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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Death Prophet can be defeated easily when you hit him on the tail. When you did, he'll unleash an attack called "Not the tail!", which will deal minor damage to the attacker, but deals 999 HP to himself, killing him outright (he only has 960 HP)
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* GoForTheEye: Death Prophet can be defeated easily when you hit him on the tail. When you did, he'll unleash an attack called "Not the tail!", which will deal minor damage to the attacker, but deals 999 HP to himself, killing him outright (he only has 960 HP)
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didn\'t realize that it\'s a dead trope
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Death Prophet can be defeated easily when you hit him on the tail. When you did, he'll unleash an attack called "Not the tail!", which will deal minor damage to the attacker, but deals 999 HP to himself, killing him outright (he only has 960 HP)
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* GoForTheEyes: Death Prophet can be defeated easily when you hit him on the tail. When he did, he'll unleash an attack called "Not the tail!", which will deal minor damage to the attacker, but deals 999 HP to himself, killing him outright (he only has 960 HP)
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* GoForTheEyes: Death Prophet can be defeated easily when you hit him on the tail. When he did, he'll unleash an attack called "Not the tail!", which will deal minor damage to the attacker, but deals 999 HP to himself, killing him outright (he only has 960 HP)
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: After the battle with Odio, everyone returned to their timelines, and...
** Pogo [[spoiler:had his first baby with Bel. However, Gori surprises him that he's having many baby gorillas with the female gorillas they rescued before.]]
** The Xin Shan Quan master (Yuan/Li/Sammo) [[spoiler:is training a new generation of Xin Shan Quan students.]]
** Oboromaru [[spoiler:either continues to be a ninja in service of the Enma clan, or becomes Ryoma Sakamoto's bodyguard, foiling an assassination attempt.]]
** Sundown Kid [[spoiler:returned to wandering in the wilderness. Depending on his actions, he may have to deal with Mad Dog again.]]
** Masaru [[spoiler:closes his current training room, picks up his bag and [[AndTheAdventureContinues resumes his journey in his quest to be the strongest.]]]]
** Akira [[spoiler:lives his life normally with the orphanage kid and occasionally visits/assists Toei.]]
** Cube [[spoiler:returns to the now-repaired Cogito Ergosum, reuniting with Kato and Darth. Kato gave him a warm hug.]]
** Pogo [[spoiler:had his first baby with Bel. However, Gori surprises him that he's having many baby gorillas with the female gorillas they rescued before.]]
** The Xin Shan Quan master (Yuan/Li/Sammo) [[spoiler:is training a new generation of Xin Shan Quan students.]]
** Oboromaru [[spoiler:either continues to be a ninja in service of the Enma clan, or becomes Ryoma Sakamoto's bodyguard, foiling an assassination attempt.]]
** Sundown Kid [[spoiler:returned to wandering in the wilderness. Depending on his actions, he may have to deal with Mad Dog again.]]
** Masaru [[spoiler:closes his current training room, picks up his bag and [[AndTheAdventureContinues resumes his journey in his quest to be the strongest.]]]]
** Akira [[spoiler:lives his life normally with the orphanage kid and occasionally visits/assists Toei.]]
** Cube [[spoiler:returns to the now-repaired Cogito Ergosum, reuniting with Kato and Darth. Kato gave him a warm hug.]]
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** Also existing is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUOI1qtaOWY youtube-based LP by Boltage McGammar]]. Video-based, accompanied with decent voice acting by one man, as well as fun renaming with everything else with names starting with 'B' (Such as Sundown Kid -> Badass Kid, Oboromaru -> Bentomaru, Cube -> Block, etc). The SelfImposedChallenge thing about Sundown below? It's from this LP.
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The plot itself is an interesting example of TheRashomon. The chapters of the game each draw on influences from different sources, as wide and varied as 80's anime, spaghetti Westerns, fighting games, ''[[TwoThousandOne 2001 A Space Odyssey]]'', and ''{{Aliens}}'', to name but a few. The game tends to [[PlayedForDrama play these tropes straight]] for the most part, but at times subverts them just as happily.
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The plot itself is an interesting example of TheRashomon. The chapters of the game each draw on influences from different sources, as wide and varied as 80's anime, spaghetti Westerns, fighting games, ''[[TwoThousandOne 2001 A Space Odyssey]]'', and ''{{Aliens}}'', to name but a few. The game tends to [[PlayedForDrama play these tropes straight]] for the most part, but at times subverts them just as happily.
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* The classical Chinese kung fu nature chapter, starring an old, dying Xin Shan Quan master and his potential successors Li, Yuan, and Sammo,
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* The Japanese Bakumatsu StealthBasedMission political revolution [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot]] maze chapter, starring the ninja Oboro and [[spoiler:[[HistoricalDomainCharacter Sakamoto Ryouma]]]],
* The SpaghettiWestern time trial puzzle chapter, starring [[ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The Sundown Kid]],
* The SpaghettiWestern time trial puzzle chapter, starring [[ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The Sundown Kid]],
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* The Japanese Bakumatsu StealthBasedMission political revolution [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot]] maze chapter, starring the ninja Oboro and [[spoiler:[[HistoricalDomainCharacter Sakamoto Ryouma]]]],
Ryouma]]]],
* The SpaghettiWestern time trial puzzle chapter, starring [[ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The SundownKid]], Kid]],
* The SpaghettiWestern time trial puzzle chapter, starring [[ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The Sundown
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* The near future HumongousMecha {{Gainax}} MindScrew anime chapter, starring... well, Manga/{{Akira}},
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Compare ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra'', two similar SquareSoft games from the same time period.
Not to be confused with the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
Not to be confused with the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
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Compare ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra'', two similar SquareSoft games from the same time period.
period.
Not to be confused with the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
Not to be confused with the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
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* AnimeHair: Most of the characters keep it down, but Pogo, Matsu, and Akira more than make up for them. At least the latter two have an excuse: their chapter is modeled on a SuperRobot anime. Also, Oersted.
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* AnimeHair: Most of the characters keep it down, but Pogo, Matsu, and Akira more than make up for them. At least the latter two have an excuse: their chapter is modeled on a SuperRobot anime. Also, Oersted.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Sakamoto Ryouma]] fought ''robots''.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Sakamoto Ryouma]] fought ''robots''.
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* LetsPlay: [[http://lparchive.org/Live-a-Live/ There's one in LP Archive]], and rather unique for the sarcastic comments made by the characters, be they HeroicMime (but mostly Oboromaru) or not, and even had humorous dialogue/story for the final chapter. Oh, and most of them are renamed hilariously (Pogo becomes... [[TheFlintstones BamBam]], The Xin Shan Quan style becomes ShaqFu, Oboro becomes [[BarackObama Obama]] (thus, Obamamaru), Akira becomes Hiccup, Masaru becomes 'Mister' (thus with his last name Takaharu, it becomes analoguous with MrT). Sundown, Cube and Oersted got more common renames)
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* LetsPlay: [[http://lparchive.org/Live-a-Live/ There's one in LP Archive]], and rather unique for the sarcastic comments made by the characters, be they HeroicMime (but mostly Oboromaru) or not, and even had humorous dialogue/story for the final chapter. Oh, and most of them are renamed hilariously (Pogo becomes... [[TheFlintstones BamBam]], The Xin Shan Quan style becomes ShaqFu, Oboro becomes [[BarackObama Obama]] (thus, Obamamaru), Akira becomes Hiccup, Masaru becomes 'Mister' (thus with his last name Takaharu, it becomes analoguous with MrT).Creator/MrT). Sundown, Cube and Oersted got more common renames)
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* FunWithAcronyms: Masaru is renamed 'Mister', thus his full name is now 'Mister Takahara'. And if you shorten it, you get MrT.
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* ShoutOut: Varies from all those renaming stuffs, into [[BlazBlue the Azure Grimoire]] into [[MassEffect2 "I've had enough with your disingenuous assertions."]]
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* ShoutOut: Varies from all those renaming stuffs, into [[BlazBlue the Azure Grimoire]] into [[MassEffect2 "I've had enough with your disingenuous assertions."]]"]] and also[[QuipToBlack ...]] CSIMiami. ('''[[MemeticMutation YEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!]]''')
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* AdaptationDistillation: The PlayerPunch section of the Kung-Fu chapter (picking Li as the student) is treated this way, originally, the Master finds Li injured, but alive, while Yuan and Sammo are already dead. In the LP, the Master found out that they were all near death and he only has enough medicine to cure one student.
* AdaptationExpansion: Thanks to extra dialogues taken in the LetsPlay, humorous and expands more scenes, in particular the Kung-Fu chapter where the students of Xin Shan Quan (now ShaqFu) interact with each other a lot.
* AdaptationExpansion: Thanks to extra dialogues taken in the LetsPlay, humorous and expands more scenes, in particular the Kung-Fu chapter where the students of Xin Shan Quan (now ShaqFu) interact with each other a lot.
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!The LetsPlay as listed above contained tons of tropes not seen in the game prior, due to liberties taken
*ButtMonkey: Akira/Hiccup. They even strip him naked with just Taeko's panties and punch while the team went off for their final battle.
** Sundown/Sunset also, for his GlassCannon traits, until he reveals his [[GameBreaker Hurricane Shot]]...
*TheFunInFuneral: After the first battle with Mad Dog, the next chapter starts with a faux-funeral for Mad Dog... and only to take it back when it turned out that Mad Dog lived.
