History VideoGame / ExitFate

* RapunzelHair: Most of the female characters, prominent to the point where it's obviously AuthorAppeal; e. g. Angel, Brunhild, Francesca, Griever, Marian, Naja, Petra, Tarlia, Tiamat, Tiffany, and Wilona. Some males too, like Daniel and Avelion.

* AntiFrustrationFeature: The bribe system is really helpful and solves two annoying features of random battles commonly found in [=RPGs=]. The first is, once you get to know the area, it will tell you what type of encounter you get before you battle by the price of the bribe, and the second is it will allow you to skip the battle, which means you can avoid annoying or otherwise inopportune enemies, such as enemies with strong melee attacks when training up mages or enemies comparable to a BossInMooksClothing.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GHPwnUGj0Q Teej's song]] reaches 9-10. Since most of the game's music comes from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' and the PSX-era Franchise/FinalFantasy and VideoGame/{{Suikoden}} games, it's [[AnachronismStew a bit of a contrast]].

* StandardStatusEffects: Including some that aren't so standard. Like in ''VideoGame/LastScenario'', [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard enemies use them relentlessly on you, but you don't get them]]. You can still use buffs, though.

** One of the random encounter monsters in Vanrushal's mansion is a little vampire girl who looks exactly like [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Remilia Scarlet]].
** Similarly, Vanrushal references one of Remilia's win quotes against Patchouli from the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' FightingGame SpinOff ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody':

* ChickMagnet / EvenTheGuysWantHim: A rather impressive proportion of the cast seems to have a crush on Daniel.
* ChildhoodFriends: Daniel, Angel and Jovian.

* ChurchMilitant: Deus and Luther.
* ClickHello: Done by Clint to [[spoiler:Brunhild]].

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Played for both comedy and as a show of Yan Angwa's personality when he doesn't see what's special about "frozen water" appearing in the middle of the Oischin Forest... despite both Daniel and Ljusalf explaining it right before asking him.

* CoolOldGuy:
** Bast, in spades.
** Rashnu, although he's a bit... eccentric.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Trevor and Sick.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Complete with an elf saying "We are closer to the elements". [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything They don't do much]], however, since they want to maintain political neutrality.

** More like "Erin, Daniel, Myst, and Ayara". And all those other characters with weird names. ''Ljusalf, we're looking at you''.[[note]]Though at least he has the excuse of being an elf.[[/note]]
** Perhaps the ultimate example: Rorschach (whose sister is named Rosa) trained under ninja master Gilbert alongside Yomiko.
** [[UpTo11 This example can be topped.]] A circle of 9 druids include Vardak, Shorak, Milthanis, Marketh, Qualeth, Rivalna, Thistral, Feru... and Alex. [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Guess which one you can recruit?]]

* DifficultySpike: The last war battle. The enemy has you outmaneuvered, and even if you've recruited every single character, you're seriously outnumbered, too. It doesn't help that thanks to the plot, Daniel's unit, which you have to keep alive to win, is ''right in the middle of the battlefield'', separated from all your other minions (although you can return into their lines within a single turn by moving him back and the other units forward). All the previous battles could be beaten without too much pain if you were prepared, but this one tends to mean a whole lot of restarts, and will in all likelihood net you a [[MedalOfDishonor Badge of Shame]].

* PlotTumor: The [[spoiler:Demon Commandos]] practically have an arc devoted to defeating them, though TropesAreNotBad...

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Despite [[YouFailLogicForever what Luther says]], this is not because they play organs.

Never confuse the protagonist, Daniel Vinyard, with the similarly-named character ([[NamesTheSame Daniel Vin]]'''e'''[[NamesTheSame yard]]) of ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''. This work is also not about exiting ''{{Fate}}''.

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler: General Leonius]]. Also [[spoiler:Boris the second time you fight him]] and [[spoiler:Brunhild right before the final battle, since she was extremely powerful when you faced her before, and you are supposed to think that she's the FinalBoss.]]

* [[spoiler:ForgottenFriendNewFoe: Daniel and Brunhild.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: You cannot equip armor on non-humanoid characters.

* [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight "I Know You're In There Somewhere" Fight]]: After meeting [[spoiler:Brunhild]] at Kelsinger Pass, [[spoiler:Daniel]] regains control maybe two seconds before killing his companions.

