History VideoGame / FreedomWars

'''Freedom Wars''' is an ActionGame with ThirdPersonShooter elements for the UsefulNotes/PSVita, developed by Japan Studio, Shift, and Dimps, and published by Sony. It was released in Japan on June 26th, 2014, October 28th in the US, and on the 29th in Europe.

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''[[GratuitousFrench La Vie En Rose]]'' material book contains an "Utopedia" glossary that pretty much defines every person, place, thing, and concept so much as mentioned in the world of ''Freedom Wars''. This includes a massive wealth of information that was never seen or heard of anywhere in the game, including what exactly Will'O is, data on other Panopticons, and what the Fraternity is. [[NoExportForYou Unfortunately, you need to know a little Japanese to read it...]]

* AppliedPhlebotinum: Will'O, the mysterious energy that powers pretty much everything in the game, including the Thorn Whip, your Accessory, Abductors, firearms, etc. The Utopedia from ''[[AllThereInTheManual La Vie En Rose]]'' refers to it as "electric signals of the peoples' will", but essentially boils it down to "electricity of the future".

* BoringButPractical: Spamming the mission "CP100: Retribution - Jakarta". It's a Citizen Reclamation mission where you must extract three Citizens before Warriors of On High do, while being assaulted by an Abductor. You could eliminate the Abductors while stalling the Warriors from On High so you can safely transport the Citizens... Or you can just cut out the middle man and make a beeline straight for the Citizens. If you use the "Protect Citizens" order for your team, you can finish in one to five minutes. This operation cuts ''10,000 years'' off your sentence. You can shave off 100,000 years in '''thirty minutes''' just by playing this mission over and over. Equip Contribution Boosters, and it'll go even '''faster'''.

* BrickJoke: At one point, you buy Sylvia a cone of ice cream, but after a run in with Beatrice, she leaves before she can repay you. [[spoiler:When she helps you and your team escape from Hourai and the impending Retribution, she remarks about having finally paid you back for the ice cream.]]

* ButtonMashing: Used extensively. Be it severing parts, [[PressXToNotDie escaping an Abductor's grasp]], or performing a Dragdown, you gotta mash O.

** The option to change your Accessory's responses to receiving commands, although referred to more than once, was mysteriously removed from the localized version of the game, despite its capability to support multiple languages beyond Japanese, including English.

* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler:Natalia]], the CODE 7 Exam boss. She has two Accessories and a team of allies that grows each time she dies and respawns.

* GuideDangIt: The various item trades and sidequests around your Panopticon. Many are only available for a limited time and require talking to a specific unmarked NPC.

* HoverBoard: The Thrusterboard item, which lets you zoom forward in midair while riding said board.

* IdolSinger: The Propaganda Idols [[MeaningfulName Panna, Opti, and Coni.]] While they don't appear within the context of the game itself, their songs were included as DownloadableContent.

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Exodus' oddly specific special anti-emotion ability against residents of On High. Simeon explains that could only be used once, after which it simply becomes another Polearm.]]

'''Freedom Wars''' is an ActionGame with ThirdPersonShooter elements for the PSVita, developed by Japan Studio, Shift, and Dimps, and published by Sony. It was released in Japan on June 26th, 2014, October 28th in the US, and on the 29th in Europe.

* XMeetsY:
** It's ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' flavored with ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
** Alternately, it's ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' meets ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' meets ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland''.

* NobodyPoops: Averted. According to ''[[AllInTheManual La Vie En Rose]]'', each prisoner's cell has a toilet next to their bed that can be accessed via a panel. This has no bearing in the actual game whatsoever.

-> '''''"Fight Your Way to Freedom!"'''''

* XMeetsY: It's ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' flavored with ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

** So its basically {{God Eater}}.

* {{BFS}}: All Heavy Melee weapons are this flavor. The TB-32/H in particular weighs '''''80kg!'''''

* FanserviceCostumes: The [[AndYourRewardIsClothes bikini and swim trunks]] you get for [[spoiler:working off your sentence. '''''[[DudeWheresMyReward Seriously.]]]]'''''

* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler:The CODE7 and CODE8 exams qualify as this; namely [[FlunkyBoss Natalia]] and the final boss [[DemonicSpiders Peltatum]].]]

* WaveMotionGun: Dionaea-class Abductors can fire one from their head using their horns. If you see it charging and don't have [[NoSell Full of Life]], '''''[[OneHitKill run.]]'''''

* DummiedOut: The option to change your Accessory's responses to receiving commands, although referred to more than once, was mysteriously removed from the localized version of the game, despite its capability to support multiple languages beyond Japanese, including English.

-->''{{Tagline}}''

* ThePresidentsDaughter: Overlaps with LivingMacGuffin. [[spoiler:To open the Casket, you need Beatrice. You and your friends don't figure this out until twenty seconds before Abel makes a DynamicEntry and kidnaps Beatrice.]]

