History VideoGame / MasterOfTheMonsterLair

* ItemFarming: Owen and Kate raise their stats by eating food. Almost all decent food requires at least one ingredient you can't purchase in town. Half the time, fighting an enemy gets you equipment or VendorTrash rather than the food you're looking for. Do the math.

* VendorTrash: Animal enemies will often drop pelts, while humanoid enemies will sometimes drop rare coins.

* AnnoyingArrows: When you're introduced to bow type weapons you're told specifically that they deal extremely low damage but often have good secondary effects. This is pretty much accurate.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Sure the enemies are all monsters who want to rule the world, but they're not all that bad. Some of them, like the Elder Dragon, [[YouWillBeSpared even offer to let Owen and Kate go if they surrender]], but that doesn't stop our heroes from killing them and stuffing their corpses to put on display.

''Master of the Monster Lair'' is an eastern RPG for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS made by Global A Entertainment and published by Creator/{{Atlus}}.

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* PettingZooPeople: A large, large number of enemies, to various different levels: [[CatFolk warcats]], [[FemaleFelineMaleMutt wardogs]], [[LizardFolk humanosaurs]], King Leon (lion), otter warriors... the list goes on for quite a while. Surprisingly, only one enemy type qualifies as being merely a LittleBitBeastly: the forked cat and its stronger types.

* ThatOneBoss: The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/MasterOfTheMonsterLair'' isn't particularly hard... providing that you spend nearly as much time you've already spent on the game to get to him farming for items to increase your strength. [[spoiler:The Devil Lord]] has such ridiculously high defense compared to every other monster in the game, in fact multiple times more than any other boss before him, that without copious amounts of grinding you'll be hard pressed to deal more than one damage at a time outside of weapon specials... and he has an attack that he deploys when he's down to his last third or so of health that WILL heal more than you'll deal in a single turn (in fact, try upwards of five). Oh, and did we mention that he has over 1000 health? All told, he's a difficult boss and he can take [[MarathonBoss around an hour to bring down.]] [[spoiler:Thankfully, with all of the post-game equipment unlocked after beating him, fighting him when he shows up as one of the random bosses on the 20th floor is significantly easier.]]

* DungeonCrawling: You make your own, then you crawl in it!

* NonHumanSidekick: Gloop the slime, who joins Owen early in his quest.

* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Owen and Kate are childhood friends. Gloop and Shovel are the strangers.

''Master of the Monster Lair'' is an eastern RPG for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS made by Global A Entertainment and published by {{Atlus}}.

''Master of the Monster Lair'' is an eastern RPG for the NintendoDS made by Global A Entertainment and published by {{Atlus}}.

! Tropes used in ''Master of the Monster Lair'':

* {{Crossover}}: Owen and Kate also appear in ''MyWorldMyWay''.

** The talking, magical shovel, as well, is most often just called Shovel. Possibly subverted as Shovel even refers to itself this way, implying [[GenericName that might be its actual name]].

* CombatPragmatist: Certain rooms allow the player to fight enemies under... less than fair conditions. Enemies spawning in bedrooms, for example, will be asleep at the start of combat. Demon cells and cellars also start the enemies off with status effects. The game actively encourages the use of these rooms.

* FollowTheLeader: This game is very suspiciously similar to the PSP's ''Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground''.

* EyeBeams: Ironsides uses them.