History VideoGame / Sudeki

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: happens to the professor in Transentia soon after the heroes have gone through the newly-activated portal, and to Queen Lusica at the end. Both are killed by Talos.]]

* CatGirl: Buki and Nico. Compared to other anthropomorphs in the game they are really quite a mild case, with only their eyes and tiger markings on their skin to indicate that they aren't human.

** ''Three'' of them, in fact. Kazel, Alexine, and Nico, [[spoiler: Tal, Ailish and Buki's Aklorian counterparts]] join your party into eradicating the renegade Aklorian faction who was responsible for the attacks at Haskilia during the early stages of the game.

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Talos is the Cain to Kazel's Abel. This is a stark contrast of their counterparts Tal's brother and Tal, which implied in the dialogue that both have a good relationship.]]

* ChasteHero: Tal, especially in response to Ailish; he gets very nervous when she gets flirty. He also seems to be nervous when women get inside his personal space in general, as best demonstrated at the beginning of the game when Buki gets a little close for comfort.
** Later however, when he has to go to Transentia with Elco (and not knowing Ailish and Buki have preceded them there), he expresses appreciation for some female company, which may be a sign of him mellowing.

* CosmicDeadline: The game appears to have run short of time and money for development at some point, because after [[spoiler:meeting the Shadow Party]], it rushes to the final chapters, to the point Elco gets his second upgrade just before the final battles. Even the ending itself is very rushed.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The [[spoiler:Aklorian inhabitants, especially the Shadow Party (Kazel, Alexine, Nico and Cafu). The Aklorian soldiers you fight are revealed to be renegades in their own realm, driven desperate if not outright mad by the loss of the light. One character, however, plays this straight: Talos, the counterpart of Tal's brother. And the latter was killed by him, as Talos (now host of Heigou) reveals to Tal before the FinalBattle.]]

* EscortMission: During the penultimate part of the story, Elco must go solo and escort [[spoiler:Tilly, his wife]], back to her home. While she is not immortal, she has much more HP than Elco and can actually take quite the beating, despite not being able to fight back. But like any escort missions, failing to protect [[spoiler:Tilly]] will result in NonStandardGameOver.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Inverted. Comparing Alexine to [[spoiler:Ailish's]] (initial) costume, the "evil" one is more conservative.

* HPToOne: When the FinalBoss is nearly dead, he will inflict this on [[spoiler:Tal]] with an UnblockableAttack.

* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Queen Lusica rules over the candy-coloured kingdom of Illumina and dresses herself in bright clothes, but she is definitely not on the side of good.]]
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Ranged characters like Ailish and Elco can be nigh on GameBreaker useful since they can use FirstPersonShooter tactics to circle strafe enemies to death, thus allowing them to OneManArmy everything on the battlefield while avoiding damage as long as they keep moving. Melee fightrs, while they get to deal far more damage, they have very few means of consistently avoiding getting dogpiled by enemies.

* MineralMacGuffin: Much of the game is dedicated to hunting down various energy-channeling crystals for Elco's tower, to be used to create a giant energy barrier that will protect all of Illumina. [[spoiler:Its actual use, however, is much more sinister]].

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The first thing the [[spoiler:renegade]] Aklorian soldiers did during their first appearance was to destroy a farming carriage and slaughter its civilian owners. Likewise, the Illumina Armed Forces are under standing orders from the Queen not to take any Aklorian prisoners, presumably even those who were surrendering.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The playable female cast. Interestingly, Ailish's more advanced armors progressively covers her up even though she's the StaffChick of the party. Likewise, Alexine, [[spoiler: Ailish's Aklorian counterpart]] has a comparatively conservative costume. Buki and [[spoiler: her Aklorian counterpart Nico]], on the other hand, [[ThongOfShielding is the opposite]].

* StrawFeminist: Buki has a few moments along these lines. She is unimpressed with humans in general, and with human men in particular.

