History VideoGame / StandstillGirl

* BonusBoss: The two people held in the Asylum. If you defeat every Red Shadeling, the last one will give you the password to unlock them.

* RocketTagGameplay: Tends to happen in the endgame. Since there is no defense stat, late game enemies and bosses will often do high damage with every attack, but you will be able to kill everything in 3 turns top. The exceptions are the [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]], who put more emphasis on reading their attack pattern and guarding.

Battles are fought side-view, using an active time system of sort. You can equip up to 5 actions, including guarding and using items, to use during battle. There are no [[ManaMeter MPs]]; instead, each turn you get an Energy Core, of which you can hold up to 4 at time. Generally, stronger skills require more EC, though a lot of them are also [[CastFromHitPoints Cast From Hit Points]]. Also, you don't [[LevelUp gain levels]], [[PointBuildSystem but use the "Force" obtained from defeating enemies to power up your three stats]]: Stamina (Health), PSY (Attack) and AGL (Speed).

* GlobalCurrency: Taken [[UpToEleven Up to eleven]] with Force: you can use it to increase your stats, buy items and... ''grow flowers''! Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that it's not really a currency, but a sort of energy released from monsters.

** EarnYourBadEnding: Not exactly "hard" to get, but the [[DownerEnding saddest ending]] is the only one that requires you to do the opposite of what you're expected to do, namely [[spoiler: don't talk to Tiska and tell Order you intend to take punishment in his stead]]. Said choice ends with [[spoiler: Alice dying and restoring the normal flow of time]].
** EarnYourHappyEnding: The [[TrueEnding True Ending]], which is the only one that involves a [[FinalBoss final boss fight]]. It's... not exactly an [[BittersweetEnding "happy"]] [[DownerEnding ending though.]][[spoiler: Sure, both Alice and Tiska are alive, but killing Order means the Land of Life and the Land of Time will soon cease to exist, along with every living being]]. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in the [[DevelopersRoom Developer's Room]]:
-->'''[[spoiler: Order]]''': ''Are you heroes or villains!?''

** BlatantLies: Sometimes (there's about a 2% chance), said action makes Alice ''[[EyeBeam shoot a laser beam from her eyes]]''.

** BoringButPractical: The Self-Holocaust skill quickly evolve into this. It sacrifices a relatively high amount of LP to do massive damage to the enemy. It can pretty much one-hit kill any normal mob and defeat bosses in a couple of hit, and by the second half of the game you regenerates health so fast that you can use it every single fight.

* BossSubtitles: Enemies and bosses don't have proper names. Instead, they are introduced with a word or a small sentence, which often has to do with what they represent.

* ShoutOut: The final boss has an attack named [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep "Dream of electric sheep"]]. The first bonus boss uses one named Dogra Magra, which appears to be [[GeniusBonus a reference to a Japanese novel written in 1935]].
** [[Franchise/KingdomHearts The half-eaten ice cream may also be a reference to another plot-important ice cream]].

* StandardStatusEffect: Weak (Poison), Blind, Dizzy (can't use skills) and Instant Death. Slow is aslo used by the first bonus boss.

''lost fragment - Standstill Girl'' is a turn-based [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] created by Sky Scraper Project using RPG Maker 2000. It tells the story of a girl [[AmnesiacHero with no memories]] named [[AliceAllusion Alice]] who lives in the Land of Time, a place outside the normal space-time continuum, with a boy named Tiska, who serves the guardian of the Great Clock that administers time. Other than these two, the town is populated by friendly blob-like creatures called Shadelings.

!''This game provides examples of:''

* ActionGirl: Alice

* BonusBoss: The two guys in the Asylum. If you defeat every Red Shadeling, the last one will give you the password to unlock them.

* CastFromHitPoints: Most skills require a certain amount of Lp to perform.

* HpToOne: The second optional boss has an attack that does this. However, you can actually guard against it, and it will only halve your current health.

