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[[File:BMWImage.jpg|frame|''"[[Fate Stay Night|I ask of you]]: [[Crossover Ship|are you my master?]]"'']]
 
[[Battle Moon Wars]] is a [[Doujin]] game made by the group Werk. It is, as the name suggests, a [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|Pastiche]] in the style of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''.
 
Take the three major facets of the ''[[Nasuverse]]'': ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]'', ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'' and ''[[Kara no Kyoukai (Literature)|Kara no Kyoukai]]''. Then mix them together into a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]], and add a duo of [[Original Generation|original characters]] on top. Through four acts, what starts as a not-so simple maidnapping explodes into a new Grail War, as one by one, a mysterious enemy is bringing back defeated villains from Nasuverse past, with shiny new power boosts to boot.
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*** {{spoiler|And apparently ate part of it, or something.}}
* [[Back From the Dead]]: ....most of the villains from the various [[Nasuverse]]. {{spoiler|Kuu says she "didn't really resurrect them; but instead fused the power of the Tatari and the broken Grail to reanimate their existence" but Tomato, Toma-toe.}}
* [[Badass Adorable]]: ''Every'' player character, quite frankly. They're slightly less messed up than in the source material, and the [[Super -Deformed|visual aesthetic]] dilutes much of the original darkness.
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Kohaku's goofy persona was a creation to hide her trauma at repeated child abuse. In ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]'' she's an [[Yandere]] who killed her emotions and just acted silly to manipulate others. Somewhere between Kagetsu Tohya and ''[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]''; she is depicted as at least partially being ''really'' that way. Oh, she still manipulates others, but it's less soulless. Given that this game is via ''[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]'' [[Continuity]], it's not entirely certain what in the mythical [[The Greatest Story Never Told|Satsuki Arc]] caused that.
** Even in this game, Kohaku's first scene was plotting the "Tohno Family Takeover Plan" and she initially welcomed Saber because "one should never look a gift minion in the mouth." However, Saber grew into her [[Morality Pet]]. Heck, even if the original ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]'', Kohaku ''stopped'' nefarious doings when someone other than Hisui gave her love and loyalty.
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** The game as a whole, considering it borrows all of its canon from games or novels originally rated adult, manages to be Teen rated content wise at absolute worst, partially due to the artstyle and partially due to the nature of the Compressed Adaptation of the various plots.
* [[Blessed With Suck]]: Haruna has the power to see possible futures. ''ALL'' possible futures. If unsealed, she would be immediately besieged with seeing the countless ways everyone will eventually die. This Vision also makes her particularly weak to [[The Corruption]].
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: Have fun dealing with the "Tohno Family Takeover Plan" should you get all Battle Masteries. {{spoiler|Kohaku unleashes the Robopocalypse of Mecha-Hisuis as well as unlocks her Magical Amber form and Saber's Saber Lily form. She somehow takes control of Arcueid; and the cast has to deal with five rounds of this. Upon failure, Kohaku breaks out the [[Easy Amnesia]] gas.}} This does, however, unlock those extra abilities in [[New Game Plus+]]; as well as a special item that increases all stats.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Arcueid, usually when in [[Magical Girl]] form.
* [[Colony Drop]]: One of [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Red Arcueid]]'s attacks involves ripping the moon out of the sky and dropping it on her hapless target.
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* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: This troper just realized Shirou's Nine Lives BGM is actually a very, very, very, '''[[Overly Long Gag|very]]''' modified version of Emiya/Unlimited Blade Works. {{spoiler|His rejection of his ideals not only warps his reality marble, but warps his [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]}}.
* [[Fusion Dance]]: Roa + SHIKI = RoSHIaKI the ninja!!! Yes really.
* [[GaiasGaia's Vengeance]]: The Earth itself recruits {{spoiler|Arcueid to protect Kuu so she can suppress the Devil. Interestingly beating Arcueid and Kuu convinces the Earth they make better guardians anyway.}}
* [[Gainaxing]]: Sakura in Act 2.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|The events have all been caused by [[Original Generation]] villainess Kuu who is generating a ritual to suppress a Devil that is about to emerge. While the "Soulpression" technique was mentioned earlier, the Devil is only mentioned near the end in the game.}}
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* [[Gratuitous German]]: Sakura. Just Sakura. Kaleido Ruby also invokes this in her intro.
