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An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
Whether a character never ages or is invincible, immortality represents the inability to die. Sometimes this is a blessing, sometimes it is a curse. Either way it usually makes for an interesting game mechanic.
The ability to control the direction and/or behavior of lightning; this may also be connected with the ability to generate lightning. Many games involve characters with lightning element attacks. These are unique because of their potency with water.
Games featuring characters that are physically much younger than their actual age would dictate. This does not count gods or similar deities that are considered ageless.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
Many games allow you to buy stuff, these are the dudes who help sell it to you. Typically they also engage in light conversation.
A character whose intentions seem to be to help the player character, but their motives are unclear.
Characters that are designed to be scantily-clad.
A rune is normally an ancient letter or symbol, often carved into a stone or gem, infused with mystical power. In many games they confer new abilities on a character, or add effects to an item.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
Any practitioner of magic (wizard, sorcerer, mage, necromancer, etc.) who casts spells. Even unlearned scholars can throw a mean magic missile every now and then.
Stars of Destiny are recruitable characters in the Suikoden franchise. They serve various functions from combat to shopkeeping to pivotal story events and are based on the 108 Stars of Destiny concept seen in the Chinese novel Water Margin.
Being learned scholars and masters of the arcane arts, wizards wield great power by manipulating magical energy for the forces of good and evil.
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