History VideoGame / CIMATheEnemy

* DropTheHammer: Doug's weapon of choice is his blacksmith hammer.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All of the builder CIMA have unnatural hair colors, along with Eberle and Emmy's green hair and Ivy's blueish-white hair.

* WelcomeToCorneria: Parodied in the fourth dungeon, which contains a stock RPG town full of [[YouAllLookAlike identical NPCs]] that only say one line apiece, making conversation useless.

The story takes place in a sci-fi/fantasy western setting, with humanity under attack by a race of shapeshifting interdimensional aliens called CIMA , who attack humans by pulling them through portals into their world and feeding on their hope. There also exists an organization called the Gate Guardians who oppose the CIMA for humanity's sake, mostly acting as glorified bodyguards for travelers. When a train carrying settlers, along with three Gate Guardians: Jester, one of the six most elite Gate Guardians, and two rookies, Ark and Ivy, are pulled through a CIMA gate, and while scouting for a way out, the group is attacked by Pike Nighttrap, one of the Crimson Nine - the leaders of the CIMA. The settlers are scattered all over the CIMA world when the dungeon they're in collapses, while Jester is quickly killed fending Pike off while Ark and Ivy escape, leaving them to spearhead the rescue effort and clear a path for the train to make it's getaway back to the real world.

* BigBad: Pike

* HeroWithBadPublicity: The settlers start out mostly not trusting in Ark and Ivy's ability to take over for Jester in the slightest (it doesn't help that one of them just hates Gate Guardians in general.) The player has to spend the rest of the game earning that trust.

''CIMA: The Enemy'' (known as ''Frontier Stories'' in Japan) is a little-known isometric ActionRPG for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance made by Neverland, the company behind ''VideoGame/{{Lufia}}'' and ''VideoGame/RuneFactory''. The story takes place in a sci-fi/fantasy western setting, with humanity under attack by a race of shapeshifting interdimensional aliens called CIMA , who attack humans by pulling them through portals into their world and feeding on their hope. There also exists an organization called the Gate Guardians who oppose the CIMA for humanity's sake, mostly acting as glorified bodyguards for travelers. When a train carrying settlers, along with three Gate Guardians: Jester, one of the six most elite Gate Guardians, and two rookies, Ark and Ivy, are pulled through a CIMA gate, and while scouting for a way out, the group is attacked by Pike Nighttrap, one of the Crimson Nine - the leaders of the CIMA. The settlers are scattered all over the CIMA world when the dungeon they're in collapses, while Jester is quickly killed fending Pike off while Ark and Ivy escape, leaving them to spearhead the rescue effort and clear a path for the train to make it's getaway back to the real world.

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* YouLoseAtZeroTrust: Each settler has a trust meter that goes up and down either because of plot reasons or because the player protected them from an enemy (or conversely, let them get hit.) Settlers that don't trust Ark and Ivy (denoted by a negative trust score) aren't able to craft items for them.

CIMA: The Enemy (known as Frontier Stories in Japan) is a little-known isometric ActionRPG for the GameBoyAdvance made by Neverland, the company behind VideoGame/{{Lufia}} and ''VideoGame/RuneFactory''. The story takes place in a sci-fi/fantasy western setting, with humanity under attack by a race of shapeshifting interdimensional aliens called CIMA , who attack humans by pulling them through portals into their world and feeding on their hope. There also exists an organization called the Gate Guardians who oppose the CIMA for humanity's sake, mostly acting as glorified bodyguards for travelers. When a train carrying settlers, along with three Gate Guardians: Jester, one of the six most elite Gate Guardians, and two rookies, Ark and Ivy, are pulled through a CIMA gate, and while scouting for a way out, the group is attacked by Pike Nighttrap, one of the Crimson Nine - the leaders of the CIMA. The settlers are scattered all over the CIMA world when the dungeon they're in collapses, while Jester is quickly killed fending Pike off while Ark and Ivy escape, leaving them to spearhead the rescue effort and clear a path for the train to make it's getaway back to the real world.

CIMA: The Enemy (known as Frontier Stories in Japan) is a little-known isometric ActionRPG for the GameBoyAdvance made by Neverland, the company behind {{Lufia}} and ''VideoGame/RuneFactory''. The story takes place in a sci-fi/fantasy western setting, with humanity under attack by a race of shapeshifting interdimensional aliens called CIMA , who attack humans by pulling them through portals into their world and feeding on their hope. There also exists an organization called the Gate Guardians who oppose the CIMA for humanity's sake, mostly acting as glorified bodyguards for travelers. When a train carrying settlers, along with three Gate Guardians: Jester, one of the six most elite Gate Guardians, and two rookies, Ark and Ivy, are pulled through a CIMA gate, and while scouting for a way out, the group is attacked by Pike Nighttrap, one of the Crimson Nine - the leaders of the CIMA. The settlers are scattered all over the CIMA world when the dungeon they're in collapses, while Jester is quickly killed fending Pike off while Ark and Ivy escape, leaving them to spearhead the rescue effort and clear a path for the train to make it's getaway back to the real world.

