Line #17 VideoGame/DynamiteCop


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2	[[caption-width-right:299:Featuring the CowboyCop that Sega swears isn't Bruce Willis.]]
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4	''Dynamite Cop'' (known as ''Dynamite Deka'' in Japan) is a small series of [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame arcade]] [[BeatEmUp beat 'em ups]] from Creator/{{Sega}}. It was born in the context when the 3D technology was quickly becoming the industry's standard. The games were designed and directed by Makoto Uchida, who's previously responsible for ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988'' and ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe''.
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6	In this game, you assume a role of Bruno Delinger (and his colleagues), who must rescue a daughter of the United States' president held by terrorists.
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8	''Dynamite Cop'' series is pretty well-regarded for an early attempt at 3D beat 'em up (especially when compared to Eidos' mediocre ''Fighting Force'' for [=PS1=]), but it's also remembered for its over-the-top humor, topped with 80s action flick cheese. Unfortunately, the series became all but forgotten after the second game, although Bruno Delinger eventually showed up in 2013 crossover game ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''.
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10	The series consists of the following games:
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12	* ''Die Hard Arcade'' / ''Dynamite Deka'' (1996) - Ported to Sega Saturn, [=PlayStation=] 2
13	** The first game that was released for Saturn-based system ST-V. As Bruno Delinger and Cindy Holiday, you're on a mission to rescue the president's daughter, Caroline Powell, from terrorists led by Wolf "White Fang" Hongo. For the international debut, Sega decided to tie it with then-popular action flim ''Franchise/DieHard'', which also happened to be about terrorists seizing a skyscraper. Outside DubNameChange, nothing else was changed to match it to the film.
14	* ''Dynamite Cop'' / ''Dynamite Deka 2'' (1998) - Ported to Sega Dreamcast
15	** The second game developed for the more advanced Sega Model 2 system. Once again, the president's daughter has been kidnapped, this time by a band of modern-day pirates still led by Wolf Hongo. Bruno Delinger, joined by other allies Jean Ivy and Eddie Brown, must fight through levels on board a cruise ship and a deserted island to save her.
16	* ''Dynamite Deka EX: Asian Dynamite'' (2007)
17	** Informally a sequel, but in terms of gameplay, it's a remixed version of ''Deka 2'' with a wacky Asian theme and several changes on the gameplay mechanics (for instance, the player characters can transform into different characters with their own fighting styles by picking up items). This time, Bruno is joined by a grown-up Caroline Powell as well as the newcomer Jennifer Genuine in fighting through Asian-themed stages. Only released in Japan and Asia (in Asia, it's only referred to as "Asian Dynamite"), and didn't receive a port to any home system.
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19	Because of TitleConfusion between the English versions, the individual games will be referred to by the Japanese names: ''Deka 1'', ''Deka 2'', and ''EX''.
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22	!!The ''Dynamite Cop'' series contains examples of:
23	* ActionCommands: At various points when entering a new screen you may get a quick time event to deal extra damage at the beginning of a fight.
24	* AerosolFlamethrower: The spray can, which merely stuns enemies for some damage, becomes this if you find a lighter.
25	* AffectionateParody: Of '80/90s Hollywood action movies. ''Asian Dynamite'' throws some Asian action movies from Hong Kong into mix.
26	* ArmCannon: In the FinalBoss fight of ''2'' and ''EX'', Wolf Hongo has one of these (A wrist-mounted gun in ''2'', a cybernetic claw in ''EX''), that fires either machinegun rounds or missiles.
27	* ArtifactMook: The "Collector" enemy in ''EX'' shows up on just about every screen. This is most obvious on the penultimate screen, where every other enemy is wearing a hazmat suit.
28	* BeatingADeadPlayer: Enemies will endlessly taunt and mock you during the continue countdown.
29	* BigBad: Wolf Hongo is the mastermind behind the terrorists taking control of the skyscraper. He later returns in the sequel leading a group of pirates who take over a cruise ship.
30	* BilingualBonus: The opening sequence of ''Asian Dynamite'' starts with news reports from different Asian languages, especially Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
31	* ClothingDamage: In the first game, the players lose clothes as the game progresses, mirroring John [=McClane=]'s own loss of attire in ''Film/DieHard''. In the second game the players instead lose clothes [[ShowsDamage the more they take damage]]. Averted in the third game.
