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3	-> ''The true eternal does exist here.''
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5	''Eternal Fighter Zero'' is a DoujinSoft FightingGame made by Creator/TwilightFrontier, who are known for other doujin games such as ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi Daybreak]]'' and ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Immaterial and Missing Power]]''. ''Eternal Fighter Zero'' stars characters from various visual novels made by Creator/KeyVisualArts (and Tactics, before Key split off from them). The original version featured characters from ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE ONE ~To the Radiant Season~]]'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''. Later versions added characters from ''Moon'' and ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', for a total of 23 unique characters.
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7	The gameplay is based largely off of other popular 2-D fighters, including ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. Several of the characters' stances and attacks can be traced to characters from these games, along with many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]. This game is also known for its many in-jokes and references to the original visual novels. The game has a large cast, but aside from SNKBoss Kanna, the characters are all very balanced, as tier lists don't really make as much of an impact as most other [[FightingGame fighting games]]
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9	Playable characters:
10	* From ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE One ~ To The Radiant Season]]'': [[MusicalAssassin Mizuka Nagamori]], [[NerfArm Rumi Nanase]], [[PrehensileHair Akane Satomura]], [[BlowYouAway Misaki Kawana]], [[ConfusionFu Mayu Shiina]], [[CosplayOtakuGirl Mio Kouduki]], [[MovesetClone Doppel Nanase]] [[note]]Technically she's an OriginalGeneration, created for this game[[/note]] and [[MyLittlePanzer Unknown]] [[note]]Also known as Eien No Mizuka, or Mirror Mizuka.[[/note]]
11	* From ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'': [[PowerGivesYouWings Ayu Tsukimiya]], [[HeavySleeper Nayuki Minase]] (Who has two forms, [[DrunkenBoxing sleepy]], and [[KickChick awake]]), [[ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon Makoto Sawatari]], [[AnIcePerson Shiori Misaka]], [[IaijutsuPractitioner Mai Kawasumi]], [[MorphWeapon Sayuri Kurata]], [[FlamingSword Mishio Amano]], [[CuteBruiser Kaori Misaka]] and [[LethalJokeItem Akiko Minase]].
12	* From ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'': [[TrapMaster Misuzu Kamio]], [[FireIceLightning Kano Kirishima]], [[PaperMaster Minagi Tohno]] and [[WingedHumanoid Kanna]].
13	* From ''MOON'': [[BloodyMurder Ikumi Amasawa]].
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17	!!Provides Examples Of:
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19	* ActionizedAdaptation: It's a fighting game with characters from visual novels that have little to no action.
20	* AdaptationalBadass: Virtually none of the characters come from stories that have anything to do with combat.[[note]]Except for Ikumi. Even in ''Air'', Kanna is a GlassCannon who just takes out a large number of soldiers in one slash, gets shot up with arrows, and dies.[[/note]] In EFZ, though, they can ''all'' throw down in spectacular fashion.
21	* AnIcePerson: Shiori Misaka.
22	* AscendedExtra:
23	** Several of the seconday characters in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' (Namely Kaori Misaka, Mishio Amano and Akiko Minase) appeared first as playable characters in subsequent revisions of the game, with Sayuri Kurata being playable from the beginning.
24	** Kano Kirishima and Minagi Tohno were given a second chance after they were DemotedToExtra in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}''.
25	* AssistCharacter: Several of them.
26	** Akane Satomura can call her friend Shiko to attack her opponent, as a reference to the Striker System in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 99''.
27	** Mai Kawasumi can call a CuteGhostGirl with multiple attacks to assist her in battle, as a reference to the Stand system in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''.
28	** Misuzu Kamio can summon Yukito, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', to keep distance, and extend combos.
29	** Minagi Tohno fights on par with her best friend Michiru; you control Minagi directly, and Michiru via special moves.
30	* BlackMagicianGirl: Kano Kirishima is able to cast tiered versions of [[FireIceLightning fire, ice and lightning]] spells to fight. Her powers are also a reference to her wishing for magic in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', although it's very likely that becoming a magician, and a strong fighter as a bonus, was not what Kano had in mind.
31	* BloodyMurder: Ikumi Amasawa, who uses both her own and her victim's blood for various attacks.
32	* BlowYouAway: Misaki Kawana.
