History VideoGame / PaladinsQuest

''Paladin's Quest'' (known as ''Lennus'' in Japan) is an RPG for SNES. Its most notable features are its unusual magic system and the mercenaries you can hire to pad out your party. It was also noteable for being very, very weird.

* {{Bishonen}}:
** Zaygos turns out to be one.
** Duke. The LetsPlay even nicknames him "Duchess" to play on it. [[spoiler:It turns out there's a [[TheMole very good reason for this.]]]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Zaygos rules Saskuot with an iron fist, made copious use of that iron fist to obtain his position, and you'll find during your eventual battle with him that there's very good reason why most of the people weren't too keen to attempt an uprising.

Chezni is a 13-year-old boy in a magic school who accidentally activates [[spoiler:[[SealedEvilInACan an ancient weapon of mass destruction]]]] and then finds himself WalkingTheEarth on a quest to defeat it and [[SavingTheWorld save the world]]. Chezni soon meets with a girl called Midia, also a spiritualist, who becomes the only permanent companion on his quest. The plot is complicated by the world-conquering ambitions of the EvilOverlord Zaygos who already rules the southern continent and is eyeing the northern one.

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* FinalBossPreview: [[spoiler: A damn early one; you come face-to-top-of-face with Kaymat as soon as you activate Dal Gren at the start of the game.]] Unsurprisingly, this preview does not go well for you.

* DifficultySpike: Once you reach the southern continent. The NPCs mostly hate you, and this actually has gameplay ramifications as medicine suddenly costs four times as much (let's not even talk about the cost of the weapons). Also, most enemies are now highly resistant to fire (which was by far your handiest offensive element until now), and the mercenaries available both tend to be few in number and often come with severe drawbacks.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are a total of 28 mercenaries that can be recruited into your party; a couple are plot-related for certain sections of the game, but most are completely optional. The flip side is that most of them have little or no interactivity with the story.

* UnwittingPawn: Chezni enters and activates Dal Gren at the start of the game, having no idea what it is and being dared to go inside by some of his classmates. [[spoiler:Duke knew exactly what would happen upon its activation and set him up.]]

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* TheAce: Mouth, an old swordsman who is one of the late-game mercenaries, is referred to in-game a few times as the greatest of all mercenaries. He lives up to his reputation. [[spoiler: He's also one of the few Mercs who has an attack that's capable of doing any real damage to the FinalBoss]].

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You can only ever have up to four playable characters in your party.

* CastFromHitpoints: The entire magic system is based on this.

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* DifficultySpike: Once you reach the southern continent. Medicine suddenly costs four times as much, most enemies are now highly resistant to fire (which is your best element), and the mercenaries available tend to be few in number, often with severe drawbacks.
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* EnemyWithout / TheHeartless: Suggested to be the true nature of [[spoiler:the Monsters of Dal Gran and Noi Gren.]]

* FacelessEye: Doth.
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* HeroicMime: Chezni.

* HopelessBossFight: No less than ''three'' different ones, but probably many more total for most players if they finish the game.

* TheMaze: The crystal world.
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* MusicalSpoiler: There is a particularly obvious one when you first enter Joyce's baker's shop.

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* OptionalPartyMember: The mercenaries. Some of them want money while others'll join for free if you let them.

%%* OurDragonsAreDifferent
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The undead-looking dragon you meet early on in the game, who woke up when you removed the Sword of Kormu from his body and carries you to the southern continent before dying? He recognized you because you were the one to seal him in the past, ten-thousand years ago. With the Sword of Kormu, of course.]]
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Sword of Kormu. Twice. [[spoiler:And you ultimately don't get to use it for the purpose you originally intended, since it breaks the first time you fight Zaygos with it.]]

%%* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:The mercenary G Rasav.]]

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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The Crystal Maze, which is also ThatOneLevel. There the game changes from an RPG into a puzzle game, a very hard puzzle game.
%%* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Chezni in the beginning.]]
* UselessUsefulSpell: Partially averted and even inverted. The monsters' attempts to hit the players with status effects and instant death have a miserable rate of success. The instant death spells cast by the players at the monsters don't fare any better than that, but [[MagikarpPower a fully leveled-up Freeze]] has a decent rate of success in player hands and makes some early boss fights much easier.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:At the start of the game, Gabnid is worshiped along with the other two founders as the one who brought wisdom to Lennus. Sort of, but that leaves off the important detail where he went insane with power and tried to murder everyone.]]

* WeWillMeetAgain: [[spoiler:Strabo says this after you seal him using the sword of Kormu in the past. Because of the StableTimeLoop involved, you ''already'' met him again in gameplay by the time this happens.]]

* WombLevel: You get to explore the insides of a dragon. [[spoiler: The entrance looks like a typical cave entrance and the dungeon is a fairly straight tunnel. The dragon's mouth [[FridgeHorror is the exit]].]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Zaygos proves himself quite savvy by [[spoiler: predicting and preparing for your entry into his temple]]. However despite having using it to his advantage he shows himself as a major BadBoss by [[spoiler: having the entire town massacred as punishment for allowing you to sneak in. [[JerkAss Despite having made it part of his plans in the first place.]]]]