--> '''''"Fight Your Way to Freedom!"'''''
--->''{{Tagline}}''

* CycleOfHurting: The resident flamethrower, Adelring, can StunLock humanoid targets. When Japanese players found this out the hard way, [[InternetCounterattack they weren't happy]], so the Version 1.10 patch addressed this. It still works on the players' end, [[WeaksauceWeakness which makes it ridiculously easy to kill a target like]] [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Abel]]]].

** Peltatum starts the fight like a MightyGlacier, bearing few attacks but a ton of health and certain areas you can't use the Thorn on. Then you deplete its health a little, and it releases the chains attached to it, which turn into eight separate [[DemonicSpider Demonic Spiders]] and trash your team while Peltatum snipes you from behind the lines.

** Paradoxa-class Abductors start off [[MightyGlacier extremely slow and heavily armored]], with almost no direct attacks. Dealing enough damage or rescuing their hostage causes them to detach all their armor, becoming [[LightningBruiser insanely fast and aggressive.]]

** So its basically {{God Eaters}}.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The Dinonea class of Abductor are basically cybernetic dragons.

** TheBigGuy: Uwe.
** TheChick: Elfriede, [[spoiler:Uwe's daughter.]] Also Beatrice at points.

** Peltatum starts the fight like a MightyGlacier, bearing few attacks but a ton of health and certain areas you can't use the Hookshot on. Then you deplete its health a little, and it releases the chains attached to it, which turn into eight separate [[DemonicSpider Demonic Spiders]] and trash your team while Peltatum snipes you from behind the lines.

* ThemeNaming: All On High abductors are named after carnivorous plants. ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinguicula_ramosa Pinguicula ramosa]]'', ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_paradoxa Drosera paradoxa]]'', ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap Dionaea muscipula]]'' and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphyophyllum Triphyophyllum peltatum]]''.

** Played straight with Percy Propa's announcements while walking around the panopticon, as well as in-battle dialogue from characters.

* LeftHanging: The plot leaves ''a lot'' to be desired by its end. [[spoiler: [[PlotHole How was the Casket "opened wrong" if there's only one known way to open it?]] Where did the [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Peltatum]] come from? What exactly is [[EldritchLocation Limbo]]?[[note]]Aries says that she'll explain Limbo later, but since the Casket you eventually get leads directly to Simeon, the rest of Limbo is never brought up again.[[/note]] Who are the "First of the Fallen" and what makes their weapons so powerful? What is the special power that On High has that makes them so powerful and how does Exodus negate it? What is Will'O and why does Beatrice have the unique Will'O signature that opens the Casket? [[NoEnding What happened at the end? Why did Carlos betray you? What happened to starting the Great Transformation? And where's the other two Abductor prototypes?]]]]

* [[MarathonLevel Marathon Game]]: There's a reason almost every mission in the game with an Abductor has a time limit of 45 minutes.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Red Rage

* NoSell: The Full of Life augmentation.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The Casket can only be located and opened by Will'O of a specific signature. Sadly, the only one who gives off that signature is Beatrice.]]

* PuzzleBoss: Peltatum-class Abductors require a deliberate and methodical strategy to defeat, as just attacking them head on like every other abductor will cause them to release all of their chains at the same time, making victory borderline impossible.

* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:After Ann/Hal comes BackFromTheDead via Simeon, your character remains incredulous at how the person in question resurrected, since your character only remembers that person dying, even though said death never happened.]]

* ShipTease: your player character gets a lot with Beatrice male or female.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Zigzagged. Dragonfang walks into AwesomeButImpractical territory, since it's a minigun-sized packet of absurd damage, but has to be carried in two hands and needs to warm up before a blast, allowing most targets to peg you before you even shoot. Barbara's Easy Blaster is a semi-automatic gun, however, and fits in the palm of your hand, so you don't have to lug around heavy weight. Despite this, while both are incredibly effective against humanoid targets or smaller, neither is largely effective against an Abductor of any kind, unless you're EXTREMELY savvy with the module system.

* StuffBlowingUp: The Will'O element, which causes overcharging in Abductors, which causes explosions that deal bonus damage.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Averted. While having the second-shortest range of all autocannons (the first being the Dragonfang), the Aldering flamethrower is an excellent anti-sinner weapon, capable of keeping human targets in stunlock as you roast them crispy.

* WaveMotionGun: Dionaea-class Abductors can fire one from their head using their horns. If you see it charging, '''''[[OneHitKill run.]]''''' [[NoSell Unless you have Full of Life, that is.]]

* WhatTheHellPlayer: Die a lot in a single Operation, and your Accessory will start reprimanding you.
--> '''Accessory''': ''Revival successful. Please minimize wasteful expenditure of life.''

!! Freedom Wars provides examples of:

* ShoutOut: One Citizen on Level 8 opens a conversation with [[Series/MissionImpossible "Your mission, should you choose to accept it..."]]
** One of the nicknames you can select for your character is ComicBook/SuicideSquad.
*** Another callsign you can choose is Film/TheProfessional.

** The standard All-Purpose Biped Abductors bear quite a few similarities to [[NeonGenesisEvangelion the Evangelion Units]].

* PyhrricVictory: Scraping through a mission with less than 20% sustainability left will net you a sentence ''extension'' instead of a reduction.