33	* CaptainErsatz: Several of the characters take some of their moves, or even their whole fighting styles, from characters in other games. Most obviously, sweet, innocent Sayuri Kurata uses moves based on '''''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal]] [[SNKBoss Bernstein!!]]'''''
34	* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction and CosplayOtakuGirl: Mio Kouduki: Like [[Literature/{{Oreimo}} Kirino]] in ''VideoGame/DengekiBunkoFightingClimax'', she dons several costumes of characters from other fighting games and animes, and use their moves, such as [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Sakura Kasugano]], [[VideoGame/TheLastBlade Akari Ichijo]], among others. She goes back to wearing her normal clothes after finishing the move.
35	* ClothingDamage: Occurs temporarily when hit by a fire attack; all damage is regenerated when the character hits the ground.
36	* {{Combos}}: Most notably, using the reinforce gauge to cancel almost any attack.
37	* ConfusionFu: Mayu Shiina, who uses animal-like moves, as well as some acrobatic moves: for example, she can do cartwheels in mid-air at (seemingly) random directions, to finally [[DivingKick dive kick]] her opponent, or grab her mid air and pound her into the ground..
38	* CuteBruiser: While the whole cast of characters counts to varying degrees, being cute girls in a fighting game, Kaori Misaka and Doppel Nanase stand out among the rest: The former fights with her unmatched boxing skills, and the latter specializes in grapple moves and hard punches. Rumi Nanase also counts, specially when fighting bare-handed.
39	* DemotedToExtra: Yukito, who appears as an AssistCharacter to Misuzu, very likely reflecting a similar event in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}''.
40	* DesperationAttack: Final Memories, which can only be used at less than 1/3 health and with a full super bar.
41	* DifficultButAwesome: The Recoil Guard system, similar to the Parrying in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' or the Shielding in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''; mastering this can make a huge difference in high-level play.
42	* DoubleJump: All characters have this. [[JustifiedTrope It makes sense for Kanna]]. since all she has to do is flap her wings again. Played straight for the rest of the cast.
43	* DrunkenBoxing: Parodied with Nayuki Minase, with her sleepy boxing.
44	* ExtremityExtremist: Kaori with punches and Nayuki with kicks.
45	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: EFZ is normally a pretty light hearted and colorful fighting game, but then, we have Ikumi, whose fighting style involves using her victim's blood, and her own blood to power up her attacks, and is the only character able to shed blood. Her command grab, for example, involves stabbing her opponent with her fingers, and creating a small explosion to shed more blood to absorb, and this can be pretty unnerving for some of the younger gamers (Yeah, the blood looks more like ketchup or red paint, and [[HighPressureBlood it's so cartoonish and over the top that sometimes it's fun]], but still...)
46	* FeatherMotif: When performing Level 3 supers or Final Memories, White glowing feathers appear for a while surrounding the character.
47	* FireIceLightning: Kano Kirishima's tiered spells. Her spells are a ShoutOut to the MMORPG ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline''--The elemental bolts, Soul Strike, Frost Driver, Jupiter Thunder, Storm Gust, etc.
48	* FlamingSword: Mishio Amano's fighting style; she can use the elements of either fire or thunder to enchant her spear and use them for special attacks; her Final Memory enables her to use both at the same time.
49	* FlashStep: Mai Kawasumi is able to use this tactic to confuse her opponents. One of her supers starts this way.
50	* HarmlessFreezing: Shiori Misaka. In general, any ice attack produces this effect.
51	* HeavySleeper: Nayuki Minase; she actually has two forms: a sleepy form that parodies DrunkenBoxing, and an awake form that unleashes a variety of alarm clocks for her "Special Collection" final memory.
52	* HighPressureBlood: Ikumi Amasawa.
53	* IaijutsuPractitioner: Mai is a master of this technique, drawing and attacking at lightning fast speed, and resheathing her sword after each strike. Fighting style-wise, she's pretty similar to Hibiki from ''VideoGame/TheLastBlade'', with shades of other iaijutsu practitioners in the mix, such as [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Johnny and Baiken]], for example.
54	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Almost everyone.
55	* KickChick: Awake Nayuki Minase. Michiru also does most of her fighting with kicks.
56	* LagCancel: Instant Charges (Or IC for short) can be used to cancel almost any attack, and escape otherwise inescapable situations, it allows not only to reset the frames of the character and extend combos, but also increases the power counter (The amount of increase depends on the color of your RF gauge) to rack up the damage; done correctly, you can deal extremely long and painful combos.
