Line #16 VideoGame/MonsterMaulers


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3	''VideoGame/MonsterMaulers'' (originally ''Kyukyoku Sentai Dadandarn'') is a fairly unique fighting game created by Konami in 1993 where a team of sentai-esque warriors are sent to face monsters around the world before confronting the villains who unleashed them in the first-place.
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5	While ''Monster Maulers'' mostly consists of a set of one-on-duels like in most fighting games (or two-on-one in two-player mode), the enemy characters cannot be selected, and there is no 2-player versus mode. As such, it's often regarded as a BeatEmUp, or a cross between the two genres.
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8	!!''Monster Maulers'' provides the following tropes:
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10	* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The Blue Dragon, where the player fights its head without the rest of its body exposed.
11	* BrainMonster: Brainy, like the name states, is a giant brain boss, who floats around while using its nerve as tentacles. Its sole remaining facial feature is a giant eye, making it an {{Oculothorax}}.
12	* CallingYourAttacks: Commonly done with the game's special moves.
13	* ChickenWalker: Ducker during his battle pilots one of these to attack the players.
14	* CombinationAttack: By standing next to one another while initiating a special move, 2 players can perform a united, enhanced special attack.
15	* CoOpMultiplayer: 2 players can team up to take on the bosses. Interestingly, despite basically being a fighting game, there's no 2-player versus mode.
16	* DubNameChange: The Chinese [[ElementalPowers elemental-themed]] demon boss had his name changed from Furaiki to Diablo.
17	* {{Expy}}: The [[GoldfishPoopGang Happy Droppers]] are basically as close as possible to the [[Anime/{{Yatterman}} Doronbo Gang]] without going into LawyerFriendlyCameo levels of blatant.
18	* MarketBasedTitle: The game's original Japanese name was ''Kyukyoku Sentai Dadandarn''.
19	* ManEatingPlant: Spider Wort from the jungle stage is a massive flytrap-esque flower swinging on a vine who can unfold its petals to release [[MookMaker smaller versions of itself]] to attack the player. Every now and then, it will also lash out its tongue to grab the player into it's maw in an attempt to swallow them.
20	* MechaMooks: Before facing Docker, you'll need to face a small legion of robotic soldiers. They're not very durable, however, going down in two hits. There are several smaller robots in a later stage before the Robo-Ape boss.
21	* NavelDeepNeckline: Anne dons a red top that not just bares her cleavage, it extends back her midriff.
22	* NoblewomansLaugh: The Doronjo-esque final boss likes to give off one of these now and then.
23	* {{Oni}}: Diablo from resembles the classic horned oni, and has the ability to sic [[ShockAndAwe electrical attacks]] on the players.
24	* SexyBacklessOutfit: Anne dresses in a top that leaves the entire back of her upper body bare.
25	* ShoutOut: Several enemies from the ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' and Salamander series appear as enemies, or at least enemies designed to resemble them. Like the Brain Golem, or the Moai statue boss.
26	* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Japanese hero Kotetsu wears a rather bizarre outfit that consists of a combination of a thong, loincloth & girdle, shoulder pads, upper arm and lower leg guards and nothing else.
27	* SuperSentaiStance: The characters all have win poses that seem quite sentai-inspired, but it's especially noticeable at the end of the game where they all pose together.

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