History VideoGame / HyperPrincessPitch

* EvilWilFail: If you lose your last life in the boss battle against Mecha Santa in Goddess of Explosions difficulty, he will proclaim, "Evil will never triumph!" instead of "Ho ho ho!" like usual.

In terms of gameplay and design, it's a cute, tongue-in-cheek remake of the obscure, rather dark DOS arena shooter ''Operation Carnage''. You have a limited amount of [[VideoGameLives lives]], explore Santa's base room by room and defeat hordes of enemies {{Zerg Rush}}ing you. The game is rather short (only containing four normal stages) and you cannot save, but it has a high replay value due to multiple DifficultyLevels, many paths to take and tons of secrets. It's fast-paced, has smooth controls, and focuses on dodging and destroying enemies about equally.

* BadassSanta: Naturally Mecha Santa is the final boss.
* BadSanta: In the ending, [[spoiler:Mecha Santa is seemingly forgiving towards Pitch... but then it turns out the present he gave her was explosive. [[VillainProtagonist Not to say that the Princess didn't deserve that]].]] Also, his boss room, in which he's on a podium talking to a bunch of elves in the stands, looks a lot like [[PuttingOnTheReich the Nuremberg Rally]].

* BulletHell: In harder difficulties, the screen can be filled to the brim with enemies... and projectiles. [[spoiler:Especially on Reallyjoel's Mom.]]

* EarthShatteringKaboom: In the GoldenEnding, [[spoiler:the princess uses a technique learned from her mother to blow up the entire galaxy by crashing the moon into Mecha Santa.]]

* GodMode: [[spoiler:Activated by typing in RGIOSA at any time unless you're on Reallyjoel's Mom]]. You can't get onto the high-score board if you do this, though.

* HarderThanHard: The "Goddess of Explosions" difficulty mode. And [[spoiler: the "[[MemeticBadass Reallyjoel's Mom]]" difficulty.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Pitch set out to kill Mecha Santa and ruin Christmas for everyone else because ''she'' didn't get anything from him when she was a kid. [[spoiler: The GoldenEnding takes it up to eleven by [[OmnicidalManiac having her destroy]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom an entire galaxy]]. [[DisproportionateRetribution Yikes]].]]

* MadeOfExplodium: Bricks, crates and Christmas trees. HandWaved by making things explosive being a power of the Goddess of Explosions.

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: The Speed, Power and Cattelite power-ups will overwrite each other if one is picked up while a different one is in use.

* NotHyperbole: [[spoiler: The name of the secret technique "Galactic Princess Buster" isn't for show - if she were to obtain the technique, she'll use it on Mecha Santa, ''resulting in the destruction of the entire galaxy''.]]

* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: The gift Pitch received in the ending? It was explosive.]]

* StuffBlowingUp: You play as the daughter of the Goddess of Explosions, [[spoiler:and you can summon said Goddess via a certain code.]] Your enemies are mostly mechanical, which might as well mean they're MadeOfExplodium. So yes, there's quite a bit of StuffBlowingUp in this game. Even the main screen displays Pitch flying out of a gigantic explosion. And in the GoldenEnding? [[spoiler:Princess Pitch's FinishingMove on Mecha Santa ''blows up the galaxy''.]]

* UnwinnableJokeGame: The highest difficulty level, "Reallyjoel's Mom." It's safe to say that no human will be beating it any time soon, though [[ToolAssistedSpeedRun TAS]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLoA8vYtIT0 has shown that it is technically beatable]], unlike the equivalent difficulty in {{Videogame/Iji}}.

** Mecha Santa starts phase 2 with one of these, named the Aurora Force

* ZergRush: As this is a VideoGame/GardenGnomeCarnage Spin off, this way to be expected. It becomes ''ridiculous'' in the bonus level.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Pitch set out to kill Mecha Santa and ruin Christmas for everyone else because ''she'' didn't get anything from him when she was a kid. [[spoiler: The GoldenEnding takes it UpToEleven by [[OmnicidalManiac having her destroy]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom an entire galaxy]]. [[DisproportionateRetribution Yikes]].]]

* PrincessesPreferPink: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Pitch is a positively pink, powerful princess]].

* ChainReactionDestruction: Some enemies can be thrown at other enemies to take them out in the resulting explosion.

