History VideoGame / TelepathRPG

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: While InUniverse the shadowlings' color indicates their age, for gameplay purpose, every shadowling healers is blue like the shield sjills which serve as healing.

* MightyGlacier: Flint has high damage starting out but a miserable Speed stat. He can boost his speed in battle if you buy the Steam Engine.

* OffModel: Anya's character portrait shows her having untied brown hair, while her sprites show her having red hairs and a ponytail.

* TechnicolorMagic: The most common psy attack "mind blast" is colored purple.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The more optional party members you have, the more your roster fit this trope.
** Gamblin' Jack is an enslaved psy academy guard you brought into your team, also he's a gambling addict. It is notable that he will stay with you even if [[spoiler: you choose to go against the academy in the end, so he's also a potential traitor]].

** Dorgon is an energy golem you simply stole from the mechanics.
** Helena is a traitor to the mechanics who joins you for money. Flint follows her everywhere.
** Grotius is a teen Spriggat who join you just because he's bored, despite the fact you are working for the shadowlings, the spriggats' ennemies.

* AnAxeToGrind: Phantom armors attack with axes.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: The most common psy attack "mind blast" is colored purple.

* {{Teleportation}}: Darkling can learn the "Shadowport" skill which makes him teleport and thus allow him to move even more than he usually can at the cost of a few psy point. This skill have two variants which teleport him at a different distance.

* UnwinnableByMistake: There is a way to get softlocked during the Lake alto battles. You are on a tiny boat surrounded by water, so non-flying units can't move much. You are encouraged to bring some flying units but not obliged to do so. If you don't bring flying units with you, all you can do is wait for the spriggats to come for you. The problem is that there is always a healer among the spriggats enemies in these battles and if the healer is the only enemy left, it will just keep hiding in a corner in the map and non-flying units cannot reach it and kill it, meaning the player will be stuck and forced to refresh the page.

** Gamblin' Jack can become this too if you unlock his healing skills, while Festus and Anya can attack too, they are more usefull at healing while Gamblin' Jack is a good fighter with minor healing spells.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first game is a traditionnal turn based RPG rather than a tactical RPG like ''2'' and ''Servants of God'' there is also some odd mechanics that the designer decided to scrap like the ability to summon other characters. The hero was also the only playable character.

* GlassCannon: The main character generally ends up as this, having punishing damage spells (which you can train individually along with your Psy Power stat that already boost the dammage of all of their skills) but less-than-great durability and mediocre Speed. Guy has most of the same traits.

* InTheHood: The protagonist wears a black hood on their character portrait that hides most of their face. This is to keep their appearence and gender ambiguous so the player can imagine them to be however they want. All we see is that they have white skin and red hair.

* LifeDrain: The "feedback" skill and it's upgrade "revenge", heal you for the same damage it deals to the ennemies. Note that the damage is ''always'' equal to the healing so if you have all your [=HPs=] you won't hurt them at all and your turn will be wasted.

* MightyGlacier: Flint have high damage starting out but a miserable Speed stat. He can boost his speed in battle if you buy the Steam Engine.

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: The first energy golem you encounter in a fight is reffered as "???" by the battle interface.

** While some shadowling have some distinct features that make them uniques like horns or headgears, most of them look exactly the same except for their eyes and hand colors which are either red, blue or green.

** If you look at all the human psy users, you'll notice that beside a few different haircuts, they all look the same except with differents colored hair, clothes and skin. Even the hero doesn't have an unique design.

** Some orbs are missable if you don't do their sidequest at time.

* RandomEncounters: Averted except in Lake Alto.

* ThemeNaming: Every named frost spriggats is named after real life philosphers: Grotius is named after Hugo Grotius, Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, Locke after John Locke and Rousseau after Jacques Rousseau.
* UnwinnableByMistake: There is a way to get softlocked during the Lake alto battles. You are on a tiny boat surrounded by water, so non-flying units can't move much. You are encouraged to bring some flying units but not obliged to do so. If you don't bring flying units with you, all you can do is wait for the spriggats to come for you. The problem is that there is always a healer among the spriggats enemies in these battle and if the healer is the only enemy left, it will just keep hiding in a corner in the map and non-flying units cannot reach it and kill it, meaning the player will be stuck and forced to refresh the page.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Grotius's frost shield, which gives cold resistance to any allies he uses it on, sounds nice but it has a problem: the only enemies in the game who deal cold damage are frost spriggats, and you only fight them in a single chapter, on Lake Alto. (You do fight a trio of frost spiggats earlier in the game, but Grotius isn't in your party at this time). To make it worse, the frost shield doesn't work on characters who already have a passive elemental resistance, so if your shadowlings already unlocked their shadow resistance they won't benefit from the frost shield, and because shadowlings are flying units they're very useful on the Lake Alto battles, which take place on a boat surrounded by water. Basically, there is no points in using this spell at all even in the only chapter where it could theorically be useful.

* JerkAss: The main character can be this if you pick certain dialogue options.

** While some shadowling have some distinct features that make them uniques like horns or headgears, most of them look exactly the same except for their eyes and hand colors who are either red, blue or green.

** If you look at all the human psy users, you'll notice that beside a few different haircuts they all looks the same except with differents colored hair, clothes and skin. Even the hero doesn't have an unique design.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Grotius' frost shield which gives cold resistance (makes cold attacks are half as effective) to any allies he use it on, the problem is: the only enemies in the game who deal cold damage are frost spriggats and you only fight them in the General Darkeye rescuing mission (you do fight a trio of frost spiggats earlier in the game, but Grotius isn't in your party at this time). To make it worst, the frost shield doesn't even work on characters who already have a passive elemental resistance so if your shadowlings have shadow resistance they won't benefit of the frost shield and because they are flying units they are very usefull on the Lake Alto battles which take place on a boat surrounded by water.

** [[spoiler:Stay with the Shadowlings in the end]], and you lose two party members who side with the Academy.

** If you look at all the human psy users, you'll notice that beside a few differents haircut they all looks the same except with differents colored hair, clothes and skin, even the hero doesn't have an unique design.

* UnwinnableByMistake: There is a way to get softlocked during the Lake alto battles, you are on a tiny boat surrounded by water so non-flying units can't move much so you are encouraged to bring some flying units even if you are not obliged to do so. If you don't bring flying units with you then all you can do is wait for the spriggats to come for you, except that there is always a spriggat healer in these battle and if he's the only ennemy left, he will just keep hiding in a corner in the map and you can't kill without approaching him with a flying unit and the battle won't end until every foes is dead so you'd better bring you shadowlings and/or Grotius if you don't wanna be stuck and be forced to refresh the page.

** Bronze golems doesn't seem to realise that they can hit multiple targets with their saw blades, they may sometime only attack one of your characters when they could hit more and they may also hit one of their allies when they could have avoided it.

* GlassCannon: The main character generally ends up as this, having punishing damage spells (which you can train individually along with your Psy Power stat) but less-than-great durability and mediocre Speed. Guy has most of the same traits.