*FunWithAcronyms: Masaru is renamed 'Mister', thus his full name is now 'Mister Takahara'. And if you shorten it, you get MrT.
*HalfIdenticalTwins: Oboromaru actually existed, but he opted the ScrewThisImOuttaHere option, and got KilledOffForReal, prompting his twin Obamamaru to take up his mission for the rest of the LetsPlay.
*ShoutOut: Varies from all those renaming stuffs, into [[BlazBlue the Azure Grimoire]] into [[MassEffect2 "I've had enough with your disingenuous assertions."]]
*TrainingMontage: Invoked by Li during the final chapter, to the horror of both Obamamaru and Sunset. With Mulan theme song too.
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** Also learning Great Asia's movements. Dude is so fixated with his Bite attack that possesses so much range that he'd use that over and over and over instead of the learnable techs.
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I think it\'s actually the reverse. Straybow just had a My God What Have I Done thought, and did nothing else beneficial. Alicia guards Akira\'s best weapon and gets you out of the dungeon
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Straybow becomes one after he betrays Oersted. Only noticeable in Akira's dungeon in the final chapter, where you can find his soul. Alicia too, but not as much.]]
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Straybow becomes one after he betrays Oersted. Only noticeable [[spoiler:Alicia as a spirit in Akira's Mind Dungeon gave Akira his best weapon and finally gets the team out of the dungeon which formerly had no exit. Straybow also, in a lesser extent, but only as far as [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing just how much his jealousy costed Oersted and the final chapter, where you can find his soul. Alicia too, but not as much.world]].]]
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* FreudianTrio: The Xin Shan Quan pupils:
** TheKirk: Sammo
** TheSpock: Yuan
** TheMcCoy: Li
** TheKirk: Sammo
** TheSpock: Yuan
** TheMcCoy: Li
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** Indeed, [[spoiler:most of Odio's various incarnations are centered around this.]]
*** Wandering: [[spoiler:O. Dio is in fact a horse given human form by the vengeful spirits of cavalrymen slain by Indians.]]
*** Secret Orders: [[spoiler:Ode Lou planned to take advantage of humanity's inherit greed and distrust by selling dangerous weapons, ultimately hoping to spark a war.]]
*** Flow: [[spoiler:The human leaders of Japan plot to sacrifice their nation to Odeo.]]
*** Mechanical Heart: [[spoiler:The constant infighting of the crew lead OD-10 to conclude that they were a threat to its mission of maintaining harmony on the ship.]]
*** Wandering: [[spoiler:O. Dio is in fact a horse given human form by the vengeful spirits of cavalrymen slain by Indians.]]
*** Secret Orders: [[spoiler:Ode Lou planned to take advantage of humanity's inherit greed and distrust by selling dangerous weapons, ultimately hoping to spark a war.]]
*** Flow: [[spoiler:The human leaders of Japan plot to sacrifice their nation to Odeo.]]
*** Mechanical Heart: [[spoiler:The constant infighting of the crew lead OD-10 to conclude that they were a threat to its mission of maintaining harmony on the ship.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sammo for Sammo Hung. Max Morgan from Masaru's chapter also has an uncanny similarity with HulkHogan.
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** It happens once in every chapter. Some are more obscure like the antenna in Cube's chapter, and a way to trigger an audience member getting mauled in Masaru's.
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** It happens once in every chapter. Some are more obscure like the antenna in Cube's chapter, and a way to trigger an audience member getting mauled in Masaru's. Or one is completely missable, like Wan Tan from the Kung Fu chapter, which can only be seen if you picked Sammo as the successor.
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* LetsPlay: [[http://lparchive.org/Live-a-Live/ There's one in LP Archive]], and rather unique for the sarcastic comments made by the characters, be they HeroicMime (but mostly Oboromaru) or not, and even had humorous dialogue/story for the final chapter. Oh, and most of them are renamed hilariously (Pogo becomes... [[TheFlintstones BamBam]], The Xin Shan Quan style becomes ShaqFu, Oboro becomes [[BarackObama Obama]] (thus, Obamamaru), Akira becomes Hiccup, Masaru becomes 'Mister' (thus with his last name Takaharu, it becomes analoguous with MrT). Sundown, Cube and Oersted got more common renames)
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** Though it's possible [[spoiler:Zaki's is more of an EnemyMine thing, since it doesn't seem like his opinions on anything have changed -- he just ''doesn't want to be eaten by a dinosaur.'' It's hard to tell with no text.]]
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** [[spoiler:Considering after the fight with O-D-O, Zaki inherits the tribe's leadership and made peace with Pogo's tribe leader, safe to say that he did a genuine Face Turn afterwards.]]
** [[spoiler:Considering after the fight with O-D-O, Zaki inherits the tribe's leadership and made peace with Pogo's tribe leader, safe to say that he did a genuine Face Turn afterwards.]]
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* ShoutOut: Plenty of them, ranging from diverse sources (mostly movies rather than games) such as [[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]], TheGodsMustBeCrazy, ForAFewDollarsMore, StreetFighter, Manga/{{Akira}} and {{Alien}}. A few references are made with the names too, such as the various crew members in Cube's chapter ([[StarTrek Kirk]] and [[StarWars Darth]] being the most obvious, but [[SilentRunning Huey]] less so). Finally, the alien monster in Cube's chapter - a fierce, purple quadruped nicknamed "Behemoth" - is a cameo from Square's [[FinalFantasy slightly more famous series]].
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* ShoutOut: Plenty of them, ranging from diverse sources (mostly movies rather than games) such as [[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]], TheGodsMustBeCrazy, ForAFewDollarsMore, StreetFighter, Manga/{{Akira}} and {{Alien}}. A few references are made with the names too, such as the various crew members in Cube's chapter ([[StarTrek ([[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]] and [[StarWars Darth]] being the most obvious, but [[SilentRunning Huey]] less so). Finally, the alien monster in Cube's chapter - a fierce, purple quadruped nicknamed "Behemoth" - is a cameo from Square's [[FinalFantasy slightly more famous series]].
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* The near future HumongousMecha {{Gainax}} MindScrew anime chapter, starring... well, {{Akira}},
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* ShoutOut: Plenty of them, ranging from diverse sources (mostly movies rather than games) such as [[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]], TheGodsMustBeCrazy, ForAFewDollarsMore, StreetFighter, {{Akira}} and {{Alien}}. A few references are made with the names too, such as the various crew members in Cube's chapter ([[StarTrek Kirk]] and [[StarWars Darth]] being the most obvious, but [[SilentRunning Huey]] less so). Finally, the alien monster in Cube's chapter - a fierce, purple quadruped nicknamed "Behemoth" - is a cameo from Square's [[FinalFantasy slightly more famous series]].
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* ShoutOut: Plenty of them, ranging from diverse sources (mostly movies rather than games) such as [[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]], TheGodsMustBeCrazy, ForAFewDollarsMore, StreetFighter, {{Akira}} Manga/{{Akira}} and {{Alien}}. A few references are made with the names too, such as the various crew members in Cube's chapter ([[StarTrek Kirk]] and [[StarWars Darth]] being the most obvious, but [[SilentRunning Huey]] less so). Finally, the alien monster in Cube's chapter - a fierce, purple quadruped nicknamed "Behemoth" - is a cameo from Square's [[FinalFantasy slightly more famous series]].
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Sinkhole of a subjective trope. Opinions don\'t go in main pages
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* BreatherLevel: Cube's chapter only has one required boss battle, and it doesn't have a single GuideDangit. [[spoiler:[[ParanoiaFuel That]] doesn't [[NothingIsScarier mean]] it's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel boring...]]]]
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Not to be confused with the HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
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Not to be confused with the HaruhiSuzumiya LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
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''LiveALive'' is now mostly forgotten, in no small part due to [[NoExportForYou the fact that it hasn't ever been officially released outside Japan]]. Following two FanTranslation projects, the game has picked up something of a [[CultClassic cult following]]. The latest Aeon Genesis translation patch can be found [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lal here]].
Often mentioned in connection with ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra''.
Often mentioned in connection with ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra''.
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''LiveALive'' is now mostly forgotten, in no small part due to was [[NoExportForYou the fact that it hasn't ever been never officially released outside Japan]]. Following Japan]], but following two English FanTranslation projects, the game has picked up something of a [[CultClassic cult following]]. The latest Aeon Genesis AeonGenesis translation patch can be found [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lal here]].
Often mentioned in connection with Compare ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra''.''TreasureOfTheRudra'', two similar SquareSoft games from the same time period.
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An ambitious game by {{Square}}, featuring multiple story lines set in nine time periods ("chapters"), which can be played in any order before culminating in one hell of a WhamEpisode. These story lines each provide a different setting and genre. Although the storylines are mostly standalone at first, they eventually combine into a single plotline that ''thrives'' on well-executed PlayerPunch moments.
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An ambitious game by {{Square}}, featuring multiple story lines set in nine seven time periods ("chapters"), which can be played in any order before culminating in one hell of a WhamEpisode. These story lines each provide a different setting and genre. Although the storylines are mostly standalone at first, they eventually combine into a single plotline that ''thrives'' on well-executed PlayerPunch moments.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ChronoTrigger shares many similarities with LiveALive.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ChronoTrigger VideoGame/ChronoTrigger shares many similarities with LiveALive.
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* RobotMe: Oboro, with some guesswork, can find a blank robot and bestow it with his likeness and afew of his moves.