57	* LethalJokeItem: Akiko Minase fights with a formidable array of household items, such as a broom, a vacuum cleaner, a duster, a ladle, a fire extinguisher... even a washing machine!
58	* LimitBreak: Final Memories can only be performed with less than 1/3 of your life bar, and with three levels of Super; Doppel Nanase is a special case, as she can automatically activate hers only at the last round, and she has to be with less than 1/6 of her life bar.
59	* LoadingScreen: The game uses a large collection of FanArt for loading screens.
60	* MagicSkirt
61	* MagicWand: Sayuri Kurata has a MagicalGirl wand; Kano Kirishima uses a fantasy role-playing game staff.
62	* MentalWorld: The Eternal World is a plot-important location in ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE ONE]]'', located within Kouhei's mind; in EFZ it serves as Unknown's stage, where [[FinalBossNewDimension you fight her boss version]].
63	* MirrorMatch: The game allows a character to fight herself, complete with [[LampshadeHanging unique winquotes]].
64	** A curious case is Misuzu Vs. Kanna; fans of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' surely know what's wrong with this matchup.
65	** And yet another curious case for fans of ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE ONE]]'', Mizuka Vs. Unknown.
66	** And for fans of ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', Awake Nayuki can fight her sleepy self.
67	* MorphWeapon: Sayuri Kurata's magic wand.
68	* MovesetClone: Doppel Nanase is this to Rumi Nanase: Doppel is basically a copy of Rumi when she's fighting bare-handed, as they have the same normal moves, and they even both share a few combos, but aside of that, thay can be easily distinguished: Rumi has a StanceSystem where she's stronger with her wooden sword, or more combo-friendly when bare-handed (At the cost os some special moves and her SuperArmor), and her moveset is distributed accordingly; Doppel fights exclusively bare-handed, and has a good variety of grapple moves and other special techniques. Such differences make this a downplayed example.
69	* MusicalAssassin: Mizuka Nagamori, can create exploding music notes.
70	* MyLittlePanzer: Unknown uses toys to fight: such as toy knives, plushies, a squeaky mallet, and can also drop a surprise barrel to catch her opponent.
71	* NerfArm: Rumi Nanase's wooden sword. Interestingly enough, her sword deals more damage than Mai's, despite the fact that Mai is an IaijutsuPractitioner, and uses a real sword.
72	* NoPlotNoProblem: 23 cute characters from diverse visual novels (22 girls and [[TokenAdult one adult woman]] [[note]]Technically they're 21, if you count Nayuki Minase (Asleep and awake) as one[[/note]]) are fighting amongst themselves for no particular reason.
73	* OriginalGeneration: Doppel Nanase, a presumably evil clone of Rumi Nanase who fights bare-handed; she's the only original creation for the game.
74	* PaperMaster: Minagi Tohno fights with rice tickets, whether by throwing them, or striking directly.
75	* PerfectPlayAI: Kanna fits this trope quite well at higher difficulties; her AI will block practically everything you throw at her, and her range, attack, speed and priority will rock you when she gets close. Ayu is also able to pull this in highest difficulty.
76	* PowerGivesYouWings: Ayu Tsukimiya has a [[AwesomeBackpack winged backpack]] behind her, whose wings grow to attack her opponent, and to perform air dashes. Ayu herself fully transforms into an angel for her Final Memory.
77	* PrehensileHair: Akane Satomura.
78	* PunchParry: The Recoil Guard, a well-timed block, which enables the player to cancel out any attack from the opponent, take the initiative and start a combo.
79	* PuppetFighter:
80	** When playing as Minagi, you actually play as two characters, as you can control Minagi directly, and Michiru via special moves, however, only Minagi can take damage.
81	** Also, when playing as Mai, she can summon her ghost partner to appear at any spot of the screen; So, the key with Mai is to control her ghost partner to control space, keep pressure, and keep her opponent guessing where she's going to summon her.
82	* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: Makoto wields a gun as her primary weapon, but only one of her specials (and one super) actually uses the gun as a long-range attack. It doesn't make much sense why her firing the gun straight forward only counts as a close-range attack.
