Line #11 VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime


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3	''Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime'' is a ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]''-like action-adventure spinoff of the popular ''Franchise/DragonQuest'' series, released on the Platform/NintendoDS in 2006. It's the sequel to ''Slime Morimori: Dragon Quest'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, which was [[NoExportForYou never released outside Japan]], though a FanTranslation is in progress.
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5	In the quaint, faraway kingdom of Slimenia exists a MonsterTown called Boingburg, which is populated completely by slime-like creatures. One day, almost completely out of nowhere, a mob of not-slimy monsters with tails called "the Plob" swoops in with a ''[[TankGoodness titanic tank]]'', destroys the entire town, and kidnaps everybody. Everybody, that is...[[ItsUpToYou except for you]], a slime nicknamed Rocket. Using your ability to stretch and bounce, along with the ability to summon your own enormous tank, your job is to infiltrate the Plob's various hideouts and rescue your family and friends - [[GottaCatchThemAll all 100 of them]].
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7	A third game was released for the 3DS in 2011. [[NoExportForYou It hasn't been released in the US]].
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9	!!''Rocket Slime'' uses the following tropes:
10	* AbnormalAmmo: Any item you can get your ectoplasmic non-hands on can be used as ammo for your tank, including yourself if you can somehow make it through your enemy's barrage, since it lets you slow down your enemies' ammo production by landing in their tank and attacking their crew. Nothing stopping you from stealing their weird ammunition while you're in enemy tanks, to boot.
11	* AccidentalMisnaming: Gluttonella won't stop calling the Plobfather "John Claud Lonely" no matter how many times he tells her that's not his name.
12	* AdiposeRex: The various king slimes, and especially the king of ALL slimes His Royal Wobbliness.
13	* AnvilOnHead: The 1000 Ton Weight makes the ground shake when it lands, good for flipping over Wyrtles onto their underside. Alternatively, you can use it to [[SquashedFlat squish enemies into thickness of a manhole cover]].
14	* ArtificialStupidity: The game makes a point of giving you AI options for every possible team member to allow you to adapt to situations... [[spoiler: until the final boss, where you get a single, unique partner ''without'' the ability to give him instructions, which can become a downright nuisance under certain circumstances.]]
15	* AttackReflector: Mirror shields break in one hit but cause the enemy's ammo to fly back at their tank.
16	* AwesomeButImpractical:
17	** The Chili Pepper will destroy any enemy shots travelling through the field instantly...but will destroy your own as well
18	** Zigzagged with Mama Mia’s missile attack. It is extremely powerful, but if she hits even one projectile she gets knocked away. It is really hard to hit the enemy with it, but it does so much damage it never hurts to try it.
19	* BadassFamily: Rocket, his sister, his mom, and his dad can all man the tank if you call upon them.
20	* BigEater: The princess, whom [[AvertedTrope you don't really save]]. Heck, she's so fat that her father states that a giant airship is bigger than her, before he backtracks and says a tank.
21	* BloodKnight: Slival. [[spoiler:It's his main motivation for joining the Plob in the first place, and also why he teams up with Rocket to save the world. The world gets blown up, he loses his fighting rival]].
22	* BreakoutMookCharacter: For, obviously, the slimes. They're one of the iconic monsters of the ''Dragon Quest'' franchise, and the whole game is about rescuing them, the main characters are all slimes, etc.
23	* ContinuityNod: The Great Krak Pot, and Mount Krakatroda (which has a massive relief of ol' King Trode forging the alchemy pot in the main hall), are both such clear references to ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' that it seems that D.Q.8 seems to be the ancient history of the world of the slimes, and that's not even pointing out Morimori the Slime. (Krak Pot is the alchemy pot of D.Q.8 given life, and also shows up in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'').
24	* DenserAndWackier: While the main series has plenty of silly moments, these games are loaded with silliness.
25	* DeathOfAThousandCuts: The Vulcan Cannons, which when mounted in your cockpit and fed the right bullets do a barrage of 20, 40 or 60 unblockable AND instant damage total to the enemy tank, making them extremely efficient since you don't have to worry about your slow shots being intercepted.
26	* DefeatMeansFriendship: If you defeat and carry 30 enemies of one type back to town, you'll get them as a selectable partner during tank battles (and a commemorative statue in the museum). The statues get upgraded from bronze to silver to gold as you capture more of them. Even if you bring less than 30, they'll be hanging around Boingburg as if they were one of your pals.
