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• Adaptation Deviation: While the plot of the game is essentially the plot of the show, a combination of the framing device being time getting reset back to the very beginning in an attempt to Set Right What Once Was Wrong and Immudelki's Author Appeal and creative choices have drastically changed how Story Mode adapts certain episodes.
  • One example is in Chapter 1. The chapter is meant to be an adaptation of the first few minutes of XANA Awakens. However, right from the moment of turning on the supercomputer, Jeremie knows Aelita's name right away (a plot point in the original episode is that he didn't and, since Aelita didn't know either, he had to make up a name for her).
  • A minor example is the Adaptational Early Appearance of the Hermitage in Chapter 3's ending cutscene (which is not an adaptation of any episode but is set between XANA Awakens and Teddygozilla according to cycle promotional material, hence making this earlier than New Order, its first appearance), as well as the sleepwalking and headache plot point introduced from this chapter.
  • Another example is Chapter 4, an adaptation of Log Book. In this, Ulrich finds his diary shortly after realizing it was gone, whereas in the episode, it was a driving part of the plot. They also didn't hold a party at Yumi's house in the episode, and Sissi was on the runaway bus with Ulrich and Odd in the episode, whereas Sissi was with Yumi and Jeremie here. Odd was also able to join Yumi and Jeremie in the episode, while here, Odd stays on the bus with Ulrich. Overlaps with Adaptational Early Appearance because Jeremie also visits the forest where the Hermitage is located. The episode this chapter adapts and the episode where the woods appear for the first time are set 23 episodes apart. It also has a minor example of Adaptation Amalgamation because the ending cutscene of the chapter has an exact word-for-word argument ripped straight from Frontier.
  • Chapter 5 has this crossed over with Adaptation Amalgamation. The first half of the chapter is a truncated version of a Lyoko plot point from The Girl Of His Dreams (Aelita getting captured by a Guardian) combined with a plot point from the above-mentioned Frontier (Aelita seemingly not contacting Jeremie after a nasty argument). The second half is an adaptation of the XANA attack featured in Plagued, with the rats attacking Jeremie in the attic of the school with Herve and Nicolas instead of at the library with the school psychologist as seen in the episode. Also, Odd is sick and is forced to stay behind in the chapter, whereas Odd was able to join the others just fine in the episode.
• Adaptation Expansion: The game naturally has this trope in spades due to it covering the show from a single perspective.
  • Chapter 1 is an adaptation of the first few minutes of XANA Awakens and, despite some minor deviations, expands on what was presented in those minutes. Including everything from the moments leading up to the computer being activated to the night right after it but before class. You can ask questions to Aelita about her existence (which can lead to a piece of Foreshadowing that is also an Adaptational Early Appearance of a plot point), get a snapshot into what life was like for Jeremie before Lyoko and before his friends, and we even get to see Ulrich before the events of XANA Awakens (by extension the series as a whole).
  • Chapter 2 is based on the aftermath of XANA Awakens, playing on Jeremie not remembering the events of the prequel and adding on to that premise. We get to see the second lapse of Odd's Expository Hairstyle Change, Jeremie scanning himself, and even another XANA Attack (With this attack being the exact same as XANA Awakens, specifically targeting Sissi).
  • Chapter 3 is an Interquel between XANA Awakens and Teddygozilla, explaining some elements of the series and showcasing others. The chapter showcases Jeremie creating the Monoscan program, a new attack not seen in the series (See My Skull Runneth Over for more information), how Odd got his Future Flash ability, and sets up the Adaptational Early Appearance of several things related to Franz Hopper.
• All Just a Dream: Chapter 6 is revealed to be a dream of Jeremie's, where he dreams that him and Hervé had an altercation at the factory which led to him being injured and being permanently virtualized on Lyoko, his disappearance increasing security at Kadic, tensions being high, the group only having two of its original key members, Aelita being all grown up and Kadic's temporary nurse, Yumi not being in the group at all and ratting the whole thing to the police after Ulrich knocks Hervé senseless, and Hervé using the enhanced Return Trip to undo everything.
• Bad Future: "Chapter 0: Xanapocalypse" takes place on April 13, 2010, roughly seven years into the future. XANA has grown exponentially in power to the point of shrugging off multiple versions of Jeremie's Anti-XANA programs and being able to activate numerous towers simultaneously to send its monsters to the real world en masse. Jeremie is forced to launch an enhanced version of the Return to the Past program in an effort to prevent this future from happening, and present-day Jeremie in subsequent chapters starts having occasional flashes of his alternate future self's memories.
• Battle Theme Music: The battle screen, fittingly, has battle music that is reminiscent of the music heard in the fights of Code Lyoko. The battle music even changes when you engage in fights in other places, like Carthage, the Digital Sea, and Replikas.
• Diegetic Interface: This game was built entirely around making an interactable version of the supercomputer's interface, so this trope naturally applies. The only time this doesn't apply is when you're using the right-click menu and pause menus.
• Difficulty Levels: There are three difficulty levels for Custom Mode. Relax(Easy), Casual(Normal), and Expert(Hard). There's also an example of there being four difficulty levels for combat time limits, going from Low to Very High (referring to how fast the bar that indicates the time left in the combat turn goes down). Averted in Story Mode, where difficulty and time speed are set to Casual difficulty and Normal speed without any player input.
• Dope Slap: In Chapter 5, When Hervé tries to convince Sissi that Jeremie and the others are up to something, it is revealed that the "secret" is them taking care of the cat from before the XANA attack with the rats. Needless to say, Sissi is not amused and slaps him for his stupidity.
