History VideoGame / TacticsOgreTheKnightOfLodis

* ShoutOut: Features one to ''LordOfTheRings''. When the ogre Rimmon dies, he regains his "human heart" and says "my precious".

* AchievementMockery: There are at least two unflattering medals with penalty effects: ''Bogus Hero'', if you gain 20 or more levels while sparring your own units and ''Don Quixote'' if you attack someone and the counterattack damage deals 2/3 of your max health. Clerics and Priests can earn a third one, ''Gibe of the Fallen Angel'', by killing three enemies with physical attacks.

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: Averted, but any arrow fired at point blank is countered[[note]]In ''Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together'' and ''Final Fantasy Tactics'', you could force an automatic hit on a target with a bow by making the aiming arc pass through said target by aiming at something behind them.[[/note]].

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: Averted, the only difference is that this time any arrow at point blank is countered.
* ArtificialStupidity: Guest characters are ''very'' stupid. Even worse, they refuse to come into the training sessions with you, meaning that they remain low-leveled while the enemy becomes just as strong as you... [[TooDumbToLive not that this will stop them from charging right into them while]] ''[[TooDumbToLive you]]'' [[TooDumbToLive are trying to maneuver your army in a different direction entirely.]]
** However, Eleanor actually isn't ''that'' stupid when she is a guest. The first battle is an EscortMission (Though you simply have to defeat the enemies that pose a threat to her, eg the leader). Throughout the battle she will run away.
* BareFistedMonk: Possible due to the Emblem system if the player gets the Fist Fight Emblem, which causes bare fists to cause more damage (Also reccomended for Archers)

* CharacterAlignment: [[invoked]] Chaotic, Neutral, and Lawful.
* CrossoverCosmology

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The canon ending is a DownerEnding that reveals this game is a prequel to Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, and Alphonse is Lanselot Tartaros, an antagonist in said game. Best friend killed, love interest killed. ]]
** [[spoiler: The non-canonical B ending is better, in that Rictor at least doesn't die. Of course, depending on how you interpret the ending, Alphonse and Eleanor might die. Either that or they completely vanished from the pages of history and never met any of their friends again.]]

* FragileSpeedster: Ninjas

** GameplayAndStoryIntegration: On two occasions. The first is Eleanor's Pearl necklace. Until a cutscene plays when she offers it to Alphonse, it is locked to her. After that scene, you can give it to anyone. On another occasion, [[spoiler: Cybil ambushes Alphonse with a dagger, and tells him that he won't die if it's treated.]] During the ensuing battle, Alphonse starts the battle off with the poison status.

** TheWindowOrTheStairs: Frustratingly, the menu choice to do this is counterintuitive. The phrase that sounds like what plan you pick actually has you doing the opposite.

* NoArcInArchery: You'll love that they averted this whenever you start on the top of a map, and hate them for it whenever you're at the bottom.

* StandardStatusEffects / UselessUsefulSpell: Status effects generally don't work very often or last very long. And poison is just a series of slaps on the wrist.
** And the exception to this rule is Paralyze. Long duration? Check. Locks the character down completely? Check. Does not break from the character taking damage? Bloody check.

** The WindowOrTheStairs: Frustratingly, the menu choice to do this is counterintuitive. The phrase that sounds like what plan you pick actually has you doing the opposite.

** The Crescente, the most powerful bow in the game, can only be obtained by waiting until the end of the game to recruit Glycinia (a fairy who joins you in one of the first side missions available). Triggering the encounter early (which any player not overtly aware of this is going to do) will render the weapon LostForever.

* BoringButPractical: A team of eight Knights may not be the most interesting or diverse combination, but it's certainly a very effective one. Every one of your units is capable of taking a beating, dealing out decent amounts, and using healing spells. Even the final boss will have trouble getting kills in.

* GuideDangIt: Want the Relix emblem (for males) or Ripple emblem (for females)? It gives you a permanent +2 on your mental gauge, which is quite handy... but you'll have to have the person in question go through every class, including angel, ghost, and lich. Good luck...

''Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis'' is a 2001 video game, a GaidenGame for the Game Boy Advance based on the popular ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' series. The story follows a young Knight of Lodis named Alphonse in his best friend Rictor Lasanti's military unit, the Order of the Sacred Flame. He is sent to an island called Ovis. Ovis is divided by conflict thanks to an aggressive push of Lord Batraal, living on the north of the island. Alphonse is separated from the rest of his units, and begins to uncover a sordid plot opposing the pope and the empire of Lodis over the fabled SpearOfDestiny and the possible resurrection of a fallen angel.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Since the maps to recruit Elrik and Eupharie open up at the same time, it's possible to recruit them in any order. Naturally, the game will respond to each scenario accordingly.
** Saia and Lobelia will respond if you recruited the other before going after them.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The ''best'' ending is a DownerEnding that reveals this game is a prequel to Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, and Alphonse is Lanselot Tartaros, an antagonist in said game. Best friend killed, love interest killed. ]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: There are precisely four items in the game called snapdragons ([[LostForever some of which are missable]]) that, when used, transform their user into a sword, with stats based on the person the sword was made from. Even if you have a level 1 character use it, the sword will still be noticeably stronger than [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Longinus]], and if you turn a max-level character into a sword, the game might as well throw up its hands and say "I give up".

''Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis'' is a 2001 video game, a GaidenGame for the Game Boy Advance based on the popular OgreBattle series. The story follows a young Knight of Lodis named Alphonse in his best friend Rictor Lasanti's military unit, the Order of the Sacred Flame. He is sent to an island called Ovis. Ovis is divided by conflict thanks to an aggressive push of Lord Batraal, living on the north of the island. Alphonse is separated from the rest of his units, and begins to uncover a sordid plot opposing the pope and the empire of Lodis over the fabled SpearOfDestiny and the possible resurrection of a fallen angel.

-->Alphonse Loeher: "I am Alphonse [[spoiler:Tartaros]]".

Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is a 2001 video game, a GaidenGame for the Game Boy Advance based on the popular OgreBattle series. The story follows a young Knight of Lodis named Alphonse in his best friend Rictor Lasanti's military unit, the Order of the Sacred Flame. He is sent to an island called Ovis. Ovis is divided by conflict thanks to an agressive push of Lord Batraal, living on the north of the island. Alphonse is separated from the rest of his units, and begins to uncover a sordid plot opposing the pope and the empire of Lodis over the fabled SpearOfDestiny and the possible resurrection of a fallen angel.

Like the previous ''TacticsOgre'', this is an isometric view turn based strategy game.

* MagicIsMental
* MightyGlacier: Many of the larger beast characters, like Dragons.

Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is a 2001 video game, a GaidenGame for the Game Boy Advance based on the popular OgreBattle series. The story follows a young Knight of Lodis named Alphonse in his best friend Rictor Lasanti's military unit, the Order of the Sacred Flame. He is sent to an island called Ovis. Ovis is divided by conflict thanks to an agressive push of Lord Batraal, living on the north of the island. Alphonse is separated from the rest of his units, and begins to uncover a sordid plot opposing the pope and the empire of Lodis over the fabled SpearOfDestiny and the possible resurrection of a fallen angel.

Like the previous ''TacticsOgre'', this is an isometric view turn based strategy game.

!!'''Tactic Ogre: The Knight of Lodis'' contains examples of:

* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight. Archers received a significant nerf from the original Tactics Ogre. Still, this is mainly a fault with the ''class'': other classes can use bows and still be reasonably effective.

* ArtificialStupidity: Guest characters are ''very'' stupid. Even worse, they refuse to come into the training sessions with you, meaning that they remain low-leveled while the enemy becomes just as strong as you... [[TooDumbToLive not that this will stop them from charging right into them while]] ''[[TooDumbToLive you]]'' [[TooDumbToLive are trying to maneuver your army in a different direction entirely.]]
** However, Eleanor actually isn't ''that'' stupid when she is a guest. The first battle is an EscortMission (Though you simply have to defeat the enemies that pose a threat to her, eg the leader). Throughout the battle she will run away.
* BoringButPractical: A team of eight Knights may not be the most interesting or diverse combination, but it's certainly a very effective one. Every one of your units is capable of taking a beating, dealing out decent amounts, and using healing spells. Even the final boss will have trouble getting kills in.
* CatchPhrase: For the series overall. "FIGHT IT OUT!"

* DemBones: If you defeat undead units conventionally, they'll pop back up again in a few turns; you can beat them more permanently with an Exorcism spell.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Since the maps to recruit Elrik and Eupharie open up at the same time, it's possible to recruit them in any order. Naturally, the game will respond to each scenario accordingly.

