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''I Am Setsuna'', or ''イケニエと雪のセツナ (A Sacrifice and Setsuna of the Snow)'' in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for [=PlayStation=] 4 and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in 2017.

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''I Am Setsuna'', or ''イケニエと雪のセツナ (A Sacrifice and Setsuna of the Snow)'' in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 Platform/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita Platform/PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for [=PlayStation=] 4 and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Platform/MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch in 2017.
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* CoolAirship: The airship the party gets has a cool little history. [[spoiler:It's part of an old myth that the royal family Julienne descends from escaped on it when the Dark Samsara began its attack on their kingdom, and it's sealed away in ruins that require someone with royal blood to access. From there, the royal's character is tested by the ruins and the royal family's old guardian. Only upon passing the tests and defeating the guardian can the royal and their companions use the ship, whose key also grants them access to everything with the ship's associated symbol[[note]]The Time elemental symbol, which you can also see on Aeterna's status bar in the menu and on the back of the monster that attacks Kir's village.[[/note]] on it -- from locked chests to ruins.]] You can name it, too, but the default is "Diange".

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* CoolAirship: The airship the party gets has a cool little history. [[spoiler:It's part of an old myth that the royal family Julienne descends from escaped on it when the Dark Samsara began its attack on their kingdom, and it's sealed away in ruins that require someone with royal blood to access. From there, the royal's character is tested by the ruins and the royal family's old guardian. Only upon passing the tests and defeating the guardian can the royal and their companions use the ship, whose key also grants them access to everything with the ship's associated symbol[[note]]The Time elemental symbol, which you can also see on Aeterna's [[StatusLine status bar bar]] in the menu and on the back of the monster that attacks Kir's village.[[/note]] on it -- from locked chests to ruins.]] You can name it, too, but the default is "Diange".

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* BonusBoss: Every boss from the personal quests is optional, but completing the quests gives you the character's ultimate spiritnite and sometimes [[InfinityPlusOneSword their final weapon]]. Once you have cleared all the resurrected bosses in the three ruins, you face [[spoiler:The Ruler Of Time]].


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* OptionalBoss: Every boss from the personal quests is optional, but completing the quests gives you the character's ultimate spiritnite and sometimes [[InfinityPlusOneSword their final weapon]]. Once you have cleared all the resurrected bosses in the three ruins, you face [[spoiler:The Ruler Of Time]].

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* AmazonBrigade: Though Endir is nominally the player's POV character, there's nothing preventing you from using Setsuna, Aeterna and Julienne as your party throughout the entire game.

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* AmazonBrigade: Though Endir is nominally the player's POV character, there's nothing preventing you from using Setsuna, Aeterna Aeterna, and Julienne as your party throughout the entire game.



* BonusBoss: Every boss from the personal quests are optional, but completing the quests gives you the final spell of the character and sometimes [[InfinityPlusOneSword their final weapon]]. Once you have cleared all the resurrected bosses in the three ruins, you face [[spoiler:The Ruler Of Time]].

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** TallPoppySyndrome: There's a rare subspecies of rare-bloods who get even greater power and are near-immortal... except they're the ''first'' to be targeted by everyone. [[spoiler:Three sisters with these powers were captured, enslaved, and tortured until they wanted the world to end.]]
* BonusBoss: Every boss from the personal quests are is optional, but completing the quests gives you the final spell of the character character's ultimate spiritnite and sometimes [[InfinityPlusOneSword their final weapon]]. Once you have cleared all the resurrected bosses in the three ruins, you face [[spoiler:The Ruler Of Time]].



* CoolAirship: The airship the party gets has a cool little history. [[spoiler: It's part of an old myth that the royal family Julienne descends from escaped on it when the Dark Samsara began its attack on their kingdom, and it's sealed away in ruins that require someone with royal blood to access. From there, the royal's character is tested by the ruins and the royal family's old guardian. Only upon passing the tests and defeating the guardian can the royal and their companions use the ship, whose key also grants them access to everything with the ship's associated symbol[[note]]The Time elemental symbol, which you can also see on Aeterna's status bar in the menu and on the back of the monster that attacks Kir's village.[[/note]] on it -- from locked chests to ruins.]] You can name it, too, but the default is "Diange".

