TV Tropes Page for 'Gemstone Assault'
Laconic: Gems are made into lethal weapons. All excerpts in the notes are taken from this webpage.
(I'm doing a challenge and one of the things is to play a game that appears on the TV Tropes Page for 'Gemstone Assault', this list is mostly a shorthand for me but if you have any examples yourself go ahead)
(I'm doing a challenge and one of the things is to play a game that appears on the TV Tropes Page for 'Gemstone Assault', this list is mostly a shorthand for me but if you have any examples yourself go ahead)
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In AMID EVIL, the Star of Torment is a crystal mace that fires nail-like crystal shards when swung. A killing blow will launch the target into the nearest wall and pin them there. With Soul Mode active, you can repeatedly make entire head fly off to blast enemies with crystal shards. The Crystal Masters of the Arcane expanse fight using an Evil Counterpart to the Star and a few ride a Power Up Mount that lets them use their maces' Soul Mode attack making them some of the most dangerous enemies in the game.
Crystalisks in Borderlands 2 can launch a Flechette Storm of crystal shards at the player, or a timed, explosive crystal that acts like a sticky bomb.
In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, one of the weapons that you can get early in the game (provided that you stand still in a hole that you just made in the wall for several seconds) is the jewel knuckles, which will remain your most powerful weapon for some time.
The Power Customization in City of Heroes allows you to change Earth-based Powers into Crystal-based Powers. It's purely cosmetic, however.
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun has a critter known as "tiberian fiend", a horse-sized quadruped that attacks by throwing chunks of Tiberium crystals at its targets.
Command & Conquer: Renegade has the Tiberium Flechette Gun, a small nailgun-like weapon that launches shards of Tiberium. It's good against everything except mutants, who it heals, which makes it a shame that it only appears after mutants take over for most basic enemies.
In Dark Souls, Crystal Sorcery is the trademark of the Paledrake Seath the Scaleless. Some of the most powerful offensive Sorceries in the games include a spell that launches homing crystals at your foes and one that hurls an enormous crystal spear at them. Seath himself unleashes Crystal breath in battle that inflicts the extremely dangerous Curse status effect. In the first game, a skilled sorcerer drives himself insane studying Seath's secrets and manages to reverse engineer the Crystal breath (albeit without the Curse properties), creating the White Dragon Breath Sorcery.
Said sorcery returns in the third game, though this time it requires transposing the soul of a man who delved too deep into Seath's archives and became a pale draconic abomination himself. A player who wants to use a Sorcerer build would do well to pick up Crystal Sorceries when they become available.
Dead Rising lets you throw a bunch of diamonds at zombies. It's mainly just for stunning them, though. With a high enough level (and some skill books in tow) gems become a a faster-to-find replacement for the shotgun.
In Dead Rising 2 you can combine gems with a leaf-blower to make an effective shotgun or with a flashlight to make a Laser Blade.
In Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, gems can be thrown with deadly effect up to and including severed limbs. Much like anything else in the game.
Elden Ring: The mysterious Crystalians are golems made out of bluish crystal and make their weapons out of the same material. The ones with staves also wield magic that tosses shards of crystal at enemies.
EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance: Forcestar's unique ability is to produce up to three force gems that circle around him, blocking bullets up until they break. With three gems out at once, Forcestar can launch them forward to explode on the first enemy they touch, creating a massive radius of light that destroys all bullets within and deals massive damage to enemies. One of the most powerful abilities in the game, especially if your quick mashing makes the game launch two gem bursts at once.
In Fallen London, a particularly expensive Diamond Ring ups your fighting capability as well as your persuasiveness. Anyone who's ever gotten punched by someone who didn't take off their jewelry can attest to why.
"A huge diamond always leaves an impression."
"A huge diamond always leaves an impression."
The series has several weapons made out of gemstones, up to including the Diamond Sword. In Final Fantasy XIII, the first boss of Lake Bresha is a second encounter with the Manasvin Warmech, a scorpion-like mecha. The Warmech's most dangerous attack in this battle is to use its tail to fling chunks of crystal from its surroundings at the party.
There are extremely rare weapons that fire human-sized chunks of crystal at enemy ships. These crystals can pass through low-level shields and will generally wreck ships like no one's business. The Crystal race (obtained from a long sidequest) throw crystals as a ranged attack when facing non-adjacent foes. They can also coat doors in crystals to keep anyone from getting in or out of the room. In fact, a ship made out of crystals is the reward for a ridiculously convoluted and RNG dominated sidequest, starting out the game with it will tear everything apart well into the late game.
