History VideoGame / BionicDues

* SelfImposedChallenge: There are many things you can do to make the game harder besides just increasing the rated difficulty, from taking less Exos to adding time pressure by having the game automatically pass your turn if you wait more than five seconds without giving a command. These all add to your final score at the end.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Zig-Zagged. Losing a few Exos during a mission just means less loot at the end (not GOOD, especially if this means you're losing out on Legendary-tier equipment, but not gamebreaking), and not even that on lower difficulties. Failing a mission entirely jeopardizes your chance at winning the game - not only do you get no reward, you lose an extra day as your Exos are rebuilt and your HQ takes damage (reducing your time for the final battle). Repairing the HQ sucks up another day as it requires clearing a specific mission.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Zig-Zagged. Losing a few Exos during a mission just means less loot at the end and not even that on lower difficulties. Failing a mission entirely jeopardizes your chance at winning the game - not only do you get no reward, you lose an extra day as your Exos are rebuilt and your HQ takes damage (reducing your time for the final battle). Repairing the HQ sucks up another day as it requires clearing a specific mission.

* FriendlyFireproof: Averted. Bots can blunder into landmines, shoot their allies, or catch themselves within the blast of their own AOE weapons. They generally get smarter about this as time goes on, but it's still a key strategy in clearing harder missions.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The commander Emma gets no bonuses on the strategic or tactical maps, just a wider variety of parts in the shop and much better prices selling her parts off. It sounds lackluster, but she gets a''lot'' of parts to choose from, with ''much'' more buying power. Overall it gives her way more control over the parts she acquires and makes her junk finds more valuable, so she can fill every slot on her exos faster and more reliably than the other pilots.

* IShallTauntYou: Whistling. Can have a practical use, since it alerts nearby bots, who will proceed to run at you via the most direct path.

* LastStand: The final battle boils down to one, spread across several days.

* PrestigeClass: Scattered around the map are four Bahamut Device installations. The game completely avoid stating what they actually do, but clearing these specific missions upgrades your Exos to an "Epic" version, considerably boosting their effectiveness. One pilot starts with all four.

* StuffBlowingUp: Between [[ActionBomb Bomb Bots]], explosive glyphs, and fuel tanks, one well-placed (or [[HoistByHisOwnPetard errant]]) shot can cause a lot of pretty explosions.

You are given 50 days to prepare for the robot's final assault on your base by performing missions to scavenge supplies for your Exos, find upgrades for your Exos, and cripple the robot army in various ways. There are over 200 missions in any given game, and each mission takes up a day. After 50 days, the final battle automatically begins, and you must defend your base in an all or nothing LastStand against the robot hordes. Fail, and you and the entire city gets nuked.

* {{Filler}}: Invoked. "Barricade" missions have plenty of enemies you have to kill but worthless rewards while still eating one of your precious days to complete. However, you have to complete it to get to the missions behind it.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The commander Emma gets no bonuses on the strategic or tactical maps, just a wider variety of parts in the shop she can get for a fraction of the price. It sounds lackluster, but she gets a''lot'' of parts to choose from, ''very'' cheaply. With just a little luck she can always get exactly the parts she wants without having to reply on having the right mission types and gambling on random drops, so once she gets rolling she can prepare herself quicker and more reliably than any of her peers.

* HoverMecha: Every exo and robot in the game moves on a hovering propulsion system. The game plains land-based systems created so many problems the entire field threw up their hands and developed cost-effective hover systems out of frustration.

* PrestigeClass: Scattered around the map are four specific missions that unlock "Epic" upgrades for your Exos, considerably boosting their effectiveness. One pilot starts with all four.

* BossDuel: Nope. You would think this would be the point of assassination missions, but the level is still crawling with flunkies to make that more difficult.

* BossLevel: Assassination missions, in spirit. The focus of the level is to defeat a boss so it won't bother you on the final day. In practice, the level if still crawling with flunkies to make that more difficult.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Zig-Zagged. On one hand, losing a couple of your Exos during a mission just means less loot at the end - and on lower difficulties, not even that penalty. On the other, failing a mission can completely jeopardize your chances of victory - not only do you get nothing from that day, you lose another day as your Exos are rebuilt and your HQ takes damage, which reduces how much time you have for the final battle. Repairing the HQ sucks up another day as it requires clearing a specific mission.

* FlunkyBoss: Nearly every boss-type bot has some ability to enhance the grunts around it.

* HumongousMecha: Your Exos.
* IShallTauntYou: You can whistle to get the attention of nearby bots.
* JackOfAllStats: Assault Exos are the most well rounded of the Exos, possessing good weapons, shields and maneuverability.
* LastStand: What the final battle basically boils down to.

* NukeEm: How the world government decides to deal with the robot invasion should you fail.

* SquishyWizard: Science Exos are best suited for hacking doors and computers, infecting enemies with viruses, and the like. Their poor defenses make them poor choices for frontline fighters.

* OhCrap: Your goal is to cause this in the Robot Army: Beating the final mission, as someone who was originally a rookie with only one Exo to your name, [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat sends the robots into a panic and forces them to retreat]]-if ''you're'' a OneManArmy, ''what's the rest of humanity like?''

''Bionic Dues'' is a [[GenreBusting Roguelike/action rpg/strategy game]] by Arcen Entertainment, of ''VideoGame/AValleyWithoutWind'', ''AI War'', and ''Shattered Haven'' fame.

''Bionic Dues'' is a [[GenreBusting Roguelike/action rpg/strategy game]] by Arcen Entertainment, of ''AValleyWithoutWind'', ''AI War'', and ''Shattered Haven'' fame.

''Bionic Dues'' is a [[GenreBusting Roguelike/action rpg/strategy game]] by Arcen Entertainment, the makes of ''AValleyWithoutWind'', ''AI War'', and ''Shattered Haven''.

''Bionic Dues'' continues Arcen's trend of a seemingly conventional genre having substantially ''un''conventional gameplay. There are several types of Exos, of which you can use up to four, as well as different commanders for you to play as that each give you a unique bonus. Gameplay boils down to a top down, strategic turn based RPG with heavy Roguelike elements. The enemy robots start out goofy and ineffectual, but quickly become menacing and outright deadly. As you complete missions, you will gain many upgrades for your Exos, such as shields, weapon mods, propulsion devices, hacking modules, and more. Suffice to say, there is a ''lot'' of customization options.