History VideoGame / BloodyRoar

* [[AnimalWrongsGroup Zoanthrope Wrongs Group]]: The ZLF is a thinly-disguised Animal Liberation Front (ALF) [[TakeThat parody]].

* TheDragon: Ryoho, [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons literally]].

* [[AnimalWrongsGroup Zoanthrope Wrongs Group]]: The ZLF is a thinly-disguised Animal Liberation Front (ALF) parody.

* [[AnimalWrongsGroup Zoanthrophe wrongs Group]]: The ZLF is a thinly-disguised Animal Liberation Front (ALF) parody.

* JigglePhysics: Not just the boobs, but the guys' muscles as well! Much more apparent in Primal Fury and Extreme, as the physics are promptly demonstrated at the character selection screen.

* {{Bishonen}}: Xion and Cronos exemplify this, but most of the guys are either this or [[{{Hunk}} ruggedly handsome]] (i.e. Gado). [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And then]] there's [[FaceOfAThug Stun]], {{DudeLooksLikeALady Fox]], [[{{Gonk}} Bakuryu I, Greg, and Busuzima]].

* {{Bishonen}}: Xion and Cronos exemplify this, but most of the guys are either this or [[{{Hunk}} ruggedly handsome]] (i.e. Gado). [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And then]] there's [[FaceOfAThug Stun]], [[{{Gonk}} Greg, and Busuzima]].

* {{Bishonen}}: Xion and Cronos exemplify this, but most of the guys are either this or [[{{Hunk}} ruggedly handsome]] (i.e. Gado).

A [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove not so popular fighting game]] franchise published by Creator/{{Hudson|Soft}} and co-developed with [[Creator/EightingRaizing 8ing]]. The series centers around humans who can [[{{Animorphism}} transform into animals]] called Zoanthropes.

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** AnimalStereotypes

* BlatantLies: The advertisement for ''Bloody Roar 4'' claimed to have 18 playable characters. This counts Ryoho and Dragon Ryoho as different characters, and singles out Mana, even though she fights exclusively with Ryoho. It also claims that there are 8 game modes, which is stretched thin since training and sparring are virtually the same (the difference is that the AI opponent will fight back), and Com Battle is considered a "game play" mode.

* ButtonMashing: If you try this in ''Bloody Roar 2'' or ''3'', you ''will'' be destroyed. It's a good "tactic" in ''4'', though.
** Long, Shenlong, and Uriko have fighting styles that focus on large combos and this.

** Gado's very own [[MemeticMutation Falcon Punch]]! Shina's got it, too.

** ''Bloody Roar 4'' featured a mechanic which allows you to recover the beast gauge by sacrificing part of your life gauge. This proves to be a ScrappyMechanic due to stripping away your health and removing some of the benefits that came with the beast mode, such as disabling the health regeneration. Unless you play as Ryoho & Mana, in which Mana uses the beast gauge, and recovering it never drains Ryoho's health.

* EmotionlessGirl: Uriko in the first game, along with being a {{Tykebomb}}.
** GenkiGirl: Uriko in every game from ''2'' onwards.

*** An OlderThanYouThink example: Xion has been accused of being similar to Dante from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', although Xion has actually been around a little longer (''Bloody Roar 3'' releasing in December 2000, versus August '01 for ''DMC'').

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Sums up why [[StopHavingFunGuys most people]] hate these games.
** Ironically ''2''[='=]s greatest strength and ''4''[='=]s greatest weakness. The moves have always been simple to use, the game emphasized tactics and mind games over long, complicated moves. Thus in ''2'', a new player could be an expert if they used their head and out-thought opponents. In ''4'', it's pointless working hard to understand the game; just use the cheap and broken stuff to get easy wins.

* LightIsNotGood: Xion. One of his Beast Drives creates a [[CreepyCoolCrosses Holy Cross]] [[LightEmUp out of light]]. Considering that in English, his name could be read as "Zion" instead of "Shion" (the Japanese equivalent), [[FauxSymbolism this might be intentional]].

* {{Bishonen}}: Xion and Cronos exemplify this, but most of the guys are either this or ruggedly handsome (i.e. Gado).

* SuperMode: In every game after ''2''. In ''3'' it gives the player character massive speed, damage, and regeneration boosts, even allowing them to use multiple Beast Drives (which normally instantly brings them out of Beast Mode) while it lasts, but at the cost of being unable to transform at all for the rest of the fight. In ''Primal Fury/ Extreme,'' Hyper Beast Mode can be done as much as you want, but doing so without a full beast meter [[CastFromHitPoints costs a good chunk of health.]]

