History VideoGame / RPGShooterStarwish

* AnAesop: Not as blatant as usual. Still, at the end of every ending, Deuce will make a short speech of what he has realized, mostly basic things like "Live life to the fullest" or "Try to make friends with your enemies".

* BrokenAesop: For all the talk of the grief brought by war, no one cares about the [[WhatMeasureIsAMook casualties]] inflicted by [[spoiler: Deuce destroying the Firebolt.]]

* ThatBattleDidntCount: If you defeat the Firebolt in your first encounter with it, the story proceeds as if you'd lost.

* ClimaxBoss: The Earthwall and Firebolt.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality:
** [[spoiler:Neferiti]] places a very low value on non-Lucernian life, compared to her own. [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn She changes her mind]].]]
** Lucernians in general place a very low value on non-Lucernian life. [[spoiler:Neferiti]] explains it best as similar to how humans would treat ants.
** Each Lucernian elemental race also tends to be indifferent at best toward other elementals; for example, [[spoiler:the Marid conceal themselves instead of using their superior powers to intervene and end the Djinn-Efreet war and establish order.]] [[spoiler:Neferiti towards the Djinn]] is also an example, [[spoiler:but her attitude changes.]]

* FunnyAnimal: Appear here as alien species. Including [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandas]] and [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]].

* BoobsOfSteel: [[spoiler: Mare has the biggest breasts in the game.]]

* HurtingHero: [[spoiler:Johnny, thanks to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero what he's responsible for]] and [[Really700YearsOld how old he is]].]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Johnny. Oh ''good lord'', Johnny. [[spoiler:In the past, he wished for non-Lucernians to be able to make their own wishes via the Wishing Star. In order to do this, the Wishing Star grew VASTLY more powerful to be able to respond to the wishes of everyone...unfortunately, [[{{Synchronisation}} Iblis grew with her]], becoming sentient and quickly going insane at [[PowerIncontinence its predicament]], transforming into a galactic threat that shattered Lucernia and needed to be sealed away by shattering the Wishing Star itself before it could kill everything. Understandably, he's very [[HurtingHero hung up on that mistake]] in the present.]]

* PeekABangs: Deadeye's hair covers one eye.

* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:Iblis suffers from it, and it's why its the BigBad. As the embodiment of a desire, it hears the desires and wants of every sentient lifeform in the universe...and it ''can't shut them out'' '''ever'''. Originally, this wasn't a problem...until Johnny's wish gave it enough power to achieve sentience, at which point Iblis quickly went mad at the trillions of voices in its head and started trying to kill everything just to make it ''quiet''.]]

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Iblis]]. Yes, it's an omnicidal maniac...but this is after it's been DrivenToMadness from centuries, possibly ''millennia'', of having the desires and wants of ''all sentient life'' shouted into its head with [[PowerIncontinence no way]] to block it out. After enduring it so long, Iblis can't take it anymore and wants to kill everything to just. ''Make it.'' '''STOP.'''

* OrwellianRetcon: Was made to fix a continuity error involving [[spoiler: the time when Deuce said wish that there will be no more wishes]] However... See VoodooShark below

** [[spoiler:Neferiti (she was trying to bring in her homeworld, without which she would die in a few years)]], but at least [[spoiler:[[TragicVillain she felt bad about it]] and works with Ginny to save the second planet after she turns its star into a gateway]].

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Iblis]]. Yes, it's an omnicidal maniac...but this is after it's been DrivenToMadness from centuries, possibly ''millennia'', of having the desires and wants of ''all sentient life'' shouted into its head with [[PowerIncontinence no way]] to block it out. After enduring it so long, Iblis can't take it anymore and wants to kill everything to just. ''Make it.'' '''STOP.'''

