History VideoGame / EpicBattleFantasy

** In the second game, when Natz does her LimitBreak and thus gets a [[{{Gainaxing}} jiggly]] close-up, she then has a chance to comment "That's enough {{Fanservice}} for now."

* {{Gainaxing}}: Not only does Natalie happily jiggle here and there, clicking her boobs while she's standing still will make them bounce. The third game even upgraded to bounce away from the relative location you clicked on them. You get a medal for doing it enough.
--> ''[=EBF3=]'' Medal Description: '''''Please don't leave 1,000 comments about this again.'''''\\
''[=EBF4=]'' Medal Description: '''''Please don't leave [[SerialEscalation 100,000]] comments about this again. Seriously, [[YouBastard you freaks]].'''''

* MsFanservice: Natz. It gets taken to a whole new level in the second game's GameOver screen, where her dress is nearly ripped apart. You can even click her breasts to induce {{Gainaxing}}. Taken up to eleven in the third game with her CatGirl and ''Cow Girl'' outfits. In each game, she invokes the trope in her healing "Limit Break", and {{lampshades}} it at least once per game. Anna from the fourth is clearly not impressed, or jealous, but it's hard to tell, by Natz' stature, and during the remarks where she openly says something it's clear Natz is annoyed by it.

*** '''[[CriticalHit Stagger]]''': Guarantees a critical hit on the afflicted. Gained the ability to stack in ''[=EBF5=]''

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* ''Brawl Royale''

* ''[[CompilationRerelease Epic Battle Fantasy Collection]]''[[note]]A re-release/updating of several games pre-''[=EBF3=]'' for Steam; includes ''1'', ''2'', ''Bullet Heaven'', ''Adventure Story'' and the four other related games in this folder.[[/note]]
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* CoolSword: Loads of them appear in the series that define this. Naturally, it's Matt's WeaponOfChoice.

* FantasticFirearms: Shoulder-mounted magical {{BFG}}s are Lance's WeaponOfChoice after his playable debut in ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy3''. By default, his guns are capable of firing Thunder, Fire and Dark-elemental projectiles.

*** '''Reflex'''has a 5-turn cooldown like '''Protect''' and '''Barrier''', cures '''Shroud''' status (see StatusEffects below) as well as buffing everyone's evade.

** ''Bullet Heaven 2'' includes several ways to lessen the SequelDifficultySpike, including bullet clearing after every wave, the ability to bomb and avoid taking damage (effectively giving you extra hits and letting you lessen the blow of losing a perfect wave streak), and not requiring a restart if the bonus waves are failed. Interestingly, there are handicaps that allow you to ''remove'' the former two features, in exchange for a better score multiplier.

* SequelDifficultySpike:
** Zigzagged between games ''1''-''2'' and ''3''-''5''. On one hand, games 3 and up allow you to save nearly anywhere outside of combat and aren't as wave-based as the first two games. On the other hand, enemies and bosses tend to require more strategy and specific equipment setups in the latter three games.
** Zigzagged with ''5'' as well. The cooldown system means on one hand that you can spam some skills with impunity, like Firestorm and Revive, but the other, like the all-critical Heal More, have cooldowns and therefore cannot be spammed like in previous entries with sufficient MP count.

*** '''Hungry''': Causes afflicted players to automatically eat random food each turn. Does not affect the inventory.

* ''[[CompilationRerelease Epic Battle Fantasy Collection]]''[[note]]A re-release/updating of several games pre ''[=EBF3=]'' for Steam, includes ''1'', ''2'', ''Bullet Heaven'', ''Adventure Story'' and the four other related games in this folder.[[/note]]

* ''[[CompilationRerelease Epic Battle Fantasy Collection]]''[[note]]A re-release/updating of several games pre ''[=EBF3=]'' for Steam, includes ''1'',''2'',''Bullet Heaven'',''Adventure Story'', and the four other related games in this folder.[[/note]]

*** '''[[ExtraTurn Haste]]''' Grants an extra action per stack (foes automatically lose all their stacks upon taking their turn, limiting them to one extra action) {{Cooldown}}s are unaffected.

