History VideoGame / WillyWombat

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tagdor ends up dead after going rouge and getting his brains eaten out by ghosts, Mail passes from her injuries after Tagdor's ambush with Notes not having come to terms with it yet, Prison is descending into anarchy due to Doctor Tron's machinations and Notes and Willy more or less have nowhere left to go home to. The bright side is that Doctor Tron's plans to restore everyone's free will goes off without a hitch and the Regeneration Unit is destroyed in the chaos with the destruction of Tron's Castle ensuring its advanced tech can never be abused to oppress free will again. After the dust settles, Willy decides to continue walking the earth to find Eden and help those he finds along the way with Notes deciding of his own free will to continue hunting Willy in the hopes of a proper rematch.]]

* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Averted in-game with Mail being a short and androgynous girl, though played straight in the instruction where she is a lot taller and curvier.

* GratuitousEnglish: [[ExaggeratedTrope ...exaggerated.]] The title, some text items, and '''the whole voice cast''' is in English.

* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Averted in-game with Mail being a short and androgynous girl, though played straight in the instruction where she is a lot taller and curvier.

* DeathMountain: Caves of Zibet and Megalo Canyon.

* GloryHound: Tagdor is only on this mission so that he can win glory, praise and a promotion to Commander rank.

* KnightTemplar: Notes and his gang. As far as they know, Willy is a dangerous criminal and they are they're officers ordered to hunt him down for the greater good. Willy challenges their perspective repeatedly and over time this breeds change in their outlooks on their roles in the Prison system.

* OffModel: The instruction manual has a very different design for Mail: in game she is rather short and androgynous, whereas in the manual she is much taller and [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure unmistakably female.]] Tagdor is also notably different in his manual art, wearing a blue armored bodysuit unlike in the final game where he's instead wearing a black bodysuit, blue vest and a white loincloth. He also has more of a HeroicBuild whereas his in-game design makes him more evenly and thickly built.

* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: The Regeneration Unit is secretly stripping away the free will of any and all who use it in order to turn the citizens of Prison into mindless slaves who will work themselves to death.]] This information is so heinous that it makes Willy turn rouge the moment he realizes it. When Notes and Mail later discover the truth as well, it's enough to send them both into HeroicBSOD [[spoiler: long enough for Tagdor to ambush them, mortally wounding Mail in the process.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tagdor ends up dead after going rouge and getting his brains eaten out by ghosts, Mail passes from her injuries after Tagdor's ambush with Notes not having come to terms with it yet, Prison is descending into anarchy due to Doctor Tron's machinations and Notes and Willy more or less have nowhere left to go home to. The bright side is that Doctor Tron's plans to restore everyone's free will goes off without a hitch and the Regeneration Unit is destroyed in the chaos with the destruction of Tron's Castle ensuring its advanced tech can never be abused to oppress free will again. After the dust settles, Willy decides to continue walking the earth to find Eden and help those he finds along the way with Notes deciding of his own free will to continue hunting Willy in the hopes of a proper rematch.]]

* TheConfidant: Java becomes this to Willy over time. Whenever they meet up at one of his safehouses, he always listens to Willy's plights and offers up sagely advice. [[spoiler: Given he was using Willy to get to the Miracle Gems, it's brought into question how genuine he actually was.]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The game has a cartoony and goofy artstyle, but it definitely does not sugarcoat the fact the world is in shambles and has some surprisingly dark villains. [[spoiler: Also, AnyoneCanDie.]]
* DangerousDeserter: Prison sees Willy as this, which is why they sent Notes, Mail and Tagdor after him. [[spoiler: Turns out it was Tagdor they should have been keeping an eye on instead.]]

* DemonicPossession: If a living person is overwhelmed by a ghost they'll get their brain eaten out, leaving them as a shambling, mindless vessel for the ghosts to manipulate. [[spoiler: Tagdor ends up befalling this fate and Willy is forced to cut him down.]]