* KiAttacks: Long and Shenlong employ a bit of it.

* LegacyCharacter: The mantle of [[{{Ninja}} Bakuryu]]. It first belonged to BadassGrandpa OldMaster [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] Ryozo Kato (who was [[DeaderThanDead liquefied]] soon afterward), before being passed on to his apprentice, Kenji Ogami.

* AIBreaker: A viable strategy in ''4'' is simply withdrawing and putting distance between you and your foe, waiting for your opponent to charge, sidestepping, and then hitting their blind side. No joke.
** Ironically, ''4'' fixed an issue that was common with the AI in previous entries: They are susceptible to being thrown the moment the match starts, and they are unable to properly register when you do a side step.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI will never counter throws, at least not in the beginning of the match where you can get close before the match begins, and get a throw in as soon as it starts. They are also unable to catch up to side-stepping players in time to change their strategy, allowing savvy players to dodge their attacks with ease.

* BackFromTheDead: Bakuryu from ''Bloody Roar 1'' got rebuilt as a robot in ''Bloody Roar 3'' as an unlockable character (known as Kohryu), and even received his own story in later games.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Lots of typos and grammatical errors present in Bloody Roar 4, especially with the game's inability to differentiate "its" and "it's", and that's just a common error. Doesn't help that the subtitles either don't match up, or are misread without a retake.

* BottomlessPits: You can knock people off buildings and bridges. An instant win if you manage it, though it's rather difficult to break the walls around the arena without having already defeated your opponent.

* CastOfSnowflakes: Each character is instantly recognizable, even before they change into various animals. Even Long and Shen Long, the only two characters who have the same beast form, can easily be told apart from one another.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Shenlong, who starts out as irredeemably evil and refused to believe that he is a clone. Upon facing Long, the man he is based on, he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes mad from the revelation]]. Since then, he went on to live a life for himself, enjoying life more, and appears to be on good terms with Long and Uriko, and becomes more rational with each game.

* ChargedAttack: Gado's very own [[MemeticMutation Falcon Punch]]! Shina's got it, too.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Fox and Greg never came back after the first game. Mitsuko stops being playable, but is still referenced by other characters over the next couple of games, being the mother (adopted in one case) of two characters that do appear in every other game - Uriko's storyline in the second game even revolves around rescuing her from the ZLF.

* {{Combos}}: It's a fighting game, so yeah.
* ComebackMechanic: ''Primal Fury'' aids losing players by expediting the rate at which their Beast Gauge fills, regardless whether inflicting or receiving damage. Thus, the lower their health, the greater the gain per hit.
** ''Bloody Roar 4'' featured a mechanic which allows you to recover the beast gauge while sacrificing part of your life gauge. This proves to be a ScrappyMechanic due to stripping away your health and removing some of the benefits that came with the beast mode, such as disabling the health regeneration. Unless you play as Ryoho & Mana, in which Mana uses the beast gauge, and recovering it never drains Ryoho's health.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Ganesha.
** Heck, Shina and Busuzima can do their third Beast Drives with no problem!

* DemotedToExtra: ''Bloody Roar 4'' had the new characters, including Xion from 3, take front and center compared to the rest of the cast who don't have any real story connections, besides being zoanthropes and most of them just following a nine tailed fox (Mana in beast form) as to explain their inclusion in the plot. The only exception being Yugo who does play a part in Nagi's ending, and even he barely gets a bit more screen time than the rest of the Bloody Roar veterans.

* DownerEnding: ''Bloody Roar 4'' has a few endings that qualify. One in particular, if you beat the game as Xion, [[spoiler: he murders Ryoho in his unborn form]] before Nagi comes by, Mana goes into her beast form and releases the unborn from their subconsciousness, allowing the duo to destroy it before passing out as Mana [[spoiler: mourns for Ryoho.]]

* EvilLaugh: Xion after winning in Beast Form, or during his Beast Drive in ''3''.
** Xion takes a liking to stuff like this. Uranus also gets a pretty sinister laugh from time to time, most notably in ''4''.

* EvilTwin: Shenlong (yes, him ''again'') to Long, Kohryu to Bakuryu, and (somewhat) Uranus to Uriko.
* {{Expy}}: Mitsuko and Greg got nixed for Stun, while Fox got nixed for Jenny. Then there's the whole Bakuryu situation.

** In-universe, Yugo gets one in the form of [[http://bloodyroar.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fang;_Wolf.jpg Fang,]] a character exclusive only to the worldwide versions of ''Extreme'' and ''PF'' and a CanonImmigrant from Maruyama Tomowo's two book tie-in manga, ''[[NoExportForYou Bloody Roar: The Fang]]''. He looks and acts just like Yugo (even sharing most of his moves from the first game), a rabbit girlfriend (Mashiro), and beast form (the wolf). He acts as a PaletteSwap for Yugo. WordOfGod confirms that the parallels were intended.