* TemptingFate: Buki claimed that the Transentium Processing Facility in Transentia is a "godless place", moments before she encountered Tetsu inside said facility.
* TheHighQueen: Ailish's mother Lusica, the Queen of the realm of Haskilla, [[spoiler: is a subversion]]. Caprine, the Queen of Cyantine, [[spoiler: is a straight example]].

* {{Distressed Damsel}}/{{Distressed Dude}}: At one point in the game, the heroes practically take turns in these roles. First Tal and Elco fall prey to the chanting of a siren, and it's up to Ailish and Buki to save them. Just after the girls have killed the siren, however, they are captured by [[spoiler:the Shadow Party]] and the guys go to their rescue.

* DubNameChange: When the game was released in Japan, some characters' names are changed. In particular:
** Tal becomes Nash
** Ailish becomes Shalish
** Buki becomes Lini
** The angelic figure Tetsu is renamed Odin, while the demonic figure Heigou is renamed Heimdall.

* EscortMission: [[spoiler: During the penultimate part of the story, Elco must go solo and escort Tilly, his wife, back to her home. While she is not immortal, she has much more HP than Elco and can actually take quite the beating, despite not being able to fight back. But like any escort missions, failing to protect Tilly will result in NonStandardGameOver.]]

** EvilCostumeSwitch: Inverted. Comparing Alexine to [[spoiler:Ailish's]] (initial) costume, the "evil" one is more conservative.

* GuestStarPartyMember: ''Three'' of them, in fact. Kazel, Alexine, and Nico, [[spoiler: Tal, Ailish and Buki's Aklorian counterparts]] join your party into eradicating the renegade Aklorian faction who was responsible for the attacks at Haskilia during the early stages of the game.

* GratuitousJapanese: The mistranslated title was going to be "Suteki", which means "excellent", according [[WordOfGod to the official developers.]]

** SexyPackaging: Played straight with the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Sudeki.jpg US and EU cover]], and interestingly ''averted'' with the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/8/86/Sudeki.jpg Japanese cover]].

[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/233350/ The game was released on Steam]], hopefully without the below-mentioned DRM.
[[http://www.gog.com/game/sudeki It was also released on GOG.com]], which only releases DRM free games.

** StrawFeminist: Buki has a few moments along these lines. She is unimpressed with humans in general, and with human men in particular.

* HypocritalHumor: Before launching their mission to rescue Ailish and Buki from Cyantine Citadel, Tal warns Elco against doing anything "clever", while Elco pleads with Tal not to do anything "stupid". Tal immediately frees the girls by striking his sword against their chains, echoing so loudly that it calls every guard in the area over to them. Elco is extremely annoyed, as he had just robbed another guard of the key for those same chains.

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Everyone in the game caps at Level 30. However, due to the way the game is set, the two male characters will be somewhere in low 20s and the female characters will be in high 10s before you fight the final boss, [[spoiler:[[DuelBoss not that most of these matter]]]]. It doesn't help that each level after 17th requires 5000XP to level up, for a total of 65k (22 is the midway point to 30). For comparision, the best yielding regular monster gives out 350XP per kill and final boss gives 9999XP.

* AdoptedIntoRoyalty: [[spoiler: Although not revealed in the game, journals imply that Ailish isn't really Queen Lusica's daughter and was snatched from her biological family by Talos because of the emergence of her magic and make everyone in the kingdom know that she is Lusica's daughter and their princess.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Elco really couldn't believe that supernatural powers were at play, even as he received Tetsu's blessing. This is the reason why he receives his blessing too late (after he and Tal rescued Ailish and Buki at Cyantine, which completes 3/4 of the main plot), as opposed to the more spiritual Buki who receives her blessing at Transentia and arguably Ailish (who received her second blessing first before Buki's second blessing) but it was more about her TheDeterminator to do what is right attitude rather than spirituality.

* BeastMan: All anthropomorphs resemble humanoid animals to varying degrees. While some are basically just things like bulls or rabbits walking on two legs, others, like Buki, look completely human apart from a few skin markings.

