History VideoGame / EpicSeven

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Yuna Woo was imprisoned because her machines went berserk. When she escaped thanks to the protagonist trio, they found out that the machines were acting weird because of a Dark Stone.

-->Diche: "In twenty years, on this day, the light will return. This light shall be my final authority and hope..."

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Side Stories are two-week events that focus on certain characters, and are usually accompanied by the characters' rate-up banners. They include {{scripted battle}}s and event-exclusive currencies exchangeable for items.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 2, Chapter 6: "Trial of Lamentation". Straze fatally impales Ras, leaving him in a bloody state as Mercedes cries for help. Fortunately, his death doesn't stick permanently as he is aided and recovered.]]

''Epic Seven'' is a [[TurnBasedCombat turn-based]] [[AllegedlyFreeGame mobile gacha]] RPG developed by Super Creative and published by Smilegate Megaport for the UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} and [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] smartphones. Initially a Korean game, it received an English global version on November 8, 2018, and a Japanese version published by Yostar on November 7, 2019.

** The Archdemon's Might. When Ras woke up in the Seventh World, {{the quest}} given by Queen Diene is to destroy the parts of the Archdemon that were scattered in Ritania. Even the villains sought it too, such as Vildred when he [[FaceHeelTurn betrayed the heroes]].

* VariableMix: Some background musics get their tone more dramatic in an enemy encounter.

*** Equipment Conversion eases 3 RNG layers: The equipment's level is fixed, while player can choose the main stat and set.

* TookALevelInBadass: Speciality Changed 3★ Heroes after completing their quests, complete with improved skills, stats and a visual upgrade.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman:

* SignificantDoubleCasting: Moonlight Heroes share the same voice actor as their original counterparts because most of them are [[AlternateSelf alternate selves]], or are the same person. Uniquely, Ruele and Destina are both voiced by Creator/ErickaLindbeck and Creator/AmiKoshimizu because Destina took on the appearance of Ruele out of respect.

* MythologyGag: {{Crossover}} events usually reference something from the third-party IP's original media. For example, the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'' collab's Tournament Mode has "Heaven or Hell" written in the background, the phrase used by the announcer when a match starts in the FightingGame.

** While the devs have been releasing Specialty Changes, [[BalanceBuff rebalance patches]] and Exclusive Equipment to improve older Heroes, those who aren't receiving any of these may remain outdated. For a long time, fans requested Haste for buffs or a rework to make him relevant once more. Meanwhile, Mercedes is replaced with any 5★ [[AreaOfEffect AoE]] Hero since her kit is considered simplistic.

* GreatOffscreenWar: The previous wars against the Archdemon. The current setting taking place in the seventh cycle, with the sixth on the prologue, the first cycles took offscreen before the main story.

* DungeonShop: Hueche and the Goblin Merchant can be found in some Labyrinth-type stages.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Elphelt's third skill, "Magnum Wedding", has been censored in ''E7''. The animation skips or speeds up some frames, leaving out the shot of Elphelt picking the bullet [[VictoriasSecretCompartment from her breasts]] (which she does in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'').

*** Lorina's ultimate deals more damage the lower her enemy's HP is, but the AI will use it even if the enemy has full HP.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Elphelt's third skill, "Magnum Wedding", has been censored in ''[=E7=]''. The animation skips or speeds up some frames, leaving out the shot of Elphelt picking the bullet [[VictoriasSecretCompartment from her breasts]] (which she does in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'').

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: During the early times of ''[=E7=]'', there were odd placement decisions in the Journal which are [[OrwellianRetcon fixed in later updates]]. For example, Nilgal was in the Hero Journal despite not being playable at that time, until he was later moved to the Monster Journal.

