History VideoGame / FairyTail2020

* SuperMode: All characters can enter an "Awakened" state where their stats are increased for a certain number of turns after their Awakening gauge fills, which also replenishes their HP and MP. Specific characters undergo a "Mode Change" with exclusive attacks when they awaken, such as Dragon Force for any of the Dragon Slayers, or dual elemental Dragon Mode for certain characters such as [[LightningFireJuxtaposition Lightning Fire Dragon Mode]] for Natsu, and Devil Slayer mode for Gray.

''FAIRY TAIL''[[note]][[https://twitter.com/koeitecmoeurope/status/1173583687654490112 officially]] spelled in all caps[[/note]] is a turn-based JRPG based on the manga and anime franchise of the [[Manga/FairyTail same name]] by Creator/HiroMashima. It is published by Creator/KoeiTecmo and developed by its subsidiary Creator/GustCorporation, known for the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' series, from which this game draws numerous gameplay elements. The game was released worldwide for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on July 31, 2020, and for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on July 30.

** The game changes Makarov's reasons for [[BreakingTheFellowship disbanding the guild]] from an uncertain attempt at protecting them from the [[TheEmpire Alvarez Empire]] to quashing the new outcropping of dark guilds and organizations that were after Fairy Tail's heads until the Council was restored, having every intention of seeing Fairy Tail rebuilt by then.

* AdaptationalContextChange: Ultear's HeroicSacrifice to reverse time in the original story is mainly brought about by her losing the will to live after contemplating Rogue's murder, and is done simply to undo the dragon invasion in general. Here, she tries to power through her suicidal thoughts and doesn't consider sacrificing herself until she sees Gray's death firsthand, giving her extra incentive.

** The dragons aren't invulnerable to different forms of magic like they are in the main story, allowing non-Dragon Slayers to deal damage to them, though this one is clearly a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation.

** After getting pierced by Gray's Ice Devil: Zero Destruction Bow, Mard Geer simply [[NoBodyLeftBehind fades back into the ether]] before Zeref can show up, rather than getting turned back into a book and [[KillItWithFire burned]] by Zeref. This also means he doesn't live long enough to witness the utter failure of the Face plan, instead dying fully confident in Tartaros's victory.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The game features a method of breaking out of this. Due to falling from grace over the past seven years, the guild starts out with only the simplest of job requests, while opening the rank chart at the start of the game will show comments from the general populace either mocking Fairy Tail, ignoring them in favor of other guilds, or outright not knowing which guild Fairy Tail is. By raising the guild's rank, the guild will receive better work and more favorable comments until they dominate the talk of the kingdom.

* FinalBoss: Mard Geer fulfills this role in the game, though instead of the matchup of Natsu, Sting, and Rogue before switching the latter two out with Gray, the player's party gradually builds to include all of them, Wendy, and Lucy (who takes Gray's place once he starts PlayingPossum).

** In Erza's story, following her HeelFaceTurn, Minerva gives her a sincere apology for her actions at the Grand Magic Games and in Tartaros, which Erza accepts gladly. She also offers a handmade cake to prove her sincerety.

* NeverTrustATrailer: All promotional material for the game has stated that it covers the plots of the Grand Magic Games and Tartaros arcs, with the climactic battle against Hades serving as a prologue. [[spoiler:After the end credits, however, the story continues with an abridged version of the Avatar arc and the very early portions of the Alvarez Empire arc, focusing on PuttingTheBandBackTogether.]]

** An important point in the manga/anime is that Wendy can't use her Sky Dragon Slayer Magic to heal herself, which is one of the noted biggest differences between herself and Sherria, who ''can''. In-game, likely because it would annoying to have the team healer be unable to do this, Wendy can indeed heal herself.

