Beast Man: Started the trend for the series.

Even while controlling an entirely new character.

Bag of Sharing: Whenever the party splits up, you always retain access to the entire inventory.

It starts out as three slime monsters, but when you defeat all three, they merge into one large one.

Asteroids Monster: Inverted by the SlimeX boss.

And Now for Someone Completely Different: Nina is introduced with her going on a quest of her own, accompanied by two guards later on, Gobi splits off from the group to retrieve a Plot Coupon, since at that point, he's the only one who can breathe underwater.

American Kirby Is Hardcore: The American release replaced the anime inspired box art with something vaguely resembling Conan the Barbarian.

In fact, once the Dark Key is taken from the Light Keep and the sun can once again rise on the village, the thieves all seem kind of depressed. Not that the thieves of Bleak seem to mind at all.

Always Night: The village of Bleak has the Dark Key of the Goddesses, which means their entire town is held in perpetual nighttime.

Abusive Precursors: The feuding Dragon Clans who brought about the Goddess War.

You'll probably be around level 40 or so when you reach the Very Definitely Final Dungeon, if you've been grinding and did all the sidequests, and even then you'll be overpowered. Place any character-related tropes on the character sheet. This ensured a somewhat decent translation, albeit with random name changes that obscured connections with its sequels and some details regarding its story lost in the transition.

One aspect that is well known about this game is the story behind its localization: At the time Capcom apparently didn't feel like translating such a heavy text-based game, so they handed localization and distribution duties to SquareSoft, with Ted Woolsey involved in the translation. Missing ever since, Sara's brother Ryu embarks on a quest to find her, while gathering allies who are all opposing the Dark Dragons' ambition. The Light Dragons, who by this point have long since abandoned their dragon powers so they would not be tempted to participate in further bloodshed, are the first on Zog's hit-list, but they are saved from annihilation by the sacrifice of their priestess, Sara. Cut to many, many years after: The Dark Dragon Empire has grown in power, and under the leadership of their Emperor Zog, they are waging war against the world while searching the keys to release Tyr.

Breath of fire