History VideoGame / StellaGlow

** There are a few weapons that require fulfillment of specific conditions to obtain, as they will never be sold in stores. To get 100PercentCompletion the player has to fulfill all optional mission objectives.

* BreatherEpisode: Chapters 4 and 7 are long strings of back-to-back Free Time, with occasional plot advancement between each segment.

** The legendary hero Elcrest [[spoiler: has returned after a thousand year slumber to finish what he started. He's presently known as the AmnesiacHero Alto.]]
** His best friend Xeno [[spoiler: has also withstood the last thousand years as Mother Qualia's [[TheDragon primary enforcer]]. He masquerades around Lambert as Klaus, leader of the 9th Regiment.]]

** Veronica has all three of them beat. [[spoiler: As the last surviving technolomy, she's been artificially enhancing her longevity by eating angel wings for over 5,000 years.]]

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: The level cap is 99, but the recommended level for the final mission is 41 with most characters learning their final skill at 35.

* OrphansPlotTrinket: Of the "PlotCoupon" variety, since we know ''exactly'' when [[spoiler:Rena]] [[BreakTheCutie was orphaned]]. You receive [[spoiler:Rena's Orb]] just before heading off to the final battle, and it allows the party member whom it's equipped to to deal automatic critical hits against the enemies in those levels.

** Downplayed by Elcrest in the game's backstory. [[spoiler:Francisca sacrifices herself to place his body in stasis and Hilda clearly carries a torch for him for a millenium]], but it's never established whether the other Witches had any romantic desires towards him.

* AfterTheEnd: The [[spoiler: Technolomies]] are heavily implied to have been an extremely advanced society [[EarthAllAlong much like our own]] who eventually destroyed themselves by [[spoiler: discovering how to convert emotional energy into physical energy and misusing it]]. [[spoiler: Veronica, the last Technolomy, having lived 5000 years after Mother Qualia destroyed her entire civilization]], even has her hometown listed as "London" while no other character has a hometown corresponding to any real world location.

* GodIsEvil: It's a well known story. Because people stopped worshipping her, God sent Angels to massacre humanity one thousand years ago. Lisette tells the story to children in the prologue. [[spoiler: This gets subverted when it's revealed that God is actually Mother Qualia, a man-made system that [[GoneHorriblyWrong became consumed by humanity's despair]] and now seeks to end them all.]]

* TitleThemeDrop: The title screen theme typically plays during scenes that concern Elcrest and the battle with God a thousand years ago. [[spoiler: Most prominently, it plays when the previous Witches entrust their part of the Celestial Hymn to their modern counterparts and when Elcrest delivers a MercyKill to Xeno.]]

** Alto, as expected in this kind of game. All of the witches tend to crush on him if you increase their Affinity, and Popo and [[spoiler:Lisette]] both canonically have feelings for him even if you don't raise their Affinity (which Popo doesn't exactly try to hide). There's also and event where all of the girls come to his room to spend time with him and Marie. This is taken UpToEleven in Veronica's second voiced Free Time event, where she drugs all of the party members (aside from Lisette and [[spoiler:Hilda]]) with a love potion. [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Yes, even the males.]]

** Subverted with [[spoiler:Mother Qualia. She exists to fulfill the wishes of mankind. Since death is precisely what the people who made it wished for, [[GoneHorriblyRight she's been fulfilling that wish for the last 5,000 years]].]].

* LethalJokeWeapon: In Chapter Ten, you can purchase a set of bizarre weapons that are extremely powerful. Among them include BBQ Skewers, a Bamboo Gun, Hilda's Mic Stand, and Archibald's Sushi Fist. All these weapons have amusing descriptions, great power, and some rare Orbs locked into their slots to best emulate these descriptions.

* LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler: Eve, one of the sentient forms of Mother Qualia, is an embodiment of every negative human emotion despite being visibly an 11 or 12-year-old girl. The same goes for her "sister", Marie, whose song is of such overwhelming power she puts the ENTIRE WORLD into her own spirit world. Damn.]]

* NoExperiencePointsForMedic: ZigZagged. Healing and doing damage will award experience based on the level difference between the actor and their target. This works out to be a major source of experience for Lisette who has the strongest healing spells. Applying buffs and debuffs (without also doing damage), on the other hand, will always give 1% EXP per affected target regardless of level, slowing the experience gain for party members who prefer to use utility skills.

* AfterTheEnd: The [[spoiler: Technolomies]] are heavily implied to have been an extremely advanced society [[EarthAllAlong much like our own]] who eventually destroyed themselves by [[spoiler: discovering how to convert emotional energy into physical energy and misusing it]]. Veronica, [[spoiler: the last Technolomy, having lived 5000 years after Mother Qualia destroyed her entire civilization]], even has her hometown listed as "London" while no other character has a hometown corresponding to any real world location.

* LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler: Eve, one of the sentient forms of Mother Qualia, is an embodiment of every negative human emotion despite being visibly an 11 or 12-year-old girl. The same goes for her "sister", Marie, who's song is of such overwhelming power she puts the ENTIRE WORLD into her own spirit world. Damn.]]

* MarathonLevel: Missions at the end of each chapter tend to comprise multiple battles, with a cutscene between each one. If, in the Mission tab, no bonus objectives are displayed, it's a good indicator that the fight will comprise of multiple phases. Of special mention are Chapter 8 when [[spoiler:you perform the Anthem]] and in Chapter 10 when [[spoiler:Alto tunes himself to face Elcrest]], when the game outright warns you that [[PointOfNoReturn once you begin, you won't be able to shop or return to the World Map for a while]]

* TitleThemeDrop: Typically during scenes that concern Elcrest and the battle with God a thousand years ago. [[spoiler: Most prominently, it plays when the previous Witches entrust their part of the Celestial Hymn to their modern counterparts and when Elcrest delivers a MercyKill to Xeno.]]

* AfterTheEnd: The [[spoiler: Technomolies]] are heavily implied to have been an extremely advanced society [[EarthAllAlong much like our own]] who eventually destroyed themselves by [[spoiler: discovering how to convert emotional energy into physical energy and misusing it]]. Veronica, [[spoiler: the last Technomoly, having lived 5000 years after Mother Qualia destroyed her entire civilization]], even has her hometown listed as "London" while no other character has a hometown corresponding to any real world location.

** Veronica has all three of them beat. [[spoiler: As the last surviving technomoly, she's been artificially enhancing her longevity by eating angel wings for over 5,000 years.]]

* LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler: Eve, one of the sentient forms of Mother Qualia, is an embodiment of every negative human emotion despite being visibly an 11 or 12-year-old girl.]]

* ShoutOut: Dante's InfinityMinusOneSword is a lance called "Beatrice", and the description calls it a demonic spear favored by [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi a certain Witch]].

** Subverted with [[spoiler:Mother Qualia. She exists to fulfill the wishes of mankind. Since death is precisely what the people who made it wished for, [[GoneHorriblyRight she's been fulfilling that wish for the last 5,000 years]].]].
** [[spoiler:The Witches]] are originally created by [[spoiler:Mother Qualia]] to act as her eyes and ears, but [[spoiler: being tuned by the Conductor gives them the ability to rebel against that purpose and use their Qualias against her.]]
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Giselle, who joins your team despite being an angel]] if you fulfill some conditions.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Xeno's]] death. He's finally at peace after you beat him...and it's up to Alto/Elcrest to finish him. [[spoiler: Thank you...my friend.]] are his last words as you see the silhouettes of [[spoiler: Klaus/Xeno]], with [[spoiler: Klaus]] smiling like he always did.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters:

%%* TheDragon: The Harbingers have Dante, Hilda's right hand man. [[spoiler: Mother Qualia has Xeno.]]

%%* InfinityMinusOneSword: [[spoiler: When confronting the shadows of the past witches in Alto's Spirit World, their stealable items include unique weaponry that can only be equipped by the corresponding witch, and no other character.]] The power of these items are nearly on par with that of the {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s detailed below, although they are obtainable much earlier.
%%* InfinityPlusOneSword: A strange variation in that the best weaponry for each character[[note]]Best stats, specialized for the character's combat role, and a full 5 orb slots for customization[[/note]] can be purchased at the store, although they are ridiculously expensive, and become available at the game's very final segment of free time. [[spoiler:Dante's true best weapon, however, can be obtained from defeating Klaus in Chapter X.]]

* LostForever: There are a few weapons that require fulfillment of specific conditions to obtain, as they will never be sold in stores. To get 100PercentCompletion the player has to fulfill all optional mission objectives.
%%** Most notably, and most valuably, at the start of chapter 10 [[spoiler: the party has to fight inside Alto's Spirit World against the four Witches that accompanied Elcrest. Each Witch has [[InfinityMinusOneSword a powerful, unique weapon]] for their corresponding Witches that can only be obtained by stealing it. Neither of the characters capable of stealing are allowed for the fight, forcing the player to rely on Thief Orbs to try and obtain these weapons. Once the battle is over, the game never offers an opportunity to get them again.]]