* AdaptationalCurves: While ''Fairy Tail'' is a WorldOfBuxom, the game exaggerates this to the point that every busty character from the manga has breasts the size of their head now. Even Levy now sports a normal sized chest compared to her flatter self, though it still means she suffers from ACupAngst in the Pool scene.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Any instance of using a Magic Chain will result in your character(s) "[[DestructiveSavior overdoing it]]" with their magic [[RunningGag as usual]], as they continue to wail on enemies after the FinishingMove is done, causing bonus damage. There's also a random chance where an AssistCharacter like [[BigGood Makarov]] will show up and perform their own devastating [[FinishingMove Extreme Magic]].

*** The third day's event is replaced with 2-on-2 battles with two different guilds teaming up, with the victors getting five points instead of the usual ten. The only matchups we get to see are Gray and Lyon vs. Kagura and Ichiya.

* PantyThief: One quest involves Wendy, Erza and Juvia working together to hunt down a laundry thief stealing from the Fairy Hills dormitories. They decide to bait the thief with some of their own underwear in order to lure them out. While we don't get a visual of what they look like, Wendy is apparently quite mortified at what exactly Erza and Juvia like to wear as well as having to offer up her own (even with Erza complimenting their plain but comfortable-looking appearance). [[spoiler:As it turns out, it was actually a pair of bird monsters who stole the underwear because they wanted to line their nests with pretty objects (Wendy's plain underwear was left alone for this reason).]]

Largely focusing on the plot from the Grand Magic Games through the Tartaros arcs and adjacent storylines, the game picks up around the time the Fairy Tail guild's best wizards return after going missing for seven years, only to discover that [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen their guild has severely diminished in prestige in the meantime]]. Players assume the roles of Fairy Tail's members, as well as allies from other guilds, as they take on missions and battles to help rebuild the guild's reputation, expand its resources, and ultimately reclaim its former glory as the greatest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: The game features a method of breaking out of this. Due to falling from grace over the past seven years, the guild starts out with only the simplest of job requests, while opening the rank chart at the start of the game will show comments from the general populace either mocking Fairy Tail, ignoring them in favor of other guilds, or outright not knowing which guild Fairy Tail is. By raising the guild's rank, the guild will receive better work and more favorable comments.

''FAIRY TAIL'' ([[https://twitter.com/koeitecmoeurope/status/1173583687654490112 officially]] spelled in all caps) is a turn-based JRPG based on the manga and anime franchise of the [[Manga/FairyTail same name]] by Creator/HiroMashima. It is published by Creator/KoeiTecmo and developed by its subsidiary Creator/GustCorporation, known for the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' series, from which this game draws numerous gameplay elements. The game was released worldwide for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on July 31, 2020, and for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on July 30.

Largely focusing on the plot from the Grand Magic Games through the Tartaros Arcs and adjacent storylines, the game picks up around the time the Fairy Tail guild's best wizards return after going missing for seven years, only to discover that [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen their guild has severely diminished in prestige in the meantime]]. Players assume the roles of Fairy Tail's members, as well as allies from other guilds, as they take on missions and battles to help rebuild the guild's reputation, expand its resources, and ultimately reclaim its former glory as the greatest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.

** Cana is able to prevent Elfman from destroying the guild hall with Seliah's explosive lacrima by successfully containing it within a card while in the manga/anime she was only able to protect everyone else when it went off. This also allows Fairy Tail after Cube's destruction and being freed from Algeria to regroup at the guild to hash out a strategy against Tartaros before the final battle.

* LicensedGame: This game is the first Gust has based on a pre-existing property, namely a manga series and its coinciding anime adaptation.

** Kagura's character arc is expanded so that she actually meets Jellal face-to-face and makes an attempt on his life in the middle of the Games, but stops thanks to Erza's involvement, which gives her further incentive to attack Erza on the final day. She also [[TeethClenchedTeamwork begrudgingly teams up with them]] against Motherglare's dragonlings, making it clear that she has no intentions of forgiving Jellal. Eventually, the tension between them finally begins to cool when Erza has them work together in Kagura's PostEndGameContent character story, albeit with [[ForgivenButNotForgotten some distance between them]].

