Line #34 YMMV/BlazingSoulsAccelate


1	* CatharsisFactor: Brumeia and Sauber earn the lion's share at being so far more evil than their leader, that it actually feels ''climatic and satisfactory'' when you get to plant their asses into afterlife.
2	* ContinuityLockOut: ''Blazing Souls'' may do well on its on, but the truth is that the game is ''insanely continuity-intensive''.
3	** A good deal of characters (Liza, Naiz, Shiro) and {{Legacy Character}}s (Adelle, Al), and even Zelos' ''very origin'', is connected to ''Spectral Souls II''. In Adelle and Al's case, Aksys' TranslationTrainwreck made important info, such as Adelle being Garnet's adoptive daughter and Al being Meu's son, LostInTranslation, as well as Zelos' origins [[spoiler:as Anslow, a villain from this game, is his creator]].
4	** Snow and Jadore are the central characters from ''Spectral Force 2'', where the former was the protagonist and the latter was the BigBad. This game, however, [[NoExportForYou never saw release in the West]], and Idea Factory dropped the ball hard when they had the chance to release ''Spectral Force Legacy'', a remake of the two ''Spectral Force'' games, in the West. ''Spectral Force 3'', a POVSequel to ''Spectral Force 2'', was released in the West, however, but it doesn't follow the war as much as it follows the Norius Mercenaries, and those who know the franchise heavily debate its place in the canon.
5	* CompleteMonster: [[TheBaroness Brumeia]] is one of the Human Genomes tasked by [[BigBad Gustavinus]] to replace all of the humans. Instead of following Gustavinus's orders, she went into the Vergis Kingdom and then enthralled its king to murder all of his families so that she could become its [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen]] who rules the Kingdom with an iron fist while she [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates the king]] for decades for her own benefit. At one point, she [[FlayingAlive skinned a maid]] over the course of one week just because the maid called her "pretty". She also sent a thief that the main heroes encountered before to steal an Elemental Core which the main heroes possessed. When the citizens of Vergis Kingdom started a rebellion led by Nguyen Le, a survivor of the Vergis Kingdom massacre, Brumeia brainwashed her soldiers to fight against them, and when encountered by Nguyen, Brumeia then uses the king and the royal retainer as personal attack dogs against Nguyen while both of them were [[AndIMustScream aware of what they are doing]] in order to cause Nguyen to become emotionally shattered. Running away to a faraway desert after being defeated, Brumeia then attacks the innocent bystanders who passes through the desert by controlling the bandits so that she could establish her new base. In the end, she ruins other people's life and makes them suffer, solely [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]].
6	* DemonicSpiders: Angels, both holy and dark variants. Both dish powerful magic, which can go through Zelos' Unleash Hell as this game ''knows'' how to discern physical and magical defense, and they both have a powerful [=SP2=] move, [[BrownNote Angelic Voice]] for Holy ones that seals your movements for three turns, and Requiem from the Dark ones, which seals ''your actions''. Both these statuses bypasses Total Resistance due to not being one of the five normal statuses, and demand unique Auto Skills to protect you from them. Needless to say, if your whole party is hit by one of these and get their movement/actions sealed, ''you're fucked''. You can fortunately capture them and get their skills, which Sciorra, Noel, Shiro, Jadore, Zelena and Hermes can use, and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use those against them]].
7	* DiscOneNuke:
8	** If you manage to get your hands on a Sorcery Gun, you can slap it on Aqueous Core Zelos to make him a superb mage who can smash enemies with Turbulence (Blizzard + Stone Shower + Star Dust) under the effect of Critical Break.
9	** If you get access to the means to make multiple Spark Shots and Lightning-elemental weapons, you can use the [[GameBreaker Electric Chair method]] to farm CP at Lake Eulid's first map and earn the cool weapons available at the Collection Souk well before the first half of the game is done.
10	* GameBreaker:
11	** Zelos himself has a nice demonstration that shows why he is as powerful as he is. With endgame content, he can obliterate just about anything.
12	*** His Infini Core is the sole reason why he is so massively broken. When completed and equipped, his stats skyrocket, and he gets a collection of abilities that make him a living catastrophe: Critical Break will buff his magic abilities, allowing him to cause destruction with hybrid skills, Satori will increase his evasion and hit chances, and then there's [[CriticalStatusBuff Unleash Hell]]: Zelos gets his strength and defenses doubled as long as his HP is at less than 1/8. You think this is all? His [[LimitBreak Original Skills]] get a big revamp as well: [[SignatureMove Heaven's Drive]] [[note]]An obnoxious two-hit Original Skill with 2700 Destroy power[[/note]] gets kicked downstairs to [=SP3=], and the [=SP4=] slot turns into [[LetsGetDangerous Overdrive]], an obnoxious self-buff that ''enhances Zelos' strength even further''. Combining this with Unleash Hell allows Zelos to outright perform absurdities like ''instakilling Satanael'' at the last floors of Abyssal Gate.