* [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Item]]: The Holy Grail is ''incredibly'' useful - equip a character with it and they can use it infinite times to pretty significantly heal anyone in the party for free.

* OutOfFocus: Many characters who were important in the beginning are just pushed into the background later on. Of course, this makes a certain amount of sense, given [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacter the number of characters]] and the increasing scope of the conflict. The game developer was clearly aware of this, too; there's an entire mini-arc around chapters 6 and 7 where Ayara gets depressed because Daniel doesn't pay as much attention to her anymore.

* TheKingdom: Kirgard wants to take over Zelmony to prevent future conflict between the nations.

* DuelBoss: At one point, Daniel is forced to fight off an assassin by himself. [[spoiler:Leonius]] also requests, and is granted, a one-one-one fight.

Never confuse the protagonist, Daniel Vinyard, with the similarly-named character ([[NamesTheSame Daniel Vin]]'''e'''[[NamesTheSame yard]]) of AmericanHistoryX. This work is also not about exiting ''{{Fate}}''.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Status effects. Enemies use them all the time, you don't have them, and you can't even prevent them the way you can in ''LastScenario''. On the plus side, ''positive'' status effects are extremely helpful.

* ContinuityNod: There is a man in one town telling his grandchildren a story about "a boy who wanted to become a hero." For other references to ''LastScenario'', see the ShoutOut examples on this page.

** Keyser is pretty much what [[LastScenario Drakovic]] would be if he wasn't a NonActionGuy.

** Bosses: Riftgate, Pestilence, and Rashnu. As one could expect, they're not the same persons/creatures though; some of them, however share the fighting style of their namesake. One example is the [[OurMonstersAreWeird Riftgate]], which [[ThatOneBoss stomped you into the ground by being almost immune to everything except non-elemental magic]] in LastScenario, but has rather low defense in ''Exit Fate''. However, its attacks are almost the same, and it looks the same despite being yellow instead of black...

** Several to SCF's first game, ''LastScenario'':

*** Sef with his [[TheFundamentalist fanatic]] [[HeroicWannabe heroism]] is kind of a [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]] version of [[LastScenario Hilbert]], with religion thrown in. Plus their uncanny resemblence.

*** Or the druids' names, which already were those of Havali {{NPC}}s in ''LastScenario''.

* SignatureStyle: ''Exit Fate'' features a NeutralGood protagonist seeking peace and justice, a complex situation with three countries in a war, many [[ManBehindTheMan men behind the men]], and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. SCF seems to [[AuthorAppeal like]] those tropes and motives, considering the fact that aforementioned elements were also formative for LastScenario.[[note]]Though he could have done this deliberately to make the fans expect such a plot in his next game just to pick it apart then, seeing as how both his games have some elements of {{Deconstruction}}, {{Subversion}} and other kinds of PlayingWithATrope.[[/note]]

* StandardStatusEffects: Including some that aren't so standard. Like in LastScenario, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard enemies use them relentlessly on you, but you don't get them]]. You can still use buffs, though.

* SwirlyEnergyThingy: The Riftgate, which (sort of) returns from LastScenario, is a living, malevolent one.

* BodyguardCrush: Ayara as some very severe elements of this. Jasper isn't quite as bad, but it's still there.

* OminousPipeOrgan: Vanrushal's battle theme, taken from ''SuikodenII'.

** Luther and Vanrushal are parodies of Kahn Marley and Neclord from the {{Suikoden}} series respectively.
** ''SuikodenII'': Boris looks much like Kiba, and Ash could be called a more subtle version of Luca Blight. [[StoneWall Sormaus]] looks just like Bolgan, complete with the hair.

* TheHunter: Clint.

* LostForever: Mostly averted! Not a single potential party member in the game can be permanently missed. Secret dialogues and special boss items, however, can. (What do you mean, you didn't haul along an otherwise-useless thief character and protect them while they [[LuckBasedMission attempt]] to [[VideoGameStealing steal that armor]] from the boss?)

** Griever wields the {{Dragonlance}}.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: The armies have literally hundreds of people dying on each side, but the importance of one noteworthy character's fate is more important than the rest.

* TheKnightsTemplar: Tons of "Crusaders" in Avalon.