** Darton's realization that Princess Hisui used Fairy Tail to help free Arcadios from the dungeon is brought up in the game, but loses most of the sense due to Natsu's team finding him in a regular cell and freeing him entirely on their own without any involvement from Hisui. The most the game suggests is that he always suspected but couldn't confirm that Hisui was connected to Arcadios and so he chose to wait and watch her unsurprised yet satisfied reaction to learning about Fairy Tail's break-in and prison rescue to be certain.

** In the game, Kagura defeats Yukino the exact moment she attempts to summon Pisces and Libra at once. While their match is a CurbStompBattle in all iterations of the story, Yukino at least puts up a fight in the manga and anime, using her two Zodiac spirits Pisces and Libra in quick succession before falling back on her strongest spirit, Ophiuchus, whom she never gets the chance to use.

** Specific characters can perform a Unison Raid together when one character is in an awakened state, such as Gray and Juvia's spiral of [[MakingASplash water]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]] or Sting and Rogue's [[YinYangBomb Holy Shadow Dragon Flash Fang]].

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: enemies and playable characters have weaknesses and resistances based on the abilities that they use. The exceptions among the playable cast are Gildarts, Laxus, Erza, and Kagura, who are all examples of TheAce and have no weaknesses, along with Ichiya, [[ButtMonkey who is weak to every element as well as physical attacks]].

** An important point in the manga/anime is that Wendy can't use her Sky Dragon Slayer Magic to heal herself, which is one of the noted biggest differences between herself and Sherria (who ''can''). In-game, likely because it would annoying to have the team healer be unable to do this, Wendy can indeed heal herself.

* HubLevel: The city of Magnolia serves as this, since it's where Fairy Tail's guildhall is located and all in-game mission requests are posted. Crocus, where the Grand Magic Games are held, serves as a secondary hub from Fairy Tail's inn.

** One talk between Gajeel and Gray and another with Gajeel and Lucy reveals the [[BloodKnight former]] actually likes taking jobs that involve [[BruiserWithASoftCenter teaching and babysitting kids]], and he almost never gets any complaints from the clients either, with the pay being good as a bonus. The game also further shows just how much he adores Lily and gushes over him as an Exceed partner.

* {{Shopkeeper}}: Levy, Lisanna, and Cana fulfill this role at the guild's laboratory (for ItemCrafting), shop (for standard items), and bar (for StatusBuff drinks), respectively.

* StandardStatusEffects: There are six specific status ailments that certain attacks have a chance to land, each one lasting for three turns. Equipping certain lacrima can both increase the chance a character's attacks will land a status ailment on contact, as well as decrease the chance they themselves will receive that status ailment. Mard Geer's [[UnholyNuke Memento Mori]] and Ichiya's Ichiya Virus are the only attacks in the game that have a chance to inflict ''all of them'', often at the same time.
** [[StandardStatusEffects/PoisonPlagueBleeding Poison]]: Will take damage based on remaining HP each turn.
** StandardStatusEffects/{{Burn}}: Will take damage based on remaining HP each turn.
** Freeze: Will go later in the turn order.
** Curse: HP cannot be recovered.
** Fear: Only able to defend.
** [[StandardStatusEffects/ParalyzedStun Paralysis]]: Occasionally unable to act.

Covering the plot from the Grand Magic Games to the Tartaros arcs, the game picks up around the time the Fairy Tail guild's best wizards return after going missing for seven years, only to discover that [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen their guild has severely diminished in prestige in the meantime]]. Players assume the roles of Fairy Tail's members, as well as allies from other guilds, as they take on missions and battles to help rebuild the guild's reputation, expand its resources, and ultimately reclaim its former glory as the greatest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.

* GuestStarPartyMember: Different characters join your party in specific battles as "guests" that are only controlled by the game's AI. While most of these characters can be unlocked later on for [[PromotedToPlayable full playability]], four of them--Flare, Lyon (barring future DLC), Minerva, and Ultear--are exclusively guest characters.

