History VideoGame / DragaliaLost

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Humans and dragons... pactbound once more.]]'']]

[-[[ThankingThePlayer Thank you, Mr. Lost.]]-]

''Dragalia Lost'' is a Free-to-Play ActionRPG co-developed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/{{Cygames}} released for Android and [=iOS=] on September 25th, 2018, for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Japan, and the US. It is Nintendo's first wholly original game for mobile.

The game received its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter on July 25th, 2022; [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames end of service]] occured on November 30th, 2022.

[-[[ItHasBeenAnHonor #VioRhyseAlberia]]-]

The game received its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter on July 25th, 2022; [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames end of service]] will occur on November 30th, 2022.

The game received its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter on July 25th, 2022; end of service will occur on November 30th, 2022.

''Dragalia Lost'' is a Free-to-Play ActionRPG co-developed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/{{Cygames}} released for Android and [=iOS=] on September 25th, 2018, for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Japan, and the US. It is Nintendo's first wholly original IP for mobile.

The game received its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter on July 25th, 2022; end of service will commence on November 30th, 2022.

The game received its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter on July 25th, 2022; end of service will commence at a later date.

The game received its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter will release in July 2022; end of service will commence at a later date.

The game will receive its final characters on March 30th, 2022, and its final story chapter will release in July 2022; end of service will commence at a later date.

''Dragalia Lost'' is a Free-to-Play ActionRPG co-developed by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Creator/{{Cygames}} released for Android and [=iOS=] on September 25th, 2018, for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Japan, and the US, with plans for it to be released in other regions later on. It is Nintendo's first wholly original IP for mobile.

[=#VioRhyseAlberia=]

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The game is set to shut down sometime later on 2022.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Humans and dragons...pactbound once more.]]'']]

