History Videogame / AgarestSenki

** The CG collection is another thing, specially, how to get the [[OnceASeason generation exclusive]]
GunsAreWorthless: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], albeit in an [[PlayingWithATrope unusual way]]. Statwise, gun users tend to be quite underwhelming on many levels and Breaks do the ranged weapon better thanks to DenialOFDiagonalAttack on part of guns, but they make up for it by being able to [[OneHitPolyKill attack every unit in their line of range]].
[[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Springs CG]]. These require you to have a certain amount of [[RelationshipValues affinity with one or more of the possible wives]] and have reached a certain point of the game before reaching a certain amount of turns, often with a certain alignment on the KarmaMeter (The Hot Springs CG always require to have max affinity with all possible wives). However, all these certain values are hidden from the player.

** The CG collection is another thing, specially, how to get the [[OnceASeason generation exclusive]] [[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Springs CG]]. These require you to have a certain amount of [[RelationshipValues affinity with one or more of the possible wives]] and have reached a certain point of the game before reaching a certain amount of turns, often with a certain alignment on the KarmaMeter (The Hot Springs CG always require to have max affinity with all possible wives). However, all these certain values are hidden from the player.

There is a prequel called ''VideoGame/AgarestSenkiZERO'' and a sequel called ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki2''. ''Agarest Senki ZERO'' got a PC release via Steam on 14th of April 2014. ''Agarest Senki 2'' followed on 19th of February, 2015.

** Your LimitBreaks help quite a bit toward getting through that 25% phase--they bypass the aforementioned Parry willpower entirely. On that note, the Accuracy willpower works too as long as that character can lead off the attacks and generate that much SP quickly enough.

OneStatToRuleThemAll: Vitality. While all the stats have their use based on character builds, Vitality is necessary for all of them since, in addition to increasing defense, it also increases the amount of HP gained per level, and (this is NOT applied retroactively). As such it is best to put in as many points as possible into this stat, while leaving some for other stats.

!!Record of Agarest War Marriage

The newest Agarest game of Compile Heart, however this time they're teaming up with the former staff who worked on the 'VideoGame/SummonNight'' games. The artwork is now done instead by someone named "Blade" instead of the usual artwork by Hirano Katsuyuki.

The story goes that the first generation protagonist will fail to kill the demon king so his three choices of wives will have to carry his soul to pass on to his descendants so that one day, they get to kill the demon king.

Tis game is for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, a departure from the usual platform for the series.

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!! ''Record of Agarest War Marriage'' contains the following tropes:

* ClothingDamage: A first for the series as a gameplay mechanic. The lesser clothing a heroine has, the more powerful she becomes.
* DatingSim: Gains a lot more precedence compared to the first three games.

** Downplayed in the first generation. Dyshana is a distant mom who main purpose is to help guiding the group to defeat the forces of darkness but Leo is the one who make the decisions. Vira-Lorr has the seductress appearence and make a lot of snark comments, but she doesn't flirt with Leo and is only here to overcome her boredom. Ellis although definitely qualify as the child.

* NewSeasonNewName: Leo's Golden Sword seems to change each games, in the first it's named Leo's Sword, in ZERO it's named Treasure Sword of Oath, and in the second it's named Veldafard.

* MetalSlime: Golden Bats. They typically have levels far higher than normal for the area you in, but have roughly the same health as the monsters you should be fighting, so if you can end the fight quickly you can see roughly a 600% or higher bonus to your rewards. However their Will Powers make it so they take significantly reduced damage from everything, they naturally resist magic, and once they hit 25% health physical attacks no longer work. Oh, and they [[RegeneratingHealth regenerate 20% of their health a turn]], can [[LifeDrain drain your health]], and can [[TheMedic easily fully heal all of the other enemies while they're at it.]] If the fight goes too long, expect to see a penalty on your rewards, rather than the standard reward you could've gotten had they just not been there.

** Midas in the third generation. He says to Alberti to take care of her daughter.
** Keith in the fourth generation. He say to Silvi to lie to him but she denies the request. Keith understand her reasons to deny it although.

** After getting defeated by Leo, Kasibal ask to him to save Gridamas since he was unable to do because he is a soldier and his duty is to follow order without thinking about it.

*** Sharona, like Vira-Lorr, got bored with her position as chieftain in the Syriumville and joined the group to left her boring life behind.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Played with it. In the first generation, Melchior taunts Leo for a one-to-one fight and you have the option to accept it (although the choice doesn't matter since it's a duel boss with the King). In the fourth generation, Duran wanted to face [[spoiler:Vashtor]] but he flees to another continent after his plain fails. Can be played straight in the fifth generation if you let Murmina taking revenge on [[spoiler:Vashtor]].

* InterfaceSpoiler: There are some, in pretty much all games so far, in the Gallery; specifically in the characters bio, party members will get an entry in the database as soon as they're introduced, there's the possibility that this member will do something of importance in the next generation, which usually is tied to TheHero of said generation, and the information about it will be available as sson as their general info became available in the Gallery; of course this is reserved for the supporting cast, TheProtagonist and LoveInterests of the given generation are free of this.