* WakeUpCallBoss: For the Adventure mode, Arbiter Vildred's final boss fight encourages players to improve their teams, gears, and everything in order to hit hard ''and'' survive long enough... Because he can revive himself even after you've reduced his HP to 0. This is automatically followed by him using his AreaOfEffect LimitBreak that can decimate your team if you're left unprepared.
* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Characters who are [[AnotherDimension transported from the modern times]] of the 21st century have Korean names such as Yuna Woo, while the IdolSinger Tamarinne's real name is Somi Choi.
* WeDontSuckAnymore: The "Re:Birth" campaign was advertised as a "Brand New ''Epic Seven''" or something that can be interpreted along the lines of fixing some of the developers' past mistakes and adding more [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Quality-Of-Life features]]. It also came with "Retruning Player" rewards, or additional free items to help those who want to catch up with the contents to some extent. All in all, it's a campaign built to hype the potential release of Episode 3.
* WeirdMoon: In Episode 1 Chapter 2, Specter Tenebria turns the moon red and covered with several eyes.
* 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 units 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.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 2, Chapter 6. Titled "Trial of Lamentation", it is when Straze fatally impales Ras, leaving him in a bloody state as Mercedes cries for help. Fortunately, the protagonist's death doesn't stick permanently as he is aided and recovered.]]
* WhenTreesAttack: There are living tree monsters that act as enemies. One of which is seen accompanying the Golem in its Hunt stages.
* WightInAWeddingDress: Banshee Queen Rubellite (and higher-strength PaletteSwap versions in the later Banshee Hunt stages.) With some variants, her outfit more closely resembles a bridal gown, but the overarching design motif is present in all variants. To an extent, the same goes for her (playable) Banshee underlings.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Minor and generic [=NPCs=] have reusable artworks and faces. This isn't even a problem for mooks who always wear their helmets, but even then, their armors and helmets are identical.

* TookALevelInBadass: The Speciality Changed 3★ characters count after they've fully completed their quests, complete with improved skills, more options and a visual upgrade.

** The Abyss is an upside-down tower. The progession here is one-time or permanent.
** The Automaton Tower is the standard right-side-up tower. Unlike the Abyss, the progression here is time-limited and resets back to Floor 1 every month.
* TurnBasedCombat: A variation of it. Instead of restricting turns in the typical way where [=RPGs=] cycle through units, there are other factors that play an important role in determining who gets to attack first, such as Speed and Combat Readiness. So with a high enough count of these two, a unit can have multiple turns even before the enemy gets their first!
* UndergroundMonkey: For every low-rarity monster that you encounter, they could have multiple alternate versions that represent the ElementalRockPaperScissors mechanic, along with a palette swap of that element's color theme.
* UnderwaterRuins: An area of the 2019 Summer event fully takes place underwater, and there's even a new unique status effect exclusive to underwater levels and fights.

** The structures in the Sanctuary provide more gameplay features such as the ability to raise fodders, craft Equipment, participate in Expeditions, etc... However, they require Breaths of Orbis in order to be unlocked and upgraded.
** Some contents are just gated by specific requirements, most of which require completing a given stage in Adventure.
** You can only unlock the next difficulty for Abyss, Automaton Tower, Labyrinth, Altar and Hunts once you've completed the preceeding stages, floors, or lower difficulties.
** In Episode 2's maps, the AP Exchange Shops are only unlocked once you've completed all four specific quests for that map.
* UnmovingPlaid: Several Unknown-type creatures have an unmoving pattern on most of their bodies to highlight their [[EldritchAbomination alien nature.]]
* VampireEpisode: Given his origin, Haste's Side Story has some shades of this. Melissa's story is also another, for being a fellow vampire.
* VirtualPaperDoll: The Epic Pass rewards include alternate outfits for some of the characters.
* VisualInitiativeQueue: A line on the left of the screen indicates who is the next to perform an action. However, this only serves as an estimated guide since the unit's Speed and other stats like Combat Readiness can directly manipulate this queue in real-time without any warnings.

** The Hero and Equipment/Artifact inventories are capped by a shared upper limit that can be raised by purchasing additional slots using Skystones.

* SituationalSword: While some Artifacts can be equipped by anyone, most Artifacts are restricted to specific classes.