* RelationshipValues:
** You can build bond levels with your dragons by giving them items. A higher bond level increases the amount of time you can stay transformed as them, as well as raise their might.
** Events can have a character temporarily join you for the event's duration. However, you can build friendship with them by taking them out on quests. If you fill it up enough, the character will permanently join you, even after the event ends.
* RetaliationMode:
** High Brunhilda uses the arena shrinking Grand Muspelheim or X-Muspelheim moves once after her health dips below certain thresholds.
** The Chimera-type Void Bosses enact an attack that renders them invulnerable until their weak point is destroyed or the attack finishes charging; if successful, it shrinks the arena and deals massive damage to anyone in its area of effect.
* ReusedCharacterDesign:
** A typical trend when it comes to titles made by Cygames. Several ''Rage of Bahamut'' characters make [[TheCameo cameos]] in this game in the form of Wyrmprints. But the notable examples of this trope include the dragons and some adventurers, the designs of some are based on another Cygames title, ''Knights of Glory''[[note]]A list of them is [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DragaliaLost/comments/9rtlnz/knights_of_glory_albums/ here]][[/note]] such as the Fafnirs, Phraeganoth, Musashi, Ezelith and Xander. Other cases include having exactly the same version of existing ''Rage'' characters but with minor changes (such as Lily and Leviathan), or ''Dragalia'' characters being [[{{Expy}} look-alikes]] of those who originate from other games made by this developer (such as ''Dragalia'''s Harle being almost identical with Sandalphon of ''Granblue Fantasy'', from the hair down to the color scheme of his armor).
** The "Dragalia Mini" comics, which are comics about the dragons as babies, use Knights of Glory's 1* forms for each dragon.
** The "Flames of Reflection" event have now revealed that the rokka are the ''Dragalia'' version of [[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy draphs]].
* RightForTheWrongReasons: "A Splash of Adventure" shows the treasure maps the group finds do indeed lead to treasures, but they were actually made by Erasmus's friend Simon who had NoSenseOfDirection.
* SecretArt: Certain status effects can only be inflicted by Adventurers of certain elements, though this can be bypass with certain off-element 3* weapons. Flame gets Burning; Water gets Freeze, Bog, and Frostbite; and Light gets Paralysis.
* SelfImposedChallenge:
** Much like every gacha games, it's relatively common for players to challenge themselves like this. Some popular examples include: not equipping any dragon into your character, using the default standard weapon on your character, [[SoloCharacterRun solo runs]] using ''one'' adventurer (which is considered DifficultButAwesome, but it's considered a viable strategy in hard content due to ArtificialStupidity), completing a boss fight without taking any damage, solo adventurer raids (during the first event, such as this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw1Qj7vCgbg video]]), [[LowLevelRun using an underleveled team to beat higher level quests]], and using 3-4 star rarity adventurers/weapons/dragons runs.
** Some endeavors from events have this, which requires you to defeat a boss within a time limit. Mainly, the reward for completing these endeavors are a title given to the player for bragging rights.
** Facility events utilize a "point" system that reward the player more points in certain quests if certain conditions are met (such as not taking damage or completing the quest in a certain time limit). Fulfilling these challenges will reward the player more points and allow the player unlock the rewards faster.
** The Void Dragon battles, Steel Golem and Void Zephyr, can be this, as the player opt ''not'' to bring a Void weapon with Dull resistance and instead equip an actual 5* elemental weapon on the adventurer to defeat it. Normally, this means your damage output will be significantly higher than a Void weapon since the said weapons will be stronger, but it requires good timing with one's dodges and invincibility frames to avoid the Dull effect.
* SequelHook:
** The end of "New Years Tiding A Clawed Caper" has a scene in Hinomoto [[spoiler:involving other Wyrmclan leaders including Ieyasu which involves the missing leader of the Ox Clan[[note]]Which coincides with 2021 being the Year of the Ox[[/note]], and that Amaterasu may have to get involved in the future]].
** The end of "Rhythmic Resolutions" [[spoiler:reveals Marvelous Naoto to not actually be whom he claimed. After reposting a fiend warding talisman that had been torn down by a dragon, he begins to ponder whether Euden will bring good fortune or bad omens, all while being surrounded by black mana and preparing to report back to Seimei]].
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: "Fractured Futures" has the Prince and crew correct a mistake in time [[spoiler:that came about from the Prince's meddling with past events]].
* ShesAManInJapan: Subverted with Lazry. The "Flames of Reflection" event referred to Lazry as male when the character is female in the Japanese version, but this was actually a translation error.
* ShipOutOfWater: Chelle's landship, the ''Gran Fiore'', for getting around the desert. It's absolutely ''massive'', and in Chelle's own words, isn't so much a ship as it is a "mobile ''palace''".
* ShoutOut:
** Edward's Halloween Outfit resembles a vampire, of all the beasts he could portray... Now wasn't there [[Literature/{{Twilight}} another popular vampire named Edward]]?
** The Rhythmic Resolutions event is a homage to ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', with Sam serving as the Gizmo stand-in and the Styx spawned from Sam as the Gremlins reference. [[spoiler:The MetaTwist is that Catherine giving Sam a bath is not the root cause of the Styx appearing, it's Sam feeling troubled over Catherine and Eugene's argument with each other.]] There's even a Styx dressed up as a Japanese courtesan as a send-up to the Female Gremlin of its sequel.
* SocializationBonus:
** You can bring a support character set out by other players and use their skill once during a level. However, if you're friends with the other player, you can use it three times instead. When friends use your support character, you earn mana as well.
** Some missions can be made considerably easier by playing them in co-op.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Among the Adventurer's Guides, this is the case for linking your game to your Nintendo account. Link your account or a hungry dragon will eat your phone.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Is the successor to Cygames' now defunct game ''Knights Of Glory'', a precursor to this game with a similar premise. It even imports some of the old dragon and class designs from that game into ''Dragalia Lost''.
* StandardStatusEffects: There are 10 different status effects, which all prevent you from transforming while they're active. Some of them can also be inflicted onto enemies by certain characters.
** Blindness makes the character's attacks miss frequently.
** Bog makes the character slower, reduces the distance rolling covers, and increases damage received.
** Burn, Poison, and Frostbite damage the character every few seconds.
** Curse prevents the character from using any skills or helper skills. It is currently the only status effect that cannot be inflicted by any Adventurers.
** Frozen immobilizes the character in a block of ice, but can be ended early by a teammate hitting the ice.
** Paralysis occasionally stops the character and damages them.
** Sleep and Stun immobilize the character, but can end early if they're hit.
* StormingTheCastle: During the Dragalia Digest in March 2020, the preview for Chapter 14 shows that the fight will finally be taken to the Empire and that involves this trope.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: It's pointed out that Elisanne and Althemia's Halloween costumes are rather revealing. Althemia explains this is intentional because they're trying to dress up like vampires, which are known for being seductive.
* SubsystemDamage: Raid Bosses have multiple body parts that can be attacked. Destroying them can disable or weaken some of their attacks.
* SuperMode: You can shapeshift into a dragon once the dragon gauge is filled enough, becoming extremely strong with access to powerful skills for a limited time.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The flavor text for the Void Water dagger, Big Boy of Prudence, says that during its forging, it may have been ACCIDENTALLY dropped in the river, but to keep it a secret.
* TheSyndicate: There is one in the world called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Syndicate]]. They become the main focus of the "Scars of the Syndicate" event, their existence revealed to Euden.
* TechPoints: Mana works similarly to Tech Points. You use it on character-specific Mana Circles, which can grant more HP, Strength boosts, and new and improved skills. Patch 1.15.1 adds a new layer, the Mana Spiral, which increases the maximum level to 100 and gives new skills as well.
* TheCorruption: ''Black Mana'', found within [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds the space between worlds]] and produced by Morsayati's body. Which is able to produce fiends by the boatload, drives people insane, prevents healing from magic and can corrupt dragons and animals such as the five Void dragons.[[note]]Zephyr, Agni, Poseidon, Nidhogg, and Jeanne D'Arc[[/note]] The amount of creatures that are immune to its corrupting effects or at least have some resistance to it can be counted on one hand. Such examples include Phantom, Fatalis and possibly Euden and friends.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: There are frequent special events, which can take one of several forms --
** Facility events are events that gives the player a facility to place in their Haildom. The facility will not only boost the strength and HP of adventurers of a particular element, but will increase their damage output during the event, hence making it easier to defeat the boss during the facility event. The facility level can be upgraded with currency obtained from the event (which can also be used to exchange items from the shop) and the facility itself is permanent after the event is complete. The facility event features a "point" system which the player is rewarded more points based on several [[SelfImposedChallenge Self Imposed Challenges]] fulfilled (with the challenge quest rewarding the most points) as well as a shop system where the player can exchange various currencies obtained from the event for items such as orbs, mana, rupies, wyrmprints, and decorations for the facility. Facility events will also feature a daily quest that can be completed once that rewards the player various items and currency for the event, and a special repeatable challenge quest where the player needs to fight 5 waves of enemies before facing the boss itself (which cannot be done with co-op, hence requiring a strong team to beat the said boss when the final wave comes in).
** Raid events are events where four players team up in a co-op with a team of 16 adventurers to defeat a raid boss within a time limit, hence being a "raid" event. Raid events will generally give the player a free 4* adventurer to counter the raid boss (e.g. a Water raid giving the player a Wind adventurer to fight the Water raid boss) and the adventurer will become permanent in the player's roster after raising enough "friendship" points. Raid events utilize a special lottery system that uses "blazons" to obtain rewards from the lottery boxes. The lottery boxes includes a 5* Dragon of the raid element as well as a special wyrmprint, both of which can be maxed out. Raid events also utilize an emblem system that consist of bronze, silver, and gold emblems, all of them can be obtained by completing the raid and boss events. Players can obtain otherworld fragments, which can be used to host a co-op for the raid event. The otherworld fragments can be obtained exclusively from the boss event. Occasionally, they will have access to an "EX" mode of a raid boss, which is slightly harder than the normal raid boss fight and requires Otherworld Fragments, which are RareRandomDrops from the raid boss, but yield more emblem rewards. Once you collect enough emblems of each kind, the three Otherworld Keys you obtain unlock an ''[[HarderThanHard Omega]]'' version of the boss, which can require upwards of 20,000 Might to challenge, which is the same as Expert-level [[BrutalBonusLevel High Dragon Trials.]]