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Java, the old man who has been saving your game, turns out to have been Doctor Tron all along and was using both Willy and Notes to get his hands on the Miracle Gems.]]
* EpicFlail: Tagdor's weapon of choice. He trades the spiked ball on the end out for a more intimidating golden one later on [[spoiler: after getting possessed by ghosts.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several times through the game, the presence of a Miracle Gem is shown to draw in ghosts from everywhere due to their attraction to the Miracle Gem's power. [[spoiler: Once all six are collected and their powers begin to resonate together, they end up drawing out an absolutely MASSIVE ghost who kills Doctor Tron and starts off the chain reaction that destroys Tron's Castle.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Doctor Tron, the scientist responsible for creating the Regeneration Unit who leaves behind the cryptic clues that persuade Willy to escape Prison. [[spoiler: Except he's not quite dead after all...]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Miracle Gems are made of the condensed free will of every citizen who's ever set foot in the Regeneration Unit]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All the main protagonists sans Java look to be in their late teens or early twenties but they're implied to have been alive for decades or centuries thanks to the Regeneration Unit. [[spoiler: Java, as the inventor of the Regeneration Unit was also easily capable of keeping himself alive all this time too despite looking much older.]]
* ReviveKillsZombie: Inverted. Ghosts are hypnotically attracted to Miracle Gems [[spoiler: due to their being made from free will and the life force that comes with it.]]

* ShutUpHannibal: Willy and Notes both give one of these to [[spoiler: Doctor Tron]] near the end of the game.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Everyone but Willy and Notes dies.]]

[[caption-width-right:320: Somewhere under this moonlight is the Eden that I seek...]]]]

** The Miracle Gems spoken of in rumors and myths. While they don't seem to have any inherent powers on their own, once all six are gathered together they're supposed to reveal the path to the garden of freedom, Eden.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Java, the old man who has been saving your game, turns out to have been Doctor Tron all along and was using both Willy and Notes and his crew to get his hands on the Miracle Gems.]]
* EpicFlail: Tagdor's weapon of choice. He trades the spiked ball on the end out for an absolutely MASSIVE golden one later on [[spoiler: after getting possessed by ghosts.]]

A top-down action-platforming game for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn released only in Japan, with all characters designed by Susumu Matsushita (the same designer for both ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland'' and ''VideoGame/MotorToonGrandPrix''). The game stars the titular Franchise/{{Batman}}-esque wombat who is a drifter in a post-apocalyptic [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals world populated entirely by animals.]] The story itself is surprisingly hard to follow due to little set-up and the character interactions being rather random and surreal, though essentially Willy, previously a high ranking general in the police force of a totalitarian civilization by the name of "Prison" one day stumbled upon data concerning mysterious artifacts by the name of Miracle Gems and a mysterious realm by the name of Eden. After reading through the data and discovering an AwfulTruth, Willy is convinced to break out of prison and begin traveling through the world in search of the Miracle Gems. Along the way, he meets an old dog by the name of Java who claims to know about the Miracle Gems and is willing to assist Willy in his hunt...for a price. Meanwhile a trio of elite officers from Prison named [[ByTheBookCop Notes,]] [[EmotionlessGirl Mail,]] and [[TheBrute Tagdor]] are tasked with hunting Willy down and getting to the bottom of what made him go rouge. You control Willy as you explore the abandoned ruins of the post-apocalyptic world solving puzzles, fighting through endless hordes of ghosts and doing your best to evade capture by the Prison elite. The most stand-out element of the gameplay is the ability to control the camera unlike other top-down games at the time. Unusually, though the the game was only released in Japan, it utilizes a full English voice cast.

Surprisingly, this game actually had a large impact on the name of a famous video game mascot: VideoGame/CrashBandicoot. Early on in development, Crash Bandicoot was originally named Willy Wombat, but Crash's creators, Creator/NaughtyDog had later discovered that the name itself was already taken by this game, which had soon led to the name change in due time. Sadly unlike Crash, Willy's game only received decent reviews and quickly faded into obscurity. The game has garnered a small but loyal cult following though, especially among Sega Saturn enthusiasts.

* ArtifactOfPower: The Miracle Gems spoken of in rumors and myths. While they don't seem to have any inherent powers on their own, once all six are gathered together they're supposed to reveal the path to the garden of freedom, Eden. Willy can also come across
Ancient Scripts during his travels that Java can then decipher in order to give Willy [[LimitBreak powerful special techniques.]]
* AwardBaitSong: The ending theme, Fearless Heart. A sappy love ballad that's implied to be from Mail's perspective given the use of an instrumental version for scenes relating to her. Though given how the story ends, the only possible context it could have by that point would be [[HoYay as Note's perspective of Willy.]]

