Alayss and Psy are regular college girls on a walk, but a car suddenly and intentionally runs them over. When they wake up, they find themselves in the Soul World, a purgatory where they have yet to truly die. They learn that they are being targeted by Hera, who wants to torment them for being fragments of a long-deceased rival goddess, Lyssa. Hera has a bounty on all Lyssa Remnants, and worse yet, one of those bounty hunters is Alayss and Psy's childhood friend, Circe, who is willing to kill them just for a shot of escaping the Soul World. Finally, the power of the Fountain of Life, which controls the universe and can defy death itself, threatens to unravel the three girls' bonds further.
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This game contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Circe's father not only treated her like crap, he also killed her and got away with it.
- Affably Evil:
- Pandora wants revenge on Lyssa for imprisoning her, but she's genuinely grateful towards Alayss and Psy for freeing her, at least until she realizes they're both Lyssa remnants. Once the party defeats her, she realizes her mistakes and converts herself into the ultimate gun for Alayss.
- Ares is Remnant Hunter and is the one who taught Circe how to fight, but he watches out for his student's well-being and decides to spare Alayss once he learns that she helped his dragon Drak.
- Psy becomes more manipulative and villainous as the story progresses, but she retains her polite personality and believes destroying the boundary of life and death will be for everyone's benefit. Even when Alayss kills her to stop her mad plan, Psy doesn't hold a grudge and calls Alayss her friend one last time.
- Double subverted with Lucifer, who is initially a Faux Affably Evil manipulator, but shows a more genuinely affable side towards the end of his character arc. For most of the game, he acts as a goofy merchant and if given 3100 dollars, he'll give hints about how to clear certain challenges or unlock secrets. If the player completes all the challenges, he reveals his true identity and traps the party in his realm. He offers to let Alayss take his position and drops his annoying accent, but this is a ploy to trick her into signing a contract to give up her soul. During his Boss Banter, he continues to address the party respectfully for fighting so well. After his defeat, he gives up the key to the developer room and gracefully acknowledges his defeat.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: In the ending, Alayss confesses her love to Circe right before the former sacrifices herself to seal the Fountain of Life.
- The Battle Didn't Count: The prologue boss is Nebula, and although the player is expected to win, the cutscene afterwards has Alayss beaten anyways.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Hera is presented as the main antagonist of the game, since she started the original war over the Fountain of Life until Lyssa sacrificed herself to seal it, leading to Hera putting a bounty on Lyssa's remnants and killing them in real life. However, Psy eventually decides to use her status as a remnant to unseal the fountain and allow people to undo their deaths, which threatens the balance of life and death. Due to Psy gaining control of the fountain, Hera decides to take a backseat until after Alayss and Psy fight to the death, though she never gets a chance to actually fight Alayss due to the latter performing a Heroic Sacrifice to seal the fountain again.
- Big Bad Friend: One of the main antagonists of the game is Psy, who covets the power of the Fountain of Life and seeks to take control of it regardless of the damage it could do to the universe. She insists that this is for the sake of bringing herself, her sister, and her friends back to life so they can get their happy ending. However, Alayss and Circe end up backing out of this plan and oppose her for the rest of the game.
- Big Bad Slippage: Hera is the initial Big Bad and is the overall cause of Alayss and Psy being trapped in the Soul World. However, once Psy learns of the Fountain of Life's potential, she plans to use it to defy the boundary between life and death out of the belief that it'll make everyone happy to reunite with their deceased loved ones. She becomes willing to kill her friends to achieve this goal and she becomes too dangerous for Hera to deal with due to having the power of the fountain, allowing her to temporarily upstage Hera as the main antagonist.
- Bittersweet Ending: In the ending, Pan, Psy, and Alayss are Deader than Dead, due to dying in the purgatory Soul World. However, Alayss sacrificed herself to seal the Fountain of Life to prevent anyone from abusing its power, and since she was the last Lyssa Remnant, this means Hera has no way to undo the seal, preventing her ambitions with the fountain.
