Video Game / Troublemaker

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"What do you learn in school anyway these days? Shit's getting heavy. Kids are turning into assholes everyday, aren't they?"

Troublemaker is a Beat 'em Up actioner developed by Indonesian company Gamecom Team, one set in a high school where the player gets challenged by - and can beat up - hordes and hordes of bullies, and - wait a minute...

Budi, a teen delinquent and street brawler who often went in and out of juvenile detention, finally broke the rules for one last time. After crippling a rival street gang on his way home, Budi gets into trouble with the local authorities who decide to send him to Sekolah Menengah Cipta Wiyata, the strictest institution in Jakarta, or face jail time.

Upon enrolling in Cipta Wiyata and stopping a bunch of bullies from picking on Bobby, an oft-bullied schoolmate, Budi discovers the institution to be controlled by it's absurdly powerful student council, who rules the student bodies by way of violence. After falling for Sophia, the girlfriend of Cipta Wiyata's student council chairman Ricco, Budi decides to take over Cipta Wiyata the only way he knows how - with his fists.

A sequel to this game, titled Troublemaker 2: Beyond Dream, is in development and is scheduled to be released on 2025.

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Ayyyyyy.... kontol!

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Cipta Wiyata is dominated by their local student council, whose authorities somehow eclipsed the principal's and management staff, where their members are free to beat the tar out of everyone who looks at them the wrong way.
• Abusive Parents:
  • Implied for Alan, one of the bosses. If Budi inflicts consecutive hits on him...
    Alan: Your punches are nothing compared to my father's fists!
  • In one of his last cutscenes, Budi admits to his bestie, Boby, that his stepfather, Mr. Danang, whom his mother Ratih married after his biological father's passing, is also an abusive douchebag. When Budi returns home with bruises on his face after fighting in school, Mr. Danang would beat his injuries while trying to teach him "how to be a man".
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: One of the last stages where Budi isn't around, with his pals Rani and Zainal in play. The former fights in a slightly different way, being less agile but dealing heavier damage, while the latter isn't capable of fighting at all.
• Art-Style Dissonance: The photorealistic models in gameplay heavily clashes with the artwork and cutscene panels that wouldn't be out of place in River City Girls.
• Animesque: In-between levels, cutscenes are depicted in panels comparable to a scene in a manga.
• Battle in the Rain: More than one boss battle takes place outdoors, during heavy rain, including Alan's rematch (in the football court), Ricco's second brawl (a rain-drenched alleyway), the night infiltration stage where Zainal is in play, taking on student council members in a stormy midnight and finally when the rest of the gang leaders decide to help Budi and friends take down the student council.
• Book Ends: The first and last stage has Budi fighting the punks from the Pengangguran Gang, outside of school grounds.
• Boss Banter: Bosses - all of them - likes taunting Budi verbally during battles, regardless whom is winning.
  "You don't need to fight me - I'll guarantee you'll get your asses kicked!"
• Breaking the Bonds: Ricco's mooks from the student council drugs Budi, Zaenal and Boby, and have them tied up in chairs while abducting Sophia and Rani. Budi and Boby are first to wake up and realize they're trapped, but when Zaenal regains consciousness and realize Rani - whom he had a crush on - is missing, he instantly rips his ropes apart in a rage.
• Broomstick Quarterstaff: Alan, one of the bosses, uses a broom as his weapon, giving him advantage in distance.
• Chairman of the Brawl: Budi can grab chairs and use them to pummel other bullies, in stages set inside classrooms. Heck, there's even a power-up called "Eat This Chair" where he whips out a chair from out of nowhere and smack some bullies across their noggins.
• Defeat Means Friendship: One of the bosses, Zaenal, becomes Budi's ally after getting his ass kicked. He even gets Promoted to Playable near the end.
• Disappeared Dad: Budi's dad died when he was a kid, which serves as a semi-Freudian Excuse for his rough behavior - much to his mother Ratih's chagrin.
• Elite Mooks: Ricco's personal enforcers from the student council, bullies with above-average fighting skills compared to lesser mooks, who can be identified by their black long-sleeved coats. Ricco himself fights like a King Mook version of his minions.
• Fat Best Friend: Boby, the chubby student who tags alongside Budi everywhere, serves this role after Budi saved him from some bullies early on. He becomes Formerly Fat in the epilogue.
• Fighting Back Is Wrong: What kicked off the story's plot - Budi was cornered by members of the Penganggguran Gang, led by low-life punks Windah, Rendi and their boss, Doni, and, in self-defense, he beats all of them senseless. Then the police arrives, sees him in an alley filled with semi-unconscious thugs, and arrests him for street violence (despite evidence that points to him being outnumbered).
• Foreign Remake: Given the premise, gameplay, power-upgrading system and open-world exploration style, the game is a rather loose remake of Bully, recycled in Indonesia.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Save for the broom-swinging Alan, every single fighter in the game prefers fighting with fists and kicks.
