History VideoGame / VictoryBelles

* MiscarraigeOfJustice: Injustice is infamous for her show trials and executions in a mockery of actual legal procedures.

* MagikarpPower: Gear with many gremlins will generally be poor as a result of those gremlins, but once the R&D time is put in to resolve all of them, can be highly effective, often even moreso than those with fewer or even no gremlins.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The closed beta began on September 1st, 2021, the anniversary of the beginning of WWII.

* PolitcallyIncorrectHero: To put it mildly, Belles tend to hold beliefs appropriate to the the time and their country of origin, including those from Germany, Italy, and Japan, meaning some of the German Belles like Nurnberg and Deutschland believe in Nazi racial pseudoscience, the Spanish Belles seen so far are supporters of Franco's Nationalists, and Italian Belles like Pola and Camicia Nera are very much believers in Italian fascism. They're still technically heroes in this conflict despite being from the Axis because they're fighting against the Morgana, who are an existential threat to humanity.

** Rawalpindi may be a mail carrier armed with a handful of badly outdated naval rifles and protected by not even half an inch of armor, but she's absolutely raring for a fight. Fitting given that the historical ship engaged in an absolutely hopeless naval action to even momentarily delay ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Gneisenau'' from sinking Allied convoys.

* JokeWeapon: American Mk 14 and 15 torpedoes are, as in real life, spectacularly awful and have several glaring defects that will require significant work to correct. Once all the defects are fixed, they are solid torpedoes for their weight, but other torpedoes would generally be a better use of one's time and resources.

* NonIndicativeName: Much like in real life, heavy cruisers are only really "heavy" in that their starting equipment is naval rifles over 6.1" (155mm) in bore diameter. While the smallest (and oldest) light cruisers are certainly "light" compared to their heavy sisters, more modern light cruisers often have at least as much armor, starting health, and design weight as most heavy cruisers.

* {{Workaholic}}: Parizhkaya Kommuna self-destructively overworks herself to the point of going for days without sleep out of perceived shame for her service for the Russian Empire as ''Sevastapol''.

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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Belles and their crew and support staff may be allied together against the Morganas, but their parent nations are still at war with each other. Because of this, the INPF's contributing nations have all embedded intelligence agents, political officers, secret police, and the like aboard their Belle-supported ships specifically to protect state secrets, prevent foreign infiltration, and ensure that their crews remain loyal to their homelands first and foremost. Gameplay-wise, this means that getting into the good graces of one nation/faction might very well worsen your relationship with another.

''Victory Belles'' is a free-to-play iOS/Web [[TurnBasedCombat turn-based]] RolePlayingGame set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* MoeAnthropomorphism: The game is fundamentally about the personifications of ships known as "Belles". However, unlike many other such games, the Belles do not replace the ship, but exist aboard it (or within a limited range around it) as a sort of ship spirit that give their respective warships combat capabilities far above those without Belles, as well as protection from sinking in all but the most extreme circumstances.

''Victory Belles'' is a mobile game set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. As the German pre-dreadnought battleship ''Schleswig-Holstein'' fired the first shots of WWII, a mysterious noxious mist descended upon the seas, disabling ships and crews around the world and choking out many coastal cities, and from this mist emerged a vast and terrifying fleet of warships helmed by strange mechanical women. These ships, dubbed "Morgana" swiftly struck coastal cities and the stricken ships of the world. Even those ships that were able to fight back found themselves outmatched by the new threat. But shortly after, mysterious women known as "Belles" manifested aboard many warships and were able to ward their crews against this threat, protecting them from the Morgana mist and bolstering their ships' capabilities to match the Morgana in battle. With the naval war cut off before it could even really begin, the League of Nations held an emergency meeting to establish the International Naval Protection Force (INPF) to organize Belles of all fleets into an ostensibly neutral force that would protect all of humanity against the Morgana. Time will tell how long this arrangement holds.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Belles and their crew and support staff may be allied together against the Morganas, but their parent nations are still at war with each other. Because of this, the INPF's contributing nations have all embedded intelligence agents, political officers, secret police, and the like aboard their Belle-supported ships specifically to protect state secrets, prevent foreign infiltration, and ensure that their crews remain loyal to their homelands first and foremost.

The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in May of 2016, but thanks to a TroubledDevelopment only entered closed beta in September 2021. It is heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/KanColle'', but features ships from all major navies (plus Poland, Turkey, and Spain) from the beginning. Particularly setting ''Victory Belles'' aside from other shipgirl games is that Belles are voiced in their native tongue, rather than universally in Japanese or Chinese (or English, as might be expected of ''Victory Belles''[='=]s American development team). Additionally, character art is all done to a unified art style, giving a consistent style to the various Belles.

* MoeAnthropomorphism: The game is fundamentally about the personifications of ships as "Belles". However, unlike many other such games, the Belles do not replace the ship, but exist aboard it (or within a limited range around it) as a sort of spirit of the ship and give their respective ships combat capabilities far above ships without Belles, as well as protect them from sinking in all but the most extreme circumstances.

* ExactWords: Queen Mary states that her function as a Belle is to protect the ship and its crew (and passengers). As an ocean liner turned troop transport capable of incredible speed with no armament beyond maybe a few token anti-air guns, she suggests that the best way for her to do this is to avoid the Morgana rather than fight them as other Belles would.

* MoeAnthroporphism: The game is fundamentally about the personifications of ships as "Belles". However, unlike many other such games, the Belles do not replace the ship, but exist aboard it (or within a limited range around it) as a sort of spirit of the ship and give their respective ships combat capabilities far above ships without Belles, as well as protect them from sinking in all but the most extreme circumstances.

* NonIndicativeName: Much like in real life, heavy cruisers are only "heavy" in that their starting equipment is naval rifles over 6.1" (155mm) in bore diameter. While the smallest (and oldest) light cruisers are certainly "light" compared to their heavy sisters, more modern light cruisers often have at least as much armor, starting health, and design weight as most heavy cruisers.

* CombatMedic: Marat primarily works in her ship's sick bay. Said ship is a battleship with a dozen 12" guns.

* HotBlooded: Rawalpindi may be a mail carrier armed with a handful of badly outdated naval rifles and protected by not even half an inch of armor, but she's absolutely raring for a fight. Fitting given that the historical ship engaged in an absolutely hopeless naval action to even momentarily delay ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Gneisenau'' from sinking Allied convoys.

* {{Irony}}: Not unlike [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}} B. J. Blazkowicz]], Atlantis very much looks the Aryan ideal of Nazi Germany, and also not unlike B. J. Blazkowicz, she's Jewish. The only reason she's allowed to serve at all, even under the close scrutiny of a political officer, is because she also has a certificate of Aryan heritage.

* RobotGirl: The Morgana all take the form of humanoid women, but are also overtly mechanical and many have some manner of damage that reveals more of their mechanical elements.

* RobotGirl: The Morgana all take the form of humanoid women, but also overtly mechanical and many have some manner of damage that reveals more of their mechanical elements.

The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in May of 2016, but thanks to a TroubledDevelopment only entered closed beta in September 2021. It is heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/KanColle'', but features ships from all major navies from the beginning. Particularly setting ''Victory Belles'' aside from other shipgirl games is that Belles are voiced in their native tongue, rather than universally in Japanese or Chinese (or English, as might be expected of ''Victory Belles''[='=]s American development team). Additionally, character art is all done to a unified art style, giving a consistent style to the various Belles.