* FakeLongevity: ''Bloody Roar 4'' features Career mode. Similar to Weapon Master in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur 2]]'', it is a road map to play through different fights and even unlock some content for the main game. The problem is that the final unlock: Dragon Ryoho, takes 100,000 points to unlock, and all the levels only allow a maximum of 96,000 to be awarded. Repeating every fight doesn't grant you the full point reward (for example: a new stage may grant you 400pts. Replaying that stage grants you 80pts every time after that), requiring you to fight at least 50 more times just for that final unlock.
* {{Fanservice}}: Almost all female characters. Notably Jenny, who replaced Fox from the first game, and is featured on the US box arts for ''Bloody Roar 3'' and ''Primal Fury'', and has a zoanthrope form that is oddly "cosplay-friendly" to better describe it.

* {{Flanderization}}: Uriko went from a teenager who is incredibly skilled (thanks to being trained by Long) and shows excellent promise in skill, and may play a huge part later (as implied by ''Extreme/PF''), to a complete and utter ditz in ''4''. To a minor extent, she is only involved in the plot of ''3'' because she was bored.

* {{Gonk}}: Dear lord, Busuzima.

* JigglePhysics: Not just the boobs, but the guys' muscles as well!
** Much more apparent in Primal Fury and Extreme, as the physics are promptly demonstrated at the character selection screen.

* LethalJokeCharacter: The Penguin will kick your ass.
** This is a counterbalance to Cronos' Phoenix form, which can bite off chunks of your health almost instantaneously, but only can maintain the transformation for about 15 seconds. His Penguin form is weak and severely lacking in the range, speed, and strength departments, [[HitboxDissonance but is a hard target to hit]]. All of this is mitigated by Cronos' human form having above-average stats.

* MeaningfulName: Aside from the obvious implication that as a "Half-Beast", Uriko is a {{cat girl}} (or werecat, as evidenced by her adult form), Nagi is a Spurious. The word spurious (an adjective) means "to be false/not genuine." In biological terms, it means a structure that has a comparable appearance but nonetheless has a diverse structure, thus explaining why Nagi's Beast Form is so distinct from the others and greatly resembles her regular self (in fact, her incomplete transformation seems to resemble a red, feminine version of Xion's Unborn form).

* MsFanservice: Jenny.

* OneWingedAngel: Uriko in the first game is the only character to get two beast forms rather than one. It is justified, though, as she's only a child in this game, and too young to fight in her human form.

* PantyShot: In ''all'' of Jenny's costumes, you can do several attacks that reveal a G-string.

* ShirtlessScene: A scant few fighters go shirtless, and while costumes have undergone drastic changes between ''1'', ''2'', and the rest, one thing remains true: at least two characters go shirtless in their Beast Forms in every single game.

* ShoutOut: Yugo very closely quotes ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' in his introductory cutscene in ''2''.
-->'''Yugo:''' They kidnapped Kenji! You bastards!

* SupernaturalMartialArts: It's a fighting game series about a group of people [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent who can transform into werebeasts.]] That's as "supernatural" as it gets.
** Although ''Bloody Roar 3'' did introduce the beast crests that slowly take the series away from the science-fiction genre, and goes full-force into supernatural in ''4''.

** A pro boxer like Yugo getting trumped by ''Busuzima'' of all people in the story of ''2''. Of course, that was before VillainDecay hit Busuzima like a truck...

** A pro boxer like Yugo getting trumped by ''Busuzima'' of all people in the story of ''2''.

* CloningBlues: Shenlong initially loathes Long, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman conflicted by the fact that he was cloned from him]] (the truly noticeable differences in appearance between the two being Shenlong's {{red eyes|TakeWarning}} and, in beast form, [[EvilAlbino white fur]], most likely due to genetic manipulation). He eventually gets over this and mellows out, his role towards Long becoming significantly less antagonistic, to the extent of [[WorthyOpponent a friendly rivalry of sorts]]. It's even implied from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxHed_f59o opening]] of ''Extreme''/''Primal Fury'' that he's friends with Uriko, Long's student.

* EvilAlbino: Xion the Unborn.

