get their fighting strength back. If a character's LP run out, the character is considered "dead" and has to be revived by a priest.

* KingMook: A few forced-encounters against enemy soldiers. Two of these are guarding a specific location and give no outright indication of just how much tougher they are, having several times the HP of normal men and bordering on MarathonBoss status (or at least BaitAndSwitchBoss), capable of one-shotting weaker team members with their arrows. Another one of these guys shows up later with several regular soldiers with him, and it is plainly obvious this time because he is quite noticeably taller than the others. You can be easily smashed by either encounter if you think it'll be over in a couple rounds.

** Expect any dungeon you enter to become this if you're underleveled, as the majority tend to have several enemies quicker than your party who utilize area attacks.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If you see a piece of equipment that has dark-sounding name like 'Dark', 'Devil', etc... well do yourself a favor avoid it, because it's always cursed when you try to equip it.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Not necessarily a new power but, [[spoiler:Adult!Steiner can fly over any thing and anywhere in the ending]], something he couldn't do during gameplay.

* BlackMage: Edward

** TheHero: Finn
** TheLancer: Percy (sometimes Edward)
** TheSmartGuy: Tont
** TheBigGuy: Samson
** TheChick: Annie
** {{Sixth Ranger}}s: Domino and Lorelei
** TeamPet: Steiner

* PinocchioSyndrome: Tont, if you talk to him after resting in Zalagoon Castle, cries and says that he wants to be human again.

** HeroesPreferSwords: Finn, Percy
** SimpleStaff: Annie, Edward, Tont
** AnAxeToGrind: Samson

* New Powers as the Plot Demands: Not necessarily a new power but, [[spoiler:Adult!Steiner can fly over any thing and anywhere in the ending]], something he couldn't do during gameplay.

* Music by Creator/MotoiSakuraba

* EliteFour: The "Vicious Ones" are a group of four of the most powerful Warlocks of the Underworld. They are also a FiveBadBand with Akkadias as the BigBad, Shutat as TheDragon, Yeon as TheEvilGenius, Dagoot as TheBrute, and Ramue as TheDarkChick.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy And His Baby Dragon]]

* KilledOffForReal: Sir Kevins, and later [[spoiler:Percy, if you attack and defeat him in combat without realizing that he's the Black Knight]].
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Sir Kevins]] as towards the end of the game you find out he's still alive in the Underworld (Which apparently isn't considered part of the afterlife in this game), having somehow survived his fall earlier in the story.

* DistressBall: Annie, in the ''very first'' moments of the game, runs off to the cave to the south of her home village after her father denies her the chance to go on an adventure just because she's a girl.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The playable characters' names are only given enough room for six letters, which presented a bit of a problem when you got to meet the BareFistedMonk princess late in the game. The instruction manual and back-of-the-box screenshots render her name as "Loreli", but in-game, it's spelled "Lorele", when it was possibly meant to be "Lorelei". In addition, Tont's thunder-elemental summon beast, Thor, is mistransliterated as "Tolle" in the U.S. version.

* StayInTheKitchen: Annie gets hit with this early on when her parents (and Finn's foster parents) send him to the Cave of Spirits on a FetchQuest. Annie asks if she can go too, only to get the "you can't 'cause you're just a girl" treatment. That just makes things worse when she gets pissed and takes off for the cave on her own, where she takes a wrong turn and is almost killed by a Kraken. She's almost hit with this again after returning from the Cave of Spirits, but the combination of the swamp water and the water from the FetchQuest lead her to develop healing magic and she's allowed to go with Finn.

* BlackKnight: [[spoiler:Percy]]

* EliteFour: The "Vicious Ones" are a group of four of the most powerful Underworlders. They are also a FiveBadBand with Akkadias as the BigBad, Shutat as TheDragon, Yeon as TheEvilGenius, Dagoot as TheBrute, and Ramue as TheDarkChick.

* TreacherousAdvisor: Glade of Zalagoon.

The basic plot of the game isn't much to write home about, but it serves its purpose: young swordsman-in-training travels across the world with his pet dragon, meets allies, fights an evil empire, and attempts to save the world from a group of angry underworld denizens known as the Vicious Ones.

* ButThouMust: That frustrating sliding-block puzzle early on in the game? Yeah, you're going to have to solve that, and no faq can help you since it is randomized positions each time.

* CriticalHit: And performed while the character is on fire! Except for Finn, who performs a unique combo attack with his dragon pal.

** {{Sixth Ranger}}s: Domino and Lorele

* StayInTheKitchen: Annie gets hit with this early on when her parents (and Finn's foster parents) send him to the Cave of Spirits on a FetchQuest. Annie asks if she can go too, only to get the "you can't 'cause you're just a girl'" treatment. That just makes things worse when she gets pissed and takes off for the cave on her own, where she takes a wrong turn and is almost killed by a Kraken. She's almost hit with this again after returning from the Cave of Spirits, but the combination of the swamp water and the water from the FetchQuest lead her to develop healing magic and she's allowed to go with Finn.

* VillainousBreakdown: The normally calm and self-assured Glade explodes into a [[TalkativeLoon rambling nonsensical rant]] when Samson returns to Zalagoon free from his magical curse to showcase his trademark brute strength.

