History VideoGame / Elona

* DubInducedPlotHole: The original ''Elona'' had a CatGirl NPC called "Younger Cat Sister", whose race was translated as "Catsister." This made some sense, as she was the only NPC of that kind. However, this version adds some new Catsisters who aren't actually cats or sisters, such as [[{{Kitsune}} Fox Brother]] and [[FaunsAndSatyrs Siraha and Kuron]], which made more sense in Japanese, where their race was called "Kemobito", which translates to "LittleBitBeastly."

* {{Kitsune}}: The fox brother, one of his evolution paths allows him to become a nine-tailed fox brother.

*** Noel the MadBomber has a cute design.

* CooldownHug: The Squeeze skill slightly heals your companion and snapping them out of Berserker and Brainwash statuses.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Technicolor hair is aplenty in Elona.

In 2021, the game was remade to phones and tablets as ''Elona Mobile''. It's free-to-play, with optional microtransactions, but is otherwise faithful to the original game in terms of the things to do and its complexity.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The original ''Elona'' had a CatGirl NPC called "Younger Cat Sister", whose race was translated as "Catsister." This made some sense, as she was the only NPC of that kind. However, this version adds some new Catsisters who aren't actually cats or sisters, such as [[{{Kitsune}} Fox Brother}}]] and [[FaunsAndSatyrs Siraha and Kuron]], which made more sense in Japanese, where their race was called "Kemobito", which translates to "LittleBitBeastly."

[[https://ylvania.org/en/ The homepage.]]

[[http://ylvania.org/en/ The homepage.]]

[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/noanoa/elona-shooter Elona Shooter.]]

[[http://elona.wikia.com/wiki/Elona_Wiki Elona wiki.]]

** You can do this with anyone you're married to (which includes lions, cats, dogs, [[EldritchAbomination Yith, Shub-Niggerath herself,]] [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction tyrannosaurs, dragons, minotaurs]], [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels from your God/dess of choice,]] [[SexBot giant hulking machines...]])

In 2021, the game was remade[=/=]ported to phones and tablets as ''Elona Mobile''. It's free-to-play, with optional microtransactions, but is otherwise faithful to the original game.

* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou - Use the house board at home. (It's up and to the left of the salary chest)

* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, confusion, stunning, sleep, paralysis, regeneration, slowness, bleeding, silence, weakness, vulnerablity, blindness, and speed, along with some more unconventional ones.

On November 2010, Noa stated that he would not work on ''Elona'' any farther, [[TakeUpMySword but released the source code so that other people could, hopefully, continue development]]. A while after this, a regular began working on a Java port of the game. As of November 2012, a Pre-Alpha of this port has been released for testing.

Also in 2012, a fanmade ExpansionPack, ''Elona+'', was released. It is currently translated to English (though there are plenty of typos, and more than enough placeholder text starting from Act II). 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.

In 2021, the game was remake into a mobile game as ''Elona Mobile'', which, while the controls are simplified, it retains many of the complexity of the game. However it's free-to-play with (generous and non-intrusive) microtransactions instead of being open source.

* AllThereInTheManual: All monster lore is contained in their respective Card descriptions...which are for some reason not included in the English translations, removing the descriptions entirely.

** [[spoiler:The moody, unassuming gravekeeper]] in the first town you go to? Yeah, he's the most powerful friendly NPC in the game and wields the game's most destructive weapon, not that it is practical for you, given that it turns battlefields into permanently uninhabitable wastelands if one isn't willing to take the Nuclear Option.

* ArbitraryGunPower - Machine guns are [usually] weak, but consistent and have less range penalty. Shotguns are stronger than crap, granted you're within 2 tiles of the enemy at best. Pistols are usually... terrible. Laser Guns, on the other hand, have no range penalty at up to a distance of 7 tiles, but have a pathetic 5% Pierce.

* DummiedOut: There are a few cutscenes regarding the backstory while doing the main quest. While accessible in the Japanese version, the english one seems to just cut them off entirely.

* FinalDeath: Added in the later versions of the game for extra roguishness. Given that Elona bosses can hit for ''massive damage'', this makes the game appreciably difficult.

** If you summon Ehekatl, then kill her, an enemy called God Inside Ehekatl spawns in her place. This also happens at the end of the game, killing the final boss spawns a neutral bonus boss. Based on this code a few Japanese have created critters that will spill out multiple other critters, or will spawn new critters upon death. They tend to be [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Yukkuri]] related, so beware custom moongate maps with yukkuri.

** Odd example: On the voting board, people often submit alias when they get an appropriate title (for example: [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} The Drunk Suika Ibuki]], Demon King Creator/EddieMurphy, and so on.)

** Raw is the worst material equipment can have, but it makes the item edible. Eating an item made of Raw can provide you with various benefits depending on the items's attributes: "It maintains [stat]"
will give you a temporary buff to that stat's growth rate, "It improves [skill]" will train that skill, and "It increases [stat]" will provide experience to the stat in question. Since shoes (normally one of the lowest-tiered leg items) are guaranteed to give a bonus to speed, obtaining many scrolls of inferior material, turning those shoes into Raw, and eating them is one of the few ways to train [[OneStatToRuleThemAll speed]].

* 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 [[ChallengeRun a race for people seeking a really big challenge.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Fame. While neccessary to get better quests, having high Fame also raises your taxes and the frequency and strength of bandit attacks.

* HarmfulHealing: You can kill the world's pantheon if you so choose if you prepared to fight [[TurnRed their second form]]. Among the gods, there's Jure of Healing - which as can be seen from the name, is the goddess of healing. Killing Jure will cause her next form named Blessed Jure to sprout out of her corpse, and Blessed Jure has an offensive skill named Excessive Heal. The text message of skill being used says "Excessive heal breaks tissue of target!" and it gives the target hemorrhage status debuff.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The "Ether", shot by dragons. This is one of the most devastating attacks.

* LethalJokeItem: You can wield a special piano as a weapon, and... Shena's panties. The former does massive damage and the second has a chance to drive enemies insane.