History VideoGame / EpicSeven

*** To at least alleviate some tedious LevelGrinding that this game has, your units will still gain EXP if they are defeated in the stage. Furthermore, the less units you bring on a stage, the more EXP is rewarded individually. And in case you bring a max-levelled unit, a portion of the EXP it is supposed to earn will instead be added to the EXP rewards of all other non-max-levelled units.

* BreatherLevel: Certain town areas in Story Mode are treated like a friendly Labyrinth stage, low AP cost, almost zero enemy encounters and just progress the actual story away from all the random fighting.

* CastHerd: Every character has a relationship listing with a handful of others; when one turns up in-game, it's generally going to be a few of those they know.

* BalanceBuff: Happens regularly, as the producing company Smilegate, takes an active interest in the game's meta, making sure that underused characters still see the light of the day.

** Similarly, the player can voluntarily yield out of the stage at any time but the spent stamina will be refunded as well. This allows them to re-strategize or optimize their party without wasting stamina.
* TheAgeless:
** Due to Sprites of this game never changing, this happens to every character. (Notable exception is Diene.)
** Nocturnes are another example, they do a ritual that makes stopping aging in a young age and they stay that way.

''Epic Seven'' is a [[AllegedlyFreeGame mobile gacha game]] by Smilegate Megaport.

As standard for a gacha game, the player randomly receives a selection of heroes from which to build adventuring parties, each of which have their own unique strengths and skills as well as a selection of artifacts that can be equipped to them. Gameplay consists of entering corridor-based maps and fighting sets of enemies, normally culminating in a boss battle.

* ReligionOfEvil: Church of Ilryos and the Chaos Sect. Former being the worshipping the Archdemon who is supposed to destroy the world and latter one feeds on Chaos itself.
* SinisterMinister: Archpriest Noard Riks, he is one of the most evil characters in the series without any reasons. He uses Blue Cross church as his special army. Created tons of soldiers artifically for war but never made it officially so they had to dispose of them secretly. Ironically he was killed by his own creation, Kawerik.
* WesternZodiac: Every unit belongs to one of the twelve astrological signs. While it looks like fluff, it's actually used as a stat-seed: two unit with the same class, rarity and astrological sign will (barring upgrades such as equipment) have the exact same base stats; this also means that two units that represent the same hero will often have different Zodiac signs.

Epic Seven is a [[AllegedlyFreeGame mobile gacha game]] by Smilegate Megaport.

BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS from the first part (Episode 1 Normal Difficulty).

!!Epic Seven contains examples of:

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you didn't complete a stage because of reasons (yielding/quitting, game crashing, game ending, losing, etc.), your spent stamina will be refunded. To prevent exploiting this, the drops and features (e.g. Goddess Shrines) will be the same unless you spend your energy elsewhere.
* TheAgeless: Due to Sprites of this game never changing this happens to every character. (Notable exception is Diene.) Nocturnes are another example, they do a ritual that makes stopping aging in a young age and they stay that way.
* BalanceBuff: Happens regularly, as the producing company, Smilegate, takes an active interest in the game's meta.
* BittersweetEnding: The ending of the first part of the story. The Archdemon is defeated, but Mercedes' soul is tangled with it, and Ras has to live away from society (making everyone think he straight up disappeared) to try and save her. Also, Vildred dies without redemption.
** The Sidestory 'Eulogy for a Saint' where Archdemon has sealed away and the world is saved once more. But Bask died after the final fight without able to accept Diene's marriage proposal.

* CharacterDevelopment: To Ras, he starts with the entitled goddess avatar with no certain emotions, he just wants to fulfill his duty destroying archdemon. Due to events of the last world he gains more humanity each chapter thus he is able to come up with a satisfying answer to both Vildred and the Diche.
** Bask, the protagonist of the Eulogy for a Saint. He starts out as an atheist, sour knight who only thinks the fame. With the long travel with the Diene, he becomes a knight with a heart of gold and does the heroic thing that he states he hates it at the start.

* ChurchMilitant: Epic Seven has an insane number of well-armed members of faiths, with different sects such as the Order of the Blue Cross, The Rose Apostles, and the evil-aligned Chaos Sect and Church of Ilryos.

* TheChosenOne: Arguably, any Heir qualifies, but especially Ras Elclare, as the chosen one of the goddess Diche, has privileges that others Heirs lack, such as reincarnation and being stronger than regular humans. And Luluca, shaman of the Rekos, beloved one of the spirits and the one who will save the spirits.