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Melchior, oh God Melchior! First he ordered the annihilation of all elves and the syriums, then wage war to the other countries and he also forms an alliance with some evil monsters, and if you read his profile you'll know that he and his father is also the one that killed Leonhardt's family before the game even begins, and yet everyone seems to gone all forgiving him in the end! Oh, and do i already mention that he has no [[FreudianExcuse sympathetic past]] and he [[MyMasterRightOrWrong just following his]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed king]]?]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Played with, although Leonhardt made a deal with Dyshana to protect Ellis, it's a for a noble goal and not a selfish one, although somewhere along the generations they tend to not agree.

** You've also got the harpuia Silvi and Murumina (in the fourth and fifth generations, respectively), and Qua the rabbit-type neocollom girl. Not to mention some of the capturable monsters, like the Nekomata-types.

* BadassFamily: The Raglen family.

** Downplayed in the first generation. Dyshana is a distant mom who main purpose is to help guiding the group to defeat the forces of darkness but Leo is the one who make the decisions. Vira-Lorr has a seductress and make a lot of snark comments, but she doesn't flirt with Leo and is only here to overcome her boredom. Ellis although definitely qualify as the child.

** Played with it in with the fourth generation heroines. Hilda and Silvi have the seductress outfit but are the mother and the child respectively. The former for being a wise pirate, [[AFatherToHisMen a mother to her men]] and the latter for joining the group just to fulfill her dream to travel around the world, abandoning her homeland. Ryuryu have the child appearance but is the seductress who loves to provoke Duran with snark comments and sometimes flirt with him.

** Leo in the first generation. He have pretty good stats and in the last party of generation (or early if you grind enough) he gets the Energy skill, one of the best of the game, which gives extra AP for everyone in his extended area.

* EpisodeZeroTheBeginning

* GuideDangIt: The True Ending is ''really'' easy to miss since you have to keep track of where the KarmaMeter is at and making sure you don't grind too much since a high "turn count" (battles fought) ''will'' lock you out of getting it.

* ACupAngst: Special mention goes to Lizerotte for this one. If all of your companions were busty...

* SchoolSwimsuit: Winfield forces Hildegard to wear one.
* SeriousBusiness: Winfield (and later Thoma) takes peeking girls at hot spring too seriously, to the point he thinks it's worth dying for.

* ThirdEye

* {{Tsundere}}: A male example is Duran, so very much so. Watching him get flustered is half the fun. And one of his potential love interests Ryuryu is a mix of this, kuudere, and EmotionlessGirl, making for some rather interesting cutscenes (read: adorable)
** The "{{Canon}}" route (if you based it on the opening, the portraits of the trophy list, and the image of the page itself) has the following route: Fyuria, Valeria, Lavinia, and Hilda. One thing in common? They're all [[{{Tsundere}} tsunderes]].
* UnwantedHarem: Played with near the end, basically there are more female than male party members and as such it comes to this. Especially in the last generation with Rex who is basically Leonhardt 2.0 with ''ALL'' the girls who the others before him never married or fought alongside.

* WifeHusbandry: Most of Rex harem consists of the girls that raised him ever since he was born.

** Played with it in with the fourth generation heroines. Hilda and Silvi have the seductress appearance but are the mother and the child respectively. The former being a wise pirate, [[AFatherToHisMen a mother to her men]] and the latter are the child for joining the group just to fulfill her dream to travel around the world, abandoning her homeland. Ryuryu have the child appearance but are the seductress who loves to provoke Duran with snark comments and sometimes flirt with him.

* Foreshadowing: Starting at the end of second generation when [[spoiler:Vashtor silently look at Dark Knight after the battle]]. During the third generation more hints are given to player and in fourth generation becomes very clear he is working to [[spoiler:Dark Forces]].

* MagicKnight: Soul Breeding can result in the main character being one.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Hello there random 3D monsters

* OldSaveBonus: If you have a cleared data on Agarest 1, you can use it to import data to Agarest Zero. Likewise, AgarestSenki2 will also be using this setup by importing data from Agarest Zero.

** A lot of the dating sim dialogues are built with {{double entendre}}s ''RIVALING VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' and ''VideoGame/ArTonelico''.

** AgarestSenki2 also does this one ''in the opening!'' According to the gameplay however, it was a bad idea to punch out [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss Summerill]] and [[TrueFinalBoss Chaos]]]].

The newest Agarest game of Compile Heart, however this time they're teaming up with the former staff who worked on the SummonNight games. The artwork is now done instead by someone named "Blade" instead of the usual artwork by Hirano Katsuyuki.

* AntiGrinding: Despite having a lot of things that encourage players to grind, straying out of the main quest to train adds more turns to the total count, [[LostForever which will result some events and characters to be blocked or lost permanently]]. Being stronger than the game expects also cuts down battle bonus and benefit you get in the main quests. [[SubvertedTrope US release modded the game so that you can grind in a dungeon all you want without spending turns.]]