32	* DenserAndWackier: The first game is this to ''Film/DieHard'', and the second and third games are progressively this. It culminates in ''Asian Dynamite'' where the player characters can transform, among other things, to a ChineseVampire.
33	* DieHardOnAnX: Well yeah, the first game ''was'' inspired by ''Die Hard'' and just meant to use Expies of the characters. SEGA managed to get the rights to legit make it a tie-in to ''Die Hard'' (despite only barely resembling the film in terms of story i.e a building and terrorists taking it over). The second game is pretty much ''Die Hard on a Cruise Ship'' and the third is ''Die Hard in a Asian District''.
34	* DolledUpInstallment: ''Die Hard Arcade'', featuring John [=McClane=] as a playable chatacter.
35	* DownloadableContent: The Dreamcast version of ''Dynamite Cop'' got one in the form of the Detonator Pack, known as the Elements of Deka Pack in Japanese. This DLC adds Cindy Holiday[=/=]Kris Thompson as an alternate costume for Jean Ivy, and also serves to update the existing game to its revised arcade counterpart in Japan, ''Dynamite Deka 2.1''. Has sadly become PermanentlyMissableContent with the Dreamcast's death, outside of alternative methods.
36	* DubInducedPlotHole: ''Die Hard Arcade'' changes the setting from three skyscrapers conjoined at their base to Nakatomi Plaza, the layout of which doesn't quite match the in-battle scenes, most noticeably at the part where the players fight on and inside a skyway connecting two of the skyscrapers.
37	* DubNameChange: In the international version of ''Deka 1'', the protagonists of the first game were named John [=McClane=] and Kris Thompsen, the former being the main character of ''Die Hard''. Likewise, the final boss is known as Gruber.
38	* EliteMooks: A few varieties in all three games:
39	** First game:
40	*** Martial arts users that attacked much faster than the other enemies and tended to keep their distance and bait the player.
41	*** Pistol-wielding enemies that would fire from a prone position and would pull out another gun if the player made them lose it (though they'd run out after four).
42	*** Robots that could fire lasers from a distance and could not be arrested.
43	** Second/Third game:
44	*** DualWielding enemies, with either swords or guns. The sword-wielders occasionally teleport or use a combo attack that knocks off a third of your health. The GunsAkimbo variety could make your HP vanish in a flash and tended to fire as they got up from being knocked down. Neither type can be arrested.
45	*** Hunchbacked enemies that used acrobatic moves and would use a slide-attack when knocked down. ''Asian Dynamite'' adds a version that wears a basket from which they will throw projectiles. Can't be arrested.
46	*** "Ghost" Pirates, exclusive to the second game, that would [[AsteroidsMonster split into two enemies]] after being knocked down. Could be combined with the aforementioned DualWielding Mooks.
47	*** The Collector from ''Asian Dynamite'' is a DownplayedExample, he wasn't much stronger than the common thugs, but had a projectile attack where he spits at you.
48	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: ''Asian Dynamite'' does this in full-force.
49	* EvilChef: The second game has three chef bosses who are fought on different routes: Alexander the French chef on Route 1, Jumbo Matsu the Japanese chef on Route 2, and Master Yang the Chinese chef on Route 3.
50	* FightingYourFriend: If the final boss is defeated in multi-player mode, the president's daughter declares she'll give a reward to the stronger player, triggering a fight between the two.
51	* FireHoseCannon: In the underground parking lot area, the terrorists managed to hijack a firetruck and weaponize its hose, blasting water at you regularly. It knocks you down but doesn't damage you (and can stumble the enemies too if they're distracted enough).
52	* GameOverMan: In ''Asian Dynamite'', a chef serves you a bowl of GameOver rice.
53	* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: One of the bosses in ''Deka 2'' is a wholesale and thoroughly pissed [[GiantSquid kraken]] that's beneath the engine room for some inexplicable reason. It is also fought as a cyborg in Route 3 of ''EX'', [[spoiler: the ending of which implies it may be an alien]]. In the other routes of ''EX'', you instead fight a statue possessed by ghosts.
