Line #29 Roleplay/RakuenRevolution


1	You're in a [[http://rakuen.dreamwidth.org school]]. Here, [[MemeticMutation go fight this person with a sword you just pulled out of your friend's chest]].
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3	If that sounds familiar, it's because Rakuen Revolution is a ContinuityReboot of ''Roleplay/UtopiaAcademy''. It's a game based on the manga series ''Manga/{{Shitsurakuen}}'', only this time, characters are pulled into the city Rakuen from their own worlds, and forced to attend school and fight one another if they want any hope of regaining the ten memories that were arbitrarily removed from them, or of returning home.
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5	The game closed in January 2013 due to lack of interest.
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8	!!This game itself provides examples of:
9	* AgonyBeam: The warning penalty used to dissuade characters from breaking assorted rules. It takes the form of a strong headache, similar to its appearance in ''Shitsurakuen''.
10	** Used viciously by the Conquest staff every week on those who lose battles or break the rules, in a KneelBeforeZod sort of manner.
11	* AnEconomyIsYou: The town makes a vague pretense at normality but no one even tries to hide the fact that most of it is just there to take the characters' money.
12	* CallingYourAttacks: May not be strictly necessary, but it makes battles much more awesome.
13	* DeathIsNotPermanent: If someone dies, they'll wake up pretty much instantly back in their bedroom. They also get an optional ReviveKillsZombie upgrade they can equip.
14	* EmpathicWeapon / EquippableAlly: Like in ''Shitsurakuen'', the characters are the Weapons and feel any damage done to their weapon forms. And of course, like the original series, breaking the weapon causes traumatic comas.
15	* FairytaleMotifs: The Legend. And really, what do you expect from a game based on ''Manga/{{Shitsurakuen}}''?
16	* HopelessBossFight: The prefects, headmistresses, and mayor. For now, anyway. As the towers are opened, the staff gradually get weaker.
17	** Naturally, everyone freaked out when they were opponents during the camping trip.
18	* IncrediblyLamePun: The name of the [[http://crackuen.dreamwidth.org crack]] comm.
19	* InNameOnly: There are a number of differences between how ''Exaclan'' works in the game and in canon.
20	* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: If a character somehow winds up with fewer than zero [[GlobalCurrency raks]], they aren't the one who's punished -- instead, a random person is targeted with the warning penalty once every hour. It's particularly useful against those stubborn, selfless types who don't care what happens to them so long as everyone else is spared.
21	** One of the prerequisites for becoming a prefect is having a person who you believe in with all of your heart. Guess who gets punished if a prefect breaks the rules?
22	* JustifiedTutorial: Before arriving in the game, everyone has a "dream" where they are taught how ''Exaclan'' works.
23	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Characters lose ten memories upon entering the game. What quantifies "one memory" isn't really explained. One year of your life or the names of all of your loved ones are somehow just as meaningful as the exact number of pancakes you had for breakfast one morning.
24	** ''Conveniently'', everyone from Shitsurakuen has forgotten how to win ''Exaclan'' once and for all.
25	* LoopholeAbuse: Notice a loophole in the ''Exaclan'' rules? Try it. See what happens.
26	** [[{{Munchkin}} Mel]] is [[http://rakuen.wikkii.com/wiki/Things_Mel_is_not_allowed_to_do_in_Exaclan not allowed to have ideas anymore]].
27	* MirrorBoss: Putting enough dead bodies into the various towers causes them to spawn shadowy doubles of anyone entering one. Sometimes they drop some of that character's memories, whether the original or an alternate version of them, but the more they're battled the harder they become.
28	* MoneySpider: Although there aren't actual monsters anywhere in Rakuen, fighting the other player characters results in money appearing out of nowhere. How does this economy ''work'', anyway?
29	* {{Nerf}}: Everyone's superpowers are now gone. On the plus side, they get weapon upgrades that are reminiscent of what they could once do.
30	* OddNameOut: The school dormitories are named after colors: [[PaintTheIndexRed Red]], [[TropesInWhite White]], [[TropesInBlack Black]], and... [[UndeathlyPallor Pale]], which is actually a sickly green color.
31	* ResetButtonEnding: While it did clear up a few things, the city of Rakuen is essentially as it was when the game opened, since in the last week of the game the Tower Guardians slowly retreated back to the towers they were spawned from. In particular, the [=NPCs=] running the city are loosely based on previous students and faculty of the battle schools.
32	* ReviveKillsZombie: If a character is taken from a post-death canonpoint, healing abilities harm them instead.
33	* SchoolOfHardKnocks: Conquest and Fortitude are both "battle schools". Battling on campus is encouraged.
34	* WeSellEverything: The first time any character, Player or Weapon, is involved in a tower guardian battle, he or she receives a "buy anything" coupon. [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Jade]] used hers to buy ''Prospit's moon''.
35	** Interestingly, they do not sell puppet porn, thanks to some [[http://yaycapitalism.dreamwidth.org/330.html?thread=111434#cmt111434 ridiculously specific bylaws]].
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37	!!Characters in this game provide examples of:
38	%%Try not to add tropes that already fit your characters in their canons; that's what their canon pages are for! List in-game tropes only.
39	* ApatheticTeacher: The setting actively tries to avert this by punishing the adult teachers if they refuse to do their assigned jobs. That said, some of them are still only giving as much of a crap as they have to.
40	* ButtMonkey: [[Franchise/TouhouProject Cirno]] believes the system has it out for her after the disappearances of Alice, Marisa, and Remilia... and then Komachi shows up. For the other school.
41	* FigureItOutYourself: Mayor Dunleavy is glad to give out snippets of a cryptic fairytale to people who ask her for assistance, but refuses to explain what it means.
42	* ModeLock: A non-shapeshifter variant -- Most characters alternate roles week by week, but the mod characters are permanently stuck as either Players ([[Series/{{Glee}} Santana]], [[VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale Recette]], and [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Dolorosa]]) or Weapons ([[Literature/{{Katanagatari}} Nanami]], [[BestServedCold Day]], and [[Literature/HeroSeries Dunleavy]]).
43	* NeverLiveItDown: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Golbez]]. You trigger a [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure citywide]] random AgonyBeam ''one time''...
44	* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Stated by [[Literature/{{Katanagatari}} Nanami]] to Lelouch at one point.
45	* TooDumbToLive: {{Justified\|Trope}} and {{enforced}} by the memory loss system; a number of people are missing memories such as "How stairs work", "That humans can't breathe underwater", and "That decorative fruit centerpieces are not to be eaten".
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47	!!Weapons and their upgrades provide examples of:
48	* BattleThemeMusic: The ''Invigorating Melody'' ability provides a boost to offense as long as the Weapon is singing.
49	* ElementalRockPaperScissors: There are eight elements, each with their respective weaknesses and resistances. Only one can be equipped at a time without the use of the ''Catastrophe'' upgrade. ''Prism Barrier'', however, [[DefiedTrope turns the system into a nonissue]].
50	* JokeItem: [[Manga/BlackBloodBrothers Kotaro]]'s weapon form is a teddy bear. The Midwife's is a ''chair''. Joke weapons are more than allowed; they're encouraged.
51	* StatusEffects: The Condition upgrades consist of Poison, Sleep, Paralysis, Confusion, Blind, Slow, and Weakness. Additional abilities include Stop, Instant Death, Berserk, and Mute, along with a couple of less-commonly-used statuses such as Deafness.
52	* YouWillNotEvadeMe: The ''Magnet'' upgrade.

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