History VideoGame / PokemonXenoverse

* ExactWords: All the promotional material for the game labels [[GreenThumb Shy]][[TheFairFolk leon]], [[PlayingWithFire Tri]][[MakeMeWannaShout shout]], and [[MakingASplash Shulong]] as "Starter Pokemon", like the Pokémon you obtain at the start of your journey in the official games. [[spoiler:Turns out, they're not like the other "Starter" Pokémon- they're ''[[OlympusMons legendary Pokémon]]''. They're called "Starter Pokémon" because they were the first Pokémon created by [[GodOfGood Luxflon]]. However, there are a set of more traditional starters in the form of Chiripe, Croakling, and Inflant, but they're not attainable until the post-game.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: The game introduces the Sound-type, a new type that is weak to Dragon- and [[ShockAndAwe Electric-types]] but strong against [[TheFairFolk Fairy-]], [[MakingASplash Water-]], and [[BlowYouAway Flying-types]]. Several Pokémon, such as Arbok and Jigglypuff, are reclassified as Sound-types as well.

There's also a SpinOff for UsefulNotes/{{Android}} devices called ''Donarush'', an [[EndlessRunningGame endless runner]] featuring [[{{Planimal}} Donanas]] as the protagonist alongside a small handful of Eldiw's Fakemon. By unlocking certain achievements in ''Donarush'', the player can unlock Mystery Gift codes for ''Xenoverse'' that can be redeemed for special PaletteSwap forms of the eight Fakemon[[note]]Donanas, Pepequeno, Scovile, Blingrimm, Birigiri, Peckabone, Excalibould, and Tokakle[[/note]] featured in the game. It can be downloaded [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BeehiveStudios.Donarush&hl=en_US&gl=IT here]]. There is also a SpiritualSuccessor: ''VideoGames/{{Lumentale}}''.

* NostalgiaLevel: The city of the eight Pokemon Gym? [[spoiler: Vermillion City, which you need to reach via airport. Unsurprisingly, you aren't allowed to explore the rest of Kanto, since all paths have a NPCRoadblock]].

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:The protagonist's father was actually behind Team Dimension the entire time, and faked his disappearance for over ten years as part of a convoluted plan to destroy Dragalisk that involved putting his child and many others in danger. At the end his wife and child have completely forgiven him and welcomed him back home, and it seems there will be no real consequences for his actions or the actions of Team Dimension in general.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Some of the female trainer classes dress this way.
** The cowgirls wear their shirts tied in a knot, exposing much of their midriffs.
** Weirdly enough, the prison uniforms of the female inmates of Westar City's Gym (which also doubles as a jail) is a two piece outfit that leaves their midriff bare.
** The female Hip Hop trainers wear a tube top under their open jackets.
** Henna, the seventh Gym Leader, wears nothing from the waist up but a red cloak, and covers their breasts [[{{Sarashi}} with bandages]].

There's also a SpinOff for UsefulNotes/{{Android}} devices called ''Donarush'', an [[EndlessRunningGame endless runner]] featuring [[{{Planimal}} Donanas]] as the protagonist alongside a small handful of Eldiw's Fakemon. By unlocking certain achievements in ''Donarush'', the player can unlock Mystery Gift codes for ''Xenoverse'' that can be redeemed for special PaletteSwap forms of the eight Fakemon[[note]]Donanas, Pepequeno, Scovile, Blingrimm, Birigiri, Peckabone, Excalibould, and Tokakle[[/note]] featured in the game. It can be downloaded [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BeehiveStudios.Donarush&hl=en_US&gl=IT here]].