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Johnny. Oh ''good lord'', Johnny. [[spoiler:In the past, he wished for non-Lucernians to be able to make their own wishes via the Wishing Star. In order to do this, the Wishing Star grew VASTLY more powerful to be able to respond to the wishes of everyone...unfortunately, [[{{Synchronisation}} Iblis grew with her]], becoming a galactic threat that shattered Lucernia and needed to be sealed away by shattering the Wishing Star itself before it could kill everything. Understandably, he's very [[HurtingHero hung up on that mistake]] in the present.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gen, along with the crew of the Earthwall]] (though that one was ultimately meaningless) and [[spoiler:Ginny, who holds Iblis at bay in order to save the universe]].

* HurtingHero: [[spoiler:Johnny.]]

* IronicNickname: [[spoiler:Johnny calling Oracle "Granny," since he's Really700YearsOld.]]

* MadScientist: Deadeye.

* TimeToStepUpCommander: [[spoiler: Happens to Deuce.]]

* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Tessa to Deuce in her final cafe conversation. Tessa says [[LoveYouAndEverybody she loves Deuce]], but Deuce is upset that she doesn't mean it romantically. Of course, she [[RelationshipUpgrade changes her mind]] in her ending.

* OpeningScroll: Apparently in reference to ''StarWars''.

* FunnyAnimal: Appear here as alien species. Including [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandas]] and {{Kitsune}}.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: As stated in the description, the game's creator describes it as "a unique blend of a shooter, RPG, visual novel, and dating sim."

** Though, admittedly, it was [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness pretty soft sci-fi]] to begin with.

* RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth: For most of the game, you have the shield bar which regerenerates by itself and a health bar which does not. A skill lets both regenerate near the end, though.

* VoodooShark: Original version of game had Deuce say "I wish there was no wishes" after an argument with a girl which ended with him wishing space station Libra to blow up. When station ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor did]]'' blow up Deuce blamed himself leading him to say said line. [[spoiler: Girl was later revealed to be Neferiti and Libra was when she first found out about star fragments, which led to continuity error since Deuce's wish was what created the fragments in the first place.]] One OrwellianRetcon later Deuce said the line as his birthday wish after his parents died in a riot. However seeing as his parents deaths had nothing to do with wishes Deuce had no real reason to say said line.

* {{Seer}}: [[CoolOldLady Oracle's]] [[MeaningfulName signature]] [[RedBaron ability]].

* CutSong: A few songs on the soundtrack aren't in the game because they would have made the file too big.

* BonusMaterial: RPG Shooter: Starwish Extras on Kongregate, among other things, contains the much wanted ability to view any cutscene at any time.

* {{Animesque}}

** [[spoiler:Neferiti]] places a very low value on non-Lucernian life, compared to her own. [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn She changes her mind]].]]

* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler: Ginny does this ''twice'' to save Deuce, dooming her to an early death.]] [[spoiler:Unless you [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned your happy ending]], that is.]]

* ColorCodedElements: [[spoiler: Ginny the air elemental is white, Neferiti the fire elemental dresses in red, Mare the water elemental dresses in blue, and Johnny the ex-earth elemental dresses in yellow.]]

* {{Fiction 500}}: [[spoiler: Johnny. He's rich enough to break the Federation's power by himself, but [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum chooses not to]] and instead runs a cafe on a pirate ship.]]

* PatchworkMap: [[spoiler: What Lucerna looked like before being destroyed, due to Lucernians being able to reshape it at will.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: When [[spoiler: Deuce returns to the mothership after not escaping from defeating [[FinalBoss Iblis]]]], no one seems to question it much. [[spoiler: The only ones who even bring it up are Tessa and Neferiti in their endings, but they seem to forget about it right after. In Deadeye's ending Deuce explains "Somehow I made it back safely."]]

Specifically, the author describes it as "a unique blend of a shooter, rpg, [[VisualNovel visual novel]] and [[DatingSim dating sim]]". A lot of the drive of the game is based upon the storyline, the character interaction, and the upgrades and level ups for the main "shooter" game, which is played during missions on various sites of interest on the current planet.

* SpoiledSweet: [[spoiler: Djinni grew up having her wishes granted.]]

* MacGuffin: The Star Fragments.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Again, the Star Fragments.