History VideoGame / MonsterSliderArcadeCabinet

** The snowman Carrot takes the place of the yeti of the previous game. There is a bit of wordplay involved here because the Japanese word for yeti is "yuki otoko" -- "snow man". So, a man made of snow replaces a man living in the snow. Furthermore, Carrot is dressed in an outfit resembling an elementary school uniform while the previous game's yeti was the most elderly looking of its cast.

* CreepyCrossdresser: Cyasarin is a skeleton to begin with. The femininity of their look is accomplished with makeup, a wig, and a bow that all together look both dated and garish. Other than serving Draqula, Cyasarin isn't much of a bad person and quite friendly unless provoked, like when Niina and Kiil insulted them for being okama.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Naitou speaks in the Kansai manner. He's the most comedic character.

* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Masaru, an overachiever spurned on by his tiger mom, wears opaque glasses with thickness swirls on the lenses.

* MoodSwinger: Naitou has what appears to be a drawn-on face that comes in three varieties: neutral, awe, and shock. He cycles between these three alone as the situation calls for it.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder Can we Cruci-fix it? Yes, we Vati-can!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/TenaciousD And he was like "Be you'n angel?" And I was like "Nah, I am but cross! Shock!"]]]]

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* TheMinionMaster: Carrot has at minimum three little snowmen that are his companions. One has a red scarf, another a yellow snow cap, and the third a blue snow cap. They freeze Carrot's opponent's blocks for him.

Keeping in mind that reviews of either game are scarce, the arcade version is considered inferior to the Sega Saturn version, accounting for its remarkably short run. The arcade version [[LighterAndSofter ditches the spooky visual and audial aesthetic]] that set its predecessor apart from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' to [[FollowTheLeader make it more alike]] ''Puyo Puyo''. On top of that, while the game shows signs of wanting to be a step up from the Sega Saturn version, such as by providing each character with a personalized field design, crucial content like PreBattleBanter and story have been cut back on. The presence of character audio files that never activate during gameplay suggest that the game was rushed, possibly to keep the release date in the wake of ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoSun''.

Keeping in mind that reviews of either game are scarce, the arcade version is considered inferior to its predecessor, accounting for its remarkably short run. The arcade version [[LighterAndSofter ditches the spooky visual and audial aesthetic]] that set it apart from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' to [[FollowTheLeader make it more alike]] ''Puyo Puyo''. All antagonists are given names this time, but only four still have pre-battle banter, drastically cutting into the other eights' appeal. The banter of the four default opponents also differs little between the three potential protagonists. Furthermore, the story leaves many questions and this being an arcade game, there is no endless mode.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: In the attract mode, Crodia is depicted as wearing a fancy mauve dress and lots of jewelry, suggesting that she's nobility or at least wealthy. When she's encountered as the final boss, she's replaced her jewelry with one necklace and one crown-like hair piece. She's too ditched her dress for a raisin-purple top and skirt that leave her belly and legs exposed. What has changed is that Crodia beat Draqula herself and took control of him, his servants, and his castle. She's enjoying being a pro-active monster boss.

* SomethingAboutARose: When using her special ability, which is to raise vines from the opponent's field's floor, the outline of a rose sprouts from Crodia to signify her strength and high class status.

* SwordBeam: When Mikazuki readies his special move, which is to cut down the opponent's candle with his sword, he first draws a glowing ring around him with the katana's tip.

** The snowman Carrot takes the place of the yeti of the previous game. There is a bit of wordplay involved here because the Japanese word for yeti is "yuki otoko" -- "snow man". So, a man made of snow replaces man living in the snow. Furthermore, Carrot is dressed in an outfit resembling an elementary school uniform while the previous game's yeti was the most elderly looking of its cast.

