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General => Entertainment => Topic started by: King Tetiro on April 08, 2011, 04:51:17 pm

Title: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: King Tetiro on April 08, 2011, 04:51:17 pm: We all know that there are summoners in the Final Fantasy franchise

My wonder is this. Are there any other franchises that also have people who can summon creatures?

I'm just wondering
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: TheDarkJay on April 08, 2011, 05:03:48 pm: ....is that, is that a serious question?

It's a pretty common fantasy trope.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonMagic
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: King Tetiro on April 08, 2011, 05:15:03 pm: Quote from: TheDarkJay on April 08, 2011, 05:03:48 pm
....is that, is that a serious question?

It's a pretty common fantasy trope.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonMagic

It's a serious question. The only franchise I've seen use it is FF
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: TheDarkJay on April 09, 2011, 01:53:20 am: Most turn-based RPGs will have some form of "uber-mega-attack" like summons. Djinn in Golden Sun for example or those things from the Tales series (Tales of [Something]). It's usually in-lore limited to a set group of individuals to explain why everybody doesn't summon hell on everybody else, even if in-game all your characters just happen to be from that group of individuals...

It's also often implemented in more "freeroam" western RPGs. The Elder Scrolls series (Morrowind and Oblivion especially) lets you summon NPCs to fight with you if you have the spells and the skill (Conjuration), as do a some DnD based games like Neverwinter Nights (if you play as the appropriate classes).

Summonable allies (as in The Elder Scrolls and DnD) tends to be more of a western thing, whilst "uber-mega-attack" summons tends to be more common in Eastern games (like Final fantasy and Golden Sun) though obviously that's not a hard-and-fast rule.
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: OniShounen on April 09, 2011, 06:34:25 am: There are also games like Magic the Gathering that are entirely (read:mostly) based around summoning.
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: King Tetiro on May 09, 2011, 03:25:22 pm: Still wanting to know what games have summoning.

Keep it video games please.
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: MG-Zero on May 09, 2011, 04:04:03 pm: Chaos Legion
Oblivion
Golden Sun
Kingdom Hearts
Devil May Cry
Zelda
The list goes on and on...
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: King Tetiro on May 09, 2011, 04:07:13 pm: Wait Zelda?
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: MG-Zero on May 09, 2011, 07:30:34 pm: There has been a number of enemies and bosses in Zelda who could summon other enemies. Odolwa and Wizerobes to name a few. Since the definition of summon only means to call, Link also summons Epona.
Title: Re: Something I've wondered about Summoners
Post by: King Tetiro on May 09, 2011, 08:52:29 pm: Quote from: MG-Zero on May 09, 2011, 07:30:34 pm
There has been a number of enemies and bosses in Zelda who could summon other enemies. Odolwa and Wizerobes to name a few. Since the definition of summon only means to call, Link also summons Epona.

That's pretty clever MG.