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: The events of ''Ataraxia'' occur during all of this; due to the various dream magics thrown around; quite a few extra players get involved the repeating four days.
* [[Harder Than Hard]] : As if the game wasn't hard enough with the Battle Masteries and all, in a [[New Game Plus+]], you get to set the difficulty of the game from 0 to 10 with 10 being the highest.
* [[Heroic Willpower]]: Sakura's powerup comes when she accepts her Darkness powers and can control them without hurting people.
* [[Hundred -Percent Completion]]: Oh, you want to reach stage 53 and unlock Saber Lily and Magical Amber? Have fun getting every single Battle Mastery.
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: {{spoiler|Saber chooses to stay with Kohaku. Kohaku realizes that Saber needs an honorable reason; not only an emotional one, so uses Akiha as an example of showing Saber leadership. How to handle loyalty, how to handle treachery, how to be a lion at home and a diplomat away. And, incidentally, she can stay with Kohaku as well. Sakura and some broken grail fragments help out with the mana requirement.}}
* [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight]]: Shirou to Sakura while Angra Mainyu is attempting to corrupt her. Rin amusingly shows [[Genre Savvy]] and just tells him to [[Cannot Spit It Out|spit it out already and tell her he loves her.]]
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* [[Multiple Endings]]: Well, more like alternate mid-game. If you do not allow Shiki to kill Yumizuka the 3 times she shows up against you, {{spoiler|She will die protecting Shiki from Nanaya.}} If you do allow him to kill her those 3 times, {{spoiler|She becomes an unlocked character that you can now use in deployment.}}
* [[Name's the Same]]: There are ''three people'' in this game [[One Steve Limit|with the name Shiki]] (four if you count Shiki Tohno's "Nanaya" personality; they only refer to him as "Nanaya" though).
* [[New Game Plus+]]: Like the [[Super Robot Wars]] series, completing one mode let's you get the [[Secret Character]] from the other mode. Also, upon finishing the game, one can increase difficulty 1-10; as well as add a special item that increases stats. Unused stat points also carry over; as well as certain special abilities should you beat the [[Bonus Dungeon]].
* [[Ninja Maid]]: Hisui and Kohaku, plus new character Natsuki.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: RoSHIaKI, a fusion of one of the most powerful vampires and a [[Half-Human Hybrid|demon hybrid]]. He's also a freakin' ninja!
* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]: Kohaku, one of the most normal (relatively speaking) characters in the game tanks a blast from Gilgamesh's [[Wave Motion Gun|Ea]] in Act 4 and comes out pretty torn up but alive and in one piece. {{spoiler|[[Justified Trope|Fortunately she has Avalon, the Sheath of Excalibur.]]}}
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] : Kohaku: "I don't recognize the name 'Excalibur', I'm just not good with history!" [[Cough -Snark -Cough|:CoughyeahrightCough:]]
* [[Odd Couple]]: [[Yandere|Kohaku]] ends up being [[Lady of War|Saber's]] new Master.
** One of the underlying themes in Fate/stay night was that Masters tended to summon Servants who lead similar lives to their own. This troper thought it was a neat [[Lucky Translation]], or whatever its equivalent is for [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|Massive Multiplayer Crossovers]]
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** In the first chapter we see them taking orders from a housecat named Mike. Mike is never shown again; although Takumi comments that he is their trainer. There's also some name drops to other members named Megami (weapon maker) and Tsukiyo; but they never show up.
*** Kuu is a feared ancestor of Haruna's.
* [[The Not -Secret]]: Kohaku very quickly knows everything about Saber through a combination of her own intelligence and the ability to see Saber's dreams; although [[Obfuscating Stupidity|pretends to be clueless]] until Saber is ready to tell her about herself.
