History Sandbox / VocaloidStory

* BagOfSpilling: ''mobile install'' has a [[JustifiedTrope justified example]]. Thanks to a Virus interference when transferred to the cellphone world, Miku, Rin, and Len had their level reset to Level 1. ''The Lost Song'' plays this straight, which is blatant as the Vocaloid are shown using high level spells in their battle with the BigBad from the first game, yet they can only use their basic skills when the game start proper.

** In ''The Lost Song'' Kiyoteru's fight against [[TheDragon Alice]] ends as well as you expect.
* Percent-BasedValues: All of recovery items in the series is this.

* LivingProgram: Except the Masters, everyone in the series are sentient programs.

* StatusEffect: The series has several. Every one wears off at the end of battle except Poison and Deadly Poison.

** Stagger makes the victim cannot act for a turn.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: Kaito's ultimate skill completely ignores the target's Defense.

** Miku's Miracle Song is an extremely useful skill that removes all status ailments, fully recovers HP of the whole party, ''and'' revives any fallen member to full health. It also has ridiculously high MP cost of 350, which made it only worthwhile to use in case of emergency.
** Meiko's Prominence has a guaranteed chance to inflict Burn, hits all enemies, and has an impressive animation, but it's only barely stronger than Blaze Song ''and'' costs 175 MP. Even though no enemies including bosses are immune to Burn, it's better to just stick with casting Blaze Anthem which is much stronger and costs less MP.

* DirtyOldMan: dr. Norton likes to ogle on the female Vocaloids. Neru, Miku, and Meiko all attempted to beat him up in different occasions.
* DistressedDude: During the Bugs' invansion of Install, one of them kidnaps Len in an ambush and fled. Later, the Vocaloids learn that the Bugs brought him to the HDD Library and they goes there to save him.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: As he apologizes to Me, Master questioned from where the Bugs and Viruses that invading Digitalia came from, since OSes such as XP and Me are unable to create them. Cue the BigBad, Zero Muon, made their appearance.]].

** Rin's "Roadroller Throw" has high chance to instantly kill the target. Naturally, it doesn't work against [[ContractualBossImmunity bosses]].
** The endgame bosses (spoiler: Zero, Mother, and Zero's Virus) has an attack that instantly kill a target.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: Items in the Vocaloids' homes will disappear if you don't grab them before visiting the Temple, as Install is inaccessible after the Bug invansion.

* BroadStrokes: ''The Lost Song'' changed various elements established from previous games. The most noticeable ones is the removal of OS-tan characters (XP, Dr. Norton, Buster, [[spoiler: and Me]]) and the Net Road Temple. Besides that, apparently Haku and Neru never meet the Vocaloids and Digitalia is renamed as simply "Master's World".

''VOCALOID STORY'' is a series of RPG and Music/{{Vocaloid}} fan games by Dr. Nekosuki. Its main premise is about the Vocaloids as AIs that fought the malignant lifeform known as Bugs and Viruses in worlds inside [=PCs=] and cellphones.

Since 2010, the series has three games released:

The original game could be downloaded [[https://www.axfc.net/u/3207598?key=vocsto here]], while the newest demo for ''The Lost Song'' could be downloaded [[http://www1.axfc.net/u/3211613?key=vocsto here]]. Unfortunately, ''mobile install'' is considered lost.

** In the original game, when the Vocaloids are about to save Len in HDD Library, the Deadly Poison Virus was shocked as it noticed the BGM plays a fanfare.

* {{Cyberspace}}: An unusual example. Worlds inside computers and phones are represented as a JRPG fantasy world. Websites, on the other hand, are represented as public facilities.
* DigitalAbomination:
** [[spoiler: Zero Muon was formed from junk data left from Vocaloid development that somehow became sentient and merging with a particularly powerful Virus to avoid deletion. They really loathe the Vocaloids and trying to kill them all as the leader of Viruses and Bugs]].
** In ''The Lost Song'', the Water Virus mutates into a gigantic Virus with six limbs after it consumes the CPU of [[spoiler: Raku's world.]]
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Present in the first game, but most prominent in the third game where the status screen display a chart detailing a character's resistances and weaknesses.