13	*** His personal weapon is the Revolver Cannon. If this was ''Spectral Souls II'', this weapon would not be much to write home about. In ''Blazing Souls'', however, it's an [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity +1 Gun]] ''with over 2800 ATK'' when fully upgraded, has long range and ''won't trample your allies when shooting, unlike other guns''. Combine this with all of the benefits Infini Core gives and you basically have one of the biggest powerhouses in Neverland's history.
14	** [[PersonOfMassDestruction Koyuki "Snow" Saito]] got this from the moment she and her mate Jadore were added in the Platform/XBox360 version. Seriously.
15	*** She gets massive magic potential from the get go, having a pretty low cap for her INT, and as a mage she gets full benefits from the Magic Up Auto Skill (or Magic Up+ if you get an Extra Frame). Her spells ''will'' hit hard, and all of her slots [[note]]One General physical slot, one Dark slot, and two of each Holy and Void slots[[/note]] synergize well. This only gets better as she progresses through her classes.
16	*** Her initial Potentials are Magical Barrier, which makes her ''immune to all magic'' should her HP hit critical, and Critical Break, which massively enhances her magical power when her SP gauge hits level 3. With class advancement, she gets Total Resistance, which gives her ''total status immunity'' sans for the ones that would stop her from moving or acting, and Alien Soul, which doubles her ATK and DEF at the same conditions as her first one.
17	*** All of her [[LimitBreak Original Skills]] have some massive utility. Healing Wind is a massive party healing with a wide range; Vi Ellarge is her answer to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'''s Reraise and ''affects every member of your party on the map regardless of distance''; Holy Lance is a single-target HolyHandGrenade... And then we have her crowner SignatureMove, [[NukeEm Excelan Theta]], where Snow unleashes what amounts to be ''apocalyptic levels of power''. The thing has ''huge range'' and ''huge area of effect'', and hits anyone in its area like a locomotive, ''even if they are resistant to Holy attacks''. The only way to survive such a blast is being outright immune to the element.
18	*** Her CombinationAttack with Jadore, La Delfes, is nothing short of ''absurd'', demaning only [=SP2=] from both of them. It hits like ''a bullet train'', over a ''massive'' area of effect (FIVE SQUARES ''from the target'', which makes its range ''ridiculous''), and has enough Break value for Destroy to leave ''a fucking Double X'' defenseless ''from full Break gauge''. With Jadore trained to keep up with her, this move basically ''sweeps the battlefield'' for you.
19	*** Her personal gear, which you get if you go into the TrueEnding, is just as powerful. Her [[IconicItem Rod of Omniscience]] has an extra Holy, Dark, Earth and Void slots. Combined with her innate skillset, this means she can ''whip up the most powerful Holy, Dark and Void spells '''all by herself'''''.
20	*** She is also the main choice for using the Rune Blade, which can do almost the same stuff as her personal weapon, with an extra kick: ''it has huge physical attack power and thus benefits hard from Alien Soul''. This means that a normally "eh" K'Tourga becomes an ''atomic bomb'' when she's using the Rune Blade at low HP.
21	** Kaye's [[{{Invisibility}} Shadow Form]] makes so that no enemy detects her for three turns (counting the one where she activates the Original Skill), ''even if she's planting her dagger at its eye''. It's so broken that you can solo stages with her if you're smart enough to count the turns and spam enough self buffs to fill at least one level of the SP gauge before going to town.
22	** Liza's [[LimitBreak Encouragement]] caused her to receive the FanNickname of "SP Battery"; it gives anyone two squares from her a level and half's worth of SP gauge at the cost of three levels of her own. Thing is, you can have your entire party at the start of the battle spending their first turn basically for filling Liza's SP gauge via ''buffing her with basic spells'', with Liza accelerating the process by buffing herself [[labelnote:How the SP gauge works]]The SP gauge has 30 points per level. Each action made sans for moving will give two points, and every action received will give other two. This means a character gets a level of the gauge every 15 actions performed or received. This can be shortened to eight actions if said character is buffing him/herself, as he will be both performing ''and'' receiving the action.[[/labelnote]]. With such a strategy, Liza can hit [=SP3=] at her second turn, activate Encouragement and give the other five members a load of gauge. This means characters who get buffs by getting to the second or third level of the gauge (like Genius, which cuts the AP costs of skills) will be fully ready for action by their second or third turn. And the best part? As the party also accumulated SP by repeatedly buffing her, this means ''they will be perfectly able to unleash their [[LimitBreak Original Skills]] as well''.
