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In 2004, [[Konami]] decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre which in the last years was in the hands of THQ, the holder of the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] license (well, at least outside Japan). However, to the surprise of a lot of people, Konami announced that this game would be a pure woman-wrestling game instead of a game with sweaty men (this may have been related to the announcement of ''[[Dead or Alive]] Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' around that time). The end result was a big [[Fan Service]] extravaganza, with 10 ladies -- each with her own [[Face]] and a [[Heel]] persona -- wearing quite [[Stripperiffic|revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. Fanservice aside, '''''Rumble Roses''''' had actually good gameplay and nice graphics.
The story modes for each wrestler persona are also notable in a [[So Bad It's Good|B-movie]] way. But let's go into a little more detail. It's set up more like a [[Fighting Game]] than a [[Wrestling Game]]. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Anesthesia]], the [[Big Bad]] of the series, wants to take over the world. She plans to use a wrestling tournament to do it, offering a large cash prize to the winner as an incentive. She plans to take the DNA of the tournament winner to make an unstoppable cyborg army. Each of the girls has their own reason for being involved in the tournament. Reiko Hinamoto is trying to live up to her mother's legacy and search for her lost sister. Aisha is obsessed with a rematch against Dixie Clements, who she was never able to beat. Makoto Aihara is an Olympic judoka seeking competition. Candy Cane wants the cash prize to save the orphanage she grew up in. Miss Spencer ''enters the tournament accidentally'' while trying to chase down a recalcitrant runaway student (Candy Cane). Anyway, at the end of the tournament, the player fights one of Anesthesia's cyborgs, Lady X, and whoever wins goes home happy.
As right now{{when}} there is one [[Sequel]], ''Rumble Roses XX'' for the Xbox 360. It introduced three new modes - tag team, "Queens Match" and street fight - as well as a very unelaborate create-a-wrestler feature. It also introduced "[[Super Mode|Superstar]]" personas for each character's Face and Heel modes. Unfortunately, it featured no storyline mode at all, and an incredibly labyrinthine and time-consuming method of unlocking characters and rewards. Additionally, the "extras" like Queens Mode, Street Fight, the shoddy create-a-wrestler system and the playable bear proved very unpopular overseas. While ''Rumble Roses'' was generally considered a decent game, ''Rumble Roses XX'' was enough of a flop that it seems to have [[Franchise Killer|brought the series to an end]].
Now with a [[Rumble Roses/Characters|Character sheet]]
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{{tropelist|Tropes that are present in the games:}}
** As a more minor case, Aigle to Makoto.▼
* [[Beach Episode]]: There's a beach arena. There's also the option to wrestle in swimsuits. Oh, and by the way, there's also a mud wrestling match, which takes place at said beach arena, and the only selectable outfits for that match type are the swimsuits.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: RR has the same control scheme as the ''WWE SmackDown'' series, but the actual buttons aren't the exact same, so get ready to run headlong into your opponent a few times when you meant to grapple them.
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** Not quite. She is a cyborg made from her DNA.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Everything.
▲* [[The Minnesota Fats]]: Dixie to Aisha.
▲** As a more minor case, Aigle to Makoto.
* [[Moe Couplet]]: Reiko and Dixie; Miss Spencer and Candy Cane; Makoto and Aigle.
* [[My Hero Zero]]: Reiko as a face is nicknamed "Zero Fighter" (having the word stamped on the outfit helps).
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