* CreatingLife: Taranor in general. King Alfred and Friedrich were created lots of Homunculi and Wraiths.
** Reingar also does this but ethically. Artificial Dolls(Lots and Maya) are reingar works.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Every hero and monster belongs to one of five elements: Earth, Ice, Fire, Light or Dark. Earth has advantage over Ice, Ice over Fire, and Fire over Earth; meanwhile, Light and Dark both deal more damage to one one another. Advantage over element gives you increased critical chance and hit rate, whereas disadvantage is the opposite. Of course there's still the [[RandomNumberGod freak chance]] of say, a Water character dealing critical damage to an Earth character.
* EvilCounterpart: Acolytes to Spiritlords. Both based from 5 elements in the universe.

** Kayron is even more suitable counterpart to Ras with their color schemes being reverse of each other, being Fire hero and being the leader of respective teams.
* {{Fanservice}}: The majority of female characters are actually pretty well covered up. Those who aren't, however, are definitely designed with this in mind.
* ForegoneConclusion: We know from the title and from the loading screens that we are going to play on the 7th incarnation of the world. The prologue starts us on the middle of the final battle of the sixth world...do the math.
* GodIsFlawed: Rekos and Diche, [[spoiler: meanwhile not much clear Rekos did cause the events of Planet Rekos to some extend. And it was slayed by Faustus' Eye.]] Diche's escapism from the Celestial War ruined a world so many times. It took seven worlds for her to understand it.

** Runes are required to "awaken" your heroes denoted turning their star red. Thus you can awaken a hero six times in total and each awakening improves stats and alters one of their skills. Runes are generally farmed on Spirit Altars, which features a single element each weekday, and all elements on weekends.
** Catalysts are used for awakening (as mentioned above) and for enhancing skills (i.e. reduce their cooldown by 1). Unlike runes, they're rare drops from certain monsters, so you have to check up the location guide or [[GuideDangIt fan guides]] for optimal farming. Also remember that there are typical catalysts and ''rare'' catalysts, which are even hard to drop.

* LevelGrinding: Between leveling up heroes to a soft cap, increasing the cap via promotion from spending similarly-leveled heroes (and fodder monsters) and leveling up player rank, equipment and artifacts, leveling up skills and enhancing the characters' base stats via awakening, there's a lot of time and effort spent in maxing out even one character - but the game's more than beatable with characters a good ten levels shy of maximum. It's mostly for end game content and [=PvP=].

* PlayerVersusPlayer: Comes in two flavors - Arena and Guild Wars. Former pits your four heroes against another player's four heroes. Latter pits your guild against another, with six heroes (two rounds, three heroes each) guarding a tower of a guild, with guild members destroying the opposing guild's towers by beating the guarding heroes twice - the catch is that the player cannot fight an already fought opponent.
** With that in mind, you do not actually fight a player live. Instead, the AI will fight on your behalf. It is why when the game asks for your team, it is referring to the "defense" team, i.e. the team you let the AI fight with.

* SelfImposedChallenge: As with any gacha game, some players take the extra step of beating hard content using lower rarity characters, even using 1-2* mob characters.

BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS from the first part (Normal Difficulty).

* TheChosenOne: Arguably, any Heir qualifies, but especially Ras Elclare, as the chosen one of the goddess Diche, has privileges that others Heirs lack, such as reincarnation and being stronger than regular humans

** Mola-Gora, a type of mandrake, are used for enhancing skills. Each week a player is given a chance to buy 2 seeds (meaning you have to plant it to the Soul Forest area in the Sanctuary and wait 12 hours to get the mandrake, or spend Stigma to make it grow instantly) and 1 already grown. If you need more, you can try doing Adventure or doing other activities that reward the seed or the plant itself.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Every hero and monster belongs to one of five elements: Earth, Ice, Fire, Light or Dark. Earth has advantage over Ice, Ice over Fire, and Fire over Earth; meanwhile, Light and Dark both deal more damage to one one another.
* {{Fanservice}}: The majority of female characters are actually pretty well covered up. Those who aren't, however, are definitely designed with this in mind.

* LevelGrinding: Between levelling up heroes to a soft cap, increasing the cap via promotion from spending similarly-levelled heroes (and fodder monsters) and levelling up player rank, equipment and artifacts, levelling up skills and enhancing the characters' base stats via awakening, there's a lot of time and effort spent in maxing out even one character- but the game's more than beatable with characters a good ten levels shy of maximum.