** The original game has the Odagiri, a flower needed to make a cure for [[spoiler: Miku and Kaito]]. Neru has the plant at her home, but turned out the plant had died of insect infestation when she was away to accompany the Kagamines. To revitalize the dead flower, they must find the Miracle Water from the cave north of Norton's Lab.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Meiko's fight with the Water Virus in ''The Lost Song'' is this. The Virus could resist her Fire attack thanks to its type, and Meiko, who is a Fire type, is soundly defeated because she is weak to its Water attacks.

** In the first game, the first battle against [[spoiler: a crazed Miku]] on the top of the Northwest Mountain ended with the boss used "Death Howling".

* SpellLevels: Most spells come either in three levels, or more rarely two levels. It starts from "[description] Whisper", then "[decription] Song", and finally "[description] Anthem". Spells that have only two levels start from Song tier, while Whisper is replaced with Voice in ''mobile install'' due to character restrictions.

** Poison drain roughly 5% HP per turn and deal 2 damage for every 4 steps outside battle. Its stronger variant, Deadly Poison, which do 15% damage per turn of max HP and 4 damage per 2 step outside battle.
** Darkness severely cuts accuracy so you will much more likely to miss.

** Charm and Brainwash, which exclusive to the first game, turns the victim against their own allies.

** Meiko's Prominence has a guaranteed chance to inflict Burn, hits all enemies, and has an impressive animation, but it's only barely stronger than Blaze Song ''and'' costs 175 MP. Even though no enemies including bosses are immune to Burn, it's better to just stick with casting Blaze Anthem which is much stronger and costs less MP.
* BraggingRightsReward: The White Flare item is received after completing the game's GoldenEnding. It deals 999 damage per use, completely bypass any sort of defense. However, by then, the only thing you could do with it is in random encounters or when challenging the final boss again

** Early in the game, XP was reading archives about a particularly massive Bug and Virus invasion in Digitalia that happened long ago. [[spoiler: Much later in the game, it's revealed this was happened because Me forgot to set the security on, and both Me and Norton was so overwhelmed by the onslaught that Master installed XP to stop the outbreak.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: When eating breakfast with Rin and Len, Miku talked about Me, the OS that used to manage Digitalia prior XP before the world was overrun by Viruses. [[spoiler: Guess who the Vocaloids face at the Net Road late in the game?]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Zero had this in the GoldenEnding and apologizing to everyone else.]]

* PocketDimension: The "Spatial Movement Program", given by XP after saving her, lets you warp to a room where characters not in the party hanging out. In there, you can heal the entire party for 1000 Gems and using the available teleporter to move into a major locations.

* StealthBasedMission: At near late point of the game, the Vocaloids must sneak into the Net Road Temple whilst avoiding Bugs infesting Install. They must made it before their cloak's battery dies and without touching any Bugs. There's several mushrooms that could be used to recharge the batteries. Beware however, as some of the mushroom instead cause you to fall asleep.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Zero manipulated Me, whom still grieving after Master supposedly threw her away, to letting Bugs and Viruses entering Digitalia]]
* UnwinnableByDesign: A nasty one. If you didn't have the Dialight from Norton, which requires the Diatine from the mines and then talk to him again after he gave you the Stealth Camo Cloaks, then the upcoming boss fight in the Net Road Temple became impossible to win.

** Kaito + Meiko cast "Fire and Ice Preface Song", which deals damage to an enemy.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Alice killed the Normal Virus for losing against Miku and co. two times.

* BagOfSpilling: ''mobile install'' has a [[JustifiedTrope justified example]]. Thanks to a Virus interference when transferred to the cellphone world, Miku, Rin, and Len had their level reset to Level 1. ''The Lost Song'' has no excuse, though.
* BlowYouAway: Len's offensive spells are Wind elemental, which hits all enemies at once.

** In the original game, when the Vocaloids are about to save Len in HDD Library, the Deadly Poison Virus noticed the BGM changes.
** In ''The Lost Song'', the first Virus the Vocaloids fought asked to change the battle BGM to keep things fresh.

** The original game has the Odagiri, a flower needed to cure [[spoiler: Miku and Kaito]]. Neru has the plant, but turned out the plant had died of insect infestation when she was away to accompany the Kagamines. To revitalize the dead flower, they must find the Miracle Water from the cave north of Norton's Lab.