** The snowman Carrot takes the place of the yeti of the previous game. There is a bit of wordplay involved here because the Japanese word for yeti is "yuki otoko" -- "snow man". So, a literal snow man replaces man living in the snow. Furthermore, Carrot is dressed in an outfit resembling an elementary school uniform while the previous game's yeti was the most elderly looking of its cast.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Several characters have non-Japanese names. In the two-player mode character selection screen, the names are displayed in both katakana and Roman script and very few non-Japanese ones get rendered as what they're supposed to be. Niina should've been Nina, Kiil should've been Kiel, Ririan should've been Lilian, Cyasarin should've been Catharine, Naitou should've been Night, Patolisia should've been Patricia, Draqula should've been Dracula (curiously, his profile notes his name isn't spelled with a "q"), and Crodia should've been Claudia.

* CallingYourAttacks: Only Niina, Draqula, and Gon Zo call out their attack by name, all three of which in English. In case of Niina and Draqula, this is something brought over from the previous game.

** The werewolf Mikazuki takes the place of the wolfman of the previous game. While the wolfman is an arrogant and bare-chested brute, Mikazuki is polite and clothed in a classy kimono.
** The golem Muscles takes the place of the golem of the previous game. While the other golem is an undressed, lean bodybuilder, Muscles is a sumo wrestler wearing an elaborate tsuna.

* CuteWitch: One of Draqula's henchmen is the witch Ririan, who wears a minidress version of classical witch attire and wields a silly-looking wand. Ririan is one of the random opponents and her special ability is to transform herself into a palette swap version of her opponent and give them a taste of their own special ability.

* {{Dracula}}: Draqula is a blue-skinned vampire, the owner of a castle, and the wealthy boss of a small legion of monsters. He abducts, for unshared reasons, Crodia, probably not expecting that she would beat him into submission and take over his operation. He seems to be okay working for her because he speaks proudly about the special ability-nullifying barrier Crodia gets set up. Draqula's special ability is Evil Bat. It summons bat to his opponent's field that suck the life force out of the blocks they land on. These blocks become skulls.

* {{Medusa}}: Patolisia is midpoint between snake person and gorgon in that she looks like if someone cut a snake in half and then inserted a human upper body between the two halves. The one snake head on her human human is all she has for hair and it seems that the two heads are of one brain. As a proper gorgon, Patolisia has a petrifying gaze that she can unleash on her opponent's blocks. Petrified blocks act like skulls.

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%%* OneeSama: Nina refers to Claudia as "onee-sama" and she herself is the polite young girl archetype. This sets up the expectation that Claudia is even more ladylike. This isn't the case: Claudia is selfish, somewhat uncouth in her presentation, and violent. It is quite a shock for Nina after all she did to save her.

%%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent:

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* CallingYourAttacks: Only Niina, Draqula, and Gon Zo call out their attack by name, all three of which in English. In case of Niina and Draqula, this is something brought over form the previous game.

%%* {{Dracula}}:

* EyeGlasses: Both Masaru and his mother have no apparent eyes under their glasses. Masaru has nerd glasses with a thickness swirl while his mother has spiky glasses that give her a strict countenance.

%%* LighterAndSofter:

* BedsheetGhost: One of Dracula's henchmen is the ghost Naitou, who who looks like a white blob with a spear and a helmet. His face appears to be drawn on him and he can switch between three drawing styles: a dot-eyed neutral face, a face with large and detailed eyes, and a face that too is dot-eyed but where the shocked expression gets a lot of detail. Naitou is one of the random opponents and his special ability is to take duration points from his opponent's candle and add it to his own.

* ChargedAttack: Both the gold skulls and the emblems can be saved up for bigger attacks. Being able to spent five at once of either makes the attacks especially powerful. Five+ gold skulls can be exchanged for more than one silver skull per gold skull and five+ emblems create more efficient or longer-lasting

* CrucialCross: Nina wields a holy cross during her efforts to save Claudia from Dracula and the monsters in his employ. It is the source of her special ability Holy Sphere.
* CuteWitch: One of Dracula's henchmen is the witch Ririan, who wears a minidress version of classical witch attire and wields a silly-looking wand. Ririan is one of the random opponents and her special ability is to transform herself into a palette swap version of her opponent and give them a taste of their own special ability.

