Hakoniwa Explorer Plus
is an isometric Action RPG with lewd bosses, developed by suxamethonium and published by AGM Playism. It was made available on Steam on June 6, 2018, and a Nintendo Switch version came out in 2020.
Tropes used in this game:
- 100% Completion: Getting all of the trophies in the game rewards the player with a "Debug Room", at the bottom of the trophy room. Here, the player can buy any powerful item and equipment in the game and also be able to fight every enemy and boss in the game, with adjustable levels.
- Achievement System: There is an in-game trophy system that tracks what you've done, such as defeating certain bosses, and at least half of them must be earned to gain access to the Final Boss.
- Anti-Frustration Features: The game will warn if a major boss fight is coming by having a text box that reads that something scary is ahead, giving the player some prep time to equip the best tools.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: The Dryad boss is visibly nude, but lacks any nipples.
- Blob Monster: Slimes can be encountered as enemies throughout the world. The weakest, basic kinds are green slimes called "Rockits," but other variants exist too, some with an elemental affinity.
- Breakable Weapons: Almost every single weapon and armor piece in the game will eventually break from being used up or melted by Rockits' slime.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Occurs frequently for comedy, one example being a giant boss that's furious about the player attacking their butt, and the player able to state it's because it's the only part of them with a hitbox.
- But Thou Must!: When encountering Evil Sukumizu, she will ask if the player wants to touch her for a fine. If the player answers "No," she'll make them touch her and charge them anyway. This continues in a loop until she charges enough debt to decide that the player character can't pay her back, which results in a fight or player figures out, that they need to cancel the dialogue by pressing their cancel key, when she's asking again.
- Chest Monster: Rarely, a chest that randomly drops may turn out to be a mimic monster that needs to be defeated.
- Creator Cameo: Suxa, the developer, can be found in the game after clearing the main story.
- Cursed Item: Any equipment with "Naughty" causes the player to occasionally be inflicted with "Charmed"Effect at random, when wearing it. Secret item, "Naughty Book" acts as a passive version.
- Cute Monster Girl: Most of the enemies encountered in the game are these, from Lamia to Mummies.
- Cutting the Knot: Instead of fighting them, the Final Boss can instead be dealt with by just giving the untanned angels a tanning booth, taking away their motivation to do villainy. However, they're then replaced by the True Final Boss.
- Deal with the Devil: Heydeez, the boss of Dafuq Abyss, can fix a player's bad reputation or reward them with powerful gear for a cost. The player can also just ask to be warped home, or to "do naughty things", which leads to a boss fight.
- Easy-Mode Mockery: Choosing to say that you're not good at video games at the beginning starts you with more money, but also the title of "N00b Slacker", compared to the good-as-the-next-guy "Seasoned Slacker" or experienced "Veteran Slacker".
- Evil Is Petty: The Final Boss of the game is the Boss Angel, whose race cannot get a tan, and decides to fix that by destroying the planet's ozone layer.
- Evil Twin: Sukumizu, the chaste guide at the beginning, has one named Evil Sukumizu. And there's also Sadistic Sukumizu.
- Excuse Plot: You're an explorer. You go around finding locations to explore. That's the jist of the main story. Sukumizu lampshades this by saying that finding new places and looking for more new places while there is basically it for the plot.
- First Town: The beginning area of the game is literally called "Firsttown." It has the basic town essentials and leads directly to "Firstbridge," a simple first dungeon.
- Four-Seasons Level: Notternback Forest is divided in to four sections based on the four seasons. They are all mirrors of each other and each link to a different portion of a map.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: Getting hit by a lightning bolt on the world map is the only way to recharge the Storm Staff and the tanning booth.
- Loan Shark: Evil Sukumizu's gimmick is forcing the player to touch her and then take all of their gold, at which point she gives them a loan with a massive interest rate. Trying to pay the debt repeats the cycle, until the player defeats her.
- Made of Indestructium: Reaper's Eye is completely indestructible due to having both "Unlimited" and "Unmeltable". The latter attribute also causes equipped weapon to become immune to melting too.
- Overly Long Gag: Evil Sukumizu's long debt accumilation and forcing the player to touch her through a dialogue loop. It keeps going until the debt gets absurdly high, then she battles the player for not being able to repay it.
- Punny Name: Multiple areas are puns on crass language, such as the "Phucken Marsh" and "Dafuq Abyss".
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: The player can be male or female, and all it affects is their own physical appearance.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Sukumizu is very foul-mouthed and will often drop swears when making fun of the player character. Other NPCs may swear too, but since she appears in more locations and more often she racks up the swear count higher than others.
- True Final Boss: Sadistic Sukumizu, fought by finding and re-powering a tanning booth to give to the angels.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: The player can attack any NPCs, as well as act perverted towards some of them.
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Having a bad reputation can make shopkeepers refuse to sell their wares, innkeepers throw the player out in the middle of the night, and regular NPCs inflict status effects on the player if talked with. Inverted for certain stores, which allows the player to buy rare items like stat increasing seeds.