* LudicrousGibs: Tal and Buki killing often means that enemy explodes into gore. ''Any'' kill by special attack.

* CatGirl: Buki and Nico. More of a Tiger Girl than Cat Girl (especially with the tiger stripes on their skin), but the point still stands.

* MagicEnhancement: Weapons and armors can be enhanced with runes. Armor upgrades are far more costly and are kept after upgrading; you start with three of them grant you immunity to Weaken and Curse, Poison and Slow; and one reflects back some damage; in the lategame you will find 3 runes that will autocast either defense, damage or regeneration buff on entering battle. Weapon can have either round or square slots; square runes are stronger but are only awarded at certain points of plot. Runes give a flat +5/10 damage increase (for Tal and Buki) or percent damage increase for Elco and Ailish (as such, slow but powerful weapons like Batholith receive the most from them while fast firing weapons like Proton Phaser are better suited for non-damage buffs[[labelnote:Note]]This goes to the point that if you stuff Ailish's or Elco's InfinityPlusOneSword with ManaDrain buffs, they'll be able to recover SP at a fast rate, allowing you spam their Skills.[[/labelnote]]) +5%/10% critical rate increase, 10%/20% HP steal, 1/2% SP steal and 25%/50% buff dispelling on hit.

* EvilCounterpart: Subverted. [[spoiler: The Shadow Party members are not evil, and they simply seek to restore the light that has gone missing in Akloria and will happily do diplomacy with Haskilia by talking with their counterparts.]] However, [[spoiler: it is played straight by Talos, Tal's brother counterpart. He even killed his counterpart in order to avoid fulfilling the prophecy by raising another descendant of Kariston and is heavily implied that he will kill his own brother Kazel or his younger brother's counterpart Tal. Or better yet, everyone.]]

* MommasBoy: Tal.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A particular one shows up as a messenger from above to announce each hero is TheChosenOne [[spoiler: since they are the descendants of the ancient heroes mentioned in the backstory]], and they also hand out each character's TakeALevelInBadass power.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The first thing the [[spoiler:renegade]] Aklorian soldiers did after their first appearance was to destroy a farming carriage and slaughter its civilian owners. Likewise, the Illumina Armed Forces are under standing orders from the Queen not to take any Aklorian prisoners, presumably even those who were surrendering.

* TemptingFate: Buki claimed that the Transentium Processing Facility in Transentia "is a godless place", moments before she encountered Tetsu inside said facility.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Krenn system in Transentia. Elco pointed out he warned that something like this would happen.

''Sudeki'' is a RolePlayingGame by the Creator/ClimaxGroup, made for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} in 2004 and ported to the PC in 2005. Oddly, despite being made by Western game designers, is basically an {{Animesque}} EasternRPG experience.

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* Walking Spoiler: [[spoiler: The Aklorian counterparts of the main characters, which their appearance will reveal most of the plot's lore such as the divide of Sudeki.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Subverted. [[spoiler: The Shadow Party members are not evil, and they simply seek to restore the light that has gone missing in Akloria and will happily do diplomacy with Haskilla by talking with their counterparts.]] However, [[spoiler: it is played straight by Talos, Tal's brother counterpart. He even killed his counterpart in order to avoid fulfilling the prophecy by raising another descendant of Kariston and is heavily implied that he will kill his own brother Kazel or his younger brother's counterpart Tal. Or better yet, everyone.]]

* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler: Three out of four pairs between the Haskillan and Aklorian counterparts have blatant differences despite their similarities:]]
** Tal and [[spoiler: Kazel: Both are descendants of Kariston, the unofficial leaders of their respective groups, have swords as their WeaponOfChoice and being fancied by the resident magic user of their respective groups. However, Tal is a calm redhead while Kazel is hot-tempered white-haired man. Tal holds a low position at Haskillan army, while Kazel is the head captain of Cyantine forces. Their relationships with their older brothers are vastly different as well, with Tal and his brother implied to have a good relationship while Kazel and Talos are implied to have strained relationship due to Talos' treachery and treason to Akloria. On the flipside, Tal has bad relations with his father Arlo, while Kazel and his father Carlos are shown to be good.]]
** Ailish and [[spoiler: Alexine: Both are descendants of Olivetess, are certified RebelliousPrincess (while Alexine is only a daughter of a wealthy and influential family, Ailish is literally a princess) and utilize magic to help their allies and inflict damage to their enemies. But while Ailish is MsFanservice, Alexine is more conservative. Their appearance extends as well, with Ailish possesses blue hair and slightly tanned skin, Alexine possesses black hair and pale skin. Their relationship with the queen regnants of Haskilla and Cyantine are different: Ailish and Lusica have distant relationship and her mother forbids her to go outside the kingdom, and while Alexine and Caprine aren't family, Caprine shows respect towards Alexine as a person and allows her to take part of the kingdom's operations.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: ''Three'' of them, in fact. Kazel, Alexine, and Nico, [[spoiler: Tal, Ailish and Buki's Aklorian counterparts]] join your party into eradicating the renegade Aklorian faction who was responsible for the attacks at Haskilla during the early stages of the game.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Elco when discovering that his invention, [[spoiler:the Crystal Tower, is the one responsible for draining the light from the Akloria, confirming what the Shadow Party and Capri claimed. To be fair, he doesn't know since Lusica hides the truth about the research.]]

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A particular one shows up as a messenger from above to announce each hero is TheChosenOne [[spoiler:since they are the descendants of the ancient heroes mentioned in the backstory]], and they also hand out each character's TakeALevelInBadass power.

* TheHighQueen: Ailish's mother Lusica, the Queen of the realm of Haskilia, [[spoiler:is a subversion]]. Caprine, the Queen of Akloria, [[spoiler:is a straight example]].

** Tal and [[spoiler: Kazel: Both are descendants of Kariston, the unofficial leaders of their respective groups, have swords as their WeaponOfChoice and being fancied by the resident magic user of their respective groups. However, Tal is a calm redhead while Kazel is hot-tempered white-haired man. Tal holds a low position at Haskillan army, while Kazel is the head captain of Cyantine forces. Their relationships with their older brothers are vastly different as well, with Tal and his brother implied to have a good relationship while Kazel and Talos are implied to have strained relationship due to Talos' treachery and treason to Akloria.]]
** Ailish and [[spoiler: Alexine: Both are descendants of Olivetess, are certified RebelliousPrincess (while Alexine is only a daughter of a wealthy and influential family, Ailish is literally a princess) and utilize magic to help their allies and inflict damage to their enemies. But while Ailish is MsFanservice, Alexine is more conservative. Their appearance extends as well, with Ailish possesses blue hair and slightly tanned skin, Alexine possesses black hair and pale skin.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Elco really couldn't believe that supernatural powers were at play, even as he received Tetsu's blessing. This is the reason why he receives his blessing too late (after he and Tal rescued Ailish and Buki at Cyantine, which completes 3/4 of the main plot), as opposed to the more spiritual Buki who receives her blessing at Transentia and arguably Ailish and Tal (who received their respective second blessings twice and they received them earlier before Buki's second blessing) but it was more about their TheDeterminator to do what is right attitude rather than spirituality.

** Elco and [[spoiler: Cafu: Both are descendants of Lebius, GadgeeterGenius, but their ideologies are vastly different with Elco being realistic and grounded by facts, while Cafu is more idealistic and is more willing to entertain abstract ideas. Elco is more in science, while Cafu is more inclined in art.]]

** Tal and [[spoiler: Kazel: Both are descendants of Kariston, the unofficial leaders of their respective groups, have swords as their WeaponOfChoice and being fancied by the resident magic user of their respective groups. However, Tal is a calm redhead while Kazel is hot-tempered white-haired man. Their relationships with their older brothers are vastly different as well, with Tal and his brother implied to have a good relationship while Kazel and Talos are implied to have strained relationship due to Talos' treachery and treason to Akloria.]]
** Ailish and [[spoiler: Alexine: Both are descendants of Olivetess, are certified RebelliousPrincess and utilize magic to help their allies and inflict damage to their enemies. But while Ailish is MsFanservice, Alexine is more conservative. Their appearance extends as well, with Ailish possesses blue hair and slightly tanned skin, Alexine possesses black hair and pale skin.]]