** ''[EBF5=]'' has [[https://music.phyrnna.com/track/blaze-of-iris Blaze of Iris]], combining the organ with a more synthetic instrumental arrangement to represent the terrors from the beyond.

** Justified in that the Meow Meow character doesn't belong to Matt Roszak, but to fellow Newgroundser NCH. Meow Meow was specifically [[ExiledFromContinuity removed]] from future installments as too many people [CommonKnowledge believed]] that the cat was originally Matt's.

*** '''{{Random|EffectSpell)}''': Inflicts a random status effect upon infliction.

*** '''[[DrawAggro Target]]''':

*** '''{{Random|EffectSpell}''': Inflicts a random status effect

* StatusEffects:
** '''Burn''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Burn" status effect.]] Inflicts Fire-elemental damage each turn. Water- or Ice-elemental damage cures this status.
** '''Stun''': The "Paralyzed" status effect. Sufferers of this status always lose their turn for the indicated duration. In the fourth game, it also causes earth attacks to deal extra damage,
** '''Freeze''': The "Frozen" status effect. Similar to Stun, except that being attacked or healed removes the status. If attacked, the formerly frozen target receives extra damage.
** '''Tired''': An unusual status effect which piles on Accuracy and Evade debuffs for every turn it remains in effect.
** '''Poison''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Poison" status effect.]] Inflicts Poison-elemental damage each turn. Unlike most Poison, however, the damage ''can'' be converted to healing if you absorb the Poison element. It also deals a lot more damage if the stack of turns left on it is higher.
** '''Dispel''': [[StatusBuffDispel Removes all stat increases and positive status effects from the target.]] Technically an anti-status effect, but players and monsters have a Dispel resistance stat.
** '''Stagger''': An unusual status effect which makes the next hit taken a CriticalHit. Lasts for one turn.
** '''Syphon''': The "Silence" status effect. Skills and Specials are disabled.
** '''Wet''': An unusual status effect which amplifies damage taken from Thunder- and Ice-elemental damage but reduces damage from Fire damage.
** '''Weak''': An unusual status effect. Similar to '''Tired''', it piles on Attack and Magic Attack debuffs each turn it remains in effect. It also causes the character to take extra damage from Dark attacks.
** '''Curse''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Curse" status effect.]] Similar to '''Weak''' and '''Tired''', it piles on Defense and Magic Defense debuffs each turn it remains in effect. It also causes the character to take extra damage from Holy attacks.
** '''Death''': The "Instant Death" status effect. If it succeeds, the target is instantly KO'd.
** '''Doom''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Doom" status effect.]] Inflicts '''Death''' once the counter falls to 0.
** '''Berserk''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Berserk" status effect.]] The character automatically uses a normal attack on their turn, but their attack power is increased. Note that Matt, Lance, and Anna will randomly cast their strongest non-LimitBreak physical attacks (Legend, Unload, and Combo Shot respectively) when berserk in ''[=EBF4=]'' onwards, possibly turning this into a case of StatusBuff.
** '''Slimed''': The "Weird Transformation" status effect. The target is temporarily turned into a little Slime monster. Similar to '''Stun''', except this effect cannot be cured with a status-effect-curing spell and the victim has highly reduced stats. It wears off after a number of turns, or when the target is KO'd.
** '''Hunger''': An unusual status effect. The affected target will eat random food items until the status is gone.
** '''Stuffed''': An unusual status effect. The affected target cannot eat any items.
** '''Virus''': An unusual status effect. Similar to poison, but remains in effect indefinitely until dispelled. Can also be passed along to allies and foes alike by interacting with them (attacking, passing a food item, etc.)
** '''Scorch''': Similar to '''Burn''', but also removes 10% of the victim's maximum HP each turn.
** '''Confuse''': a variant of the "Confuse" status effect. Players with this effect use random skills on their turn(s), but otherwise use these skills normally; no attacking allies/themselves, no healing enemies like with a Charm effect unless the enemy absorbs the element of their chosen skill, etc. The Electric Bat summon casts '''9 turns''' worth of this on the ''entire active party'', "basically initiating auto-battle mode".
** '''Shroud''': Another unusual status effect. Hides information about the victim, including HP level and buffs.
* StatusBuff: Almost all of which can be removed by "Dispel."
** '''AutoRevive''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Auto-Revive" status buff.]] Gained by casting revive on an alive player; this even happens with spells like Natz's Genesis limit break, giving all characters AutoRevive status. The downside is that it wears off after a few turns.
** '''Bless''': Grants immunity to all negative status effects, including [[StatusBuffDispel Dispel]], for the duration of the buff.
** '''Brave''': The "Critical-Up" status buff. Improves critical hit chance ''and'' grants critical hit immunity.
*** As of ''[=EBF5=]'' v2, it also protects players from getting their physical attack or magic attack debuffed.
** '''Charge''': The "ChargedAttack" status buff. Certain ultra-powerful spells can only be used while the caster has this buff. The 'Charge' effect is consumed when the spell is cast, and it will also disappear on its own after a few turns.
** '''Defend''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Defend" status buff.]] Reduces all incoming damage by half for the remainder of the turn. Can be granted by selecting "Defend" from the tactics menu, and can be granted to the entire party at once by using the "Ancient Monolith" summon in ''[=EBF4=]''.
** '''Morale''': An interesting status buff that grants a chance of surviving any attack with 1 HP remaining, and prevents instant when above half health.
*** As of ''[=EBF5=]'' v2, it also protects players from getting their physical defense or magic defense debuffed.
** '''Regen''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The "Regeneration" status buff.]] Restores health at the beginning of each turn.

