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Author: Desertopa

Dec 23rd 2012 at 8:14:58 PM

*ValkyrieProfile averts this in [[DifficultyLevels Hard Mode]], where every einherjar starts at level 1, but plays it very straight in Normal and Easy modes. Arngrim is a OneManArmy [[{{Berserk}} Guts]] {{Expy}}, who starts at level 1 because he's the first character you recruit. Other characters who should be significantly less powerful, like Lawfer (who regarded Arngrim as an unmatched genius whom his own skills could never approach,) Kashell (a fellow mercenary who never received anything like Arngrim's acclaim,) and Lucian (a former childhood friend of Valkyrie's human form, who became a thief and probably has no formal training and little practical experience in swordsmanship,) all start at higher levels because they're recruited in later chapters.

*ChronoCross manages to employ this without actually having [[CharacterLevel character levels]]. Characters gain stat points after each battle up to a limit set by the number of bosses you've defeated (making your power in combat [[AntiGrinding almost completely dependent on what point in the game you're at]]. Characters always join your party with stats appropriate to the point of the game where they're recruited, meaning that some characters who ought to be particularly strong, like the Four Devas of the Acacia Dragoons, join your party with lower stats than later-joining characters such as Orcha, the head chef at the castle they're stationed at.