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{{quote| ''"Disperse, loyal battle monkeys! Do my bidding and BUST A CAP!"''}}
Continuing the tradition of wacky [[Turn Based Strategy]] [[RPG|RPGs]] started by ''[[Disgaea]]'' and ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', [[Nippon Ichi|Nippon Ichi Software]] released ''Makai Kingdom'' in 2005. It's the story of '[[Badass]] Freakin' [[Dimension Lord|Overlord]]' Zetta, who [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|accidentally destroys his own Netherworld]] by torching a [[Cosmic Keystone]] called the Sacred Tome. In order to save himself, he seals himself inside the book before it's completely ruined. Reduced to a sentient tome with no home, no resources and no body, Zetta is forced to enlist the help of his fellow Overlords in a bid to get his netherworld back.
Now has a [[Updated Rerelease|PSP port]], including an [[Another Side Another Story|alternate storyline]] involving a new character, Petta. Although it has no plans for a western release.
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=== Provides examples of: ===
* [[Anti
* [[Art Shift]]: The begining and ending of the game features a different pool of sprites for the characters, they're highly detailed and proportinal to their offcial art, very different from how they appear in the main game, looking like something straight out of [[Odin Sphere]].
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Zetta's nickname for Alex, "Asshat."
* [[A Taste of Power]]: Zetta starts the game in humanoid form at level 2000 and with a host of very powerful Sword techniques. After ''that'', however...
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "Slash his throat! Eat his eyes!! STEAL HIS SHOES!!!"
* [[Awesome but Impractical]] - Balloon weapons. They use the game's easiest-to-increase stat (SP) to attack, but fling the character using it out-of-bounds just for using it once; That's ignoring the fact that using their special attacks take SP away, thus making them weaker with every use. And if the enemies use Balloon attacks, [[Fake Difficulty|they level their friends up upon being thrown Out-Of-Bounds]]
** The Hammer weapons also count. Not only are they the weakest weapon types in the game, but if an allied character takes a hit from an enemy hammer, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|it DECREASES THEIR LEVEL BY ONE as well as getting rid of any experience they have have acquired during the battle. Of course, PlayerMooks using Hammers on enemies don't have this effect.]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dryzen
* [[Badass Boast]]: Combined with [[What Do You Mean
{{quote| "I, the mighty Overlord Zetta, do not fear corn, kettle or otherwise!"}}
* [[Battle Butler]]: The thunder god Raiden is Alexander's right-hand man. You face him three times during the game: once during the intro, and again at the end of chapters 4 and 6.
* [[Bishonen Line]]: The larger overlords like Babylon and Valvolga condense themselves into humanoid form before fighting. They don't get any ''more'' powerful from this, though.
* [[Bland
{{quote| "Gear Metal!?"}}
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Like all [[Nippon Ichi]] games by this point, it's Baal (plus [[Phantom Brave|Castille]] and the ''[[Disgaea]]'' crew). Zetta even [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Breaks The Fourth Wall]] by calling him out, knowing the trend.
** This is also the first appearance of Asagi.
* [[Buffy
{{quote| "Sacred Tome? More like...sucky...dumb...thing!"}}
* [[Card
{{quote| "Evil is actually in my job description."}}
** If this isn't a one-off gag (probably not, since Zetta was being rather blunt here), then this line applies to all Overlords.
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* [[Genre Busting]]: The game is a weird mixture of ''Disgaea'' and ''[[Phantom Brave]],'' revolving around summoning allies in the middle of the battlefield but less dependent on objects already on the field. There's nothing exactly like it. (Then again, there was nothing exactly like ''Phantom Brave'' either).
** The game's original Japanese name is ''Phantom Kingdom'', making the ''Phantom Brave'' connection more obvious.
* [[God Was My Co
* [[How Dare You Die On Me]]: A rare pre-mortem example: {{spoiler|After Zetta is cursed to die in two days, Alexander confronts Zetta with these words, furious at the prospect of losing his rival... And then tries to beat the curse to the punch.}} This comes, naturally, with a huge dose of [[Ho Yay]].
* [[Healing Shiv]]: Syringes and pies allow you to heal allies with "attacks."
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Zetta makes no bones about letting others know that he's the strongest, and does so constantly. At one point he actually was, until he [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blew up everything]].
* [[Hey
** First-class twit King Drake the Third? [[Norio Wakamoto]]. In English, it's [[Jamieson Price]].
** And Lady Salome? She's [[Ghost in The Shell|Major Kusanagi]].<ref>[[Mary Elizabeth McGlynn]]</ref>
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* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Salome
* [[Love Martyr]]: Again, Salome
* [[Market
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Drake
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Being a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''Phantom Brave'', there's the "Confine" ability. It doesn't work the same way here, with Zetta being literally confined to The Sacred Tome. {{spoiler|More notable is when Trenia returns to The Sacred Tome, she says out "Confine".}}
** This is also how Zetta gets [[Player Mooks]] in the game mechanics; by Perma-confining their Phantoms to the leftover rubble.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Zetta does this to ''his entire netherworld''. Oops.
* [[Noble Demon]]: Most of the demons, really.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Dryzen, so very much.
* [[Obligatory Swearing]]: The champion of [[The Multiverse]] by a long shot, even though it holds the same teen rating [[La Pucelle|as]] [[Disgaea|the]] [[Phantom Brave|others]], the localization is riffled with: Bitch, Slut, Asshat & etc.
* [[One
** Valvolga's regular form --a multi-armed demon, an angel head and a dragon skull mashed together into one being-- is intended to be evocative of this trope, which is why he's often referred to as "The Last Boss" (of other games).
* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Pram and {{spoiler|Trenia}}
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* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Zetta. Parodied.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Attempted; backfires ''[[Hilarity Ensues|spectacularly]]''
* [[Self
* [[Sissy Villain]]: Micky.
* [[Shout Out]]: Like all good Nippon Ichi games, there's plenty -- "I didn't know we had an overlord. I thought we were an autonomous collective." springs to mind...
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* [[We Cannot Go On Without You]]: Justified. Zetta ''is'' the Book that controls the nearby reality. If he dies, the dimension collapses. In fact, if he gets hurt ''everyone'' gets hurt.
** You can actually manipulate this, too; while injuring Zetta will cause you to be unable to summon any more units, you can quickly heal or buff your entire team by tossing the appropriate spells at him, so long as you're prepared to deal with the enemies getting the same effects.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|Who's the Overlord now, Bitch?!]]
* [[Who Writes This Crap?|"Who The Hell Writes This Crap?"]] asked Zetta.
* [[Widget Series]]: As usual with Nippon Ichi games.
* [[World of Ham]]: Good ''Overlords''. Even by the standards of other Nippon Ichi games, this is a hammy game. Every single one of the dub actors go completely overboard with lines, screaming out their [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasts]] and war cries before each fight... and even when there ''isn't'' a scrap going on, everybody seems to be taking bites out of the scenery. [[Crispin Freeman]] and [[Jamieson Price]] masticate an entire set between them.
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