History VideoGame / HoloCure

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: As you can only get each weapon once during a run, certain collabs will be mutually exclusive. For example, you can't have BL Fujoshi and Frozen Sea at the same time because they both require BL Book.

* FishingMinigame: Near the Holohouse is a pond where idols can fish. If you're fishing, you get a rhythm minigame once you get a bite. NPC idols can also fish, though they can drop their haul for you to collect for an achievement.

* PowerUpFood: Comes in several varieties, such as the [=KFP=] Full Meal, or Noel's Knightly Milk. With the introduction of Update 0.6 and the Holo House, players are also given the ability to craft certain kinds of buff food items via the Cooking system.

** Study Glasses doesn't do anything to directly assist in combat, it just boosts your EXP gain. However, by getting and fully upgrading it early and then lasting into the late game, it allows you to level up far more times in a run than you would have without it, even discounting the up to five levels used in obtaining these upgrades. Doing this is practically necessary for the best potential performance in Endless mode.

** Growth is a one level upgrade with a small sounding effect (+2% to main weapon and special attack per level), but it adds up as even a stage mode run will have you in the 40s at least.

* EasterEgg: Amelia can pet Bubba by holding down P when he's nearby. It unlocks an achievement, but otherwise serves no function other than being cute.

** On the Hard version of Grassy Plains, a pair of giant Bloom and Gloom will appear at 6:00, and Fubuzilla and Smol Ame will spawn together at the 10:00 mark. Unlike the normal Fubuzilla, this one's laser breath is directional and slowly aims towards the player.
** On the Hard version of the Holo Office stage, you'll get attacked by a giant Koronesuki and Onigiriya, and both mini-bosses can fire small bursts of projectiles at you while also being supported by Reddit-niki. At the midway point, Mikodanye and A-Chan will show up together, and their overlapping attacks cover each others' gaps in attack patterns for little reprieve.

*** Furthermore, if you make a super collab with a Super Item (which as of Update 0.6, includes the Super variants of Gorilla's Paw, Idol Outfit, and Sake), despite not being mentioned, it actually ''retains'' some of the additional effects of the Super Item (for instance, the "Idol Live" gets to have Super Idol Outfit's unique "double special" effect).

** Super Collabs can even become this if you're combining it with a Super Item (which as of Update 0.6, includes the Super variants of Gorilla's Paw, Idol Outfit, and Sake) as when you're combining it, it loses the additional effects of the Super Item (for instance, the "Idol Live" won't integrate Super Idol Outfit's unique "double special" effect).

* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: 0.6 introduces the Holo House, which is a very neat side mode which allows you to interact with other idols, decorate your own house with a variety of furniture, hire fans to work for you, cook food, and fish. It's very easy to get distracted and just spend your time fishing or building your house instead of taking on fans. However, some furniture do require an obscenely high amount of Holo Coins, so it's encouraged to coin farm.

* FullHealthBonus: Kronii's Perfection skill gives her absolutely massive stat bonuses for being at full health, and, at max level, works to keep her at full health.

* GameBreakingBug: Prior to it being patched, there was a chance while playing Stage 2 where an anvil could spawn on a table or some sort of inaccessible scenery, making it impossible to retrieve. While this was an annoyance at worst for a regular anvil, a gold anvil spawning in an inaccessible location locks you out of a complete collab for the rest of that run as you cannot have two gold anvils at the same time. The only character who can bypass this on a technical level is Mumei, due to True Horror having a high chance of deleting the stuck anvil when activated and allowing it to respawn elsewhere.

** Mumei's Special, True Horror, removes all non-boss enemies on the screen [[note]]it should be noted, however, that it does not actually ''destroy'' them, thus they don't count towards being enemies defeated to power up her History skill, nor does it trigger the effects of items like the Nurse's Horns that are triggered by defeating enemies[[/note]], but has a high chance to [[DisadvantageousDisintegration destroy all drops as well.]]

** Every Mumei player lives in dread of hearing the characteristic jingle of a Super item... only to see the Super Idol Dress show up.[[labelnote:Why?]]Super Idol Dress massively reduces the cooldown of specials and allows you to use one twice per cooldown. But Mumei's special is the only one in the game that comes with a downside, as it usually erases all drops on screen, including all XP gems, anvils and foodstuffs, which can '''really''' set back your game plan. It can save you from a real pickle once or twice per game, but it's definitely not something you would want to spam.[[/labelnote]] This actually happened to Mumei while playing as herself. She spent several seconds in disgusted silence before dropping it like garbage without uttering a single word. As of 0.5 this also applies to Akai Haato, whose special is tied to her personality swap and as such has barely any cooldown to begin with.

*** Stage 1: Smol Ame (Normal) and Halloween Bae (Hard)
*** Stage 2: A-chan (Normal) and Nodoka (Hard)
*** Stage 3: Spiderchama (Normal) and Halloween Smol Ame and her genmates (Hard)
*** Stage 4: All of Area 15 (Normal)

* ACupAngst: The Cutting Board item is a nod to the idols who are known for their small busts and being particularly touchy about it (Ina, Gura, Suisei, Matsuri, Shion, Ollie), and the related Collab Flattening Board even includes "feel the anger of cutting boards" in its description. These same idols in turn have a unique modifier that causes said weapon to be 30% larger and more powerful than if used by a character who isn't "flat", and the related Collab weapons are also buffed accordingly. Conversely, the Bounce Ball is at its smallest and least powerful if used by these characters.

