History VideoGame / HeroAndDaughter

''Hero & Daughter'' is a 2014 hack-n-slash RPG by tachi in UsefulNotes/RPGMaker VX Ace. The game is updated fairly frequently and an English translation can be found [[http://vgperson.com/games/heroanddaughter.htm here.]] An UpdatedRerelease was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, on February 18, 2016.

'''Leffy:''' Ralph...\\

Hero & Daughter is a 2014 hack-n-slash RPG by tachi in RPG Maker VX Ace. The game is updated fairly frequently and an English translation can be found [[http://vgperson.com/games/heroanddaughter.htm here.]] An UpdatedRerelease was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, on February 18, 2016.

* ActionGirl: It's easier to list the exceptions than the examples. All of your party members, for starters, are to some extent action girls.

* BreakingTheFourthWall:

* ButtMonkey:

* CuteClumsyGirl: Lilia.
* CuteGhostGirl: Akari.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Moski, Iris, Holly, Cammy, and Dark Lord Arue.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Candy Lix, [[spoiler:Dark Lord Arue]], Leffy, and [[spoiler:Haeti]].

* {{Main/Fanservice}}: OH SO MUCH.

** Erina from Headless, an untranslated game.
** Candy Lix, from Death Village, a cancelled game.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Leffy if you get defeated in 3 dungeons (or simply leave them part-way). She joins you for a nominal sum (500 gold) and is over level 60 with a strong variety of elemental skills and even some healing spells. She can even permanently join the party if you defeat her with less than a full party.

* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:Priscilla]] is secretly a princess, as revealed at high affection. [[spoiler: As a sheltered girl, being captured by her father's escaping slaves was the most exciting time of her life, and she's like being abused or treated as a slave ever since... to the point where said slaves ended up returning with her to the castle rather than put up with her personally.]]

* VisibleSilence: Ralph replies with "..." when Oc-Ock talks about getting stronger to become a legendary monster.

* SchizoTech: The setting is "[[FantasyKitchenSink fantasy]]-medieval-with-random-modern-elements", pretty much based on RuleOfFunny. Does not help that the Haremancer can summon characters from different worlds entirely.
** It's clear that swords are the usual weapon of choice for characters in the main universe, with the typical fantasy weapons such as axes, bows, staves, and knuckles. However, guns exist... with a squirt gun being called a product of "modern science" alongside "sniper rifles".

** Lara is wearing modern Japanese schoolgirl clothes and talks about schooling and homework as if it's normal for a vaguely-fantasy-medieval person to go to public school until adulthood -- at least to Ralph, who is willing to help.
** Priscilla wears modern black-and-white prison gear with handcuffs. [[spoiler:At the same time, she's a princess who has owned slaves, so somehow these two things coexist]].

** Priscilla wears modern black-and-white prison gear with handcuffs. [[spoiler: At the same time, she's a princess who has owned slaves, so somehow these two things coexist]].

** Akari, from [[VideoGame/HelloHello Hello Hell...o?]]

* {{Main/Meganekko}}: Sakia, complete with constant studying.

* PictorialSpeechBubble: A sweatdrop one is used by the King, when he's exasperated, in the intro cutscene.

--> Cherie was just “Chia.” Not like the pet, but from “cheer.” Cherie is just a bit less obvious. Although actually, it may be intended to be “Tia,” which would be slightly better.
--> Harmony was Wagokoro, “peaceful heart.” However, that “wa” is also used to refer to traditional Japanese things, so everything about her has that angle to it as well. Paci-Fist was “Wadoken,” which is beautiful, which is why I worked in the “down-right fist” part. Some of her skills also repeated the name of the move in all hiragana in the description, which ties into the whole classical Japanese thing.
--> Apil and Yomi are from an old platformer called Full Swing. Apil’s name is probably a pun on “ahiru,” duck, but she’s also kind of tachi’s mascot, so I didn’t care to come up with my own terrible pun name. (Not to mention one of her skills is named “Appeal” as a pun on it.)
--> The King of Evil was “Maou-sama,” a combination of “maou” (dark lord) and “ousama” (king). Of course, “Maou-sama” could be used as a respectful name for any old dark lord, but the joke is essentially “you never knew what he was the king of!”
--> I ended up keeping the name Meiji Staff, but it’s probably a pun on “Mage Staff.” Maybe I could have made it “Magey” or something. I dunno.
--> The “My First Dagger!” and “Dagger” relationship was originally based on a Japanese homophone pun. たんけん (Tanken) can mean “exploration” or “dagger,” but 短剣 is unquestionably “dagger.” So it’s like “Yay, let’s go exploring!” to “Bah, that’s for kids. It’s a DAGGER.”
--> Rain Bow is an entirely new pun. The original was 真弓 (mayumi), literally “True Bow,” but the description acts like it’s a girl’s name: “Mayumi! Mayumiii! It’s me! Marry me!”
--> (Take) My Sword For It is a modified pun, but it remains somewhat intact. It was 真剣 (literally “True Sword” - yes, again), which can also be read as “serious/earnest.”
--> Ram Bow is a mostly new pun. It was 剛弓 (Sturdy Bow), and the description had another homophone pun since “lamentation” is pronounced the same way; it was basically like “when shot by a Goukyuu, you goukyuu.”
--> Smile & Bow was 千弓 (Thousand Bow), senkyuu, so the description joked about it sounding like “thank you.”
--> Cross Sword is a new pun for yet another Japanese homophone pun. 魔剣 (Demon Sword) = maken, and the description said “maken” in the “I won’t lose” sense.
--> To the Point was 短刀直入, putting the word “dagger” into 単刀直入… which means “getting right to the point.” So that worked pretty well.
--> Magic Dagger’s description noted the similarity between 魔力 (magic power) and 魔刀 (magic sword).
--> Spear It was “yarikiru,” which contains “spear” (yari) and means “to do something to completion.” But tachi used it to joke about “finishing up alone” in the description, because of course he would.
--> Cluelash was “muchi,” which means whip, but also means ignorance. Frankly, I’m surprised I came up with anything close.
--> The Whipper was “mucchi” in reference to “mucchimuchi,” a word for supple skin, usually in reference to sexy women. I, uh… just felt it was better to replace that one.
--> Brawlblade was 剣嘩 (ken-ka), replacing one of the kanji for “brawl” with “sword.”
--> Broad Sword was 太い刀, a joke on how “tachi” is written 太刀, which literally means “fat sword.” Yeah, I know it has a katana sprite, but if Chrono Trigger can give a broadsword the name of a katana, I can do the opposite.
--> The Master Bracelet was the “Sage’s Bracelet,” and its description was simply “Whew…” (And so it was before I got the reference.) This is in reference to “sage time,” a term for the period of exhaustion after a guy ejaculates. …Yeah. So my lewd puns there aren’t unwarranted.
--> I don’t know what the joke is with the Utah Cap either. It’s… it’s made in Utah. That’s what it said.
--> Assass Innate was just the word “ansatsu” (assassination) split into two with a dot. So, I mean, it’s totally the same thing, right?
--> “Ninja Ninny!” was “Ninja Ninjin!” (carrot).

