History VideoGame / ZeroRanger

It is TheFuture. Earth is under threat by a giant alien fleet, codenamed GREEN ORANGE. Most of Earth's defenses have been subverted...including your intended craft, the experimental prototype fighter GRAPEFRUIT. All that's left is two secondary fighters, the Type-B Decker-type piloted by Mido and the Type-C Rybb-type piloted by Dori, which can be selected by a single player or piloted by two players at once.

It is TheFuture. Earth is under threat by a giant alien fleet, codenamed GREEN ORANGE. Most of Earth's defenses have been subverted...including your intended craft, the experimental prototype fighter GRAPEFRUIT. All that's left is two secondary fighters, the Type-B Decker-type piloted by Minna and the Type-C Rybb-type piloted by Doris, which can be selected by a single player or piloted by two players at once.

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Should you accept the powerup given to you by GREEN ORANGE it will trap you in a dream strangely reminiscent of ''VideoGame/DonPachi''. Destroying the powerup at the end of the stage will allow Mido's sister to interrupt and help her break out of the dream]].

* TennisBoss: If the player is using a sword in Zeroranger mode, then the boss of 2-3 will start flinging a spherical projectile during its later stages that the player can reflect back. The boss however will attempt to do the same.

It is TheFuture. Earth is under threat by a giant alien fleet, codenamed GREEN ORANGE. Most of Earth's defenses have been subverted...including your intended craft, the experimental prototype fighter GRAPEFRUIT. All that's left is two secondary fighters, with which you and a friend are going to have to take on the entire armada.

* ShoutOut: To practically every shmup ever released, and more media besides.
** The first miniboss is the Vic Viper from {{VideoGame/Gradius}}.
** The second miniboss is the [[VideoGame/RType R9]], complete with Force.
** The buildings in the first stage retract into the ground, similarly to those in [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Tokyo-3]].
** The pre-boss warning screen displays esoteric tips on how to beat them like ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''.
*** Two of the tips you get for the stage 4 boss is "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Touch the untouchable, Break the unbreakable]].
*** Keeping up with the Gurren Lagann references, one of the possible weapons the Zero Ranger mode can use is a huge drill.
** One of the bosses is a blatant nod to one of the last bosses of ''VideoGame/ChoRenSha68k''.
** Should you [[spoiler:accept the powerup given by the computer at the core of GREEN ORANGE]], you will be allowed to play a version of the game that heavily takes its mechanics from the ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series.
** The last boss of the second stage at the second loop is a pretty clear nod to the Giant Warriors from ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
** The mysterious monk fought at the end of the BossRush in stage 1-4 uses mechanics very similar to the Sans battle from VideoGame/{{Undertale}}. [[spoiler:Becomes even more blatant after defeating the final boss - on repeat playthroughs, the monk is replaced by a skeleton with a glowing blue eye.]]

** The mysterious monk fought at the end of the BossRush in stage 1-4 uses mechanics very similar to the Sans battle from {{Undertale}}. [[spoiler:Becomes even more blatant after defeating the final boss - on repeat playthroughs, the monk is replaced by a skeleton with a glowing blue eye.]]

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Should you accept the powerup given to you by central computer it will trap you in a dream strangely reminiscent of ''VideoGame/DonPachi''. Destorying the powerup at the end of the stage will allow Mido's sister to interrupt and help her break pt of the dream]].

** The pre boss warning screen displays esoteric tips on how to beat them like ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''.

* TakingYouWithMe: ORANGE's final form will spent her last life bar frantically unleashing area-of-effect attacks as her health depletes of its own accord.

* WithThisHerring: The player ships start out without their secondary weapons, have no bombs, and can't access [[HumongousMecha ZeroRanger]] mode before a certain plot event occurs. They are expected to take on both the alien and subverted human forces by themselves.

** The mysterious monk fought at the end of the BossRush in stage 1-4 uses mechanics very similar to the Sans battle from {{Undertale.}} [[spoiler:Becomes even more blatant after defeating the final boss - on repeat playthroughs, the monk is replaced by a skeleton with a glowing blue eye.]]

** Should you [[spoiler:accept the powerup given by the computer at the core of GREEN ORANGE]], you will be allowed to play a version of the game that heavily takes it's mechanics from the ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series.

*** Keeping up with the Gurren Lagann references, the B-Type ships Zero Ranger mode uses a huge drill as it's main weapon.

* WithThisHerring: The player ships start out without their secondary weapons, have no bombs, and can't access [[HumongousMecha ZeroRanger]] mode before a certain plot event occurs. They are expected to take on both the alien and subverted human forces by themselves.

* BodyMotifs: Eyes are a recurring visual motif in enemy design.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: [=ZeroRanger=]'s color palette is limited to black, white, and various shades of green and orange.
* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:[[TitleDrop ZeroRanger]] mode]]

* WithThisHerring: The player ships start out without their secondary weapons, have no bombs, and can't access [[spoiler:[[HumongousMecha ZeroRanger]] mode]] before a certain plot event occurs. They are expected to take on both the alien and subverted human forces by themselves.

* [[spoiler:HumongousMecha]]: [[spoiler:[[TitleDrop ZeroRanger]] mode]]

* ShoutOut: To practically every shmup ever released.

Released on September 28, 2018, Zero Ranger is a vertical ShootEmUp by System Erasure.

!!ZeroRanger contains examples of the following tropes:

* WithThisHerring: The player ships start out without their secondary weapons, have no bombs, and initially can't access [[spoiler:[[HumongousMecha ZeroRanger]] mode.]] They are expected to take on both the alien and subverted human forces by themselves.

* WithThisHerring: The player ships lack all their secondary weapons, have no bombs, and initially can't access [[spoiler:[[HumongousMecha ZeroRanger]] mode.]] They are expected to take on both the alien and subverted human forces by themselves.

It is TheFuture. Earth is under threat by a giant alien fleet, codenamed GREEN ORANGE. Most of Earth's defenses have been subverted, including the experimental prototype fighter GRAPEFRUIT. All that's left is two secondary fighters, with which you and a friend are going to have to take on the entire armada.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: At one point, you will be expected to [[spoiler:play some pinball, of all things.]]