27	* DegradedBoss: Golem, who was the first boss in the previous game, has been reduced to mook status in this game.
28	* DuctTapeForEverything: How Ducktor Cid fixes the Warrior Flute.
29	* DuelBoss: Downplayed for [[spoiler:the final battle; while none of the "regular" tank crew members are present, Slival will partner up with you to take down Flucifer]]. Played straight with [[spoiler:the optional Hooly fight]], however; which is a pure one-versus-one battle.
30	* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:As stated above, Slival is your partner for the final battle against Flucifer - and ''only'' that battle; he can't be used as a regular crewmate thereafter.]]
31	* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Boo]] Hooly.
32	* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Slival joins up with you at the end of the game to confront Don Clawleone who's possessed by [[SealedEvilInACan Flucifier]], knowing that it's better to put a rivalry on hold to save the world]].
33	* EvilCounterpart: Slival's Schwarzman Tank is a dark version of your own Schleiman Tank with lots of [[SpikesOfVillainy spikes]].
34	* FangThpeak: The impth, of courth. Dark thlimeth, too.
35	* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: The Plob are a kid-friendly stand-in for the Mob, right down to their leader, Don Clawleone, a multi-tailed Platypunk who wears an eyepatch and uses crude gangster-speak. All of them, who are basically all the enemies in the game, are distinguished by their tails, hence their name in the original untranslated version, the Tails Gang.
36	* FastballSpecial: You can fire your allies or even yourself out of a cannon. Oftentimes, this is the only way to win. Special mention goes to Hooly, the Wyrtle, and other slimes/mooks who can be ordered to fire themselves out of the lower cannon, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential oftentimes for them to intercept the heavier hitting projectiles from the enemy]].
37	* FatBastard:
38	** Nobody, we repeat, NOBODY likes Gluttonella. Even her own father doesn't seem to think too highly of her.
39	** Averted with the king slimes. They note their own weight a lot, but are generally likeable.
40	* FiveManBand: A very subtle one.
41	** The Hero - Rocket
42	** The Lancer - Hooly
43	** The Smart Guy - Swotsy
44	** The Big Guy - Stony
45	** The Chick - Bo
46	* FunetikAksent: Ducktor Cid, who speaks with a very heavy German accent.
47	* FusionDance: For the final battle, [[spoiler:the Schleiman Tank and Schwarzman Tank fuse into the Gott Schleiman tank]].
48	** Applies to the P-O-W Tablets. Stacking them in that order turns them into an incredibly powerful drill weapon that acts similarly to the Carrot Top's horn, but does a whopping ''200'' damage if it hits, and it can be used more than once, as well.
49	* TheGoomba: Platypunks. Meanwhile the series' normal Goomba has [[ADayInTheLimelight A Day In The Slimelight]].
50	* HeelFaceTurn: Collecting monsters and enemies results in them integrating rather peacefully into Boingburg. Collecting thirty of a specific monster will result in a statue built for them in the museum, upon which said monster will join as a tank crewmate.
51	* HeartContainer: The Seeds of Life indeed extend your life.
52	* HulkSpeak: The Fangslimes you rescue speak this way, with their speech punctuated with random "ungas".
53	* HumansAreCthulhu: The developers kept humans out of the game for the highly justified reason that they'd probably just go around killing off the slimes.
54	* HumongousMecha: Rocket and Platypunks can pilot Golems, stomping around and unleashing their PowerFist.
55	* HurricaneOfPuns: Well, this ''is'' a Dragon Quest game. Special mention goes to the tree tank, named [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Chrono Twigger]] (a double pun, as Toriyama did the art for Chrono Trigger, and of course the Creator/SquareEnix merger.)
56	* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Hero Sword. Deals 120 damage, can withstand two pieces of ammo hitting it, and it moves at normal speed, unlike the Destructiball.
57	* ItemCrafting: Used to create newer and more powerful tank ammo.
58	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hooly. He is a greedy and proud kid, but loyal and a diligent crew mate.
59	* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:Flucifer is the only character in the game without any sort of humorous quirks and the threat he presents is played 100% seriously.]]
60	* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Don Clawleone wanted the Warrior Flute to win the heart of one Chickadee Boo.]]
61	* MagikarpPower: The P-O-W Tablets. Individually, they're weak pieces of ammo, but [[FusionDance stack them together in the right order and...]]
62	* MascotMook: In this game, the MascotMook is the star of the show!
