History VideoGame / Elona

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: If there even ''IS'' a level cap to speak of. Either through cheating or through very dedicated grinding you can reach 1000s of levels. (For reference the FinalBoss is only at level 55) However, it's not as awesome as one might expect, as raising the character level just gives you higher HP and MP caps.

** "Name" lets you change your name, something that you can already do for free anytime. The being granting your wish even laughs at you if you wish for this.

* SaveScumming: To get decent teammates and gear, expect to do this a lot.

* WombLevel: The final level of Rehmido, the Meshera lair.

* AndYourRewardIsEdible - You will occasionally get food as a reward for quests. Especially Harvest Time quests. Occasionally, you'll be rewarded with a candy item. Yes, you can be awarded candy scythes, armor, and footwear.

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Orphe the Chaos Child, a BonusBoss available in the postgame.]]

* EverythingTryingToKillYou:
** Averted, neutral [=NPCs=] will often spawn in dungeons and wilderness areas and attack hostile monsters. And any monster spawned by a book reading or a spell cast in confusion has a chance of coming out neutral. For small creatures, this is a boon, as they will respawn in the town they are summoned in until you catch them or otherwise force them to stop appearing (though it's slightly buggy, sometimes they don't respawn for ages, or not at all, since they aren't originally a part of the town.) For large creatures, it sure is nice having a sky golem spawn on your side after you inadvertently summon a master lich. They will engage any hostile monsters just as a normal neutral character such as a rogue archer or mercenary would do.

* AHomeownerIsYou: And a [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou shop owner, ranch owner, farm owner, museum owner]], and various other real estate. You start out in a cave... with a hi-tech refrigerator.

* HyperspaceArsenal - The 4D pocket spell. You, if your strength is high enough.

* SinisterMinister: Missionaries of Darkness, [[KillItWithFire Red Baptists]], and [[KillItWithIce Blue Baptists]]

** There's a currently unimplemented card game called [[Franchise/YuGiOh Wizards]] and {{Magic}}.

** The entire Yeek race are a reference to the book ''Little Fuzzy'' by ''H. Beam Piper''.

* VancianMagic: Elona has this and combines it with a ManaMeter. Reading from a spell book grants you spell charges. To cast a spell, you need to consume some spell charges, some mana, and pass a casting skill check. Once a spell runs out of charges, you cannot cast it until you read its spellbook again.

* EvolutionaryLevels: Follows a system very much inspired by Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, you can evolve your pet - or even turn it into something completely new.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Zeome, the False Prophet]]

** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with Mia in Palmia, (who asks you to capture and bring a silver cat to her in exchange for gold and an artifact that makes dominating monsters to be pets slightly easier). Everyone thinks she smells like an animal, and believes she's either a psycho or mentally retarded.

* CriticalEncumbranceFailure: Averted. As you carry more stuff, a penalty on speed becomes greater and greater. When you're REALLY burdened, you start getting crushed by your stuff, and you also have a chance to fall down stairs and potentially break your neck.
** Traveling while "Overweight" will usually get you one-shot smashed.
** Note that while you get gradual penalties on carrying things, you can still pick up something very heavy like the above gates with no warning of it crushing you instantly.

* DisasterScavengers

** Ammo items can be "raw" (or candy if it's an artefact) which means you can well, eat them.

* SlimeSnailsAndMutantTails: The Snail and Mutant races.

* HarderThanHard: South Tyris: more monsters, more mutants, more of everything, like dying horribly.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Putits, who look like ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'''s slimes with BlackBeadEyes and a fluffy cloud-like design.

* FiveRaces: A bit different than usual, as there are 11 official races, but they're similar to or hybrids of the five races listed. The vast majority of these "races" are in fact merely different human cultures, including a few of the races only accessible in debug mode. Interestingly, Norland, which is the "standard" human race in the game, is unable to be played in the default setting. Snails (yes, salt kills them instantly) would count as a cute race, except they are better at nothing that the other races can't do better. They're explicitly described as [[SelfImposedChallenge a race for people seeking a really big challenge.]]

* JokeCharacter: You can play as a snail as a SelfImposedChallenge. They're as weak as you expect. Activating extra races allows you to play as certain enemies, like a dog, cat, yith, et cetera, without their special abilities.

Also in 2012, a fanmade ExpansionPack, ''Elona+'', was released. It is currently translated to English (though there are plenty of typos). It continues to live with periodic updates, expanding to several new continents while adding many new game mechanics and drastically increasing the strength of the enemies.

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* BattleButler: You'll get one of your own if you read a butler's diary. They're adept in martial arts and guns.

** In Elona+ sometimes Nefia will go into a fever time, where enemies get stronger and rewards become greater, and flames surround the in-game clock. This is a reference to a mechanic in ''[[VideoGame/OreshikaTaintedBloodlines Oreshika]]''.
** Elona+ has [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} whip weapon that deals massive damage to the undead called "Bloody Tears"]].

** In Elona+ sometimes Nefia will go into a fever time, where enemies get stronger and rewards become greater, and flames surround the in-game clock. This is a reference to a mechanic in [[VideoGame/OreshikaTaintedBloodlines Oreshika]].

-->''Your pet is running toward you gleefully! It's a... Dog! Cat! Bear! Little Girl!''

* ArmorPiercingAttack: Lightsabres have low damage, but ignore all armor.

* JokeItem: Elona+ adds a fourth gift from Gods: while the other three are simply received upon reaching a certain favor score and include useful pets, permanent perks and decent artifact weapons, the fourth gifts (which you have to summon the god itself to obtain) are equipment pieces which give a huge bonus to PV but give a large enough penalty to bring several attributes and skills to zero.

** There exists an Elona+ exclusive weapon called the Dragon Slayer that you can get through a high-level quest. Which is a clear reference to the manga ''Berserk''.

* MakeAWish: Very rarely, you gain the ability to make a wish. You can ask for almost any item, but [[YouCannotGetYeFlask the text parser sometimes misinterprets what you typed in]], so [[GuideDangIt be sure to have a guide handy]].

* UnstableEquilibrium: If your karma goes too far into the negative, you are marked as a criminal, and guards will go after you in town. The easiest way to get your karma back up is from doing missions… which are in town.

* YouCannotGetYeFlask: If you have the fortune of [[MakeAWish being granted a wish]], be careful, because the text parser might accidentally read part of your wish, ignore the rest, and give you a completely different thing from what you wanted.

** Noel's passive dialogue is a word for word reference to [[TheTick The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight.]] [[EvilLaugh Ahahahahaha!]]