History VideoGame / LaMulana

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The remake implies it's the Mother who has caused the great cataclysms/disasters of the past because her children failed to return her to the sky, and that she'll destroy the "eighth child" ([[spoiler:modern day humans]]) in [[JustForFun/ApocalypseDayPlanner 2015]].

* GameMod: The creators of La-Mulana released an editor tool, including that tool has a BossRush and a Time Attack mode of Hell Temple. However actual mods are very rare, if not impossible to find due to either La-Mulana not being very popular when the tool was released or no one has even bother to translate the tool to proper English. This will also be possible in the PC remake, but not to the same extent.

* DubNameChange: The English version of the remake transliterates most of the names differently than the English patch of the original game. The exception seems to be the area names which are the same in both versions of the game, with the exception of the Confusion Gate/Gate of Illusion. (Ironic since the Japanese version of the remake gives the area names in English already.)

* DownTheDrain: Spring of the Sky is ''up'' the drain.

** In a [[GuideDangIt particularly evil subversion]], the [[spoiler: Scalesphere]] can only be obtained after passing through a [[spoiler: pool of water]] that [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption drains your health due to you not having the item]]. This is actually ''more'' likely to trip up experienced metroidvania players, who will assume the item needs to be found elsewhere before proceeding (unless they're the type to attempt SequenceBreaking on the first run).

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Often, but especially noteworthy in Hell Temple.

* UncannyAtmosphere: Eden in the remake -- an overly bright and cheery, calm and peaceful one-screen paradise in ruins that are otherwise dark and dreary, melancholic or tragic, or just plain trying to kill you. [[spoiler:It's actually the Gate of Illusion.]]

* WallMaster:
** [[FanNickname Surprise Fish]] in the Spring in the Sky remain in place until you approach, then leap out at you. They were almost invisible in the original (due to being the same color as water), though they're easily spotted in the remake.
** On the other hand, those blobby hands reaching out of floor and ceilings to attack you in the Chamber of Extinction were easy to spot ahead of time in the original, but that's no longer the case in the remake.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: While generally of very good quality, the translation has some of this.
** One gravestone calls you "Ye fool" instead of the proper "Thou fool".
** "Be thee a wise man?" instead of "Be thou...?"

''La-Mulana'' (ラ·ムラーナ) is a {{Metroidvania}} platformer video game for Windows. It is a freeware game, and was developed by three people who call their development group NIGORO (formerly known as [=GR3=] Project) in Japan as a tribute to the {{UsefulNotes/MSX}} computer system / gaming console (and includes tons of references to such). You play an Franchise/IndianaJones-esque [[AdventurerArchaeologist archaeologist]] who must solve the numerous puzzles throughout an immense set of ancient ruins.

A [[VideoGameRemake remake]] on UsefulNotes/WiiWare was released in Japan on June 21, 2011, with 16 / 32-bit sprite graphics in place of the MSX-style ones, among numerous other changes -- it was developed by the same three guys who did the original. An overseas release localized by [=NICALiS=] was planned, but was [[NoExportForYou ultimately cancelled]] due to [[DevelopmentHell development problems]] and the decline of the [=WiiWare=] service. But, as noted in [[http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/sorry.html NIGORO's blog,]] they chose to release the remake on PC, released worldwide on July 13, 2012 at the launch of the English-language Playism Games website. It subsequently saw releases not only on [[http://www.playism-games.com/games/lamulana/ Playism,]] but also [[http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/la_mulana/ GOG.com,]] [[http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-LAMULANA/la-mulana GamersGate]], [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/230700/ Steam]] and last, but definitely NOT least, finally released on overseas [=WiiWare=] under the publisher [=EnjoyUp=] Games. An updated version of the remake, entitled ''La-Mulana EX'', was released in 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with a new monster bestiary, online leaderboards, and trophies. On August 2019, versions for UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch were announced by [[UsefulNotes/NipponIchi NIS America]] and are set to be released on early 2020 alongside the sequel. Though if you're looking for the original freeware game, you can still find it (and its English patch) [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana here.]]

A [[VideoGameRemake remake]] on UsefulNotes/WiiWare was released in Japan on June 21, 2011, with 16 / 32-bit sprite graphics in place of the MSX-style ones, among numerous other changes -- it was developed by the same three guys who did the original. An overseas release localized by [=NICALiS=] was planned, but was [[NoExportForYou ultimately cancelled]] due to [[DevelopmentHell development problems]] and the decline of the [=WiiWare=] service. But, as noted in [[http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/sorry.html NIGORO's blog,]] they chose to release the remake on PC, released worldwide on July 13, 2012 at the launch of the English-language Playism Games website. It subsequently saw releases not only on [[http://www.playism-games.com/games/lamulana/ Playism,]] but also [[http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/la_mulana/ GOG.com,]] [[http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-LAMULANA/la-mulana GamersGate]], [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/230700/ Steam]] and last, but definitely NOT least, finally released on overseas [=WiiWare=] under the publisher [=EnjoyUp=] Games. An updated version of the remake, entitled ''La-Mulana EX'', was released in 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with a new monster bestiary, online leaderboards, and trophies. On August 2019, versions for UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch were announced by [[UsefulNotes/NipponIchi NIS America]] and are set to be released on early 2020 alongside the sequel. Though if you're looking for the original freeware game, you can still find it (and its English patch) [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana here]].

