History VideoGame / SummonNightSwordcraftStory

* IllGirl: Rumari is cursed with a perpetual [[SoapOperaDisease 'heat disease']] and must while away the remainder of her days in a quiet little town. [[spoiler:Defied. [[RetiredBadass Not only is she said to have been one of the strongest Craftlords prior to her illness]], but she aptly proves that she still is by driving six invading ships back home with only a handful of buddies! What's more, Kouren then claims that [[BroughtDownToBadass if it wasn't for said condition, Rumari could have done it]] ''[[BroughtDownToBadass single-handedly!]]'']]

* {{Meganekko}}: Twin sisters Ariel and Mariel.

Three years ago, Shintetsu sacrificed himself to protect the city from a certain incident. In order to find a replacement for the empty seat, the remaining Craftlords arranged a tournament for craftknights and the winner shall become the new Craftlord of Iron. Cleru/Pratty joins the tournament, in hope to become like his/her father, and [[ToBeAMaster to become a Craftlord]].

Exploration in the game is similar to ''Pokemon'' in that you can walk and hold B to run and also surf on water, but you also have a hammer to wack things and reveal hidden locations. When a random battle takes place, the game switches to a 2D screen where you use your chosen weapon while partnering up with your Guardian Beast.

What's special about this game is the ability to forge your own weapons. You can choose one of five weapon types: [[JackOfAllStats Sword]], [[MightyGlacier Axe]], [[StoneWall Spear]], [[FragileSpeedster Knuckle]] and [[BreakableWeapons Drills]].

* AlmightyJanitor: Even while still being apprentices, Cleru and Pratty are more than capable of holding their own against, if not outright defeating Craftlords such as Uraksa and Lubert.
* AlmightyMom: Amariss, the late Shintetsu's wife and mother of the game's protagonist. Despite appearing like an ordinary housewife, she has all the connections and knows all the tidbits required to help out from the sidelines.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Most of the final attack spells on Guardian Beasts. They look extremely flashy, have really cool names and can basically destroy any random encounter [[VideoGame/SummonNight in any of the games]] when cast—but they take a ridiculously long time to charge (during which they are interruptible) and still deal rather underwhelming damage against bosses.

* BagOfHolding: The prominent sheath thingy worn by Cleru/Pratty is able to hold weapons bigger than it.

* BloodlessCarnage: No matter how absurdly sharp your weapon is when you're pitting it against your opponent, the game never show blood on-screen.

* ColorCodedElements: The four elemental materials are color-coded; fire red, water blue, green wind, and yellow electric.
* CrossoverCouple: [[invoked]] At the end of the ''Summon Night 1'' protagonist's cameo appearance, [[ClingyJealousGirl Sugar]] accuses the protagonist of liking them more than her, to which she claims (if they were set to be female) "That's not true. We're both girls".

* DifficultButAwesome: Drills have low attack power and are pretty horrible all around, but they have deal massive damage to enemy weapons. Since breaking enemy weapons allows you to learn how to forge them, you can get some high-class weapons by stealing them off others.

* EntitledBastard: Sanary is rude and condesending to the player character, hogs all the ore at the start of the game to stop you from having any, yet still expects the player character, right before their second match, to help her [[spoiler: retrieve the weapons she sold to the Gold Guild, risking the reputation of the Silver Guild. It is part of Sanary's CharacterDevelopment, of learning to accept others, but expecting the player to risk missing their match (and by extension, the whole tournament) just to fix a problem ''she'' caused was still incredibly selfish.]]
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: Aside from characters already passed away in the past before the story began, in game there's only massive ObviouslyEvil JerkAss Lubert and its expy Gedharm (including his right hand woman Passeau) are shown to be killed, and the main villain either redeems itself and seals on its own. The first game has choice to sacrifice your Guardian Beast to strengthen your final weapon but [[EarnYourHappyEnding you can craft your final weapon anyway despite being slightly weaker without sacrificing the Guardian Beast.]]]]

* GoGoEnslavement: Sanary is victim of this at one point, being dressed up as a {{Meido}}. You can watch her serving some enemy soldiers (and secretly enjoying herself since the outfit is cute); and if you keep on observing rather than fighting the enemies right away, the post-battle banter will be hilarious.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Gold Guild. The reason they pursue profits so much is because they practically carry Wystern's entire economy. While they might seem to be in league with Daigleya and Lubert, they were actually TheMole acting on Rondeau's orders.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Apparently, sometime in the distant past Wystern was invaded by the forces of Silturn. Although the humans of Wystern won in the end, many oni settled down in Wystern and had children. People with names like Rondeau and Shintetsu are descended from these oni. And since Pratty is Shintetsu's child... This would explain why Pratty has a helmet design with two holes in it. She has tufts of hair stick out of them, but it was probably originally designed to accommodate horns.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Chaves has a large muscle bound frame four times the square area of any other human opponent. He is stupidly easy to beat, and the second time you fight him, he can be killed in a few hits. To make things worse, his BFS is no harder for the player character to use than a basic axe.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Craftlords vs. Daigleya. [[spoiler: ESPECIALLY RUMARI]]. Also Cleru/Pratty vs. Varil [[spoiler: in the finals, only the beginning of which was shown. Cleru/Pratty won, becoming the new Craftlord of Iron. How exactly he/she won, only the spectators saw. InUniverse SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, since the townsfolk did say it was awesome]].