** The whole eighth gym's quest is a series of [[WhamShot wham shots]] [[UpToEleven one after another]]. From finding out that the gym is located in [[spoiler: Vermillion City]] and the gym leader is [[spoiler: an elderly and jaded Lt. Surge]]. And then the fighting artwork shows that [[spoiler: Surge's right arm is [[ArtificialLimbs a prosthesis]]]]. And then it becomes clear that [[spoiler: now Surge is ''[[LaterInstallmentWeirdness a steel-type gym leader]]'']]. At this point the player knows who his [[SignatureMon Pokémon X]] is going to be, and it is not weird as its supposed pre-evolution already appeared in game... but then the Pokémon X appears and the player ''knows'' that [[spoiler: Surge's Raichu]] can't be the evolution of [[spoiler: Pikachu X]]. [[spoiler: Surge's Raichu]] looks like [[spoiler: a fully [[{{Cyborg}} robotized]] version of a Raichu with only [[MeatSackRobot part of his original muzzle]] still intact]]. And when the gym leader finally tells [[HowWeGotHere his story]] [[spoiler: the player is confirmed that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong "RoboRaichu" is really what remains of Lt. Surge's Raichu]]. Surge was secretly a Team Rocket member, and he got depressed after it disbanded. To fill the void he enrolled for another war. Surge and Raichu ended up involved in a gruesome battle that ended with an unnamed human soldier dead, Surge in a coma and [[AnArmAndALeg his right arm gone]], and Raichu [[OnlyMostlyDead grievously injured]]]]. They were saved by Team Dimension, [[spoiler: that gave Surge a prosthetic arm and [[WeCanRebuildHim turned Raichu into a cyborg]] so he could survive]]. [[spoiler: Surge]] was not happy with that development, as he felt like [[spoiler: he and Raichu]] should have died with honor during that battle instead of live on as [[WhatHaveIBecome shadows of their former selves]]. Luckily, his experience allowed him to find out where Team Dimension's HQ is, and he reveals its location to the player character [[spoiler:while acknowledging them as ''Silver's child'']].

** Shortly after the second gym, you have a boss fight with Sharpedo X, who you're able to catch. It has the exact same stats as its regular counterpart while being at a measly level ''15'', and comes with Aqua Jet (which is a STAB priority move) and Phantom Force (which is a 90 Base Power move at a point where moves are 60 BP at most). Even better is that while Phantom Force is a charge move, it's also a semi-invulnerability move, making it an AIBreaker. The only downside is that it doesn't get Speed Boost as a Hidden Ability like its regular counterpart, though having Infiltrator is nice.
** And shortly after the Sharpedo X fight, one can catch a Sneasel in Zero Cave. Sneasel already has good stats for that point in the game, but what pushes it into Nuke territory is the fact that you can find a Razor Claw, the item needed to evolve it, in a den in that very same cave (assuming it isn't already holding one when you catch it). Once evolved, one can easily take it to the move relearner (which is free in this game) to give it better moves, most notably the powerful Icicle Crash. Watch as the trainers weep at your powerful cat-weasel thing.

** At the end of the third Furious Battles event, [[spoiler: the Player Character has to fight against a Fury-controlled Dahlia and her team of six Fury Pokémon.]] When it appears that [[spoiler: Dahlia]] is defeated, the Fury Sigil fails to subside her and it breaks. The Fury uses [[spoiler: Dahlia]] to convey one last message to the Player Character before disappearing. But then, while [[spoiler: Victor]], who was the original target of the Fury possession, wakes up with a woozy memory and placated, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] ''[[NeverSayDie doesn't wake up]]''.

** In Newtron City there is a corridor connecting the higher and the lower part of the campus where the only NPC present are [[HighSchoolMusical a boy named Troy and a girl named Gabriella]] who like each other but are too shy to confess their feelings.

** Cowboys look suspiciously like [[Franchise/ToyStory Woody]]. And then you find one ''literally named'' Woody, who says "There's an Ekans in my boot!", and uses one in-battle alongside an Elgyem to stand in for Buzz. And next to him there's a cowgirl named Jessie.

** If it wasn't obvious already that the [[FunWithAcronyms G.E.I.S.T.]] are one to {{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}, [[spoiler: they're later called in after Wallace Daddy's concert to take down a giant Slurpuff.]]

** The four members of "The Roggenrola" are named after famous musicians: Tina (Turner), Jimmy (Hendrix), Dave (Grohl) and Freddy (Mercury).