** Skystones can be used to revive your party at full health should they get fully wiped by an opponent in a Labyrinth stage. However, there are ''so many'' uses of Skystones aside from this - The main one involves obtaining Bookmarks to summon in the gacha, then they can be used to refresh the shop at the tavern, refill Energy, trade for Gold, or reset a Specialty Changed character's Skill Tree.
** Mercedes requires a unique item in order to raise her Memory Imprint ranks. That item is only obtainable in certain stages and thus come with a limited amount. Players are more likely going to hold off upgrading Mercedes's imprint since that same item is also used for the imprint of her Celestial Mercedes counterpart (who is stronger, rarer, and a Dark-elemental).
** Especially for the free-to-play side, any scarce resource in this game would generally have this kind of trope in effect:
*** Tera Phantasmas are accumulated and locked until the player has enough to uncap at least one 5★ Hero to 6★.
*** [=MolaGoras=] are rare outside of special events, are limited on the shops, or basically require a considerable amount of effort or patience to get and stockpile. Because of their scarcity, the [=F2P=] is mostly just holding on to them until they can amass enough to fully upgrade the Skills of their most favorite, or most used Heroes. It doesn't quite help that Skill upgrades generally require more Mola the higher their levels are.
*** Gold Transmit Stones can be used to trade for a choice from two rare resources at 6 stones each - A 4-5★ Hero Summon ticket, or 5 Galaxy Bookmarks (for 1 Moonlight Hero summon). Players would easily choose the second option because the ticket, for a long time, summons only Ice, Fire and Earth Heroes, who are very common whenever you draw from most of the banners, especially on the Covenant Summons. Moonlight Heroes on the other hand are extremely rare, and in the game's early years, weren't available in the Covenant Summons, making them {{Rare Random Drop}}s.
** Breaths of Orbis are used to upgrade structures in the Sanctuary. However, the Level 3 upgrades can be quite costly (at 100,000 gold). There's a trade-off that removing upgrades to refund the item also costs a lot of gold. Because of these, a Breath of Orbis is mostly reserved on the most beneficial structures first.

* TechDemoGame: Unlike most mobile games that straight up rely on the Unity Engine, ''Epic Seven'' uses an in-house/proprietary game engine called "Yuna Engine" which boasts very fast loading times and screen transitions in pretty much every user interface (to the point where loading screens don't exist) under stable network conditions.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Like most live-service/gacha games, events and collabs are only available for a limited time. They may be rerun to give players another chance.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Portals are used to travel between dimensions and they are prominently used in Labyrinth-type stages as a way to exit the level and save your progress. If one looks closely at the said types of portals, they lead right back to the Tavern.

** For PVE content such as the Hunts, some Heroes work so well in countering the bosses' mechanics or render them useless, such as:
*** Bringing Heroes with a lot of debuffing utilities to fight Wyvern, or having easy ways to deal with its shield.
*** Bringing Heroes with the "Unhealable", "Bleeding", or "Cannot be Buffed" status ailments to soften the Golem or gradually chip at its massive health pool.
*** Bringing Heroes with Area of Effect to fight Azmakalis.
** The Abyss Floors have AI-controlled Heroes with [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard tricky mechanics]] that make them {{Puzzle Boss}}es. Fortunately, certain playable Heroes, gears, artifacts, strategies or team compositions can make a quick work out of them. It's all a matter of understanding what makes an Abyss Floor hard and knowing how to counter them.
** Speaking of Hero counters, some Heroes are just tailored to counter an existing Hero's mechanics, especially in PVP modes.
* TimedMission: Whenever they pop-up, [[RandomEvent Urgent Missions]] are only available for a limited time, but they give out valuable rewards or rare items upon completion.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: Some 3★ Heroes can undergo a Speciality Change featuring an improved skill, visual changes to their skill icons and portraits, and an expanded Skill Tree. All of these are also accompanied by cutscenes detailing how that character motivated themselves to train and become stronger in the process.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: There exists a concept of "parallel worlds" or parallel dimensions in the lore of ''Epic Seven'', which justifies the AnachronismStew as to why we have [=21st=]-century machines and robots courtesy of Yuna, and an IdolSinger courtesy of Tamarinne. It is also the reason why there exists Dimension Cracks all around the world, which makes some nightmare creatures pop out.

* {{Expy}}: Some ''Epic Seven'' characters visually take inspirations from other existing video game or anime characters. For example, Charlotte has a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy Charlotta]], Yufine and Assassin Coli to [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Shuten-doji and Jack the Ripper]] respectively, Melissa to [[VideoGame/KingsRaid Jane]], Iseria to [[Franchise/BlazBlue Murakumo Units/Nu-13]], Specter Tenebria to [[LightNovel/IsekaiCheatMagician Remia]], Martial Artist Ken to [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]], Cermia to ''[[LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense Mii]], Aramintha references both [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Roy Mustang and Edward Elric]], etc... The more detailed explanations are written in the respective folders of these ''Epic Seven'' characters.

