History VideoGame / MaglamLord

''Maglam Lord'' is an ActionRPG with VisualNovel elements, developed by Felistella and published by Creator/D3Publisher (Japanese) and [=PQube=] (English) for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, with a UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} port released later. Gameplay is a mix of side-scrolling BeatEmUp gameplay in the same vein of older, 2D ''VideoGame/TalesOf'' games and a dating sim, where the player forms bonds with their partners, goes out on dates with them, and maybe even find love.

* JackassGenie:[[spoiler: Acklao's tends to half-ass or maliciously interpret grant wishes on a whim. He can grant wishes properly with the wisher's original intent in mind, but he usually doesn't. He will even grant wishes without the person's consent by "reading [their] heart," even if what he does goes against what the person actually wants. He does grant the wishes of children correctly, but, then again, the children we see in-game have relatively simple and straightfoward wishes, such as wanting a piggy back ride or wanting to play with him. He claims that he grant their wishes correctly because children are pure of heart, but Acklao also loves to [[MetaphoricallyTrue twist truths]] and lie, making it hard to tell whether he's being genuine.]]

* OurGeniesAreDifferent: One late-game character qualifies.[[spoiler: [[CursedObject The Wishing Ring, a Relic known to cause tragedy and ruin,]] [[AWizardDidIt one day somehow gained a human-like body, awareness, and personality]]. Now going as Acklao, his vaguely Arabic fashion choices, ability (and compulsion) to grant wishes, ability to teleport, and his dedication to his master (once he has one) has him resembling some kind of genie being tied to a ring rather than a lamp.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:[[spoiler: While it's unclear when their consciousness woke up, relics were created at the start of the world. This makes Acklao and MOAV's cores as old as the universe. This may also, to a lesser decree, also apply to Killizerk and Balga.]]

* WelcomeBackTraitor:[[spoiler: Satyus betrays the party and gets most of the party thrown in jail to be {{Brainwashed}} after the Administration turns on them, but, after some scolding from the Bladelord, immediately begs for forgiveness, explains how he only did what he did under duress, and is [[EasilyForgiven readily accepted back into the gang after everyone is rescued]]. Killizerk also gives him a title referencing this event: Traitorlord.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Slay monsters. Forge weapons. Find love]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Lyrica and all of the children at the daycare accept the party without any questions, despite the Bladelord being known both as a dangerous Hazades and Demon Lord and [[spoiler:Acklao publicly causing riots via MindControl and cursing people]].

* ReferenceOverdosed: The game has a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout-outs]] to various other works and even memes. A lot of them are in the character titles, such as [[spoiler: Acklao, the [[ArtifactOfDoom Wishing Ring, going by the]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "The One"]] and another literally being "WithThisRing".]] Others are hidden in regular dialogue; more within the weapons (one of the swords, for example, is called a [[Franchise/KingdomHearts keyblade]]); and others are within the missions, such as how [[Creator/ProzD one client wants you to send his regards to King Dragon, and by that we mean the client wants you to kill him.]]

* GenderNeutralWriting: Regardless of whether the player chooses the male or female Killizerk, the Demon Lord will always be referred to with they/them pronouns and traditionally male titles (such as "Lord Killizerk" or "Master"). With that being said, the game sometimes slips up and refers to the protagonist in passing as male, and a couple of characters also compare the Demon Lord to a prince regardless of which version of Killizerk is present.

* ReferenceOverdosed: The game has a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout-outs]] to various other works and even memes. A lot of them are in the character titles, such as [[spoiler: Acklao, the [[ArtifactOfDoom Wishing Ring, going by the]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "The One"]] and another literally being "WithThisRing".]] Others are hidden in regular dialogue; more within the weapons (one of the swords, for example, is called a [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts keyblade]]); and others are within the missions, such as how [[Creator/ProzD one client wants you to send his regards to King Dragon, and by that we mean the client wants you to kill him.]]

* ReferenceOverdosed: The game has a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout-outs]] to various other works and even memes. A lot of them are in the character titles, such as [[spoiler: Acklao, the [[ArtifactOfDoom going by the]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "The One"]] and another literally being "WithThisRing".]] Others are hidden in regular dialogue; more within the weapons (one of the swords, for example, is called a [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts keyblade]]); and others are within the missions, such as how [[Creator/ProzD one client wants you to send his regards to King Dragon, and by that we mean the client wants you to kill him.]]