* ShutUpHanibal: Willy and Notes both give one of these to [[spoiler: Doctor Tron]] near the end of the game.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All the main protagonists sans Java look to be in their late teens or early twenties but they're implied to have been alive for decades or centuries thanks to the Regeneration Unit. [[spoilers: Java, as the inventor of the Regeneration Unit was also easily capable of keeping himself alive all this time too despite looking much older.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Tagdor ends up dead after going rouge and getting his brains eaten out by ghosts, Mail passes from her injuries after Tagdor's ambush with Notes not having come to terms with it yet, Prison is descending into anarchy due to Doctor Tron's machinations and Notes and Willy more or less having nowhere left to go home to. The bright side is that Doctor Tron's plans to restore everyone's free will goes off without a hitch and the Regeneration Unit is destroyed in the chaos with the destruction of Tron's Castle ensuring its advanced tech can never be abused to oppress free will again. After the dust settles, Willy decides to continue walking the earth to find Eden and help those he finds along the way with Notes deciding of his own free will to continue hunting Willy in the hopes of a proper rematch.]]

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Java, the old man who has been saving your game, turns out the be the BigBad.]]

* ImmortalityInducer: The Regeneration Unit back in Prison. It's able to reverse the aging process and cellular degradation, restoring anyone who uses it to their youth. Notes mentions, however, that it isn't true immortality due to the fact that they can still be hurt and killed and eventually something is going to come along that'll permanently put them out of commission.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All the main protagonists sans Java look to be in their late teens or early twenties but they're implied to have been alive for decades or centuries thanks to the Regeneration Unit.

* ArtifactOfPower: The Miracle Gems spoken of in rumors and myths. While they don't seem to have any inherent powers on their own, once all six are gathered together they're supposed to reveal the path to the garden of freedom, Eden. Willy can also come across Ancient Scripts during his travels that Java can then decipher in order to give Willy [[LimitBreak powerful special techniques.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The game ends with Willy running off to find more adventures and Notes swearing he will continue to chase him.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Mail is dead, Notes still hasn’t gotten over her death, and the city they came from is descending into anarchy. The bright side is Java’s mad plan is stopped, the destruction of the ruins ensures its advanced tech can never be abused again, and Willy survives to continue helping others.]]

* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: The Regeneration Unit is secretly stripping away the free will of any and all who use it in order to turn the citizens of Prison into mindless slaves who will work themselves to death.]] This information is so heinous that it makes Willy turn rouge the moment he realizes it. When Notes and Mail later discover the truth as well, it's enough to send them both into HeroicBSOD [[spoiler: long enough for Tagdor to ambush them, mortally wounding Mail in the process.]

A top-down action game for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn released only in Japan, with all characters designed by Susumu Matsushita (the same designer for both ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland'' and ''VideoGame/MotorToonGrandPrix''). The game stars the titular Franchise/{{Batman}}-esque wombat who is a drifter in a post-apocalyptic [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals world populated entirely by animals.]] The story itself is surprisingly hard to follow due to little set-up and the character interactions being rather random and surreal, though essentially a trio of police officers named [[ByTheBookCop Notes,]] [[EmotionlessGirl Mail,]] and [[TheBrute Tagdor]] are searching ancient ruins both to apprehend Willy and supposedly find powerful artifacts to help their city achieve [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence "Eden".]] You control Willy as you explore the ruins and solve puzzles, whilst also engaging in some combat and eventually fight each of the police officers on your tail. Willy also encounters a mysterious and eccentric old man named Java who saves your game. The most stand-out element of the gameplay is the ability to control the camera unlike other top-down games at the time. Unusually, though the the game was only released in Japan, it utilizes a full English voice cast.

* OffModel: The instruction manual has a very different design for Mail: in game she is rather short and androgynous, whereas in the manual she is much taller and [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure unmistakably female.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Unlike Notes and Mail who both have redeeming qualities and want to catch Willy to bring him to justice, Tagdor is a violent and repulsive thug who just wants to kill Willy for fun.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The game ends with Willy running off to find more adventures and Notes swearing he will continue to chase him

* RuinsForRuinsSake: A vast majority of the game takes place in ancient ruins.

A top-down action game for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn released only in Japan, with all characters designed by Susumu Matsushita. The game stars the titular Batman-esque wombat who is a drifter in a post-apocalyptic [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals world populated entirely by animals.]] The story itself is surprisingly hard to follow due to little set-up and the character interactions being rather random and surreal, though essentially a trio of police officers named [[ByTheBookCop Notes,]] [[EmotionlessGirl Mail,]] and [[TheBrute Tagdor]] are searching ancient ruins both to apprehend Willy and supposedly find powerful artifacts to help their city achieve [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence "Eden".]] You control Willy as you explore the ruins and solve puzzles, whilst also engaging in some combat and eventually fight each of the police officers on your tail. Willy also encounters a mysterious and eccentric old man named Java who saves your game. The most stand-out element of the gameplay is the ability to control the camera unlike other top-down games at the time. Unusually, though the the game was only released in Japan it utilizes a full English voice cast.