** Tal and [[spoiler: Kazel: Both are the unofficial leaders of their group, have swords as their WeaponOfChoice and being fancied by the resident magic user of their respective groups. However, Tal is a calm redhead while Kazel is hot-tempered white-haired man. Their relationships with their older brothers are different as well, with Tal and his brother implied to have a good relationship while Kazel and Talos are implied to have strained relationship due to Talos' treachery and treason to Akloria.]]
** Ailish and [[spoiler: Alexine: Both are RebelliousPrincess and utilize magic to help her allies and inflict damage to their enemies. But while Ailish is MsFanservice, Alexine is more conservative. Their appearance extends as well, with Ailish possesses blue hair and slightly tanned skin, Alexine possesses black hair and pale skin.]]
** Elco and [[spoiler: Cafu: Both are GadgeeterGenius, but their ideologies are vastly different with Elco being realistic and grounded by facts, while Cafu is more idealistic and is more willing to entertain abstract ideas. Elco is more in science, while Cafu is more inclined in art.]]
* FusionDance: Done prior to the final battle, with every one of the heroes merging with their [[spoiler:Aklorian counterparts]].

* GuestStarPartyMember: ''Three'' of them, in fact. Kazel, Alexine, and Nico, [[spoiler: Tal, Ailish and Buki's Aklorian counterpart]] join your party into eradicating the renegade Aklorian faction who was responsible for the attacks at Haskilla during the early stages of the game.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The playable female cast. Interestingly, Ailish's more advanced armors progressively covers her up even though she's the StaffChick of the party. Likewise, Alexine, [[spoiler:Ailish's Aklorian counterpart]] has a comparatively conservative costume. Buki and [[spoiler: her Aklorian counterpart Nico]], on the other hand, [[ThongOfShielding is the opposite]].

* AdoptedIntoRoyalty: [[spoiler: Although not revealed in the game, journals imply that Ailish isn't really Queen Lusica's daughter and was snatched from her biological family by Talos because of the emergence of her magic.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: The [[spoiler:Aklorian]] inhabitants, especially the [[spoiler: Shadow Party (Kazel, Alexine, Nico and Cafu). The Aklorian soldiers you fight are revealed to be renegades in their own realm, driven desperate if not outright mad by the loss of the light.]] One character, however, plays this straight: [[spoiler: Talos, the counterpart of Tal's brother. And the latter was killed by him, as Talos (now host of Heigou) reveals to Tal before the FinalBattle]].

* EvilCounterpart: Subverted, the [[spoiler: Shadow Party members are not evil, and they simply seek to restore the light that has gone missing in Akloria and will happily do diplomacy with Haskilla. However, it is played straight by Talos, Tal's brother counterpart]], on the other hand, plays this straight. He even killed his counterpart in order to avoid fulfilling the prophecy by raising another descendant of Kariston and is heavily implied that he will kill his own brother Kazel or Tal, or better yet, everyone.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Subverted, the [[spoiler:Shadow Party members]] are not evil, and they simply seek to restore the light that has gone missing in Akloria. [[spoiler:Talos, Tal's brother counterpart]], on the other hand, plays this straight. [[spoiler:He even killed his counterpart.]]

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The playable female cast. Interestingly, Ailish's more advanced armors progressively covers her up even though she's the StaffChick of the party. Likewise, Alexine, [[spoiler:Ailish's Aklorian counterpart]] has a comparatively conservative costume. Buki on the other hand, [[ThongOfShielding is the opposite]].

* EscortMission: Elco must go solo and escort Tilly, his wife, back to her home. While she is not immortal, she has much more HP than Elco and can actually take quite the beating, despite not being able to fight back.