**EarnYourBadEnding: Not exactly "hard" to get, but the [[DownerEnding saddest ending]] is the only one that requires you to do the opposite of what you're expected to do, namely [[spoiler: don't talk to Tiska and tell Order you intend to take punishment in his stead]]. Said choice ends with [[spoiler: Alice dying and restoring the normal flow of time]].
**EarnYourHappyEnding: The [[TrueEnding True Ending]], which is the only one that involves a [[FinalBoss final boss fight]]. It's... not exactly an [[BittersweetEnding "happy"]] [[DownerEnding ending though.]][[spoiler: Sure, both Alice and Tiska are alive, but killing Order means the Land of Life and the Land of Time will soon cease to exist, along with every living being]]. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in the [[DevelopersRoom Developer's Room]]:

**The remaining one has [[spoiler: Tiska atoning for his sin and becoming a Shadeling. Alice then presumably takes his place as the warden of the Great Clock]].

* RandomEncounter

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Garden of Creation.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The game was intended to have another ending split, but it proved difficult to implement, so it was scrapped.

* YouCantFightFate: The reason for the whole mess in the Land of Life. As Alice [[spoiler: died in the past, her being alive contrasts with God's intended harmony, creating a contradiction that influences the flowing of time]]. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It actually makes a bit more sense than it sounds]].

** [[KingdomHearts The half-eaten ice cream may also be a reference to another plot-important ice cream]].

* SilentProtagonist: Similar to [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Chrono]] or the main character from the [[ShinMegamiTensei Megaten series]], Alice only talks through the player's answers. [[spoiler: She does speak during the [[GoodEnding good ending]], though.]]

* AmnesiacHero: Alice again.
**[[spoiler:[[DeathAmnesia Death Amnesia]]]].

* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From the Dead]]: Chronola/Alice died before the start of the game. Tiska resurrected her and took her under his care, causing the abnormality that kicks the game plot. Tiska himself is also implied to have been brought back by Gulinello in the distant past]].

* [[spoiler: [[BreakTheCutie Break The Cutie]] You ''will'' be sad for Alice once you learn her story...]]
** [[spoiler: [[KillTheCutie Kill the Cutie]]]]

* [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide Driven to Suicide]]: Chronola.]]

* [[spoiler: [[MadeASlave Made a Slave]]: What happened to Chronola after her mother's death]].

* TimeStandStill: What happens to the human world when the hands of the Clock disappear.

* [[VideoGameTutorial Tutorial]]: Taking it is optional but recommended, as the monsters in the first few areas would be quite hard otherwise.

* BeamSpam: The Innocent Rain skills looks suspiciously similar to [[TheWorldEndsWithYou Joshua's holy beam]]. May also happen randomly when using the "Just Watch" command.

* MusicRoom: Can be unlocked with a password.

* SilentProtagonist: Similar to [[ChronoTrigger Chrono]] or the main character from the [[ShinMegamiTensei Megaten series]], Alice only talks through the player's answers. [[spoiler: She does speak during the [[GoodEnding good ending]], though.]]

* IdentityAmnesia: A plot point. Not only Alice, but everyone living in the Land of Time has this, as giving away your past and future is the only way to get there to begin with.

* HpToOne: The second optional boss has an attack that does this. However, you can actually guard against it, and it will only halves your current health.

* TakingYouWithMe: One of the Red Shadeling will use a suicide attack when cornered. [[OneHitKO Surviving it is quite impossible]], so the only way to win the fight is to defeat it before it gets the chance to use said attack.

* LawfulNeutral: [[spoiler: Order]].

* [[spoiler: [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Goldfish]]: Chronola (and at least two more girls before her) were this to the unnamed millionaire. [[DrivenToSuicide It doesn't end well]]]].

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Yes, cat-eared Tiska is really a boy. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] if you read the journal in Alice's home.

* ValuesDissonance: Human crimes such as theft and murder mean nothing to those living in the Land of Time. [[spoiler: Creating a contradiction or defying the will of Order for your own purpose]] is considered the greatest sin, and those guilty of it are punished by [[spoiler: losing their memories, body and identity]].

* CompleteMonster: The millionaire. [[spoiler: Unable to forget his wife, he buys girls from the slave trade and tortures them as a sign of his twisted love. He ends up killing two and [[DrivenToSuicide driving the third one to throw herself in a ravine]]]].

* ShoutOut: The final boss has an attack named [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep "Dream of electric sheep"]]. The first bonus boss uses one named Dogra Magra, which appears to be [[GeniusBonus a reference to a Japanese novel written in 1935]].