History VideoGame / ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel

* FantasyPantheon: The Wills of the Planet. They are sixteen (initially fifteen) consciousnesses that work to keep Ar Ciel's physics and/or living organisms in balance. Over the course of the game, [[spoiler: the party gets to meet ten of these Wills. Saki, Sarapatra, and Filament were placed into Sakia Lumei's body during her creation; while Finnel was initially born with Yurisica, Soma, and Suzunomia (who the Planet had exiled into the void because she lost her purpose) possessing her body. Finnel also gets possessed by a newer Will named Ar Ru, created by Ar Ciel for the sole purpose of wiping out every living thing on the planet. The final three Wills that appear make up the final boss of the game, representing the Planet's anger and forcing the party to fight for forgiveness.]]

%% * 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. And for crying out loud look up what ratings actually mean.

** [[spoiler: Ar tonelico [End in the game's ConLang]: [Funeral song] of [The planet the game takes place on] ]]

* WidgetSeries: If the first two games didn't convince you, this one will go out of its way to leave you completely bewildered.
** 1) You have to have your Reyvateils ''take their clothes off'' so they can become more powerful.
** 2) Your best friend since childhood? [[spoiler:He's a chick. From the second game, as a matter of fact.]]
** 3) The [[GoldfishPoopGang big guy that keeps trying to kill you]] [[spoiler:is actually a loli.]]
** 4) One of your Revyateil companions [[spoiler:turns people into cakes]] and we haven't gotten into the battles yet. This game is so Japanese it's funny, similar to how ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' is.

* {{Bokukko}}: Soma uses the pronoun 'boku'.

* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:Tatsumi, who turns out to be [[VideoGame/ArTonelico2 Cocona Bartel]]. Justified since she was trying to hide the fact she was a Reyvateil. Given that all Reyvateils are female, pretending to be a boy was the best way to achieve that goal.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: Saki switches back and forth, sometimes in the same sentence. Cocona continues her trend of third-person reference from [[VideoGame/ArTonelico2 AT2]], although she uses it less frequently in this game. The trope itself is parodied inside Tyria's cosmosphere.

* TimeSkip: Compare [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cocona.jpg Cocona Bartel]] and [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:At2-sasya.jpg Sasha]] from the [[VideoGame/ArTonelico2 previous game]], to [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cocona_At3.jpg Cocona]] and [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:At3-sasya.jpg Sasha]] in this game. Also [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:Krusche.jpg Krusche]] [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:At3-cursye-elendia.jpg since the first game.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The normal and bad endings. Get the bad ending? [[spoiler:Finnel and Saki both die and all life will be killed by the Antibodies]]. Get the normal ending? [[spoiler:The heroine you didn't choose dies. Not only that but with the state the planet is in, the Will of Ar Ciel itself, Ciela, will die in a year. Without Ciela, the other Wills would die too, and without the Wills, the Planet is dead]]. So either way, [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll everyone will die]].]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Saki has the power to turn humans into cake.

* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: Inverted. [[spoiler:Finnel secretly likes Aoto calling her 'servant' because she's a sub. He doesn't figure this out until she spells it out in her fifth cosmosphere level.]]

* BandageBabe: Filament [[spoiler:symbolizing the 'broken messiah' aspect of the Planet's Will.]]

* TheBigGuy: The military instructor Mute, as seen [[http://kotaku.com/5442398/ar-tonelico-iii-rolls-out-the-manly-lady-voiced-by-pikachu here]]. [[spoiler:Her other form, not so much.]]

** It's at the same time the most beautiful and the most depressing thing you'll hear. Song [[http://tindeck.com/listen/vzvq here]], Lyrics [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/EXEC_FLIP_FUSIONSPHERE here]].

* FantasyPantheon: The Wills of the Planet. They are sixteen (initially fifteen) consciousnesses that work to keep Ar Ciel's physics and/or living organisms in balance. Over the course of the game, [[spoiler: the party gets to meet ten of these Wills. Saki, Sarapatra, and Filament were placed into Sakia Lumei's body during her creation; while Finnel was initially born with Yurisica, Soma, and Suzunomia (who the Planet had exiled into the void because she lost her purpose) possessing her body. Finnel also gets possessed by a newer Will named Ar Ru, created by Ar Ciel for the sole purpose of wiping out every living thing on the planet. The final three Wills that appear make up the final boss of the game, representing GaiasVengeance and forcing the party to fight for forgiveness.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: If the "purge" feature, in which Reyvateils literally strip to make themselves more powerful, is any indication, then either the radar no longer exists or the developers stopped caring about it or the radar wasn't there. Some countries are lax on the topic of nudity, which would explain why this game got an M rating in the United States and an equivalent of a T rating everywhere else.

* ZettaiRyouiki: A number of characters have this in some form or another. Akane's is apparently a uniform.