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* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: OD-10's manifestation in the virtual world. Even moreso if you scan the central tile on it's body.]]
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* RobotWars: Occurred in the backstory of the Sci Fi Chapter. Darth, who has lost many friends to the battle robots, is particularly bitter over it.
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* RobotWars: RobotWar: Occurred in the backstory of the Sci Fi Chapter. Darth, who has lost many friends to the battle robots, is particularly bitter over it.
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* EvilSpeechOfEvil: Almost all of the Odio incarnations make one; the exceptions are O-DI-O from Pogo's chapter, and O. Dio from Sunset/Sundown's chapter. The most memorable has to be the speech at the end of [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter, delivered by Oersted himself.]]
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* EvilSpeechOfEvil: Almost all of the Odio incarnations make one; the exceptions are O-DI-O O-D-O from Pogo's chapter, and O. Dio from Sunset/Sundown's chapter. The most memorable has to be the speech at the end of [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter, delivered by Oersted himself.]]
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An ambitious game by {{Square}}, featuring multiple story lines set in nine time periods ("chapters"), which can be played in any order before culminating in one hell of a WhamEpisode. These story lines each provide a different setting and genre. Although the storylines are mostly standalone at first, they eventually combine into a single plotline that ''thrives'' on well-executed PlayerPunch moments.
The plot itself is an interesting example of TheRashomon. The chapters of the game each draw on influences from different sources, as wide and varied as 80's anime, spaghetti Westerns, fighting games, ''[[TwoThousandOne 2001 A Space Odyssey]]'', and ''{{Aliens}}'', to name but a few. The game tends to [[PlayedForDrama play these tropes straight]] for the most part, but at times subverts them just as happily.
LiveALive also deviates somewhat from the usual Squaresoft games when it comes to the battle system, being somewhere between standard turn-based combat and a Tactics-style system. Although the battle system stays the same throughout the game, each chapter has its own distinct atmosphere and art style. They are, in chronological order:
* The prehistoric slapstick comedy romance chapter, starring Pogo the green-haired caveman and his monkey friend,
* The classical Chinese kung fu nature chapter, starring an old, dying Xin Shan Quan master and his potential successors Li, Yuan, and Sammo,
* [[spoiler:The (initially hidden) WhamEpisode medieval fantasy quest chapter, starring the young knight Oersted]],
* The Japanese Bakumatsu StealthBasedMission political revolution [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot]] maze chapter, starring the ninja Oboro and [[spoiler:[[HistoricalDomainCharacter Sakamoto Ryouma]]]],
* The SpaghettiWestern time trial puzzle chapter, starring [[ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The Sundown Kid]],
* The modern day arcade fighting game chapter, starring the wrestler Masaru,
* The near future HumongousMecha {{Gainax}} MindScrew anime chapter, starring... well, {{Akira}},
* The sci-fi silent space SurvivalHorror TheComputerIsYourFriend chapter, starring the robot Cube.
(If you're considering playing the game for the first time, it is highly recommend you start with the robot sci-fi chapter. It's the only one that isn't either full of GuideDangIt moments or a complete {{Mindscrew}}, and contains a very nice tutorial mini-game. Both the kung fu chapter and the mecha chapter are also nice to begin with. After that, it may get a little bit [[NintendoHard difficult at times]].)
''LiveALive'' is now mostly forgotten, in no small part due to [[NoExportForYou the fact that it hasn't ever been officially released outside Japan]]. Following two FanTranslation projects, the game has picked up something of a [[CultClassic cult following]]. The latest Aeon Genesis translation patch can be found [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lal here]].
Often mentioned in connection with ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra''.
Not to be confused with the HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
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!!Live A Live provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Okame-no-Kata in the Bakumatsu chapter.
** [[spoiler: Voice Heart, the boss of the Xin Shan Quan Inheritor's final chapter bonus dungeon is a male example.]]
* {{Acrofatic}}: Sammo, naturally.
* ActionGirl: Li.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Imagine if what Oersted went through - where all his friends and allies either turned on him, or died while trying to protect him - happened to you.]]
* AfterCombatRecovery
* AIIsACrapshoot: "Everything in this ship must work in harmony... I was built to maintain harmony... Therefore, my will is absolute... Nobody will stand in my way... Anyone who tries... Will be terminated! KILL YOU...."
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals
* AllYourPowersCombined: The focus of Masaru's chapter and his end quote with his chapter boss, [[spoiler:Odie Oldbright]]
* AnachronismStew: Anyone care to explain how [[spoiler:robots]] found their way into feudal Japan?
** [[spoiler:[[ClockPunk Karakuri ningyo]] are a surprisingly old Japanese craft.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Oersted Was The Demon King]].]]
* AnimeHair: Most of the characters keep it down, but Pogo, Matsu, and Akira more than make up for them. At least the latter two have an excuse: their chapter is modeled on a SuperRobot anime. Also, Oersted.
* ApocalypseHow: You can pull off a Class Z by [[spoiler:choosing the Armageddon option when your health is low in the final chapter with Oersted.]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Odie Olbright
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil
* AsLongAsThereIsOneMan: Subverted horribly. [[spoiler:Oersted believes that he can continue to fight, even as everyone else in the world turns against him, as long as there's one person who believes in him. She loses faith. He [[FaceHeelTurn doesn't]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds take it well]], to [[BigBad put it mildly]].]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Straybow becomes one after he betrays Oersted. Only noticeable in Akira's dungeon in the final chapter, where you can find his soul. Alicia too, but not as much.]]
** [[spoiler:Matsu]] qualifies as well, having performed a HeelFaceTurn some indeterminate amount of time after he [[spoiler:killed Akira and Kaori's father.]]
* BadAss: Arguably all the heroes.
** Corporal Darth from the Sci-Fi Chapter gets special mention. [[spoiler:He takes out the fake Cube quite handily, incapacitatess the Behemoth (a beast so strong that it touching you results in instant death) by himself ''without killing it'', and ''lives''. It's safe to say that if the military picked someone a little less Badass to escort the Behemoth, Cube would've never made it to Earth.]]
* BadassBiker: Matsu.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Sakamoto Ryouma]] fought ''robots''.
* BigDamnVillains: At one point in the Bakumatsu chapter, a bunch of guards come after you, only to be attacked by a masked man. You can let the masked man kill the guards for you if you're going for zero kills.
* BigEater: Sammo, and to a lesser extent, Bel.
* BonusBoss: There are many:
** In Pogo's chapter, the King Mammoth.
** In Oboro's chapter, the Fish in the river, and the Ghost guarding the sword.
** In [[spoiler:the Final Chapter, there is one for every character's dungeon, and then some.]]
* BonusStage: The entire game of Captain Square in Cube's Chapter.
* BoozeBasedBuff: During the Western chapter, your healing items consist entirely of various alcoholic drinks.
** Of course, getting drunk comes with its debuffs...
* BossRush: [[spoiler:Also inverted in that you can play as the bosses.]]
** Could also apply to Masaru's chapter; the entire chapter consists of seven battles, but they're all against boss-level enemies.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Bel during Pogo's Chapter.
* BountyHunter: Mad Dog.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The first thing you see at the start of Akira's chapter is Akira's eyes staring ''right'' at you. He then starts addressing you directly for a short time before the action cuts to his actual story.
* BreatherLevel: Cube's chapter only has one required boss battle, and it doesn't have a single GuideDangit. [[spoiler:[[ParanoiaFuel That]] doesn't [[NothingIsScarier mean]] it's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel boring...]]]]
** Sundown's chapter has a total of five battles, of which one is optional (and eliminates one of the others if you choose to fight), three are laughably easy, and one is against the chapter's boss [[spoiler:and can be made significantly easier depending on how you set the traps]].
* BrokenRecord: [[spoiler:After a certain point in Cube's Chapter, Captain Hol is only capable of saying "What, are you serious? That's... quite unfortunate..." Later, it's revealed to be a recording OD-10 made after killing the captain.]]
* ClimaxBoss: All the fights against the different Odio incarnations, and the Demon King in Oersted's Chapter.
* CoolShip: Cube's chapter; it takes place entirely on the CoolShip.
* CrutchCharacter: Oboro and Pogo can (and probably will) be leveled up very high in order to defeat their respective {{Bonus Boss}}es, [[spoiler:making them ridiculously overpowered during the first half of the final chapter.]]
** Still other characters have stats--like Masaru's ludicrous HP--that make them practically invincible once you do get around to levelling them up.
* CyberPunk: Akira's chapter.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Xuan Ya Lian Shan Quan from the Inheritance chapter. You can only use it once for the final battle of the chapter. It stops being dangerous and forbidden in the final chapter, though, where it can be used at any time once it's learned. Justified, considering that it's only dangerous to the master because he was too old to use it - his disciples have no such problems.
* DangerousTerrain: In battle, there are different types of damaging panels: poison, water, fire, and electricity. These panels also effect enemies, and some enemies can recover on said panels. Oboro is capable of creating fire and water based panels, and Cube can create electric-based panels. Gori from Pogo's chapter can create poison-based spaces.
** The bosses love elemental spaces. Most notably, Ode Iou's true OneWingedAngel form has an attack which creates an enormous area of poison based panels. OD-10 also has Driveback, which creates electric based panels in a 3x3 placement (which can actually kill it).