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* CoolAirship: The airship the party gets has a cool little history. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's part of an old myth that the royal family Julienne descends from escaped on it when the Dark Samsara began its attack on their kingdom, and it's sealed away in ruins that require someone with royal blood to access. From there, the royal's character is tested by the ruins and the royal family's old guardian. Only upon passing the tests and defeating the guardian can the royal and their companions use the ship, whose key also grants them access to everything with the ship's associated symbol[[note]]The Time elemental symbol, which you can also see on Aeterna's status bar in the menu and on the back of the monster that attacks Kir's village.[[/note]] on it -- from locked chests to ruins.]] You can name it, too, but the default is "Diange".



* DungeonBasedEconomy: Justified; adventurers sell monster parts to the Magic Consortium, who then turn the monster parts into the magic-granting spiritnite which is vital to everyone's survival. Selling monster parts is considered a way of life for anyone who can kill monsters.



** [[spoiler:In the tutorial forest where Hapsper guides Endir through a job, Endir encounters the first save point. If you ask Hapsper "What's this?", Hapsper evidently doesn't see it, and figures Endir simply senses monsters up ahead.]] This oddity only comes up again at the very end of the game, where [[spoiler:the save point are magic trails across timelines that only Setsuna and Endir can see.]]

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** [[spoiler:In the tutorial forest where Hapsper guides Endir through a job, Endir encounters the first save point. If you ask Hapsper "What's this?", Hapsper evidently doesn't see it, and figures Endir simply senses monsters up ahead.]] This oddity only comes up again at the very end of the game, where you learn that [[spoiler:the save point points are magic trails across timelines that only Setsuna and Endir can see.]]



* TheFourGods: [[spoiler: The four monsters that are part of the Dark Samsara's power are based on them: the Vermillion-Winged Beast, the Azure-Scaled Beast, the Onyx-Shelled Beast, and the White-Fanged Beast.]]

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* TheFourGods: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The four monsters that are part of the Dark Samsara's power are based on them: the Vermillion-Winged Beast, the Azure-Scaled Beast, the Onyx-Shelled Beast, and the White-Fanged Beast.]]



* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that adds Techs. Each character has 16 unique Spritnites, and there are also Passive Spritnites which anyone can equip. This system has the unintended side effect of ripping the bottom out of the whole "CombinationAttack" idea: while basically every Spritnite has at least one Double or Triple Tech associated with it, there is no guarantee that you ''own'' all necessary Spritnites in question (a lot of them are [[GuideDangIt hard to find]]), nor that they will be equipped once you have them. Besides, even if you get all of them ''and'' the best equipment, you're still limited to 12 slots per character.
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:The game is set in one where the Time Judge has constantly reset time when the party chooses to avoid fighting the final boss, essentially forcing her to rewind the clock until a deviation appeared with Endir and the Reaper.]]

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* TheGoomba: Pengies. They're monster penguins with giant-toothed maws hidden behind their adorable beaks. They don't do much. Even their spiritnite-infused elites are fairly easy to farm.
* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that adds Techs. Each character has 16 unique Command (active) Spritnites, and there are also Passive dozens of Support (passive) Spritnites which anyone can equip. This system has the unintended side effect of ripping the bottom out of the whole "CombinationAttack" idea: while basically while every Command Spritnite has at least one Double or Triple Tech associated with it, there is no guarantee that you ''own'' all necessary Spritnites in question (a lot of them are [[GuideDangIt hard to find]]), nor that they will be equipped once you have them. Besides, even if you get all of them ''and'' the best equipment, you're still limited to a maximum of 12 slots per character.
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:The game is set in one where the Time Judge has constantly reset time when the party chooses to avoid fighting the final boss, essentially forcing her to rewind the clock until a ''major'' deviation appeared with Endir (Endir and the Reaper.Reaper weren't in past loops, monsters didn't grow intelligent, there wasn't a ''giant chasm'' surrounding the Last Lands, etc.).]]



** Character portrait = party member, every single time. Even major villains like the Reaper don't get them [[spoiler: until he joins the party.]]

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** Character portrait = party member, every single time. Even major villains like the Reaper don't get them [[spoiler: until [[spoiler:until he joins the party.]]