''La-Mulana'' is a homage to the 8-bit action-adventures that you might remember from your childhood. It wants to instill in you the same sense of fear and awe you felt back then. The sense that everything is at stake and anything could happen.

A [[VideoGameRemake remake]] on UsefulNotes/WiiWare was released in Japan on June 21, 2011, with 16 / 32-bit sprite graphics in place of the MSX-style ones, among numerous other changes -- it was developed by the same three guys who did the original. An overseas release localized by [=NICALiS=] was planned, but was [[NoExportForYou ultimately cancelled]] due to [[DevelopmentHell development problems]] and the decline of the [=WiiWare=] service. But, as noted in [[http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/sorry.html NIGORO's blog]], they chose to release the remake on PC, released worldwide on July 13, 2012 at the launch of the English-language Playism Games website. It subsequently saw releases not only on [[http://www.playism-games.com/games/lamulana/ Playism]], but also [[http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/la_mulana/ GOG.com]], [[http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-LAMULANA/la-mulana GamersGate]], [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/230700/ Steam]] and last, but definitely NOT least, finally released on overseas [=WiiWare=] under the publisher [=EnjoyUp=] Games. An updated version of the remake, entitled ''La-Mulana EX'', was released in 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with a new monster bestiary, online leaderboards, and trophies. On August 2019, versions for UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch were announced by [[UsefulNotes/NipponIchi NIS America]] and are set to be released on early 2020 alongside the sequel. Though if you're looking for the original freeware game, you can still find it (and its English patch) [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana here]].

* {{Caltrops}}: Lemeza tosses them backwards, and they'll damage anything that touches them. Including himself.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There's something really suggestive sticking out of the Gyonin Warriors (the red fishmen enemies in Spring in the Sky) in the remake. [[note]]They're actually water tanks to allow the creatures to "breathe" out of water.[[/note]]

A [[VideoGameRemake remake]] on UsefulNotes/WiiWare was released in Japan on June 21, 2011, with 16 / 32-bit sprite graphics in place of the MSX-style ones, among numerous other changes -- it was developed by the same three guys who did the original. An overseas release localized by [=NICALiS=] was planned, but was [[NoExportForYou ultimately cancelled]] due to [[DevelopmentHell development problems]] and the decline of the [=WiiWare=] service. But, as noted in [[http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/sorry.html NIGORO's blog]], they chose to release the remake on PC, released worldwide on July 13, 2012 at the launch of the English-language Playism Games website. It subsequently saw releases not only on [[http://www.playism-games.com/games/lamulana/ Playism]], but also [[http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/la_mulana/ GOG.com]], [[http://www.desura.com/games/la-mulana DESURA]], [[http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-LAMULANA/la-mulana GamersGate]], [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/230700/ Steam]] and last, but definitely NOT least, finally released on overseas [=WiiWare=] under the publisher [=EnjoyUp=] Games. An updated version of the remake, entitled ''La-Mulana EX'', was released in 2015 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita with a new monster bestiary, online leaderboards, and trophies. On August 2019, versions for UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch were announced by [[UsefulNotes/NipponIchi NIS America]] and are set to be released on early 2020 alongside the sequel. Though if you're looking for the original freeware game, you can still find it (and its English patch) [[http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana here]].

* BigBoosHaunt: The Giants' Mausoleum, and to a much lesser extent the ruins in general.
** Even more so in the remake where there's even a giant ghost sub-boss.
* BittersweetEnding: In perspective, the end of La Mulana is REALLY sad. [[spoiler: The Mother spent millennia wanting to go back to the heavens, but all that can be given to her is the peace of death. But in doing that, it actually seals the fate of Earth, because without Mother, no more sentient races would rise on Earth. Granted, the treasure of La Mulana could make a normal human being capable of doing what she could... But can a human be trusted with that power?]]
** Not to mention the fact that [[spoiler:you go through all the work of getting the treasure only for your father to steal it from you in the end. In other words, the power to create life is now in the hands of a thieving jerk!]]

* TooDumbToLive: Many of the adventurers' skeletons are the result of the victim falling for an obvious trap, or deciding that being in the way of a trap is the perfect time to write about it in their journal instead of moving out of the way.

** In ''[=PR3=]'', [[spoiler:completing stage 1 crashes the game so in order to get the best score possible, you have to die to the boss so that the game respawns you earlier in the stage.]]

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Going into water causes you to slowly take damage. In order to obtain the item that prevents it, you have to swim through a water area. This isn't as Catch22Dilemma as you think, since the feat is entirely possible, just not in favor of "I should avoid this area and come back later or else I will take damage" conditioning.

** The FinalBoss [[spoiler:can now take damage from any weapon in any phase, and the fourth phase is no longer a "memorize this seemingly innocous sequence that you learned from some tablet and probably forgot about".]]

** In the remake, after defeating the FinalBoss, [[LoadBearingBoss you have 5 minutes to escape]].

* ReadTheFreakingManual: NIGORO tell the player to do this before they start, when one downloads and/or buys it. If one ignores this friendly advice, good luck finishing the game. [[spoiler: Among other things, it provides a vital hint for unlocking the final boss in a timeframe which isn't best expressed in 'days'.]]

* AchievementMockery: Three instant death traps and [[spoiler:the giant stone fist trap]] in the Hell Temple "award" the "This Is La-Mulana" series of achievements.