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''The Demon Rush'' is a PC RPG made in 2008 by Dragoon Entertainment, A.K.A The D. It is about a conflict between humans and demons called [[TitleDrop the Demon Rush]], which has been going on for three years by the start of the game. However, a new breakthrough may put an end to the war. The city of Tiriad has built the S.S. Pursuit, the first spacecraft created in the Mittu System. This ship may be able to find the power needed to end the war. However, the mission goes awry, leaving two soldiers stranded on a distant planet.

The game gained some notoriety when [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2913491 the creator advertised it]] on the Website/SomethingAwful forums, selling it for $20. Most Goons who saw the thread felt this was too high, and the price was eventually lowered to $10, and then made free in December of 2010.

The game has a cult following thanks to its [[SoBadItsGood simplistic]] graphics and character art, catchy music, and the plot's mixture of [[ClicheStorm familiar JRPG conventions]] with [[MindScrew strange]] and [[AssPull unexpected]] twists. Mikwuyma did a live broadcast of the experience, recorded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcOD6mx52g these two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4W-uXVfIg very long]] videos.

While [[http://www.dragoon.ca/tdr.html the original game]] is no longer available, an UpdatedRerelease called [[http://www.dragoon.ca/tdrlcdevblogs.html The Demon Rush: Legends Corrupt]] was released to Platform/PlayStation4 and Platform/PlayStationVita on June 2nd of 2020, with a Platform/{{Steam}} release on January 29, 2021.
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!! ''The Demon Rush'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: A strange example. While levels cap at 8, it takes many fights to get there, due to the fact that most enemies (including several bosses) give out low amounts of EXP.
* AerithAndBob: On one hand, you've got Cherry Venus, Sect Mawashun, and Brooks Cracktackle. On the other, you've got Jimmy, Joe, and Steve.
* {{Animesque}}: Every single character's face has a very tiny nose, and eyes so large that they also take up forehead space.
* AntiGrinding: Higher leveled characters gain no experience from fighting weak enemies.
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You can only have 3 characters fighting at once. [[spoiler:This is averted in the penultimate battle, though; all available party members will fight against the Possessor.]]
* ArmorIsUseless: Despite being the only PC with visible armor, Knight is actually a SquishyWizard.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Anna, Evif and some yellow guys]] save the heroes from [[spoiler:DEST]] in the end cutscene.
* BonusDungeon: Once you get the airship, you can visit several of them.
* ChromeChampion: The Enforcer dons a metal sheen when you fight him.
* CoolMask: Jimmy, the "superhero" fighting against Necromancers (including [[spoiler:[[ArchnemesisDad his own father]]]]), is always wearing a baseball cap and head-covering (and eye-covering) black balaclava, only taking it off when [[spoiler:the party defeats his father and Jimmy's listening to his dying words]]. Long after the Necromancers are dealt with, Alberto asks why he's still wearing it, but Jimmy doesn't understand the question.
* CoolShades: Kent Buckle, [[spoiler:AKA Cook Falsch]], is always wearing a pair of silver-rimmed sunglasses.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: There's not much variety in the scenery.
* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:Commander Nolan]], after surviving a grenade thrown by [[spoiler:Alberto]], is shown to have been hiding metal implants under his skin and face, having been a test subject to a Legend Viper experiment in their youth in exchange for power.
* DefendCommand: Reduces damage taken by 90%. Quite useful. It's even better during extremes, as defending will restore 25% of the character's maximum health and MP.
* DuelBoss: [[spoiler:Tara fights alone against the zombified Fleming, stating [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself this is something she's got to do herself.]]]]
* DyingAsYourself: At the very end of the game, [[spoiler:after the Absolute Siphon compels Cook to fuse with it, Cook has one last moment of clarity while flying into space and transforming into a new planet]].
* {{Egopolis}}: Thormia, the Legend Viper of Fire, renamed his planet after himself after conquering it.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The man in the knightly suit of armor that rescues Cherry and Alberto from some goons early on asks them to just call him "Knight". His actual name is [[TheReveal a major twist]].
* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[PunnyName E. N. Fleming]], who, alongside his daughter, profits off of genetic experimentation and seals any out-of-control experiments into an ancient pyramid to serve as guardians of its treasure.
* FaceMonsterTurn: In the game's ending, [[spoiler:Cook turns against the party to fuse with the Absolute Siphon after being compelled by it, briefly turning into a monster before sacrificing himself and becoming a planet]].
* FacelessGoons: Many humanoid non-boss enemies are completely identical to each other with no defining features. It's most literal with the "Shadows" serving the Demon forces, who lack mouths or noses.
* FunWithAcronyms:
** DEST stands for '''DE'''cide to '''S'''upport '''T'''omorrow.
** Tratas stands for [[spoiler:The Resistance Against The Absolute Siphon]].
* GameplayStorySegregation: Averted in a very strange instance early in the game where two characters ask a GuestStarPartyMember '''why he didn't gain experience points at the end of a battle'''.
* GlobalAirship: Global Rocket: You eventually get the S.S. Pursuit, which can travel between Earth and Thormia, and land anywhere.
* HalfHumanHybrids: The Legend Vipers are half human and half [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Viper]], and each control a planet.
* HappilyAdopted: While Cook very awkwardly introduces Claire as his adopted daughter, Claire makes no indication that she feels her family as being anything but. There is that matter of keeping her original last name, though...