* [[Panty Shot]]: Arcueid specifically redesigns her [[Power-Up]] [[Magical Girl]] outfit to invoke this.
** Magical Amber's [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation|overly long fighting animation]] includes a ''zoom in panty shot''.
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** Even when fooling around as a [[Magical Girl]], she's still easily one of the strongest player characters before upgrades ''because Arcueid is just that powerful.''
* [[The Rival]]: [[Magical Girl]] Arcueid and [[Magical Girl]] Rin (spoofed to hell), Arcueid and Gilgamesh, Takumi and Berserker.
* [[Road Cone]]: One can either choose the "Super" (Takumi) or "Real" (Haruna) route; most of the game is the same but Super deals more with the Tsukihime side while Real is more Fate/Stay Night. Bonus characters from each can be carried over into [[New Game Plus+]].
** And regarding [[Road Cone]] franchises: Not much of a problem on the Tsukihime side, since ''[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]'' has established a sort of canon for them to follow. But on the ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Night]]'' side, they decided to follow the Heaven's Feel route. This also makes Saber being with Kohaku less awkward.
*** Although in the BMW-verse, both SHIKI and Roa are canon. And ''both'' are revived at the same time. Don't...try to think about it too hard; the game mostly hides the implications behind [[Rule of Funny]].
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** Stage 34... Just... Stage 34. The first part isn't so bad, but the second part will make you scream of frustration: There's an horde of Angra Mainyu's, you have 5 turns to escape to the left (which is very short considering how far it is), all while the Mainyu's are launching their MAP skills (Ergo, no dodging/guarding/counterattacking action, and since they are grouped together, you also have to watch the Mainyu's MAP each other, which is very long, slow, and annoying). And then there's the battle mastery: Defeat True Assassin, AND THEN escape. [[Sarcasm Mode|Have fun !]]
* [[Secret Character]]: [[Demoted to Extra|Satsuki]] and Mech-Hisui are unlockables, Satsuki's usable on one stage even if you don't unlock her though. {{spoiler|Also, if you get enough Battle Masteries Aozaki Aoko will join you on the final stage.}}
** {{spoiler|Getting every single Battle Mastery, then beating Stage 53 and creating a [[New Game Plus+]] will allow you to use Saber's and Kohaku's [[Magical Girl]] forms, Saber Lily and Magical Amber.}}
* [[Shout -Out]]: ''Tons.'' Every [[Mook]] is a shout out to some anime, game, or show. Plus several characters attacks are [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to [[Super Robot Wars]] and other Mecha shows, here's just some of them.
** Takumi is a walking shout out to Sanger Zonvolt, complete with '''[[BFS|A SWORD THAT SMITES EVIL!]]''' He also visually resembles [[The 08th MS Team|Shiro Amada]].
*** Berserker viewing Takumi as a [[Worthy Opponent]] wouldn't be remarkable in and of itself...except that one of his attack animations copies the style of [[Evil Twin|Wodan Ymir]]'s Colossal Blade.
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** [[Gao Gai Gar|Gilgamesh pulls out the Goldion]] [[Monster Hunter|GUNhammer]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5zVUxdP32w for one attack].
*** Even funnier since "[[Red Baron|King of Heroes]]" and "[[Fan Nickname|King of Braves]]" are both valid translations of ''Yuusha-Oh''.
** Several of the enemy monsters are thinly veiled [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to other series. For instance, three enemies are quite clearly the Paper Sisters from ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]''. There's also enemies based on the [[Getter Robo]] types.
** If you DO get Sacchin, she comes with Bakunetsu God Finger from [[G Gundam]]. Likewise, Shiro and Sakura later gets a pastiche of Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken.
** There are shades of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' in Kaleido Ruby; her Prism Hammer attack bears an uncanny resemblance to the many incarnations of Vita's <s> [[Gao Gai Gar|Goldion Hammer]]</s> [[Hyperspace Mallet|Graf Eisen]], and the animation for [[Wave Motion Gun|Schweinstein]] even features an Intelligent Device-esque [[Lock and Load Montage|assembly sequence]].
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