** KnifeNut: Domino. Interestingly, when [[PrestigeClass upgraded]], he switches to a more traditional cutlass (he's a pirate), but just like the knives he used before, he attacks by THROWING it.

* NintendoHard: A few hours into the game, you will encounter Elves, possibly the first normal enemy with an all-party attack ([[BlowYouAway Wind]]), and it will be brutal. After this point, mental-note which foes use area attacks and kill them asap. Also applies to the Water Guardian, the first real boss, encountered some 10 hours in, at the end of a long dungeon, and it sucks (Level 2 [[KillitWithIce Ice]]).

* ButtonMashing: Certain button combinations increase the chance of double attacks, critical hits, counter-attacks, and even critical counters.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Normally, you can remove curses by going to a priest, but a plot-based curse saps Samson of his legendary strength, and no priest is strong enough to remove it. He has to go and personally ask for the help of CrystalDragonJesus to lift it.

* MarathonLevel: The final part of your quest to cure Samson's curse qualifies for this. You have to fight through ''three different dungeons'' without saving in order to reach the sorcerer Arawn.

* NintendoHard: A few hours into the game, you will encounter Elves, possibly the first normal enemy with an all-party attack ([[BlowYouAway Wind]]), and it will be brutal. After this point, mental-note which foes will uses area attacks and kill them asap. Also applies to the Water Guardian, the first real boss, encountered some 10 hours in, at the end of a long dungeon, and it sucks (Level 2 [[KillitWithIce Ice]]).

* SquishyWizard: All three of the main magic users: Edward, Annie and Tont. Taken literally in Tont's case, as he's a slime creature (and he becomes even squishier and gooier after his promotion).
* StayInTheKitchen: Annie gets hit with this early on when her parents (and Finn's foster parents) send him to the Cave of Spirits on a FetchQuest. Annie asks if she can go too, only to get the "you can't 'cause you're just a girl'" treatment. That just makes things worse when she gets pissed and takes off for the cave on her own, where she takes a wrong turn and is almost killed by a Kraken.

Has nothing to do with BeyondTheImpossible, the [[Manga/ThereBeyondTheBeyond manga of the same name]], or the unproduced sequel to the Lucio Fulci film "The Beyond".

* GoddamnedBats: Even with an encounter rate as notoriously high as this game, it is particularly ludicrous at Bandore Castle.

* CriticalAttack: And performed while the character is on fire! Except for Finn, who performs a unique combo attack with his dragon pal.

* FourIsDeath: The "Vicious Ones" are a group of four of the most powerful Underworlders. They are also a FiveBadBand with Akkadias as the BigBad, Shutat as TheDragon, Yeon as TheEvilGenius, Dagoot as TheBrute, and Ramue as TheDarkChick.

* NintendoHard: A few hours into the game, you will encounter Elves, possibly the first normal enemy with an all-party attack (WindLevel1), and it will be brutal. After this point, mental-note which foes will uses area attacks and kill them asap. Also applies to the Water Guardian, the first real boss, encountered some 10 hours in, at the end of a long dungeon, and it sucks (IceLevel2).

* PrestigeClass: At a certain point in the game, once Finn reaches level 20, he has to complete a long dungeon ([[SoloSequence by himself]]) in order to graduate from Swordsman to Hero. Once he completes the quest, his allies can access their prestige classes at level 20 without having to endure the trial again.[[spoiler: Except Percy, who is already in his Prestige Class if you manage to successfully re-recruit him.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The playable characters' names are only given enough room for six letters, which presented a bit of a problem when you got to meet the BareFistedMonk princess late in the game. The instruction manual and back-of-the-box screenshots render her name as "Loreli", but in-game, it's spelled "Lorele", when it was possibly meant to be "Lorelei".
** In addition, Tont's thunder-elemental summon beast, Thor, is mistransliterated as "Tolle" in the U.S. version.
* SpritePolygonMix

* StayInTheKitchen: Annie gets hit with this early on when her parents (and Finn's foster parents) send him to the Cave of Spirits on a FetchQuest. Annie asks if she can go too, only to get the "you can't 'cause you're just a girl" treatment. That just makes things worse when she gets pissed and takes off for the cave on her own, where she takes a wrong turn and is almost killed by a Kraken.

''Beyond the Beyond'' was one of the first {{Role Playing Game}}s released during the Sony PlayStation's life cycle, and one of the first by game developer Camelot (after changing its name from Sonic! Software Planning and working on the first two ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' games).

* PrestigeClass: At a certain point in the game, once Finn reaches level 20, he has to complete a long dungeon ([[SoloSequence by himself]]) in order to graduate from Swordsman to Hero. Once he completes the quest, his allies can access their prestige classes at level 20 without having to endure the trial again.

** KnifeNut: Domino

As this was Camelot's first "true" [[EasternRPG Eastern-styled CRPG]] (most of its previous games were either tactical [=RPGs=] or dungeon-crawlers), ''Beyond the Beyond'' took flak for its sometimes confusing game mechanics and uninspired characterization and plotting (though there were one or two unique twists toward the end). It would be a few years before Camelot would attempt this genre again with the ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' games.