Line #12 VideoGame/RoseAndCamellia


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2	[[caption-width-right:1000:Slap her cheek!]]
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4	''[[http://nigoro.jp/ja/games/rose/ Rose & Camellia]]'' is an UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game by Nigoro, the same people who made ''VideoGame/LaMulana''.
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6	With the death of Shunsuke, the eldest son of the Tsubakikoji family, his wife Reiko holds claim to being the matriarch of the family and house. However, Shunsuke's sisters and mother object to this, as Reiko was born a commoner. So with the family turning against her, what's a forlorn widow to do? [[BitchSlap Slap these bitches, of course!]] Join Reiko as she slaps all the women in the family until they accept her as the head of the household.
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8	The game has two basic mechanics: you move the mouse pointer quickly to the left and over your opponent's face to slap them, and you move the mouse pointer quickly across the bottom of the window to the right to dodge. Think of this as a {{cat fight}}ing ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' set in the Regency period with some Japanese anachronisms thrown in.
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10	The sequel, ''Rose and Camellia 2'', involves [[VillainProtagonist Saori]] trying to claim the house from Reiko one year later using the same methods as Reiko in the first game. It's available [[http://nigoro.jp/en/games/rose2/ here]], in English and without the need to play through the original.
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12	Nigoro has also made a ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' version where Mulbruk goes around fighting various other female characters for the title of main heroine. It can be played [[http://nigoro.jp/en/games/rose_l/ here]].
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14	A remake for mobile devices was released in 2020, featuring updated animations and new mechanics. A port for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was announced on 2022, adding local multiplayer, two new chapters to the saga and full voice acting. A collection of all five games - titled ''Rose & Camellia Collection'' - was released in Japan in September 2023 and in the West in April 2024.
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16	!!This is the elegant art of feminine conflict:
17	* AffectionateParody: Of RegencyEngland period pieces and the series aesthetically resembles a shoujo drama like Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles or Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena -- though by around the second game on you have the noblewomen [[ArrogantKungFuGuy speak of the feminine nobility of their slaps]] the way a shonen FightingSeries would, if tropes like Lady Hanae's speed trails didn't clue you in.
18	** Manga/DearBrother has its handprints all over this series.
19	* [[AttackItsWeakPoint Attack Her Weak Point]]: In the first game:
20	** Saori’s is her cheek.
21	** Shizuka’s is her chin.
22	** Etsuko’s is the area between her chin and neck.
23	** Hanae’s is her eye.
24	** The FinalBoss’ is her nose.
25	* TheBattleDidntCount: [[spoiler:Reiko as the final boss in the sequel.]]
26	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Zigzagged. Averted to high hell with the (attractive) sisters, twin maids, the old and wrinkled head maid, [[spoiler:the giant demonic matriarch, and the muscular, overly masculine cousin]], but played straight with the head of the family, and [[spoiler:Reiko herself]] in the sequel.
27	* BigFancyHouse: The setting for the main games.
28	* BitchSlap: The primary form of combat among women, as demonstrated in this game.
29	* ButtMonkey: Saori is the training dummy featured in the How To Play pages, even in games that don't feature her as an opponent. She also gets the most abuse in promotional materials [[spoiler: and doesn't even accomplish her goal]] in the game where she features as protagonist. [[spoiler:The third game, a game which doesn't even feature Saori ''at all'' outside of this one gag, has her be inexplicably defenestrated at the game's epilogue!]]
30	* CatFight: The Game.
31	* TheChosenOne: As Reiko vows to defeat [[spoiler: Grand Madame Tsubaki]], Lady Hanae wonders out loud if Reiko is perhaps "The Rose Bride of Legend."
32	* TheComicallySerious: Much of the comedy comes from all of the women being absolutely stone-faced while delivering melodramatic dialog reminiscent of period pieces... all the while slapping each other black and blue.
33	* DefunctOnlineVideoGames: With the death of Flash, the games are no longer playable on Nigoro's website. As such, the games were later remade for mobile devices as well as the Switch.
34	* DenserAndWackier: [[spoiler:Giant demon matriarch aside]], the first game is a fairly straightforward soap opera narrative about a woman slapping her way up her rich in-law's social hierarchy. Each of the subsequent three games in comparison gets increasingly more bizarre and parodic.
35	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
36	** [[spoiler:Reiko bitch-slaps the demonic matriarch to finalize her claim to the house.]]
37	** [[spoiler:Likewise, Shizuka defeats a RobotMe version of the same matriarch in the same way.]]
38	* DifficultyByRegion: The English version has a difficulty slider that can make the game easier.
39	* DualBoss: Leftie and Rightie Mita are still treated as one target.
40	* ExtremityExtremist: Everyone fights by slapping with only one arm except for the final boss of the first game who ''punches'' with only one arm. [[spoiler:The sequel's final boss subverts this in the climax, by catching a slap with ''her other hand''.]]
41	* FlexibleTourneyRules: Most of the other participants in the Death Queen Circuit don't play fair in the slightest. Apoko [[Main/BoxingBattler punches]], Win Bourbon swats at Rightie with a tennis racket and will even attempt to bludgeon her with the handle, Yumi inexplicably grows an extra pair of arms and [[Main/FinalBoss Mei]] will begin punching and even ''kicking'' when she TurnsRed.