* ShesAManInJapan: A strange internal example. The game changes Satyus' pronouns between scenes and settings during the story. In some scenes, other characters, including the Bladelord and Balga, will consistently refer to Satyus as they/them and gender-neutral terms (ex. grandkid), and, in other scenes, characters will consistently refer to Satyus as he/him and male terms (ex. grandson). There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind the change either. [[spoiler: [[HotSpringsEpisode One of the dating events with Satyus at a hot spring]] seems to imply that Satyus is supposed to have an AmbiguousGender, as the Bladelord doesn't know what Satyus will look down there in the bath, but, considering how the [[AmnesiacHero Bladelord has lost their memory, the Bladelord may also really not know.]] The scene covers Satyus completely up via a magical LensFlareCensor anyway.]][[note]]It is possible that Satyus goes by both they/them and he/him pronouns, but it's hard to tell without WordOfGod confirming whether that is indeed the case.[[/note]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Characters in the faceless side missions are rarely heard from again, especially if the faceless NPC speaks. Some of these side missions can leave the characters in precarious conditions. One example features a worried mother trying to find her lazy son. [[spoiler: When the party finds him. [[FateWorseThanDeath Acklao had merged him with a tree (his wish was to be self-efficient and Acklao interpreted that as the guy wanting to live as solitary as a tree), and he unable to feed, drink, or resist insects biting him.]] When the party finds him, [[ICannotSelfTerminate he begs for someone to kill him]], as he is unable to move. The party then swears to find the caster so the curse be undone, but the player never finds out if the guy was ever separated from the tree. The last we see of him is his mother camping besides him in order to take care of him.]]

** Despite the glossary explicitly stating that demonkin are just immature demon lords and that whole species are known as "demons", the endangered species list has the Bladelord as a different species from Satyus and Balga (Demon Lord and Demonkin, respectively). Also, Balga was a fully mature demon lord with the title "Ironlord" before his fall, so he wouldn't count as demonkin.

* ReferenceOverdosed: The game has a lot of ShoutOuts within its texts, too many to count. A lot of them are in the titles, such as [[spoiler: Acklao, the [[ArtifactOfDoom going by the]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "The One"]] and other literally being "WithThisRing".]] Others are hidden in regular dialogue, more within the weapons, and others are within the missions, such as how [[Creator/ProzD one client wants you to send his regards to King Dragon, and by that we mean the client wants you to kill him.]]

* ShesAManInJapan: A strange internal example. The game changes Satyus' pronouns between scenes and settings during the story. In some scenes, character will consistently refer to Satyus as they/them and gender-neutral terms (ex. grandkid), and, in other scenes, characters will consistently refer to Satyus as he/him and male terms (ex. grandson). There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind the change either. [[spoiler: [[HotSpringsEpisode One of the dating events with Satyus at a hot spring]] seems to imply that Satyus is supposed to have an AmbiguousGender, as the Bladelord doesn't know what Satyus will look down there in the bath, but, considering how the [[AmnesiacHero Bladelord has lost their memory, the Bladelord may also really not know.]] The scene covers Satyus completely up via magic anyway.]]

* ShoutOut: [[Creator/ProzD You can send your regards to King Dragon, and by that we mean the client wants you to kill him.]]

* AncientArtifact: The gods created the world with a few of these in it called Relics. They are immensely powerful and indestructible. [[spoiler:The ones encountered in-game are the Philosopher's Stone (also called the tinctura) and the Wishing Ring. Both have some level of awareness to them. The former stops MOAV from revealing information by shutting itself off temporally and the the latter is straight up a character with thoughts, feelings, and opinions. Whether all the ancient magical objects have awareness is unclear.]]

** Overseer Mamie and Balga allows Killizerk to date and seek their soulmate, because if [[LastOfHisKind Killizerk (the last Demon Lord)]] had an heir, then Demon Lords wouldn't be endangered. Simply put, that is not how RealLife species conservation works. [[note]]Barring some form of [[TrulySingleParent asexual reproduction]] or MysticalPregnancy, as how demon lords reproduce is never elaborated on in-game, most of the available love interests either are a completely different species from Killizerk or MOAV, who is robot with no interest nor known ability to reproduce. Any hypothetical children Killizerk has with them would be a hybrid with little value conservation-wise. The only hypothetical offspring that possibly wouldn't be a hybrid would be with [[spoiler: Satyus]]. This is also not getting into the issue of Killizerk's biological sex and whether the Demon Lord would be capable of HomosexualReproduction.[[/note]]
** Despite the glossary explicitly stating that demonkin are just immature demon lords and that whole species are known as just demons, the endangered species list has the Bladelord as a different species from Satyus and Balga (Demon Lord and Demonkin, respectively). Also, Balga was a fully mature demon lord with the title "Ironlord" before his fall, so he wouldn't count as demonkin.