* {{Expy}}: Some ''Epic Seven'' characters visually take inspirations from other existing video game or anime characters. For example, Charlotte has a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy Charlotta]], Yufine and Assassin Coli to [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Shuten-doji and Jack the Ripper]] respectively, Melissa to [[VideoGame/KingsRaid Jane]], Iseria to [[Franchise/BlazBlue Murakumo Units/Nu-13]], Specter Tenebria to [[LightNovel/IsekaiCheatMagician Remia]], Martial Artist Ken to [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]], Cermia to ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense Mii]], Aramintha references both [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Roy Mustang and Edward Elric]], etc... The more detailed explanations are written in the respective folders of these ''Epic Seven'' characters.

** Character skills can have varying damage multipliers depending on certain conditions such as the caster's current HP or the enemy's lost HP.
** This also applies to Artifacts such as Daydream Joker, which scales bonus damage depending on the enemy's maximum HP.
* SituationalSword: Artifacts can only be equipped by heroes with the matching class. There are aversions to this trope however, since some artifacts can be equipped by anyone regardless of their class.
* SkillPointReset: The Skill Tree of Specialty Changed Heroes can be reset by paying a hefty sum of Skystones.
* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Given, since damage outputs in this game are determined by factors, most importantly gears. You may have Yuna launching a KillSat laser, or Charles' swing creating a fissure across the area, but their damage can be laughable at 2-3 digits if you don't have decent gear equipped.

** You can recruit a supporter from a friend or another player and both of you can receive Friendship Points which can be traded to obtain some fodders in the Friendship Summon.
** There are many benefits in creating or joining Guilds, such as the chance to earn Mystic Medals, participate in more weekly quests, trade unique consumables with guild members, have more sources for various currencies, request rare items, or participate in additional modes like Guild Wars and World Boss.
* SpellLevels: Skills can be permanently enhanced for higher damage/heal multipliers or for a reduced cooldown. Enhancements are denoted by a plus mark along with a number on the upper right part of the skill icon.
* SphereOfDestruction: Many attacks involve conjuring an orb of energy, such as the ultimate abilities of Bellona, Tenebria or Kayron.
* StandardStatusEffects: Par for the course of an RPG. In this game, we have Bleed, Burn, Poison, Sleep, Silence, Stun, Provoke among many others.

** Ras is the player's starting 3★ Fire Hero for being the protagonist.
** Mercedes is given for free as the first 4★ Fire Hero that everyone obtains.
** Heroes from Connections also count, as they don't involve pulling from the gacha but are instead unlocked by completing specific quests. Most of them can be obtained very early on, making them perfect for beginners. Among them:
*** Yuna is the only 5★ Collection Hero so far, who can be available to everyone outside of the gacha provided that they complete her quests. So if the player is extremely unlucky for a long time and is unable to receive any 5★ Hero from the gacha, Yuna is still there as their technically "first" 5★ Hero.
*** An update on June 11, 2020 included Free Spirit Tieria in the Connection list, which only requires clearing mission 2-10 to acquire her. With this easy task, she can be the first 4★ Moonlight Hero for newcomers, or older players if they are just unlucky with their Moonlight summons.
* StatusBuffDispel: Allies and enemies alike can have access to abilities that strip off the opponent's buffs. This is visually accompanied by a fading pinkish-green mist.
* StoryBreadcrumbs: Once you obtain new characters from the gacha, the only lore tidbits that you can get from them are simple paragraphs. And not everyone can have their own personal spotlight in a Side Story nor have a significant impact in the Main Story. The only other lore content that explains bits of the gacha characters' personalities come in the [[LoveChart Connection graphs]].
* SwordPlant: {{Invoked}} in the "Godkiller" Episode update for the Story mode, wherein the [[EvolvingTitleScreen title screen's background]] and the Episode chapter's loading screens depict the Eye of Faustus (Straze's sword) stabbing the ground.
* SuperMovePortraitAttack: Not just portrait, but the game boasts a short ''full-screen animation'' clip or cut-in that plays everytime a LimitBreak is used. However, this is only available for 4★,5★, and Specialty Changed 3★ Heroes.