** The Atomic SSRB that spawns at the 18:00 mark on the Holo Office stage will need to be defeated before the timer above it runs out, otherwise it's most likely a OneHitKill[[note]]Having a maxed-out Body Pillow ''may'' prevent a one-shot, with the player character being left with minimal health afterwards.[[/note]], as the blast radius is technically ''infinite'' and cannot be outran.

** Update 0.5 adds a free upgrade that lets you manipulate the maximum number of weapons you can hold in a run, facilitating solo weapon runs.

** Update 0.4 changed the Piki Piki Piman tea to giving this effect, where taking damage causes the ultimate meter to gain charge, with a very slight cooldown in between each trigger.

* EmptyLevels: Normally, gaining levels does nothing but give you a choice of 4 items/skills. But with the 0.4 update, it added two things to avert this: the growth upgrade, which averts this for everyone, and Roboco, whose kit is dependent on her level. Once you reach levels high enough, you can choose to fall into this trope harder, since if all your weapons and items are maxed out, the game will always give you a choice of two stat-ups: a one-time health recovery and Holocoins. Choosing either of these will result in your level not actually making your character stronger '''at all''', outside of the Growth effect.

** Mumei's "History" and "Civilization" passives boost attack for the number of enemies killed so far and enemies on the screen respectively. Thus late game will see Mumei's attack boosted considerably if these passives are leveled.

* MoneySpider: The [[https://twitter.com/HoloCureGame/status/1552485763920474113 Golden YAGOO]], which explodes into Holocoins when defeated.

** Yatagarasu appears only once in the regular stages, as the boss of the wave of Sanallites on Stage 1 Hard, but can be spawned as a randomly generated mini boss during the TimeTrial stage as well. It serves as a callback to the earliest version of the game, where Sanallites used to be represented by Yatagarasu, further updates turned them into bread dogs, with this miniboss serving as the sole reminder of their prior appearance.

* WolfpackBoss: The 0.6 update features these for the 20 minute mark bosses for the added stages. Defeating each subsequent one will still yield Holozon boxes as if you've defeated a regular miniboss (until you defeat the last one on a regular stage run). Stage 4 [[spoiler:features giant deformed versions of Moona, Risu, and Iofi]]. Stage 3 Hard features [[spoiler:giant versions of [=HoloEN=] Myth Chibis featured in ''Myth or Treat''.]]

** One of the in-game challenges involves the achievement called "Couch Potato". Literally stand still and do not move for a whole 20 minutes, even if it means getting beamed by Fubuzilla or grounded pounded by Smol Ame in Stage Mode 1.

*** Stage 3: Spiderchama (Normal)

** 0.4 changes some of the fans sprites to the proper fanbase mascots instead of the vtuber's personal mascot, E.G Bubbas to Investigators (though Bubbas still appear wiith Smol Ame), Mr.Squeaks to Brats, Yatagratsus to Bread dogs and so forth(the older enemy types instead appear in the hard mode version of Stage 1).

*** Stage 1 has Fubuzilla at the 10 minute mark, and a [[NonIndicativeName paradoxically large]] Smol Ame at the 20 minute mark.

*** Stage 3 has Shubangelion at the 10 minute mark, and a very large Taranchaama (i.e. the drawing Mumei did of Haachama as a spider) at the 20 minute mark.
*** Stage 1 Hard has Fubuzilla and Smol Ame return at the 10 minute mark (with Fubuzilla now being able to aim her beam), and a large Halloween Bae at the 20 minute mark.

* WolfpackBoss: The 0.6 update features these for the 20 minute mark bosses for the added stages. Defeating each subsequent one will still yield Holozon boxes as if you've defeated a regular miniboss (until you defeat the last one on a regular stage run). Stage 4 [[spoiler:features giant deformed versions of Moona, Risu, and a UFO]]. Stage 3 Hard features [[spoiler:giant versions of [=HoloEN=] Myth Chibis featured in ''Myth or Treat''.]]

-->'''Halu level 4:''' Are you sure you want to do this?\\
'''Halu level 5:''' Don't do it.

The game debuted on Windows PC on June 24, 2022 with a single stage and 11 hololive characters, and subsequent content updates have expanded the stage selection and character roster further, as well as added new features. The largest content addition yet arrived with version 0.6, which added a game mode called Holo House that contained various minigames: fishing, farming, raising mascots to generate coins, and decorating a customizable home.

* NoSell: The Robosas that box you in during the Bullet Hell pre-boss segment in the 19:30 minute mark are immune to any form of damage (bar certain specials), meaning that you're stuck there as they shoot at you.

** If your DPS is so low you fail to defeat Giant Smol Ame by the time her Bubbas stop spawning, you'll have to deal with her and an onslaught of giant enemies that gradually ramps up, at which point you'll probably get overwhelmed if you don't finish her off quickly.

* PowerUpFood: Comes in several varieties, such as the [=KFP=] Full Meal, or Noel's Knightly Milk.