History VideoGame / RagnarokBattleOffline

Due to the age of the game and its freeware nature, the original website was allowed to expire, but there are still a few [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I5iSju0etAAa8EPhtqpJxnL7KxAJjxqZ/view working downloads]] left. There's also a [[TheWikiRule wiki]] [[http://rbo.wikia.com/wiki/Ragnarok_Battle_Offline_Wiki here]], which you ''will'' need, as [[GuideDangit the game doesn't exactly come with instructions]].

* FightingClown: The Novice is incredibly clumsy in combat, even if their moves cause mass destruction in some way.

* GuideDangIt: Several, and some of them are pretty irritating.

* LethalJokeItem: Lethal Joke Skills, rather. Many skills which are considered superfluous, underpowered or useless in the base game become absolutely powerful here. Most notable is the Mage's ''Thunderstorm''. In the base game, it's kept at lvl 1 as it gets supplanted ''Lord of Vermillion'' and have very limited application as Wind element. Here, it's the best HerdHittingAttack there is, capable of wiping an entire ''screen'' of enemies.

* AffectionateParody: The game makes several cheeky jokes on the source game's culture, ranging from knights making monster trains, to bots farming the hell out of the Ant Tunnel.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Maya's humanoid body has no nipples, unlike her appearance in the source material.

%% * MegatonPunch: Female Acolyte's Lunar Lariat Buster.

** Merchants actually grab the monster to mug money from them.

%% * RPGElements
* SchmuckBait: Go ahead, pick the Stage EX-1 with your fresh new character and see what happens.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Plenty of monsters are invulnerable except for that one spot. Most notably, the Scorpions.
* BadassBookworm: The Mage, and to an extent Acolytes, most likely will invest most of their points into Intelligence. But they will be doing as much physical ass-kicking as much as magic casting.

* BeatingADeadPlayer: Enemies will continually to attack the player while the game over screen is there. In an interesting version of this trope you use it to learn and understand the pattern of the enemy or boss that thrashed you. This is especially useful on the Stage 8 or Arena Modes.

** A very unusual version of it in the very first level: You fight a horde of Porings chasing Richard, the Knight who presumably Provoked them on purpose. Richard himself can ram the player while mounted on his Peco Peco and is immune to damage (you do ScratchDamage to him after you finish the "fight") so you must kill all the Porings that bother him.

* CuteBruiser: The female Acolyte, if you can unlock her Moon Lariat move. It's ''the'' single most damaging move in the game, bar none.

** One of the Doppelganger's move is jump and slam his sword on the ground. Taking a blow from this stuns your character.

** Novice is made purely of this. Using either gender effectively is incredibly difficult, but both have devastating potential.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The final boss of the game turns out to be a [[spoiler: Kafra possessed by an unknown entity.]]
* EvilCounterpart: The Doppelganger is this to the Male Swordman. They have the same moves, but [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Doppelganger's are always stronger or have an additional effect]].

%% * HellishHorse: The Nightmare.

** Thieves are this to some extent until they get Double Attack.
** Acolytes tend to have barely passable damages at best until the Male gets Holy Light and the Female her Lariat attack.
** The basic attack deals low damage, but the damage slowly increases as you keep hitting enemies without stopping the chain. Keep it long enough, and that female Acolyte's finger poke can eventually deal hundreds of damage per poke.

** Arena Mode is UpToEleven, as there you are very likely to fight mid-bosses and bosses altogether and sometimes even FIVE bosses at same time. Needless to say, some Arenas are insanely difficult to beat alone.

* DifficultySpike: It pokes you near the end of the normal game in the 7th Stage. It downright impales you in the very first Stage EX-1. The difficulty jump between the 8th and EX-1 will scare people who [[AttackAttackAttack think that unceasingly throwing attacks will make you win the game]]. And let's not mention the spike between EX-1 and [[GangplankGalleon EX-2]], where there's an irritating barrel-dodging section which is known to kill everyone at least once, and where you'll confront Drake and his infamous Waterball spell.

* {{Cutscene}}: A lot of them scattered through the Stages They can be a bit annoying after repeating the same level since you can't skip them.

* BeatingADeadPlayer: Enemies will continually to attack the player while the game over screen is there. In a interesting version of this trope you use it to learn and understand the pattern of the enemy or boss that thrashed you. This is especially useful on the Stage 8 or Arena Modes.

* BeatingADeadPlayer: You use it to learn and understand the pattern of the enemy boss that creamed you. This is especially useful on the Stage 8 or Arena Modes...