63	* McNinja: Tokyo Tom, the TotallyRadical American Goonin.
64	* MetalSlime: No, the actual Metal Slimes don't count, as you're saving them, not fighting them. But there is a MetalSlime in this game - the Goodybag. It appears very rarely in certain spots in every level, and drops tons of money when you hit it. Alternately, if you manage to bring 30 of them back to town, like any other monster, you get to recruit it. It's a DiscOneNuke.
65	* MonsterTown: Boingburg, which is a small town in the slime kingdom of Slimenia. It functions as your home base, and is exclusively populated by slime monsters at the start of the game. Grabbing 30 enemy monsters means that particular species will start living in Boingburg too.
66	* NoEnding: Downplayed. The game does have an ending showing everything at peace again, but then post-game disregards this and acts as if nothing has changed. Everyone from the Plob who battled you is still there raring to battle again.
67	* NoIndoorVoice: BIG DADDY SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS.
68	* OldSaveBonus: In the Japanese version, the [[OptionalBoss final Slival fight]] requires you to have the original [=GBA=] game in the proper slot on the [=DS=]. Thanks to the first game [[NoExportForYou never being released outside of Japan,]] this requirement was removed, and Slival can be fought no matter what, making it a nice RegionalBonus.
69	* OneWingedAngel: Don Clawleone has a staff that turns him into a dragon which he uses when he's at half health. He calls himself "Don Dragone."
70	* OptionalBoss:
71	** Every Tank Masters fight is optional, and all you get is more ammo for your tank (or, in the case for Rank S, a recipe.) Rescuing all 100 Slimes is required to get to Rank S.
72	** Defeating [[spoiler:Flucifer]] again after beating him once earns you a recipe for Kafrizzles and Meteorites.
73	** Twenty Cent replaces Slival's battleground on the Flying Clawtress after beating the game. Victory over him earns you the singular [=BS-3=] Slimahawk in the game.
74	** Rescuing all 100 Slimes also allows Rocket to enter the Hero's Well in Boingburg, where The Goddess will offer him a challenge of fighting a [[spoiler:Flucifer-possessed Don Clawleone while protecting his friends. Success will earn Rocket a [[InfinityPlusOneSword Hero Sword.]]]]
75	** Beating S Rank opens up the Ultimate Rank in Tank Masters, which is a [[spoiler:one-on-one fight with Hooly, with a unique tank called the Shogun and ''3000'' [=HP=]. Victory earns Rocket another Hero Sword (which is a BraggingRightsReward at this point), as well as the ability to [[CosmeticAward use the Shogun in multiplayer battles.]]]]
76	** One can find Slival back at his original battleground in Mt. Krakatroda. Boasting 3000 [=HP=], it's a tough fight, but thankfully Slival still fights alone. Defeating him allows [[CosmeticAward use of the Schwarzman Tank in Tank Masters.]] This one is unique as it was changed between versions of the game.
77	* {{Orichalcum}}: Both in rock and orichalslime form.
78	* PlayableEpilogue: After fighting the final boss, you can wander the game world and fight any tank crew you want, or tie up loose ends at your leisure.
79	* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: The boss fight with Harvest Loon.
80	* PunnyName: Everyone and every''thing''. Even Rocket's name is a pun as well as he rockets around the game.
81	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: His Royal Wobbliness is a bit pompous, but is fairly wise and very encouraging to Rocket.
82	* ReferenceOverdosed: The game is filled to the brim with references to both other Dragon Quest games and other Square-Enix properties like ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' and even ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.
83	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: All the Slimes. [[FatBastard Even Gluttonella]].
84	* TheRival: Slival, of course. He pilots the Schwarzman tank, which is another slime-tank... but decked out in [[PaintItBlack darkened]] [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Metal King gear]].
85	* SaintlyChurch: The Boingburg church is where you save your game, so you'll be popping in for a sermon pretty often.
86	* SealedEvilInACan: There's an evil-looking navy flute that looks like the Warrior Flute, and if you play it, it will also summon a tank... [[spoiler:except this tank is an incredibly evil and powerful tank bent on taking over the world that [[DemonicPossession possesses]] Don Clawleone.]]
87	* SealedEvilInADuel: Every time you go back to the Plobfather's room and beat him again, Gluttonella will come back and [[spoiler:threaten to play said flute again]] if Don doesn't give him the food that she smells. She doesn't care that [[spoiler:it could destroy the world]], because she knows that you'll beat it again. Oh, and [[MindScrew there is no food.]]
