History VideoGame / TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie

* TrainingFromHell: "The Fallen Prince" centers around Shirley putting Cedric through this.

** The strength of the offensive Lost Arts has been dropped to the point where high-end standard arts targeting an elemental weakness can be stronger.

* GuideDangIt: If players are trying to get specific characters at the Reverie Corridor and don't like the character they got (mainly due to the character's Brave Order or the Master Quartz they come with is terrible and by default, cannot be brought to the main story), then the player is out of luck as SaveScumming doesn't work the normal way if the player has saved their game after beating the special monster that drops the special orbs. Instead, the player has to first save ''before'' fighting the special monster, get the yellow orb, and then go back to the main hub and hope to get the character they want.

* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: The Reverie Corridor is an in-universe version of this as one of its primary purposes was to help make the characters stronger. Through it your characters will not only gain a ton of XP but will also be drowning in loot items that would otherwise be scarce in previous games.

** At the cutscene at the end of [[spoiler:C's duel with Duvalie]] in Act 4, the former will cast the Ivory Nail art to hold their opponent in place even if the player hasn't equipped them with the corresponding quarts for said art.

** The most powerful offensive art, Albion Wolf, is also hit by this. In ''Cold Steel III'' and ''IV'', it removes all positive buffs ''first'' with its [[StatusBuffDispel All Cancel]] attribute before inflicting damage, making it an unstoppable nuke. ''Reverie'' has this skill be useless against Perfect Reflect, preventing damage bypass.

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: You face the FinalBoss at around levels 140-150. The original limit is ''180''. The October DLC raises it to '''250''' for the BonusDungeon.

* DiskOneNuke: At the beginning of Rean's chapter 2, there's a Lone Blade quartz underneath the Heimdallr Museum. Players don't even have to fight the optional boss to obtain it as the chest is at the same place where the Magius Master Quartz is located in ''Cold Steel III''.
* DraggedIntoDrag: "St. Astraia's Violet in Bloom" has Kurt attend St Astraia in drag. The end credits have a brief scene showing Musse, clearly inspired by this, trying to recruit Kurt for a CrossCastRole play. The following scene shows that Kurt was unable to get out of it.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Victor, who at this point has lung disease and only one arm, teams up with Arios and [[spoiler:'''''defeats Cassius Bright''''' and Zechs Vander in an unofficial tournament in Unlimited Blade Crafts.]]

* WholesomeCrossdresser: One of the side episodes has Kurt crossdressing while he, Juna, and Musse enter St. Astraia.
** A group victory quote with Wazy, Joshua, Kurt, and Swin has the former lampshading the times when the latter three have worn a maid, a schoolgirl uniform, and a goth loli without him knowing as he thinks it suits them. The latter three obviously object to this.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Ash's is rather skeptical when he's told that there may be a ghost in the catacombs under the Imperial Museum. Rean calls him out on it.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Ash's reaction to being told that there may be a ghost in the catacombs under the Imperial Museum. Rean calls him out on it.

* OldShame: Crow sees his past identity as C as this, and he warns the current C that he'll eventually come to see it the same way.

* CompanyCrossReferences: The Magical Alisa LS minigame references the ShowWithAShow from ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'' (and said show was ''in turn'' an example of this trope, as that show's characters were all nods to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'').

** Certain cutscenes will have the characters be clad in their default outfits instead of whatever costumes or accessories the player has equipped them with.

** During Act 2, Rean's group runs into rogue soldiers collaborating with the EDF who activate some [[spoiler:copies of the gospel which negates any orbal energy nearby]], leaving them unable to use their orbments. While they do lose the ability to use arts and combat links, they are still capable of using Brave Order in the ensuing fight.
** In Chapter 3 of C's route, Renne casts the Recuria art on [[spoiler:C's group when they were about to be inflicting by the mind-altering affects of the Curse.]] When she joins the party shortly afterwards, said art is not available from any of the quartz she comes equipped with.
** At cutscene at the end of [[spoiler:C's duel with Duvalie]] in Act 4, the former will cast the Ivory Nail art to hold their opponent in place even if the player hasn't equipped them with the corresponding quarts for said art.

* StoryAndGameplaySegregation:
** In general, if the player switches a character's outfit, there's a decent chance the game will switch the character back into the outfit they're supposed to be wearing for that particular cutscene before switching back to the one the player has equipped.
** On successive playthroughs, the player can take off C's mask during the portions before his identity is revealed. However, his voice will still be distorted during the cutscenes.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Nadia is said to have incredible analytical skills, which plays a major part against the final boss of Chapter 3 of C's Route. But the party member with the Analyze-based craft in C's route is Lapis.

** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Noel Seeker, Wazy Hemisphere, Henry [=MacDowell=], Alex Dudley, Zeit, Arios [=MacLaine=], Ilya Platiere, Sergei Lou, Fran Seeker, Shizuku [=MacLaine=], Wald Wales, Mireille]], [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Garcia Rossi, Dieter Crois, and Ian Grimwood]]]] haven't appeared since ''Azure'', almost a decade prior. Though with these characters (as well as Rixia), players outside of Japan may not have noticed that the bus ever left, given that ''Azure'' had only been localized for release in the West a mere four months prior to ''Reverie''.

** The SSS beach event has Lloyd recalling that he did apply sunscreen to Elie back in ''Azure'', embarrassing the both of them.

* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Zig-zagged. In Chapter 4 of C’s route, he challenges Duvalie to a one-on-one duel to let her vent on her rage over his murder of Arianrhod, but ends the duel by secretly casting the Ivory Nail art to hold her in place before disarming her. Quite a few of the spectators considered it a dirty trick but he and Duvalie both point out [[LoopholeAbuse that they had never explicitly forbade the use of orbal arts in their duel]].