* DemBones: One of Dracula's henchmen is the skeleton Cyasarin, an okama who works at or even runs an okama bar called ''Hakachi'' (''The Boneyard''). Cyasarin is the first default opponent encountered, being the last one fought in the cemetery. Their special ability is to blow a kiss to their opponent's field, summoning a minimum of three skulls per kiss to come rain down.

* EyeGlasses: Both Masaru and his mother have no apparent eyes under their glasses. Masaru has nerd glasses that always depict a swirl while his mother has spiky glasses that give her a strict countenance.

* FishPeople: A pair of Dracula's henchmen are the two gillmen Masaru and his mother. The former is a studious tyke, the latter his overbearing education mamma. The two are more fish-like than gillmen usually are, having a penguin-like physique and simple facial features. Masaru and his mother are among the random opponents and their special ability is to transform herself into a palette swap version of her opponent and give them a taste of their own special ability is to summon a pool of water that raises the floor of their opponent's field.

* FrankensteinsMonster: One of Dracula's henchmen is the Frankenstein's monster Uga, who is a distinctly '90s redesign of the Universal look. Most notably, he sports a flattop about as tall as he his and his bolts are located at the top of it. Uga is one of the random opponents and his special ability is to summon down lightning that darkens his opponent's field except for the falling block. This makes it hard to color match.
%%* {{Golem}}:
* GreenThumb: Crodia's special ability is to grow vines from her opponent's field's floor. These grow over their blocks and covered blocks cannot be part of an elimination row. The only way to remove the vines is to eliminate blocks adjacent to them and even then they'll only retreat as far as the eliminated blocks touched. How Crodia is able to do this is not explained. The special abilities of the other characters come from them being monsters or wielding weapons, while Crodia goes into battle barehanded and she's ostensibly human.

%%* {{Mummy}}:
* NoblewomansLaugh: If she wins, the powerful and supposedly wealthy Crodia laughs a noblewoman's laugh.

%%* SecretUndergroundPassage: There is a route into and from Dracula's castle that goes through a cave system and follows a path outside along an underground river. It is not technically secret because both Nina and Dracula's servants know about it and use it, but it is an underground route that is not part of the Castle's structure and where, as demonstrated by the yeti, you can get lost. Nina first battles the gillman and the witch at the waterway outside the caves and later battles the golem and the yeti inside the caves.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: In the attract mode, Crodia is depicted as wearing a fancy mauve dress and lots of jewelry, suggesting that she's nobility or at least wealthy. When she's encountered as the final boss, she's replaced her jewelry with one necklace and one crown-like hair piece. She's too ditched her dress for a raisin-purple top and skirt that leave her belly and legs exposed. What has changed is that Crodia beat Dracula herself and took control of him, his servants, and his castle. She's enjoying being a pro-active monster boss.

* SomethingAboutARose: When using her special ability, which is to grow vines, the outline of a rose sprouts from Crodia.
%%* SuddenlyShouting:
%%* TrickBoss: Dracula is set up as the big bad that needs to be overcome. Instead, it is revealed that his most recent act of evil, the abduction of Claudia, occurred with her cooperation. The two are in love and have since gotten married. Claudia therefore is pissed when her younger sister inadvertently beat up her husband and demands another fight. It's Claudia who is the final-final boss.
%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting:
%%* WingdingEyes:

Keeping in mind that reviews of either game are scarce, the arcade version is considered inferior to its predecessor, accounting for its remarkably short run. The arcade version ditches the spooky visual and audial aesthetic that set it apart from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' to make it more alike ''Puyo Puyo''. All antagonists are given names this time, but only four still have pre-battle banter, drastically cutting into the other eights' appeal. The banter of the four default opponents also differs little between the three potential protagonists. Furthermore, the story leaves many questions and this being an arcade game, there is no endless mode.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Cyasarin is immediately smitten with the handsome Kiil. Kiil is not interested in the avances of an okama skeleton and is characteristically rude about it.