83	* ShoutOut: Lots of references to both the original visual novels and to various other {{Fighting Game}}s. Makoto Sawatari's stage also features ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' in the background, a later Creator/KeyVisualArts visual novel.
84	** See Kano Kirishima's spells above. Also, her staff is a special staff from the same game, called a "Mighty Staff."
85	* SNKBoss:
86	** Kanna: Subverted on difficulties 1 and 2, where she hardly attacks and generally just waits for you to kill her. Played straight on difficulties 3 and 4. You pretty much need to be an EFZ god to beat level 4 Kanna (or use extremely cheap tactics, but even that takes a lot of luck).
87	** Unknown, in her boss version, is amazingly fast and her attacks have priority over practically everything; she also has a tendency of filling the screen with giant orbs of energy, and a barrage of huge, vertical lasers that deal big damage. And you can't recoil guard against her ''at all''.
88	* SpotlightStealingCrossover: ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' has the most player characters here (10).
89	* StanceSystem:
90	** Mio Kouduki has two modes: a Short-Range Mode, which is more like a rushdown style; and a Long-Range Mode, which plays keepaway with her opponent.
91	** Minagi's friend Michiru can also adopt two stances following Minagi's command: a normal stance for some special moves; and a "fighting" stance, for enhanced versions of her special moves.
92	** Rumi Nanase also counts, as she has two stances, whether she's fighting with her wooden sword, or bare-handed.
93	* SymbolicWings: Ayu with her winged backpack, referencing that she was associated with angels in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', and Misuzu also grows wings to air-dash, guard herself and for some attacks, a reference to the fact that she's [[WingedHumanoid Kanna's]] decendant.
94	* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
95	** Akane with waffles, she uses her hair to transform into a huge waffle for one of her specials.
96	** Ayu with taiyaki, she rides on a giant taiyaki to strike at her opponent, for her "Taiyaki Assault" special.
97	** Nayuki with strawberries: In her sleepy form, she uses strawberry jam [[PowerUpFood to power up her attacks and mobility]].
98	** Makoto with nikuman (Meat buns), which she uses in her Final Memory [[PowerUpFood to recover some health]].
99	** Shiori with ice cream, the names of some of her attacks are references to her love for ice cream in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'': for example, her ice-beam super is called "It's an ice cream beam", and her SnowballFight super is called "Wide-Spread Megavanilla cannon".
100	** Misuzu uses her favorite juice for some attacks, and to place sticky traps in the air.
101	* TrapMaster: Fighting style-wise, Misuzu is pretty similar to Testament from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', as she is able to place invisible traps in the ground and sticky traps in the air, as well as use tiered curses to drain her opponent's life bar (The difference is, while Testament uses his own blood, Misuzu uses juice).
102	* TheTrickster: Makoto's fighting style is a reference to her fondness for pranks, as she uses fireworks in battle, as well as a canister of gas to lock her opponent, leaving her wide open for a combo.
103	* UpdatedRerelease:
104	** The game originally featured 12 playable characters, six from ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE One ~ To The Radiant Season]]'' (Mizuka, Rumi, Akane, Misaki, Mayu and Mio) and six from ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' (Ayu, Nayuki (asleep), Makoto, Shiori, Mai and Sayuri), with Unknown as the final boss. This version was later re-released as ''Eternal Fighter Zero -RENEWAL-''.
105	** The next version, ''Eternal Fighter Zero: Blue Sky Edition'' added Misuzu, Kano and Minagi from ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', it also marked the debut of Kanna as the TrueFinalBoss, it also turned Unknown in a playable character.
106	** Later, ''Eternal Fighter Zero: Bad Moon Edition'', added Ikumi from ''MOON'', Mishio and Kaori from ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' and [[OriginalGeneration Doppel Nanase]], plus a little graphic tweaks.
107	** Then, in October 2005, ''Eternal Fighter Zero -Memorial-'' added Akiko and Awake Nayuki, as well as adding Kanna as a playable character, and moving the reinforce gauge to the lower part of the screen.
108	** Much later, a new version was released, named ''Revival'', which enables the game to be run on modern operative systems, without taking the risk of modifying the archives of the game; it also adds a netcode to play online.
109	* WingedHumanoid: Kanna's wings are not just for decoration, she knows how to use them in battle.
110	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Both Rumi and Doppel Nanase have some wrestling moves in their arsenal (Both have, for example, a powerbomb as their grab move).
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