* DoomedByCanon: If you already know who the player character in ''Knight of Lodis'' is, then it's best not get attached to [[spoiler:Rictor, Orson, or Eleanor]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The ''best'' ending is a DownerEnding that reveals this game is a prequel to Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, and Alphonse is Lanselot Tartaros, an antagonist in said game. Best friend killed, love interest killed. ]]
** [[spoiler: The non-canonical B ending is better, in that Rictor at least doesn't die. Of course, depending on how you interpret the ending, Alphonse and Eleanor might die. Either that or they completely vanished from the pages of history and never met any of their friends again.]]

* EmpathicWeapon: It's unknown how much of one's conscious remains when turned into a snapdragon sword, but it will have an element and stats corresponding with the character that turned into it. And when you use the Snapdragon, you will hear a scream.
* FragileSpeedster: Ninjas
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: During fights, the sleep spell is nigh worthless; low success rate, doesn't last for very long (maybe two turns... the time it takes someone wearing armor to job 40 feet and swing a sword twice), and the target will wake up if someone so much as musses up their hair. During a cutscene, however, Alphonse takes a sleep spell, and wakes up (probably several hours, at ''least'' several minutes) later in a dungeon, chained to the wall.
** GameplayAndStoryIntegration: On two occasions. The first is Eleanor's Pearl necklace. Until a cutscene plays when she offers it to Alphonse, it is locked to her. After that scene, you can give it to anyone. On another occasion, [[spoiler: Cybil ambushes Alphonse with a dagger, and tells him that he won't die if it's treated.]] During the ensuing battle, Alphonse starts the battle off with the poison status.
* GeoEffects: Depending on where you're standing, your elemental spells and attacks can do slightly increased damage. (standing in water makes your water attacks stronger, stone improves earth spells, etc.)
* GuideDangIt: Want the Relix emblem (for males) or Ripple emblem (for females)? It gives you a permanent +2 on your mental gauge, which is quite handy... but you'll have to have the person in question go through every class, including angel, ghost, and lich. Good luck...
* HeroicSacrifice: An odd example in that the main character does this very early in the game; you take a crossbow bolt for your commander, and fall into the ocean (also, you can't swim much on the best of days, and you're wearing armor, though you ultimately survive).
* InfinityMinusOneSword: Longinus, the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement spear of plot advancement]], is a very good weapon... but it's still weak compared to snapdragon swords.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: There are precisely four items in the game called snapdragons ([[LostForever some of which are missable]]) that, when used, transform their user into a sword, with stats based on the person the sword was made from. Even if you have a level 1 character use it, the sword will still be noticeably stronger than [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Longinus]], and if you turn a max-level character into a sword, the game might as well throw up its hands and say "I give up".

* MultipleEndings: Based on a choice you make halfway through on whether to capture a mermaid or not, you'll end up siding with [[spoiler:Rictor]] or [[spoiler:Cybil]]. There's an A+ ending for picking the 'A' option and meeting other requirements when you beat the game.

* NoArcInArchery: You'll love that they averted this whenever you start on the top of a map, and hate them for it whenever you're at the bottom.
** Played straight with crossbows, which just shoot in a perfectly straight line. They don't do any more damage, though...

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: They have a culture with temples, and had an all-out war with the humans at one point. They would have won, too, if one of them hadn't [[spoiler:stolen the sacred spear]].

* PercentDamageAttack: Ghosts have one that does 10% of maximum HP. It's fairly useless against most enemies, but an extremely effective way to beat the FinalBoss, who has 800 HP and is almost immune to damage. If you give the spell to a Lich, Saia, and a Ghost, you can deal 300 damage per turn...
* ReviveKillsZombie: You can't actually target enemy zombies with resurrection effects, but healing does damage them. In an uncommon twist, there is a spell to turn one of your defeated undead units into a flesh-and-blood soldier again, meaning that Revive Kills Zombie-ness, leaving the target alive.

* SayItWithHearts: Invoked with series mascot Deneb. Naming a witch Deneb unlocks the special "Witch <3" class.
* SecretCharacter: Deneb, who is summoned by hiring a female soldier, [[HelloInsertNameHere naming her Deneb]], and changing her class to Witch. She's basically the same as the Witch with better stats and attacks, and can use SummonMagic.
* SecretShop: It's in [[spoiler:the first town]], and is accessible only by [[spoiler:Deneb]].
* ShoutOut: Features one to ''LordOfTheRings''. When the ogre Rimmon dies, he regains his "human heart" and says "my precious".

