History VideoGame / RumbleRoses

* TheMinnesotaFats: Dixie to Aisha.
** As a more minor case, Aigle to Makoto.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is good, if not nice. However, she's dressed darker than her alter ego Judgment, therefore she is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. This is more accurate than a lot of wrestling games, since face and heel do not mean "good" and "evil" but "cheered" and "booed" yet everyone else plays the "good"-"bad" thing straight anyway.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is good, if not nice. However, she's dressed darker than her alter ego Judgment, therefore she is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. Everyone else plays this straight.

In 2004, {{Konami}} decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre (well, at least outside Japan) which in the last years was in the hands of {{THQ}}, the holder of the Wrestling/{{WWE}} license. However, to the surprise of many, Konami announced that this game would feature an all female cast (this may have been related to the announcement of ''[[DeadOrAlive Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball]]'' around that time). The end result was a big {{fanservice}} extravaganza, with 10 ladies (each with her own {{face}} and a {{heel}} persona) wearing quite [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. Fanservice aside, ''Rumble Roses'' actually has good gameplay and nice graphics.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is good, if not nice. However, she's dressed darker than her alter ego Judgment, therefore she is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. This really is more accurate than a lot of wrestling games though since face and heel do not mean "good" or "evil" but "cheered" and "booed". Everyone else plays the "good" "bad" thing straighter anyway.

* SuperMovePortraitAttack: All the wrestlers' finishing moves fit this trope.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is good, if not nice, however she's dressed darker than her alter ego Judgment and so is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. This really is more accurate than a lot of wrestling games though since face and heel do not mean "good" or "evil" but "cheered" and "booed". Everyone else plays the "good" "bad" thing straighter anyway.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Quite a few, actually. The opening song (which is also Dixie's theme as a face), is a cover of David Lee Roth's "Yankee Rose", Ms. Spencer's theme sounds very similar to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher." Also, Reiko's theme as a face is one of many official remixes of Konami's rather popular ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' song "Look to the Sky"; and Makoto's theme as a face sounds very much like [[Manga/DragonBall "Cha La Head Cha La"]]. Evil Rose's theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyU32sW4vo "Pluck the Roses!"]] may very well have been inspired by Disturbed's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3QmtV8vT0 "Down with the Sickness"]] (if the similarity is indeed intentional, then considering the lyrics of the original song, it's very, ''very'' appropriate for someone like Evil Rose).

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is clearly a face. However, because she's darker than her alter ego Judgment, Bloody Shadow is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. The other characters' heel/face personas are played straight though.

* {{Ninja}}: Bloody Shadow and her alter ego, Judgement.

The story modes for each wrestler persona are also notable in a [[SoBadItsGood B-movie]] way. But let's go into a little more detail. It's set up more like a FightingGame than a WrestlingGame. [[IncrediblyLamePun Anesthesia]], the BigBad of the series, wants to take over the world. She plans to use a wrestling tournament to do it, offering a large cash prize to the winner as an incentive. She plans to take the DNA of the tournament winner to make an unstoppable cyborg army. Each of the girls has their own reason for being involved in the tournament. Reiko Hinomoto is trying to live up to her mother's legacy and search for her lost sister. Aisha is obsessed with a rematch against Dixie Clements, who she was never able to beat. Makoto Aihara is an Olympic judoka seeking competition. Candy Cane wants the cash prize to save the orphanage she grew up in. Miss Spencer ''enters the tournament accidentally'' while trying to chase down a recalcitrant runaway student (Candy Cane). Anyway, at the end of the tournament, the player fights one of Anesthesia's cyborgs, Lady X, and whoever wins goes home happy.

Now with a [[Characters/RumbleRoses Character sheet]]

*** Candy Cane is a teenage punk rocker from Canada. Although she is a lot "meaner" than AvrilLavigne (thus making her personality more akin to American female punk rockers like [[BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna]] or Brody Dalle), the similarity is obvious.

* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: Subverted in The Black Belt Demon's entrance.
** But played incredibly straight with Non Non in ''Rumble Roses XX''.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Lady X/Lady X [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Substance]]/Lady X [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Subsistence]].

* CrossCulturalKerfluffle: Queens Mode in ''RRXX''. The idea was that the girl who lost the match would suffer a penalty, like having to sweep around a pool with a push broom, and then she'd react to it by getting angry or sad or embarrassed. This was supposed to be a selling point of the game, and in Japan it was, but it was considered incredibly weird and creepy by Western audiences.

* DefeatByModesty: Sort of. Using a hold that "presents" your opponent to the audience in a suggestive way fills the humiliation meter. If it fills to the end, it triggers humiliation mode, a temporary stun that opens up special finishing moves, and a special victory type. Some maneuvers add to the attacker's meter, or to both, if it puts them in a compromising position. There's a special match type that only allows victory by humiliation.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is pretty clearly a face. However, because she's darker than her alter ego Judgment, Bloody Shadow is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. The other characters' heel/face personas are played straight though.

* {{Fanservice}}: The main selling point of the game, really.

In 2004, {{Konami}} decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre which in the last years was in the hands of {{THQ}}, the holder of the Wrestling/{{WWE}} license (well, at least outside Japan). However, to the surprise of many, Konami announced that this game would feature an all female cast (this may have been related to the announcement of ''[[DeadOrAlive Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball]]'' around that time). The end result was a big {{fanservice}} extravaganza, with 10 ladies (each with her own {{face}} and a {{heel}} persona) wearing quite [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. Fanservice aside, ''Rumble Roses'' actually has good gameplay and nice graphics.

* VirtualPaperDoll: In ''Rumble Roses XX'', there are outfits that can be unlocked, although the process of doing so is as labyrinthine as everything else in the game. The girls also come with a slider that can cause them to gain muscle or gain fat, turning them into [[AmazonianBeauty Amazonian Beauties]] or [[BigBeautifulWoman Big Beautiful Women]]. This slider is adjusted by which moves you use in the matches.

* CrossCulturalKerfluffle: Queens Mode in ''RRXX'', which was supposed to be a selling point of the game, was considered incredibly weird and creepy by Western audiences.

As right now there is one {{sequel}}, ''Rumble Roses XX'' for the {{Xbox 360}}. It introduced three new modes (Tag Team, "Queens Match" and Street Fight) as well as a very unelaborate create-a-wrestler feature. It also introduced "[[SuperMode Superstar]]" personas for each character's face and heel modes. Unfortunately, it featured no storyline mode at all, and an incredibly labyrinthine and time-consuming method of unlocking characters and rewards. Additionally, the "extras" like Queens Mode, Street Fight, the shoddy create-a-wrestler system and the playable bear proved very unpopular overseas. While ''Rumble Roses'' is generally considered to be a decent game, ''Rumble Roses XX'' was enough of a flop that it seems to have [[FranchiseKiller brought the series to an end]].

** But played incredibly straight with the playable bear in ''Rumble Roses XX''.
* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is pretty clearly a face. However, because she's darker than her alter ego Judgment, Bloody Shadow is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. Most of the other characters' heel/face personas are played straight though.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Evil Rose is actually Reiko's BrainwashedAndCrazy older sister while Lady X is a cyborg made from Kamikaze Rose's DNA (Kamikaze Rose is Reiko and Evil Rose's mother).

*** Candy Cane is a teenage punk rocker from Canada. Although she is a lot "meaner" than AvrilLavigne (thus making her personality more akin to American female punk rockers like [[BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna]] or [[TheDistillers Brody Dalle]]), the similarity is obvious.

* TheOneGuy: Sebastian the Clown (the gimp with clown makeup who accompanies Mistress Spencer during her ring entrance) is an unlockable in ''Rumble Roses XX''.

