Similarties in Dept. Heaven Options

[jcdietz03]

Try and identify the similarities and differences in the Dept. Heaven games.

Action RPG:
KitN has more action elements than Yggdra Union has more action elements than Riviera.

Retry:
You can retry if you lose.

Skill Attacks:
Each game has some version of something called a skill attack. That isn't too surprising because many RPG feature skill attacks (they're not always called that though). Rivera has "Over Skill," Yggdra has "Card Skill," and KitN has "Skill Attack."

Items:
Some of the items are recycled between the games.

Enemies:
Some enemies are recycled between the games. Skeleton in particular appears in all three; Witch, Knight, Slime, Spider, and Troll appear in both Riviera and KitN. Catapults appear in Yggdra Union and KitN.

Enemy behavior:
Enemies in all three games have a RAGE mode in which they are more powerful. In the first two games, enemies have a MAX mode where their power is at max.

Something Angelic:
Riviera has Archangel. It makes many references to "the gods."
The final boss in Yggdra is

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Archangel.

A couple of characters in KitN are mentioned as being Angelic.

Main Character is a girl:
Ein is a girl.
So is Yggdra and Maria is too. You might think Wilmgard is the main character, so this might not be true for KitN.

[Dr Strum]

Some of the items are recycled between the games.

MOST of the items are recycled between the games.

And Maria is not the main character of Kitten.

[blue grim angel]

There are a few running locations as well.

Heaven's Gate: beginning of Riviera and ending of Yggdra Union.
Asgard: Mentioned in all three
Underworld: I think it was mentioned in Riviera, can't remember anything of it in Yggdra Union. Heavily mentioned in Knights in the Nightmare
Riviera: Setting of Riviera and is mentioned a couple times in Knights in the Nightmare

[Dr Strum]

I don't think you two should be in this thread until you've both cleared Kitten.

[Midnight]

Ein is a girl.

hahahahaha What.

[blue grim angel]

I don't think you two should be in this thread until you've both cleared Kitten.

By "clear," do you mean finish both routes, or see every ending?

[Dr Strum]

Interpret it as you will.

[blue grim angel]

Well I've already finished the red route, but I'm still working on the blue.

Say Sturm, how much of the game have you finished?

[Yuka]

I don't know if Sturm has finished the game yet or not, but even if he hasn't, I still think he's more qualified on this subject than you are.

[blue grim angel]

I understand, I'm just saying that "clearing the game" shouldn't be the only thing needed to prove your knowledge of the series. I'm probably not as good with this as Sturm would be, though I at least wanna add something. Who knows, this might end up being a section on the site some day.

Don't think this really needs to be spoiler marked, but just in case.

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Also, the one biggest similarity that ties all the games together (besides Asgard): Marietta. She's shown up in all three games so far, as a boss in fact! Her attacks seem fairly consistent between the games as well. The only thing different about her is her design in Knights as it is drastically different from her Riviera/Yggdra design. Knights makes her feel like a main character for the whole series. (In my eyes.) It makes me curious as to what happens to her and how she ends up in Riviera. Although I haven't gotten every ending for Knights, so I don't know which one could be the "true" ending, or what happens to her. Regardless, I've come to accept Marietta as a full fledged, enigmatic character now.

[TacticalWarrior]

Elements are shared.
The term Break Out too.

[jcdietz03]

That other thread reminds me...
The trope abusive precursors applies to all Dept. Heaven games.

Riviera:

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In Riviera, Hector is a representative of the gods - he's the main villain.

Yggdra Union:

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In Yggdra, the gods sent Nessiah to Fantasinia to live eternally as a punishment. He devised a clever scheme to thwart our heroes and the gods did nothing to stop it. At the end, Yggdra faces off against Marietta (if you, the player, want her to).

Knights in the Nightmare:

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In KitN, it is said the gods destroyed the western tower because the Tiamat people broke a rule against building such a tower the gods had set forth.

The idea of multiple races comes into play in all the games. It's most pronounced in KitN.
Riviera has the sprites, and arcs.
Yggdra Union has the undines.
Knights in the Nightmare has multiple races. The tiamats play a role in the story.

This post has been edited by jcdietz03: Jul 17 2009, 02:13 AM