* ItCanThink: To everyone's surprise, the otherwise feral monsters have grown brains recently.
** There's an entire monster type called 'intelligent monsters', implying that sapient monsters have not been seen long enough to divide them into proper subtypes.
** Vespera-type monsters are kitsunes who have learned how to mimic humans, with higher tiers learning more mannerisms and fine details.
** The Carboceros Beetle, a shapeshifting physical adept, manages to fool the party into charging into the lion's den. [[spoiler:He's angry about losing his mother. Setsuna manages to convince him to try and make friends with the other humans.]]
** Stout Sheep manages to command the other monsters into fighting with strategy instead of charging blindly, and even has a taste for fashion.
** The Final Boss has, over a thousand years, developed sapience [[spoiler:and even manages to reverse-engineer and improve upon the Time Judge's magic, creating a time portal in a last-ditch effort to rewrite his defeat]].



* LeakedExperience: Present for the LazyBackup characters.

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* LeakedExperience: Present for the LazyBackup characters.characters; they receive about half the exp.



* MeaningfulName: Endir is named エンド/Endo/End in Japan. Feeling it's a strange name, especially for an English release, they changed it for Endir. [[spoiler:His Japanese name foreshadows that Endir is the only character with Setsuna during the ending.]]

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* MeaningfulName: Endir is named エンド/Endo/End in Japan. Feeling it's a strange name, especially for an English release, they changed it for Endir. [[spoiler:His Japanese name foreshadows that Endir is the only character with Setsuna during the ending.ending, and possibly her executioner (in other words, her ''ender'').]]
* MetalSlime: ''Owl monsters''. They occasionally replace a normal monster in a squad, they have high evasion, and they'll usually use their first turn to flee. They also carry a variety of high-quality spiritnite materials. Did we mention that one of their rarest items involves somehow hitting this high-dodge enemy with a regular attack while they're poised to flee the first chance they get? [[spoiler:Thankfully, you can always find a crystalline owl in a specific spot in Mistleigh Woods. It's near an exit, so you can quickly farm them.
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** [[spoiler:Lord Dumas ignored his family to staunchly protect his kingdom, until his wife died due to his negligence. This also turned his son ruthless and conniving, driving Dumas into self-imposed exile.]]
** [[spoiler:Sayagi's party couldn't overcome the tiger monster guarding the detour and they got creamed. Sayagi and her sister survived, but Sayagi suffered near-fatal injuries, so her sister had to take her place as the sacrifice. Embittered by the whole experience and survivor's guilt, she spent decades brainwashing the nearby town into forgetting its existence. The party eventually convinces her to help.]]



** Spiritnite-infused monsters in general are monsters that somehow managed to consume their polar opposite (spiritnites) without dying, and are generally stronger than their counterparts but give high-tier rare items and a ton of exp. Here are some examples:



** In the Twallusk Mountain, there's a set of enemies called Silvara near the entrance. They're ''extremely'' dangerous due to their high damage output and ability to inflict Freeze on your party, which counts as a "dead" status effect. If defeated, the enemies yield an enormous 3000 experience points. An hour or so, and you'll barely have any troubles for the rest of the game.
** Right at the west entrance to Floeberg Waters is a group of Spritnite-eaten Pengies. Get the drop on them and kill them with a Blowbeat or your favorite Triple Tech, and you'll get a whopping 5000 XP (7500 with the XP-boosting soup). Then exit to the world map, come back, rinse and repeat.

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** In the Twallusk Mountain, there's a set of enemies called Silvara near the entrance. They're ''extremely'' dangerous due to their high damage output and ability to inflict Freeze on your party, which counts as a "dead" status effect. If defeated, However, if you can scavenge the enemies spiritnite needed to form a triple combo[[note]]This troper used Endir's Shock, Kir's Enflame, and Julienne's Enfrost to cast Stardust Fall and put the hurt on them.[[/note]], they'll go down fairly quickly and yield an enormous 3000 experience points. An hour or so, so of grinding them, and you'll barely have any troubles for the rest of the game.
** Right After you get the airship, more spiritnite-infused species will show up. Most will wipe the floor with an unprepared player, but right at the west entrance to Floeberg Waters is a group of Spritnite-eaten Pengies.''[[TheGoomba Pengies]]''. Get the drop on them and kill them with a Blowbeat or your favorite Triple Tech, and you'll get a whopping 5000 XP (7500 with the XP-boosting soup). Then exit to the world map, come back, rinse and repeat.
* RareRandomDrop: While monster families typically share their drop pools, most monster species have a unique rare item on their drop table, especially the spiritnite-infused versions. Have fun farming.