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Broken weapons are lost forever. They do leave remains, but those remains generate very little amount of materials.

* SavePoint: In the form of a glowing sword stabbed like a display item. One of those is typically in your workshop(s).

* StoryBranchFavoritism: The game seems to favor Sanary as the cannon love interest, with the massive amount of ShipTease towards the end of the game, [[ShipperOnDeck encouragement from Aramiss]], and the part where you choose to rescue either her or Razzy, Sanary's scene is longer and develops a new side to the character [[note]] as opposed to rescuing Razzy, where its simply standing up to a mini boss.[[/note]] (the icon to select the scenario also starts on Sanary by default).

* {{Teleportation}}: The Teleporters found inside dungeons.
* ThemeNaming: The Craftlords are named after minerals.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Quite literally. Your starting weapon is your forging hammer. You're stuck with it until you get materials to make better weapons.

* HeroesPreferSwords: You can ask for recipes for every other weapon type whenever you want from Bron, but you only earn new sword recipes as ghe game's plot progresses. Also, Shintetsu used four swords in order [[spoiler:to seal Parista away]].

* WorthyOpponent: Kenon is very respectful and notes his loss was due to Cleru/Pratty being better than him. This is a sharp (and explicitly noted) contrast to the rest of the Gold Guild.

* StoryBranchFavouritism: The game seems to favor Sanary as the cannon love interest, with the massive amount of ShipTease towards the end of the game, [[ShipperOnDeck encouragement from Aramiss]], and the part where you choose to rescue either her or Razzy, Sanary's scene is longer and develops a new side to the character [[note]] as opposed to rescuing Razzy, where its simply standing up to a mini boss.[[/note]] (the icon to select the scenario also starts on Sanary by default).

* BadassGrandpa: Rondeau, Craftlord of Diamond.

-->'''Blaire''': Have you already forgotten about the Spirit of the Craftknight?
-->'''Aera''': No, sir...
-->''' Blaire''': You have to make your own weapon! No Craftknight would go into battle with somebody else's sword! It'd be like... wearing their underwear! Yeurgh!

* BagOfHolding: The prominent sheath thingy worn by the main character of the first game is able to hold weapons bigger than it.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Sugar gets upset nearly every time the protagonist talks to a woman.

* CrossoverCouple: [[invoked]] At the end of the ''Summon Night'' 1 protagonist's cameo appearance, [[ClingyJealousGirl Sugar]] accuses Pratty of liking them more than her, to which she claims (if they were set to be female) "That's not true. We're both girls".
* CuteClumsyGirl: The game opens with Pratty or Cleru falling down the stairs.

* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: Aside from characters already passed away in the past before the story began, in game there's only massive ObviouslyEvil JerkAss Lubert and its expy Gedharm (including his right hand woman Passeau) are shown to be killed, and the main villain either redeems itself and seals on its own. The first game has choice to sacrifice your Guardian Beast to strengthen your final weapon but [[EarnYourHappyEnding you can craft your final weapon anyway despite being slightly weaker without sacrificing the Guardian Beast.]] ]]

* FillItWithFlowers: In ''Swordcraft Story'', Razzy wants to turn Wystern into a city of flowers if she wins the tournament and becomes one of the city's Craftlords.

* LoveIsAWeakness: Sanary is convinced that Kouren and Rumari both lost their edge after falling in love. Then Sanary starts feeling weaker just as it's hinted she's falling for the protagonist, leading to her [[spoiler:making a DealWithTheDevil to feel strong again]].

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Craftlords vs. Daigleya. [[spoiler: ESPECIALLY RUMARI]]. Also Cleru/Pratty vs. Varil [[spoiler: in the finals, only the beginning of which was shown. The player character did win, becoming the new Craftlord of Iron. How exactly he/she won, only the spectators saw. InUniverse SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, since the townsfolk did say it was awesome]].
* OnlySaneMan: Cleru if you choose to play as him.
* ParentalAbandonment: The protagonists, as well as a good amount of supporting characters.

* PronounTrouble: [[spoiler:Razzy]]
* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted. The in-game dialogues change depending on the player's gender.

* RewardingVandalism: You can smash crates and barrels into debris and get items, money, or even materials you need to craft weapons.
* TheRival: Varil declares himself this to the main character in the first game.

** [[spoiler: Razzy]] develops a crush on the player, male ''or'' female.

* TakeYourTime: Gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] a lot in the first game, your character is always late instead of always being [[AlwaysClose right on time]].

* TookALevelInBadass: The player character. They appear timid and weak during the first day of the tournament, but experiences and new friends help them gain more confidence. Eventually, by the end of the game, [[spoiler: they finally become a Craftlord.]]