23	** The Spark Shot Spam, referred in some circles as "Electric Chair", is used to rack big amounts of CP. It consists of gearing your whole party with Bolts and Spark Shots, go to any map with a Penetrate-weak enemy, summon a Lightning Spirit and start a ''long chain'' of Spark Shots. A Spark Shot against a Broken enemy deals 12 hits; if you get the ball rolling along your six members, plus the spirit (Or spirits, as some Titles allow you to summon more than one monster at a time), you can easily rack ''more than 400 hits''. Getting so far in a combo can get you 256 CP for each succesful attempt, allowing you a quick farm at the CP shop on the Collection Souk and tons of powerful items [[DiscOneNuke before you hit the first half of the game]].
24	* ScrappyMechanic: The Search system. To unlock new places in the PointAndClickMap, you have to enter the Guild and pick three characters to perform a search. [=NPCs=] give hints on where to look, but some of them are [[BlindIdiotTranslation poorly translated]] (ex: "Mountain Range" is called "Silvesta"). Searches also cost WP (Work Points), which are hard to get, forcing you to abuse SaveScumming to not waste them, as running out of WP means that you have to either complete one FetchQuest available or spend some time [[ForcedLevelGrinding grinding]] for CP to convert them into WP. [[note]]5 CP worth 1 WP; you usually need 6 WP to perform a search.[[/note]]
25	** To make things worse, some places have specific requirements to be unlocked ([[FakeDifficulty except the game doesn't tell you that]]), like the three characters needing a sum of +35 STR and VIT stat, or having a specific alias equipped. So, in the end, even if you find the right place, you still fail and lose WP.
26	* ThatOneAttack: Most bosses' Original Skills are TotalPartyKill attacks, but Etelo's "Metatron Hunt" deserves a special mention, as it deal about 20.000 damage to everyone four squares away from him '''and''' [[LifeDrain drain their HP]]. In a single turn, Etelo can completely change the tide of the battle by killing most party members and fully healing himself at the same time.
27	* TearJerker:
28	** Adelle's past and present, if you think about it. She had her parents killed by a BountyHunter when she was little; she got [[{{Determinator}} determined at all costs]] to [[YouKilledMyFather find and kill the responsible]], hence starting to take every physical training class available in the Varanoir Academy [[TheAce just to excel at it]] and become strong enough for her opponent. As soon as she gets the information about her mark, she storms out of the Academy, rushing right at him, [[spoiler:and takes a job as a mercenary just to stick close to her target, a BountyHunter by the name of Zelos]]. After waiting for long enough, she challenges her mark. [[spoiler:Thing is, Adelle is [[BrokenAce truly traumatized by the events of her parents' deaths]], while Zelos [[ButForMeItWasTuesday has done his job for so long that he can't even remember that particular kill]], triggering an emotional breakdown ''right before she draws her sword against Zelos''. It's heart-wrenching to see the following battle, as you, ''playing as Zelos'', beat her down in what you can easily imagine as [[BerserkerTears her uncontrolled attempt at ending his life]]. It gets worse ''after'' the fight, because Zelos even makes sure to show Adelle that ''she never stood any chance at killing him'' by ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her BFS against himself]]'' and warning that ''not even he knows what keeps him alive'']]. Seeing all of this shows us clearly how her rude attitude and coldness are [[SourOutsideSadInside actually a coping mechanism for her misery]].
29	** Bridgette is a bigger contender than Adelle. Her parents were archeaologists, and died on a cave-in during one of their explorations. Where normal families would offer her support, hers were just ''too fucking greedy'', squandered her of all her money and ''kicked her out of her house'', leaving her homeless. There's a big uncertainty of what would have become of her had [[BestFriend Kaye]] and [[IOweYouMyLife Vaughn]] not stuck by her side [[TrueCompanions regardless of what would happen]]. She then decided [[PursuingParentalPerils to be an Archaeologist]] just like her parents, if only because this is ''the only connection she could have with them''. So, every time you see that angry SpoiledBrat lash at the world in her usual [[TheBerserker fit of rage]], take a time to consider that she actually does that to ''[[SourOutsideSadInside mask her immense misery]]''.