*** Taken to extremes in the Captain Square minigame, the only part of the game where you can quickly die from elemental squares alone.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:The Sundown Kid.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Oersted hit this pretty hard. After being tricked, he finds that everyone has now abandoned him and considers him a demon, his only remaining ally is dragged away to be tortured, and is blamed for the death of said ally who expends the last of his power to set Oersted free. Oh, then he finds out that his best friend betrayed him to this fate because he was jealous. Oh, and the 'Aesop' which has been so far in the game? "Don't lose hope as long as somebody believes in you". That went well. The last person who he hoped believed in him, the princess? After Oersted duels his traitorous friend and kills him, she asks why he didn't come to rescue her (Ouch. He did. Straybow only got there first by faking his death and ruining Oersted's life), declares that she loves said traitor, and kills herself. That was the absolute last straw, the severing of his last tenuous tie to sanity]].
* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Xin Shan Quan Master's chapter, with the Xuan Ya Lian Shan Quan.
** [[spoiler:In the Final Chapter, however, once you learn this with the surviving pupil, you can use this multiple times, thus making it an [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Skill]].]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Master, in the Ancient China Chapter; you do not name the Master, you name his fighting style. He is just referred as The Master.
* EvilSpeechOfEvil: Almost all of the Odio incarnations make one; the exceptions are O-DI-O from Pogo's chapter, and O. Dio from Sunset/Sundown's chapter. The most memorable has to be the speech at the end of [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter, delivered by Oersted himself.]]
* {{Expy}}: Sundown is quite similar to [[DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Straybow, and later Oersted.]]
* FallenHero: Hash in the medieval chapter. He was a hero who defeated the Demon Lord, but lost faith in humanity and went to live as a hermit in the mountains. He subverts it by helping Oerstred defeat the Demon Lord to prove that he is still brave. [[spoiler:Oersted eventually falls ''much'' harder.]]
* FanNickname: "知力25" (INT or IQ 25) for Masaru. Because his base IQ will ALWAYS be this. Parodied with [[{{Touhou}} Cirno]] crossovers.
* {{Fartillery}}: Both Pogo and Gori have gaseous attacks which can cause some status effects to boot.
* FateWorseThanDeath: In Akira's chapter, the people being abducted are being turned into liquefied humans to power the Kuruu Odio statue, or to become robotic super soldiers.
** [[spoiler:Oersted]] ended up with a horrible fate: [[spoiler:He is left in a land where people either think he is a traitor, or think he is a demon, because everyone who believed in him ended up dying. He winds up accepting the label of demon, and becomes the BigBad.]]
* FetchQuest: You don't have to go through the character dungeons in the final chapter, but if you don't, you'll have a difficult time with Odio and [[spoiler:you can't get the best ending.]]
* FightingGame: Masaru's chapter.
* FunWithAcronyms: Unknown if it's played straight or a case of {{Woolseyism}}, but read all of Cube's abilities in order and write down the first letter of each. If it's the former, it's definitely a textbook case of FridgeBrilliance. [[spoiler: It reads HUMANISM, the main theme for Cube's character.]]
** It's the former, but a few early English translations screwed it up.
* GameWithinAGame: Captain Square in Cube's chapter.
* GatlingGood: O. Dio's weapon.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: There are multiple in the final chapter; the most notable example is the guardian of Masaru's bonus dungeon, who only appears if Masaru is in your party.
* GlassCannon: Several. Yuan has the highest power rating of the Kung Fu heroes, but the lowest HP. The Sundown Kid has very low HP as well, but strong, long-range attacks and some of the most devastating techniques in the game. Oboro is similarly flimsy, but he's a {{Ninja}}, which is enough said right there. [[spoiler:From Oersted's chapter, we also have Straybow, a standard swords-and-sorcery elemental mage. He's not so Glassy the second time you fight him, though.]]
* GrandFinale: The best ending.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Congratulations, Straybow! [[spoiler: You've managed to break Oersted and turn him into a villain in your world! It had the unfortunate side-effect of him transforming into the Demon King, a villain which transcends time and space!]]
* GuideDangIt: Oboro's chapter, period.
* GunsAreWorthless: Averted. The Sundown Kid is the strongest character in the game, even moreso if you get his [[InfinityPlusOneSword .44 Magnum.]] Gun attacks in general are long-ranged, damaging, take no time whatsoever, and tend to not pose a significant disadvantage on the character using them.
** And on the other end, O. Dio's [[GatlingGood ultimate]] [[MoreDakka attack]] has a range that's completely diagonal to the end of the field and hits for 999 damage. So basically, the Sundown Kid AND the BigBad of his chapter averts this trope.
* {{The Gunslinger}}s: Sundown and Mad Dog.
* HaveANiceDeath: Cube's chapter is full of them, and if you happen to activate any of them, you are greeted with [[spoiler:"In the end... Cube never made it to Earth..."]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zaki]], from Pogo's chapter, [[spoiler:for the final boss of said chapter.]] There's also [[spoiler:Matsu]] from Akira's chapter, [[spoiler:but it happened in the backstory.]]
** Though it's possible [[spoiler:Zaki's is more of an EnemyMine thing, since it doesn't seem like his opinions on anything have changed -- he just ''doesn't want to be eaten by a dinosaur.'' It's hard to tell with no text.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Matsu does this to power the Buriki Daioh so he can save Akira and Kaori.]]
** [[spoiler:Straybow fakes having one during Oersted's chapter]]
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petards]]: The three antagonists in Akira's chapter get turned into liquified humans too when the mass of liquified humans they gathered end up engulfing them.
* HotBlooded: Fittingly, both Akira and Matsu. Masaru doesn't talk much, but he reveals his nature to fit this in a particularly epic moment at the end of his chapter.
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:The insane AI in the Sci-Fi chapter killed off the crew members because it feels this way. Later, there's the Medieval chapter...]]
* HumongousMecha: "Go! Go! Buriki Daioh!"
* InfinityPlusOneSword: Notable in that you need to get them all for the best ending.
** Also, there's not one but ''two'' swords in Oboro's chapter that are his 2nd best weapon (one is his best for the chapter, one you get after you beat it), although both of them are absurdly difficult and obscure examples of GuideDangIt. And you can only get one.
* InterfaceSpoiler: In battle, enemies consist of still images that slide around when moving and attacking and usually take up multiple spaces. Zaki only takes up one space and has idle, moving, and attacking animations like the members of your party. Guess who joins you in the fight against the chapter boss?
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Die in any of the chapters, and you get a nice little scene of someone or something reacting to your demise.
* KaizoTrap: Can sort of happen in Sundown's chapter; [[spoiler:if you choose not to duel Mad Dog, you'll fight him one last time after the credits roll. However, it's arguably ''harder'' to die than to win the fight, meaning you'd have to ''really be trying'' to invoke this trope.]]
** A more plausible invocation of this trope is vs. any boss monster that self destructs as a final attack. If you took to the strategy of getting everyone close in order to pin the boss in, then watch as everyone dies.
* KillAllHumans: Odio's primary goal.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The "Armageddon" Ending.]]
* KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear: Akira's chapter. Belonging to three different people, no less. Bonus points for not actually doing the act himself, even though he gets smacked for putting the one who did it up to it.
** Sundown and Mad Dog can also swipe Annie's nightie in the Wild West chapter.
* KnightInShiningArmor: [[spoiler:Oersted, deconstructed to hell and back.]]
* LargeHam: Zaki, somehow, despite not having a single line.
* LetMeTellYouAStory: Akira's chapter is entirely this, with Akira as the story teller. Even has a bit of HeKnowsAboutTimedHits as Akira introduces you to the gimmick of the chapter.
* LoadBearingBoss: Subverted. So very, very subverted.
* LostForever: As long as you do not complete [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter]], you can replay any chapter to attempt to get a better run or collect items you may have missed. However, once [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter is finished and the final chapter is opened]], you can no longer replay older chapters, so anything you missed becomes impossible to reclaim.
* LuckBasedMission: Beating Pluto in Captain Square depends entirely on how often the enemies use their strongest attack.
* MagikarpPower: Bel, in Pogo's chapter. She is ''unspeakably'' underpowered compared to Pogo and Gori, especially against the enemy levels you're up against at the time. However, if you manage to carry her all the way to level 7 in the short time before she's [[DistressedDamsel kidnapped again]], she learns "La La", a ranged [[MusicalAssassin singing attack]] that packs enough power to ''ruin'' O-D-O in 2 rounds.
* MegaManning: Masaru. Each time he gets hit by a wrestler's signature moves, he learns that move immediately; it's actually possible to have him defeat a wrestler using that wrestler's signature move. Also the Xin Shan Quan inheritors, sort of. Any of them ([[spoiler:whichever one doesn't die]]) will learn all of the Master's attacks anyway, but you can influence which ones they learn first during the training sessions. Beat one up with only the Ryuuhawan, for example, and they'll learn the Ryuuhawan when they next level. Switch to killing them with Old Fox Dance after that, and they'll learn Old Fox Dance next, etc.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:The end-of-chapter bosses, with the exception of Straybow, are all variations on "Odio". And ''odio'' is Latin for "hatred".]]
* MoreDakka: O. Dio's solution to a lot of things.
--> '''O. Dio''': It doesn't matter how many rats you rustle up...
--> '''O. Dio''': You won't be able to win against a Gatling Gun!!
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Odie Oldbright kills all the wrestlers that Masaru faces in his chapter. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Masaru proves him]] [[SubvertedTrope wrong.]]