* HeelFaceTurn: Tara, who before the turn was better known as [[spoiler:Argentia]]. This is fully cemented when [[spoiler:the people she worked for kidnap her entire town and turn her daughter into a monster, whom she has to [[MercyKill kill herself]].]]
* HelloInsertNameHere: Though, despite being a computer game, you can't just type it in. You have to select each letter like a console game.
* IdenticalStranger: Alberto mentions early on how much Claire resembles his dead girlfriend Amy. Also, a likely unintentional example—Thormia's Half-Human Hybrid son Redfast looks exactly like Cherry Venus, down to the same outfit.
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler:Brooks Cracktackle]] is killed early into the story, though [[OurGhostsAreDifferent their Siphon]] manages to [[spoiler:manifest as a purple-skinned version of himself and rejoin the party]] near the game's end.
** [[spoiler:Tara]] can also be permanently killed if [[spoiler:you lose the DuelBoss fight against zombified Fleming.]] The remake no longer allows this.
* [[SirNotAppearinginThisTrailer Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: Tara is deliberately not mentioned in any capacity in the manual or promos for the game.
* LimitBreak: Extreme mode, which increases a character's power and defense, and they recover HP and MP when defending.
* MacGuffin: The Absolute Siphon, a nexus of spiritual energy, is what the demons are plotting to obtain in order to rule the universe.
* MindScrew: The story can be hard to follow because the game doesn't introduce characters, places or items very well, much of the plot is revealed in exposition rather than on-screen events, and a lot of characters and environments aren't very distinct from one another.
* TheMole: As war breaks out between Tiriad's forces and the Demon army, General Evif starts to suspect that Alberto and Cherry have gone turncoat and betrayed their organization. It's revealed soon after that there's indeed a traitor in the army, but it's [[spoiler:Commander Nolan, Evif's superior]].
* ObligatorySwearing: Alberto. His sister Anna manages to outdo him.
* OddNameOut: Continuing from AerithAndBob above, the names of the three Legend Vipers, [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] of the universe, certainly qualify: Legend Viper of Time Diamo, Legend Viper of Fire Thormia, and Legend Viper of Thunder... Steve. [[spoiler:It later turns out that Steve's actual name is Stevant.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: Alberto refuses to work with Kent Buckle, the man who rescues them from the goons of Legend Viper of Fire Thormia, because he'd read reports that Kent Buckle murdered his own daughter.
* OneWingedAngel: In the ending, [[spoiler:Thormia]] [[ScaledUp turns into a dragon-humanoid]], and [[spoiler:Cook]] turns into a grey humanoid with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* OnlySixFaces: One for humans and one for dragons (seeing Pound's maternal family takes IdenticalGrandson to a whole 'nother level).
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Legend Vipers, who can take human form.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: They're called siphons, and there is an [[MacGuffin Absolute Siphon]].
* PostEndGameContent: There are several challenges after beating the main game, available from the main menu.
* PreexistingEncounters: One of the game's main claims to fame is this. However, there are so many encounters littering the dungeons that RandomEncounters would almost be preferable.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Alberto is once described as wearing a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-rag "durag"]].
* ScaledUp: [[spoiler:Thormia]] turns into a dragon for the later fights with him.
* SchizoTech: There are somehow spaceships and terraforming devices in 1918.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Alberto]] in the epilogue, referring to [[spoiler:Tara]].
* SummonMagic: The party gains access to a dog named "Barklord" after completing one sidequest, which can be summoned into battle with a special command in order to heal allies, decrease ability cooldowns, and charge into enemies. His abilities can be improved, but rather than using Augments like playable characters, he requires "Dogments".
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: Archrip, the holy sword of Thormia. It has the power to split siphons.
* {{Terraforming}}: About half of Thormia's surface is taken up by the Devil's Playground, created by Thormia himself.
* TheDragon: The Enforcer, a man with the ability to change his body into metal that frequently opposes Cherry and her allies, is Thormia's top subordinate.
* TheReveal: Knight's true identity is [[spoiler:Sect Mawashun, the man who stole Earth's holy sword]].
* TheUnfought: You never fight [[spoiler:the Absolute Siphon-infused Cook]].
* TheVamp: The backstory for the Legend Vipers reveals that [[spoiler:Diamo would often seduce the other Legend Vipers to create many babies, put the babies on ice, and later absorb them all in a big ritual to gain power]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: Alberto and Cherry are constantly trading barbs; at one point, Alberto tells an aspiring adventurer that he thinks is hitting on Cherry that she wouldn't go out with him even though she's cheap and easy, and Cherry states that it's no wonder people don't think they're actually friends.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Averted. Status effects and even instant death moves even work on bosses, although they still have success rates to worry about.
* VillainousLineage: At the end of the game, despite having heroic intentions up to that point, [[spoiler:Cook could not resist the urge to fuse with the Absolute Siphon]]. From what little can be gathered from the story, Legend Vipers are AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** Thormia is openly xenophobic from the start of the game.
** Diamo [[spoiler:is [[BigBad the Possessor]], AKA the leader of the Demon Army, at least according to Steve]].
** Steve [[spoiler:[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off The Slippery Slope]] in the endgame]].
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