* ShopFodder: Most monsters drop items that need to be sold to the Magic Consortium to unlock Spritnite.

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* ShopFodder: Most Almost all monsters drop items that need to be sold to the Magic Consortium to unlock Spritnite.



* SnowMeansDeath: It's constantly snowing in the game's setting, and as the party travels there are plenty of reminders that they're on this journey to take Setsuna to the place where she has to die. That said, Setsuna takes many opportunities to show off the flipside and talk about how valuable life and the future are.

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* SnowMeansDeath: It's constantly snowing in the game's setting, and as the party travels there are plenty of reminders that they're on this journey to take Setsuna to the place where she has to die. There are also many snow-pelted ghost towns and plains where civilization has died off or fled. That said, Setsuna takes many opportunities to show off the flipside and talk about how valuable life and the future are.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Lord Avalo]] is the primary example, with [[spoiler:Sayagi]] trailing due to the lesser scope of that person's plan.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Lord Avalo]] is the primary example, made a deal with an intelligent monster to sacrifice refugees in exchange for a monster army to protect his kingdom.
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[[spoiler:Sayagi]] trailing due brainwashed an entire town into forgetting about a cave path in order to prevent anyone from meeting the lesser scope of that person's plan.murder-tiger hiding inside.
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* TooDumbToLive: It isn't very smart to have someone who was hired to kill you accompany you on your journey. Even Aeterna (very understandably) points out the problem.
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** After [[spoiler: Julienne]] joins, the player might notice there's room for one more party member in the menu...

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* {{Sidequest}}: One per character. They become available after you beat the penultimate boss.

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* {{Sidequest}}: One per character. They become available after you beat ShopFodder: Most monsters drop items that need to be sold to the penultimate boss.Magic Consortium to unlock Spritnite.



* {{Sidequest}}: One per character. They become available after you beat the penultimate boss.



* VendorTrash: Most monsters drop this. They then need to be sold to the Magic Consortium to unlock Spritnite.
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* TooDumbToLive: It isn't very smart to have someone who was hired to kill you accompany you on your journey. Even Aeterna (very understandably) points out the problem.
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* WholePlotReference: A land ravaged by monsters and general malaise requires a sacrifice be made, typically a young maiden who goes on a pilgrimage with a party of hand-picked companions to the ruins of an ancient civilization, where the woman will give up her life in order to create a temporary respite from the monsters. It's the ''third'' video game this century to feature this plot, after ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''.

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* WholePlotReference: A land ravaged by monsters and general malaise requires a sacrifice be made, typically a young maiden who goes on a pilgrimage with a party of hand-picked companions to the ruins of an ancient civilization, where the woman will give up her life in order to create a temporary respite from the monsters. This cycle has lasted for hundreds of years... but the male {{protagonist}}, a WildCard, is here to break the cycle. It's the ''third'' video game this century to feature this plot, after ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''.
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* BlueIsHeroic: Endir's design is very bright blue. The FlavourText for Julienne's Masayume also mentions that blue is a holy color, but the idea isn't expounded on otherwise.
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* PaletteSwap: A big offender, almost every enemy has at least one reskinned version, and some have two or three. Some of the bosses get reused as well, mostly for sidequests.

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* AdorableEvilMinions: Much ado is made about how horrible the monsters are, that they're an evil, unholy scourge on the land. But most of them look more like cute mascot characters than TheLegionsOfHell.



* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Monsters explode into purple smoke when killed. Bosses do so on a [[StuffBlowingUp much larger scale,]] complete with PreExplosionGlow.



* GuideDangIt: The components for some Spritnite, and thus those techs, will only drop if you kill the carrying enemy with an attack of the right element. Finding the component you need is often a matter of luck (kill the right enemy in the right way), but many later techs have multiple elements as part of their damage, making the task much easier to do as the game progresses.

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** Like Chrono Trigger, several character-specific subquests open up near the end of the game. ''Unlike'' Chrono Trigger, there are no hints to where they are or even that they've opened up at all, aside from a vague hint that you might need more powerful Spritnite.



* InterfaceSpoiler: Around Purikka, there are two possible {{BFS}}-wielders who the game hints might join your party. You are given the option to [[HelloInsertNameHere rename]] one of them. Guess which one joins.

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** Character portrait = party member, every single time. Even major villains like the Reaper don't get them [[spoiler: until he joins the party.]]


