Averted with missiles, which work like real world cruise missiles. Roboteching: Most laser weapons arc for no apparent reason when fired.Real Robot Genre: The Ryders are more military based despite being rather Humongous Mecha in size.Rockets are basically this trope minus the weaknesses of missiles. Point Defenseless: Missiles when not obstructed by flak.Player Mooks: You can hire out Alliance Cruisers and Mining Union frigates to augment your forces.People's Republic of Tyranny: PACT is allegedly benevolently socialist/communist, but the red military theme and aggressive gunboat diplomacy make this claim ring very hollow.Operation: Blank: Operation "Wedding Crash".One-Hit Polykill: The Vanguard Cannon of the Sunrider can kill everything in it's area of effect.On a more serious note, Cosette barely looks older than the same, but there is a reason: her age was frozen in time thanks to a genetic degeneracy caused by radioactive pollution. Older Than She Looks: The art style for some of the girls tends to make them look like young teens instead of young adults.Likewise, Kayto proves fairly immune to Claude's attempts to seduce him despite her purposeful fanservice attempts. Not Distracted by the Sexy: Ava maintains her professional demeanor in front of Kayto even when he's naked.Non-Lethal KO: Ryders can retreat when they hit zero HP, unless battle conditions dictate a game over if they die.Nintendo Hard: The game in it's later parts, especially on the harder difficulties.Nightmares later count as Degraded Boss versions. Mooks: PACT and the pirate forces wield similar grunt units.Mood Whiplash: The harem comedy hijinks often happen right before or after the serious and quite dark parts of the game.La RĂ©sistance: Kayto Shields is the only senior member of his nation's military thrust into this role by default by virtue of his planet's conquering the subjugation of it's military.Katanas Are Just Better: Icari's Phoenix and the PACT/Ryuvian Nightmares are equipped with gigantic katanas, with the former even sporting a wakizashi just to add on some samurai portrayal accuracy.Infant Immortality: Averted with graphic majesty in part two of the game.Also meaningful, as Arcadius himself can clone himself and admits he's one of many, many clones. I Am Legion: What the main flagship of the PACT fleet is named after.The player can choose for Ava to do this to take down the Legion. Heroic Sacrifice: Sola attempted this in her backstory.All assault weapons like handheld pistols/machine guns count as kinetics, but are much, much weaker. Missiles are de facto kinetic weapons, though can be easily shot down or intercepted. Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Due to proliferation of shield technology, kinetic weapons like railguns are much more effective since they ignore the shields, though lasers do much more accurate damage when they can get past the shielding.Frickin' Laser Beams: Roboteching lasers are in vogue with most of the units in the game, good and bad alike.Freeware Game: Though updates are available must faster to backers of the creator's Kickstarter.Fighting For a Homeland: The crew of the Sunrider who hail from any world conquered by PACT.The Federation: The Solar Alliance is fairly morally upright one for the most part, though it has issues with bureaucratic inertia and morally grey behind the scenes stuff.Ironic, given they were founded to oppose the empire that preceded them, though some of their leaders are somewhat aware of this and are trying to remedy that, or at the very least have moral reservations about what they've become. Easier Than Easy: Visual Novel mode, which makes the battles nigh impossible to lose.Cera is quickly conquered in the prolouge of the game, and Kayto has to watch his hometown get blown off the map in the process. Doomed Hometown: On the level of an entire homeworld.Unfortunately, they also aren't doing much to help by continuing to mine the planet, which only increases the pollution and poverty, which also increases the crime. So much so it was EVEN WORSE than the crime and disease ridden hellhole it currently is before the Solar Alliance tried to improve things. Turns out all proposed theories are somewhat true. Kayto speculates with his crew over why Arcadius wears a mask, with theories ranging from it granting immortality, to allowing another "Arcadius" to be a Legacy Character, and so on. Bowdlerise: The Steam release was censored, but this can be quickly undone with a patch that mostly uncensors one really mild h-game scene.A Mech by Any Other Name: The mecha are called Ryders.Tropes used in Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius include:
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