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** If you fail to find the time criminal in ''Team Factory'', you can accuse certain characters of being it. Then there's a choice of returning to the future or not (if you accused anyone you're locked to the first option). If you do return, ''you find everything was pointless'' and ''[[PressXToDie your custom character is lost]]''.
** At the end of ''Happiness Island'', you can choose between a neutral ending or one of two final bosses depending of how the story turned out.
** If you fail to find the time criminal in ''Team Factory'', you can accuse certain characters of being it. Then there's a choice of returning to the future or not (if you accused anyone you're locked to the first option). If you do return, ''you find everything was pointless'' and ''[[PressXToDie your custom character is lost]]''.
** At the end of ''Happiness Island'', you can choose between a neutral ending or one of two final bosses depending of how the story turned out.
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* StarsAreSouls: If Hero 6 returns to the future at the end of ''Factory Baseball'', we get a shot of his colleagues stargazing while his face appears in the sky.
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* IndenturedServitude: People who are neck-deep in debts are sent to the Blood Butterfly camp to work on their factories, mines and happiness grass fields. And that's the least of their problems...
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* MoodDissonance: ''Happiness Island'' as a lighthearted soundtrack to go with the series' cartoony art style and is not without humorous moments, but then there's themes of arms trafficking, forced doping experimentation and people getting executed before Hero 6's eyes.
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* MoodDissonance: ''Happiness Island'' as has a lighthearted soundtrack to go with the series' cartoony art style and is not without humorous moments, but then there's also themes of arms trafficking, forced doping experimentation and people getting executed before Hero 6's eyes.
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* MoodDissonance: ''Happiness Island'' as a lighthearted soundtrack to go with the series' cartoony art style and is not without humorous moments, but then there's themes of arms trafficking, forced doping experimentation and people getting executed before Hero 6's eyes.
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* StrangerBehindTheMask: None of the suspects is the time criminal, and his identity is [[TheUnreveal never revealed]] even when confronted.
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This game's engine was later used for a VideoGameRemake of the first and second installments.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. The Blood Butterfly drugs people without their consent, works them to death for little payment and executes them if they don't perform to their standards.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. The Blood Butterfly army drugs people without their consent, works them to death for little payment and executes them if they don't perform to their standards.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. A few turns into ''Happiness Island Edition'' and you see Makonde executing people in cold blood.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. A few turns into ''Happiness Island Edition'' and you see Makonde executing The Blood Butterfly drugs people in cold blood.without their consent, works them to death for little payment and executes them if they don't perform to their standards.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Slighty subverted. In scenes involving people getting shot dead, most of them display a pop-up of a gun being fired while some display a pop-up with a splash of blood.
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* NoDeathRun: You only get one life to clear the vertical shmup minigame. During ''Factory Baseball'', you must at least get a certain amount of points to clear its sidequest.
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* PottyEmergency: One minigame has Hero 6 running like hell to get to a toilet in a rural area. You have to jump over a ton of animal crap on the way which slows you down for the rest of the play if tripped over, and to clear its sidequest properly, you ''must'' make it through squeaky-clean.
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** Averted for the Inner Success story, which is a standard visual novel instead of a turn-based RPG.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: If you choose the ''Happiness Island'' ending where you battle Toshio-kun, Mecha Kameda escapes in the confusion.
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...However, the Wakura team loses a match against the Great Empire Killers and is bankrupted. Hero 6 fails to even confront the time criminal. The plot goes OffTheRails as Hero 6 is sent to the Blood Butterfly Army's camp as a slave to WorkOffTheDebt. And it's no "army boot camp" matter -- they're flat out neo-nazi esque nazi-esque arms traffickers who are performing human experiments regarding the eponymous "happiness grass" drugs. Can Hero 6 work there for 100 days without getting freaking executed? Will he stir a rebellion or will he instead join their ranks?
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* NewGamePlus: Pennant mode now lets you increase your character's stats and abilities, if only a little because the prices get inflated in this mode. It features random events that might improve or drop his mood as well.
