History VideoGame / SilhouetteMirage

** ManaMeter: The Spirit Meter (green) below Mana; dubbed Fatima in the English version.

* ScienceIsBad: Possibly. Genetic experiments on a human led to the world's current divided state, and BigBad (one of them) Hal uses Edo as a base of operations.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Straight or inverted, your mileage may vary; [[spoiler:after mortally wounded in the true monstrous form, Zohar returns to the false humanoid form which he/she identifies him/herself with]]. DyingAsYourself follows.

* EyesOfGold: Zohar MT, when angry.
* FakeMemories: Guardian Angels are insane because they know who they are, so [[spoiler:Hal gave Zohar a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory.]]

* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Pablo]] is kind enough to tell you [[EasyLevelTrick how to transform him back]].

* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Guardian Angels are insane partly because they know who they are, so Hal gave Zohar a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory.]]

* LivingWeapon: Polite but [[RayGun boring]] Surosa, frivolous and [[BattleBoomerang self-centered]] Priday, stubborn and [[HavingABlast explosive]] Angara, [[DeadlyGas Rasti]], rude and [[BreathWeapon big-mouthed]] Grattoni, cutesy and [[FeatherMotif dressy]] Envia, naive and [[HomingProjectile tenacious]] Cavitas.

* TutorialFailure: "...So, how do I drop down through the platform?"

'''''Silhouette Mirage''''' is an {{action|Game}}-{{platform|Game}}er developed by Creator/{{Treasure}}. It was originally released for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn in 1997; a UsefulNotes/PlayStation version (Treasure's first console-to-console port, subtitled ''Reprogrammed Hope'') was released the next year in Japan, and subsequently localized for the U.S. by Creator/WorkingDesigns.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Zohar attacks you in in the middle of cutscenes and is willing to just leave you to die when you get the upper hand.

'''''Silhouette Mirage''''' is an {{action|Game}}-{{platform|Game}}er developed by Creator/{{Treasure}}. It was originally released for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn in 1997; a PlayStation version (Treasure's first console-to-console port, subtitled ''Reprogrammed Hope'') was released the next year in Japan, and subsequently localized for the U.S. by Creator/WorkingDesigns.

'''''Silhouette Mirage''''' is an {{action|Game}}-{{platform|Game}}er developed by Creator/{{Treasure}}. It was originally released for the SegaSaturn in 1997; a PlayStation version (Treasure's first console-to-console port, subtitled ''Reprogrammed Hope'') was released the next year in Japan, and subsequently localized for the U.S. by Creator/WorkingDesigns.

* [[BulletproofHumanShield Bullet-proof Enemy Shield]]: Grabbed enemies can be used to take damage from other enemies instead of you.

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Zohar is ''insanely'' overpowered in cutscenes, but his/her abilities in actual gameplay appear to be on a level with Shyna's.
** He also slices a building ''[[AbsurdlySharpBlade in half]]''.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Zohar. See YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle.

** BittersweetEnding: That said, some of the endings are like this. One is a borderline DownerEnding.

* [[spoiler:TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: If you restore the world to its original state as we know it today.]]

** TutorialFailure: "...So, how do I drop down through the platform?"

* TimeLimitBoss: Zohar.

* XanatosGambit: Once Shyna is activated, all life-forms with attributes will disappear even if she fails.

* LonelyPianoPiece: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDh-qAaipg Ending of the Starry Sky]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:While Hal and Megido come from him, it's implied that Clod/Armageddon is now a part of Edo and is thus responsible for most of the world's problems. Restoring Edo, therefore, effectively makes him God.]]

* OneWingedAngel: Zohar. [[spoiler:Played with in that [[EmergencyTransformation Hal forces Zohar into it.]]]]

* PlayingTheHeartStrings: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDh-qAaipg Ending of the Starry Sky]].
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Several of the bosses.

* SolemnEndingTheme: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDh-qAaipg Ending of the Starry Sky]].

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:[[YouAreWhatYouHate Zohar is really a Guardian Angel that s/he hates]] and Shyna is not the core program of the body]].

* SevenDeadlySins: The {{theme|Naming}} of your parasitic weapons; most of their names in the English version are either derived from their Latin or English spelling. To wit: Sloth: Surosa; Pride: Priday; Wrath: Angara; Lust: Rasti; Gluttony: Grattoni; Envy: Envia; Greed: Cavitas.