** One of the minibosses, "Frilly Hat Elf" is a ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' reference, as [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/References_to_Touhou#Hyper_Princess_Pitch confirmed]] by WordOfGod.

** [[spoiler:[[MemeticBadass Reallyjoel's mom]]]] [[invoked]]

** Princess Pitch has a chance of saying [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck Darkwing Duck's]] catchphrase of "Let's get dangerous!" whenever she respawns or enters the stage.
** Several names of the Robo Santa's attacks are shoutouts to various other works:

** You can enter cheat codes during play. They all start with RG (Remar Games). Which is probably a reference to how all VideoGame/{{Doom}} cheat codes start with ID (ID Software).

* UnwinnableJokeGame: The highest difficulty level, "Reallyjoel's Mom." It's safe to say that no human will be beating it any time soon, though [[ToolAssistedSpeedRun TAS]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaUJa8nk_kg has shown that it is technically beatable]], unlike the equivalent difficulty in {{Videogame/Iji}}.

* AnIcePerson: One of Mecha Santa's Desperation Attacks, "DEEP FREEZE!" involves [[BulletHell a crapload of icicles flying everywhere]].

* EverythingExplodesEnding: It's called the "Galactic Princess BusTAAH" for a reason!

** Pitch's father, the Bear Miner, is the protagonist of a NoMoreSweden game by Daniel Remar, which was also a SpiritualSequel to ''VideoGame/GardenGnomeCarnage''.

* NotHyperbole: [[spoiler: The name of the secret technique "Galactic Princess Buster" isn't for show - if she were to obtain the technique, she'll use it on Mecha Santa, ''resulting in the destruction of the entire galaxy''.]]

--> '''Goddess of Explosions''': Anyway, what is your wish?
--> '''Princess Pitch''': More explosions.
--> '''Goddess of Explosions''': Your wish is granted!!!

* PinballProjectile: The [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow]] weapon. [[spoiler:The Hyper Y: Deluge [[PowerUp powerup]] also fits this.]]

* ThePowerOfRock: One of the attacks used by Mecha Santa is "DEATH METAL DISASTER ZONE!" He shows the "devil horns" sign with his hands and all the elves in the audience start shooting at Peach.

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* PunnyName: The title is a play on ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach''.

** The key combo for Counter/Piledriver is identical to that of Expel in ''HeroCore''.

** One Stage 3 MiniBoss uses the fire pattern of [[CowardlyBoss The Eliminator]] from ''HeroCore''.

* BadassPrincess: Princess Pitch, who can fight her way through a base full of killer robots by means of [[StuffBlowingUp exploding absolutely everything]].

* EasterEgg: Loads of them, this being a DanielRemar game.

** There's a secret level filled with incarnations of [[spoiler:Spacenörd, the protagonist of an old game by DanielRemar]].

A SpinOff game to DanielRemar's ''VideoGame/GardenGnomeCarnage''. You play as Princess Pitch, a side character from GGC, who is very fond of explosions and bears a big grudge against [[HumongousMecha Mecha Santa]]. Supported by your trusty ally, Catstrike, and your mother, the Goddess of Explosions, you blast into Santa's factory and ShootEverythingThatMoves (mainly robotic ChristmasElves, turrets and combat-suitable toys) with explosive bricks, rainbow beams and ice rays, intending to confront Mecha Santa himself in the end.

* WaifFu: Pitch looks like a tiny harmless girl in a pink dress... until you see her mow down hordes of robots like they're nothing, and piledrive a boss ten times her own size into oblivion.

In terms of gameplay and design, it's a cute, tongue-in-cheek remake of the obscure, rather dark {{DOS}} arena shooter ''OperationCarnage''. You have a limited amount of [[VideoGameLives lives]], explore Santa's base room by room and defeat hordes of enemies {{Zerg Rush}}ing you. The game is rather short (only containing four normal stages) and you cannot save, but it has a high replay value due to multiple DifficultyLevels, many paths to take and tons of secrets. It's fast-paced, has smooth controls, and focuses on dodging and destroying enemies about equally.

* AnAssKickingChristmas: And '''how''': you go around Mecha Santa's base blowing everything to smithereens.

** Pitch's father, the Bear Miner, is the protagonist of a NoMoreSweden game by Daniel Remar, which was also a SpiritualSequel to GardenGnomeCarnage.