* AerithAndBob: The main characters are Ark and Ivy, TheObiWan is named Jester, and some of the settlers have names like Yurald, Vanrose, Eberle and Telmia. And then there's settlers with names like Doug and Jean.

* TheObiWan: Jester

CIMA: The Enemy (known as Frontier Stories in Japan) is a little-known isometric ActionRPG for the GameBoyAdvance made by Neverland, the company behind {{Lufia}} and RuneFactory. The story takes place in a sci-fi/fantasy western setting, with humanity under attack by a race of shapeshifting interdimensional aliens called CIMA , who attack humans by pulling them through portals into their world and feeding on their hope. There also exists an organization called the Gate Guardians who oppose the CIMA for humanity's sake, mostly acting as glorified bodyguards for travelers. When a train carrying settlers, along with three Gate Guardians: Jester, one of the six most elite Gate Guardians, and two rookies, Ark and Ivy, are pulled through a CIMA gate, and while scouting for a way out, the group is attacked by Pike Nighttrap, one of the Crimson Nine - the leaders of the CIMA. The settlers are scattered all over the CIMA world when the dungeon they're in collapses, while Jester is quickly killed fending Pike off while Ark and Ivy escape, leaving them to spearhead the rescue effort and clear a path for the train to make it's getaway back to the real world.

* AerithAndBob: The main characters are Ark and Ivy, TheObiWan is named Jester, and some of the settlers have named like Yurald, Vanrose, Eberle and Telmia. And then there's settlers with names like Doug and Jean.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Yurald is supposed to be a priest, but is depicted wearing a rabbi's yamaka.

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* ItsPersonal: One of the recurring CIMA bosses [[spoiler: is responsible for the death of Doug and Ilyeda's daughter.]]

CIMA: The Enemy (known as Frontier Stories in Japan) is a little-known isometric ActionRPG for the GameBoyAdvance made by Neverland, the people behind {{Lufia}}. The story takes place in a sci-fi/fantasy western setting, with humanity under attack by a race of shapeshifting interdimensional aliens called CIMA , who attack humans by pulling them through portals into their world and feeding on their hope. There also exists an organization called the Gate Guardians who oppose the CIMA for humanity's sake, mostly acting as glorified bodyguards for travelers. When a train carrying settlers, along with three Gate Guardians: Jester, one of the six most elite Gate Guardians, and two rookies, Ark and Ivy, are pulled through a CIMA gate, and while scouting for a way out, the group is attacked by Pike Nighttrap, one of the Crimson Nine - the leaders of the CIMA. The settlers are scattered all over the CIMA world when the dungeon they're in collapses, while Jester is quickly killed fending Pike off while Ark and Ivy escape, leaving them to spearhead the rescue effort and clear a path for the train to make it's getaway back to the real world.

* SequelHook: There's quite a bit of worldbuilding in the beginning of the game that never pays off since the entire game is spent almost entirely in a series of CIMA dungeons. Also, when Pike is finally defeated, he warns Ark that the other members of the Crimson Nine are out there, making it look like Neverland was setting up for a sequel that never happened.

* SequelHook: There's quite a bit of worldbuilding in the beginning of the series that never pays off since the entire game is spent almost entirely in a series of CIMA dungeons. Also, when Pike is finally defeated, he warns Ark that the other members of the Crimson Nine are out there, making it look like Neverland was setting up for a sequel that never happened.

* SequelHook: The intro deals with the overarching conflict with the CIMA that's never addressed elsewhere in the game, and after Pike's defeat, he warns Ark that the other members of the Crimson Nine are out there, making it look like Neverland was setting up for a sequel that never happened.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All of the builder CIMA have unnatural hair colors, along with Ivy's blueish-white hair [[spoiler: which makes sense, seeing as she's a CIMA too.]]

* WelcomeToCorneria: Parodied in the fourth dungeon, which contains a stock RPG town full of identical NPCs that only say one line apiece, making conversation useless.

* RecurringBoss: Almost every boss is fought throughout multiple dungeons before they're defeated for good (fortunately, they can shapeshift into a different form for each fight.)

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All of the CIMA have unnatural hair colors, along with Ivy's blueish-white hair [[spoiler: which makes sense, seeing as she's a CIMA too.]]

* HubLevel: The train acts as one, directly connecting to all the dungeons. It's also where the player can craft items and boost the attack and defense of any of the characters (if they've rescued the appropriate settlers, of course.)

** And of course, Vanrose only makes the situation worse by causing Ark and Ivy to go back to help Jester anyway, which only distracts him long enough for Pike to fatally stab him.