* AHeadAtEachEnd: Prinsdam.

* TitleScream: At the title screen: "Silhouette Mirage!"
* TimeLimitBoss: Zohar.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:[[YouAreWhatYouHate Zohar is really a Guardian Angel that s/he hates]] and Shyna is not the core program of the body]].
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Despite his constant nagging and creation of Guardian Angels, Hal is never fought himself, except, indirectly, when facing Clod/Armageddon. Megido on the other hand...]]

* ActionGirl: Shyna, the Messenger of Justice who's capable of using various parasites for different shot types, reflect attacks of the same element, and can punch foes in the face to make them cough up money.

* AmbiguousGender: Zohar. Justified in that s/he changes gender depending on what form he/she is. Metatron is male, and Sandalphon is female.

* AttackReflector: Shyna can create a [[DeflectorShield barrier]] to reflect attacks with the same attribute as hers and the green-colores neutral attacks back against the attacker.

* CallingYourAttacks: "[[MegatonPunch Power Punch!]]" "[[DeflectorShield Reflector!]]" "[[LimitBreak Parasite Bomb!]]"

** He also slices a ''building in half''.

* GrotesqueCute: The Specters, Silhouette {{Mooks}}, have heads that look like dark green Jack-o'-Lanterns and SuperDeformed proportions. Conversely, the Polly Peepers, their Mirage equivalents, have ugly faces hidden under blandly cutesy masks. Dynamis, the first of the [[BossBattle Guardian Angels]] you must face, looks like a giant fish with tentacles and a cute little girl's face (pictured above).

* LittleMissBadass: Shyna looks like a cute little blonde girl with goofy hair and strangely-colored eyes. She is also nicknamed the Messenger of Destruction for a reason.

* MultipleEndings: There are four distinct endings, and which one you get hinges on whether you win or lose against certain bosses, and on which path you choose a certain cutscene.

* SevenDeadlySins: The {{theme|Naming}} of your parasitic weapons; their names are either derived from their Latin or English spelling. To wit: Sloth: Surosa; Pride: Priday; Wrath: Angara; Lust: Rasti; Gluttony: Grattoni; Envy: Envia; Greed: Cavitas.
* SomethingAboutARose: Megido.

* YinYangBomb: Shyna is a textbook example. Her body is actually split down the middle, [[HalfHumanHybrid Mirage on one side and Silhouette on the other]]. Zohar, another Protean, does it somewhat differently, with alternate Silhouette and Mirage appearances, which also happen to be different genders.

* AmbiguousGender: Zohar. Justified in that he/she changes gender depending on what form he/she is. Metatron is male, and Sandalphon is female.

* AttackReflector: Shyna can create a barrier to reflect attacks with the same element as hers and the green neutral-based attacked back against the attacker.

** He slices a building in half. Nuff said.

* EmergencyWeapon: All of your attacks require Spirit. IF you run out of Spirit, your equipped parasite will be consumed to regain 100 points. If it was your last parasite, you will be given a Sloth (basic shot) parasite as well - however, this only happens once; run out of spirit with just a Sloth left and you're screwed. This is considerably more annoying in the American version, where Spirit is your ManaMeter, than in the Japanese, where Spirit was only drained by enemy attacks. Although they did grant a mercy that when you were stuck with the Sloth, you never lost it.

* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Guardian Angels are insane partly because they know who they are, so Hal gave Zohar a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory]].

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You can be forgiven for not anticipating the [[spoiler: out-of-nowhere battle with Hal's jealous daughter, Geluve.]]
** Just her? Most of the bosses in this game are like this, with some bordering on full-blown BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: You can throw an enemy into another and damage them that way.

** TutorialFailure: ...So, how do I drop down through the platform?

* LifeMeter: Your Life Meter (red/blue); subbed Mana in the English version.