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[[caption-width-right:254: VictoryPose!]]

** Justified in that the Meow Meow character doesn't belong to Matt Roszak, but to fellow Newgroundser NCH. Meow Meow was specifically removed from future installments as too many people believed that the cat was originally Matt's.

->''"Fight through waves of enemies."''

* BadassLongcoat: The Swordslinger/Gunslinger enemies are robot heads, a NiceHat, and a duster containing a ridiculous amount of swords/guns.

* ClimaxBoss: Both the Valkyrie Tank (particularly on [[HarderThanHard Epic mode]]), and Akron. On any difficulty. If only for the energetic music and/or [[BossBanter his speeches, constantly ascending in awesomeness.]] The fourth game gives us [[spoiler:Godcat]].
** UpToEleven in ''[=EBF5=]''. [[spoiler:The final boss of that game, the Devourer, serves as the final boss of not just the game, but of ''the entire series''.]]

** UpToEleven in the fourth, wherein they [[spoiler:beat up the [[{{God}} Creator]] and [[{{Satan}} Destroyer]] aspects of [[TheMaker Godcat]]. ''At once''. Justified because she is not using her full strength, is still implied by the ending cutscene to be in better shape than our heroes rather than outright beaten, and ends up leaving once they prove their worth to her]].

** Taken UpToEleven in the third game. First, after defeating Jack, you get to play the first minigame, which plays this trope on [=NoLegs=], but this is optional. In the following {{cutscene}}, the whole group throws up while eating slimes (except for Natalie; she threw up before she could eat one). Then it is implied that they ate the Giant Squid boss. Finally, Matt and Lance try to eat the last Woolly Mammoth after defeating it. Only Natz's pity for the creature saves it from becoming dinner. This whole routine is repeated in ''[=EBF4=]'', with Anna in place of Natalie, and if you find the mammoth in the BonusDungeon, even she'll consent to eating it on the grounds that it won't be canon.