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** Power Points can be exchanged for certain items and a secret love interest in your next playthrough of ''Factory Baseball''.
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** Power Points can be exchanged for certain items and a secret love interest in your next playthrough of ''Factory Baseball''.
** Pennant mode now lets you increase your character's stats and abilities, if only a little because the prices get inflated in this
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* FriendlyEnemy: Hero 6 can befriend Helga and learn her motivations regarding the human experiments performed by the BB Army. With high enough RelationshipValues, he feels bitter about her being put on death row at the end and comes to visit before she is executed.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. A few turns into ''Happiness Island Edition'' and you see the BB Commander executing people in cold blood.
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* PoisonMushroom: The Happiness herbs are available as an usable item from this game on. They have a variety of both good and bad random effects.
* PsychoSerum: The Blood Butterfly army performs illegal experimentation of the strenght-enhancing Happiness Grass drug, which has wildly different and random effects from person to person and causes severe chemical dependency.
* PsychoSerum: The Blood Butterfly army performs illegal experimentation of the strenght-enhancing Happiness Grass drug, which has wildly different and random effects from person to person and causes severe chemical dependency.
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* GagNose: In Pennant mode, your reputation is retresented by a meter depicting a tengu's nose growing until it reaches outer space. Sadly, it caps out there.
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* GagNose: In Pennant mode, your reputation is retresented by a meter depicting a tengu's nose growing until it reaches outer space. Sadly, it caps out there.
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* BagOfSpilling: ''Happiness Island'' is an ImmediateSequel to ''Town Factory''. Hero 6 still starts with low stats and you can't bring a previous custom character into it.
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* TheBadGuyWins: The canon ending of ''Factory Baseball'', but Hero 6 eventually makes a comeback.
* BagOfSpilling: ''Happiness Island'' is an ImmediateSequel to''Town Factory''.''Factory Baseball''. Hero 6 still starts with low stats and you can't bring a previous custom character into it.
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* EagleLand: The US Super Heroes team which is the final Baseball opponent in both stories. Their cowboy hat-clad manager keeps bragging about his home country and all the players are named after American characters and cultural concepts.
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* CartoonCreature: Horuhisu is a multi-colored crayon blob thing with wide blank white and a vacant perpetual smile. None of his co-workers other than the protagonist [[WeirdnessCensor seem to notice or care]], and he's actually a good fellow.
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* CartoonCreature: Horuhisu is a multi-colored crayon blob thing with wide blank white eyes and a vacant perpetual smile. None of his co-workers other than the protagonist [[WeirdnessCensor seem to notice or care]], and he's actually a good fellow.
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''Power Pro-kun Pocket 6'' is a 2003 Baseball simulator + visual novel developed by Diamond Head and published by Konami for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance. The game Baseball simulator engine has been visibly modified, and both of its Success modes are standard visual novels.
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''Power Pro-kun Pocket 6'' is a 2003 Baseball simulator + visual novel developed by Diamond Head and published by Konami for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance. The game game's Baseball simulator engine has been visibly modified, and both of its Success modes are standard visual novels.
novels. The second one, in fact, is the one of the few in the series that's connected to the first one. This installment also introduced the "Power Point" currency you can use to unlock content and items for NewGamePlus.
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** If you return to the future at the end of ''Factory Baseball'', the protagonist regrets leaving his friends behind and finds everything he did was in vain.
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** If you return to the future at the end of ''Factory Baseball'', the protagonist regrets leaving his friends behind and finds everything he did was in vain. ''Oh, and this also counts as a Game Over!''
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!!!Success Mode: A Factory's Baseball Team Edition
A time traveller comes from the future on a mission to find the time criminal whose alterations to the timeline have caused the important Wakura tech factory to become bankrupt. After getting hired, "Hero 6" must investigate his co-workers and help them win in Baseball matches against other corporations...
