Heavy WIP. Seriously needs love. Also this is Just for Fun.
So, have you ever seen a Playing With/ page that has this work in them? This is that work. Tales Of Troperia is a recurring generic video game title when Playing With/ pages are covering RPG tropes: For example, there's The War Sequence, Beef Gate, Harder Than Hard, and Rival Final Boss.
The original series went for 7 games, then Sir Robert dies in Tales of Troperia VIII, and so it's up to everyone else to defeat the other evils.
Here, we'll showcase to you what tropes go on and happen in this series; Be it the characters like the dashing Knight in Shining Armor Sir Robert, or the brutish, left handed rival Claidheamh, there's a lot of recurring characters and tropes around here.
Tales Of Troperia provides examples of:
- Absurdly High Level Cap: The game's level system caps out at 100, but the MMO version pretty much doesn't even have one.note
- Another Side, Another Story: Each game features a separate campaign where you play as Claidheamh instead.
- Beef Gate: The Titan Elites.
- BFS: Claidheamh's signature claymore.
- Big Bad: Emperor Evulz, whenever T'Veah Tir'opius isn't around.
- Big Good: Tropeland herself.
- Black Magician Girl: Marcy.
- Borrowing from the Sister Series: The 2nd game was on the giving end as Antropeda Galaxy copied their Karma Meter.
- The Brute: Claidheamh for Emperor Evulz. Also Jason Bloodspiller for Emperor Evulz, at least before Claidheamh kills the bastard.
- The Big Guy: Claidheamh can be recruited under certain conditions, however.
- Brave Scot: Claidheamh is either this or a Violent Glaswegian.
- Crowded-Cast Shot: The original game had this. Claidheamh will appear if he defeats you; If not, then he'd be too bitter to join the shot.
- Damage-Sponge Boss: Damspob in XVII. Initially, she had a whopping 1,000,000 HP, but recent patches toned it down to around 100,000.
- Dark Action Girl: Having been constantly showed up by Tropeland during their schooldays, when Cliechaland awoke to her powers as a Magical Girl, she chose this path with glee in retaliation.
- Detrimental Determination: Claidheamh suffers through extreme bouts of this.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Claidheamh pranks Sir Robert and his team with a ridiculous yet ultimately harmless Zany Scheme. They respond by burning his town down (or at least Marcy and some other mean spirited characters do, as Sir Robert never partook in the action).
- The Dragon: General Draco. Abuses Claidheamh regularly.
- Eldritch Abomination: T'Veah Tir'opius.
- Equipment Upgrade: Possible in XII.
- Everyone Is Related: In the spin-off that's less RPG-y and more of a management game, Bob finds out that everyone he knows is somehow related to him by blood. Even his lancer (and love interest) Alice, who turns out to be his half-sister.
- Evil Genius: Head Scientist Butcherstein. Abuses Claidheamh regularly and pumps magical steroids into him.
- Fake Ultimate Mook: Shadow Dragons are a lot less threatening than they look, though nobody can agree on the specifics.
- Final Boss: Emperor Evulz. And also Claidheamh directly afterwards.
- The Great Exterminator: Grexta in XIII, who's responsible for killing all the giant spiders in Troperia. This is actually a plot point, because without those giant spiders, equally giant pests have settled in Troperia and started feasting off crops.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The Progenitor of Dark Ages, who was first seen in the DLC The Dark Ages of Troperia.
- Harder Than Hard: Possible, though it gets you increasingly more insulting dialogue the harder you go.
- The Hero: Sir Robert.
- Infinity +1 Sword: A whole plethora of them: The Ultimate Series (the Sword, the Dagger, the Spear, the Bow, the Hammer, the Staff), Claidheamh's Claymore, the GIGASPOON, the Double-edged Bonecleaver (and the Diamond-edged variant), the Sword of the Ancients, the Gaia Blade, and more.
- Joke Item: Every party member has at least one.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Also Sir Robert.
- Left-Handed Mirror: Claidheamh, to Sir Robert.
- Lover and Beloved: It's one way of looking at the relationship of Claidheamh and Evulz, or at least that's how Marcy sees it. Everyone else just thinks that Evulz is just plain manipulating Claidheamh for the former's own gain.
- Magical Girl Warrior: Both Tropeland, who has no less then three forms and Cliechaland.
- Marathon Boss: Evulz usually takes around 40 minutes to beat with each entry. T'Veah Tir'opius usually takes about a whole 20 hours minimum.
- Mysterious Waif: Aireport.
- No Ontological Inertia: Evulz, when defeated, turns the craggy landscape around him into a lush green landscape.
- Overly Long Gag: Claidheamh's status as a Recurring Boss is treated as such.
- Peninsula of Power Leveling: Big Boo's Haunt has infinitely respawning zombies, and due to the fact that Revive Kills Zombie, having Diane at the party allows for constant grinding and massive experience and monetary gains.
- Quirky Bard: Quirby, who is consistently good at Lampshade Hanging.
- The Rival: Claidheamh, who also becomes the Rival Final Boss.
- Screaming Warrior: Claidheamh is 100% this. There's not a single fight in which he remains silent; There's always room for a Battle Cry whenever he fights. Too bad he sounds more like a Screaming Plane Baby...
- Secret Final Campaign: The Union of Opposites, where Claidheamh and Sir Robert band together.
- Superboss: Blackhole, Infini the Wise, Jupiter, the Broken Anomaly, ????, Grandmaster Gary, Claidheamh in some cases.
- A Taste of Power:
- You can purchase the Claymore (Claidheamh's prized weapon) within the early stages of the game, and while it's strictly left handed (meaning the right handed Sir Robert has difficulty using it), you could clean house extraordinarily easily. There's even a funny gag where Claidheamh realizes that Sir Robert has his sword once you get to fight him.
- DLC Bob's Journey features mainstay Disc One Brute Jason Bloodspiller betraying Evulz in order to help Bob and the gang after Evulz replaced him with Clay the Violent, Scottish Lefty.
- Token Human: The "Hiro's Adventure" DLC has the titular Hiro be this among The Team of Beast Men.
- Underrated and Overleveled: Hiro's Annoying Younger Sibling Anya is bizarrely as powerful as Hiro and his team.
- Unknown Rival: Cliechaland styles herself as the ultimate adversary of Tropeland and greatest servant of T’veah Tir’opius, yet no matter what she does, Tropeland remains unaware of her.
- Villain Respect: Claidheamh's adventures will always have one of these shown. The first game had Evulz remark on how good a fighter Claidheamh was; and promptly offered a job as an enforcer for Claidheamh.
- Violent Glaswegian: Claidheamh is either this or a Brave Scot.
- The War Sequence: One of the original game's Signature Scenes. Also a running occurrence throughout the games.
- We Are "Team Cannon Fodder": Sir Robert's team could possibly fall into this if you neglect them enough.
- X-Ray Sparks: Can happen with the lightning magic attacks.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Whatever you do, you'll never be able to outsmart Claidheamh's initial trap, and therefore, you'll never be able to avoid not burning Claidheamh's home down for said initial trap.
- Zany Scheme: The aforementioned Claidheamh's initial trap.