Celestial Alice stretches her wings and crystals shoot out from inside her wings that deal damage to her enemies when summoned. Tormentor Seiya slams his massive scythe-head shaped crystal flail that replaces his lost arm at his enemies when summoned.
SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.)'s Galactic Adventures. One of the available weapons was the Gemstone, which is fired as a missile. It moves toward its target (sometimes moving a space in the wrong direction) and detonates after moving six spaces, whether it has reached the target or not.
In GemCraft series, you put your gems in towers and traps to shoot at monsters, put gems in amplifiers to increase the power of the gems in towers and traps, sacrificing gems to shrines for a massive attack, or just using them as a bomb to deal direct damage.
Granblue Fantasy has De La Fille, who fights with seven gems which, depending on her version and uncap level, appear as regular gems, fruit-shaped, or turned into weapons. Her charge attacks involve using all of her gems for various kind of attacks.
Hyper Light Drifter: The sharp spires of the western Crystal Landscape do not merely gleam, they grow explosively fast. At a touch, tiny shards turn into Spikes of Doom. Those that do not impale the Drifter can engulf them in a temporary Crystal Prison.
Some of Pit's weapon fire jewels, such as the Royal Blade and the Crystal Bow.
In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, the Snow White D-Link's ultimate Finishing Move is Sweet Seven, which creates seven gems of different colors representing the Dwarfs and repeatedly bombarding enemies with them.
In Kingdom Hearts Union X, the Jewel Sorceress and Jewel Princess event Heartless can attack by lifting the crystals out of their headgear and firing them at the player for a giant Flechette Storm. They can also fire Magic Missile Storms from the Power Crystals that form their lower bodies.
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Kirby Super Star Ultra introduces Wham Bam Jewel. They use their gem hands similar to Wham Bam Rock from The Great Cave Offensive.
In Kirby: Planet Robobot, the four abilities present in the Team Kirby Clash mode get a fantasy makeover, with the Doctor ability resembling an alchemist and substituting gemstones for its usual pills in all of its attacks.
Before he was reworked, Taric the Gem Knight from League of Legends wore armour made out of gems, carried a large gem-studded shield and wielded a massive hammer studded with sharp gems. His gems were the source of his magic and he could both stun enemies with a dazzling blast of light from his shield and cause his crystalline aura to shatter explosively, shredding nearby enemies, as well as buff up nearby allies with the power of his radiance. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Note: Post-rework as Taric the Shield of Valoran the gem theme was downplayed considerably, as his gem-studded armour and shield were removed and the crystal-studded hammer was replaced with a sort of three-flanged mace with a single gem floating in the space between the flanges. However he still has a number of gems that float above his shoulder which he uses as a focus for his starlight powers.
Note: Post-rework as Taric the Shield of Valoran the gem theme was downplayed considerably, as his gem-studded armour and shield were removed and the crystal-studded hammer was replaced with a sort of three-flanged mace with a single gem floating in the space between the flanges. However he still has a number of gems that float above his shoulder which he uses as a focus for his starlight powers.
The Crystal Knight enemies from the Lunar series can attack with crystal-like projectiles or drop on the heroes from above with its lower torso, which just so happens to be a pointy crystal.
Both Crystal Man from Mega Man 5 and Jewel Man from Mega Man 9 use gem-based attacks. The Crystal Joe from the former's stage also does this.
Mega Man X2: Crystal Snail's Crystal Hunter, although it's more of a Crystal Prison type weapon.
Mega Man X8 has Earthrock Trilobyte's Crystal Wall weapon.
Diamond swords are high-tier weapons in Minecraft, second only to netherite swords, which are crafted from them. Other diamond tools (axes, picks, etc.) can also be used as weapons, with varying degrees of effectiveness.
Monster Sanctuary has three attacks themed around gemstones, all of which are classed as magical and part of the Earth element.
Rarity in the fangame My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic can delay gems, straight up launch them, cause them to erupt beneath her opponent, or just summon a massive storm below them.
Rarity (rechristened Generous Mare) also uses gems to fight in the fangame Mega Pony. She can use gems as explosive mines, launch them at the opponent, or surround herself with a shield of them. After beating her, Mega Pony gains the ability to similarly use gems as a shield and launch them at his foes.
Within Nethack, gems can be thrown, but make bad improvised weapons.
(SPOILER) The main benefit is that valuable gems can be identified from glass by throwing them at unicorns, which also increases your Luck Stat.
(SPOILER) The main benefit is that valuable gems can be identified from glass by throwing them at unicorns, which also increases your Luck Stat.