Epic Seven is a mobile gacha game by Smilegate Megaport.

We are in the seventh attempt to save Orbis now.
Diche's power is fading.

TheHero: Ras.

BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS from the first part (Normal Difficulty)

!![Epic Seven] contains examples of:

* ChosenOne: Arguably, any Heir qualifies, but especially Ras Elclare, as the chosen one of the goddess Diche, has privileges that others Heirs lack, such as reincarnation and being stronger than regular humans

* TheHero: Ras.

* Manservice: In a move towards equal opportunity, the game also features the mostly shirtless Sven, the only thing more defined than his abs is his designation as benchwarmer due to a lackluster skill set.

AfterTheEnd: The world's already ended six times. Each time it's been restored, it's been a little bit more corrupted and changed, which is making life in the seventh world harder than it should be.

BalanceBuff: Happens regularly, as the producing company, Smilegate, takes an active interest in the game's meta.

BittersweetEnding: The ending of the first part of the story. The Archdemon is defeated, but Mercedes' soul is tangled with it, and Ras has to live away from society (making everyone think he straight up disappeared) to try and save her. Also, Vildred dies without redemption.

BossWarningSiren: A brief splash-screen pops up whenever the player encounters a boss.

CastHerd: Every character has a relationship listing with a handful of others; when one turns up in-game, it's generally going to be a few of those they know.

ChosenOne: Arguably, any Heir qualifies, but especially Ras Elclare, as the chosen one of the goddess Diche, has privileges that others Heirs lack, such as reincarnation and being stronger than regular humans

ElementalRockPaperScissors: Every hero and monster belongs to one of five elements: Earth, Ice, Fire, Light or Dark. Earth has advantage over Ice, Ice over Fire, and Fire over Earth; meanwhile, Light and Dark both deal more damage to one one another.

{{Fanservice}}: The majority of female characters are actually pretty well covered up. Those who aren't, however, are definitely designed with this in mind.

ForegoneConclusion: We know from the title and from the loading screens that we are going to play on the 7th incarnation of the world. The prologue starts us on the middle of the final battle of the sixth world...do the math.

LevelGrinding: Between levelling up heroes to a soft cap, increasing the cap via promotion from spending similarly-levelled heroes (and fodder monsters) and levelling up player rank, equipment and artifacts, levelling up skills and enhancing the characters' base stats via awakening, there's a lot of time and effort spent in maxing out even one character- but the game's more than beatable with characters a good ten levels shy of maximum.

LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Like any gacha game, the number of charming characters and their unique gameplay is a major part of the appeal.

TheHero: Ras.

WesternZodiac: Every unit belongs to one of the twelve astrological signs. While it looks like fluff, it's actually used as a stat-seed: two unit with the same class, rarity and astrological sign will (barring upgrades such as equipment) have the exact same base stats; this also means that two units that represent the same hero will often have different Zodiac signs.

BossSiren: A brief splash-screen pops up whenever the player encounters a boss.

Fanservice: The majority of female characters are actually pretty well covered up. Those who aren't, however, are definitely designed with this in mind.

TheHero: Ras.

Welcome to Epic Seven, the Playable Animation

A long time ago, a war between gods happened. In the middle of it, the god Orbis was struck down, and his wife Diche, in her grief, made a world from his Corpse, which she tended to, instead of fighting on the war.
Tired of her losing time with a corpse, the other gods cast on it a curse that manifested itself as the Archdemon in the world of Orbis, with the destruction of Orbis as it´s objective. To counteract this, Diche created the Heir system, where some beings of Orbis are selected by Guardians and are given some of Diche´s power, with Ras Eclare as Diche´s own direct Heir.

Diche´s power is fading.
Heirs that died, aside form Ras, can´t be revived.

Its epic 7th world, and our last chance.

BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS from the first part (Normal Difficult)

BittersweetEnding: The ending of the first part of the story. The Archdemon is defeated, but Mercedes Soul is tangled with it, and Ras has to live away from society (making everyone think he straight up dissapeared)to try and save her. Also, Vildred dies without redemption.

ChosenOne: Arguably, any Heir qualifies, but specialy Ras Eclare, as the chosen one of the goddess Diche, has privileges that others Heirs lack, such as reincarnation and being stronger than regular humans

TheHero: Ras