** Story events usually have no exclusive quests, but instead a series of short stories focusing on certain characters. Their corresponding event currency can usually be earned by just playing any quest in the game, which you use to unlock those stories or buy items from the event shop.
** Clearing Chapter 9 in the Story allows you to do Astral Raids, which are only available during Saturday and Sunday, allowing you to fight a rotating list of previous raid bosses.
* TimedMission: Some levels require you to clear it under a time limit, and if it runs out, you automatically fail.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: Certain adventurers have access to a special Mana Circle called the Mana Spiral. It takes a lot to unlock it, however. First their fifth Mana Circle needs to be fully activated, a feat which requires a lot of Eldwater and large amounts of rare resources including Void Seeds. The Mana Spiral itself requires even rarer materials to upgrade, including special Orbs (which can only be obtained via some Void Battles and Very Hard campaign maps), Void Dragon Hearts, and Greatspheres, and Dragon Tails, all of the appropriate element.
* TitleDropChapter: The third portion of the second chapter's fifth segment is titled "Dragalia Lost". In it, Midgardsormr explains the concept of 'dragalia', which is the bond between humans and dragons, and that it has been slowly lost for the second time three hundred years since the second Binding War.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Liber Grimortis. It's thought to be a book of heretical spells, but no one is quite sure, as there are very few intact copies of it, and nobody has yet to decipher it. One wyrmprint indicates that someone has managed to understand some of it and discover it has some connection to the [[TheOldGods Ancient One]], but not without [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad in the process]].
* TownWithADarkSecret: Hethiwood and Teinsom, the both of which have dedicated themselves to emissaries of the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient One.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The playable Sylvans have their own favorite fruits. Luca and Cleo love apples, Sarisse and Sylas love strawberries and Laranoa loves plums.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: The initial story trailers presented the game's conflict as being the prince versus his siblings, and with Zethia being abducted in some way. [[spoiler:That's all about... 50% right. It left out the fact that Zethia ends up ''possessed'' by the Other, kills a now-non-possessed Aurelius, and the Other declares her/itself "Empress Zethia, Auspex of the Nether" to the public, becoming the primary antagonist.]]
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Many attacks in Advanced Dragon Trials require you to know what follows them ahead of time in order to avoid dying.
** High Brunhilda immediately follows Grand Muspelheim - an attack which splits the field in half with lava - with Searing Pillar, which requires your team to stick together to share the damage. If one person doesn't know this, it is almost guaranteed that either they die, or the rest of the team takes too much damage to survive the Flame Chaser after Searing Pillar.
** High Mercury's Master trial has many smaller whirlpools covering the field after some larger whirlpools. Unless you know exactly where to be, based on the pattern of the previous whirlpools, this will kill you, as the smaller whirlpools hit with no warning.
** High Jupiter's Sweeping Fulgor, an amplified version of his Rolling Fulgor, has lightning bolts running from the other end of the arena immediately after the initial volley. This lightning will hit the safe spot without warning, and will kill you if it hits - you need to know ahead of time to move out of the way. In addition, most ranged characters cannot survive his Electron Burst - an attack which inflicts massive damage to everyone in the battle - without being in dragon form, so one has to know to save their dragon form for this ahead of time, and when to transform.
* TurnsRed: Bosses have an overdrive meter that fills when you damage the boss. Once it's full, the boss becomes stronger and more aggressive.
* UnblockableAttack: Force strikes can break enemy guards.
* UndergroundMonkey: All over the place. If there's an enemy type, there's very likely a version for each element.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: AprilFoolsDay had a mini-game called "Notte's Slumber Shot" where you play as Notte in a 2D bottom-to-top ShootEmUp.
* {{Unperson}}: The description for the Executioner Axe Strafe says that the names of smiths who make axes for executing criminals are unrecorded because it's considered a dishonor to make them.
* ValentinesDayEpisodes: “Valentine's Confections” is a Valentine's Day event, focusing on a variety of characters as they go about the holiday.
* VerbalTic: The word "Muh?" is used as a term of confusion by multiple characters not just in ''Dragalia Life,'' but also in Adventurer Stories.
* VillainOfAnotherStory: The Emperor of Svenitla has plans to conquer Alberia, even if it means crossing not just the Dyrenell Empire which is backed by 7 powerful royal siblings [[spoiler: Especially since Empress Zethia is the current vessel for Morsayati]], but also with Euden and New Alberia as well.
* VisualDevelopment: Characters with three stars have plain podiums in their official arts. If they're promoted to four stars, their appearance stays the same, but the podium becomes personalized. Similarly, four star characters that are upgraded gain an even more grandiose and personalized podium to stand on.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Players can [[ScaledUp scale up]] and assume their chosen dragon forms for a time. [[spoiler:Brunhilde/Mym proves it goes the other way, too, to everyone's shock.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: There are eight types of weapons:
** [[HeroesPreferSwords Swords]] are quite balanced with no notable strengths or weaknesses.
** [[KatanasAreJustBetter Blades]] play similarly to Swords. The last hit in their combo becomes stronger if you attack after the character sheathes their weapon.
** [[KnifeNut Daggers]] are very swift weapons that propel the user forward.
** [[AnAxeToGrind Axes]] have slow attacks, but they have a wide reach that makes them perfect for fighting large groups of enemies.
** [[BladeOnAStick Lances]] possess the best range of the melee weapons, but most of their attacks only focus on one enemy, making it difficult for them to fight large groups.
** [[EnergyBow Bows]] are ranged weapons that fire quick {{multishot}}s, but their projectiles don't home in on enemies like the other ranged weapons.
** [[MagicWand Wands]] fire multiple homing projectiles at enemies.
** [[MagicStaff Staves]] come with skills that heal allies, but they only fire one projectile at a time unlike wands.
* WhamEpisode:
** Surprisingly, the launch content contains one toward the end in Chapter 5. [[spoiler:This chapter fully reveals the existence of The Other, who is possessing Aurelius and making him restore the Dyrenell Empire. Now, this is something the team's suspected as far back as Chapter 2... but then comes the revelation that The Other's goal this whole time has actually been to BodySurf into ''Zethia'' instead. '''And it succeeds.''' The Mystery Girl is also revealed as a Zethia from... elsewhere, who has now comprehensively failed as she wasn't able to team up with "our" Zethia to expel the Other in time, and cryptically tells Euden to not worry about "her" life and to seek the "Dawnshard" on his own. She uses the last of her strength to teleport Euden's party to safety... leaving the Other, in Zethia's body, to pin the death of Aurelius on Euden and to declare itself "Empress Zethia, Auspex of the Nether". With that, Zethia (well, "Zethia") is now ''the central villain'', Aurelius is ''dead'' (though still within Zodiark to some degree), the family is shattered, and Euden is left wondering how on earth to proceed.]] What makes this work and makes it a wham is that ''none'' of this was even remotely teased in promotional material, and some of that material can even make the player anticipate a different set-up.
** Chapter 10 provides another massive upheaval. [[spoiler:The protagonists delve into the ruins of Alberius' final battlefield with the Other and discover that he actually sealed it away into his blood and lineage, meaning ''every'' Alberian royal is a possible container for its soul. Furthermore, Alberius is still ''alive'', having absorbed the Other's core and [[AndIMustScream stuck in dragon mode]] for hundreds of years. Cleo and Euden unfortunately have to kill him in order to stop his forced rampage. To top it all off, Morsayati ''succeeds'' in its quest to return to its original strength and all of Euden's siblings, including previously allied Chelle, throw in their lot with it. Now with even slimmer odds, Euden has to confront a much stronger Dyrenell Empire in the fight to bring Zethia back.]]
** The interlude story segments of Chapters 11 & 12 reveal a shocking twist - [[spoiler:Euden isn't a biological son of Aurelius. The ''actual'' seventh son perished shortly after birth due to contracting Wyrmscale, and Euden was adopted from a seemingly minor noble house to replace him. Also, there's a ''reason'' why the ''fifth'' scion hasn't appeared until now, as he's a SealedEvilInACan.]]
* WhamLine: The end of Chapter 5 has a good one.
--> [[spoiler:'''Possessed Zethia''']]:[[spoiler:You mean... before she stabs you in the back?]]
* WhamShot:
** From Chapter 5: [[spoiler:the moment of Zethia's eyes glowing red behind Euden, who has just realized something is terribly wrong.]]
** In the "Fractured Futures" event, the Prince spots a familiar character in the BadFuture and runs off after them. [[spoiler:He manages to catch up to Notte, and tries to reassure her. Cut to a shot of Notte looking utterly enraged, a sign that something really bad went down here]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This gets asked in-universe during Chapter 6. The Prince is 7th in line to the throne, Emile is 6th and Valyx is 4th. This makes Ranzal ask what happened to the 5th. The Prince has no idea since whatever happened was well before his time. Chapter 13 finally introduces the 5th scion. [[spoiler: His name is Beren, and he's the one who makes the void dragons for his big brother Phares.]]
* WindIsGreen: The wind element is color coded green and so are a lot of wind element adventurers for that matter.
* YouMeanXmas:
** The Alberian equivalent of Christmas is called Dragonyule, and covers both the religious (in that it celebrates the birth of a messiah figure, in this case Ilia) and secular (there's a Santa stand-in, Saint Starfall) sides of the holiday.
** The equivalent of Easter is called the Vernal Banquet, and it's a holiday celebrated by sylvans. It even comes with an egg hunt. It makes sense that there would be ''a'' vernal equinox celebration, but little in-universe reason is given for the resemblance to the actual holiday (and unlike Easter, the Vernal Banquet has no religious connotations).
** Both New Years' (calendar and lunar) are celebrated just as in real life. Their resemblance to actual Japanese and Chinese traditions is justified by being presented by ''Dragalia''[='s=] {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s to Japan and China.
** Funnily enough, Halloween and Valentine's don't get the same treatment and remain the same holidays that we know. If nothing else, the chances of a namesake "Saint Valentine" existing in the ''Dragalia'' world are very slim.
* ZergRush: In Raid Battles, four teams of players fight against the Raid Boss, meaning up to 16 characters can fight at the same time.