History VideoGame / LastScenario

* TheAtoner: All of the [[BonusBoss Elysium bosses]], as they're [[spoiler:the four "heroes" who committed atrocities in the war 300 years ago. They regret all they've done, and want nothing more than to right their wrongs and pass on peacefully.]]

** Thanatos has one that hits your ''entire party''. So do the [[BonusBoss Black King]] and the third Elysium boss. The King's one even ignores all shielding spells.

* MarathonBoss: Almost all of the bosses have incredibly high health that can take quite a while to whittle down. The fact that they're constantly tossing attacks that can put one or more characters in critical health doesn't help things. Two bosses take the cake, though: the most difficult BonusBoss in the main game, who has a whopping 200,000 hit points, and the NewGamePlus boss, which has ''one million''.

* PostEndGameContent: The [[BonusBoss Planetary Consciousness]].

** The second-hardest BonusBoss, [[spoiler:Alexander]]. You need to stack various means of damage protection on your sturdiest character and redirect all his attacks to them, or he will absolutely wreck you with ThatOneAttack.

** Same thing with the [[BonusBoss Strangelets]], which are also five identical creatures.

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[MysticalWaif Lorenza]], [[HurtingHero Thorve]], [[StoicWoobie Ethan]], [[IdiotHero Hilbert]], [[CoolOldGuy Randolph]], and [[SergeantRock Matilda]].]]

** The BladeOnAStick user is a HotBlooded SergeantRock. [[spoiler:The other one is the BigBad.]]

** [[Anime/LegendOfGalacticLiterature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroesHeroes Mittermeyer and Reuental]] stand around discussing fallen heroes, ambition and seizing power in the castle of Germany-inspired Herzog.

* BonusBoss: Quite a few, usually in a BonusDungeon. The most difficult one, [[spoiler:Planetary Consciousness]], is for a CosmeticAward.
* BonusDungeon: Oh so many. There's almost one for every SideQuest.

** The guy with AnAxeToGrind is a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] {{stoic}}.

* WeaponOfChoice: Subverted. Aside from Lorenza and possibly CoolSword user [[spoiler:Zawu]], no one in the party has a personality that fits the weapon they use.

** [[Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes Mittermeyer and Reuental]] stand around discussing fallen heroes, ambition and seizing power in the castle of Germany-inspired Herzog.
** Drakovic's lecture on the importance of protecting democracy in the face of a benevolent autocracy is straight from the notes of [[Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes Yang Wen-Li]], as are his strategies and tactics.

** The KnifeNut is a CoolOldGuy scientist who occasionally gets distracted from the main objective by ruins and artifacts.

* OurMonstersAreWeird: And how. The random enemies [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Yin and Yang]], [[StandardStatusEffects Belgugon]], [[NighInvulnerable Ectoplasm]], [[ChargedAttack Starshine]]/Sirius Lux, [[GlassCannon Ripper]], Belgugon, Tiahaunacu, Gerethog, and many others will make you say "What the heck was ''that''?". Not to forget the '''Land Sharks''', though ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' had this kind of creature first. Many bosses are even weirder, like the Riftgate, Erdgeist, the Viviones, Yad-al-Jauza and the Strangelets.

** In a town, there is [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} a witch named Marisa and a maid named Sakuya.]]

** After [[spoiler: you beat the magic beasts that Castor summons]] on the Rosehart bridge, you're told to go back to Southbridge, but you can actually keep going and end up in Northbridge after [[spoiler: the GlobalAirship is captured.]] The glitch also prevents the next dungeon from showing up on the map, rendering the game [[UnwinnableByMistake unwinnable.]]

* DefendCommand

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: There are many strange random enemies, including mushrooms, dolls, wood walls[[note]]:which actually ''don't'' try to kill you, being the random encounter equivalent of a JokeCharacter. They have no attack and HP on par with a boss, so they just stand there while the heroes smash them[[/note]], pots of gold[[note]]which ''do'' counter-attack, but naturally drop lots of gold upon defeat[[/note]], moles, two very different types of idols, ''emoticons'', and in a BonusDungeon [[spoiler:biting "[[ChestMonster Killer Crystals]]" [[WallMaster disguised]] as save crystals with a slightly different color]]. The bosses are even stranger: you will e.g. come to fight a wall with an engraved face, not to mention the [[GratuitousGerman Zeitgeist]], which is basically a big clock. Don't forget the Tomes and Keys either (which are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) .

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: [[spoiler:Wilhelm delivers one of these to his troops, which on its own is enough to convince the attackers to retreat.]]

%%* AllMythsAreTrue: [[spoiler:[[PlayingThePlayer Subverted]].]]

* PlayingThePlayer: In addition to the whole premise of the game ("Set up the biggest ClicheStorm in RPG history, then turn it upside down"), it plays around a lot with [[spoiler:the trustworthiness of the information you're given. Not only are [[AllMythsAreTrue all myths]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[AllMythsAreTrue true]], but generally speaking, you do NOT expect the opening text scroll to flat-out lie to you. The MysteriousInformant is a ManipulativeBastard playing on the hero's [[IdiotHero gullibility]], and the guy who claims [[LaserGuidedAmnesia he can't remember any of his past]] actually remembers a lot more than he lets on, and is keeping quiet for his own reasons.]]

* OurElvesAreBetter: A lesser example with the Havali since they're missing a lot of the standard elf traits, but the ears make the comparison inevitable.

** [[spoiler:Helio's VillainousBreakdown[=/=]PsychoSerum freakout.]]

*** Considering that a bit of dialogue later implies that [[spoiler:Herzog is built on the site of the Havali capital Luminas, which was razed and the inhabitants massacred by Valkiris's army]], this [[FridgeBrilliance may actually]] [[FridgeHorror make perfect sense]].

%%* TheAtoner: All of the [[BonusBoss Elysium bosses]].

** Drakovic/Matilda. She's already married.

** The Marid King, the Viviones, the Earth Golem, Pestilence... the list goes on. There are many, many [[Vidoegame/{{Mardek}} plot-unrelated boss monsters]] in this game.

%%* GratuitousGreek

** Although it won't cause a OneHitKill, there's often a specific spellcard that makes taking down a boss enormously easier. Perhaps most {{egregious}}ly, [[spoiler:the Riftgate]] is [[ThatOneBoss about three steps away from unbeatable]] unless you [[spoiler:move Ethan's Laser spellcard to one of the mages and BeamSpam away]]. See the [[YMMV/LastScenario Your Mileage May Vary]] page for the ThatOneBoss entry.

* DoomedHometown: Lorenza is forced to leave the village she lives in by its (egoistic but GenreSavvy) mayor to avoid this.

** The Ruin equipment that you can steal from smilie type enemies are all phenomenally powerful, but are all cursed in some way or another. The Ruin Mask is poisoned, for example.

* TheKingdom: ''[[InvertedTrope Definitely]]'' [[InvertedTrope not the case here.]] [[spoiler:It's the primary nationality of the main villains.]]

* ArtEvolution: SCF's drawing blog occasionally contains ''LastScenario'' character art. It advanced quite a bit from the {{Character Portrait}}s found in the game.

* GoryDiscretionShot: It's partially this (or at least a "massacre discretion shot", since ''LastScenario'''s sprite style isn't prone to being gory anyway) and partially a "spoiler discretion shot" when [[spoiler: the Northern Outpost is singlehandedly taken over by Felgorn]].