* PunnyName: Most, if not all of the girls' names, and some of the skill names. From the [[http://vgperson.tumblr.com/post/95700558645/hero-daughter-translation-notes Translation Notes]] (WARNING: WallOfText):
--> Dieh was ディエ, pronounced “dee-eh,” and the joke is that it reads as “d-i-e.” Dieh was the best compromise I could get so that was clear, but people would still pronounce it differently from the word “die.”
--> Selphie’s name was originally “Hightech.” That is a ridiculous name, so I came up with the best possible pun. Also, her class and first Self-Skill were “uso denwa” (fake call), and while I made the skill simply “Fake a Call,” I decided to make her class “Cell Phony.”
--> Priscilla was just “Prizun.” Uh… yeah. Priscilla is kind of a pun on “prison cell.”

* PrincessClassic: Hauyne fits essentially every facet of the trope to a T. Even uses traditional diction like "gallant" to describe Ralph and is a pure support character.

Hero & Daughter is a 2014 hack-n-slash RPG by tachi in RPG Maker VX Ace. The game is updated fairly frequently and an English translation can be found [[http://vgperson.com/games/heroanddaughter.htm here.]] A [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/271970/Hero_and_Daughter/ Steam version]] was released on February 18, 2016.

Hero & Daughter is a 2014 hack-n-slash RPG by tachi in RPG Maker VX Ace. The game is updated fairly frequently and an English translation can be found [[http://vgperson.com/games/heroanddaughter.htm here.]]

--> The “My First Dagger!” and “Dagger” relationship was originally based on a Japanese homophone pun. たんけん (Tanken) can mean “exploration” or “dagger,” but 短剣 is unquestionably “dagger.” So it’s like “Yay, let’s go exploring!” to “Bah, that’s for kids. It’s a DAGGER.”

* PunnyName: Most, if not all of the girls' names, and some of the skill names. From the [[http://vgperson.tumblr.com/post/95700558645/hero-daughter-translation-notes Translation Notes]]:

* CuteMonsterGirl: Moski, Iris, Holly, Cammy, and Arue.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Candy Lix, Arue, Leffy, and Haeti.

** [[spoiler:Arue]] is a straighter example, but Ralph still doesn't take her as seriously as [[spoiler:the other Dark Lords]] in the first place. His comment on her joining is that she was just "[[PunchClockVillain a part-timer]]" anyway (despite her complaints).

* FantasyKitchenSink: The Haremancer can summon characters from ''[[GuestFighter different worlds]]'' to help create this effect. The non-guest characters nonetheless include a robot, a cyclops, a cheerleader, an angel, and a highschooler.

* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Holly finds Ralph "pretty cute" when he's angry.

* HalfHumanHybrid: {{Discussed}}. Iris, at Affection 100, has a conversation where Ralph wonders what a Cyclops-Human hybrid would be like, as Iris's parents were both Cyclopses.

* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: You can buy houses in House Park and fill them with furniture that's gotten through encountering Dungeon NPCs, or some Village NPC encounters.

* SecretCharacter: After defeating Dark Lord Dehmon, the Extra Room is unlocked (the one blocked by a barrel) and inputting two codes (from Steam or the author's blog) nets you two characters who lack affection dialogue or bath or catfight participation. [[spoiler:I'm a Dark Lord! and Deste]] otherwise appear as antagonists in the... "story".

* TogetherInDeath: Joked about (hopefully, for Ralph's sake) regarding Felice and Ayame if their affection is high enough,

* PaletteSwap: Played straight as usual for some {{Underground Monkey}}s, but in a funnier way. As the village attacks level up, for example, "bandits with dreadful skin" show up: your usual bandit, but painted teal.

* PalletteSwap: Played straight as usual, but in a funnier way. As the village attacks level up, for example, "bandits with dreadful skin" show up: your usual bandit, but painted teal.