History VideoGame / Settlemoon

* WeirdMoon: One of the most prominent features of the game. [[spoiler: Players can unlock event moons that cause event-only monsters and materials to spawn. The least-weird one is the Earth Moon; it takes your current lunar phase, inverts it, and rotates it 90 degrees clockwise.]]

* WeirdMoon: One of the most prominent features of the game. [[spoiler: Players can unlock event moons that cause event-only monsters and materials to spawn.]]

* AuthorAvatar: In-universe;[[spoiler: Luna, Settlemoon's developer, makes frequent appearances as their Luna moth avatar.]]

** [[spoiler:For a Moon that's actually Moon-elemental, one has to offer other Moons up on a NewGamePlus altar; it is large and aquamarine, it shows the sky behind it to be a bubbling cosmic ocean, and it prompts the growth of [[ToweringFlower gigantic moon lilies]] who release star-like pollen. This is the shortest but most-effective of the Moons]]

** [[spoiler: The Forgotten Guardian, "Keeper of all that never came to be", is an unfinished boss that barely even exists within Settlemoon. It fails to spawn in all-the-way whenever even pictures of it appear; aside from in its story card, anyway, which details why it came into such a sorry state. Its equipment is turning to Dust Flakes upon it, such Flakes create gear that's [[CoolButInefficient cool-looking but bad]] due to its assigned elements being wrong, and Rose is unable to even touch any of it with their code; Luna couldn't bring herself to work on the dragon-knight without Sunny, after all, and Sunny's work was a very long time ago. On the other hand, the Forgotten Guardian [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece has immensely-increased relevance]] during the [[WhenTreesAttack invasion of the Rememberance Roses]] at the end of the game; the collected Roses can be used with the Dust Flakes to produce nice decorations, including a spring that gives the dusty gear new life as [[InfinityPlusOneElement Moon-elemental]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword masterpieces]].]]

** Settlemoon also does this with [[spoiler:pollen and its fragrance. Rose blankets and bubbles Settlemoon in a purple pollen as they work on reviving the game, and does the same to Luna when trying to hug her. This tints Settlemoon's sky and changes the game world's atmosphere, and Luna rejects it. NewGamePlus has a different example of this, where moon lilies and minor enemies called "Memory Distortions" spread "Star Pollen", and where one of the Keepers gets a new form that looks like the lilies. In both cases, pollen appears to represent dreams and wishes.]]

* ForbiddenZone: Two areas of the game, stemming from the game having only three[[spoiler:-or-four]] Keepers fully-accessible [[note]]Assuming the purple slime in Rose's notes was a placeholder[[/note]] when it last went down:

** [[spoiler: Sprouted Acolyte starts all of these, actually, but the overgrown bug shell have a request of its own...]]

* HealthPotion: Several different kinds, in fact!

** [[spoiler:The name of Settlemoon's co-dev, the Sun Butterfly, [[TheGhost is never actually revealed]].]]

* NonElemental: A lot of the stuff for Wizards and Shepherds in-game is non-elemental, making it a safe bet for increasing the Town level without lowering your odds of finding a Moth you'd like.

* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Unlocking the town expansion reveals an unused area populated by sketches of unfinished buildings and decorations. The kobold that opens the expansion is visibly confused by what they find.]]

* {{Conlang}}: Most of Settlemoon's text uses one of these, in the same spirit as the different languages in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. The only major spoiler you'll get from solving it, though, is [[spoiler:a four-letter acronym next to the unfinished Sun Gate that reveals its purpose: "'''T'''o '''C'''lose '''Y'''our '''G'''ame", or '''T'''o '''C'''omplete '''Y'''our '''G'''ame]].

** [[spoiler: Forgotten Guardian wants you to make a Moon altar. When you make it, [[CharacterDeath he crumbles away while trying to step through an invisible portal atop it]], removing all instances of him from the game. How do you get him back?]] [[spoiler: Well, you can make the other side of the portal visible by sacrificing three different Moons, but only for a bit; doing so gives a new cocoon type that, just for this instance, [[NecessaryToFail can only hatch under a moonless/Rune sky]].]]

* RetGone: An entire boss is absent from the game, one once very-important if going off of Rose's notes. [[spoiler: Context is provided in NewGamePlus after the "New Moon" Update: originally a faction/war event was planned between [[NightAndDayDuo Luna and Sunny's creations]], particularly the Ice Dragon "King" of Settlemoon and the Forgotten Guardian, but Sunny left before finishing the Forgotten Guardian or his minions. Valuing Sunny's work more than her own, Luna kept and tried repurposing everything he made ([[WeWereYourTeam though she couldn't bring herself to finish the unfinished stuff]]), while removing everything ''she'' made that reminded her of the event.]]

* GenreShift: As of Part Two of the New Moon Update, NewGamePlus offers puzzles and mini-challenges that are fairly different from what the main game is focused on. Each one is tied to one of the Keepers, [[spoiler:[[GameplayAndStorySegregation and each one is interestingly available even during the Keeper-replacing endgame]]]]. You can do these over multiple towns.

* ElementalPowers: Most bosses have one or more associated elements, such as Life for Count Cerise, Rot for the Eye Stalker, and Air for Magnum Spark. [[spoiler:Learning to manipulate the elements is an important part of progression, as well.]]

* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:There's a Moon that replaces all instances of black in the game with dark blue: only the adventurers are spared.]]

* RefiningResources: A late-game building slowly produces powerful equipment out of an otherwise useless resource.

* ElementalPowers: Most bosses have one or more associated elements, such as Life for Count Cerise, Rot for Blind Stalker, and Air for Magnum Spark. [[spoiler:Learning to manipulate the elements is an important part of progression, as well.]]

** The Blind Stalker [[spoiler: sets up a dojo where he bonks adventurers as some sort of {{Superboss}} parody.]] [[spoiler: This is a RedHerring; since adventurers cap out at Level 99 and the Super-Stalker is always two levels above your Town's level, the challenge is to [[DoWellButNotPerfect improve the right adventurers without raising the Town level too much]]. He also fights only one class at a time, starting with Soldiers.]]

** [[spoiler: Diamondback misses their mate, and wants you to send adventurers on excavations in the world map, hoping to find something about them. The serpent adds a shovel to the quest menu, which lets you send adventurers on treasure hunts. There are twelve things to find. Like with the Blind Stalker's quest, this quest may be easier before you trigger the Endgame, as the clue images are taken from the map with all seven Keepers available but no Sun Gate.]]

** [[spoiler: Getting to the Sunrise for the second and subsequent times still causes Settlemoon to shut down, but this time we see it from Luna's perspective. The world of Settlemoon still exists while the Sun is up; it's not very different from how it was at night (most things are still unlit), and the decorations Luna surrounds herself with aren't very colorful, but it's all still there. Regardless, under a lit sky, and not one with a Moon or a Rune, [[GoToSleepEnding Luna can finally get good sleep]] before Catalyst starts things up again.]]

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Settlemoon exists in a permanent state of night, [[spoiler:and doesn't seem to be playable when the Sun is up]]. Everyone in-game still needs to sleep, though, and chooses to do so while a Rune is in the sky.

* FlowerMotifs: [[spoiler:Rose binds Settlemoon back together with their vines, but their thorns are very inflexible and ultimately choke out whatever doesn't abide by their wishes. Them going outside and doing something new with their life is represented with Sunflowers, which grow in whichever direction the light is facing instead of expecting the light to come to them, and the Sunrise Sprouts are sprouted sunflower seeds.]]