* CampGay: Cyasarin is a self-described okama and seemingly works at an okama bar called ''Hakachi'' (''The Boneyard''). He wears makeup, a wig, and a large bow on his head, and his special ability has him posing in front of a giant heart while sending out projectile kisses. Cyasarin is smitten on sight by the handsome Kiil, but he wants nothing to do with Cyasarin.

* CreepyCrossdresser: Cyasarin is a skeleton to begin with. The femininity of his look is accomplished with makeup, a wig, and a bow that all together look both dated and garish. Other than serving Draqula, Cyasarin isn't much of a bad person and quite friendly unless provoked, like when Niina and Kiil insulted him for being okama.

* CuteWitch: One of Dracula's henchmen is the witch Lilian, who wears a minidress version of classical witch attire and wields a silly-looking wand. Lilian is one of the random opponents and her special ability is to transform herself into a palette swap version of her opponent and give them a taste of their own special ability.

%%* DemBones:

* EducationMama: Masura's mother is identified as a "kyoiku mama" in their profile, which also makes a note that while they as a team carry the boy's name, it is his mother who does all the talking and, presumably, decision-making.
%%* EyeGlasses:

%%* FishPeople:

%%* FrankensteinsMonster:

%%* GreenThumb:

%%* MagicWand:
%%* {{Medusa}}:

%%* PaletteSwap:
* PreexistingEncounters: A play through story mode consists of eight battles. Four of these are against pre-determined opponents. The other four spots are randomly filled by other Carrot, Mikazuki, Lilian, Masaru, Gon Zo, Uga, Naitou, and/or Patolisia.
%%* ProjectileKiss:
%%* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter:

%%* ShockAndAwe:

%%* SignificantWardrobeShift:

The arcade game is an AlternateContinuity to the original game. The beautiful Crodia gets abducted by Draqula and his monstrous servants, prompting her younger sister Niina, the guard Kiil, and the priest Doefsky to set out to rescue her. Any of them battles their way from the cemetery to a waterway that leads into a cave system and then up into Draqula's castle. Despite a barrier that has been put up to negate the hero's special ability, Draqula is soundly beaten. Crodia then reveals that she's been the mastermind for a while now, having defeated Draqula herself and taken over his castle. She enjoys her run as monster boss and refuses to leave, so the protagonists have to battle her to get her to come home.

%%* NinetiesHair:

* ChildishOlderSibling: Crodia is a selfish, irresponsible, and unpredictable woman, while her younger sister Niina is a typical good girl: polite, brave, and looking out for others' wellbeing. Niina grows quite exasperated with her older sister's antics.
%%* ChildSoldiers:

%%* CreepyCrossdresser:

%%* CuteWitch:
* DamselOutOfDistress: Crodia gets abducted by Draqula and his servants. Rather than despair, she views her time as a captive as spare time and not wanting it to go to waste, she defeats Draqula herself, gets him to serve her, takes over his castle, and just for fun sets up a barrier that prevents special moves from being used. This is primarily a security feature, but also allows her to mess with her would-be saviors. In the end, she has so much fun that her would-be saviors have to fight her to get her to come back home.

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%%* AbhorrentAdmirer:
%%* BedsheetGhost:
%%* BellyMouth:
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Several characters have non-Japanese names. In the two-player mode character selection screen, the names are displayed in both katakana and Roman script and very few non-Japanese ones get rendered as what they're supposed to be. Niina should've been Nina, Kiil should've been Kiel, Ririan should've been Lilian, Cyasarin should've been Catharine, Naitou should've been Night and possibly even Knight, Patolisia should've been Patricia, Draqula should've been Dracula (curiously, his profile notes his name isn't spelled with a "q"), and Crodia should've been Claudia.
%%* CallingYourAttacks:
%%* CampGay:
%%* ChildishOlderSibling:

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: The snowman Carrot takes the place of the yeti of the previous game. There is a bit of wordplay involved here because the Japanese word for yeti is "yuki otoko" -- "snow man". So, a literal snow man replaces man living in the snow. Furthermore, Carrot is dressed in an outfit resembling an elementary school uniform while the previous game's yeti was the most elderly looking of its cast.