* GuiltyPleasure:

In 2004, {{Konami}} decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre which in the last years was in the hands of THQ, the holder of the Wrestling/{{WWE}} license (well, at least outside Japan). However, to the surprise of a lot of people, Konami announced that this game would be a pure woman-wrestling game instead of a game with sweaty men (this may have been related to the announcement of ''DeadOrAlive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' around that time). The end result was a big {{fanservice}} extravaganza, with 10 ladies -- each with her own {{face}} and a {{heel}} persona -- wearing quite [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. Fanservice aside, ''Rumble Roses'' had actually good gameplay and nice graphics.

The story modes for each wrestler persona are also notable in a [[SoBadItsGood B-movie]] way. But let's go into a little more detail. It's set up more like a FightingGame than a WrestlingGame. [[IncrediblyLamePun Anesthesia]], the BigBad of the series, wants to take over the world. She plans to use a wrestling tournament to do it, offering a large cash prize to the winner as an incentive. She plans to take the DNA of the tournament winner to make an unstoppable cyborg army. Each of the girls has their own reason for being involved in the tournament. Reiko Hinamoto is trying to live up to her mother's legacy and search for her lost sister. Aisha is obsessed with a rematch against Dixie Clements, who she was never able to beat. Makoto Aihara is an Olympic judoka seeking competition. Candy Cane wants the cash prize to save the orphanage she grew up in. Miss Spencer ''enters the tournament accidentally'' while trying to chase down a recalcitrant runaway student (Candy Cane). Anyway, at the end of the tournament, the player fights one of Anesthesia's cyborgs, Lady X, and whoever wins goes home happy.

As right now there is one {{sequel}}, ''Rumble Roses XX'' for the Xbox 360. It introduced three new modes - tag team, "Queens Match" and street fight - as well as a very unelaborate create-a-wrestler feature. It also introduced "[[SuperMode Superstar]]" personas for each character's Face and Heel modes. Unfortunately, it featured no storyline mode at all, and an incredibly labyrinthine and time-consuming method of unlocking characters and rewards. Additionally, the "extras" like Queens Mode, Street Fight, the shoddy create-a-wrestler system and the playable bear proved very unpopular overseas. While ''Rumble Roses'' was generally considered a decent game, ''Rumble Roses XX'' was enough of a flop that it seems to have [[FranchiseKiller brought the series to an end]].

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: RR has the same control scheme as the ''WWE [=SmackDown=]'' series, but the actual buttons aren't the exact same, so get ready to run headlong into your opponent a few times when you meant to grapple them.
* DefeatByModesty: Sort of. Using a hold that "presents" your opponent to the audience in a suggestive way fills the embarrassment meter, and if it fills to the end it triggers humiliation mode, a temporary stun that opens up special finishing moves, and a special victory type. Some maneuvers add to the attacker's meter, or to both, if it puts them in a compromising position. There's a special match type that only allows victory by humiliation.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a 'face' and a 'heel' persona. But, for example, Bloody Shadow is pretty clearly a face, yet because she's darker than her alter ego Judgment, is labeled the heel persona. Same goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia (the face persona) is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. Most characters get the heel/face thing straight though.
** EvilCostumeSwitch / GoodCostumeSwitch: Goes with the Face-to-Heel / Heel-to-Face switches.
** StartOfDarkness: Conveniently provided in the introduction to the Heel storylines of normally Face characters.
** [[ThatManIsDead That Girl Is Dead]]: The essence of some of the Roses' responses to their former friends' [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan attempts to get through to them]] [[FaceHeelTurn post-Heel-turn]].

