History VideoGame / IDOLAPhantasyStarSaga

* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Lycan males are very obviously beastial in design, while Lycan females are [[LittleBitBeastly visually similar to humans with animal features tacked on]], such as [[LittleBitBeastly kemonomimi]]. One such example is Lycaon and Karin; Lycaon is essentially a bipedal wolf man, while Karin is basically a human girl with wolf ears and a tail. And ''Karin is Lycaon's daughter.''

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:New calls out the Warrior on their decision to protect Giselle even though killing her is the most logically sound option, completely shocked that they are willing to risk Dark Falz Cave becoming immortal just to protect her.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:It turns out New isn't as innocent as it looks, as it takes an extremely pragmatic approach to ensuring the prevention of Dark Falz's resurrection regardless of who gets hurt in the process. The facade starts to unravel in Record 8 when the Aries Knights start to connect some plot points that don't add up and realize that the only one who could have caused the ElevatorFailure in Record 4 is New, and it flatly admits it with a YouDidntAsk.]]

* HumongousMecha: Unlike other Zodiac Idola, which at least resemble humanoid and/or organic creatures, Polaris is an out-and-out giant robot Idola.

* DiscardAndDraw: Rockingham's Skill 2 allows him to cast a buff on an allied target that causes them to use their Elemental Blast for free at the end of the turn. However, this forces him to give up 10 Water element in return, essentially substituting one cost for another. Depending on the Divergence, he can also either buff his target at the same time, or reduce his Attribute consumption to 5 Water but inflict a -40% ATK debuff on his ally (which can be blocked by Debuff Immunity effects).

* StatStick: Unique Weapon Symbols. Actual utility of their effects tend to vary between "decently useful" and "meaningless in an actual fight". However, to compensate for both this and their outrageously high upgrade costs, they also come with equally outrageous base stats baked in, much higher than any average Weapon Symbol you'll come across. That being said, Uniques are inherently Class-locked, but for those that can use them they may consider running a Unique over other options for the stats alone.

* ''EPISODE 2'': Released on May 21st, 2020. With the threat of Dark Falz behind them, the Aries Knights continue to watch over the world of Vandor, aided by the country of Leonis and its queen, Rosalinde. However, the peace in the wake of their victory is short-lived, as the forces of Canseed, a country from the north with the ability to create mass-produced Idola, descend upon Vandor and threatens to upset the balance. Accompanied by a mysterious "Hero" and a defector from Canseed named Giselle, the Aries Knights set out save the world once again.

* ACupAngst: In ''Yuru Idola'', Stella's insecuirty about her bust size is ''massively'' played up, practically to the point of {{Flanderization}}. It's enough of a RunningGag that it manges to work its way into nearly every comic that Stella appears in.

** There is a Retry button for certain Quests that lets you replay the Quest with the same team and Assist. This streamlines the process of farming and level grinding, as it lets you skip all the menus in-between.

* MortonsFork: New presents one to the Warrior, where it reveals that [[spoiler:if Giselle is binded to Dark Falz Cave, it will become invincible, and the Warrior is the only one capable of permanently killing her. New promptly commands the Warrior to kill Giselle, or else risk Dark Falz becoming completely unstoppable. [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Of course, the Warrior refuses to take Giselle's life without a second thought.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Erwin takes the Dark Falz essence from him, Dark Falz Theatri becomes pure and is downgraded to simply "Theatri". He is later found being sheltered by Popona, and joins Uly's expedition to the city of Aero.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: When we are first introduced to Farley and Lindsey in Record 1, Lindsey is presented as a murderous psychopath who is hellbent on killing Giselle, while Farley is presented as a level-headed and reasonable soldier who wants to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. [[spoiler:Late into ''EPISODE 2'', it's revealed that Lindsey was Giselle's ChildhoodFriend and Giselle spends a good chunk of the story trying to make amends, ultimately pulling a HeroicSacrifice that convinces Lindsey to pull a HeelFaceTurn. Meanwhile, Lindsey is revealed to be the ''actual'' murderous psychopath who killed all of Lindsey's friends and framed Giselle for it when she couldn't kill her.]]

* {{BFG}}: Soldier Class characters wield big Launchers as large as they are tall. They primarily specialize in a low-cost Skill 1 has some form of priority, such as Farley's Skill 1 being a Fastest All Target attack that has a 0 Wind requirement and ''[=EP2=]'' Flammy's Skill 1 being a 1 Fire Fastest party buff.