** The opening battle against Hades removes any mention of the outside factors that contribute to his defeat, namely the destruction of his power source and Fairy Tail getting their magic back from the restored Tenrou Tree. Thus, Hades is made to look like a regular InvincibleVillain who loses purely to ThePowerOfFriendship invoked by Natsu's RousingSpeech.

** At the end of the epilogue, [[spoiler:players are allowed to retake the S-Class exam on Tenrou Island, this time simply requiring the party to defeat a [[DamageSpongeBoss Brutal Ogre]]. Doing so will promote all characters in the party (barring those who already have the rank in-story) and make them eligible for S-Class, 10 Year, and 100 Year Quests.]]

* [[LightEmUp Sting Eucliffe]]

* [[AnIcePerson Lyon Vastia]] ([[GuestStarPartyMember Guest]], [[DownloadableContent DLC]])

** One talk between Gajeel and Gray reveals the [[BloodKnight former]] actually likes taking jobs that involve [[BruiserWithASoftCenter teaching and babysitting kids]], and he almost never gets any complaints from the clients either, with the pay being good as a bonus. The game also further shows just how much he adores Lily and gushes over him as an Exceed partner.

** If the Awakening Gauge for a character is filled up, it's possible during battle that once they hit a certain HP threshold and they're targeted during the enemy phase they'll have the option to immediately activate their SuperMode to heal themselves and avoid the attack, which can be useful especially if that attack would have KO'd them. In exchange, however, the Awakened state will only last for one turn rather than the usual three.

** One talk between Gajeel and Gray reveals the [[BloodKnight former]] actually likes taking jobs that involve [[BruiserWithASoftCenter teaching and babysitting kids]], and he almost never gets any complaints from the clients either. The pay's also good as a bonus. The game also further shows just how much he adores Lily and gushes over him as an Exceed partner.
** Minerva is revealed [[spoiler:in Erza's PostEndGameContent]] to actually be a skilled baker.

* PostFinalBoss: After the FinalBoss fight against Mard Geer, [[spoiler:the last proper boss fight in the epilogue sequence is Ikusa-Tsunagi, the WarGod summoned by Avatar, while the final enemy faced in the story itself is a powerful [[BossInMookClothing Brutal Ogre]] that characters must face for their S-Class promotional trial.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: It's been [[https://twitter.com/KoeiTecmoUS/status/1288205223605841920 confirmed]] that Lyon, Levy, Lisanna, and Elfman--the first being an AI-controlled GuestStarPartyMember, and the rest all being [=NPCs=]--will be made playable via DownloadableContent.

** Cana's name is spelled as "Kanna" instead, whereas "Kana" is usually the alternative in Japan.

%%* AdaptedOut: ZigZagged, as several characters make no onscreen appearance in the game as a result of the CompressedAdaptation, but whereas several are removed completely, others are still stated or implied to be there, but have zero presence otherwise.

* StandardStatusEffects: There are six specific status aliments that certain attacks have a chance to land, each one lasting for three turns. Equipping certain lacrima can both increase the chance a character's attacks will land a status aliment on contact, as well as decrease the chance they themselves will receive that status aliment. Mard Geer's [[UnholyNuke Memento Mori]] is the only attack in the game that has a chance to inflict ''all of them'', often at the same time.

* HiddenDepths: One talk between Gajeel and Gray reveals the [[BloodKnight former]] actually likes taking jobs that involve [[BruiserWithASoftCenter teaching and babysitting kids]], and he almost never gets any complaints from the clients either. The pay's also good as a bonus.

* LoveConfession: Erza's PostEndGameContent has her receiving an anonymous letter from someone wanting to talk to her alone in private about their feelings, which leaves her wondering if it's a secret admirer wanting to confess. [[spoiler:It's actually Minvera, who wanted to apologize formally for everything she's done to her (and no, it wasn't a LoveConfession, with her even admitting Erza isn't her type, to Erza's embarrassed relief).]]