History VideoGame / FantasyLife

** The North America password for the Angelic Costume is "[[VideoGame/KidIcarus I'm finished!]]"

* ChosenOne: Subtly implied with the player character. He or she is chosen by Yuelia to help them save the world, but it's hinted that there might be more special about them than just that. Namely, most people in Reveria are only capable of pursuing one single life and take an entire lifetime to get anywhere in it at all, while the player is capable of quickly becoming a Legend (or a ''God'' if you have the DLC) in ''every'' life; the only other person to ever come close to this accomplishment was Gladstone and even he only managed to make Master rank in every life.

* SchizoTech: It's a StandardFantasySetting with 19th century-style airships.
* ScriptBreaking: Some lives have challenges consisting of gathering stuff that can also be bought at store or drop from enemies. If you start a life with an item you're supposed to gather sooner or later during that live's challenges already in your bag, the challenge involving it is considered completed. While it's a good way to boost the stat bonuses, you'll be stuck with the starter tools until you do a little StatGrinding and miss out on some of the NPC dialogue associated with the rank(s) you skipped. And you can't pull the trick ''after'' starting the life in question.

* ImprobableAge: The many teenage-looking shopkeepers and employees indicate that it's perfectly normal to be working at that age, and Pam's dairy hints that the player may have actually started to work on the late side. [[ChildMage Nox]] and Woody's sister are treated as children, but at least look a little older than generic children. One of the cooks has the "little girl from Port Puerto" model, yet works for a very rich man. To compare, the seller for the hunter secret shop is represented by the "little boy from Castele" model and tells the player that Fletcher only lets him use a slingshot.

** King Erik invokes this trope by allowing all the common folk of Castele to walk into his royal court to chat with him. However, the guards insist you at least dress decently.

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Dark Sultan, Daemon, and his father, the former Dark Sultan are both actually very nice people despite their titles and the latter's sinister appearance.]]

** [[spoiler:Also, Noelia!]]

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: You can carry multiple stacks of 99 Life Cures, which you can use to come back to life at half health whenever you die. There's no limit to how many times you can do this in any given battle and considering how much money you'll end up making when you sell items you end up making to rank up your lives, affording them is trivial at best.

* ChildMage: Nox, your first potential travel companion among the mages, is still a child.

* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Slay The Napdragon?]]: The bounty clerk is flabbergasted if you bring in a dragon bounty.

* PrincessesPreferPink: [[spoiler:Ironically, Laura plays this straight while in disguise]]. The princess dress also happens to be one of the clothing items that comes out pink if dyed red.

* NeverSayDie: There is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line given in the Mage class quests that handwaves all the killing you seem to do, stating that you're not actually ''slaying'' elemental spirits, you're merely pacifying them which causes them to disappear. Presumably, something similar could count for other monsters as well, and there are cases when characters and guards you "kill" in a story battle will be standing up alive and well as soon as the battle is over.

* NonLethalKo: Getting 0 HP will only cause NPC allies to be out of commission for 60 seconds. Touching them will bring them back to half health immediately. If you loose your life, you have 30 seconds to choose between a life cure, going to your last save point or going to your house.

* SurpassedTheTeacher: Once you go into Hero rank in a certain life, you've surpassed your master in that life. Though you still have to report to them.

* TakeYourTime: Even when told to get somewhere as fast as possible, nothing is really keeping you from shopping before doing so. Sometimes subverted if you're early in the story as you eventually get vocation challenges that require going to a location that hasn't been unlocked yet. In-story, this becomes event more blatant once it turns out that [[spoiler:the cross on Lunares that shows up relatively early in the story was supposed to be a signal from Divinus to his daughters meaning "come back home ''now'' if you don't want to be destroyed along with this world."]].

* EscalatingWar: [[spoiler: King Erik of Castele and the former Dark Sultan of Al Maajik are engaged in an ongoing exchange of magic-based practical jokes. It's why the former looks like a little kid.]]

* [[spoiler: TheNightThatNeverEnds: The result of Lunares' eclipse closing. Reveria is darkened for weeks until your adventure on Lunares is complete, and the game ends as the sun rises once more.]]
* [[spoiler:NoAntagonist: As part of the main story, although some of the life missions for combat classes occasionally subvert this. Specifically, the Void acts as a true final boss lair for the Paladin, Mercenary and Hunter lives respectively, where the player is tasked to defeat the shadow variant of the type of boss monsters that have encountered up to that stage in the game. Either a Shadow Dragon, a Shadow Dinosaur, or a Shadow Big Beak respectively. Meanwhile Magicians are tasked with defeating Calamitus a Shadow Wraith, which unlike other wraiths is believed to be inherently evil.]]

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You can only take up to two NPC or player allies (this can go up to three if they're all pets and you have the right bliss bonus) and hold three bounties (which is also the maximum number that can exist in the game at a time).

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Each Life has a special skill that can be used when you fill up a gauge by performing the job's main activity; in case of item-creating Lives, this is some variation of an elaborate pose followed by RidiculouslyFastConstruction and in case of resource-gathering Lives, this'll most likely involve some kind of elaborate acrobatics that most likely completes the task in a single use. Rare trees and ores will have the same music as combat bosses play while all you're really doing is walking around it and swinging your tool at it.