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** Right at the west entrance to Floeberg Waters is a group of Spritnite-eaten Pengies. Get the drop on them and kill them with a Blowbeat or your favorite Triple Tech, and you'll get a whopping 5000 XP (7500 with the XP-boosting soup). Then exit to the world map, come back, rinse and repeat.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Julienne is explicitly described as her village's princess, but the specifics of her inheritance are not detailed.

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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:Endir and Setsuna are thrown into the past to follow after Dark Samsara. They meet a human-like form of Dark Samsara, which Endir defeats quickly. Setsuna takes the monster's soul inside her and asks Endir to kill her along with it. Whether Endir kills Setsuna or not is left to the player's imagination. Roll credits. [[TheStinger A post-credits scene]] shows Endir walking alone in the snow, as Setsuna appears behind him. Are they still in the past? Is Setsuna alive or she a ghost? The game gives no answer on any of this.]]



* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Endir and Setsuna are thrown into the past to follow after Dark Samsara. They meet a human-like form of Dark Samsara, which Endir defeats quickly. Setsuna takes the monster's soul inside her and asks Endir to kill her along with it. Whether Endir kills Setsuna or not is left to the player's imagination. Roll credits. [[TheStinger A post-credits scene]] shows Endir walking alone in the snow, as Setsuna somehow resurrects/reincarnates behind him. Are they still in the past? Is Setsuna alive? Is she a ghost? The game gives no answer on any of this.]]
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No relation to "[[IAmTheNoun I am]] Franchise/{{Gundam}}," which [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 another Setsuna]] has declared.
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The game begins on a snowbound island, which is regularly beset by angry demons. According to an ancient custom, a maiden is sacrificed to appease the demons. The demons grow restless once again, and a girl known as Setsuna is chosen as the sacrifice. Together with a taciturn mercenary named Endir, a former traveler named Aeterna, and a carefree veteran soldier named Nidr, Setsuna begins her journey to the ritual site on the edges of the known world where the sacrifice will take place. Taken straight from Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

The game takes heavy inspirations from 16 & 32 bits consoles JRPG, most notably ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. The gameplay and magic system are heavily inspired by ''Chrono Trigger'', except you can choose which move you want to equip or not, with the obligatory Dual Techs and Triple Techs.

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The game begins on a snowbound island, which is regularly beset by angry demons. According to an ancient custom, a maiden is sacrificed to appease the demons. The When the demons grow restless once again, and restless, a girl known as Setsuna is chosen as the sacrifice. Together with a taciturn mercenary named Endir, a former traveler named Aeterna, and a carefree veteran soldier named Nidr, Setsuna begins her journey to the ritual site on the edges of the known world where the sacrifice will take place. Taken straight from Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

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The game takes heavy inspirations inspiration from 16 & and 32 bits consoles JRPG, [=JRPGs=], most notably ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. The gameplay and magic system are heavily inspired by ''Chrono Trigger'', except you can choose which move you want to equip or not, not with the obligatory Dual Techs and Triple Techs.Techs.

A spiritual successor, ''VideoGame/LostSphear'', was released in 2017.
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** In Morbrise Mountain, towards the exit, there is a sprinite-eaten monster called a Glow-poly. It has very high evasion, making it difficult to damage, but its actual damage output is quite low, meaning it's easy to just wait the battle out until your hits eventually connect. It gives [[MetalSlime one thousand EXP per kill]] at a time when other enemy encounters aren't even hitting 100, and it respawns. It's enough to get your characters several levels up in a short amount of time.

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** In Morbrise Mountain, towards the exit, there is a sprinite-eaten Spritnite-eaten monster called a Glow-poly. It has very high evasion, making it difficult to damage, but its actual damage output is quite low, meaning it's easy to just wait the battle out until your hits eventually connect. It gives [[MetalSlime one thousand EXP per kill]] at a time when other enemy encounters aren't even hitting 100, and it respawns. It's enough to get your characters several levels up in a short amount of time.

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** Many powerful weapons are based on or inspired by well-known RPG characters. For example, Lucca's Staff and the Masayume are based on Lucca's hammer and Frog's Masamune from ''Chrono Trigger'', and the Nidr's Paladin's Sword is closely modeled after the Buster Sword in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''.