** Stage 8. Hope you memorized all bosses' patterns!

* DifficultySpike: It pokes you near the end of the normal game in the 7th Stage. It downright spikes you in the very first Stage EX-1. The jump between the 8th and EX-1 will scare people who [[AttackAttackAttack think that unceasingly throwing attacks will make you win the game]]. And let's not mention the spike between EX-1 and [[GangplankGalleon EX-2]], where there's an irritating barrel-dodging section which is known to kill everyone at least once, and where you'll confront Drake and his infamous Waterball spell.

''Ragnarok Battle Offline'' is a BeatEmUp FightingGame made by doujin developer French-Bread. Designed as a homage and a spoof of the {{MMORPG}} ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', it is notable in that it is amongst one of the few fan-made SpinOff games that have been given an official release by the developers of the original game. It embodies all the fun of ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' without the "online" part.

Given its origins, the story can be best summed up as NoPlotNoProblem You take control of one of 14 different adventurers (seven classes - Swordsman, Archer, Acolyte, Magician, Merchant, Thief and Novice - with a male and a female variant of each class) and you go and...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin beat up monsters]].

A translation patch for the Japanese version is available [[http://www.ragnarokbattle.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2851 here]] and has a [[TheWikiRule wiki]] [[http://rbo.wikia.com/wiki/Ragnarok_Battle_Offline_Wiki here]], which you ''will'' need, as [[GuideDangit the game doesn't exactly come with instructions]].

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** The female Merchant ''dropkicks'' her enemies.

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** Subverted with Maya, the boss of Ant Hell. After destroying her exoskeleton she'll TurnRed and her attacks will do far more damage. One of them, at that point, can combo you to death.

%% * ElementalPowers: Magicians have these.

%% * FlunkyBoss: Nearly every boss.

%% * GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Quite a few.

%% * RainOfArrows: The Archers' Arrow Shower.

%% * ReligiousBruiser: The Acolytes.

* BreathWeapon[=/=]DeathOfAThousandCuts: The most dangerous attacks from enemies are made of this since they give you absolutely no time to react, recover or get the hell out of the way, and since they don't knock you back you'll simply get stunlocked to death. Osiris has a particularly deadly one, enhanced by the his slowdown debuffs that make sure you won't run away before he's finished chewing up your health.
* BullfightBoss: A very unusual version of it in the very first level: You fight a horde of Porings chasing Richard, the Knight who presumably Provoked them on purpose. Richard himself can ram the player while mounted on his Peco Peco and is immune to damage (you do ScratchDamage to him after you finish the "fight") so you must kill all the Porings that bother him.

* DanceBattler[=/=]MagicDance: The Pharaoh, who spends the entirety of the boss fight dancing and weaving his dance moves into spells after getting knocked off his throne. He even brings a dancing posse along.

* ElementalPowers: Magicians have these.

* FlunkyBoss: Nearly every boss.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Courtesy of [[MilesGloriosus Richard the Knight]], [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat Merlin the Mage]], and [[ArtificialStupidity countless bots]], all of who keep screwing up their LevelGrinding in one way or another.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Quite a few.

* HellishHorse: The Nightmare.

* MascotMook: Porings and Lunars.

* MegatonPunch: Female Acolyte's Lunar Lariat Buster.
* {{Meido}}: The Kafras.

* OneManArmy: Your character is practically this.

* RainOfArrows: The Archers' Arrow Shower.

* ReligiousBruiser: The Acolytes, natch.

* RPGElements

* ShrinkingViolet: The female Novice.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs

** Maya. After breaking her exoskeleton she gain even more aggressive attacks that also hurts much more.

* StoneWall: Acolytes have good HP and plenty of support abilities, but their attacks deal very poor damage, and the one that does reach anything resembling a large amount of damage requires both [[GuideDangit careful stat and skill assignment]] and [[SomeDexterityRequired timing skills]]. Though subverted with [[CuteBruiser the female Acolyte]], who can gain an absurdly high damage lariat move.
* SwordBeam: Averted with both Swordman, played straight with the Doppelganger

** The earliest example you get is Maya.
** Most bosses from Stage 5 and forward will change their attack pattern when damaged enough.
** Stormy Knight's second phase.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Ex Scenarios. Every single one of them has much, much more powerful enemies and '''every single boss'' has attacks that are virtually OneHitKill. If you think you mastered a certain class only by playing the first eight levels of the game, EX-Stages will gladly teach you otherwise.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Ex Scenarios. The first one, the [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer Prontera Culvert]], is nothing compared to even the second one, the ghost ship, also housing one of the game's most infamous bosses, [[ThatOneBoss Drake]]. And then, there's the final EX stage, which makes the easier ones seem like the Prontera grounds.