History VideoGame / MakenX

''Maken X'' is a first-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the UsefulNotes/PS2, with a prespective change to third-person, and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', it is not considered part of the franchise. There is also a manga adaptation named ''Maken X Another'' created by Hayashida Q.

* BloodlessCarnage: In ''Maken Shao'', no matter how many times you hit the enemy, there will never be blood. This is possibly due to the fact that the sword is said to affect the mind rather than the body.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Many characters fit this trope, such as Fukenshi trainee Fei Shan Lee (sharp-edged metal fans), Fukenshi Aquinas (a motorized spinning extending double-helix lance), Hakke Andrey (a giant scalpel, as well as tiny knives that ''he shoots out of his tongue''), Hakke Sharja (a Maken-ized katar and four shoulder-mounted dagger-wielding robotic arms) and Hakke Daru (A Maken-ized metal stake and a syringe filled with a mysterious green substance, most likely the petrification plague).
* LethalJokeCharacter: The airliner pilot, Gou Inaba, is this in Maken Shao. Get his Synchro rate up high enough and you unlock a move that lets you call down lightning on enemies from afar and can be used endlessly with no penalty. His 100% Synchro ChargeAttack lets you call down lightning on every enemy in your field of vision.

* NoSwastikas: The Swatsikas adorning the uniforms of Hakke Margaret and the European Union were replaced with the chinese character for "mu" in the American and European releases of Maken X. Unlike many changes made to the western releases of Maken X, this change was retained for Maken Shao. The Nazi salute that Hakke Margaret performs when firing her arm cannon remains unchanged in all versions.

* ShamefulStrip: In the manga, the Maken-possessed Kei ends up being cornered by Hakke Andrey and has most of her clothing shredded off by him.

* UpdatedRerelease: ''Maken Shao'', which used a third-person camera instead of the first-person camera of Maken X, added an in-game encyclopedia, added an option that shows you a list of all brainjackable characters and lets you brainjack whichever of them you want from the map screen, and introduced an upgrade system for all playable characters that granted them new moves, gave {{Charge Attack}}s to all characters (even ones that didn't have them in Maken X) once they were fully upgraded, and turned certain characters used only for utility purposes (Gou Inaba, Berlinka) into powerhouses given enough time is spent upgrading them.

''Maken X'' is a first-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the UsefulNotes/PS2, with a prespective change to third-person, and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', it is not considered part of the franchise. There is also a manga adaptation known simply as ''Maken X''.

* AdaptationDistillation: The manga.

* BreathWeapon: Hakke Daru's petrification-plague-spit attack.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Many characters fit this trope, such as Fukenshi Li Feishan (sharp-edged metal fans), Fukenshi Aquinas (a motorized spinning extending double-helix lance), Hakke Andrey (a giant scalpel, as well as tiny knives that ''he shoots out of his tongue''), Hakke Sharja (a Maken-ized katar and four shoulder-mounted dagger-wielding robotic arms) and Hakke Daru/Dal (A Maken-ized metal stake and a syringe filled with a mysterious green substance, most likely the petrification plague).

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Hakke Andrey, if you choose to brainjack the pilot Gou Inaba during the second stage on the falling mega-airliner Rhincodon. Choosing to brainjack Inaba gets you to your planned destination, Hong Kong, but causes you to lose Andrey as he dies when the Rhincodon crashes.

Set in a CrapsackWorld of aggression between the United States and China, a group of scientists perfect an artificial intelligence known as "Maken," an EmpathicWeapon designed for use in psychotherapeutic treatment. Kei Sagami, a young but intelligent high-school girl, is watching the final stages of the experiment when a group of masked men attack the laboratory and kidnap her father, the head scientist of the project. In the commotion, Kei takes hold of Maken and is bound to the weapon's soul, its "Image." Having merged into one consciousness, Kei must now wield the power of Maken to save her father from a force that is threatening to control the world, running into the warring "Fukenshi" and "Hakke" clans (the "Law" and "Chaos" factions of the game, respectively) along the way.

''Maken X'' is a first-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the [=PS2=], with a prespective change to third-person, and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', it is not considered part of the franchise. There is also a manga adaptation known simply as ''Maken X''.

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''Maken X'' is a first-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the [=PS2=], with a prespective change to third-person, and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', it is not considered part if the franchise. There is also a manga adaptation known simply as ''Maken X''.

A third-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the [=PS2=] and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' franchise, it is not considered an official entry or {{Spinoff}}.
There is also a manga adaptation known simply as ''Maken X''.