88	* ShipTease:
89	** If you talk to the townslimes, quite a few of them display affection for Rocket.
90	** Gluttonella also lets you marry her after the game's credits.
91	** It doesn't just stop at the townslimes; some of the members of the Plob hit on Rocket, too! Especially Bugsy.
92	* ShoutOut:
93	** Lots, mostly to ''Final Fantasy'' games. There's the obvious Cid tradition going on with Ducktor Cid. Squashed Cactiballs look a lot like Cactuars. And, there's a giant tree tank named the [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Chrono Twigger]], including a similar font. There's also a boss named [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon Harvest Loon]].
94	** Holy flogging hell. There's a ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' ShoutOut with the Argonaut. "Mostly Charmless" indeed.
95	** There's even an EarlyBirdCameo reference to ''VideoGame/DragonQuestSwords'': "The [[WorkingTitle Revolution]] is coming! [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Wee!]]"
96	** And one of the opponents in storyline battles, a rabbit, [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes will keep calling you "Doc"]]
97	** There's also a slime called the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles Crystal Chronicler]].
98	** Splatrick. The pink-splotted, dim-witted purple Slime may just seem like just a coincidence at first, but you know it means something when you blast into him and he says:
99	-->"Ouch! Oh, no. I think I've broken something. Yes, that definitely feels [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants spongy]] there..."
100	** Tokyo Tom has more than a passing similarity to [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Michaelangelo]]. He even has this to say after you beat the game:
101	-->"Heroes in a half-gel! Slime power!"
102	* SkewedPriorities: As mentioned, Princess Gluttonella is the main reason you can refight the final boss over and over again. This is because [[spoiler:she keeps summoning Flucifer since she's hungry, and thinks Don Clawleone is holding out on her... even though there's no food in the ship]].
103	* SNKBoss: Zigzagged with the FinalBoss. [[spoiler:Flucifer's tank has an unrelenting stream of top-level ammo, including Level 3 fireballs that rain flames down on your cockpit making it impossible to navigate and unique drilling missiles that will hit you for an huge quantity of ScratchDamage while taking up enough cockpit space that you can't use your cannons. Unless the player is a lucky expert, it's almost inevitable that Flucifer will get to the point where he can StormTheCastle. However, the possessed Don Clawleone is ''much'' easier to handle on a one-on-one basis, but even that can get frustrating because Slival suffers from ArtificialStupidity and will drop whatever he's doing to fight Clawleone if they encounter one another, and you can't adjust his AI at all]].
104	* SquashedFlat: Enemies that wander onto the tracks or channels of the Translimenian end up like this (and Rocket if he gets trapped between a cart and the exit tunnel) but it thankfully doesn't deal any damage. the frequency of the carts results in most enemies getting trapped in a CycleOfHurting where they get flattened again as soon as they get back up. This also happens if you drop a [[AnvilOnHead 1000 Ton Weight]] onto an enemy.
105	* TacticalSuicideBoss: The Pot Belly wouldn't be in danger from you if he didn't keep throwing out random items from the Krak Pot that you kept throwing back. One of said random items are a few banana peels. Which he can step on and trip, damaging his health in the process. That's right, with enough patience, you can win this boss battle [[TooDumbToLive without lifting a finger]].
106	* TankGoodness: About one-third of the game's major battles are done using a giant tank that you find.
107	* TooDumbToLive:
108	** As mentioned above, you can easily beat Pot Belly without ever actually attacking him.
109	** If you replay the final boss, you'll see that Princess Gluttonella is willing to [[spoiler:''resurrect a demon'']] to get food Don Clawleone continuously denies he has.
110	* TooSpicyForYogSothoth:
111	** The aforementioned Princess.
112	** One boss is fought by throwing the [[FlunkyBoss Cactiballs]] onto its tongue. (Lickety Spit the Ggripevine.)
113	* WorthyOpponent: Rocket, to Slival.
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115	!!The first game uses the following tropes:
116	* BalloonBelly: Dragon Jr. does this during his boss battle.
117	* BigDamnHeroes: The entire town during the penultimate battle.
118	* BigEater: While not to the extent of Gluttonella, Bo swallows three cooked chickens in a single bite during the end credits.
119	* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: The game starts off with Hooly turning you into a Platypunk. [[spoiler:He also transforms you for the OptionalBoss battle against him once you've collected all 100 slimes.]]

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