History VideoGame / VisionsAndVoices

** However, the game ''does'' have useless useful equipment. ''Anything'' that decreases your speed at all is usually not worth any of the benefits it might give, and anything that isn't a character's WeaponOfChoice (see below) is usually fated to do nothing but sit in your inventory as well, as a WeaponOfChoice almost always deals far superior damage, regardless of attack stats. There are many, many accessories that quickly become useless, as well.

* WeaponOfChoice: The game has every one you can think of, from [[WhipItGood whips]] to [[BareFistedMonk claws]] to [[ImprobableWeaponUser orbs]]. Each character does have a weapon that's technically "best" for them, though:
** Telia: Archer
** Alphonse: Shuriken
** Lyla: [[ImprobableWeaponUser Psychic Orbs]]
** Ox: AnAxeToGrind or BareFistedMonk (claws)
** Dison: Knives
** Elena: BladeOnAStick or Archer
** Marlowe: Staff

** Marlowe: [[SimpleStaff Not-So-Simple Staff]]

** Dison: KnifeNut

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
%%** All the girls.
%%** Marlowe.
%%** Arguably the Wanderer; it's hard to tell.

* MultipleEndings
* NoNameGiven: The Wanderer.
* NotSoDifferent: Wanderer won't accept that Telia is a lot like him.
* OfficialCouple:
** Telia and the Wanderer.
** Lyla and Ox.

* RandomEncounters: [[AvertedTrope Averted]].

* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:D'kothos and, presumably, the other demons as well.]]
* RunDontWalk: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], unfortunately.

* ShockAndAwe: Alphonse.

* SquishyWizard: Marlowe and Lyla.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Elena. {{Lampshaded}} in one of the [[ExposedToTheElements ice worlds]].

* UnwittingPawn: Poor, poor [[spoiler:Montfort]].

* VisionaryVillain: Montfort, of the WellIntentionedExtremist variety.
* TheVoice: Montfort.

* WideOpenSandbox

'''Visions & Voices''' is an VideoGame/RPGMaker game made in six weeks by [[HeterosexualLifePartners well-known RM duo]] [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Karsuman Karsuman]] and [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Craze Craz]] The game is largely non-linear, and is based on a ten-day time limit. It can be downloaded [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/1212/ here.]] (In addition, a currently in-progress remake of the game can be found [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/2889/ here.]])

Examples:

* ActionGirl: Elena, and to a lesser extent, Telia.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal

* AffablyEvil: Montfort. He just wanted to be an awesome mayor!

* AnIcePerson: Elena.
* AnotherDimension: The portal and mirror worlds.
* AnyoneCanDie: And will, if you don't save and recruit them.

* CastFromHitPoints: Spiritual Judgement/Reckoning.

* {{Oranyan}}: The Wanderer, towards Telia. As much as he taunts her and gets angry at her when she behaves like a jerkass, he actually cares for her a lot.

* DarkIsEdgy: Marlowe. The Wanderer can also switch between dark and light skills.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While not as dark as, say, ''VideoGame/TheWay'', this game can still be sufficiently creepy.

* QuicksandBox: Finding anything that isn't directly related to the main quest requires repeatedly combing the entire town each day to find new chests, skills, characters and [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Negative Space Wedgies]].

'''Visions & Voices''' is an VideoGame/RPGMaker game made in six weeks by [[HeterosexualLifePartners well-known RM duo]] [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Karsuman Karsuman]] and [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Craze Craze]]. The game is largely non-linear, and is based on a ten-day time limit. It can be downloaded [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/1212/ here]]. (In addition, a currently in-progress remake of the game can be found [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/2889/ here.]])

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'''Visions & Voices''' is an RPGMaker game made in six weeks by [[HeterosexualLifePartners well-known RM duo]] [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Karsuman Karsuman]] and [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Craze Craze]]. The game is largely non-linear, and is based on a ten-day time limit. It can be downloaded [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/1212/ here]]. (In addition, a currently in-progress remake of the game can be found [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/2889/ here.]])

** [[DualBoss Aa and Gutei's Finger]] are bosses from a game called ''ImmortalDefense''.

* ActuallyFourMooks

* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] during the ending - nobody ever remembers or knows what happened, but it really did happen.]]

* BonusBoss: Every boss (and fight) in the game except for the opening madman, the Minor Galactivore, and [[spoiler:[[FinalBoss D'kothos]]]].
** The fights are optional only in theory. In practice, some enemies are placed on some pathways you must traverse, in such a way that you will end up having an encounter when you try to go through, no matter what. All of the other fights are optional, but they can get you neat stuff that will make your life easier when fighting truly becomes unavoidable.

* CloudCuckoolander: Dison.

* ContemplateOurNavels / MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: [[spoiler:On the evening of the tenth day]], you hear a line from any characters you've recruited, presumably coming from their subconscious. Some of them can be rather disturbing or TearJerker-ish.

* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Punch Cthulhu Into Oblivion]]
** Honorable mention goes to the Minor Galactivore. A creature who eats galaxies for breakfast, and happens to be a middle-of-the-game boss fight (and a relatively easy one). It's that kind of game.

* GainaxEnding

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Montfort, of the [[TheVoice Voice]] variety.