!!!Another Success Mode: Mysterious Happiness Island Edition
...However, the Wakura team loses the final match against the Great Empire Killers and is bankrupted. Hero 6 fails to even confront the time criminal. The plot goes OffTheRails as Hero 6 is sent to the Blood Butterfly Army's camp as a slave to WorkOffTheDebt. And it's no "army boot camp" matter -- they're flat out neo-nazi esque arms traffickers who are performing human experiments regarding the eponymous "happiness grass" drugs. Can Hero 6 work there for 100 days without getting freaking executed? Will he stir a rebellion or will he instead join their ranks?
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!!This game features the following tropes:
* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. A few turns into ''Happiness Island Edition'' and you see the BB Commander executing people in cold blood.
* BagOfSpilling: ''Happiness Island'' is an ImmediateSequel to ''Town Factory''. Hero 6 still starts with low stats and you can't bring a previous custom character into it.
* ContinuingIsPainful: If you fail the story you'll need to start over from the beginning. You can reset the GBA, but the game punishes this with stat losses and will just erase the save file if you do it over three times.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Happiness Island'' is probably the darkest story in the series.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Hero 6 manages to dismantle the Blood Butterfly Army and rebuilds the Wakura Factory.
* EvilKnockoff: The BB Army is secretly run by Mecha Kameda, who was created by the Propeller Team to hunt the traitorous Kameda but instead grew obssessed with surpassing him in every way.
* FinalBoss: ''Factory Baseball'' has no unusual final boss after the Baseball tournament, but ''Happiness Island'' has two you can choose from.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The giant frog-scorpion Toshio-kun can be awakened at the end of ''Happiness Island Edition''. Hero 6 drives Gundar Robo to kill it and then stomps the BB Army flat in the confusion.
* HelloInsertNameHere: You start out by giving the protagonist a name and role as usual.
* TheHero: Hero 6, the first Power Pro-kun who gets a unique outfit. Like Hero 1, he stars in a second story but it is in the same game.
* HumongousMecha: There's a Gundar Robo hidden away in the Blood Butterfly camp, which can be used by Hero 6 to kill Toshio-kun.
* KarmicDeath: After Mecha Kameda is destroyed, Helga shoulders all the blame for the BB Army's actions and is executed by a firing squad. If you had befriended her, the game lets you see her about to get shot.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure:
** If you return to the future at the end of ''Factory Baseball'', the protagonist regrets leaving his friends behind and finds everything he did was in vain.
** Slack off on the job at the BB camp? ''They shoot you dead''.
** In ''Factory Baseball'' Hero 6 can become addicted to purchasing nerd merch. In ''Happiness Island'' he can get addicted to the Happiness Grass drugs. In both cases you get to see him looking miserable after you clear the game.
* LeftHanging: Turns out the time criminal had good reasons for bankrupting the Wakura factory, but we only learn his motivations 5 installments later.
* MadeASlave: Hero 6 becomes one for the BB Army.
* MultipleEndings: There are two main endings for ''Factory Baseball'' and three for ''Happiness Island''. And then a bunch of possible epilogues as usual.
* SeriousBusiness: The fates of corporations are decided on the outcome of Baseball matches. And those who go bankrupt are sent off to concentration camps.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange:
** There are only two minigames in this installment other than the regular fortune minigame. One is a kind of racing game and the other is a vertical shmup.
** The final bosses in ''Happiness Island''. One is a top-down action game like ''Zelda''. Another is a first-person mech battle based on the Goemon Impact battles from ''Ganbare Goemon 2'' and ''3''.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Helga believes to the bitter end that the results of the Happiness Grass experiments would validate all the deaths they caused in the process.
* YouHaveFailedMe: In ''Happiness Island Edition'' you have to manage the "Dog Meter". If you fail to serve the Blood Butterfly army properly and it drops to zero they'll execute you in cold blood. You don't want the meter to fill all the way, either, as that will trigger the ending where you turn into their madly loyal soldier.
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!!!Success Mode: A Factory's Baseball Team Edition
A time traveller comes from the future on a mission to find the time criminal whose alterations to the timeline have caused the important Wakura tech factory to become bankrupt. After getting hired, "Hero 6" must investigate his co-workers and help them win in Baseball matches against other corporations...