In a CrapsackWorld of aggression between the United States and China, a group of scientists perfect an artificial intelligence known as "Maken", an EmpathicWeapon designed for use in psychotherapeutic treatment. Kei Sagami, a young but intelligent high-school girl, is watching the final stages of the experiment when a group of masked men attack the laboratory and kidnap her father, the head scientist of the project. In the commotion, Kei takes hold of Maken and is bound to the weapon's soul, its "Image". Having merged into one consciousness, Kei must now wield the power of Maken to save her father from a force that is threatening to control the world, running into the warring "Fukenshi" and "Hakke" clans (the "Law" and "Chaos" factions of the game, respectively) along the way.

* NoExportForYou: The United States was left out when it came to the release of the [=PS2=] remake.

* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:Literally, with Hakke Brown, a.k.a. Hakke Billy in the Japanese release]]

* LostForever: Hakke Andrey, if you choose to brainjack the pilot Gou Inaba during the second stage on the falling mega-airliner Rhincodon. Choosing to brainjack Inaba gets you to your planned destination, Hong Kong, but causes you to lose Andrey as he dies when the Rhincodon crashes.

* [[spoiler:PresidentEvil: Literally, with Hakke Brown, a.k.a. Hakke Billy in the Japanese release]]

* NoExportForYou: The United States was left out when it came to the release of the PS2 remake.

A third-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the [=PS2=] and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' franchise, it is not considered an official entry or {{Spinoff}}.

A third-person HackAndSlash game originally released in 1999 for the SegaDreamcast. It was remade for the [=PS2=] and released as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. Although the game shares many of the staff members and design aesthetics from the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' franchise, it is not considered an official entry or {{Spinoff}}.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: And '''how'''. The translators mistranslated some of the dialoques in the games so horribly that it became incomprehensible, and most of the characters' names were mangled just as badly.

In a CrapsackWorld of aggression between the United States and China, a group of scientists perfect an artificial intelligence known as "Maken", an EmpatheticWeapon designed for use in psychotherapeutic treatment. Kei Sagami, a young but intelligent high-school girl, is watching the final stages of the experiment when a group of masked men attack the laboratory and kidnap her father, the head scientist of the project. In the commotion, Kei takes hold of Maken and is bound to the weapon's soul, its "Image". Having merged into one consciousness, Kei must now wield the power of Maken to save her father from a force that is threatening to control the world, running into the warring "Fukenshi" and "Hakke" clans (the "Law" and "Chaos" factions of the game, respectively) along the way.

In a CrapsackWorld of aggression between the United States and China, a group of scientists perfect an artificial intelligence known as "Maken". Kei Sagami, a young but intelligent high-school girl, is watching the final stages of the experiment when a group of masked men attack the laboratory and kidnap her father, the head scientist of the project. In the commotion, Kei takes hold of Maken and is bound to the weapon's soul, its "Image". Having merged into one consciousness, Kei must now wield the power of Maken to save her father from a force that is threatening to control the world, running into the warring "Fukenshi" and "Hakke" clans (the "Law" and "Chaos" factions of the game, respectively) along the way.

In a CrapsackWorld of aggression between the United States and China, a group of scientists perfect an artificial intelligence known as "Maken". Kei Sagami, a young but intelligent high-school girl, is watching the final stages of the experiment when a group of masked men attack the laboratory and kidnap her father, the head scientist of the project. In the commotion, Kei takes hold of Maken and is bound to the weapon's soul, its "Image". Having merged into one consciousness, Kei must now wield the power of Maken to save her father from a force that is threatening to control the world, running into the warring "Hakke" and "Fukenshi" clans (the "Law" and "Chaos" factions of the game, respectively) along the way.

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Released in 1999 for the SegaDreamcast, ''Maken X'' tells the story of Kei, a girl whose father is working on the development of the Maken. Supposedly meant to be a tool for medical use, the Maken is actually a powerful, sentient sword with the ability to "brainjack" - stealing the bodies of those who touch it and absorbing their Image (known as PSI in the English release), i.e. their psychic essence. When Kei is watching at the laboratory, a group of strange people attack it and escape with Kei's father, after killing the man who was supposed to wield the Maken. Desperate to recover her father, Kei takes the sword and allows the Maken into her mind. In her pursuit she comes across the Hakkes and the Fukenshis, who represent the "law" and "chaos" functions of the Megaten games that preceded it.

There was a [=PS2=] remake known as ''Maken Shao'' in Japan and ''Maken Shao: Demon Sword'' in Europe. It was not released in the United States. There was also a manga known simply as ''Maken X''.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: And '''how'''. The translators mistranslated some of the dialoques in the games so horribly that it became incomprehensible, and most of the characters' names were mangled just as badly. The mistranslation of the villains' names is especially [[WallBanger grating]] when one considers that [[DidNotDoTheResearch they were all based on more or less famous historical persons such as Margerete Thatcher, Vlad "Dracula" Tepes or Gilles de Rais.]]