* MultipleEndings: Four in total.
* {{Ninja}}: Oboro's chapter.
* NonstandardGameOver: All over the place in Cube's chapter, along with one in Oboro's chapter.
* NoYou: Pogo and Zaki do this in picture/emoticon format.
* NubileSavage: Bel.
* OldMaster: The Xin Shan Quan Master. Unusually for the trope, he is his chapter's protagonist, rather than a side character. [[spoiler:At the end of his chapter, he dies, and it's his prize pupil who goes on to participate in the final chapter.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: The game has a fair number of these, but [[spoiler:Odio]] in particular.
* OneHitKill: Attacks that cause stone count. Pure Odio has the attack [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Life Eraser]].
** O. Dio's Gatling Shots, which do [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill always does 999 damage]].
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Ode Iou turns into a giant frog-like monster holding a cobra.]]
** [[spoiler:Oersted's Pure Odio form is actually angelic.]]
* PacifistRun: One of the possible ways to beat Oboro's chapter.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: In the most recent version of the fan translation, every level has its own font for displaying dialogue. For instance, the Western Level's text looks like a old-west sign, the Ninja level's text looks like Japanese calligraphy, and [[spoiler:Orsted's text gradually becomes more and more distorted after his StartOfDarkness]]. In the final chapter, everyone speaks using their respective chapter's font.
* {{Prehistoria}}: Pogo's chapter.
* PresentDay: Masaru's chapter.
* PressXToDie: [[spoiler:The airlock in Cube's level. Hrm, two switches. (Presses first switch, watches outer door cycle open) I wonder what kind of "Don't do THAT!" message I'll get if I try to open the inner door too? (presses second switch, explodes in incredulous laughter as Cube is sucked out into the vacuum of space.)]]
** There's also [[spoiler:Fight / Pass / Item / Armageddon. Guess which option gets you the worst ending?]].
* ProWrestlingIsReal: Masaru's chapter.
* PsychicPowers: Akira has them. Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[PlayingWithFire Pyrokinesis]], [[AnIcePerson Cryokinesis]], [[HealingHands Vitakinesis]] and various illusion-casting and physical-power-amplifying powers besides. He's got 'em all.
* PuzzleBoss: In Cube's Chapter, Earth from Captain Square counts, as you need to defeat a Fire Elemental and a bunch of Water Elementals. [[spoiler:The Fire Elemental can kill you with one hit, but if pushed onto Water panels (Which Water elementals make with their attacks), it will die from Water damage]].
** Even better is the second boss in the Demon's Peak from Oersted's chapter. [[spoiler:Attacks that strike from the front will not deal enough damage to kill her (as her attacks sap your health and Strength), but Oersted has one attack that can strike from behind without moving, which can kill her easily.]]
* RobotBuddy: Cube. Unusually for the trope, he is also the main character of his chapter, but he's still Kato [[spoiler:and Darth's]] friend.
* RobotWars: Occurred in the backstory of the Sci Fi Chapter. Darth, who has lost many friends to the battle robots, is particularly bitter over it.
* RunningGag: The whole Watanabe thing, where someone ([[strike:mostly]]always a father) dies shortly after it's brought up or said.
** It happens once in every chapter. Some are more obscure like the antenna in Cube's chapter, and a way to trigger an audience member getting mauled in Masaru's.
* SapientShip: [[spoiler:Cube's chapter; also AIIsACrapshoot.]]
* SayMyName: All over the place in the Cowboy chapter.
* SdrawkcabName: The title itself. As written in the artwork, it looks a vertical mirror is centered on the A, creating a perfect palindrome (LIVE A ヨVI」). The fact that "live" backwards spells "evil" is not a coincidence.
* SelfImposedChallenge: In the Cowboy chapter, you set traps to prevent having to fight O. Dio's goons. Of course, you don't have to set a single one and fight the guy with his entire ensemble, which take up most of the field, AND O. Dio himself. Observe: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lf0Gq-D1pg The reason why Sundown's the most badass of all the main characters.]]
* ShoutOut: Plenty of them, ranging from diverse sources (mostly movies rather than games) such as [[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]], TheGodsMustBeCrazy, ForAFewDollarsMore, StreetFighter, {{Akira}} and {{Alien}}. A few references are made with the names too, such as the various crew members in Cube's chapter ([[StarTrek Kirk]] and [[StarWars Darth]] being the most obvious, but [[SilentRunning Huey]] less so). Finally, the alien monster in Cube's chapter - a fierce, purple quadruped nicknamed "Behemoth" - is a cameo from Square's [[FinalFantasy slightly more famous series]].
** "[[{{Shane}} Sundown Kid! Come back, Sundown Kid!]]"
*** "Sundown Kid" is a take on the name of a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Kid outlaw]] in American history who has had at least [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid one well-known film]] made about his life.
** Decking yourself out in [[KamenRider Rider accessories]] in Akira's chapter. Besides its namesake, it's just full of lovingly corny, Japanese retro sci-fi in general.
** There is no possible way that Gori's constant snickering wasn't a reference to [[DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Muttley.]]
** If you play the piano in Akira's chapter he'll play the [[FinalFantasy Chocobo Theme]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Largely idealistic.
* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, Paralysis, Blindness, Confused, Petrified, Slow, Faint, Death (In which the character disappears from battle and cannot be revived). Along with these, there is also Drunk, Broken Arms, and Broken Legs.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Li is the only female protagonist. She's only one of two playable female characters in the entire game. On top of that, she's optional; depending on the player's choices in the Kung Fu chapter, Sammo or Yuan could take her place.
* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Surprisingly averted in Pogo's chapter. [[spoiler:The final boss is a dinosaur, but it's also the ''only'' dinosaur in the entire chapter. It makes sense for Zaki's tribe to worship the last living tyrannosaur on the planet as a god.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: ChronoTrigger shares many similarities with LiveALive.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter.]]
* TheJimmyHartVersion: Buriki Daioh's theme is a rearrangement of the theme of MazingerZ.
* TheStinger: Particularly in Pogo's chapter. It ends with Pogo speaking the first words mankind ever spoke. Namely, Love. And the Gori snickers. Most chapters have a stinger of their own, but it's mostly just a 'fin' screen.
* StoneWall: MASARU ([[spoiler:But only in the Final Chapter.]]). When he can level up, he does so quickly, and his HP and defenses shoot through the roof. It's rare to see him ever die once leveled, even without the best armor.
* StreetUrchin: Yuan.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Bel.
* SuperRobot: Buriki Daioh, in the Cyberpunk chapter.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: Brion, in the Final Chapter. It is required to enter the Forbidden Land.
* TerminallyDependentSociety
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Pretty much once per chapter, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome but best embodied by Buriki Daioh.]]
* ToiletHumor: One of Gori's attacks is him throwing his poo at the opponent. Just like a real ape!
* TomatoSurprise: O. Dio is the last survivor of the infantry that was wiped out, yes. [[spoiler:What you don't know is that the last survivor was a horse, who was possessed by the spirits of all those who were slain.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: At least half of the playable characters become {{Badass}}es over the course of their chapters. The rest were {{Badass}} to begin with.
* TheTropeKid: The Sundown Kid.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler: Oersted.]]
* TroubledButCute: Akira.
* TurnCoat: [[spoiler:Straybow, with a FaceHeelTurn. Also fulfills the ForgottenChildhoodFriend trope.]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Again, Akira's chapter.
* {{Uncoffee}}: Black tea, in the sci-fi chapter.
* UnstoppableRage: Several:
** Masaru, before fighting Odie Olbright.
** O. Dio, before fighting Sundown and Mad Dog. [[spoiler:It turns out that Dio was a horse possessed by the accumulated rage and hatred of a cavalry that had been wiped out.]]
** Akira and Matsu both have moments in Akira's chapter.
** [[spoiler:Oersted, during the scene at the end of the final chapter that leads into the BossRush.]]
* UranusIsShowing: Uranus! Uranus! [[OverlyLongGag FUCKING URANUS!]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: One way to get Oboro's InfinityPlusOneSword in his chapter is to kill everyone in the castle, which makes you just strong enough to fight a BonusBoss for it. This includes innocent servant girls and lady nobles...
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you off even just one female (even the kunoichi. The ghosts are fair game, however) in the castle before a [[GuideDangIt specific point]], then you won't be able to get one of the best accessories in the game.
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Oersted, if he is selected for the final chapter.]]
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Odio's seven reincarnations.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:And once again, Oersted's chapter.]]
* WhamLine: You probably guessed it long before, but after a certain point in Cube's chapter, inspecting any database terminal, computer, or anything electronic displays the message [[spoiler:"Resistance is futile. [[MasterComputer I]] have taken control of the ship."]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This one's a bit complicated: [[spoiler:As he's dying, Hash tells Oersted that the creature they just killed couldn't have been the real Demon King. Oersted's second visit to Demon's Peak ends with him becoming Odio. So what happened to the previous Demon King?]]
** [[spoiler:The real demon king -- that is, the one Hash killed previously -- never came back from the dead at all; he was never present at any point in the chapter. It was all a ploy by Straybow, at least up until the point where Oersted takes up the mantle himself. Hash's comment is a hint that Straybow's was an illusion without the Demon King's real strength.]]