54	* ImprovisedWeapon: ''Deka 1'' has [[PepperSneeze pepper, which can incapacitate enemies for a moment]]. ''Deka 2'' has even stranger collection of weapons, including a freezing tuna and a toilet. The fact that many handheld items can be weaponized is made as the selling point of the second game.
55	* ISurrenderSuckers: Many mooks, after being knocked down, will feign pleading for mercy only to throw a GroinAttack at the player.
56	* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Get a game over in Deka 2, and your treated to a view of the cruise ship sinking in the background while one of the boxes float by with the word "Game Over" on it. [[spoiler:Though in the game proper, this will happen regardless, with the final stage taking place in the pirates' hideout.]]
57	* KilledOffscreen: The penultimate boss in the second and third games is a MasterOfDisguise/Shapeshifter who has pulled a KillAndReplace on the heroes' superior.
58	* MarketBasedTitle: The first game was internationally released as a licensed product of ''Franchise/DieHard'' series.
59	* MsFanservice: Cindy Holiday, who spends the second half of the first game dressed in a sports bra and shorts. Jean Ivy in the second game, especially when she suffers from ClothingDamage.
60	* OffscreenTeleportation:
61	** In the first game, Wolf Hongo appears in several quick-time events: fleeing from the players before the first robot fight, firing a rocket launcher at the players before the boss fight with Jocko, and firing another rocket at the players before the second robot fight. The cutscenes afterward have him right back in President Powell's office.
62	** In Route 1 of ''Dynamite Cop'', a quick-time event has the players dodging the terrorists' speeding ships while swimming, only to have somehow gotten on one of said ships in the following cutscene.
63	** In Route 2, a mook appears from nowhere to disarm the President's daughter when she threatens Hongo with an SMG. Later, after the FinalBoss fight he teleports from the ocean liner to one of the terrorists' ships (this is repeated in Route 1 of ''EX'').
64	** In Route 3, Hongo and De Pedro manage to beat the players to the terrorists' hideout despite the players passing them while riding a helicopter.
65	* OneHitKill: Grappling lesser mooks when you have a handgun equipped allows you to perform an arrest, taking them out of the fight instantly.
66	* PaperThinDisguise: While Mask De Pedro's disguise as the captain is completely perfect, he's revealed as an impostor much earlier on Route 3, yet the heroes still fall for his WoundedGazelleGambit later.
67	* PepperSneeze: You can use the pepper shaker in every game to do this.
68	* ThePresidentsDaughter: You have to rescue her in all three games, though in the first game, it was actually the daughter of a ''company'' president rather than the US president.
69	* PressXToNotDie: All games have these between areas; failure means either taking damage or having to fight extra enemies.
70	* RightUnderTheirNoses: Caroline in ''Deka 1'' hides right under the desk of the boss' room, and yet the terrorists are too daft to realize it until the players enter the last stage.
71	* SequelTheOriginalTitle: An odd inversion. Some arcade cabinets for the second game bear the title ''Die Hard 2: Dynamite Cop'', though the game itself still just used ''Dynamite Cop''.
72	* ShoutOut: In the Sega Ages 2500 version of the first game, on Easy Mode, there's an item that, if picked up, turns Bruno into [[VideoGame/GoldenAxe Ax Battler]] and Cindy into Tyris Flare. If either character is transformed, the boss Jocko will be replaced with Death Adder, and the accompanying location and music will also be ''Golden Axe'' themed.
73	* TookALevelInBadass: A grown-up Caroline is one of the playable characters in ''EX''.
74	* VocalDissonance: The reuse of assets from the second game in the third means Jennifer Genuine, a white female, has the voice of Eddie Brown, a black male.
75	* WeaponizedHeadgear: Wolf Hongo uses a laser-shooting cybernetic helmet/mask in ''2/EX'', which he uses liberally alongside his TeleportSpam. Aside from aesthetics it's not much different from his ArmCannon and even uses the same sound effects, though its "secondary fire" replaces the missile with a charged blast that causes a mushroom cloud if it hits you.
76	* WeCanRebuildHim: Hongo gets more mechanical in each sequel. The Kraken as well in ''Asian Dynamite''.
77	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In all 3 games, the rest of the hostages besides the president's daughter are never seen being rescued.

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