Alluna the blonde, and Brie the redhead
Alluna and Brie is an RPG spinoff of Max's Big Bust: A Captain Nekorai Tale by Lached Up Games, originally released in April 2019, with a huge Re-Tentacled free update added in March 2024.You play as Brie, a magical girl with the power to summon magical grilled cheese sandwiches, as she and her companions, most of whom appeared in Max's Big Bust, fight their way through the armies of Queen PryScilla, who is attempting to take over the world. Much hilarity and hijinks ensue.
This game provides examples of:
- Better than a Bare Bulb: Loves lampshading all the absurdities that go on throughout the game.
- Blank White Eyes: A regular occurrence for both Alluna and Brie, usually occuring when they're surprised or thinking "wtf?"
- Cast Full of Gay: Most of the characters are either bi- or homosexual.
- Cutting Off the Branches: Basically says that Brad was Max's love interest in Max's Big Bust, and that they ended up on bad terms for a while.
- Disposable Intern: The hosts of Max Heart Minute, Ashley and Chloe, treat their interns this way.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: When her comments on the kitchen in the manor, she's impressed since she was getting tired of donuts. As it turns out, Captain Nekorai bought them ironically one time, and the whole station got addicted to them. It doesn't help that there's a bakery next door. They had to dial it back to a weekly basis, and Max didn't take it well. Now they always have to hurry before she snavels them all up.
- Elemental Powers: Fire, water, earth, lightning, light, and darkness powers are all available, along with raw magic and raw physical damage.
- Failed a Spot Check: Eldoris missed a cave where a bunch of mages were hiding, that happened to be right behind her main staging ground. As Lori explains, she's powerful, not smart.
- Fictional Sport: Mermaid Spikers: A mix of Volleyball, Footballnote and Water polo, played by mermaids.
- Gay Option: Inverted. There are ten possible love interests for Brie, but only one is actually male.
- Genie in a Bottle: The entire party, plus Lori, gets trapped in a magic lamp as genies over Christmas. They get out by heating up Holly enough to evaporate via an offscreen lesbian orgy.
- The Goomba: The earliest and weakest enemies you face are the crab-like takokani. They're also unique amongst enemies in that they lack human features, unlike most other foes you face.
- Hollow World: Schist Isle, the place where the monster girls come from, exists inside the earth.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Zig-zagged and handwaved. Food you eat in battle does not increase the hunger meter, while food you eat outside battle does. The game's explanation for this is simple: "food you eat in battle contains no calories."
- Insubstantial Ingredients: The Foxgirl Special is prepared with love, making it more expensive.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Said many, many times, usually in response to embarrassing or ridiculous incidents.
- Magical Girl: Alluna and Brie are both magical girls. Alluna has light magic, while Brie, well, she can summon grilled cheese sandwiches at will and that's about it.
- Mermaid Problem: Discussed after the first Mermaid Spikers match. As Alluna points out, mermaids have nipples and navels, which suggests that they give birth to live young, but they don't have any genitals or, more worryingly to Brie, butts.
- Mermanity Ensues: This has happened to Lori in her backstory, and has invented Mermalators, which can do this for anyone for a few hours and is a commercial product. Thanks to a serum she made, Brie gets a mermaid transformation separate from Mermalator, and can switch between it and her human form at will.
- Mirror Match: In the explicitly non-canon bonus chapter, you fight beta artwork versions of Alluna, Brie, Evelyn, and Victoria, who are all part of your party.
- Narm: An in-universe Show Within a Show example. As part of the three-heart outing with Alluna, Brie watches a romance movie that is supposed to be very good. The problem is, the male protagonist of the movie is killed by a very slowly descending hot air balloon that he should have had plenty of time to get out of the way of while making his love confession at the end. This has Alluna laughing at what's supposed to be a dramatic, heartwrenching scene.
- Noodle Implements: Pandarai defeats Ellie's second crab mech offscreen with nothing but a cricket bat and a pair of thongs.
- Optional Boss: Five in total:
- One you can access anytime by feeding him enough is Hubert the duck, who is level 100.
- You can also fight three different bonus bosses at the ACYC, once you get far enough into the story. They are Martin S. Ghoulie, S.E.R.A., and Lori.
- The last one is from the non-canon bonus chapter, where you fight disco-bot Captain Nekorai. It's just as strange as it sounds.
- Punch-Clock Hero: The entire Magical Response Unit falls under this category since saving the world as a magical girl/witch/elemental is treated the same as having a normal job.
- Right Hand Vs Left Hand: If you pursue Natara's romance path, you end up on a police raid to take down a MinX smuggling ring, only to find your sting targeted another sting by the same police department. Your sting was planned by Nekorai, while the other was planned by Pandarai, who apparently didn't read Nekorai's emails about his planned sting. Much hilarity and facepalming ensues.
- Still Believes in Santa: Max, who happens to be a ditzy idiot (if a really good cop), reveals that she still believes that Santa brings presents every Christmas Eve while trapped in a magic lamp over Christmas. When everyone else points out that Santa doesn't exist, Max is devastated.
- Time Management Game: You're given 12 Time Crystals for each of your three time periods (morning, afternoon, night) to manage Brie's mood (eat food, do activities, and bond with characters), and progress through the magic dimension to defeat monsters and stop the invasion. You're also recommended to clear certain dungeons within a specific month. Brie lampshades the pressure in managing all of these at once, and Lori unhelpfully advises putting everything off until the last day.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Very near the end of the game, you fight Eldoris, who you defeated near the beginning of the game, and probably defeat her in a single stroke, because she had spent the last six months in the basement of LiCastro Manor doing nothing but watching movies and eating. This is lampshaded to hell and back, of course.
- Welcome to Hell: Brie says this to Natara when she gets trapped in a magic lamp with Brie and a number of other characters.
