Spectrobes is an action-adventure take on the
Mons genre made by
Jupiter and
Disney and liscensed by
Nintendo. it features the main character, Rallen, a space police agent, and his partner Jeena, as they attempt to save their home from the Krawl, alien invaders who travel around in reality warping black tornados. With the help of the
Prizmod Rallen will awaken the fossilized Spectrobes to do battle against the Krawl.
It spawned two sequels,
Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals in 2008 and
Spectrobes: Origins in 2009.
This Game Provides Examples Of:
- Aerith and Bob: The main character's name is Rallen. the weapons salesmen is Dave.
- Animesque
- Ascended Extra: The weapon salesmen? Yeah, his name's Dave.
- Awesome, but Impractical: The Sword, which generally does 1 damage to any decent Krawl.
- Bag of Spilling: yeah, all the stuff you got in the first game, say buh-bye. You even lose Aldous and Tindera for crying out loud! And the anchient ship too.
- Battle in the Rain: Rallen's first fight with the Spectrobes. Sadly, it's only raining in the outside world.
- Big Bad: Krux, a fallen Spectrobes master
- Big Damn Heroes: Tindera at the end of Portals
- Bishounen Line: the high Krawl
- Catch Phrase: Iku Ze!
- Cat Girl/Cat Boy: The secret card-only Cat's Paw weapons in Origins make Rallen and Jenna gain cat ears and paws. Rallen's are brown, while Sheena has pink ears that match her pink hair.
- Chosen One: Rallen is the only one who can wake the Spectrobes. Even though others can use them.
- Cutscene Power to the Max: Rallen at the end of Portals does some sort of Diagonal Cut to Krux, defeating the most powerful being in the universe.
- Dark Is Not Evil: In a surprise for Disney, you can use Dark Spectrobes, which are pretty much PaletteSwapped versions of other Spectrobes, with a bit more strength. Oh, and even more surprising you have to use Dark Spectrobes to beat the game.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Let's do this, iku ze.
- Krawl Slaying
- Disney
- Dueling Games: With Fossil Fighters.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Flash beats Corona, which beats Aurora, which in turn beats Flash. An intro to this becomes, in an annoying fashion, the first half of Portals. Even though knowing the type advantages does absolutely nothing in the second half.
- And in Origins, Fire beats Plant, which beats Earth, which Beats Sky, which beats Water, which beats Fire.
- Evil Is Sexy: Maja.
- Fallen Hero: Krux was formerly a Spectrobe Master.
- Fetch Quest: A particularly arduous one involves collecting the three keystones. Also raises the question of what Cyrus needs the Blue Keystone for. Cyrus is pretty bad about these really.
- Fossil Revival
- Gratuitous Japanese: Rallen's catchphrase.
- Hey, It's That Voice!: Yuri Lowenthal voices Rallen in Origins.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: You need the Geo to break the final bosses shield. Use it at the wrong time, and there is no possible way to win
- Hot Scientist: Kate
- Professor Wright might count on some level.
- Idiot Hero: Rallen failed out of pre-algebra...
- Level Grinding: You can spend hours in the Hurricanes leveling up your Spectrobes.
- Mission Control: Jeena, save for Origins.
- Out-of-Character Moment: Webster has one of these towards the end of Portals.
- Prehensile Hair: Maja, from Portals. The hair to one side of her head becomes infinitley long and can impale objects while not leaving any mark in said object. In fact, in one webisode she tries to strangle Rallen with her hair.
- Red-Headed Hero: Rallen
- Red Shirt Army: The NPP officers, except Rallen.
- Rose-Haired Girl: Jeena
- Swiss Army Appendage: Rallen's right arm.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: Jeena.
- Wrench Wench: Jeena, although technically a tech wench.
- X Meets Y: This game series has been described as Pokémon meets Phantasy Star.
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