History VideoGame / DahnaMegamiTanjou

'''Dahna: Megami Tanjou''' (English: ''Dahna: Goddess's Birth'') or '''Dahna''' is a fairly obscure [[UsefulNotes/{{SegaGenesis}} Sega Genesis]] video game developed by IGS and released in 1991. It is said to quite resemble ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'', in that both games are side-scrolling BeatEmUp set in a SwordAndSorcery fantasy world.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dahna’s ogre companion. After she reunites with him at the end of Stage 4, he provides assistance to her during Stage 5 until a bridge collapse causes him to fall into a [[BottomlessPits bottomless pit]]. That’s the last the ogre is seen during the game, and it’s unknown if he survives the fall.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dahna’s ogre companion. After she reunites with him at the end of Stage 4, he provides assistance to her during Stage 5 until a bridge collapse causing him to fall into a [[BottomlessPits bottomless pit]]. That’s the last he is seen during the game, and it’s unknown if he survives the fall.

On Dahna’s seventh birthday, [[ABirthdayNotABreak her parents are killed and Regine is captured as Dahna herself is left to die]]. Luckily Dahna is found and rescued by a magician named Magh, who adopts her as his daughter and both raised and trained Dahna to be a warrior.

* BeginWithAFinisher: Dahna arrives to the devastation of Horn riding the shoulders of a giant ogre. The ogre [[CurbStompBattle proceeds to completely destroy the invaders with his fists and feet]] and Dahna cannot take damage from enemies while on the ogre’s shoulders. This goes on for a short bit [[BroughtDownToNormal until the sorceress returns and kills the ogre]], leaving Dahna to continue fighting by herself.

On Dahna seventh birthday, [[ABirthdayNotABreak her parents are killed and Regine is captured as Dahna herself is left to die]]. Luckily Dahna is found and rescued by a magician named Magh, who adopts her as his daughter and both raised and trained Dahna to be a warrior.

* BeginWithAFinisher: Dahna returns to the devastation of Horn riding the shoulders of a giant ogre. The ogre [[CurbStompBattle proceeds to completely destroy the invaders with his fists and feet]] and Dahna cannot take damage from enemies while on the ogre’s shoulders. This goes on for a short bit [[BroughtDownToNormal until the sorceress returns and kills the ogre]], leaving Dahna to continue fighting by herself.

* BeginWithAFinisher: Dahna returns to the devastation of Horn riding the shoulders of a giant ogre. The ogre [[CurbStompBattle proceeds to completely destroy the invades with his fists and feet]] and Dahna cannot take damage while on the ogre’s shoulders. This goes on for a short bit [[BroughtDownToNormal until the sorceress returns and kills the ogre]], leaving Dahna to continue fighting by herself.

** Stage 2 boss is another sorcerer: he can levitate, lift stones with his magic and hurl them at the player, and create copies of himself

Ten years later, Dahna returns to her home of Horn to find it in flames. A sorceress lead an attack on Horn and kidnapped Magh, leaving her minions to wipe out any survivors. Dahna is left to fend off hordes of creatures, and then travel the land to rescue Magh and take down an evil sorceress once and for all.

After returning from a mission to her village, warrior Dahna has to fend off hordes of creatures to rescue her adoptive father and take down an evil sorceress once and for all.