• Extra Turn: Odd's Future Flash gives three of these to him at random in exchange for the initial activating turn being skipped. You can tell Future Flash is activated because Odd's Popcard Avatar turns a dark color and the text 'Taking Position' is used, as well as the skipping of Odd's turn.
• Fan Game: If it wasn't obvious enough already, this game is based French cartoon series Code Lyoko and the interface of its supercomputer, as well as other elements like its characters and setting. Its Story Mode loosely follows the show's story with some creative liberties taken.
• Futureshadowing: As Jeremie and Yumi wait out the countdown on the enhanced Return to the Past in the Prologue, they reminisce on a night the former spent at the latter's house when the two had a one-on-one conversation. This event plays out in full during Chapter 4.
• Godzilla Threshold: The enhanced Return to the Past in Chapter 0; a far more powerful version of the program that turns back time a much greater degree and requires a master code to launch. Jeremie launches it once it becomes clear that XANA has become far too powerful to be dealt with anymore.
• Guide Dang It!: Downplayed, used to be straight. Old versions used to not have an in-game list of commands, so you had to rely on external guides and command lists on the internet to figure out how to do anything outside of the game's tutorials. Nowadays, there's a command list you can access via the pause menu, and there are even guides in the game for everything from basic controls to building the Skid. Even then, people still can get pretty lost playing the game the first time.
• Heartbeat Soundtrack:
  • In chapter 4, as Jeremie looks around the path in the forest, a heartbeat starts to play, getting quicker and louder as he gets closer to the right tree, only for it to gradually dissipate and go softer if he goes too far away from the tree.
  • In Chapter 6, Hervé has to virtualize Jeremie before he dies. A heartbeat starts to play, sounding the urgency of the situation.
• Hollywood Hacking: Due to emulating the supercomputer's interface, which was used several times throughout Code Lyoko to hack into everything from Kadic's systems to the French government, this trope naturally applies. You can use the Crypto program, in combination with other programs, to hack into Lyoko's towers (specifically to disable their inhibitors), Replikas, and various government websites, including but not limited to websites containing secret information about Boulogne-Billiancourt's power grid and THE FRENCH MILITARY!
• I Can't Feel My Legs!: Played for Drama In Chapter 6, after a massive fight where Jeremie ends up taking a bad fall off the busted stairs of the factory with Hervé watching, he tells him that he can't feel his body.
• I Know You're Watching Me: At the end of Chapter 3, Jeremie enters a trance and walks from the factory to the Hermitage. When XANA spies on Jeremie approaching the Hermitage through the security feed, he stops and turns to look straight at the camera with a knowing look.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Chapter 6, after Jeremie takes a bad fall off the busted stairs, Hervé looks on in horror, since he was the one that pushed him over the edge. Later, after Ulrich finds out the truth about the incident, he lays his hands on Hervé and causes the boy to break his arm and his skull. Ulrich is terrified about what he did.
• My Skull Runneth Over: Its main Chapter 3 Attack has XANA attempt this on Jeremie through his laptop, but it hits Odd instead as he was using it at the time. The effects are undone when the tower is deactivated, but the attack has the peculiar long-term effect of giving Odd his Future Flash ability on Lyoko.
• Never Recycle Your Schemes: Subverted, as XANA curiously reuses his electric ball attack from the show's prequel episodes in Chapter 2, even reattacking Sissi offscreen for reasons the Lyoko Warriors cannot fathom.
• Ominous Latin Chanting: The scores that play for the Story Mode opening credits and the ending cutscene of the Prologue both utilize these, primarily as a dramatic rendering of the show's main theme.
• Ring Menu: Accessed by right-clicking. It surrounds your cursor, accompanied by other important UI elements on the right of your screen, like the status of your fellow Lyoko Warriors and your current alerts.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In order to prevent the Bad Future of the Prologue, Jeremie uses an enhanced version of Return To The Past to do this trope. While this doesn't directly make any major alterations to the original show's plot currently, it's still the main reason behind IFSCL's creative liberties and weird occurrences. See I Know You're Watching Me for more context.
• Sick Episode: In Chapter 5, Odd gets sick because he ran around with barefeet in the sewer, after Jeremie, Yumi, and Ulrich save Aelita from the Guardian.
• Simulation Game: This game was made as a simulation of the interface of the show's supercomputer. In Story Mode, there's also a simulation of Jeremie's laptop, and you can essentially do most of what Jeremie was able to do in Code Lyoko. In a way, this game evolved into a Jeremie simulator.
• Spinventory: In both the main inventory and the 'Last Selected Object' widget of the Ring Menu.You can even spin the CDs!
• Turn-Based Combat: How this game interprets the screens showing the show's fight scenes. An interesting example of this trope because, while combat is ultimately decided by turns, the game is still technically running in Real Time. There's a time limit for how long you can spend ruminating over your turns before the game decides your actions for you (How long that time limit is depends on the chosen time difficulty.)
• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: If you leave an LW in the frontier while ending your mission, or in general, just leave your LWs to become lost, you get called a sociopath on the results screen and, if you do this to Aelita, you get an instant game over on top of that. Yikes.
• Waking Non Sequitur: Played for Drama in Chapter 0 when Jeremie rouses an unconscious Franz Hopper. Franz deliriously calls out to his wife Anthea before angrily asking the person in front of him what he did with her before remembering where he is and finding his head hurting.
• Who's on First?: Invoked by Odd. When Jim calls out several student names, including Odd's, and finishes by saying, "Package!" Odd pretends to mistake the last comment for a student's name and asks who that is. Predictably, Jim isn't amused.

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