** In a house in Hypelion City you can find [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Robin, Barney, Lily and Marshall]] sitting at the table. Ted is in the room on the second floor, wondering if he will ever find [[OneTrueLove his soulmate]], and there's a Pinap Berry in the same room as him.

** During the game's climax, after defeating [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Dragalisk]]]], it looks like the day is saved... and then [[spoiler:[[BigGood Luxflon]] becomes outlined in the same [[TheCorruption Blue Energy]] that surrounded Versil when Dragalisk possessed him...]]

''Pokémon Xenoverse'' is a Pokémon fan game created by Team [=WEEDle=] and made using RPG Maker XP. It stars a young Pokémon Trainer who begins their journey in the Eldiw Region in order to find their [[DisappearedDad missing father]], only to become intertwined in a much more grave matter: the appearance of interdimensional faults within the region that connect to the [[DarkWorld Xenoverse]], and the interdimensional X Pokémon that appeared alongside them. It's up to the protagonist to defeat both the X Pokémon and the mysterious Team Dimension, which seems to be seeking out the X Pokémon for their own nefarious goals...

* ExactWords: All the promotional material for the game labels [[GreenThumb Shy]][[TheFairFolk leon]], [[PlayingWithFire Tri]][[MakeMeWannaShout shout]], and [[MakingASplash Shulong]] as "Starter Pokemon", like the Pokémon you obtain at the start of your journey in the official games. [[spoiler:Turns out, they're not like the other "Starter" Pokémon- they're ''[[OlympusMons legendary Pokémon]]''. They're called "Starter Pokémon" because they were the first Pokémon created by [[GodOfGood Luxflon]]. However, there are a set of more traditional starters in the form of Chiripe, Croakling, and Inflant. But they're not attainable until post game.]]

** First, [[spoiler:Team Dimension's robotic Sergeants, A and B, willingly fuse into the single entity Sergeant S for their last battle with the protagonist. Interestingly, their two Bisharp seem to have fused together into a single X Pokémon as well.]]

* GoshDangItToHeck: Still pops up from time to time even though the game is more willing to depict swears than official Pokémon games. Which, in other words, means it has some.
* GratuitousSpanish: People in Westar City often insert spanish words when they speak (and many times incorrectly used), but Minta is ''especially'' bad about this.

* MagikarpPower: Chikaboo is quite a weak Pokemon, and its evolution Peckabone isn't much better. However, once you get a Dusk Stone and evolve it to Rexquiem, it will become a murder machine befitting of its Grim Reaper motif.

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: [[spoiler:The fusion between [[GodOfEvil Dragalisk]] and [[GodOfGood Luxflon]]. Oddly, it has a canonical name (Vakuum) that is mentioned earlier but not used in-game.]]

** Then there is [[spoiler: [[NostalgiaLevel the unnamed Johto based town]]]] the player character can casually stumble upon during their explorations.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Team Dimension Grunts and Sergeants A and B are all robots, but it is really easy to forget as they are really quirky and they often get involved in various shenanigans like trying to sunbath despite their lack of skin. It gets even lampshaded by one of the Team Dimension's scientists in the Headquarter, who tells the player character that [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming somehow the Grunts' AI evolved with no external help]].

* WhamShot: During the events of the Quasar Express, [[spoiler:Victor]] sends out a [[InfinityMinusOneSword Tyranitar]] when confronted... the same Tyranitar that attacked the protagonist's father, Versil, during the prologue, confirming that [[spoiler:Victor]] is responsible.

** Henna, the seventh Gym Leader, wears nothing from the waist up but a red cloak, and covers her breasts [[{{Sarashi}} with bandages]].

* ChekovsGun: The Samuel Oak International Airport. If the developers went through the effort of putting an airport, you'll be using it to fly somewhere. [[spoiler:And indeed, once you have seven badges, you take a plane to Vermillion City in order to fight the eight and last Gym Leader, Lt. Surge himself]].
* ContinuityCavalcade: The protagonist eventually gets to travel to Vermillion City from [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the Kanto Region]], which is sprinkled with references to the events and characters of the Gen I games and how things have progressed since then.