* FranchiseKiller: ''Rumble Roses XX''
* GuiltyPleasure: Admit it. The game certainly does.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Evil Rose is actually Reiko's BrainwashedAndCrazy older sister. Lady X is Kamikaze Rose, Reiko and Evil Rose's mother.
** Not quite. She is a cyborg made from her DNA.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Noble Rose is blatantly "inspired" by ''CuteyHoney''. Aisha is sort of a portmanteau of a few different pop starlets, including BritneySpears, BeyonceKnowles and JenniferLopez.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Well, of course.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Quite a few, actually. The opening song (which is also Dixie's theme as a face), is a cover of David Lee Roth's "Yankee Rose", Ms. Spencer's theme sounds very similar to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher." Also, Reiko's theme as a face is one of many official remixes of Konami's rather popular VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution song "Look to the Sky"; and Makoto's theme as a face sounds very much like [[Manga/DragonBall "Cha La Head Cha La"]]. Evil Rose's theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyU32sW4vo "Pluck The Roses!"]] may very well have been inspired by Disturbed's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3QmtV8vT0 "Down With The Sickness"]] (If the similarity is indeed intentional, then considering the lyrics of the original song, it's very, ''very'' appropriate for someone like Evil Rose).

* ThirdPersonPerson: Aigle/Killer Khan

* TheOneGuy: Sebastian the Clown is an unlockable in ''Rumble Roses XX''.

* FoeYay: Almost everybody pretty much pairs off for this, but specifically Dixie and Aisha.

** Also there's Becky (Candy Cane's face gimmick), who looks like a cross between Britney at the start of her career and [[SpiceGirls Emma Bunton]].

*** Candy Cane is a teenage punk rocker from Canada. Although she is a lot "meaner" than AvrilLavigne (thus making her personality more akin to American female punk rockers like Kathleen Hanna or Brody Dalle), the similarity is obvious.

* LeotardOfPower: Noble Rose/Evil Rose, Bloody Shadow/Yasha.

*** Candy Cane is a teenage punk rocker from Canada. Although she is a lot "meaner" than Avril, the similarity is obvious.

* TheJimmyHartVersion: Quite a few, actually. The opening song (which is also Dixie's theme as a face), is a cover of David Lee Roth's "Yankee Rose", Ms. Spencer's theme sounds very similar to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher." Also, Reiko's theme as a face is one of many official remixes of Konami's rather popular VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution song "Look to the Sky"; and Makoto's theme as a face sounds very much like [[Manga/DragonBall "Cha La Head Cha La"]]. Evil Rose's theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyU32sW4vo "Pluck The Roses!"]] may very well have been inspired by Disturbed's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3QmtV8vT0 "Down With The Sickness"]] (If the similarity is indeed intentional, then considering the lyrics of the original song, it's very, ''very'' appropriate for someone like Evil Rose).

In 2004, {{Konami}} decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre which in the last years was in the hands of THQ, the holder of the {{WWE}} license (well, at least outside Japan). However, to the surprise of a lot of people, Konami announced that this game would be a pure woman-wrestling game instead of a game with sweaty men (this may have been related to the announcement of ''DeadOrAlive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' around that time). The end result was a big {{fanservice}} extravaganza, with 10 ladies -- each with her own {{face}} and a {{heel}} persona -- wearing quite [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. Fanservice aside, ''Rumble Roses'' had actually good gameplay and nice graphics.

* TheJimmyHartVersion: Quite a few, actually. The opening song (which is also Dixie's theme as a face), is a cover of David Lee Roth's "Yankee Rose", Ms. Spencer's theme sounds very similar to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher." Also, Reiko's theme as a face is one of many official remixes of Konami's rather popular DanceDanceRevolution song "Look to the Sky"; and Makoto's theme as a face sounds very much like [[DragonBallZ "Cha La Head Cha La"]]. Evil Rose's theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyU32sW4vo "Pluck The Roses!"]] may very well have been inspired by Disturbed's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3QmtV8vT0 "Down With The Sickness"]] (If the similarity is indeed intentional, then considering the lyrics of the original song, it's very, ''very'' appropriate for someone like Evil Rose).

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Lady X/Lady X [[MetalGearSolid Substance]]/Lady X [[MetalGearSolid Subsistence]].