History VideoGame / WildARMS5

* BleachedUnderpants: The character designer produced (and still does) hardcore doujinshi under the pen name of Shuhan/Syuhan/Article 60 of Criminal Code.

* EncounterBait: The Bad Omen badge and the Duel Sign tool. The latter can be used to summon {{Bonus Boss}}es

* LastLousyPoint: Trying to find all those damn treasure boxes to take on the BonusBoss, Black Box.

* LethalJokeItem: 100% Orange is a Badge that reduces the damage you give or take to 100 and prevents you from being healed, and you have to turn in a [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sheriff Star]] to get one. Might seem counterproductive, but that means even BonusBoss monsters capable of dealing more damage than you can ever have Hit Points will only deal 100 damage. A character equipped with 100% Orange can shrug off powerful blows and revive their allies turn after turn (granted, they only get 100 HP back), making Superbosses a cakewalk.

* OneSteveLimit: There's the BonusBoss Black Box and TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Black Box.

** A BonusBoss is a [[Film/{{Tremors}} Graboid]], though it looks a lot different from the ones in the movies.

* {{Feelies}}: The game came with an artbook depicting characters from the previous games.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ThePsychoRangers: Each of the your party members has a rival in one of the villains. [[spoiler:Lighthearted and idealistic Dean has to face the defeated dog of the villains, [[BrokenPedestal his idol Nightburn]]; [[{{Tomboy}} Rebecca]] ends up with [[DarkChick Persephone]], both of which share the same inability to express their feelings for their loved ones (Dean and Nightburn, respectively); family man Greg fights his family's killer, the AxCrazy Kartikeya; Avril has story reasons for rivaling Volsung, leader of the radical Veruni; small but heavily-armed Carol fights against her former caregiver, the muscular Elvis; and Chuck rivals the surprisingly noble Fereydoon over the same girl.]]

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Nightburn's commercial for the Golem Hunter's Guild, which is also a KitschyLocalCommercial with a budget.

* TriangRelations: Type 3: both Avril and Rebecca are in love with Dean, but Dean seems blissfully clueless about this.

* ThePsychoRangers: Each of the your party members has a rival in one of the villains. [[spoiler:Lighthearted and idealistic Dean has to face the defeated dog of the villains, [[BrokenPedestal his idol Nightburn]]; [[TheChick Rebecca]] ends up with [[DarkChick Persephone]], both of which share the same inability to express their feelings for their loved ones (Dean and Nightburn, respectively); family man Greg fights his family's killer, the AxCrazy Kartikeya; Avril has story reasons for rivaling Volsung, leader of the radical Veruni; small but heavily-armed Carol fights against her former caregiver, the muscular Elvis; and Chuck rivals the surprisingly noble Fereydoon over the same girl.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: The Misery status effect turns the character into an adorable anthromorphic cat version of themselves, as well as disabling all commands but Move.

* {{Diary}}: Used as a framing device to end each chapter. Rebecca reads her entry on whatever events have happened at the end of each "chapter." They also often foreshadow the BittersweetEnding. Her diary also plays a minor role in the plot, first as an introduction to her character when Dean finds in the ruins, and later she tries to get him to read it to explain how she feels about him since she can't work up the courage to do it verbally.

* NotSoDifferent: The game manages to milk a lot of drama out of Dean's ideals being uncomfortably similar to Volsung's.

** Dean, Rebecca, and Avril have drawn comparisons to the PowerTrio of [[VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia another cult-hit RPG]].

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted with Greg's son. When Kartikeya threatens Greg in a flashback, his son steps in front of him. He promptly gets blasted, much to his parent's horror.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: You'll find a lone porn magazine in the crater of a burnt house in Harmonde.[[note]]Look at it with an all male party, and it'll attack you![[/note]]

* ShaggySearchTechnique: An actual solution to a puzzle in the Memorial Sanctuary.[[note]]Near the end of the dungeon, you have to go through doorways that a torch is pointing to, but the last torch points to a corner instead. Search that corner and this trope happens.[[/note]]

* GoodBadTranslation: A French exclusive one. While the English translation was perfectly fine, the French translation was completely off. The translators included private jokes which were completely absent from the original script, affecting the personality of characters, and the overall mood of the game. While some of these changes are funny ('''Go Goldorak, GO !!!''' upon the discovery of the golem), some are crossing the line, like a NPC who says in a dialogue the slogan of the actual French president, Nicolas Sarkozy ("Work more in order to earn more"). A lot of French anglophones switched to the English translation because of that.

* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad (Volsung)
** TheDragon (Fereydoon)
** EvilGenius (Elvis)
** TheBrute (Kartikeya)
** DarkChick (Persephone)

* AlienSky: Filgaia has two moons in this game: a larger gray moon and a smaller bronze-colored one. They are visible when summoning Equites.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: When Dean and Greg are jumping off a train, they use ''grenade blasts'' to cushion their fall. And no one gets singed.

* {{Expy}}: Dean, Rebecca, and Avril have drawn comparisons to the PowerTrio of [[VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia another cult-hit RPG]].

* TrainJob: Dean catches Greg in the middle of trying to blow up a train's golem cargo.

* LongSongShortScene: Unlike previous Franchise/WildArms games, the opening theme only plays during the opening credits and is not heard again until the FinalBoss fight.

''Wild [=ARM=]s 5'' uses the same engine and HEX battle system from ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 4}}'' but with several refinements and improvements. The number of members allowed in battle at once is reduced to three, while the [[ScrappyMechanic much derided]] need to choose between movement and attack was removed. For dungeons, the use of tools to solve puzzles returns in the form of unique bullets for Dean's ARM, combined with other actions such as sliding and stomping. Being published on the tenth anniversary of the franchise, it also includes a ''ton'' of references and cameos from previous ''[[Franchise/WildArms Wild ARMs]]'' games.

* MilestoneCelebration: The game was released in 2007 -- a decade since the first Wild [=ARMs=] game was released. Thus as a celebration the makers decide to put lots of cameos from previous games as well as an artbook filled with info and special illustrations throughout the franchise.