* [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer When All You Have Is A Gun]]: Whereas the rest of the characters in the game get a pretty good variety of attacks, Sunset's and Mad Dog's attacks can pretty much be summarized as "shooting people," "shooting multiple people," and "shooting multiple people many times."
* WingedHumanoid: The Odio Mole, [[spoiler:who seems to be Oersted after getting a pair of vulture wings and becoming completely bald and naked]]
* TheWildWest: Sundown's chapter.
* YokoShimomura
* YouALLShareMyStory: The Final Chapter.
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An ambitious game by {{Square}}, featuring multiple story lines set in nine time periods ("chapters"), which can be played in any order before culminating in one hell of a WhamEpisode. These story lines each provide a different setting and genre. Although the storylines are mostly standalone at first, they eventually combine into a single plotline that ''thrives'' on well-executed PlayerPunch moments.
The plot itself is an interesting example of TheRashomon. The chapters of the game each draw on influences from different sources, as wide and varied as 80's anime, spaghetti Westerns, fighting games, ''[[TwoThousandOne 2001 A Space Odyssey]]'', and ''{{Aliens}}'', to name but a few. The game tends to [[PlayedForDrama play these tropes straight]] for the most part, but at times subverts them just as happily.
LiveALive also deviates somewhat from the usual Squaresoft games when it comes to the battle system, being somewhere between standard turn-based combat and a Tactics-style system. Although the battle system stays the same throughout the game, each chapter has its own distinct atmosphere and art style. They are, in chronological order:
* The prehistoric slapstick comedy romance chapter, starring Pogo the green-haired caveman and his monkey friend,
* The classical Chinese kung fu nature chapter, starring an old, dying Xin Shan Quan master and his potential successors Li, Yuan, and Sammo,
* [[spoiler:The (initially hidden) WhamEpisode medieval fantasy quest chapter, starring the young knight Oersted]],
* The Japanese Bakumatsu StealthBasedMission political revolution [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot]] maze chapter, starring the ninja Oboro and [[spoiler:[[HistoricalDomainCharacter Sakamoto Ryouma]]]],
* The SpaghettiWestern time trial puzzle chapter, starring [[ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid The Sundown Kid]],
* The modern day arcade fighting game chapter, starring the wrestler Masaru,
* The near future HumongousMecha {{Gainax}} MindScrew anime chapter, starring... well, {{Akira}},
* The sci-fi silent space SurvivalHorror TheComputerIsYourFriend chapter, starring the robot Cube.
(If you're considering playing the game for the first time, it is highly recommend you start with the robot sci-fi chapter. It's the only one that isn't either full of GuideDangIt moments or a complete {{Mindscrew}}, and contains a very nice tutorial mini-game. Both the kung fu chapter and the mecha chapter are also nice to begin with. After that, it may get a little bit [[NintendoHard difficult at times]].)
''LiveALive'' is now mostly forgotten, in no small part due to [[NoExportForYou the fact that it hasn't ever been officially released outside Japan]]. Following two FanTranslation projects, the game has picked up something of a [[CultClassic cult following]]. The latest Aeon Genesis translation patch can be found [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lal here]].
Often mentioned in connection with ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' and ''TreasureOfTheRudra''.
Not to be confused with the HaruhiSuzumiya episode "Live Alive", The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya story "Live A Live", or [[KamenRiderRyuki Alive A Life]].
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!!Live A Live provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Okame-no-Kata in the Bakumatsu chapter.
** [[spoiler: Voice Heart, the boss of the Xin Shan Quan Inheritor's final chapter bonus dungeon is a male example.]]
* {{Acrofatic}}: Sammo, naturally.
* ActionGirl: Li.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Imagine if what Oersted went through - where all his friends and allies either turned on him, or died while trying to protect him - happened to you.]]
* AfterCombatRecovery
* AIIsACrapshoot: "Everything in this ship must work in harmony... I was built to maintain harmony... Therefore, my will is absolute... Nobody will stand in my way... Anyone who tries... Will be terminated! KILL YOU...."
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals
* AllYourPowersCombined: The focus of Masaru's chapter and his end quote with his chapter boss, [[spoiler:Odie Oldbright]]
* AnachronismStew: Anyone care to explain how [[spoiler:robots]] found their way into feudal Japan?
** [[spoiler:[[ClockPunk Karakuri ningyo]] are a surprisingly old Japanese craft.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Oersted Was The Demon King]].]]
* AnimeHair: Most of the characters keep it down, but Pogo, Matsu, and Akira more than make up for them. At least the latter two have an excuse: their chapter is modeled on a SuperRobot anime. Also, Oersted.
* ApocalypseHow: You can pull off a Class Z by [[spoiler:choosing the Armageddon option when your health is low in the final chapter with Oersted.]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Odie Olbright
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil
* AsLongAsThereIsOneMan: Subverted horribly. [[spoiler:Oersted believes that he can continue to fight, even as everyone else in the world turns against him, as long as there's one person who believes in him. She loses faith. He [[FaceHeelTurn doesn't]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds take it well]], to [[BigBad put it mildly]].]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Straybow becomes one after he betrays Oersted. Only noticeable in Akira's dungeon in the final chapter, where you can find his soul. Alicia too, but not as much.]]
** [[spoiler:Matsu]] qualifies as well, having performed a HeelFaceTurn some indeterminate amount of time after he [[spoiler:killed Akira and Kaori's father.]]
* BadAss: Arguably all the heroes.
** Corporal Darth from the Sci-Fi Chapter gets special mention. [[spoiler:He takes out the fake Cube quite handily, incapacitatess the Behemoth (a beast so strong that it touching you results in instant death) by himself ''without killing it'', and ''lives''. It's safe to say that if the military picked someone a little less Badass to escort the Behemoth, Cube would've never made it to Earth.]]
* BadassBiker: Matsu.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Sakamoto Ryouma]] fought ''robots''.
* BigDamnVillains: At one point in the Bakumatsu chapter, a bunch of guards come after you, only to be attacked by a masked man. You can let the masked man kill the guards for you if you're going for zero kills.
* BigEater: Sammo, and to a lesser extent, Bel.
* BonusBoss: There are many:
** In Pogo's chapter, the King Mammoth.
** In Oboro's chapter, the Fish in the river, and the Ghost guarding the sword.
** In [[spoiler:the Final Chapter, there is one for every character's dungeon, and then some.]]
* BonusStage: The entire game of Captain Square in Cube's Chapter.
* BoozeBasedBuff: During the Western chapter, your healing items consist entirely of various alcoholic drinks.
** Of course, getting drunk comes with its debuffs...
* BossRush: [[spoiler:Also inverted in that you can play as the bosses.]]
** Could also apply to Masaru's chapter; the entire chapter consists of seven battles, but they're all against boss-level enemies.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Bel during Pogo's Chapter.
* BountyHunter: Mad Dog.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The first thing you see at the start of Akira's chapter is Akira's eyes staring ''right'' at you. He then starts addressing you directly for a short time before the action cuts to his actual story.
* BreatherLevel: Cube's chapter only has one required boss battle, and it doesn't have a single GuideDangit. [[spoiler:[[ParanoiaFuel That]] doesn't [[NothingIsScarier mean]] it's [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel boring...]]]]
** Sundown's chapter has a total of five battles, of which one is optional (and eliminates one of the others if you choose to fight), three are laughably easy, and one is against the chapter's boss [[spoiler:and can be made significantly easier depending on how you set the traps]].
* BrokenRecord: [[spoiler:After a certain point in Cube's Chapter, Captain Hol is only capable of saying "What, are you serious? That's... quite unfortunate..." Later, it's revealed to be a recording OD-10 made after killing the captain.]]
* ClimaxBoss: All the fights against the different Odio incarnations, and the Demon King in Oersted's Chapter.
* CoolShip: Cube's chapter; it takes place entirely on the CoolShip.
* CrutchCharacter: Oboro and Pogo can (and probably will) be leveled up very high in order to defeat their respective {{Bonus Boss}}es, [[spoiler:making them ridiculously overpowered during the first half of the final chapter.]]
** Still other characters have stats--like Masaru's ludicrous HP--that make them practically invincible once you do get around to levelling them up.
* CyberPunk: Akira's chapter.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Xuan Ya Lian Shan Quan from the Inheritance chapter. You can only use it once for the final battle of the chapter. It stops being dangerous and forbidden in the final chapter, though, where it can be used at any time once it's learned. Justified, considering that it's only dangerous to the master because he was too old to use it - his disciples have no such problems.
* DangerousTerrain: In battle, there are different types of damaging panels: poison, water, fire, and electricity. These panels also effect enemies, and some enemies can recover on said panels. Oboro is capable of creating fire and water based panels, and Cube can create electric-based panels. Gori from Pogo's chapter can create poison-based spaces.
** The bosses love elemental spaces. Most notably, Ode Iou's true OneWingedAngel form has an attack which creates an enormous area of poison based panels. OD-10 also has Driveback, which creates electric based panels in a 3x3 placement (which can actually kill it).
*** Taken to extremes in the Captain Square minigame, the only part of the game where you can quickly die from elemental squares alone.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:The Sundown Kid.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Oersted hit this pretty hard. After being tricked, he finds that everyone has now abandoned him and considers him a demon, his only remaining ally is dragged away to be tortured, and is blamed for the death of said ally who expends the last of his power to set Oersted free. Oh, then he finds out that his best friend betrayed him to this fate because he was jealous. Oh, and the 'Aesop' which has been so far in the game? "Don't lose hope as long as somebody believes in you". That went well. The last person who he hoped believed in him, the princess? After Oersted duels his traitorous friend and kills him, she asks why he didn't come to rescue her (Ouch. He did. Straybow only got there first by faking his death and ruining Oersted's life), declares that she loves said traitor, and kills herself. That was the absolute last straw, the severing of his last tenuous tie to sanity]].
* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Xin Shan Quan Master's chapter, with the Xuan Ya Lian Shan Quan.
** [[spoiler:In the Final Chapter, however, once you learn this with the surviving pupil, you can use this multiple times, thus making it an [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Skill]].]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Master, in the Ancient China Chapter; you do not name the Master, you name his fighting style. He is just referred as The Master.
* EvilSpeechOfEvil: Almost all of the Odio incarnations make one; the exceptions are O-DI-O from Pogo's chapter, and O. Dio from Sunset/Sundown's chapter. The most memorable has to be the speech at the end of [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter, delivered by Oersted himself.]]
* {{Expy}}: Sundown is quite similar to [[DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Straybow, and later Oersted.]]
* FallenHero: Hash in the medieval chapter. He was a hero who defeated the Demon Lord, but lost faith in humanity and went to live as a hermit in the mountains. He subverts it by helping Oerstred defeat the Demon Lord to prove that he is still brave. [[spoiler:Oersted eventually falls ''much'' harder.]]
* FanNickname: "知力25" (INT or IQ 25) for Masaru. Because his base IQ will ALWAYS be this. Parodied with [[{{Touhou}} Cirno]] crossovers.
* {{Fartillery}}: Both Pogo and Gori have gaseous attacks which can cause some status effects to boot.
* FateWorseThanDeath: In Akira's chapter, the people being abducted are being turned into liquefied humans to power the Kuruu Odio statue, or to become robotic super soldiers.
** [[spoiler:Oersted]] ended up with a horrible fate: [[spoiler:He is left in a land where people either think he is a traitor, or think he is a demon, because everyone who believed in him ended up dying. He winds up accepting the label of demon, and becomes the BigBad.]]
* FetchQuest: You don't have to go through the character dungeons in the final chapter, but if you don't, you'll have a difficult time with Odio and [[spoiler:you can't get the best ending.]]
* FightingGame: Masaru's chapter.
* FunWithAcronyms: Unknown if it's played straight or a case of {{Woolseyism}}, but read all of Cube's abilities in order and write down the first letter of each. If it's the former, it's definitely a textbook case of FridgeBrilliance. [[spoiler: It reads HUMANISM, the main theme for Cube's character.]]
** It's the former, but a few early English translations screwed it up.
* GameWithinAGame: Captain Square in Cube's chapter.
* GatlingGood: O. Dio's weapon.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: There are multiple in the final chapter; the most notable example is the guardian of Masaru's bonus dungeon, who only appears if Masaru is in your party.
* GlassCannon: Several. Yuan has the highest power rating of the Kung Fu heroes, but the lowest HP. The Sundown Kid has very low HP as well, but strong, long-range attacks and some of the most devastating techniques in the game. Oboro is similarly flimsy, but he's a {{Ninja}}, which is enough said right there. [[spoiler:From Oersted's chapter, we also have Straybow, a standard swords-and-sorcery elemental mage. He's not so Glassy the second time you fight him, though.]]
* GrandFinale: The best ending.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Congratulations, Straybow! [[spoiler: You've managed to break Oersted and turn him into a villain in your world! It had the unfortunate side-effect of him transforming into the Demon King, a villain which transcends time and space!]]
* GuideDangIt: Oboro's chapter, period.
* GunsAreWorthless: Averted. The Sundown Kid is the strongest character in the game, even moreso if you get his [[InfinityPlusOneSword .44 Magnum.]] Gun attacks in general are long-ranged, damaging, take no time whatsoever, and tend to not pose a significant disadvantage on the character using them.
** And on the other end, O. Dio's [[GatlingGood ultimate]] [[MoreDakka attack]] has a range that's completely diagonal to the end of the field and hits for 999 damage. So basically, the Sundown Kid AND the BigBad of his chapter averts this trope.
* {{The Gunslinger}}s: Sundown and Mad Dog.
* HaveANiceDeath: Cube's chapter is full of them, and if you happen to activate any of them, you are greeted with [[spoiler:"In the end... Cube never made it to Earth..."]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zaki]], from Pogo's chapter, [[spoiler:for the final boss of said chapter.]] There's also [[spoiler:Matsu]] from Akira's chapter, [[spoiler:but it happened in the backstory.]]
** Though it's possible [[spoiler:Zaki's is more of an EnemyMine thing, since it doesn't seem like his opinions on anything have changed -- he just ''doesn't want to be eaten by a dinosaur.'' It's hard to tell with no text.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Matsu does this to power the Buriki Daioh so he can save Akira and Kaori.]]
** [[spoiler:Straybow fakes having one during Oersted's chapter]]
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petards]]: The three antagonists in Akira's chapter get turned into liquified humans too when the mass of liquified humans they gathered end up engulfing them.
* HotBlooded: Fittingly, both Akira and Matsu. Masaru doesn't talk much, but he reveals his nature to fit this in a particularly epic moment at the end of his chapter.
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:The insane AI in the Sci-Fi chapter killed off the crew members because it feels this way. Later, there's the Medieval chapter...]]
* HumongousMecha: "Go! Go! Buriki Daioh!"
* InfinityPlusOneSword: Notable in that you need to get them all for the best ending.
** Also, there's not one but ''two'' swords in Oboro's chapter that are his 2nd best weapon (one is his best for the chapter, one you get after you beat it), although both of them are absurdly difficult and obscure examples of GuideDangIt. And you can only get one.
* InterfaceSpoiler: In battle, enemies consist of still images that slide around when moving and attacking and usually take up multiple spaces. Zaki only takes up one space and has idle, moving, and attacking animations like the members of your party. Guess who joins you in the fight against the chapter boss?
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Die in any of the chapters, and you get a nice little scene of someone or something reacting to your demise.
* KaizoTrap: Can sort of happen in Sundown's chapter; [[spoiler:if you choose not to duel Mad Dog, you'll fight him one last time after the credits roll. However, it's arguably ''harder'' to die than to win the fight, meaning you'd have to ''really be trying'' to invoke this trope.]]
** A more plausible invocation of this trope is vs. any boss monster that self destructs as a final attack. If you took to the strategy of getting everyone close in order to pin the boss in, then watch as everyone dies.
* KillAllHumans: Odio's primary goal.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The "Armageddon" Ending.]]
* KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear: Akira's chapter. Belonging to three different people, no less. Bonus points for not actually doing the act himself, even though he gets smacked for putting the one who did it up to it.
** Sundown and Mad Dog can also swipe Annie's nightie in the Wild West chapter.
* KnightInShiningArmor: [[spoiler:Oersted, deconstructed to hell and back.]]
* LargeHam: Zaki, somehow, despite not having a single line.
* LetMeTellYouAStory: Akira's chapter is entirely this, with Akira as the story teller. Even has a bit of HeKnowsAboutTimedHits as Akira introduces you to the gimmick of the chapter.
* LoadBearingBoss: Subverted. So very, very subverted.
* LostForever: As long as you do not complete [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter]], you can replay any chapter to attempt to get a better run or collect items you may have missed. However, once [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter is finished and the final chapter is opened]], you can no longer replay older chapters, so anything you missed becomes impossible to reclaim.
* LuckBasedMission: Beating Pluto in Captain Square depends entirely on how often the enemies use their strongest attack.
* MagikarpPower: Bel, in Pogo's chapter. She is ''unspeakably'' underpowered compared to Pogo and Gori, especially against the enemy levels you're up against at the time. However, if you manage to carry her all the way to level 7 in the short time before she's [[DistressedDamsel kidnapped again]], she learns "La La", a ranged [[MusicalAssassin singing attack]] that packs enough power to ''ruin'' O-D-O in 2 rounds.
* MegaManning: Masaru. Each time he gets hit by a wrestler's signature moves, he learns that move immediately; it's actually possible to have him defeat a wrestler using that wrestler's signature move. Also the Xin Shan Quan inheritors, sort of. Any of them ([[spoiler:whichever one doesn't die]]) will learn all of the Master's attacks anyway, but you can influence which ones they learn first during the training sessions. Beat one up with only the Ryuuhawan, for example, and they'll learn the Ryuuhawan when they next level. Switch to killing them with Old Fox Dance after that, and they'll learn Old Fox Dance next, etc.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:The end-of-chapter bosses, with the exception of Straybow, are all variations on "Odio". And ''odio'' is Latin for "hatred".]]
* MoreDakka: O. Dio's solution to a lot of things.
--> '''O. Dio''': It doesn't matter how many rats you rustle up...
--> '''O. Dio''': You won't be able to win against a Gatling Gun!!
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Odie Oldbright kills all the wrestlers that Masaru faces in his chapter. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Masaru proves him]] [[SubvertedTrope wrong.]]
* MultipleEndings: Four in total.
* {{Ninja}}: Oboro's chapter.
* NonstandardGameOver: All over the place in Cube's chapter, along with one in Oboro's chapter.
* NoYou: Pogo and Zaki do this in picture/emoticon format.
* NubileSavage: Bel.