- Can't Live Without You: All Lyssa Remnants have a demon helper in the Soul World, who can give them advice but cannot physically interfere with their affairs without experiencing great pain as a penalty. However, the demons' lives are also tied to their hosts, so Hades has to incur the penalty in order to save Alayss from a fatal fall.
- Developer's Room: If the player completes all the challenges, they can fight Lucifer, who gives up a key upon defeat. This key grants access to the developer's room after the main story, which has comments from the developer and two pieces of fanart.
- Evil Former Friend: Circe used to be the childhood friend of Alayss and Psy, but after being sent to the Soul World, she's now an incredibly cutthroat killer who wants to farm Soul Points through any means necessary, all so she can escape the Soul World. Fortunately, she ends up coming around at the end of Chapter 2, realizing that she doesn't really want to throw away Alayss and Psy's friendship.
- Faux Affably Evil:
- Hesperus, the God of the Stars, and his assistant Tee Vee act like funny and friendly showsmen, but there's always a mocking edge to their words. Once the party corners Hesperus in his own arena, he drops the act and disparages everyone for thinking mortals can defeat the gods.
- Similarly, Momus, the God of Comedy, acts like a jolly clown and seemingly wants the party to be happy in Digitopia, but he's just as vicious as everyone else in hunting them down and is filled with murderous rage when the party falsely surrenders to him, only to free his hostages.
- Hera, the Goddess of Marriage and Women, acts polite to Alayss and compliments her for defeating the other deities, but this is after she created an evil illusion of Pan to guilt-trip the latter. She also gloats about her plan to kill both Alayss and Psy once the two are done fighting each other, showing how thin her mask is.
- Fusion Dance: When Hesperus is seemingly cornered by the party, he fuses with Tee Vee to regain his advantage. Appearance-wise, he mostly looks the same, but with Tee Vee's head replacing his own. The fusion is temporary and the two become separate beings again in Chapters 3 and 4.
- Good Is Not Nice: Minerva joins the party in Chapter 1, but despises humans and only helps out of respect for Pan and Aestus.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: In the backstory of the Soul World, Lyssa sacrificed her immortality as a goddess in order to seal the Fountain of Life, preventing Hera's faction from abusing its powers and damaging the universe with it. However, her soul split into several pieces and reincarnated into humans, and Hera wants to kill them and hunt them down in the Soul World as revenge.
- Heel–Face Turn:
- In Chapter 2, Ares is a bounty hunter who is after the souls of the Lyssa Remnants, Alayss and Psy. When he learns Alayss saved his dragon Drak, he gives up on hunting her out of gratitude and becomes an ally for the rest of the game.
- In Chapter 2, Circe eventually realizes that she's wrong to push Alayss and Psy away, leading to her joining the party.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: After learning that Alayss is a Lyssa Remnant, Circe tries her best to get Alayss to hate her so that she can kill Alayss without guilt and claims that she has thrown away all her affection towards her friends. However, she still holds onto the necklace that Alayss gives her, which is normally impossible for those who go to the Soul World unless they're really attached to that object. She eventually realizes that she doesn't really want to kill her friends and joins the party.
- Honor Before Reason: Downplayed with Virtus, the God of Bravery. He insists on fighting with his heart exposed for the sake of a challenge, but his hands also fully heal all damage to the heart and each other if they're not destroyed before their turn.
- Infinity +1 Sword: The party's strongest weapons are stored in gold chests, which are hard to find or even guarded by the strongest bosses in the game. Although the weapon descriptions specify a character, there is nothing preventing another character from using it if they share the same weapon type.
- Pan's ultimate weapon is Rod of Asclepius, which is found in the hidden waterfall cave in Chapter 1.
- Hermes ultimate weapon is Cyber-Gloves, which is found in Pandora's dungeon.
- Alayss's ultimate weapon is hope, which is obtained by defeating Pandora.