* Big Bad: [[spoiler: The Mother Qualia is an ancient system charged by negative emotions and designed to wipe out humanity. Her agent, Xeno, manipulates the 9th Regiment into recruiting the four Witches, defeating Hilda, and performing the Anthem Program. This act unleashes her destruction upon the world.]]

%%* BigBad: [[The Mother Qualia, which is born out of humanity's suicidal desires.]]
%%* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Cartesia is the true culmination of humanity's negativity, having been a corruptive influence over Eve aka Mother Qualia for over 5000 years. She serves as the [[TrueFinalBoss True Final Boss]] if the player hasn't locked themselves into the [[DownerEnding Bad Ending]]. Alto can tune Eve by defeating Cartesia, turning her into an ally]].

%%* MadeOfEvil: [[spoiler: Cartesia, the corruption inside Mother Qualia and the collection of humanity's despair.]]

** Tuning is presented as a ''very'' intimate act, entering the Witch's heart to overcome her inner weaknesses. Part of what amplifies this lies in the Tuning cutscenes that play when you initiate a Tuning[[note]]You see a bust of Alto and the Witch, then Alto grasps the Qualia that comes from the Witch's back, and the Witch squeals in a way that can only be described as intimate as the game zooms into her eyes[[/note]]. Medea, who operates the Tuning Hall, dresses skimpily and all but flirts with both Alto and the Witches, in addition to insisting that any Witch who needs tuning [[ReadyForLovemaking has to change into a simple, thin white dress before escorting them into the private Tuning chamber, a lounge-like room]]. Sakuya even lampshades the need to change and all during her first Tuning at the Tuning Hall!

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sakuya has a polite "Priestess" persona which completely fades after she joins the party.

* TheDragon: The Harbingers have Dante, Hilda's right hand man. [[spoiler: Mother Qualia has Xeno.]]

* GodIsEvil: It's a well known story. Because people stopped worshipping her, God sent Angels to massacre humanity one thousand years ago. Lisette tells the story to children in the prologue. [[spoiler: What isn't widely known, however, is that God is actually Mother Qualia, a man-made system that [[GoneHorriblyWrong became consumed by humanity's despair]] and now seeks to end them all.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: In chapter 3, the party arrives in Amatsu. [[spoiler: They recruit Sakuya, the Fire Priestess, for the Anthem Program. She's very polite and well-spoken, but it's revealed shortly after that this is a façade; Alto and Rusty overhear her vocally abusing her servant, Nonoka, later that night.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Xeno, the King of Beasts, acts as God's agent on Earth. Klaus is revealed to be a traitor manipulating the protagonists into using the Anthem Program to awaken Mother Qualia and end the world. Empowered by the Mother through negative emotions, Xeno leads her army of angels to destroy mankind. When the Tuning Knights take the offensive, Xeno makes his stand just outside the Mother's chamber and must be overcome before the final battle can begin.]]

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: In the form of Water > Fire > Wind > Earth > Water. Utilizing this may be handy in the early chapters to inflict additional damage and avert extra damage, but its usefulness tapers off towards the end of the game where even resisted hits can still do good amounts of damage. That, and the Witches eventually learn passive skills that neutralize their elemental weakness.

* GodIsEvil: Subverted. The people of Regnant know the story well: because people stopped worshipping her, God sent Angels to massacre humanity one thousand years ago. Lisette tells the story to children in the prologue. [[spoiler: What isn't widely known, however, is that God is actually Mother Qualia, a man-made system that [[GoneHorriblyWrong became consumed by humanity's despair]] and now seeks to end them all.]]

** For about three years since the destruction of Kashmistan, Mordimort has been using her powers to deny reality. [[spoiler: The area is frozen in time as it was before inside her Spirit World, which she's expanded to encompass the region. Her mud dolls imitate the people.]]

* MagicMusic: Only the Witches can sing, but their songs carry devastating powers that can make the wind blow, turn everything to crystal, stop a volcano from erupting, or a variety of other world-shaping magical effects.

** Finally, there are the aspects of Mother Qualia itself. [[spoiler: Marie and Eve both resemble children. Cartesia has a more adult look to her, but all three look remarkably young for an entity at least as old as Veronica.]]

** Sakuya will rather often find some excuse to bring up how large Nonoka's breasts are. If she's not there, someone else will find a way to bring it up.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Alto and the Witches all gain new outfits at critical moments. [[spoiler: For Alto, the wardrobe change signifies that he is no longer a divided person; he has merged with his alternate identity, Elcrest, and unlocked his memories. For the Witches, their outfits change when they reach maximum affinity with Alto to show. The new outfits signify that they've completed their tunings, resolved their inner turmoil, and unlocked their full power.]]