* OldMaster: The Xin Shan Quan Master. Unusually for the trope, he is his chapter's protagonist, rather than a side character. [[spoiler:At the end of his chapter, he dies, and it's his prize pupil who goes on to participate in the final chapter.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: The game has a fair number of these, but [[spoiler:Odio]] in particular.
* OneHitKill: Attacks that cause stone count. Pure Odio has the attack [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Life Eraser]].
** O. Dio's Gatling Shots, which do [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill always does 999 damage]].
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Ode Iou turns into a giant frog-like monster holding a cobra.]]
** [[spoiler:Oersted's Pure Odio form is actually angelic.]]
* PacifistRun: One of the possible ways to beat Oboro's chapter.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: In the most recent version of the fan translation, every level has its own font for displaying dialogue. For instance, the Western Level's text looks like a old-west sign, the Ninja level's text looks like Japanese calligraphy, and [[spoiler:Orsted's text gradually becomes more and more distorted after his StartOfDarkness]]. In the final chapter, everyone speaks using their respective chapter's font.
* {{Prehistoria}}: Pogo's chapter.
* PresentDay: Masaru's chapter.
* PressXToDie: [[spoiler:The airlock in Cube's level. Hrm, two switches. (Presses first switch, watches outer door cycle open) I wonder what kind of "Don't do THAT!" message I'll get if I try to open the inner door too? (presses second switch, explodes in incredulous laughter as Cube is sucked out into the vacuum of space.)]]
** There's also [[spoiler:Fight / Pass / Item / Armageddon. Guess which option gets you the worst ending?]].
* ProWrestlingIsReal: Masaru's chapter.
* PsychicPowers: Akira has them. Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[PlayingWithFire Pyrokinesis]], [[AnIcePerson Cryokinesis]], [[HealingHands Vitakinesis]] and various illusion-casting and physical-power-amplifying powers besides. He's got 'em all.
* PuzzleBoss: In Cube's Chapter, Earth from Captain Square counts, as you need to defeat a Fire Elemental and a bunch of Water Elementals. [[spoiler:The Fire Elemental can kill you with one hit, but if pushed onto Water panels (Which Water elementals make with their attacks), it will die from Water damage]].
** Even better is the second boss in the Demon's Peak from Oersted's chapter. [[spoiler:Attacks that strike from the front will not deal enough damage to kill her (as her attacks sap your health and Strength), but Oersted has one attack that can strike from behind without moving, which can kill her easily.]]
* RobotBuddy: Cube. Unusually for the trope, he is also the main character of his chapter, but he's still Kato [[spoiler:and Darth's]] friend.
* RobotWars: Occurred in the backstory of the Sci Fi Chapter. Darth, who has lost many friends to the battle robots, is particularly bitter over it.
* RunningGag: The whole Watanabe thing, where someone ([[strike:mostly]]always a father) dies shortly after it's brought up or said.
** It happens once in every chapter. Some are more obscure like the antenna in Cube's chapter, and a way to trigger an audience member getting mauled in Masaru's.
* SapientShip: [[spoiler:Cube's chapter; also AIIsACrapshoot.]]
* SayMyName: All over the place in the Cowboy chapter.
* SdrawkcabName: The title itself. As written in the artwork, it looks a vertical mirror is centered on the A, creating a perfect palindrome (LIVE A ヨVI」). The fact that "live" backwards spells "evil" is not a coincidence.
* SelfImposedChallenge: In the Cowboy chapter, you set traps to prevent having to fight O. Dio's goons. Of course, you don't have to set a single one and fight the guy with his entire ensemble, which take up most of the field, AND O. Dio himself. Observe: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lf0Gq-D1pg The reason why Sundown's the most badass of all the main characters.]]
* ShoutOut: Plenty of them, ranging from diverse sources (mostly movies rather than games) such as [[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]], TheGodsMustBeCrazy, ForAFewDollarsMore, StreetFighter, {{Akira}} and {{Alien}}. A few references are made with the names too, such as the various crew members in Cube's chapter ([[StarTrek Kirk]] and [[StarWars Darth]] being the most obvious, but [[SilentRunning Huey]] less so). Finally, the alien monster in Cube's chapter - a fierce, purple quadruped nicknamed "Behemoth" - is a cameo from Square's [[FinalFantasy slightly more famous series]].
** "[[{{Shane}} Sundown Kid! Come back, Sundown Kid!]]"
*** "Sundown Kid" is a take on the name of a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Kid outlaw]] in American history who has had at least [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid one well-known film]] made about his life.
** Decking yourself out in [[KamenRider Rider accessories]] in Akira's chapter. Besides its namesake, it's just full of lovingly corny, Japanese retro sci-fi in general.
** There is no possible way that Gori's constant snickering wasn't a reference to [[DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Muttley.]]
** If you play the piano in Akira's chapter he'll play the [[FinalFantasy Chocobo Theme]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Largely idealistic.
* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, Paralysis, Blindness, Confused, Petrified, Slow, Faint, Death (In which the character disappears from battle and cannot be revived). Along with these, there is also Drunk, Broken Arms, and Broken Legs.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Li is the only female protagonist. She's only one of two playable female characters in the entire game. On top of that, she's optional; depending on the player's choices in the Kung Fu chapter, Sammo or Yuan could take her place.
* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Surprisingly averted in Pogo's chapter. [[spoiler:The final boss is a dinosaur, but it's also the ''only'' dinosaur in the entire chapter. It makes sense for Zaki's tribe to worship the last living tyrannosaur on the planet as a god.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: ChronoTrigger shares many similarities with LiveALive.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Oersted's chapter.]]
* TheJimmyHartVersion: Buriki Daioh's theme is a rearrangement of the theme of MazingerZ.
* TheStinger: Particularly in Pogo's chapter. It ends with Pogo speaking the first words mankind ever spoke. Namely, Love. And the Gori snickers. Most chapters have a stinger of their own, but it's mostly just a 'fin' screen.
* StoneWall: MASARU ([[spoiler:But only in the Final Chapter.]]). When he can level up, he does so quickly, and his HP and defenses shoot through the roof. It's rare to see him ever die once leveled, even without the best armor.
* StreetUrchin: Yuan.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Bel.
* SuperRobot: Buriki Daioh, in the Cyberpunk chapter.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: Brion, in the Final Chapter. It is required to enter the Forbidden Land.
* TerminallyDependentSociety
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Pretty much once per chapter, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome but best embodied by Buriki Daioh.]]
* ToiletHumor: One of Gori's attacks is him throwing his poo at the opponent. Just like a real ape!
* TomatoSurprise: O. Dio is the last survivor of the infantry that was wiped out, yes. [[spoiler:What you don't know is that the last survivor was a horse, who was possessed by the spirits of all those who were slain.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: At least half of the playable characters become {{Badass}}es over the course of their chapters. The rest were {{Badass}} to begin with.
* TheTropeKid: The Sundown Kid.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler: Oersted.]]
* TroubledButCute: Akira.
* TurnCoat: [[spoiler:Straybow, with a FaceHeelTurn. Also fulfills the ForgottenChildhoodFriend trope.]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Again, Akira's chapter.
* {{Uncoffee}}: Black tea, in the sci-fi chapter.
* UnstoppableRage: Several:
** Masaru, before fighting Odie Olbright.
** O. Dio, before fighting Sundown and Mad Dog. [[spoiler:It turns out that Dio was a horse possessed by the accumulated rage and hatred of a cavalry that had been wiped out.]]
** Akira and Matsu both have moments in Akira's chapter.
** [[spoiler:Oersted, during the scene at the end of the final chapter that leads into the BossRush.]]
* UranusIsShowing: Uranus! Uranus! [[OverlyLongGag FUCKING URANUS!]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: One way to get Oboro's InfinityPlusOneSword in his chapter is to kill everyone in the castle, which makes you just strong enough to fight a BonusBoss for it. This includes innocent servant girls and lady nobles...
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you off even just one female (even the kunoichi. The ghosts are fair game, however) in the castle before a [[GuideDangIt specific point]], then you won't be able to get one of the best accessories in the game.
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Oersted, if he is selected for the final chapter.]]
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Odio's seven reincarnations.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:And once again, Oersted's chapter.]]
* WhamLine: You probably guessed it long before, but after a certain point in Cube's chapter, inspecting any database terminal, computer, or anything electronic displays the message [[spoiler:"Resistance is futile. [[MasterComputer I]] have taken control of the ship."]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This one's a bit complicated: [[spoiler:As he's dying, Hash tells Oersted that the creature they just killed couldn't have been the real Demon King. Oersted's second visit to Demon's Peak ends with him becoming Odio. So what happened to the previous Demon King?]]
** [[spoiler:The real demon king -- that is, the one Hash killed previously -- never came back from the dead at all; he was never present at any point in the chapter. It was all a ploy by Straybow, at least up until the point where Oersted takes up the mantle himself. Hash's comment is a hint that Straybow's was an illusion without the Demon King's real strength.]]
* [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer When All You Have Is A Gun]]: Whereas the rest of the characters in the game get a pretty good variety of attacks, Sunset's and Mad Dog's attacks can pretty much be summarized as "shooting people," "shooting multiple people," and "shooting multiple people many times."
* WingedHumanoid: The Odio Mole, [[spoiler:who seems to be Oersted after getting a pair of vulture wings and becoming completely bald and naked]]
* TheWildWest: Sundown's chapter.
* YokoShimomura
* YouALLShareMyStory: The Final Chapter.
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