• Graceful Loser: Of all the bullies and bosses, Gian is among the reasonable ones, who immediately orders his gang to stop pursuing Budi and Sophia after the boss fight because Budi won fair and square.
  Gian: We might be weebs, but we also have sportsmanship!
• Gratuitous English: Most of the game is in Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles, but occasionally some of the bosses will drop English quotes in cutscenes for no reason. Thick accents included.
  Rory: [English] Harder, daddy!
  Budi: Dah masokis, anjing? Gua ada peperangan dengan Rico, kenapa curut-curut yang ada datang? ^note You're a masochist now? I declared war with Ricco. Why the hell are his rats the ones facing me?
  Rory: [English] A king doesn't chase the peasants. A king takes on kings.
• Handwraps of Awesome: Budi's fists are wrapped in bandages that exposes his fingers, whenever he gets himself involved in school fights. More than one boss, including Zaenal before and after he joins Budi's side, sports this fashion as well.
• Improbable Weapon User: One of Budi's techniques involve the use of tools, which he pulls out of nowhere, to wail his opponents with.
• Intrepid Merchant: Richard, a higher-class student who seems to randomly appear from out of nowhere to sell power-ups and health upgrades, though his presence is slightly justified that the game is set inside a building. He also never runs out of stuff from his Coat Full of Contraband. He even shows up in the stage set at 3.00am, against all odds.
• Nobody Can Die: Despite the insane amount of beat-downs Budi dishes out, from throwing bullies headfirst into doorframes and smacking them halfway across a classroom with chairs, nobody in the game dies.
• Recurring Boss: Almost all the bosses are fought multiple times in different stages. Taken to the extreme with the Chairman, Ricco - he's first fought halfway through, and near the end, in three consecutive levels.
• Romantic Rain: The game's Pair the Spares moment occurs after the night infiltration stage, where Budi's two buddies, Rani and Zaenal, admits their feelings for each other with him carrying an umbrella over them both.
• School Grade Hacking: Where the good guys does it - one of the last stages sees Rani and Zainal infiltrating Cipta Wiyata after dusk to change Ricco's records, with Rani - the team's Hackette - hacking into the computer systems to expose Ricco's activities to the authorities. Unfortunately, the student council enforcers are everywhere.
• School of Hard Knocks: Cipta Wiyata, where public fights are actually encouraged.
• School of No Studying: The only staff actually present in Cipta Wiyata whose presence affects the plot in any way is Mrs. Ratna, the Bahasa Indonesia homeroom teacher, and she only appears sporadically. Which raises questions on where the hell are the teachers and faculty members when a full-scale brawl is taking place within school grounds and students are being shoved out balconies...
• Shout-Out:
  • One of Ricco's cutscenes have him taunting Budi with a "Come ooooooouuuuuuut and play"...
  • There's a bully boss named Gian. Who claims himself to be an anime enthusiast, seemingly to enforce the reference.
• Sinister Shades: Ricco's never seen without his sunglasses, which stays on no matter how many times he's punched across the face. He's the ruthless student council chairman and the closest the game has to a Big Bad.
• Stealth-Based Mission: Rani's sole stage, with her sneaking into Cipta Wiyata's computer rooms while Zainal (then AI-controlled) fights Ricco's goons. If she's caught, it's an instant Non-Standard Game Over - restart the level.
• The Troublemaker: Budi used to be one, being a school dropout who frequently went in and out of juvie due to frequently partaking in street fights, much to his single mother's chagrin. But he eventually reached a tipping point after crippling a street gang, and was enrolled into Jakarta's Sekolah Menengah Cipta Wiyata where fighting in school is encouraged.
• Verbal Tic:
  • Budi seems to like uttering "Kontol" ("Dick") at random.
  • Meanwhile, Boby's catchphrase when things goes wrong seems to be "bangsat!" ("Bastard!")
• Walking Shirtless Scene:
  • Louis, the Yellowjacket Gang leader, fights bare-chested in all his boss battles, preferring having his yellow coat around his waist. Same goes for his subordinate, Udin.
  • The last confrontation between Budi and Ricco sees them both fighting shirtless.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Budi's dinner date with Sophia in a noodle shop after the boss fight against Gian is interrupted by a few of Gian's cronies, intending to avenge their boss' defeat. Ever the gentleman, Budi then tells them to take the fight outside, which the cronies obliged, and after the fight Gian suddenly arrives and tells his mooks to cut it out, just as Sophia, watching Budi fighting from behind a door, runs out. They quickly leave the place without any indication whether they finished their meal or not.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The final scene takes place 3 years later, in a coffee shop somewhere in downtown Jakarta owned by Zaenal, with Richard as the shop's cashier. Boby, slimmed down compared to his chubby highschool self, is having lunch and waiting for Rani for a business meeting, when Budi suddenly interrupts their chat with tickets to an MMA brawl later that week.

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