* IntrepidMerchant: Alphonse.
* InformedAttractiveness: Lyla.

* KillEmAll: If you do a solo run, [[spoiler:everyone except the Wanderer, Marlowe, and Dison dies]], but only because of the LostForever mentioned below.

* LethalLavaLand

* LostForever: Except for Dison, recruitable characters die if you don't get them in time. Certain minor chests also disappear after a certain number of days.

* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Eldritch Abomination Behind the Man]]: [[spoiler:The Visions and Voices, primarily D'kothos, behind Montfort.]]

* OfficialCouple: Telia and the Wanderer, Lyla and Ox.

--> '''Wanderer''': He speaks!
--> '''Marlowe''': My choice not to speak has little to do with my capability of doing so.

** [[ThatOneBoss Silent Alex]] is from ''Speak No Evil''.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld

* TakeYourTime: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. The final boss encounter always happens during the evening of the tenth day, no matter what.
** Played straight on individual days, though, where you can run around as long as you want and no time will pass unless you sleep at the TraumaInn.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Telgium seems to be a fairly benevolent one -- it can be used to [[spoiler:make the FinalBoss mortal]]. It's unclear what exactly the Wicodian is, but it seems to be a normal TomeOfEldritchLore.

* TooAwesomeToUse: "Good" items are actually manufactured by the player via uses of feats, so the player has to consciously make the normally "too awesome" items.
** Feats themselves tend to fall victim to this, however. Sure, there might be a Seraphim Whiteleaf in that garden, or something really awesome in that chest that you don't have a key to, or that monster might obliterate you if you don't trap it...but what if there's something else that you'd rather use your feats on? Then, before you know it, you're done exploring and ready to go to sleep and you still have more than half your feats left.

** {{Oranyan}}: The Wanderer, towards Telia. As much as he taunts her and gets angry at her when she behaves like a jerkass, he actually cares for her a lot.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: [[spoiler: Using the Wicodian to power up the final boss to godlike levels.]]
** Also, ''entering the creepy village in the first place''.

* WideOpenSandbox: Kind of.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Montfort.
* WombLevel: The ''entire game'' was originally set in the innards of a giant dragon.
** There's also the "[[ThatOneLevel Organic Tunnels]]" in the game itself, a large and confusing network of pink, fleshy tunnels with extremely difficult monsters and tons of locked chests.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All the girls, and Marlowe. Arguably the Wanderer as well, though it's hard to tell.
* ZenSurvivor: Marlowe makes a decent case for this.
** It's one of his abilities. He's seen so many horrors that he is [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration immune to mental effects]].

''"The Book, Dear God. I pray that you have the Book. Otherwise, my dear friend... I am lost. You are lost. We are all lost."''

** Alphonse: [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Shuriken]]

* ShellShockedSenior: Dison, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as he's a cheery CloudCuckoolander. [[spoiler:However, his ContemplateOurNavels line shows his war trauma is still severe; "So...so many dead..."]]

* FragileSpeedster: Telia.

* GlassCannon: Hey there, Alphonse.

* MightyGlacier: Ox.

** [[EasterEgg Seri Kesu]] (and the Wanderer's appearance) is from AraFell.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: General Clancy, although he's fairly neutral.

You play as the Wanderer, and enigmatic figure who has come to the Montfort village to solve a mystery; apparently, most of the inhabitants disappeared overnight. He decides to explore the village in search of clues, soon discovering an ApocalypticLog of sorts by a "prophet who has fallen from grace". Shortly after, he realizes that reality is warping around him. Disturbing things appear out of nowhere, other, more familiar things disappear, and all the while, time is ticking away...

* HoYay: Talking to Alphonse on day 9 yields this conversation:

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Inverted. All stats are mental traits, not physical (Bravery, Perception, Charisma, Tenacity, and Logic), yet many of them function as physical stats (Strength is replaced by Bravery, Perception takes over for Dexterity, and Charisma is roughly equivalent to Constitution).

* BelligerentSexualTension: The Wanderer and Telia. ''Not'' [[{{UST}} unresolved]].

* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Eldritch Abomination Behind The Man]]: [[spoiler:The Visions and Voices, primarily D'kothos, behind Montfort.]]

* NaughtyTentacles:
--->'''Dison:''' Yes sir! Even in the face of demons armed with tentacles ready to ravish us all, I will stand beside you sir!
--->'''Telia:''' [[{{Squick}} W-what?!]]
** [[spoiler: Dison did not get that image from nowhere. He is a ShellShockedVeteran. [[FridgeHorror Let that sink into you for a while.]]]]

* HeroesPreferSwords: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], unless you make a Bravery/Logic-oriented Wanderer.

** Telia: TheArcher

** Elena: BladeOnAStick or TheArcher

* BossDissonance: Mario type, usually. {{Dual Boss}}es can still be pretty tough, though.

'''Visions & Voices''' is an RPGMaker game made in six weeks by [[HeterosexualLifePartners well-known RM duo]] [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Karsuman Karsuman]] and [[http://rpgmaker.net/users/Craze Craze]]. The game is largely non-linear, and is based on a ten-day time limit. It can be downloaded [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/1212/ here]]. BetterThanItSounds. (In addition, a currently in-progress remake of the game can be found [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/2889/ here.]])