42	* FlowerMotifs: Camellias for the '''Tsubaki'''kojis, and roses for Reiko.
43	* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Other than the old NinjaMaid and Hanae with her glowing eyes, it ''sorta'' makes sense. [[spoiler:The final boss, Grand Madame Tsubaki, is the demonic matriarch who has lived for centuries.]]
44	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The mother Hanae and the cousin Haruhi.
45	* HitFlash: Hitting an opponent makes the screen flash white, while getting hit makes it flash red.
46	* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:Reiko catches what would have been the decisive blow against her in the sequel, and sends Saori flying with a single slap, no matter how well you performed.]]
47	* ImportantHaircut: Saori gives herself one at the beginning of the sequel, vowing to dethrone Reiko in order to bask in luxury again while lopping a chunk off her hair.
48	* {{Irony}}: In the sequel Saori detests the rest of the Tsubakikojis for wearing roses instead of their camellias. Despite this, Saori as the player character still has her lifebar represented by roses just like Reiko before her.
49	* LifeMeter: Health is depicted as flowers, with weak slaps only shrinking a flower to half its size.
50	* LighterAndSofter: ''Rose & Camellia & La-Mulana'' is this for ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' proper. In the place of the original game's heaps of lore and melancholy, sometimes dark plot, there is a comedic story of Mulbruk beating up the other female characters [[spoiler:including the goddess Tiamat]] to earn the title of "heroine of La-Mulana."
51	* LoneWolfBoss: As she's a member of the working class, Etsuko is a mere neutral third party and has no real opinion over the squabbles of the Tsubakikoji household.
52	* MovesetClone: Leftie Mita and Rightie Mita play similarly to their mother Etsuko.
53	* NinjaMaid: Etsuko Mita can crawl and stand on the ceiling. There's also her daughters Rightie and Leftie, who serve as opponents in the second game while Rightie is the protagonist of the third story.
54	* NintendoHard: The mouse movement-only control scheme in the original versions makes critical hits and dodges quite difficult.
55	* RapidFireFisticuffs: In the console and mobile versions, it's possible to seize the opportunity to perform the "Slap Rush", a rapid flurry of slaps that will take off at least two pips of health from the foe.
56	* RecycledPremise: ''Rose & Camellia & La-Mulana'' uses the same slap fight mechanic, but this time the plot is about Mulbruk fighting the other female ''Videogame/LaMulana'' characters for the title of "heroine of La-Mulana."
57	* {{Retraux}}: The cutscenes are put through a sepia filter, and also resemble the cutscenes of the NES ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' trilogy.
58	* RogueProtagonist: Inverted. The sequel follows Saori instead of Reiko, who [[spoiler:''isn't'' evil but is now the final boss]].
59	* RoyalBrat: Saori levies a counter offensive to [[spoiler: Reiko's]] reign in the sequel for no other reason than to once again bask in the lap of luxury. That, and the idea of being led by a commoner is as much a metaphorical slap in the face as it was many literal ones.
60	* ShowsDamage: As you slap your opponent senseless, she'll start bleeding from the mouth or develop a bruise on her cheek.
61	* ShoutOut: The third and fourth games revel in these as part of being DenserAndWackier.
62	** The first opponent in the third game is "Apoko Kurito", who's a female version of [[Franchise/{{Rocky}} Apollo Creed]] complete with [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing red, white and blue]] sports garb and wearing boxing gloves.
63	** The third opponent is Slap Seiko, a masked woman with red EightiesHair who looks exactly like [[Manga/SaintSeiya Eagle Marin]], right down to wearing a hand-themed version of Marin's Eagle Cloth.
64	** Being defeated by the FinalBoss of the fourth game results in Mecha Camellia's top half being lifted up by its pilots as they sway their hips from side to side in reference to Manga/SazaeSan while winning results in the robot [[Anime/{{Yatterman}} exploding in a skull-shaped mushroom cloud, leaving the pilots charred and their hair frizzed up into afros]].
65	** The TrueFinalBoss of the La-Mulana spinoff [[spoiler:Lumisa Kosugi]] really gives off [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang Xiao Long]] vibes.
66	* SwordLines: Except with slapping and dodging.
67	* TearsOfAwe: The tears that slip out of Lady Hanae as you fight her turn into this at the end of the match, as she hopes your slapping prowess can take on [[spoiler: Madame Camellia, the final boss]].
68	* ThresholdGuardian: Etsuko Mito challenges Reiko, not because she has a particular beef with her, but because she's testing her resolve and strength to make changes in the household.
69	* TimeSkip: The sequel is set one year after the first game.
70	* TournamentArc: The third game is about the "Death Queen Circuit", a world tournament of slap fights in which Rightie fights her way through a series of [[CaptainEthnic national stereotypes]].
71	* ATwinkleInTheSky: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Saori's near-victory against Reiko ends with Reiko catching Saori's hand and counterslapping her into the sky (though the cutscene after shows her sprawled in a heap)]].
72	* WorthyOpponent: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Etsuko speculates that Reiko saw Saori as this after counterslapping her, having long yearned for a similarly capable challenger]].
73	* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Etsuko Mita is old and prune-skinned, her twin daughters are adorable but somehow have her grey hair.
74	* TheUnintelligible: [[spoiler:Tiamat]] speaks in an ancient language that is subtitled as various symbols, resulting in Mulbruk ignoring her.

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