* NoisyNature

* WeaksauceWeakness: Ryoho is a textbook SNKBoss. He's got a bunch of extremely easy-to-hit moves with high damage and can chew your life meter out in a few seconds, giving you a game over when you lose. But if you're using Uriko, all of his attacks will go over her head and he will be completely vulnerable to all of Uriko's moves.
** Of course, said catgirl is hinted at throughout the series as being, possibly, the strongest character in the series (maybe even stronger than Uranus, though that's only hinted at in Uriko's final scene in ''Primal Fury'') and considering that Uriko's beast form in the first game (where she was the FinalBoss) is similar to that of Uranus, this isn't altogether unsurprising.

* ''Bloody Roar (aka Beastorizer)''
* ''Bloody Roar 2''
* ''Bloody Roar 3''
* ''Bloody Roar Primal Fury''/''Extreme'' ([[MissionPackSequel Similar to 3 in terms of assets]], but otherwise, a completely new game)
* ''Bloody Roar 4''

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* CastOfSnowflakes

* {{Combos}}

The fighting system (somewhat reminiscent of ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'') is a basic 3 button layout with a punch, kick and beast change. The special thing about this franchise is the ability to morph into an beast form with access to different attacks, special moves, and essentially another health bar. The latter health bar is charged with damage dealt and received when in normal form, then takes over for most damage received when in beast form (while also allowing a small amount of the damage dealt to the health bar to be regenerated while in beast form), the difference being that depleting the beast meter simply brings that fighter out of beast form.

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI will never counter throws, at least not in the beginning of the match where you can get close before the match begins, and get a throw in as soon as it starts. They are also unable to catch up to side-stepping players in time to change their strategy, allowing savvy-players to dodge their attacks with ease.

*** An OlderThanYouThink example: Xion has been accused of being similar to Dante from ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'', although Xion has actually been around a little longer (''Bloody Roar 3'' releasing in December 2000, versus August '01 for ''DMC'').

A [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove not so popular fighting game]] franchise co-developed with Creator/{{Hudson|Soft}} and [[Creator/EightingRaizing 8ing]]. Originally it was called ''Beastorizer''. The series centers around humans who can [[{{Animorphism}} transform into animals]] called Zoanthropes.

A [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove not so popular fighting game]] franchise co-developed with Creator/{{Hudson|Soft}} and [[Creator/EightingRaizing 8ing]]. Originally it was called ''Beastorizer''. The story features humans who can [[{{Animorphism}} transform into animals]]. They are called Zoanthropes. And of course there is a corporation trying to use and brainwash them for world domination. So they... fight each other, of course.

The fighting system (somewhat reminiscent of ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'') is a basic 3 button layout with a punch, kick and beast change. The special thing about this franchise is the ability to (as the story suggests) morph into different animals and become stronger and have access to different attacks and special moves, while also providing essentially two health bars, one for regular health and a second one for beast form. The latter is charged with damage dealt and received when in normal form, then takes over for most damage received when in beast form (while also allowing a small amount of the damage dealt to the health bar to be regenerated while in beast form), the difference being that depleting the beast meter simply brings that fighter out of beast form. The games combine 2D fighting game elements with 3D elements, complete with jumping by holding up and side stepping.

There are 5 games in the whole series, mostly on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation brand.

For anyone who wants to catch up on the franchise, a Website/{{YouTube}}r by the name of WebVideo/{{SCXCR}} is working on the ''Bloody Roar Retrospective'', with all games covered, plus the manga series ''Bloody Roar: The Fang''. [[http://rivercitygamers.com/scxcr/the-bloody-roar-retrospective/ You may view the retrospective here.]]

* TheWorfEffect: A pro boxer like Yugo getting trumped by ''Busuzima'' of all people.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3QJwp_U2hE opening]] to ''3'' is essentially the dev team showing off Xion by dedicating the second half to scenes of him brutalizing most of the cast, even [[NoShell shrugging off one of Gado's most powerful moves]]. This is then turned right around when [[SubvertedTrope Yugo recovers]], [[OhCrap prompting Xion to take a step back]], before Yugo starts to demonstrate his new second Beast Drive.

* PowerEchoes: Upon entering Hyper Beast mode in later games, the fighters' roars [[PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep deepen]] and become heavily distorted. Nagi's Spurious form also has an echo effect.

* SuperMode: In every game except ''2''. In ''3'' it gives the player character massive speed, damage, and regeneration boosts, even allowing them to use multiple Beast Drives (which normally instantly brings them out of Beast Mode) while it lasts, but at the cost of being unable to transform at all for the rest of the fight. In ''Primal Fury/ Extreme,'' Hyper Beast mode can be done as much as you want, but doing so without a full beast meter costs a good chunk of health.

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Every character is some sort of werebeast. There's a weretiger, werebear, werelion, wererabbit, werefox, werecat, wereboar, weremole, werebat, werechameleon...