History VideoGame / GrandChase

* DropTheHammer: Anmon Guards.
** Also Mari's 3rd job. [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs That hammer of hers looks awfully familiar...]]
** And now there is [[ThePaladin Lime]]. [[{{BFS}} Her hammer is so gigantic she has to drag around the stage.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: The guys appear as this due to the [[{{Animesque}} art]] [[GenericCuteness style]], but FanArt tends to hit Ronan and Lass with this a lot.

* BladeOnAStick: Spearman Elesis, Dragon Knight Ronan, plus Viken and Vanquisher Ryan (Xenocider/Vanquisher/Avenger Ryan has [[{{BifurcatedWeapon}} two blades on a stick]]), and Warlord Sieghart.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The cute pet Peng Peng.

* AnAxeToGrind: Unlock Ryan the Elven Druid and see for yourself.

** Sometimes your allies will appear to petrify themselves instead of doing attacks, usually due to skill tree abilities. [[{{UpToEleven}} Turned Up To Eleven]] with Jin's first job, where if he's not the room's host he can often be unable to deal damage with anything other than his basic combo.

*** Sieghart's 4th job 3rd MP skill takes this UpToEleven by creating seven physical swords out of energy and then murdering things with them.

* {{Geometric Magic}}: Arme's magic circle.
* GenderBlenderName: Lass.
* GenericCuteness: The characters appear mostly like this, but not to [[TastesLikeDiabetes absurd levels]]. [[{{Kawaiiko}} Arme and Amy seem to try though.]]
* GiantMook: The Mongban and variants thereof.
** Hammermons included as well.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Two of Sistina Amy's special moves.
* GunsAkimbo: Or rather, Crossbows Akimbo. Lire wields her 2nd job weapon this way.
* TheGunslinger: Mari's second job and Rufus/Lupus/Luxus.

* HandicappedBadass: Zero, apparently.
* HolidayMode: for Christmas and Halloween.

* DevelopmentHell: Alcubra. It started designed as a zone that followed Silver Land; starting at around Lv 30; and as such; the first few dungeons were designed as such. Then Silver Land's level was bumped up; and Alcubra's with it; putting it on par with late Xenia in levels; around Lv60; as were the final three dungeons of the continent. THEN Alcubra was seperated from Silver Land entirely and moved between Xenia and Archemedia. The result? A continent with a storyline that is basically a {{Filler}}; with dungeons designed for much lower-level content; some as many as 40 levels lower. The dungeon difficulty was largely brought up by giving mobs a load of [[ImmuneToFlinching Super Armor]]; and giving each boss a cheap attack that was a OneHitKill or had potential for such; while their other attacks amounted to CherryTapping.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or purple. Or pink.

* StandardStatusEffects: Freeze and petrify are common, poison is rarely given to enemies and only one player character has an attack that actually poisons the target, while the other is an area effect cloud that stops affecting once victims leave it.

''Grand Chase''[='=]s servers were [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames shut down]] on April 16, 2015. Players were able to (based on how much progress they'd made in ''Grand Chase'') transfer to ''VideoGame/{{Elsword}}'' and boost new characters up to higher levels, as well as receive a compensation package of cash shop items during an event following the shutdown.

On June 30th, 2021, six years after the game's shutdown, KOG Studios unveiled a relaunch of the original ''Grand Chase'' under the name ''Grand Chase Classic'' that is currently undergoing closed beta testing and is set to release in August 2021. The Steam page for ''Grand Chase Classic'' can be viewed [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/985810/GrandChase/ here]].

''Grand Chase'' was a {{MMORPG}} created by KOG Studios, which was released worldwide with several different versions. It was similar to ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' in being a 2D side scroller. The difference is that the game is room-based, has 3D graphics, and produces an almost more distinctive gameplay than most other [=MMOs=]. Instead of normal character creation, players were given preset character classes, the first three being all female: Sword Knight (Elesis), which is a close-ranged character; Archer (Lire), which is pretty obvious, and a Mage (Arme), also very obvious. Other characters/classes could be unlocked. Each class started with unlocking a specific character first, then working towards unlocking others (some of these character unlocking quests were hard - unless you bought your way through them. Same for job changes, except much more hellish).

The game appears to be coming back, titled "Grand Chase Classic". Check it out on steam [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/985810/GrandChase/ here]].