History VideoGame / ShinessTheLightningKingdom

* ItsUpToYou: The [=NPCs=] are generally completely unhelpful even when their interests match the party's, for instance Irys and her troops don't help Chado, Poky and Kayenne fight their way into the Gromiz Lair even though 1) the gromiz are their enemies, 2) the whole point of the operation is to help Irys call Mantara, 3) as the game later shows, even Irys alone was considerably more powerful than Zagrom and his minions and could have easily stormed the lair by herself.

** Chado can perfectly understand Terra even though she's thousands of cycles old and speaks an older form of Maherian, whose modern forms are also almost unchanged and all mutually intelligible despite the considerable time gap. This was done deliberately by Maherian's creators Déborah Lebon and Clément Michard, [[AnthropicPrinciple otherwise the plot couldn't start]].

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Ayron seemed to actually have a crush on Rosa in the original manga, whereas his game counterpart wants to kill Rosalya and doesn't even try to pretend he has any affection for her.

''Shiness: Crossroad''[[note]]''Shiness: Chemins Croisés'' in French.[[/note]], a 6-chapter tie-in manga, was released as a prequel for the game a few months before its release. Since the game's website no longer exists, the manga may instead be read with the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170613191610/http://www.shiness-game.com/fr/media Wayback Machine]] or in its artist's [[https://www.instagram.com/geo_eon/ Instagram stories]]. Unfortunately, only the French version is currently completely findable.

* NeverTrustATitle: No place in the game is called the "Lightning Kingdom". The closest thing it has is the Sparkling Kingdom, which was the name of the former alliance between Gendys and Adorya in the game[[note]]In ''Crossroad'', it's Adorya's nickname instead[[/note]].

* FantasyWorldMap: Not included in the game, but some backers received [[https://imgur.com/a/tpJ24ic
one of Gendys]] as a reward.

* TheBigGuy: Kayenne is the party's tallest (6'7", roughly 2m) and bulkiest member, [[LargeAndInCharge as well as]] TheLeader [[GeniusBruiser and]] TheMentor.

** Kayenne had no involvement in Rosalya's escape, the party [[YouAllMeetInACell meets him in jail]] after he unsuccessfully tried to steal the Shiness of Earth from King Yanos because he believed it would bring balance to the shi.

* GustyGlade: A recurring obstacle on the [[DeathMountain Shiyawo mountain]], they can only be passed by summoning a menhir to make Chado heavier.

** Later, Chado meets by happenstance the only person in the world [[spoiler:aside from him who can see Terra, Ayron, because he's one of her former summoned ones and the only one still alive]]. This conveniently allows Chado to discover the truth about [[spoiler:his not being Terra's first summoned one]] and Terra to explain [[spoiler:Ayron's true identity, Adjin]] to him.

* ContractualBossImmunity: You can't use your [[LimitBreak hyper]] on some bosses. Bosses are also often immune to some StatusEffects.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Chado and Rosalya, two summoned ones seeking the Lands of Life, happen to leave their home meteoras on the exact same day and to end up in the same forest on the same meteora at the exact same time.

* The words invented by the game's writers are quite inconsistent and don't look like they're from the same language at all even though they're supposed to be. In particular, the word Shiness is the only one whose I is pronounced the English way rather than the French way, because Samir Rebib made it up by blending the English words "shine" and "darkness".

** Worse, many instances of written Maherian are actually random, irrelevant Maherian words, or misspelt, or just [[{{Wingdinglish}} French written with the Maherian font]], or even complete gibberish. They even forgot to use the alphabet on the map in the library of Meos's palace and just wrote the names on it with the Latin alphabet, King Ranahel's seal in ''Crossroad'' is also the Latin letter R. For Vrynn's InterfaceScrew spell, they used ''actual Germanic runes'', of all things, rather than Maherian letters.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Chado is only 4'5" (roughly 1.35 m), but he can [[SuperStrength lift boulders larger than himself]].

* FictionalCurrency: Gendys's currency is called the uzu. We never see what it looks like or what it's made of, though it doesn't seem to be gold, as a secret room of Meos's abandoned palace contains several open chests full of gold and the party can't take any.

** There are ways to make the game UnintentionallyUnwinnable with ScriptBreaking: for instance, the Three Arrows contain a room full of soldiers you ''can'' fight, but you're actually supposed to solve a puzzle to get rid of them. If you kill them instead of solving the puzzle, an event will later fail to trigger, crashing the game. If you saved in the meantime, you're screwed.

** Some supports can only be obtained during the battle of Mantara or on the Three Arrows, which is a OneTimeDungeon, and some pieces of equipment can only be obtained by beating the Three Arrows [[StealthBasedMission without triggering the alarm]].

** All we know about Kayenne is that he's [[Really700YearsOld 112]], that Mingane is his sister and that Nashoba is his "[[BloodBrothers hunting brother]]". His goal at the beginning of the game is to escort Rosalya to his people to investigate her curse, but neither the game nor ''Crossroad'' explain how he met her in the first place.

* DitzyGenius: Poky is the ten-cycle-old ChildProdigy who built the Asanao-3... and apparently forgot the ''parachutes''. And when the Asanao-3 is about to crash, he ''[[ViolationOfCommonSense jumps anyway]]''[[note]]In the game, at least. In ''Crossroad]]'', he falls accidentally.[[/note]]. Furthermore, in ''Crossroad'', he miscalculates the amount of oxygen he and Chado would need for their journey, and when the ship starts running out of oxygen, he erroneously believes he and Chado will suffer ExplosiveDecompression, though the latter part is probably an error from the writers themselves.

* BrokenAesop: During the game's development, Samir Rebib claimed that "[[GreyAndGrayMorality there is no such thing as good and evil]] in ''Shiness''", but this is [[BlackAndWhiteMorality strongly undermined]] in the final game, in which Zagrom is shown to have destroyed Meos's kingdom apparently for no other reason than he [[ForTheEvulz could]]. The mere fact that the [[TheDarkSide dark shi]] exists contradicts this aesop, as everything people under its influence are shown to do is unambiguously evil, though it's unclear as to whether Zagrom was actually under its influence or just already evil before being exposed to it. Even Ayron, whose [[spoiler: LastWords before he [[DisneyVillainDeath falls from Mantara]], "the Shiness will submit you to the same suffering as me",]] somewhat imply him to actually be a WellIntentionedExtremist, is needlessly cruel and willing to kill his minions for [[EvilIsPetty petty reasons]] as both the game and ''Crossroad'' show.

* CommonTongue: Maherian is the only language of Mahera, it's spoken by every species on every meteora and uses the same alphabet everywhere. The Shiness, who are as old as Mahera itself, also speak an older form of Maherian, which implies that it has always been the planet's only language. However, it has several mutually intelligible dialects instead of being the exact same language everywhere, each of them is spoken by a different species[[note]]Only three of them were created for the game, the humans', the shelks' and the wakis'. Characters from other species have no voice lines, but they presumably speak their own dialects.[[/note]].