History VideoGame / SengokuBASARA

* DropTheHammer: Itsuki.

* ''[[FightingGame Sengoku Basara X]]'' (2008) UsefulNotes/{{Arcade|Game}}[=/=][[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]]

* KungFuWizard: Maria.

* {{Bishounen}}: Kenshin... and he LIKES posing! Also Hanbe, Motonari, Keiji, and Yukimura in later games.
** ''4'' marks the first time someone portrays Shibata Katsuie as this trope instead of the usual muscle-bound warrior.

* BonusBoss: Musashi and Hisahide in the second game. Nobunaga in the third. Shingen in ''Utage''.

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** Yoshitsugu - Either Literature/TheInvisibleMan or [[{{Mummy}} Mummies]] (on accounts of his [[BandageMummy bandages]]).

** Yoshitsugu - Either Literature/TheInvisibleMan or [[OurMummiesAreDifferent Mummies]] (on accounts of his [[BandageMummy bandages]]).

** Sabisuke/Wabisuke - [[JekyllAndHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]

* {{Keigo}}: Keigo language is almost everywhere, since this is technically the Sengoku Period.
** The writers seem to have a great deal of fun throwing in as many different UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns as they can find.

* ClothFu: Maria.

* BladeOnAStick: Yukimura, Ieyasu (pre-''3''), Toshiie, Matsu, Oichi (pre-''3''), Ujimasa.

** Joke items made it even worse, as in [[BladeOnAStick Toshiie]] using a swordfish or [[BigFuckingSword Yoshihiro]] using a bottle of liquor/a shishkebab.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/NoriakiSugiyama is defiantly this. He normally does male tsunderes and stoics. In this he is, well, [[SissyVillain Otomo Sorin]].

* PigeonholedVoiceActor: Let's just say, whoever chose the voice cast for this game knew to pick voice actors by role - about the only one ''lacking'' is Creator/NobuyukiHiyama.
** Creator/NoriakiSugiyama is defiantly PlayingAgainstType. He normally does male tsunderes and stoics. In this he is, well, [[SissyVillain Otomo Sorin]].

** Nagamasa (sword) and Oichi (sorceress ((of course they're [[MuggleMageRomance married]])).
** Mitsunari(sword) and Yoshitsugu (sorcerer).

* SwordAndSorcerer: Nagamasa (sword) and Oichi (sorceress ((of course they're [[MuggleMageRomance married]])), and Yoshiteru (sword) and Maria (sorceress).

** When it comes to female characters, be sure you'll see plenty of [[MaleGaze ass]] and [[ShesGotLegs legs]]. While Kasuga and Magoichi also show their cleavage, every single one of the girls gets some focus below the waist.

* MsFanservice: Kasuga, even more so than in the game. Her {{Stripperific}} clothing and {{Gainaxing}} skills probably help a lot.

** Maria with moths.
** Sakon with dogs (specifically the Shiba Inu)

The result was a franchise that [[RefugeInAudacity abandoned such things as logic, physics, general subtlety, and historical accuracy]], and instead ran entirely on RuleOfCool, a WorldOfBadass chock-full of {{Flanderization}}, for better or worse. Despite a failed attempt by Capcom to bring the first game to the west by giving it a CutAndPasteTranslation treatment in the form of ''Devil Kings'', which changed the characters' names and removed all Sengoku Period references (leaving Capcom reluctant to localise the sequels), the series maintains a strong fanbase, especially in Japan, mainly because, if nothing else, [[RuleOfFun it's just fun]].

* AnachronismStew: To make it short, the 'Sengoku Period' here was just a backdrop of water to excuse several character relationship and design, as long as the RuleOfCool and RuleOfFun quota are filled. Some major examples:
** Masamune's horse with chopper exhaust pipes, handlebars and soldiers looking like delinquents and his NumberTwo (Kojuro) sometimes acts like a {{Yakuza}} are meant to evoke the image that the protagonist is an archetypical Engrish-speaking {{Delinquent}} with his own gang, not because the actual UsefulNotes/DateMasamune was one[[note]]Though not without some HistoricalInJoke: Masamune was known to be flashy and often standing out, making him similar to a {{Delinquent}}-style character within the period.[[/note]]. A lot of characterizations can evoke a similar feeling that they are meant to represent a character archetype more than the actual historical character and their accomplishment.
** UsefulNotes/HondaTadakatsu being a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Gundam]] evokes his ephitet that he's called [[WorldsStrongestMan 'The Strongest' of the Sengoku Period]], so what better and [[RuleOfCool cooler]] way to enforce that image than to give him futuristic tech (that was a little downgraded to near Japanese steampunk) and turning him into a robot?
** The existence of modern guns or ones that gets even more ridiculous and modern. Of course, it's with the basis that gunpowder and gun lessons have been a rather big thing in the Sengoku Period, but the game wouldn't be cooler if they didn't put things like Gatling Gun (this one became more prominent in the Bakumatsu era) or Rocket Launchers (Goes even beyond).
** Figures and character relations that spanned across time:
*** Tsuruhime still existed despite living in an era before the Sengoku Period (but otherwise, they don't have any other potential 'klutzy shrine maiden' candidate).
*** Mouri Motonari still continued to exist until Sekigahara instead of being succeeded by his children (Mouri Terumoto) because that's against his characterization (being a loner {{Jerkass}} commander), plus [[SexSells Capcom can't afford to just boot his pretty boy look.]]
*** Ashikaga Yoshiteru would've been dead right before the period started, but since his successor (Yoshiaki) was kind of a patsy, they needed a more dignified member of the Ashikaga clan, so they picked Yoshiteru and pretended he never died.
*** Shibata Katsuie became rivals with Shima Sakon, while Masamune played as his BigBrotherMentor, despite the actual Katsuie dying before Masamune's time or Sakon's prime time as Ishida Mitsunari's right hand man.
*** By the 4th game (when they introduced Yoshiteru and Katsuie), Capcom probably decided "Screw it" and made the story about 'Creating Your Own Sengoku Period' where anything goes and historical accuracy got punted to oblivion. Not to worry, it's still a [[RuleOfFun fun]] and [[RuleOfCool cool]] interpretation where your favorite archetypes aren't going anywhere, just don't come for history lesson.

* PurelyAestheticEra

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are 49 named, fleshed-out characters in the series (55 if you include the area warlords), all of whom have been playable at some point so far. ''[=SB4=] Sumeragi'' has a total of 40 playable characters.

* LargeHam: There's [[strike:a few]] loads, but mostly the guy WHO'S ALWAYS SCREAMING ABOUT HIS OYAKATA-HAM-AAAAAAA!