* {{BFS}}: A few characters have pretty large swords, but none can top Siegmund, who wields a big honking slab of metal on a tiny stick that's ''taller than he is!'' And he's gigantic!

* IdolSinger: Quna, as in ''[=PSO2=]''. Wyndis' Bond Story has her trying to follow in Quna's footsteps and become an idol herself.

* OneStatToRuleThemAll: Speed/SPD. The SPD stat is the sole factor in determining turn order outside of ActionInitiative Skills (mainly healing/buff effects). In Idola Battles and Arena, the SPD stat can make or break a fight, and Arena meta tends to favor units with outrageously high SPD stats, Soul Symbols that boost SPD, and Weapon Symbols with high SPD like Blade Dance.

* AerithAndBob: The majority of the cast have reasonable normal-sounding names, like Stella, Jasper, Roxanne, Clemence, Shannon, Siegmund, Erwin, and Gerda... ''then'' you have names like Matoi, Meldor, Lillimo, Ulysses, and Phuramy.

* BabyTalk: Unlike normal Stella, whose normal attack names are written in katakana, Stella [Memories] has her normal attacks written in hiragana to emulate this effect.

* BeachEpisode: The Summer 2019 event, which features the cast going to a private beach at Boozer's recommendation. In addition to a summer-themed story, the game features seasonal variants of Stella, Wyndis, and Phuramy while other characters get summer-themed Soul Symbols.

* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler:In one event quest, Phuramy reveals that her true name is [[VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2es "Seraphy"]], but insists that it's still fine to call her "Phuramy".]]

** Phuramy looks and sounds extremely similar to Seraphy from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2es''. [[spoiler:A post-''[=EP1=]'' event quest has her finally confirm that she is in fact Seraphy.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Traveling through a Stargate occasionally has this effect. Gene and Phuramy got it, while the ''Attack on Titan'' cast and Matoi didn't. [[spoiler:A post-[=EP1=] event has Gene and Phuramy recovering their memories of Oracle, whereupon Phuramy reveals that she is actually Seraphy.]]

** Law Wyndis [Summer] and Phuramy [Summer]'s Elemental Blasts also have the camera panning up over their bodies in the middle of the animation.

** A few characters have Skills that reduce the enemy's Element Value, such as Gerda and Phuramy [Summer]. Luther takes this a step further and goes straight to ManaDrain territory.

* NeutralNoLonger: As a gameplay mechanic, the majority of Neutral Characters will diverge into either Law or Chaos after Fate Divergence, thereby revoking their Neutral status and restricting them to their new alignment. There are very few characters who have the option of a Neutral Fate Divergence (Duncan and Phuramy being two), and only [[TheHero Uly]] gets ''two'' Neutral Fate Divergences.

* SequelHook: The Rosalinde's Coronation event sets up the events of ''EPISODE 2'', such as introducing the Aries Knights' new foes, the forces of Canseed. It also features Matoi, Risa, Gene, Phuramy, and Quna banding together to discover the reason they were brought to Vandor.

** [=EP2=] Stella has an upgraded version of Aries named "Aquarius", which in Japanese is just "アーク" tacked onto the existing "アリエス" name.

* ChargedAttack: The rare Shooter Class's gimmick is the Charge Attack effect. One of the character's skills is endowed with the effect; when the Skill is activated, the user will begin the charge and buff themselves simultaneously. The user is unable to take action for that turn, but on the following turn they will automatically unleash their attack and deal heavy damage.

** The Natal Croshell weapon increases all Elements by 2 when the user lands a Weak Hit. It doesn't do anything super special like some other Uniques, and being Guardian locked means it can only be used by Matoi and her variants, but the weapon functions like a vastly upgraded Yasminkov 9000M and Matoi her variants are versatile and powerful all-purpose units, allowing her to double as an Element battery while bolstering her powerful damage output.

** The Natal Croshell weapon increases all Elements by 2 when the user lands a Weak Hit. It doesn't do anything super special like some other Uniques, and being Guardian locked means it can only be used by all of two characters in the game, but the weapon functions like a vastly upgraded Yasminkov 9000M and is equippable by Matoi, who comes in two very useful Elements and allows her to essentially function as a battery while also boosting her already-incredible damage output.