History VideoGame / PowerStone

Gameplay in the ''Power Stone'' series is unconventional, at least compared to the [[StreetFighter many]] [[VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever other]] [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} fighting]] [[VideoGame/RivalSchools games]] by Creator/{{Capcom}} itself. For starters, fights take place in 3-D arenas. Items appear throughout the levels, such as weapons, obstacles and the titular power-ups-slash-[[MacGuffin MacGuffins]], the Power Stones. When a fighter collects three of these, he or she transforms into a super-powered form for a limited time.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Rouge's top was re-colored from blue in the games to white in the anime.

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: A 26-episode series was aired in 1999.

* ChefOfIron: Wang-Tang and Gourmand, although it's far more obvious in the latter's case.
* ConfusionFu: [[CrazyAwesome Jack]], who can crawl around like an insect, contort himself in various impossible ways, and hover through the air by [[ExorcistHead spinning his upper torso like a helicopter rotor.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to the Power Stone world! [[labelnote:Characters]]From back to front-- [[IdiotHero Wang]][[ChefOfIron -Tang]], [[KnifeNut Jack]], [[MsFanservice Rouge]], [[MagicalNativeAmerican Galuda]], [[AcePilot Edward]] [[TheHero Falcon]], [[BoisterousBruiser Gunrock]], [[MasterSwordsman Ryoma]], and [[BadassAdorable Ayame]].[[/labelnote]]]]

->''In the 19th century, people are strong believers of superstition and legend. Adventures who seek the world for fortune and glory, and a legendary treasure which has the power to make dreams come true. That treasure is known as the '''POWER STONE'''.''

Gameplay in the ''Power Stone'' series is unconventional, at least compared to the [[StreetFighter many]] [[VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever other]] [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} fighting]] [[VideoGame/RivalSchools games]] by Creator/{{Capcom}} itself. For starters, fights take place in 3-D arenas. Items appear throughout the levels, such as weapons and the titular power-ups-slash-[[MacGuffin MacGuffins]] power stones. When a fighter collects three of these, he or she transforms into a powered form for a limited time.

* ChefOfIron: Wangtang and Gourmand.
* ConfusionFu: [[CrazyAwesome Jack]].
* DanceBattler: Rouge.

* GangUpOnTheHuman: Power Stone 2's adventure mode. Interestingly, other modes involving multiple coms do NOT engage in this behavior, suggesting the devs put it in adventure mode on purpose.
* HighAltitudeBattle: The Blue Sky Area from the second game takes place aboard an airship initially, which eventually collapses. The second part of the battle is [[FreeFallFight fought whilst falling]] with players scrambling to obtain [[HyperactiveMetabolism healing food]] and Umbrellas to slow their fall before landing in the last section of the stage.

* {{Ninja}}: Ayame is secretly this. Usually she masquerades as a travelling entertainer, but is secretly trained as a ''kunoichi''.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Kraken the cyborg pirate.
** And Accel the shapeshifting robot cowboy.

%%* PowerMakeover

* RiseToTheChallenge: A variant of this occurs in the Dark Castle Area in ''Power Stone 2'', in which the stage catches fire early on, requiring everyone to scale up to the top of the castle in a brief side-scrolling segment.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: In Power Stone 2, if the players take too long to kill each other, meteors rain down and reduces everyone's health to 1 and sudden death starts. Taking too long to kill each other in sudden death will have even ''more meteors'' rain down and finish everyone off, ending in a draw.

* TransformationTrinket: The Power Stones.

** And thanks to the giant shuriken she wears on her back and the long ear-like things on her head, Ayame's Power Fusion gives her a passing resemblance to a butterfly.

Not to be confused with Stone Man's weapon, from ''VideoGame/MegaMan5''.

** As the Completionist pointed out, the Power Stones look somewhat similar to [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Chaos Emeralds.]]

** TheHero: Falcon
** TheLancer / TheBigGuy: Ryoma
** {{The Chick}}s: Rouge and Ayame

** Wang Tang is tasked with searching for the Power Stone by his sensei as part of his training.

** Valgas wants to TakeOverTheWorld, natch.
* CaptainErsatz: Wang Tang is a fairly blatant {{homage}} to a certain {{shonen}} [[Anime/DragonBallZ anime hero]].

* ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot: You need three power stones to transform. Not in the anime, apparently.

** The [[VideoGame/MegaMan Mega Buster]] is a craftable and usable weapon in the second game.

* CaptainErsatz: Wang Tang is a fairly blatant {{homage}} to a certain {{shonen}} [[DragonBallZ anime hero]].

* ShoutOut: Some of the transformations look awfully familiar, like [[DragonBallZ Wang-Tang's]], [[Anime/RoninWarriors Ryoma's]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Galuda's]], and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Gunrock's]].

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Falcon's father is named Pride. 'Falcon' is a surname, meaning the full name is "Pride Falcon".
** To be fair though, the name "Edward Falcon" isn't lacking in the coolness stakes, either.