30	** While Nguyen is much less angsty than the two examples above, his past and present is nothing to scoff at. [[spoiler:His actual name is Heidelberg, [[KingIncognito prince of Vergis Kingdom]], who had to run away from his home when one of the Genomes, [[TheBaroness Brumeia]], [[BrainwashedAndCrazy enthralled his father]] into ''killing his family''. Nguyen spends a good portion of the game plotting to take his throne back from her, [[LaResistance with the help of his retainer Orson]], and going as far as to hire [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Zelos]] to help him. And when Nguyen gets to her the first time, Brumeia forces him to strike a [[HijackedByGanon bodyjacked]] Orson down. [[ItAmusedMe Not content with that]], [[MoralEventHorizon she sics King Archbald, Nguyen's father]], at him, [[DespairEventHorizon and Nguyen would have let his father kill him]], had Zelos not seen the scene and become [[EveryoneHasStandards pissed enough]] [[DoNotTauntCthulhu to interfere]]. After Zelos almost gets Brumeia's hide, forcing her to flee, Nguyen [[{{Tearjerker}} holds his dying father in his arms as he takes his last breath and wishes to his son]]. Cue RoaringRampageOfRevenge culminating in his second battle with Brumeia, where [[YouKilledMyFather Nguyen]] and [[DoNotTauntCthulhu Zelos]] ''actually team up to kill her''.]]
31	* ThatOneAchievement:
32	** The Title demanding you to perform every party CombinationAttack possible for the first 18 characters. This becomes jarring by the point you have to go through six-people combinations.
33	** Also, the Titles demanding you to defeat specific {{Superboss}}es. Not for the difficulty itself, but rather for the demand being ''extremely cryptic'', letting you without understanding what exactly you should do. [[GuideDangIt You definitely need a guide for that case]].
34	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Due to the franchise's large cast and the fact that many of them are alive by the time ''Blazing Souls'' takes place, this ends up happening.
35	** Meu is not around this time. Instead, we get her child, Al. Which is ''a real bad move'', as we lost the chance to see an older version of her, and she's basically the ''Spectral Souls'' series' BreakoutCharacter that basically ''risked taking Hiro's place as the SeriesMascot''.
36	** Hiro. ''Blazing Souls'' happens to be one of the few main games in the ''Spectral'' franchise to not feature her in the main story. She's mentioned to still be around by Liza in a scene, despite the implications that she hibernates when a war isn't breaking out. Even so, the game almost doesn't mention her at all, while her brother Jadore made it to Zelos' party in the main story.
37	*** What makes this worse is that Hiro and Zelos are not that different when you look at their personalities. One could only imagine her having some curiosity about Zelos' [[ArtificialLimbs arms]] (as that [[RedRightHand big skull arm of hers]] is also artificial), for example.
38	** Roze is also absent. And unlike Hiro, she has ''no excuse'' to be out of this game as she's still the Empress. Liza states multiple times that she works for her, and the lore flat out confirms she is Hiro and Jadore's half-sister. She's stated to be fully active by ''Blazing Souls''' time, and she's alive and well 200 years into the future in ''Spectral Force Genesis'' [[spoiler:where she is one of the FinalBoss fights]]. But she only gets passing mentions throughout ''Blazing Souls''; Jadore doesn't even catch wind of this fact over the course of the game, despite being informed that her upbringing was similar to his.
39	** Bayard and Siegreid. Both worked for Roze in ''Spectral Souls II'', but the icing on the cake is that both also ''worked for Jadore in the First Neverland War''. Liza constantly confirms Bayard is still around, and ''Spectral Force Genesis'' shows both Bayard and Siegreid as leaders ''two hundred years later'', [[spoiler:and fighting each other at the end of the Neverland Republic campaign]]. Bayard is constantly mentioned both by his daughter and her profile; Siegreid has no such luck and gets left forgotten in ''Blazing Souls''.
40	*** It gets ''jarring'' that Liza comments to Jadore and Snow about being Bayard's daughter, and it doesn't even cross either Jadore or Snow's minds to tell her that her father once ''worked for Jadore''.
41	** MadScientist Anslow, who got KarmaHoudini treatment in ''Spectral Souls II'', got a [[BusCrash bus dropped on him]] in the twenty years that preceded ''Blazing Souls'', despite still making a huge impact in the game's plot.
42	* ViewerGenderConfusion: At first glance, you will think [[BlankSlate Hermes]] is a ''boy''. Funnily enough, this doesn't happen with [[SweetPollyOliver Kaye]], as her voice and face is too feminine to even pass for a DudeLooksLikeALady.

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