* AHeroIsBorn: The first scene of the game is Versil walking anxiously through a hospital hall for the birth of his first child. In this game the classic question "are you a boy or a girl?" is given by a nurse asking Versil to guess the gender of the baby.

** Weirdly enough, the prison uniforms of the female inmates of Westar City's Gym (which also doubles as a jail) is a two piece outfit that leaves their mirdriff bare.

** Henna, the seventh Gym Leader, weras nothing from the waist up but a red cloak, and covers her breasts [[{{Sarashi}} with bandages]].

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: After the reveal [[spoiler: of Versil being actually Silver and Clover being Green]], one could wonder why no one of [[WorldsBestWarrior their old friends]] was informed of what was happening and came to Eldiw to help deal with the situation. [[spoiler: They were informed, but they arrived too late for a reason of another; the Player Character finds it out when they talk to [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Gold]] on the top of Aurora Den.]]

** In a house in Hypelion City you can find [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Robin, Barney, Lily and Marshall]] sitting at the table. Ted is in the room on the second floor, wondering if he will ever find [[OneTrueLove his soulmate]]. And there even is a Pinap Berry in the same room as Ted.

** The whole eighth gym's quest is a series of [[WhamShot wham shots]] [[UpToEleven one after another]]. From finding out that the gym is located in [[spoiler: Vermillion City]] and the gym leader is [[spoiler: an elderly and jaded Lt. Surge]]. And then the fighting artwork shows that [[spoiler: Surge's right arm is [[ArtificialLimbs a prosthesis]]]]. And then it becomes clear that [[spoiler: now Surge is ''[[LaterInstallmentWeirdness a steel-type gym leader]]'']]. At this point the player knows who his [[SignatureMon Pokémon X]] is going to be, and it is not weird as its supposed pre-evolution already appeared in game... but then the Pokémon X appears and the player ''knows'' that [[spoiler: Surge's Raichu]] can't be the evolution of [[spoiler: Pikachu X]]. [[spoiler: Surge's Raichu]] looks like [[spoiler: a fully [[{{Cyborg}} robotized]] version of a Raichu with only [[MeatSackRobot part of his original muzzle]] still intact]]. And when the gym leader finally tells [[HowWeGotHere his story]] [[spoiler: the player is confirmed that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong "RoboRaichu" is really what remains of Lt. Surge's Raichu]]. Surge was secretly a Team Rocket member, and he got depressed after it disbanded. To fill the void he enrolled for another war. Surge and Raichu ended up involved in a gruesome battle that ended with an unnamed human soldier dead, Surge in a coma and [[AnArmAndALeg his right arm gone]], and Raichu [[OnlyMostlyDead grievously injured]]]]. They were saved by Team Dimension, [[spoiler: that gave Surge a prosthetic arm and [[WeCanRebuildHim turned Raichu into a cyborg]] so he could survive]]. [[spoiler: Surge]] was not happy with that development, as he felt like [[spoiler: he and Raichu]] should have died with honor during that battle instead of live on as [[WhatHaveIBecome the shadows of their former selves]]. Luckily his experience allowed him to find out where Team Dimension's Headquarter is and he reveals its position to the player character [[spoiler: as Surge recognizes them as ''Silver's child'']].

* WeCanRebuildHim: By the end of the game it becomes clear that Team Dimension is pretty fond of this trope. [[spoiler: [[TheRival Trey]] was turned into a {{Cyborg}} to save his life after an accident]]. They also turned [[spoiler: Surge's Raichu]] into a {{Cyborg}} and [[spoiler: gave his owner [[ArtificialLimbs a robotic arm]]]] after they got injured during a fierce battle. And they [[spoiler: used genetic engireering to turn Mewtwo into [[CameBackStrong Mewtwo X]] after it was grievously injured during Giovanni and Dragalisk's fight.]]

** Henna, the seventh Gym Leader, weras nothing from the waist up but a red cloak, and covers her breasts [[Sarashi with bandages]].