History VideoGame / Elona

* AWizardDidIt: Taken on literal extremes, Wizard mode is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin allowing you to have functionality of GodMode on console commands.

Twisted, funny, and strangely compelling. Like ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''' Adventure Mode [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on crack]].

* ''Omake Overhaul'': A community-driven variant that features plenty quality of life changes, new content, and mod compatibility, while keeping the experience as close to the vanilla game as possible.

* AndYourRewardIsEdible - You will occasionally get food as a reward for quests. Especially Harvest Time quests. Occasionally, you'll be rewarded with equipment made of "raw" (or candy, if it's miracle-quality or higher), which is edible. Yes, you can be awarded edible scythes, armor, and footwear.

* 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.

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

* NumberOfTheBeast: Forts of Chaos all have a danger level of 666. [[spoiler:It's a metaphor - the actual difficulty isn't such high, but what awaits you inside is a BonusBoss battle.]]

** The sweet, little girl named Gwen the innocent that follows you around in Yowyn? After completing the North Tyris main quest, she becomes Gwen the '''pitiless''', giving her jacked-up stats and superb resistance to all elements except Magic, and each time you kill her, she gains a level when she respawns. You can fight her as a BonusBoss or, with the Astral Light Pen, recruit her to your side.

* ArtificialStupidity: Your pets will wander off wherever they want, unless you have the leash. Additionally, equipping a ranged weapon won’t do anything if the pet’s AI doesn’t say to ever use ranged attacks.

* PhysicalGod: It's possible to summon one of the various Gods you worship, and even be one as a debug race. The later can be AwesomeYetImpractical since they have only four slots in exchange for [[JustForPun godly]] stats. There's also other, ''lesser'' (that is to say they won't as likely instantly obliterate you the moment they become visible on the screen) deities such as [[EldritchAbomination Shub Niggurath]] and the [[UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster Flying Spaghetti Monster]].

** The Exile, god pet of Itzpalt of Element, begins as a hooded figure with three red eyes visible from their shadowed face. When evolved, male Exile will turn into Dark Demon Dragon - a huge black armored dragon. Female Exile will turn into a Permanent Exile - who while still three-eyed, is otherwise a normal proportioned sagely young woman with PeekABangs.

* GameGourmet: With its farming sims elements, this game includes a vast amount of food. There are over thirty different kinds of food available, from fruits to vegetables to fish to nuts, and that's before using the Cooking skill to turn them into finished meals. With the Cooking skill, there are at least seven different kinds of meals you can make for each food type. Eating well-prepared meals will eventually lead to attribute gains. The kind of attribute gain you can expect depends on what you've been eating; for example, fruit can raise Magic and Charisma, while fish improves Dexterity and Learning.

* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted with pet evolution. Certain pets evolve into different forms depending on gender.

* DualWielding: A skill. You can't go GunsAkimbo with guns, however. You also get a penalty if the weapons you're using are too heavy for normal dual wielding, like, say, using a claymore and an axe. (Even if your strength normally would negate this.) Mutants, the only race which can gain limbs without heavy cheat engine editing, can, with some amazing save-scumming skills, take this up to eleven quite literally, though there's a steep accuracy decline starting from the fifth arm.

* DeadlyNosebleed - Overlapping with [[PsychicNosebleed Magical Nosebleed]] below, its quite possible to die from overcasting.

* ContinuingIsPainful: Though the fact you can continue ''at all'' is merciful for a roguelike, that still doesn't mean that losing a good chunk of your things as well as EXP doesn't hurt. Especially when you've contracted a disease that will ''kill you again in less then an in-game week'' if you can't cure it.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Eating poisonous corpses may give you antibodies, raising your poison resistance.
* 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.

* AbnormalAmmo: Panties. Also, ammo can be made of all the same materials as other weapons, allowing you to fire candy.

* AbnormalAmmo: Panties. Also, ammo can be made of all the same materials as other weapons, allowing you to fire candy.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs- Tyrannosaurs are one of the most deadly enemies in the game... and, if you've got the right items, you can tame one as a pet - or, if you're using debug races, ''play as one.''

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs - Tyrannosaurs are one of the most deadly enemies in the game... and, if you've got the right items, you can tame one as a pet - or, if you're using debug races, ''play as one.''

* 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.

* DualWielding: A skill. You can't go GunsAkimbo with guns, however. You also get a penalty if the weapons you're using are too heavy for normal dual wielding, like, say, using a claymore and an axe. (Even if your strength normally would negate this.) Mutants, the only race which can gain limbs without heavy cheat engine editing, can, with some amazing save-scumming skills, take this UpToEleven quite literally, though there's a steep accuracy decline starting from the fifth arm.

* SwordAndGun: Thanks to the way Elona handles equipment, this is usually taken to the next step, namely Sword and Shield and Gun. If you're a mutant, you'll probably find yourself equipped with a [[UpToEleven Sword and Shield and Axe and Spear and Sword and Gun and...]]

** The moment one triggers the South Tyris expansion. The game immediately opens up a new method of training your character with CharacterPoints called AP to allow you to deal with the DifficultySpike South Tyris brings. Shadow step, and [[SwordBeam shining wave]] make this doubly true for melee characters.

* YetAnotherStupidDeath:

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: A middle-aged man wedding and impregnating a prepubescent youth? Typical. ''A farm dedicated to breeding and slaughtering purchased slaves for meat? ''Nobody will bat an eye. Committing casual murder will range from being given no response at all if a lowly beggar to being given a few wary glances at worst if you kill somebody important (like say, the ''King of Palmia''), but get caught pickpocketing or even not pay your bills on time and it's warrant enough for you to be ''killed on sight''. And you're free to repeatedly kill the King of Palmia... until you kill him too many times, and then the guards get angry. Slightly averted in Elona+, as guards will simply arrest you rather than kill you on sight.

** Having to kill [[VideoGame/BioShock Big Daddies and rescue Little Sisters]] is a quest you can take to unlock genetic manipulation. The scientist who gives you it sounds suspiciously like Tanenbaum, without the accent. (It's a voiceless game, after all.)

* BoringButPractical: Magic dart. It’s one of the first spells you can cast, and it has no special effects, but most everything has no magic resistance. Additionally, cut damage is resisted by even less targets.