History VideoGame / ThreeKingdomsStory

* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Having your main character die at any point will get you a GameOver. This is more apparent when you assign them to missions without losing conditions relating to a specific character dying.

* LighterAndSofter: This series is much more lighthearted than many works based on the Three Kingdoms, with a lot of the conversations being quite funny. The third game eVen becomes DenserAndWackier: Who'd thought that Liu Bei would be a boy wearing [[AnimalEaredHeadband bunny headband]], or that your favorite [[UsefulNotes/ZhugeLiang Mr. Sleeping Dragon]] would be a PajamaCladHero? Or that the War of Chibi/Red Cliffs is caused by a rice dumpling EatingContest? Or that people are being [[ForcedTransformation transformed into pandas]]?

* LighterAndSofter: This series is much more lighthearted than many works based on the Three Kingdoms, with a lot of the conversations being quite funny. The third game turns this up to eleven: Who'd thought that Liu Bei would be a boy wearing [[AnimalEaredHeadband bunny headband]], or that your favorite [[UsefulNotes/ZhugeLiang Mr. Sleeping Dragon]] would be a PajamaCladHero? Or that the War of Chibi/Red Cliffs is caused by a rice dumpling EatingContest? Or that people are being [[ForcedTransformation transformed into pandas]]?

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In [=TKS3=], the story has some characters that originally gets killed survive the story and/or even join your party (if you succeed in their missions later). For example, Wen Chou is saved by Liu Bei after being transformed into a panda, and you can later save him again from being killed by the giant octopus and have him join you, in contrast to the usual story of Liu Bei killing him along with Yan Liang.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In [=TKS3=], the story has some characters that originally gets kills survive the story or even join your party (if you succeed in their missions later). For example, Wen Chou is saved by Liu Bei after being transformed into a panda, and you can later save him again from being killed by the giant Octopus and have him join you, in contrast to the usual story of Liu Bei killing him along with Yan Liang.

''Three Kingdoms Story'' is a series of StrategyRPG game developed by Taiwanese company T-Time Technology. Compared to most other works based on [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu the Three Kingdoms]], this game is notably LighterAndSofter with a lot of funny moments and humorous dialogues. You hire generals, train them, and take over the world by defeating your enemies in battles...but probably not before you and your enemies give some exchanges that make you chuckle. The first two games are non-linear: you're free to create your own AlternateHistory by finishing various events in different orders. The third game on the other hand is more like a traditional linear RPG game, where the main story's events happen in a fixed order, and you also travel on the map as a team instead of directly managing the towns and characters you own.

* LighterAndSofter: This series is much more lighthearted than many works based on the Three Kingdoms, with a lot of the conversations being quite funny. The third game turns this up to eleven: Who'd thought that Liu Bei would be a boy with bunny headband, or that your favorite [[UsefulNotes/ZhugeLiang Mr. Sleeping Dragon]] would be a PajamaCladHero? Or that the War of Chibi/Red Cliffs is caused by a rice dumpling EatingContest? Or that people are being [[ForcedTransformation transformed into pandas]]?

** In [=TKS3=] at one point in Chapter 3 there will be three missions, and you can finish any of them to progress the story. Finishing the East army mission can give you access to missions that unlock Mi Zhu and Ji Ling, while finishing the North army mission unlocks Xu Shu. Since the other two missions will disappear once you finish one of the missions, you can't get all these characters without editing the save file.

* RelationshipValues: When hiring new characters in the inn, you can have characters try to negotiate with them, and they'll offer a lower price if successful. Characters that are close to each other (Like Zhuge Liang or Huang Yueying) have a higher chance to lead to a successful negotiation. Also, in [=TKS3=], there is actually an "affection" value: if a character is left in the inn for too long, they'll lose their affection and may charge you for more gold when you want to have them join you again.

** The mission in [=TKS3=] where you recruit Zhao Yun is literally called Franchise/DragonQuest.

** An InfinityPlusOneSword that can be obtained is called the [[Franchise/StarWars Lightsaber]] (though its icon is somehow a [[ToiletHumor plunger]]).

* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler: In [=TKS3=]'s expansion, the story's final boss is against Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, then after defeating them and their underlings you immediately fight against Liu Bei and his friends in their OneWingedAngel form.]]

** The cutscene image of Chapter 10-3 shows a giant robot with the character "Iron" written on its front emerging from the middle of a lake which is "cut in half", similar to the scene where the Steel Titan is activated in ''VideoGame/LiveALive''.

All three games, as well as [=TKS3=]'s expansion, are avaliable on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. The Steam version of [=TKS3=] doesn't have an online trading feature unlike the original version, nixes the account feature altogether unlike the Steam version of [[VideoGame/TheMillionaireOf3Kingdoms [=M3K4=]]] and makes the online bonus missions avaliable to the base game (though you have to connect to the Internet to ever be able to play the game).

* AntiHero: The main cast of [=TKS3=] are made much more incompetent and with even more flaws than they are typically depicted as. Every member has some obvious [[FatalFlaw fatal flaws]] and often [[NiceJobBreakingItHero mess things up]]. [[spoiler: It turns out that the designers of the game are responsible for making the protagonists like this in-universe, and you can help Liu Bei get his revenge on them in a specific mission.]]

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/KingdomHeroes'' or Creator/Koei's ''[[VideoGame/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdomsKoei Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', which are games that have similar Chinese names, or ''VideoGame/ThreeKingdomsStoryConussia'', which has a similar English name. See also ''VideoGame/TheMillionaireOf3Kingdoms'', a series of computer board games created by the same company.

* BackStab: Attacking enemies from behind deals extra damage. However, if the enemy is facing you, then you can't move beyond their sides.

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: In [=TKS3=], in order to stop Liu Zhang from spending too much time on raising his pet dong, Fa Zheng tries to poison the dog, and is caught red-handed when Guan Yu proves that he has spiked the dog food with poison by... uh, feeding them to Liu Bei. Then after defeating him twice, Fa Zheng says that he has a lot more products made from animals or used to poison animals (many of them have [[PunnyName punny names]] too), and goes to the inn.

* LighterAndSofter: This series is much more lighthearted than many works based on the Three Kingdoms, with a lot of the conversations being quite funny. The third game turns this up to eleven: Who'd thought that Liu Bei would be a boy with bunny headband, or that your favorite [[UsefulNotes/ZhugeLiang Mr. Sleeping Dragon]] would be a PajamaCladHero? Or that the War of Chibi/Red Cliffs becomes a rice dumpling EatingContest? Or that people are being [[ForcedTransformation transformed into pandas]]?

* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler: At the end of [=TKS3=], it turns out that Emperor Xian is an alien who is escaping from his home planet which is nearly inhabitable and is trying to find a new habitable planet, and he has masterminded the entire game's events under the disguise of an emperor in hopes of taking over the Earth after setting up everyone else to defeat each other. He eventually gives up and after being defeated.]]