* FragileSpeedster: Len has very high speed and could boost it even further with one of his skills. However, his attack is middling at best and he's quite frail.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** A meta example from ''mobile install''. Games made with RPG Maker α is created in computer, then downloaded to a Japanese cellphone to play. At the beginning of the game, XP sends Miku, Rin, and Len from Digitalia to cellphone world. In other words, you downloaded the Vocaloids into your cellphone.
** Meiko's fight with the Water Virus in ''The Lost Song''. The Virus could resist her Fire attack thanks to its type, and Meiko, who is a Fire type, is soundly defeated because she is weak to its Water attacks.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Bugs and Viruses are mortal enemies of the Vocaloids as they're inherently dangerous to the digital world. It's telling that every Vocaloids, even Rin and Len, have a mentality to kill them on sight.

* AnIcePerson: Kaito has Cold/Ice element spells to attack. All has a chance to inflict Freeze to the target.
* MagicMusic: In-universe, all of the spells are songs, made more obvious by the eight note symbol at their names. That's why the "Silence" status effect disables them.
* MakingASplash: Luka's offensive spells are Water elemental.
* PlayingWithFire: Meiko's offensive spells are Fire elemental.
* ShockAndAwe: Rin's offensive spells are Thunder elemental. All of them have a chance to inflict Amnesia.

* ApocalypticLog: In the mines, you can found and read a diary of a worker that describes their gradual transformation into monsters by a leaking gas. Note that you ''must'' read this first before proceed; otherwise everyone would succumb to the same gas, which is an instant game over.
** The last page is a ShoutOut to a particularly infamous example from the first ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' game. If you read the diary again, the year was somehow changed from 2007 to 1998, making the reference even more obvious.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Miku's Miracle Song is extremely powerful skill that removes all status ailments, fully recovers HP of the whole party, ''and'' revives any fallen member to full health. It also has ridiculously high MP cost of 350.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dr. Norton is a massive pervert, but he is a competent researcher and helped the Vocaloid several times.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** [[spoiler: Meiko got brainwashed by XP and tries to lure Miku, Rin, and Len into a trap and kill them with poison.]]
** [[spoiler: XP herself was brainwashed by the Viruses to let the Bugs came from the portal to Net Road.]]

** When Install finally freed from Bugs, XP gives a hairclip for Miku as a good luck charm. [[spoiler: The hairclip later used to remove Me's NoSell OS powers, although it needs several turn to fully activate.]]

* DirtyOldMan: Dr. Norton likes to ogle on the female Vocaloids. Neru, Miku, and Meiko all attempted to beat him up in different occasions.
* DistressedDude: During the Bugs' invansion of Install, one of them kidnaps Len and run away. Later, the Vocaloids learn that the Bugs brought him to the HDD Library and they goes there to save him.
* DoomedHometown: The Vocaloids are forced to flee from their home, Install Town, when hordes of Bugs invaded the town at night. They can only liberate the town late in the game.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: As he apologizes to Me, Master questioned from where the Bugs and Viruses that invading Digitalia came from, since OSes such as XP and Me are unable to create them. Cue the BigBad, Zero Muon, made their appearance.]]
* InvisibilityCloak: As the Vocaloid prepare to sneak into the Bug-occupied Install, Dr. Norton give them four Stealth Camo Coat. However, he warned them of its limited battery.
* MentalWorld: [[spoiler: Kaito, at one point, wakes up in his mental world and must purge the infection in his body to wake up back to real world.]]

** The final boss has "Death Requiem" which cause instant death to the target in their second phase.
* PocketDimension: The "Spatial Movement Program", given by XP after liberating Install, lets you warp to a room where characters not in the party hanging out.

* StealthBasedMission: At near late point of the game, the Vocaloids must sneak into the Net Road Temple whilst avoiding Bugs infestating Install. They must made it before their cloak's battery dies and without touching any Bugs. There's several mushrooms that could be used to recharge the batteries.

* UnwinnableByDesign: A nasty one. If you didn't have the Dialight from Norton, which requires the Diatine from and then talk to him again after he gave you the Stealth Camo Cloaks, then the upcoming boss fight in the Net Road Temple became impossible to win. The thing is, the fight came after the hard StealthBasedMission in Install.
* ZergRush: One of the boss battles in the Net Road are horde of Viruses with 8 individuals. The thing is, they're very weak for Virus standard and could be easily taken down with attack that hits all enemies, such as Len's offensive skills or Meiko's "Prominence."