- Minverva's ultimate weapon is Cerberus's Claws, which is obtained in Lucifer's room.
- Ares's ultimate weapon is Sword of Justice, which is obtained in Lucifer's room.
- Psy's ultimate weapon is Artemis's Bow, which is obtained in the temperature puzzle room of Momus's dungeon.
- Aestus's ultimate weapon is Electro-Gloves, which is obtained in the temperature puzzle room of Momus's dungeon.
- Circe's ultimate weapon is Lunar Sword, which is obtained in the temperature puzzle room of Momus's dungeon.
- Karma Houdini: Circe's father was an abusive monster who killed her, and despite suspecting him, Alayss and Psy weren't able to find enough evidence to expose his crimes. Although they discuss the possibility of finding that evidence once they return to the world of the living, Alayss and Psy die at the end of the game and Circe is still trapped in the Soul World, making this possibility moot.
- Magically Inept Fighter: Alayss has no MP growth and is limited to only TP skills involving physical attacks.
- Noble Demon: Ares is willing to kill people in cold blood for Soul Points, but when he learns Alayss helped his dragon Drak, he gives up on hunting her out of gratitude.
- Offing the Offspring: Circe's father killed her and got away with it, which contributed to her cynical mindset in surviving in the Soul World. She wants to come back to life so she can get revenge on her father, and is willing to kill Lyssa Remnants to make it happen.
- Parental Substitute: When Circe arrived in the Soul World, she was terrified and alone until Ares took her in and taught her how to fight. Circe speculates part of the reason Ares was initially willing to hunt Lyssa Remnants is because he wants to use a remnant's soul to bring Circe back to the world of the living.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Hera technically wins because all the Lyssa Remnants died in the Soul World, with most of them getting killed because of the bounty Hera placed on them. Since Alayss sacrificed herself to seal the Fountain of Life and there are no more remnants to unseal it again, Hera no longer has a way to take control of the fountain. She realized too late that she needed a living remnant to unseal the fountain and now has lost her only shot at universal domination. Alayss points out that this is the closest thing to a win that they party can achieve against Hera, since the gods are immortal.
- Superboss: The strongest boss in the game, Lucifer, can only be fought if the player completes the challenges of every chapter except for the final chapter. Most of his attacks will deal enough damage to instantly kill even decently leveled characters and the combined HP of his three forms adds up to 19666.
- The Unfought: Despite being built up as the main deity antagonist, Hera is never fought at all, since she would rather watch Alayss and Psy fight each other so she can finish the remaining one off. However, Alayss sacrifices herself to seal the Fountain of Life before Hera gets a chance to fight.
- Villain Decay: Hesperus starts out as a funny, but menacing and merciless villain who nearly kills Ares and forced Psy to use her full power. In the next area, he's reduced to a joke, where he cowers in front of the party in the casino. He attempts to hire an assassin, Narcissus, to kill the party, only for his assassin to not be at his location yet. Once Narcisssus shows up, he accidentally runs Hesperus over with a car. His next assassin, a giant caterpillar, doesn't fare much better, and he's forced to return to his master in shame. Finally, he tries to make excuses for his mistake and tells Hera that only someone who hasn't made a mistake should cast the first stone, so she drops a massive rock on him as punishment.
- Villainous Breakdown: Momus is angered when the party manages to free his hostages, so he chases them with a deadly vehicle shaped like his face. Even when he has them cornered in a dead end, he opts to abandon the vehicle and kill them in a direct fight, since he's too filled with rage to stick to the more efficient strategy of just running them over with his ride.
- What the Hell, Hero?: At the end of Chapter 3, Hades calls out Alayss for going along with Psy's plan to control the Fountain of Life and death despite the potential damage to the Soul World and the universe. Pan admonishes Alayss, Circe, and Pan for taking this risk and ignoring her warnings about the fountain before challenging them all to a miniboss fight.