* TheSpearOfDestiny: Longinus. It's the horn of the BigBad.
* StandardStatusEffects / UselessUsefulSpell: Status effects generally don't work very often or last very long. And poison is just a series of slaps on the wrist.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Alphonse's InformedFlaw. Yes, he does drown (twice) and admits on both occasions that he is a "not much of a swimmer", but the first time he was shot with a crossbow and the second time he jumped off a tall cliff. He was wearing armor both times. Surprisingly, the first time this happens, he does not stay dead, even though he is next seen unconscious on a beach several miles away (possibly because of the intervention of a mermaid).

* UnreliableNarrator: The Longinus can be chalked up to this. While a powerful weapon in-game, in the cutscenes you see mermaids firing magical bolts out of it. This can be seen as a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation, but it's possible that it's a case of this. May also be justified in that you actually never ''learn'' to fire bolts of magic... cept outside of a cutscene when it's forged.

* WhipItGood: Beastmasters ''love'' to whip.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Ivanna. She looks like she could be in her ''forties'' because of the grey hair!

Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is a 2001 video game, a GaidenGame for the Game Boy Advance based on the popular OgreBattle series. The story follows a young Knight of Lodis named Alphonse in his best friend Rictor Lasanti's military unit, the Order of the Sacred Flame. He is sent to an island called Ovis. Ovis is divided by conflict thanks to an agressive push of Lord Batraal, living on the north of the island. Alphonse is separated from the rest of his units, and begins to uncover a sordid plot opposing the pope and the empire of Lodis over the fabled spear of destiny and the possible resurrection of a fallen angel.

* PublicDomainArtifact: The Spear of Destiny, Longinus. It's the horn of the BigBad.

* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight. Archers received a significant nerf from the original Tactics Ogre.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: Undead spellcasters with extremely high defenses and better spellcasting abilities than any other unit. Only their inability to use SummonMagic keeps them from being GameBreakers.

* DemBones: If you defeat them conventionally, they'll pop back up again in a few turns; you can beat them more permanently with an Exorcism spell.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The ''best'' ending is a DownerEnding that reveals this game is a prequel to Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, and Alphonse is Lanselot Tartaros, an antagonist of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. Best friend killed, love interest killed. ]]

* EmpathicWeapon: It's unknown how much of one's conscious remains when turned into a snapdragon sword, but it will have an element and stats corresponding with the character that turned into it.
** An when you use the Snapdragon, you will hear a scream.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: During fights, the sleep spell is nigh worthless; low success rate, doesn't last for very long (maybe two turns... the time it takes someone wearing armor to job 40 feet and swing a sword twice), and the target will wake up if someone so much as musses up their hair. During a cutscene, however, Alphonse takes a sleep spell, and wakes up (probably several hours, at ''least'' a several minutes) later in a dungeon, tied to the wall.

* HeroicSacrifice: An odd example in that the main character does this very early in the game; you take a crossbow bolt for your commander, and fall into the ocean (also, you can't swim much on the best of days, and you're wearing armor).

* InfinityPlusOneSword: There are precisely four items in the game ([[LostForever some of which are missable]]) that, when used, transform their user into a sword, with stats based on the person the sword was made from. Even if you have a level 1 character use it, the sword will still be noticeably stronger than [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Longinus]], and if you turn a max-level character into a sword, the game might as well throw up its hands and say "I give up".

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers

* OurLichesAreDifferent

* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight. Archers received a significant nerf from the original Tactics Ogre.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Well, of sorts. There are three sets of two opposed elements: fire and water, earth and air, and holy and dark. Damage is slightly increased from characters, or spells, that are of the opposite element that their target is affiliated with.

* GoddamnBats: Fights with lots of undead enemies. Unless you're absurdly efficient, there's a good chance that the first ones down will auto-revive before you finish the rest off. Keep an exorcism spell handy for those fights.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Well, of sorts. There are three sets of two opposed elements: fire and water, earth and air, and holy and dark.

* MultipleEndings: Based on a choice you make halfway through on whether to capture a mermaid or not, you'll end up siding with [[spoiler:Rictor]] or [[spoiler:Cybil]].

* PublicDomainArtifact: The Spear of Destiny