** [[MechanicalLifeform MOAV]] doesn't need to eat, but he can if [[AwesomeByAnalysis he wants to analyze something]] or if it'd be rude not to. He can't actually taste what he eats, however, he just analyses it.

* GenderNeutralWriting: Regardless of whether the player chooses the male or female Killizerk, the Demon Lord will always be referred to with they/them pronouns and male titles (such as Lord Killizerk or Master). With that being said, the game sometimes slips up and refers to the protagonist in passing as male, and a couple of characters also compare the Demon Lord to a prince regardless of which version of Killizerk is present.

* GreenRocks: The legendary philosopher's stone's (also known in-game as the tinctura) stated function to convert anything into anything else. It also powers and repairs MOAV, a robot, [[spoiler: and grants him information, such as how the wishing stone works, though the stone itself also stops him from revealing too much about the wishing ring by powering itself off temporarily.]]

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Downplayed. The dating sim elements are light. There are dates, but no hugging, kissing, or even holding hands. Most dates amount to two characters hanging out and maybe sharing a meal. The most raunchy the game gets is [[HotSpringsEpisode a few visits to a mixed-sex bathhouse]] where nothing outside of [[BathtubBonding bathing and talking happens]]. The game doesn't really go past the characters smiling and praising each other's personalities and skills. The dating sim aspect can also be completely avoided by the player after it's introduction, and the game doesn't punish players for not participating in it.

* PhilosophersStone: It is one the indestructible magical objects that exist in the world.

* ShesAManInJapan: A strange internal example. The game changes Satyus' pronouns between scenes and settings during the story. In some scenes, character will consistently refer to Satyus as they/them and gender-neutral terms (ex. grandkid), and, in other scenes, characters will consistently refer to Satyus as he/him and male terms (ex. grandson). There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind the change either. [[spoiler: [[HotSpringsEpisode One of the dating events with Satyus]] seems to imply that Satyus is supposed to have an AmbiguousGender, as the Bladelord doesn't know what Satyus will look down there in the bath, but, considering how the [[AmnesiacHero Bladelord has lost their memory, the Bladelord may also really not know.]] The scene covers Satyus completely up via magic anyway.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Guru G.G. encourages Killizerk to date and find their soulmate, though he doesn't seem to care who Killizerk actually ends up with as long as Killizerk fills the "hole in [their] soul".

** MOAV was designed to wield maglams for [[spoiler: the purpose of killing both gods and demons who posed a threat to MOAV's human creators. Instead, he ends up working and fighting for a demon lord.]]

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Downplayed. The dating sim elements are light. There are dates, but no hugging, kissing, or even holding hands. Most dates amount to two characters hanging out and maybe sharing a meal. The most raunchy the game gets is [[HotSpringsEpisode a few visits to a mixed-sex bathhouse]] where nothing outside of [[BathtubBonding bathing and talking happens]]. The game doesn't really go past the characters smiling and praising each other's personalities and skills.

** Despite the glossary explicitly stating that demonkin are just immature demon lords and that whole species are known as just demons, the endangered species list has the Bladelord as a different species from Satyus and Balga (Demon Lord and Demonkin, respectively). Also, Bagla was a fully mature demon lord with the title "Ironlord" before his fall, so he wouldn't count as demonkin.

* MechanicalLifeform: MOAV qualifies. He's a humanoid robot with no desire to actually become human. [[spoiler:Part of his character development in particular is his accepting that he's alive, just not in literal sense of living, and not just a tool to be used.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology / PregnancyDoesNotWorkThatWay: Overseer Mamie allows Killizerk to date and seek their soulmate, because if [[LastOfHisKind Killizerk (the last Demon Lord)]] had an heir, then Demon Lords wouldn't be as endangered. Simply put, that is not how RealLife species conservation works. [[note]]Barring some form of [[TrulySingleParent asexual reproduction]] or MysticalPregnancy, as how demon lords reproduce is never elaborated on in-game, most of the available love interests either are a completely different species from Killizerk or MOAV, who is robot with no interest nor known ability to reproduce. Any hypothetical children Killizerk has with them would be a hybrid with little value conservation-wise. The only hypothetical offspring that wouldn't be a hybrid would be with [[spoiler: Satyus]]. This is also not getting into the issue of Killizerk's biological sex and whether the Demon Lord would be capable of HomosexualReproduction.[[/note]]

* GenderNeutralWriting: Regardless of whether the player chooses the male or female Killizerk, the Demon Lord will always be referred to with they/them pronouns and male titles (such as Lord Killizerk or Master). [[spoiler: Julette also compares the Demon Lord to a prince regardless of which version of Killizerk is present.]]