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** Many powerful weapons are based on or inspired by well-known RPG characters. For example, Lucca's Staff and the Masayume are based on Lucca's hammer and Frog's Masamune from Every party member gets a late-game weapon that is an explicit reference to ''Chrono Trigger'', Trigger'' (Endir gets the Rainbow, for example), and the Nidr's Paladin's Sword is closely modeled after the Buster Sword in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''.

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* GuideDangIt: The components for some Spritnite, and thus those techs, will only drop if you kill the carrying enemy with an attack of the right element. This is spelled out poorly, if at all, by the game.

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* GuideDangIt: The components for some Spritnite, and thus those techs, will only drop if you kill the carrying enemy with an attack of the right element. This is spelled out poorly, if at all, by Finding the game.component you need is often a matter of luck (kill the right enemy in the right way), but many later techs have multiple elements as part of their damage, making the task much easier to do as the game progresses.

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''I Am Setsuna'', or ''イケニエと雪のセツナ (A Sacrifice and Setsuna of the Snow)'' in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for [=PlayStation=] 4 and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and set to appear on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2017.

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''I Am Setsuna'', or ''イケニエと雪のセツナ (A Sacrifice and Setsuna of the Snow)'' in Japan, is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. It was released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in Japan in February 2016, worldwide for [=PlayStation=] 4 and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in July 2016, and set to appear on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in March 2017.
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The game begins on a snow-bound island, which is regularly beset by angry demons. According to an ancient custom, a maiden is sacrificed to appease the demons. The demons grow restless once again, and a girl known as Setsuna is chosen as the sacrifice. Together with a taciturn mercenary named Endir, a former traveler named Aeterna, and a carefree veteran soldier named Nidr, Setsuna begins her journey to the ritual site on the edges of the known world where the sacrifice will take place. Taken straight from Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

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The game begins on a snow-bound snowbound island, which is regularly beset by angry demons. According to an ancient custom, a maiden is sacrificed to appease the demons. The demons grow restless once again, and a girl known as Setsuna is chosen as the sacrifice. Together with a taciturn mercenary named Endir, a former traveler named Aeterna, and a carefree veteran soldier named Nidr, Setsuna begins her journey to the ritual site on the edges of the known world where the sacrifice will take place. Taken straight from Wiki/TheOtherWiki.



* BossInMooksClothing: Some of the sprinite-eaten monsters can be ''far'' more dangerous than the bosses in the main story, and give you extremely large amounts of experience for your trouble.

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* BossInMooksClothing: Some of the sprinite-eaten Spritnite-eaten monsters can be ''far'' more dangerous than the bosses in the main story, and give you extremely large amounts of experience for your trouble.



** [[spoiler:In the tutorial forest where Hapsper guides Endir through a job, Endir encounters the first save point. If you ask Hapsper "What's this?", Hapsper evidently doesn't see it, and figures Endir simple senses monsters up ahead.]] This oddity only comes up again at the very end of the game, where [[spoiler:the save point are magic trails across timelines that only Setsuna and Endir can see.]]

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** [[spoiler:In the tutorial forest where Hapsper guides Endir through a job, Endir encounters the first save point. If you ask Hapsper "What's this?", Hapsper evidently doesn't see it, and figures Endir simple simply senses monsters up ahead.]] This oddity only comes up again at the very end of the game, where [[spoiler:the save point are magic trails across timelines that only Setsuna and Endir can see.]]



* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that adds Techs. Each character has 16 unique Spritnites; there are also Passive Spritnites which anyone can equip. This system has the unintended side effect of ripping the bottom out of the whole "CombinationAttack" idea: while basically every Spritnite has at least one Double or Triple Tech associated with it, there is no guarantee that you ''own'' all necessary Spritnites in question (a lot of them are [[GuideDangIt hard to find]]), nor that they will be equipped once you have them. Besides, even if you get all of them ''and'' the best equipment, you're still limited to 12 slots per character.

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* GreenRocks: Spritnite, a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Materia]]-esque system that adds Techs. Each character has 16 unique Spritnites; Spritnites, and there are also Passive Spritnites which anyone can equip. This system has the unintended side effect of ripping the bottom out of the whole "CombinationAttack" idea: while basically every Spritnite has at least one Double or Triple Tech associated with it, there is no guarantee that you ''own'' all necessary Spritnites in question (a lot of them are [[GuideDangIt hard to find]]), nor that they will be equipped once you have them. Besides, even if you get all of them ''and'' the best equipment, you're still limited to 12 slots per character.

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