History VideoGame / StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime

** When on a mission to save [[spoiler:Ameena, Sophia's sickly flower girl lookalike]] the party encounters a Sand monster which randomly appears out of a pond,isnt alluded to prior and is not mentioned again after its defeat
** In the Beguerel mines, the party is attacked by a giant chicken which can turn people to stone with its breath. It's not alluded to prior

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The Nobleman is an enemy type you encounter early on that doesn't attack at all and just runs around. Your only option other than fleeing and losing the XP/money you could have gotten is [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption beating him until he does his special move, which is him pleading for his life]]. You can also intentionally trip him, which results him dropping his money. You can do this as long as you like to farm money. If you do kill him he either cries or screams "I hate you!"

* WelcomeToCorneria: Averted with most [=NPC=]s, who get new dialogue as you progress in the story. They still usually only have two or more blurbs of dialogue each time though

* WelcomeToCorneria: Averted with most NPCs, who get new dialogue as you progress in the story. They still usually only have two or more blurbs of dialogue each time though

** The item creation system. There are so many items and equipment that you need a guide and a couple hours to get just a handful of items you want. It's also partially {{randomly drops}}.

** A minor one, but if you sell the 1/144 Scale Bunny you get from completing the maps for Pesotto Forest and Traum Mountains at the earliest possible opportunity, you can buy the Holy Sword for Fayt from Airyglyph much earlier than you should be able to. The sword has an ATK of 200, allowing you to cut through many early enemies with ease. The only downside is that you might have to deal with Dragon Brigade Soldiers, which you aren't meant to be able to defeat at that point in the game. However, with clever usage of the Anti-Attack Aura, it's quite possible to beat them, which nets you a great deal of EXP.

* AerithAndBob: On one hand, you have names like Fayt, Peppita, and Albel. Then you have ordinary names like Roger and Maria. It's even more hilarious when you realize [[PettingZooPeople Roger]] is the one who would be most out-of-place on modern Earth.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: [[http://mangapark.me/manga/star-ocean-till-the-end-of-time/s1/v3/c0/149 Pierre and Kurin]] are [[PettingZooPeople a pair of Menodix]], who're exclusive to the manga. They're a part of the Black Cat group of bounty hunters, though it only seems to be to two of them. And while only [[PluckyComicRelief a minor nuisance]], at best, [[http://mangapark.me/manga/star-ocean-till-the-end-of-time/s1/v3/c0/151 they still prove problematic]] for Fayt, Nel, and Cliff.

** Sphere is a reference to Square, a real life company famous for making RPGs.

* MeaningfulName: Fayt Leingod and Maria Traydor. It should be noted, though, that Maria's surname (which is literally spelt "Traitor" in the Japanese version) [[spoiler:is actually a misnomer, since she never behaves traitorously in any way at all.]] Sophia gets in on the act too, if you know anything about Gnosticism (or played ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' or ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'').

* AwesomenessInducedAmnesia: During the war between Aquaria and Airyglyph, a Vendeeni ship appears out of the sky and begins to lay waste to the warring kingdoms. After seeing the wanton devastation and [[spoiler: learning that the Vendeeni wish to capture him, Fayt unleashes his Destruction power to delete the ship from existence. The physical and mental trauma of the act leave him unable to remember how this happened.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Fayt, mostly at the beginning to Cliff.

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** Cliff also has his moments (as seen above).

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Fayt Leingod. Imagine people calling him that with a straight face when he was just an ordinary college student. This is even moreso in the Japanese version, where his name is actually spelled Fate Linegod.

''Star Ocean: Till the End of Time'' is the third console installment in the ''Franchise/StarOcean'' series. Set 400 years after the events of ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory''. Fayt Leingod, an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]], is vacationing on a resort planet which suddenly gets attacked by aliens. A few escapes later, his escape pod crash lands on an undeveloped planet, where he eventually gets rescued by Cliff Fittir, a member of [[LaResistance a resistance group named Quark]]. After crashing on ''another'' undeveloped planet, they get caught up in the local politics. The repercussions of the alien attack, and the reasons for it, are going to catch up with Fayt again....

* DistantFinale: As of this writing, it's, canonically, the farthest entry in the franchise's timeline.

* AnachronicOrder: Only the third game in the series but the last one in the series' internal chronology, where everything from the games that [[''VideoGame/{{Star Ocean|1}}'' came]] [[''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' before]] and [[''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' those]] [[''VideoGame/StarOceanIntegrityAndFaithlessness'' then-yet-to-come]] comes to a head, which works well considering the aforementioned plot twist.

* CantCatchUp: If a character is out of the party for any length of time and suddenly comes back, they return at the level they were when they left. The most blatant example of this are Sophia and Peppita, who both return to the party (Sophia being permanent, Peppita being optional) around the middle of the game after being playable for only a couple of tutorial battles at the very beginning. Everyone else in your party is perhaps level 30 or greater by this point, while both are still at level 1, and by now you're facing enemies that can insta-kill your properly levelled characters. You can level both easily by grinding in a different location, and, since they're at level 1, they can make the bonus battle gauge fill up faster, thus making you earn EXP easier. There's even a battle trophy for gaining 20 levels in a single battle.
** Also note that there is a battle trophy for defeating Luther with a team of Level 1 characters. This means recruiting Peppita and Sophia and ''not'' training them. Also this means you shouldn't level up Fayt so that he's stuck in Level 1 (by skipping fights up until Norton, then incapacitate him in said boss fight while Cliff finishes off the enemy). This means that leaving the two as Level 1 characters is an ''intentional'' design.

** For those who want to figure it out, [[spoiler:Luther manages to delete ''Eternal Sphere'' in spite of trying to stop him. However, your characters' thoughts and consciousness somehow remained intact, with the dialog implying that the ''will'' of the denizens of Eternal Sphere made them exist, echoing Descartes' "I think therefore I am"]]. Some speculate that it's due to the powers of Fayt, Maria and Sophia that made it all possible, especially when it was Fayt's inner monologue that started the whole bit. It's a bit less vague in the manga, where [[spoiler:Blair activated the back-up copy of the Eternal Sphere]].

* BoringButPractical: Fayt's Side Kick. It's one of the first abilities he learns, and is pretty much exactly as it sounds like. However, it's cheap to cast in terms of both Fury and HP, has low capacity point requirements, grants invincibilty during its animation, and chains into itself easily for a sustained 200% damage boost. Chances are that this is going to go into both of Fayt's close-range killer move slots as soon as you get it, and will stay there through the {{Bonus Dungeon}}s.

* CantCatchUp: If a character is out of the party for any length of time and suddenly comes back, they return at the level they were when they left. The most blatant example of this is Sophia, who returns to the party around the middle of the game after being playable for only a couple of tutorial battles at the very beginning. Everyone else in your party is perhaps level 30 or greater by this point, while she's still at level 1, and by now you're facing enemies that can insta-kill your properly levelled characters. You can level her up, along with Peppita, easily by grinding in a different location, and, since they're at level 1, they can make the bonus battle gauge fill up faster, thus making you earn EXP easier. There's even a battle trophy for gaining 20 levels in a single battle.