!!!Another Success Mode: Mysterious Happiness Island Edition
...However, the Wakura team loses the final match against the Great Empire Killers and is bankrupted. Hero 6 fails to even confront the time criminal. The plot goes OffTheRails as Hero 6 is sent to the Blood Butterfly Army's camp as a slave to WorkOffTheDebt. And it's no "army boot camp" matter -- they're flat out neo-nazi esque arms traffickers who are performing human experiments regarding the eponymous "happiness grass" drugs. Can Hero 6 work there for 100 days without getting freaking executed? Will he stir a rebellion or will he instead join their ranks?
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!!This game features the following tropes:
* ArmiesAreEvil: No, really. A few turns into ''Happiness Island Edition'' and you see the BB Commander executing people in cold blood.
* BagOfSpilling: ''Happiness Island'' is an ImmediateSequel to ''Town Factory''. Hero 6 still starts with low stats and you can't bring a previous custom character into it.
* ContinuingIsPainful: If you fail the story you'll need to start over from the beginning. You can reset the GBA, but the game punishes this with stat losses and will just erase the save file if you do it over three times.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Happiness Island'' is probably the darkest story in the series.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Hero 6 manages to dismantle the Blood Butterfly Army and rebuilds the Wakura Factory.
* EvilKnockoff: The BB Army is secretly run by Mecha Kameda, who was created by the Propeller Team to hunt the traitorous Kameda but instead grew obssessed with surpassing him in every way.
* FinalBoss: ''Factory Baseball'' has no unusual final boss after the Baseball tournament, but ''Happiness Island'' has two you can choose from.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The giant frog-scorpion Toshio-kun can be awakened at the end of ''Happiness Island Edition''. Hero 6 drives Gundar Robo to kill it and then stomps the BB Army flat in the confusion.
* HelloInsertNameHere: You start out by giving the protagonist a name and role as usual.
* TheHero: Hero 6, the first Power Pro-kun who gets a unique outfit. Like Hero 1, he stars in a second story but it is in the same game.
* HumongousMecha: There's a Gundar Robo hidden away in the Blood Butterfly camp, which can be used by Hero 6 to kill Toshio-kun.
* KarmicDeath: After Mecha Kameda is destroyed, Helga shoulders all the blame for the BB Army's actions and is executed by a firing squad. If you had befriended her, the game lets you see her about to get shot.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure:
** If you return to the future at the end of ''Factory Baseball'', the protagonist regrets leaving his friends behind and finds everything he did was in vain.
** Slack off on the job at the BB camp? ''They shoot you dead''.
** In ''Factory Baseball'' Hero 6 can become addicted to purchasing nerd merch. In ''Happiness Island'' he can get addicted to the Happiness Grass drugs. In both cases you get to see him looking miserable after you clear the game.
* LeftHanging: Turns out the time criminal had good reasons for bankrupting the Wakura factory, but we only learn his motivations 5 installments later.
* MadeASlave: Hero 6 becomes one for the BB Army.
* MultipleEndings: There are two main endings for ''Factory Baseball'' and three for ''Happiness Island''. And then a bunch of possible epilogues as usual.
* SeriousBusiness: The fates of corporations are decided on the outcome of Baseball matches. And those who go bankrupt are sent off to concentration camps.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange:
** There are only two minigames in this installment other than the regular fortune minigame. One is a kind of racing game and the other is a vertical shmup.
** The final bosses in ''Happiness Island''. One is a top-down action game like ''Zelda''. Another is a first-person mech battle based on the Goemon Impact battles from ''Ganbare Goemon 2'' and ''3''.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Helga believes to the bitter end that the results of the Happiness Grass experiments would validate all the deaths they caused in the process.
* YouHaveFailedMe: In ''Happiness Island Edition'' you have to manage the "Dog Meter". If you fail to serve the Blood Butterfly army properly and it drops to zero they'll execute you in cold blood. You don't want the meter to fill all the way, either, as that will trigger the ending where you turn into their madly loyal soldier.
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