''Power Stone'' is a video game series created by {{Capcom}}. Beginning with the first game in 1999, ''Power Stone'' received only one sequel, ''Power Stone 2'', the following year. The two games were released for the arcade and ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, and later to the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. It also received a [[Anime/PowerStone 26-episode anime adaptation]].

Gameplay in the ''Power Stone'' series is unconventional, at least compared to the [[StreetFighter many]] [[VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever other]] [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} fighting]] [[VideoGame/RivalSchools games]] by {{Capcom}} itself. For starters, fights take place in 3-D arenas. Items appear throughout the levels, such as weapons and the titular power-ups-slash-[[MacGuffin MacGuffins]] power stones. When a fighter collects three of these, he or she transforms into a powered form for a limited time.

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to the Power Stone world! [[labelnote:Characters]]From back to front-- [[IdiotHero Wang]][[KungFuKid -Tang]], [[KnifeNut Jack]], [[MsFanservice Rouge]], [[MagicalNativeAmerican Galuda]], [[AcePilot Edward]] [[TheHero Falcon]], [[BoisterousBruiser Gunrock]], [[MasterSwordsman Ryoma]], and [[BadassAdorable Ayame]].[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to the Power Stone world! [[labelnote:Characters]]From back to front-- [[IdiotHero Wang]][[KungFuKid -Tang]], [[SerialKiller Jack]], [[MsFanservice Rouge]], [[MagicalNativeAmerican Galuda]], [[AcePilot Edward]] [[TheHero Falcon]], [[BoisterousBruiser Gunrock]], [[MasterSwordsman Ryoma]], and [[BadassAdorable Ayame]].[[/labelnote]]]]

** Wang Tang is searching for the Power Stone as part of his training.

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to the Power Stone world!]]

** Ayame is tasked with finding the Power Stone by a lord. [[spoiler: Her ending reveals that she finds it too powerful to give him, so she tricks him by giving him a fake instead and secretly keeps it for her family.]]

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[[caption-width-right:284:Welcome to the Power Stone world!]]

Gameplay in the ''Power Stone'' series is unconventional, at least compared to the [[StreetFighter many]] [[CapcomVsWhatever other]] [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} fighting]] [[VideoGame/RivalSchools games]] by {{Capcom}} itself. For starters, fights take place in 3-D arenas. Items appear throughout the levels, such as weapons and the titular power-ups-slash-[[MacGuffin MacGuffins]] power stones. When a fighter collects three of these, he or she transforms into a powered form for a limited time.

* CapcomVsWhatever: One of only two Capcom franchises to have never appeared in a CapcomVsWhatever proper (the other being the ''BreathOfFire'' series). Made even more bizarre that this is the sole ''fighting game series'' by Capcom that has never appeared in a CapcomVsWhatever involving their own franchise.
** Falcon does get a few cameos, though; he appears in a stage for VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium, and in VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVSCapcom3 he is a collectible card.
** Falcon, Rouge, Wang Tang, Ryoma and Ayame also appeared in the first two ''CardFightersClash''.

* AnimeAccentAbsence: The characters are all from different nationalities, but yet they only speak Japanese.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Falcons father is named Pride. 'Falcon' is a surname, meaning the full name is "Pride Falcon".

* {{Samurai}}: Ryoma. His Katana makes him the only character in the original game (And one of three in the whole series, along with Accel and Julia in ''Power Stone 2'') to constantly wield a weapon.

* TransformationTrinket: The power stones.

Not to be confused with a certain weapon from ''VideoGame/MegaMan5''.

%%* DanceBattler: Rouge.
%%* DeathCryEcho

* ElegantGothicLolita: Julia from ''[=PS2=]'' is a brightly-colored variant

%%* HighAltitudeBattle

%%* {{Ninja}}: Ayame

%%* {{Samurai}}: Ryoma.

%%* TransformationSequence

** And so does Galuda, during his power drive and his power fusions.

''Power Stone'' is a video game series created by {{Capcom}}. Beginning with the first game in 1999, ''Power Stone'' received only one sequel, ''Power Stone 2'', the following year. The two games were released for the arcade and ported to the SegaDreamcast, and later to the PlayStationPortable. It also received a [[Anime/PowerStone 26-episode anime adaptation]].

* ShoutOut: Some of the transformations look awfully familiar, like [[DragonBallZ Wang-Tang's]], [[RoninWarriors Ryoma's]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Galuda's]], and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Gunrock's]].

* DanceBattler: Rouge.
* DeathCryEcho

* FreeFloorFighting

* GoshHornet: The beehive item.
* HighAltitudeBattle

* InterestingSituationDuel

* KameHameHadouken: Wangtang.

* {{Ninja}}: Ayame

* PowerMakeover
* {{Retraux}}: The intro.

* {{Samurai}}: Ryoma.

* TransformationSequence

** Falcon does get a few cameos, though; he appears in a stage for VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium, and in UltimateMarvelVSCapcom3 he is a collectible card.