History VideoGame / DragonsCrown

* AlienLunch: Some of the ingredients for the cooking minigame come from slain bosses, allowing you to prepare all sorts of savory meals from your fallen foes, such as KillerRabbit Stew, Red Dragon Steaks, and Sauteed Demon Heart.

* BalefulPolymorph: The Sorceress can turn enemies into frogs.

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:The Wizard's ending reveals that he had a sister that was suffering from some unknown pain-inducing sickness that was going to inevitably take her life. In his arrogance, as he was a younger magician at the time, his attempt to save her using magic beyond his comprehension resulted in her being put in [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds limbo: a state between life and death.]] [[MyGreatestFailure Distraught]], he traveled the world [[MyGreatestSecondChance searching for a way to correct his mistakes and truly save his sister's life]].]]

* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:Unlike the other characters' endings, the Wizard's ending stops before it reveals whether or not the elixir made from the ancient dragon's blood restored [[IllGirl his sister to life]].]]

* NiceHat: The Sorceress's pointy black wizard hat. Lucain has a suitable blue variant.

** The Amazon bares resemblance to both Tyris Flare, of ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' fame, and, considering the ChainmailBikini, Comicbook/RedSonja. She also looks like a more [[UpToEleven stylized]] blonde version of the Female Warrior from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'', minus the [[CoolHelmet traditional helmet]]. Additionally, like the Sorceress to Kongiku, the Amazon's [[{{Fanservice}} focus]] on her ass is similar to [[VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade Yuzuruha's]] focus on the same in her artwork.

* TokenWholesome: Despite her HartmanHips / ZettaiRyouiki / [[WhoWearsShortShorts Short Shorts]], the Elf is the only one of the three female player characters with relatively little skin exposed.

%%* Barbarous Barbary Buccaneers: The pirates of the Ghost Ship Cove have this aesthetic: [[FridgeBrilliance the setting is a Middle Ages fantasy world, and the Middle Ages were right about the time the Barbary Corsairs were just starting to set sail,]] while what we'd think of as the stereotypical pirate didn't start plundering the Caribbean for about five hundred years. To further the Arabian theme, the final battle in the stage's normal route is a WolfpackBoss against [[Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves an onslaught of them]] with a magic lamp thrown in the middle. Whoever picks up the lamp can summon forth a genie to wreak magical havoc around the arena three times before it goes flying out of their hands to be picked up again: the battle is a desperate scramble to keep the lamp away from the pirates, using the genie as often as possible to stem the pirates' ZergRush.

* BarbarousBarbaryBuccaneers: The pirates of the Ghost Ship Cove have this aesthetic: [[FridgeBrilliance the setting is a Middle Ages fantasy world, and the Middle Ages were right about the time the Barbary Corsairs were just starting to set sail,]] while what we'd think of as the stereotypical pirate didn't start plundering the Caribbean for about five hundred years. To further the Arabian theme, the final battle in the stage's normal route is a WolfpackBoss against [[Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves an onslaught of them]] with a magic lamp thrown in the middle. Whoever picks up the lamp can summon forth a genie to wreak magical havoc around the arena three times before it goes flying out of their hands to be picked up again: the battle is a desperate scramble to keep the lamp away from the pirates, using the genie as often as possible to stem the pirates' ZergRush.

* FireIceLightning: Wizard and Sorceress weapons utilize these elements. Each also has their own StandardStatusEffects: fire inflicts burn to deplete enemy HP, lightning inflicts stun that temporarily dizzies enemies, and ice inflict freeze to hold enemies in place for a few seconds.

* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, burning, dizziness, among others.

** HarpingOnAboutHarpies: They're huge man-eating birds that have upper bodies like female humans. They mate with male humans to produce children, then later eat the men. They're AlwaysChaoticEvil, as an attempt to raise some of their chicks led to the people trying getting eaten.

* PantheraAwesome: The saber-toothed cats, huge cats size cars you can ride and have them bite things.

* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The story begins at an inn, where you and Rannie recount how you met each other.

* {{Mythopoeia}}: The story and background of the world involves a surprisingly cohesive mythology that mixes bits of Christianity and heretical beliefs within that religion, along with Greco-Roman mythology including an artwork that alludes to Gaia's birthing of the world and various myths and folklore such as Ali Baba and the 40 thieves and Renaissance ideas about fairies rather than medieval beliefs of the FairFolk.

*** Rickey, the Magician's Apprentice, a dancing mouse wearing a blue wizards hat is a reference to MickeyMouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice in ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''.
*** Tiki the Fairy has the blond hair and green dress of Tinkerbell from Disney's ''Disney/PeterPan''.

*** In the Mages Tower's A-route, you outrun a lava wave on a magic flying carpet, referencing the Cave of Wonders escape in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. If you manage to not burn your carpet away, you're even rewarded a golden chest on a pedestal bathed in light, just like the Genie's Magic Lamp in the movie.
*** Another ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' lies in a quest where you must use the Genie's Lamp, an item available during the Pirate gang boss-fight, 3 times. When you turn in the quest the artwork reveals that the genie wished for freedom. Even without the quest, his wish was implied by the Narrator mention he granted a wish (his own) and flew off.

''Dragon's Crown'' is a [=2D=] ActionRPG developed by Creator/{{Vanillaware}} and published by Creator/{{Atlus}} for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}} and UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Vita}}. While Vanillaware's first game for an HD console, ''Crown'' is actually a {{spiritual successor}} to the 1994 arcade BeatEmUp DungeonCrawler, ''[[VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsChroniclesOfMystara Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom]]''.

* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The story begins at an inn, where you and Rannie recount how you met each other.

* TokenWholesome: Despite her HartmanHips / ZettaiRyouki / [[WhoWearsShortShorts Short Shorts]], the Elf is the only one of the three female player characters with relatively little skin exposed.

* The Sorceress: Support character that uses dark magic to control skeletons, turn enemies into frogs, and make food for allies.

* PirateGirl: Anna Bonnie is the only female pirate mentioned in-game (the pirates you fight are all male). She's said to have killed a {{kraken}} with only a knife, among other amazing feats, making her a legend among sailors, fishermen, and pirates.

*** [[Main/ArrestedDevelopment "I've made a huge mistake."]]

*** The only difference between this game's Medusa and the mythical Medusa is that this Medusa was cursed ''because'' [[ReallyGetsAround she had been bringing men]] into Althena's temple. In the original myth, Medusa was said to have been trying to ''escape'' from a man by hiding in Athena's temple. Unfortunately, it didn't work, and he rapes her in the temple, [[JerkassGods causing Athena to curse Medusa for having brought a man into her temple]]. Similarly, Crown!Medusa has sisters like the original, but they aren't mentioned by name and only show up in an art piece, trying to console Medusa while she's transforming into a SnakePerson.

''Dragon's Crown'' is a [=2D=] ActionRPG developed by Creator/{{Vanillaware}} and published by {{Atlus}} for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}} and UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Vita}}. While Vanillaware's first game for an HD console, ''Crown'' is actually a {{spiritual successor}} to the 1994 arcade BeatEmUp DungeonCrawler, ''[[VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsChroniclesOfMystara Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom]]''.