* MsFanservice: Natz. It gets taken to a whole new level in the second game's GameOver screen, where her dress is nearly ripped apart. You can even click her breasts to induce {{Gainaxing}}. Taken UpToEleven in the third game with her CatGirl and ''Cow Girl'' outfits. In each game, she invokes the trope in her healing "Limit Break", and {{lampshades}} it at least once per game. Anna from the fourth is clearly not impressed, or jealous, but it's hard to tell, by Natz' stature, and during the remarks where she openly says something it's clear Natz is annoyed by it.

* NiceHat: Matt always wears a pirate hat in the games. In the third game, he even swims with his hat on. The third game gives him and Lance different hats to wear, but chances are you'll never see them without a hat on.

** UpToEleven when using 7th Heaven: There is a different fanservice design for every female armor in the game.

** ''5'' puts it UpToEleven by it making the torso coverage [[{{Stripperiffic}} nothing but two red straps tied around her breasts to cover her nipples]].

** Meow Meow is the mascot of the [=YouTube=]r [[https://m.youtube.com/user/NCHProductions NCH Productions]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are a '''[[http://kupo707.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2oq329 LOT]]''' of NPC[=s=]; and that's not even all of them.

* InteractiveStartUp: From the third game on you can "pop" [[TheGoomba low-level]] {{Mascot Mook}}s and make a new PaletteSwap appear on a LoadingScreen for a reward in each game's AchievementSystem after a certain number of mooks have been "popped". From the fourth game onward, the commerical UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} versions replace the loading progress bar, with a language selection menu.

* BigEater[=/=]ExtremeOmnivore:
** Matt. Guess what he and Natalie do to the Giant Sand Worm after defeating it in the second game. You know, [[TooDumbToLive the one with poisonous blood]].
** Taken UpToEleven in the third game. First, after defeating Jack, you get to play the first minigame, which plays this trope on [=NoLegs=], but this is optional. In the following {{cutscene}}, the whole group throws up while eating slimes (except for Natalie; she threw up before she could eat one). Then it is implied that they ate the Giant Squid boss. Finally, Matt and Lance try to eat the last Woolly Mammoth after defeating it. Only Natz's pity for the creature saves it from becoming dinner. This whole routine is repeated in ''[=EBF4=]'', with Anna in place of Natalie, and if you find the mammoth in the BonusDungeon, even she'll consent to eating it on the grounds that it won't be canon.
** After the party defeats a turtle enemy:
--> '''Matt:''' Let's make a turtle soup out of this guy!
** In the volcano area, Matt comments that it's a shame they didn't get to kill whatever left those giant skeletons around, because the lava would've made it easy to cook. A few screens later, they fight a dragon, though sadly aren't shown eating it.
** In the fourth game, after Anna takes Matt hostage because she suspects he stole the crystal, she joins him in battle. The first few comments he makes are about cooking the wildlife they fought.
** Apparently, even Matt draws the line at eating the Evil Worm.
** In the fifth game, Matt will occasionally state after winning the battle that they're not going hungry today. Even if their opponents were a group of Cosmic Monoliths, stated to be composed of anti-matter.

** In 5, medals given for beating bosses stay even when reloading the game to a previous state. So it's possible to save, kill a boss on Epic to get the medal, load the save, and fight the boss on Zero difficulty in order to have a much easier time capturing it for use as a summon.

** The Defender, the second boss in ''Epic Battle Fantasy 1,'' is a recurring miniboss in ''Epic Battle Fantasy 4.'' Elemental variants of it also turn up as minibosses in the fifth game.

*** Godcat (the 4th of the ''EBF 3.3'' bosses) came back for ''[=EBF4=]''. [[spoiler:And is once again the FinalBoss, being revealed to have literally created the world.]]

* EvolvingAttack: In ''[=EBF3=]'' and ''4'', leveling up an attack merely boosted its strength or status effect, but in ''5'', some attacks change completely. For example, Natalie starts only with 'Ice' as a single ice attack, but on level 4, it becomes Iceshard and later Icestorm (which were separate skills in previous games).