* TransparentCloset: Pratty
* {{Tsundere}}: Varil (a male example) and Sanary
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Pratty herself blushes heavily and goes dreamy at being told she would be fighting twins next. She turns around quickly when they turn out to be a pair of {{Jerkass}}es though.
* UltimateBlacksmith: ''The Player Character'' him/herself. They are gonna need a lot of training before getting to that point, however.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Quite literally. The first weapon you use is a forging hammer. You're stuck with it until you get materials to make better weapons.

* WorthyOpponent: Kenon is very respectful and notes his loss was due to the player character being better than them. This is a sharp (and explicitly noted) contrast to the rest of the Gold Guild.

The story takes place mainly in Wystern, the "City of Swords" where many people work as blacksmiths and crafting guilds are common, led by the Craftlords. The player takes role as either Cleru or Pratty, an apprentice craftknight as well as the only child of the infamous "Craftlord of Iron", [[DisappearedDad Shintetsu.]]

* AlmightyMom: Amariss, the late Shintetsu's wife and mother of the game's protagonist. Despite appearing like an ordinary house wife, she has all the connections and knows all the tidbits required to help out from the sidelines.

* VictoryPose: Cleru and Pratty each has two different victory poses, each used in different occasions.

* TookALevelInBadass: The player character. He/She appeared timid and weak during the first day of the tournament, but experiences and new friends helped her gain more confidence. Eventually, by the end of the game, [[spoiler: she finally became a Craftlord.]]

** Go to the BonusDungeon with no proper level and preparation, also the bosses doesn't helps even a bit.

* InexplicableTreasureChests: The ones found in Wystern Dungeon or Marine Cave can still have explanations... Then, you found some in Fort Mirana or the lighthouse...

* EmergencyWeapon: The forging hammer, which has mediocre stat but cannot be broken.

* CrossoverCouple: [[invoked]] At the end of the ''Summon Night'' 1 protagonist's cameo appearance, [[ClingyJealousGirl Sugar]] accuses Pratty of liking them more than her, to which she claims (of they were set to be female) "That's not true. We're both girls".

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Teleporters found inside dungeons.

** While weapons are breakable, it takes a lot to make them break and they are automatically repaired after combat. Breaking one spells PermanentlyMissableContent, though...

* TierInducedScrappy: ''Swords'', ironically enough. Despise the constant presence of swords in the theme of the game, and every dialog mentioning weapons relegate the swords as JackOfAllTrades, gameplay-wise they're the worst weapon-type that you can work with. They're ''astoundingly'' fragile in comparison to about everything else, their damage and DPS is outdone by spears, knuckles and drills not too long into the plot. To wit, as you progress through the sword techs, they start to veer into the Broadsword subtype exclusively, meaning they'll be as slow and heavy as axes, but without the resistance and the damage output that these got.
** Thankfully, [[VideoGame/SummonNightSwordcraftStory2 both]] [[VideoGame/SummonNightCraftSwordMonogatariHajimariNoIshi sequels]] remedy this situation thoroughly.

''Summon Night: Swordcraft Story'' is an Action RPG developed by Creator/FlightPlan for the Game Boy Advance as a spin-off to the ''VideoGame/SummonNight'' series. The Japanese version was released in 2003, with the North American release following quite a while later in 2006.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Craftlords vs. Daigleya. [[spoiler: ESPECIALLY RUMARI]]. Also Cleru/Pratty vs. Varil [[spoiler: in the finals, only the beginning of which was shown. The player character did win, becoming the new Craftlord of Iron. How exactly he/she won, only the spectators saw. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The townsfolk did say it was awesome]].]]

''Summon Night: Swordcraft Story'' is an Action RPG developed by Creator/FlightPlan for the Game Boy Advance as a spin-off to the VideoGame/SummonNight series. The Japanese version was released in 2003, with the North American release following quite a while later in 2006.

* CrossoverShip: [[invoked]] At the end of the ''Summon Night'' 1 protagonist's cameo appearance, [[ClingyJealousGirl Sugar]] accuses Pratty of liking them more than her, to which she claims (of they were set to be female) "That's not true. We're both girls".

** Thankfully, [[VideoGame/SummonNightSwordcraftStory2 both]] [[VideoGame/SummonNightCraftSwordMonogatariHajimariNoIshi sequels]] rememdy this situation throughly.

* IllGirl: Rumari is cursed with a perpetual [[SoapOperaDisease 'heat disease']] and must while away the remainder of her days in a quiet little town. [[spoiler:Defied. [[RetiredBadass Not only is she said to have been one of the strongest Craftlords prior to her illness]], but she aptly proves that she still is by driving six invading ships back home with only a handful of buddies! What's more, Kouren then claims that [[BroughtDownToBadass if it wasn't for said condition, Rumari could have done it]] ''[[BroughtDownToBadasssingle-handedly!]]'']]

* IllGirl: Rumari is cursed with a perpetual [[SoapOperaDisease 'heat disease']] and must while away the remainder of her days in a quiet little town. [[spoiler:Defied. [[RetiredBadass Not only is she said to have been one of the strongest Craftlords prior to her illness]], but she aptly proves that she still is by driving six invading ships back home with only a handful of buddies! What's more, Kouren then claims that [[BroughtDownToBadass if it wasn't for said condition, Rumari could have done it ''single-handedly''!]]]]