Surprisingly, this game actually had a large impact on a the name of a famous video game mascot: VideoGame/CrashBandicoot. Early on Crash Bandicoot was named Willy Wombat, but then they discovered the name had already been taken by this game which led to the name change. Sadly unlike Crash, Willy's game only received decent reviews and quickly faded into obscurity. The game has garnered a small but loyal cult following though, especially among Sega Saturn enthusiasts.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The game has a cartoony and goofy artstyle, but it definitely does not sugarcoat the fact the world is in shambles and has some surprisingly dark villains. [[spoiler: Also AnyoneCanDie.]]

* {{Expy}}: Willy bears more than passing resemblance to Batman in appearance, though in terms of personality they could not be more different with Willy being exceedingly jolly.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Unlike Notes and Mail who both have redeeming qualities and want to catch Willy to bring him to justice, Tagdor is a violent and repulsive thug who just wants to kill Willy for fun.

Surprisingly, this game actually had a large impact on a the name of a famous video game mascot: VideoGame/CrashBandicoot. Early on Crash Bandicoot was named Willy Wombat, but then they discovered the name had already been taken by this game which
led to the name change. Sadly unlike Crash, Willy's game only received decent reviews and quickly faded into obscurity. The game has garnered a small but loyal cult following though, especially among Sega Saturn enthusiasts.

Surprisingly, this game actually had a huge impact on a the name of a famous video game mascot: VideoGame/CrashBandicoot. Early on Crash Bandicoot was named Willy Wombat, but then they discovered the name had already been taken by this game which
les to the name change. Sadly unlike Crash, Willy's game only received decent reviews and quickly faded into obscurity. The game has garnered a small but loyal cult following though, especially among Sega Saturn enthusiasts.

A top-down action game for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn released only in Japan, with all characters designed by Susumu Matsushita. The game stars the titular Batman-esque wombat who is a drifter in a post-apocalyptic [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals world populated entirely by animals.]] The story itself is surprisingly hard to follow due to little set-up and the character interactions being rather random and surreal, though essentially a trio of police officers named [[ByTheBookCop Notes,]] [[EmotionlessGirl Mail,]] and [[TheBrute Tagdor]] are searching the ancient ruins both to apprehend Willy and supposedly find ancient artifacts to help their city achieve [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence "Eden".]] You control Willy as you explore the ruins and solve puzzles, whilst also engaging in some combat and eventually fight each of the police officers on your tail. Willy also encounters a mysterious and eccentric old man named Java who saves your game. The most stand-out element of the gameplay is the ability to control the camera unlike other top-down games at the time. Unusually, though the the game was only released in Japan it utilizes a full English voice cast.

* OffModel: The instruction manual has a very different design for Mail: in game she is rather short and androgynous, whereas in the manual she is a much taller and [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure unmistakably female.]]

Surprisingly, this game actually had a huge impact on a the name of a famous video game mascot: VideoGame/CrashBandicoot. Early on Crash Bandicoot was named Willy Wombat, but then they discovered the name had already been taken. Sadly unlike Crash, Willy's game only received decent reviews and quickly faded into obscurity. The game has garnered a small but loyal cult following, especially among Sega Saturn enthusiasts.

* {{Expy}}: Willy bears more than passing resemblance to Batman in appearance and goals, though in terms of personality they could not be more different with Willy being exceedingly jolly.

* OffModel: In the instruction manual has a very different design for Mail: in game she is rather short and androgynous, whereas in the manual she is a much taller and [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure unmistakably female.]]

* ArtstyleDissonance: In the instruction manual has a very different design for Mail: in game she is rather short and androgynous, whereas in the manual she is a much taller and [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure unmistakably female.]]

* Expy: Willy bears more than passing resemblance to Franchise/Batman in appearance and goals, though in terms of personality they could not be more different with Willy being exceedingly jolly.

* RighteousRabbit: Mail is a rabbit officer who chases Willy due to thinking him a criminal, though overtime she starts to reconsider this and questions who the real villain.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The game ends with Willy running off to find more adventures with Notes swearing he will continue to chase him

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The game has a very cartoony and almost goofy artstyle, but it definitly does not sugarcoat the fact the world is in shambles and has some surprisingly dark villains. [[spoiler: Also AnyoneCanDie.]]