** In 5, a power outage in Matt's house leads to him fighting a fascist, [[spoiler:tree, god, and later, the final boss of the ''entire series.'']]

** The "Solid Water" item has an appearance much closer to ice, with sharper edges in 4, but it's softened and made to look more like actual water in 5.

** To a lesser extent, some bosses and minibosses have very high evasion without losing out in other stats, such as Praetorian [=Mk2=] and the Cosmic Monoliths.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are a '''[[http://kupo707.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2oq329 LOT]]''' of NPC[=s=]; that's not even all of them.
* MagikarpPower: The weapons and armors themselves can be more or less, depending on your playstyle, in the 3rd and 4th games. An example is the Sky Feather in the fourth game. When it starts out, it's rather difficult to use and isn't as powerful as other options, but upgraded, it can, if used right, allow Anna to spam spells and restore her magic constantly. Again, it's more of a your mileage may vary, but for the most part, upgraded items are much more useful than they would appear at low levels.

** Zigzagged with 5 as well. The cooldown system means on one hand that you can spam some skills with impunity, like Firestorm and Revive, but the other, like the all-critical Heal More, have cooldowns and therefore cannot be spammed like in previous entries with sufficient MP count.

** PlayedForLaughs in 5, because [[MsFanservice Natalie's]] inexplicably stuck with these (when NSFW content is allowed) while Anna's are generally more respectable.

*** As of ''[=EBF5=]'' v 2.0, it also protects players from getting their physical attack or magic attack debuffed.

*** As of ''[=EBF5=]'' v 2.0, it also protects players from getting their physical defense or magic defense debuffed.

* WaveMotionGun: A lot of the enemies. [[spoiler:Godcat's creation form's]] in particular is pure pain in beam form. Also, Lance's bomb in the ''Bullet Heaven'' games, and his [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Hyper Beam]] attack in [=EBF4 and 5=], complete with charge-up turn.

* CuteEmUp: The ''Bullet Heaven'' spinoff pretty much defines this.

** In ''[=EBF3=]'', Doomsday hits the entire field for '''massive''' dark damage, and can be used by cosmic monoliths. This means that not only can this '''really''' hurt, but these monoliths '''absorb darkness''', making high dark resistance, Syphon, and/or fast damage a must, since cosmic monoliths cast this every 3 turns like the other two cast their beam attacks.

* HarderThanHard: [[IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels Epic, and in BH2, Heavenly mode]]. Oh so very much.

* HeelFaceTurn: This apparently happens each game. First, [=NoLegs=] joins your party in the second game, when in the first game he rides the first mini boss, and then the Beholder joins too ([[FaceHeelTurn and then it's an enemy in 3 and 4 again]], but ''after'' you defeat it in the latter game it's a helpful summon). Then, of course, Lance after you beat him in the second game. The woolly mammoth from the third game is a summon (and sometimes randomly triggered effect), dropping from the sky to flatten your enemies. Natalie is quite happy to see it's alive and well.

* {{Ninja}}: In the [=BBF3=] onwards, there's Ninja equipment for both guys and Natz.

** Zigzagged between games 1-2 and 3-5. On one hand, games 3 and up allow you to save nearly anywhere outside of combat and aren't as wave-based as the first two games. On the other hand, enemies and bosses tend to require more strategy and specific equipment setups in the latter three games.
** Zigzagged with 5 as well. The cooldown system means on one hand that you can spam some attacks with impunity, like Firestorm, but the other, like the all-critical Heal More, have cooldowns and therefore cannot be spammed like in previous entries with sufficient MP count.

** Any {{Status Effect|s}} (such as "[[AC:DEATH]]"), or StatusBuff has this when applied in ''[=EBF4=]'' and ''5'' (and the Steam update of 3!).