* NoSenseOfDirection: Apparently, the reason Luka got lost was she is hopelessly bad with directions.

* BroadStrokes: ''The Lost Song'' changed various elements established from previous games. The most noticeable ones is the removal of OS-tan characters (XP, Dr. Norton, Buster, [[spoiler: and Me]]) and the Net Road Temple. Besides that, apparently Haku and Neru never participated in the final battle and Digitalia is renamed as simply "Master's World".

* CastingAShadow: Gakupo has darkness-element spells as his skill.
* CosmicKeystone: The CPU of a world is this, as it control the balance of a world. [[spoiler: As the CPU of Raku's world suffers from critical damage by the Water Virus, the world collapsed and destroyed with a huge explosion.]]
* CombinationAttack: The third game introduces this mechanic. An important thing to remember is they used the Agility stat of the last participant in ''party order''.

* ExiledFromContinuity: The OS-tan characters (XP, Dr. Norton, Buster, [[spoiler: and Me]] is removed, mainly to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers avoid potential copyright problems.]]

* LightEmUp: In the third game, Miku gains Light element and a series of Light attack spells. This also makes her both strong and weak againts Darkness element.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The master of Miku, the Kagamines, Luka, Kaito, and Meiko is simply known as "Master".
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In the third game there's two characters named Miku: the teal-haired Miku Hatsune and the black-haired Miku Ha'''zu'''re.
* RopeBridge: Miku, Luka, and Sai came across an old rope bridge over a deep chasm in the cave that hold the CPU of Nicholas and Sai's world. Luka crossed first and made it to the other side. Miku then followed, but Sai pulled a prank by jumping on the bridge when Miku is halfway through the bridge, though still made it to the other side. When it's ''Sai's'' turn, Miku decided to {{Troll}} the heck out of her by doing the same prank several times. The bridge is still fine though.
* SelfInsertFic: Master is pretty much the avatar of the series' creator himself.

''VOCALOID STORY'' is a trilogy of RPG and Music/{{Vocaloid}} fan games by Dr. Nekosuki. It follows the adventures of [[Music/HatsuneMiku Miku]] and her friends and their war against Bugs and Viruses, malignant lifeforms that threaten to destroy digital world.

* BlowYouAway: Len's offensive spells are Wind elemental, which hits all enemies. Both the level 2 and 3 spells have chance to inflict stun, and level 3 also may cause Blind.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Variants of Bugs and Viruses could be distinguished by the color of their eyes.
* {{Cyberspace}}: An unusual example. Worlds inside computers and phones are represented as a JRPG fantasy world.

** [[spoiler: Zero Muon was formed from leftover data from Vocaloid development that somehow became sentient and merging with Viruses to avoid deletion. They really loathe the Vocaloids and trying to kill them all as the leader of Viruses and Bugs]].

* FragileSpeedster: Len has very high speed and could boost it even further with one of his skills. He's fast enough to outspeed virtually every enemies in the game if you give him the speed programs. However, his attack is middling at best and he's quite frail.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Bugs and Viruses are mortal enemies of the Vocaloids as they're inherently dangerous to the digital world. It's telling that every Vocaloids, even Rin and Len, have a policy to kill them on sight.

** Early in the game, XP reminiences about a particularly massive Bug invansion in Digitalia that happened long ago. [[spoiler: Much later in the game,
** When Install finally freed from Bugs, XP gives a hairclip for Miku as a good luck charm. [[spoiler: The hairclip later used to remove Me's barrier, although it needs several turn to fully activate.]]

* DirtyOldMan: Dr. Norton likes to ogle to the female Vocaloids. Neru, Miku, and Meiko all attempted to beat him up in different occasions.

[[folder: Exclusive to ''Mobile Install'']]

* MergingMistake: Rin and Len are accidentally merged into a single entity.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Apparently, the reason Luka got lost was not because a Virus attack, but just because she is bad with directions.

* AscendedExtra: Sai and Akaito, originally [[OptionalPartyMember Optional Party Members]] in the original game, is now involved in the main plot of ''The Lost Song''.

** Kaito + Meiko cast "Fire and Ice Preface song, which deals damage to an enemy.

* SelfInsertFic: Master is pretty much the avatar of the author themselves.