History VideoGame / Sylphia

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Its title is "Sylphia", but the woman's name is spelled "Silphia" in the game over message. It's not clear whether this was intentional.

In a Medieval FantasyKitchenSink inspired by AncientGrome, Hades, upon being defeated after an attempted revolt, has unleashed his forces into the human world.

The Gods led by Zeus are unable to intervene as Hades' legion of monsters lay waste to the land. But in a human village, a young warrior woman named [[ProtagonistTitle Sylphia]] stood her ground, battling legions and legions of orcs to defend the villagers, until she had slain every one of her attackers, sustaining mortal injuries in the process. Seeing her determination in fighting the forces of evil, Zeus decides to embue his powers in the dying Sylphia and have her take on Hades' forces in his stead.

!! Sylphia contains examples of:
* BlobMonster: Grey bouncing blob creatures are an enemy in the caverns, who explodes into smaller blob chunks that dissolves instantly once defeated. Keep in mind the flying blob chunks ''can'' hurt Sylphia in contact, however.
* TheChosenOne: Sylphia is chosen by Zeus to save humanity after the Gods watched her sacrifice her life defending a village from the forces of chaos in the opening cinematic, killing loads and loads of monsters in the process before she succumbs.
* ClassicalChimera: The classic depiction of a chimaera, a lion monster with a goat and a snake head growing from it's sides, is a MiniBoss of the church tower stage, leaping from platform to platform as it ascends to attack Sylphia. It loses heads after receiving enough damage, firstly the snake's, and then the goat's, until it's a giant-sized lion that explodes after it's life is spent.
* CreepyCentipedes: At the end of one stage, rather than facing a boss monster, Sylphia instead have to face five gates which dispenses gigantic centipedes (depicted in SegmentedSerpent form) en-masse on her, which she have to destroy two at a time.
* ElementalPowers: How Sylphia obtains her abilities to shoot projectiles, by collecting a circle depicting an element, being Fire, Water, Plant and Earth. At the start of most level she's given all four elements at once, which she can choose one to use (or just keep her element from the end of a previous level) and later on the game will generate different elements at random if Sylphia wants to switch to a new element.
** [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]: Allows Sylphia to shoot fireballs and streams of flames, and further upgrades can release multiple [[HomingProjectile homing fireballs]] all at once. It's one of the strongest of the four, but it's range is limited.
** [[MakingASplash Water]]: Sylphia shoots [[BubbleGun blue liquid bubbles]] that ''can'' reach the other side of the screen and can increase in speed after being upgraded.

** [[DishingOutDirt Earth]]: Conjures heavy boulders to be dropped on enemies, with several boulders serving as an OrbitingParticleShield around Sylphia.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Sylphia, already a capable warrior on her own, but is later chosen by Zeus to wield elemental powers to purge the land of evil.

* GiantSpider: The boss of the church tower stage, descending right from the roof to attack Sylphia with it's poisoned stings.

** The Aegean Sea level ends with Sylphia battling Scylla, whose tentacles and entire lower body who is a mass of tentacles explode once she receives enough damage. But then her upper body continues floating around and he gains an [[LongNeck extendable neck]] to chew at Sylphia.
** The Harpy lose the lower half of her body in the later half of her battle, only for her wings to carry her around as her exposed spine lashes out at Sylphia in an impromptu TailSlap.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Harpies are a recurring enemy type. There's also a giant-sized harpy boss late in the game, depicted as a winged bipedal monster who can extend her arms to claw at Sylphia.

* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: The first boss is a giant purple Minotaur who DualWield axes and charges forward and back around the screen to attack Sylphia. It's a rather easy WarmUpBoss, though.
* PowerUpLetdown: The Earth power-up can be seen as such, since it fires slow-moving boulder projectiles that couldn't even hit the other side of the screen, instantly drops down moments after being shot and isn't even as strong as the Fire power-up. Although it is good for attacking enemies ''behind'' Sylphia, and a good defense-based power-up thanks to the OrbitingParticleShield.

* ProtagonistTitle: Sylphia, who is chosen by the Gods to defeat evil.
* SpreadShot: After upgrading Sylphia's powers by collecting the same elemental symbol, over and over again, which allows her to stream waves of flames, energy bubbles, razor leaves or massive boulders, three at a time in rapid speed.

* WaveMotionGun: One of Sylphia's special attacks (which takes up most of her magic bar) where she unleashes a thick, powerful pillar of energy that destroys every low-level enemy in front of her and cause serious damage to bosses. The beam she fired lasts for several seconds too, allowing her to swoop from one side of the screen to another clearing the area of most enemies.
* WingedHumanoid: Sylphia, who [[PowerGivesYouWings gains wings after being empowered by the Gods]]. But there are also several winged mooks and the human-looking giant harpy boss.

''Sylphia'' is a medieval-fantasy inspired VerticalScrollingShooter developed by Creator/{{Compile}} (the same guys behind the ''VideoGame/{{Aleste}}'' series), in which players assume the role of the titular heroine, now granted the abilities of flight and firing elemental-based projectiles thanks to Zeus, as they control the heroine in blasting through hordes and hordes of monsters.

* ProtagonistTitle: Sylphia, who is chosed by the Gods to defeat evil.