The Pokémon move "Power Gem" is this, though it involves channeling light via gems. Also, it counts as a Rock-Type attack.
(radish note: I'm counting this as "every Pokemon game from Gen IV and beyond")
(radish note: I'm counting this as "every Pokemon game from Gen IV and beyond")
There's also the event legendary Diancie, whose signature move Diamond Storm is a Flechette Storm of diamonds.
The Crystallix armor in Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters allows Ratchet to deal crystal based strikes with his Omniwrench.
Players can craft gemstone-tipped crossbow bolts, which when enchanted with the corresponding spells grant them a number of effects in combat. Gemstone dragons started off as the offspring of the crystal dragon created by Vicendithas, which he hid in Karamja in an attempt to keep them away from Kerapac. In combat, they can occasionally attack the player with a barrage of concentrated gemstones emerging from the ground, which deal massive damage unless the player dodges the attack by moving. They come in dragonstone, onyx and hydrix variants. The Black Stone Dragon in the Dragonkin Laboratory is a gemstone dragon infused with black stone. To say that she exceeded expectations after her creation is putting it mildly: the black stone implants drove her insane as they allowed Xau-Tak to influence her, and by the time the player fights her they effectively do her a kindness by killing her.
Both Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana have the spells Gem Missle and Diamond Shards (respectively), which first causes a large diamond to pop out of the ground and burst into smaller spinning gem fragments, finally shooting straight at the target one after the other. In the latter's case, when targeting enough enemies, the assault is so much, it causes slowdown.
Both Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana have the spells Gem Missle and Diamond Shards (respectively), which first causes a large diamond to pop out of the ground and burst into smaller spinning gem fragments, finally shooting straight at the target one after the other. In the latter's case, when targeting enough enemies, the assault is so much, it causes slowdown.
The Queen from Shatterline has an Orbiting Particle Shield made of spiked crystal shards, which she can shoot at you as a projectile attack.
Oddly, Super Mario Bros.'s Daisy forgoes the Green Thumb she usually has in sports games for the power to cause crystals to rise from the ground and punch the ball with a crystal fist in Mario Strikers Charged.
Several of Mimi's attacks in Super Paper Mario involve hurling rubees at you, which you're encouraged to pick up and throw right back at her.
Chenjesu in Star Control are living crystals and make almost everything from crystals. Their ship weapon is "Photon Crystal Shards" — big gem-like bombs that are near-impossible to intercept, cause great damage with direct hits and even when miss explode in shrapnel.
Temtem has the Crystal type. Most of its Temtem have Gem Tissue or are Crystalline Creatures, and its techniques involve pelting the target with summoned gemstones, or using them as shields.
Diamonds are one of the most common bullet types in Touhou Project.
Tyrian has the Secret Level GEM WAR, where you fight a bunch of ships that shoot destructible (and sometimes homing) gems at you.
Unreal has the Stinger, the weapon shooting crystal shards like a machine gun.
Unreal Tournament 3 merges it with the more standard Minigun into the "Stinger Minigun", primary fire shooting out bullet-sized shards like the old Minigun and Secondary Fire launching much larger chunks with a decent amount of knockback (and able to pin enemies to walls with killing blows) like the Stinger.
The Dagger-Axe skin for the Scindo replaces its blades with daggers made from rubedo. Exergis is a shotgun-styled Corpus gun that generates radioactive crystals by sliding the handgrip and at the pull of the trigger shatters them into tiny, painful pieces.
Citrine, the geode Warframe, creates crystals and gems for all of her abilities. She can blast enemies with mineral shards, create a protective shell around allies, summon a prismatic gem that fires lasers, and encase foes in crystal.
Citrine, the geode Warframe, creates crystals and gems for all of her abilities. She can blast enemies with mineral shards, create a protective shell around allies, summon a prismatic gem that fires lasers, and encase foes in crystal.
Many high level clubs in World of Warcraft are made of glowing crystals — sometimes the weapon consists of a handle with crystals floating around it. Somehow they are very efficient. A few rock giants are actually made of crystal and may throw pieces at you or trap you inside gemstones.
Rin Tohsaka is a practitioner of Jewel Magic. Usually, the jewels are just charged up with a bit of magic every day to supply greater amount of energy when needed, but they also make good explosives. This also explains why she's such a miser: buying all those jewels is expensive, even for someone as wealthy as Rin. Rin's Finnish Rival, Luvia, also uses jewels. This is because (SPOILERS) Rin's ancestor defeated the twin sister of Luvia's ancestor in the Third Grail War and stole their family's magic.