* PrehensileHair: Shyna can use her hair to grab enemies and punch them to get money out of them. She can also vault over them while grabbed, throw them across the area, or hurl them upwards.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The names of many of the characters and locations in the game are taken from the Bible, and from Christian and Jewish cosmology in general. Most of this was lost in WorkingDesigns's translation to English, either through discrepancies between Japanese and English phonology or through deliberate name changes: Har became Hal (which, admittedly, [[{{Woolseyism}} may have added a reference]] to a certain famous AI); the seven attacks Shyna can use, named for the SevenDeadlySins, became arbitrary strings of syllables; Moses became Bug; Delilah became Delia; Cherub became Geluve; etc.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Straight or inverted, your mileage may vary; [[spoiler: after mortally wounded in the true monstrous form, Zohar returns to the false humanoid form which he/she identifies him/herself with]]. DyingAsYourself follows.

* YinYangBomb: Shyna is a textbook example. Her body is actually split down the middle, Mirage on one side and Silhouette on the other. Zohar, another Protean, does it somewhat differently, with alternate Silhouette and Mirage appearances, which also happen to be different genders.

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''Silhouette Mirage'' is an ActionGame developed by Creator/{{Treasure}}. It was originally released for the SegaSaturn in 1997; a PlayStation version (Treasure's first console-to-console port, subtitled ''Reprogrammed Hope'') was released the next year in Japan, and subsequently localized for the U.S. by Creator/WorkingDesigns.

With run-and-gun elements in which the attribute of attacks, enemies, and other entities plays a central role in gameplay, it could be considered a different-genre analogue of {{Ikaruga}}.

* DifficultyByRegion: WorkingDesigns, in their usual {{Woolseyism}} attempts, also deliberately made the game ''harder'' by, among other things, making shots of one nature drain power when hitting a target of the same.

* {{GONZO}}

* AHeadAtEachEnd: Prinsdam.
* HollywoodScience: Bizarre manglings of genetics and cybernetics are part of the game's plot.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure

* MagicalComputer: For inadequately explored reasons, the world displays [[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]-like properties as if it's all a big computer program, but as far as anyone can tell, it's the real world.
* MercurysWings: Shyna's winged hat gives her the ability to glide and DoubleJump.

* NoExportForYou: The SegaSaturn version, which is a shame since it's technically superior to the PlayStation port (which has missing backgrounds, among other things).

* OneWingedAngel: Zohar. Played with in that [[spoiler:[[EmergencyTransformation Hal forces Zohar into it.]]]]
* OurAngelsAreDifferent

* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:Gargantuan and Shyna]].
* XanatosGambit: Once Shyna is activated, all lifeforms with attributes will disappear even if she fails.

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The names of many of the characters and locations in the game are taken from the Bible, and from Christian and Jewish cosmology in general. Most of this was lost in WorkingDesigns's translation to English, either through discrepancies between Japanese and English phonology or through deliberate name changes: Har became Hal (which, admittedly, [[{{Woolseyism}} may have added a reference]] to a certain famous AI); the seven attacks Shyna can use, named for the SevenDeadlySins, became arbitrary strings of syllables; Moses became Bug; Delilah became Delia; Cherub became Geluve; etc.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Even in the WorkingDesigns version, the game has loads of Biblical references and symbolism.

''Silhouette Mirage'' is an ActionGame by Creator/{{Treasure}}, released on the SegaSaturn and the PlayStation. The latter version was localized by WorkingDesigns.

* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Pablo]] is kind enough to tell you how to transform him back.

* CloudCuckoolander: Dynamis. Most of her lines are nonsense about flowers.

* InstantWinCondition: Once Shyna is activated, all lifeforms with attributes will disappear even if she fails.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The names of many of the characters and locations in the game are taken from the Bible, and from Christian and Jewish cosmology in general. Most of this was lost in WorkingDesigns's translation to English, either through discrepancies between Japanese and English phonology or through deliberate name changes: Har became Hal (which, admittedly, [[{{Woolseyism}} may have added a reference]] to a certain famous AI); the seven attacks Shyna can use, named for the Seven Deadly Sins, became arbitrary strings of syllables; Moses became Bug; Delilah became Delia; Cherub became Geluve; etc.

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Despite his constant nagging and creation of Guardian Angels, Hal is never fought himself, except, indirectly, when facing Clod/Armageddon. Megido on the other hand...]]

''Silhouette Mirage'' is an ActionGame by {{Treasure}}, released on the SegaSaturn and the Sony Playstation. The Playstation version was localized by WorkingDesigns.