Sengoku Rance: Difference between revisions

[[File:rsz_sengoku_rance_829.jpg|frame|Characters, clockwise from top: [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Rance]], [[Lady of War|Uesugi Kenshin]], [[The Archer|Yamamoto Isoroku]], [[Tagalong Kid|Kouhime]], [[Person of Mass Destruction|Kurusu Miki]], [[Tsundere|Nanjo Ran]], [[Happiness in Slavery|Sill Plain]]. This is going to be ''interesting''.]]

 

 

...for an H-Game.

That's just the first route, by the way.

 

 

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* [[Zero-Percent Approval Rating]]: Despite being called the Demon Army, the Shimazu troops don't truly believe in Xavier's cause and refuse to fight for him. It doesn't help that he keeps killing off potential recruits to intimidate the rest either.

* [[Angst? What Angst?]]

** Neither Yukkuru nor Mine are all that tore up over their (self inflicted) loss of eye and arm. Motomari Mouri doesn't bemoan his curse all that much (even if his daughters do), and Natori doesn't complain about her "Miko Of Death" curse all that much either.

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: In-universe; according to a few people throughout the story, Rance may be [[Tsundere]] to Sill.

* [[Always Close]]: Played straight in Ran's route, where you can [[Take Your Time]]. However, it is averted in Kenshin's route. The more turns you take, the further the boss gets into the dungeon. Thus, you can stop him before he gets even halfway to his goal.

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Leazus Royal Guard, who make a guest appearance in this game. The (nearly-)all-female Uesugi army counts as well.

* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: Natori reveals to Rance that the reason he kept losing the miko lottery is because he doesn't possess any negative emotions for them to suck out. That's right: he apparently simply doesn't understand that ''rape is wrong.''

* [[Bigger Is Better]]: Invoked by Motonari {{spoiler|when he dies and his ghost - inexplicably in his huge cursed form - remains}}.

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: What else are you supposed to think when the H-scene starts and the theme is good old fashioned Rock 'n Roll?

* [[Bling of War]]: The armor of the Leazas Royal Guard is gold-colored, probably to emphasize their badassery.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Leila is the more social type, while Senhime is a purist "life = combat" type (so much so that she's been nicknamed with a kanji pun on her actual name meaning "princess of war"). The Mouri family as well, especially Teru and Motonari himself. They even send a massive all out battle challenge just because it sounds fun to have the entirety of both armies fighting at once.

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: At first, no one believe Rance's stories about his past country-saving exploits on the continent. That is, until troops start marching in from Leazus and Zeth to back him up.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: The newspapers in-universe at least acknowledge Rance's ''"Gahahaha, good."'' as the new catchphrase in Nanjou Ran's route.

* [[Chaste Hero]]: Kentarou, much to Miki's disappointment.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: How come Rance always loses those lottery draws at the Miko Institute, while other guys win every time? {{spoiler|It's because a win signifies that you're full of negative emotions for the miko to drain. Rance's consistent losses mean he doesn't have any; he just really wants to have sex with women. Sadly, said women have to be sacrificed to [[Bonus Boss|Orochi]] afterwards. When he finds out how the miko institute works, he insists on killing Orochi.}}

*** The game is pretty full of it even where Rance isn't involved.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: One of the [[New Game+]] bonuses is an edit to Sill's schoolgirl outfit scene that references her disguise in the first Rance.

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Okita Nozomi apparently has an aura that causes ''everyone'' to horribly abuse her. She ends up falling in love with Rance because he ''eventually'' becomes the first person to not torment her.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Rance is either this or [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Obfuscatingly Stupid]], but sheesh, he really knows what to do in certain situations. Observe as he:

** Ranmaru She's the strongest unit you have at the start of the game, but unfortunately becomes outclassed by other characters as you go along.

** Katsuie may fit this role even better. He starts out with a lot of units, has strong overall stats, and makes a nearly unkillable wall for your other generals, before other foot soldiers with self-healing skills, strong counterattack, or All Guard become available.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Aburako Dousan is a monk, pretty young, and the teacher of the Mino Three (or something like that).

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Masamune's four wives.

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Sill, when she's narrating the events from the time Rance and Sill came to JAPAN, to the opening scenario.

* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: In {{spoiler|Nanjo Ran's path}}, she actually goes back to her previous lover at the end if you failed to clear all her events before the end of the game. This actually seems to be the true ending to that path, as it gets its own CG and can be replayed, while the good ending doesn't get either.

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Natori and Leila can be this, due to their extremely powerful abilities and early availability. Natori, with one round of preparation, can remove 30% of the enemy army's troops. Leila can one-shot-kill any unit up to twice the size of her own so long as it's not guarding and is larger than hers. Both are theoretically available within the first twenty turns.

* [[Drama Bomb]]: Isoroku's route. Everything is going fine and then suddenly {{spoiler|Kou is raped like in the true route, but Rance doesn't find her in time to save her life.}}

* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Rance's demonic sword, Chaos. Like his master, he is rather [[Cargo Ship|horny]].

* [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana]]: There's only one JAPANese sword-wielding unit in the game, and that's the Warriors. They all carry katana.

* [[Everything Is Worse With Bears]]: When you first encounter him, Hakkin Dasan summons ever-increasing armies of pandas. '''IN WAVES!'''

** Don't forget the Golden Bears.

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Kenshin, of course. There are hints when you first attack the Uesugi family, but you only get to know the full details in the most [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|cruel way]] {{spoiler|if you fail to conquer Uesugi and save Kenshin in time}}.

* [[Expy]]: There are several:

** Baba Shouen (a major Takeda general {{spoiler|and one of the four who 'made' Shingen}}) rides two tebasaki, much like (amusingly enough) Shingen Takeda in [[Sengoku Basara]].

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: JAPAN, of course.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Leila, if the player messes up and {{spoiler|lets her get captured by the Demon Army}}.

* [[The Four Gods]]: Xavier's four apostles, Rengoku (Byakko), Shikibu (Seiryuu), Madou (Genbu) and Gigai (Suzaku).

* [[Functional Magic]]: JAPAN's Yin Yang Ways are, surprisingly, not Theurgy but more like [[Vancian Magic]].

* [[Gender Bender]]: Near the end of the game, you can change the gender of your characters. Hell, you can even make '''RANCE''' a woman. Of course, this leads to a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].

* [[Gender Flipped]]: Many characters fell into this, since most of the Sengoku Jidai generals are male, and this is a straight H-game with a male protagonist.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Although they still wear kabuki stagehand uniforms in broad daylight, ninjas [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|in the story]] are described as being highly stealthy and acting like, you know, proper assassins.

** Kunoichi actually do pretend to be regular women and lure the opposition into bed before killing them, often with poison. Thus, making this an averted trope as well.

** One case even takes it up higher by a notch: the Mouri generic general Murakami Suigun, who is named after a famous (living) illustrator.

* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: Uesugi Kenshin channels Bishamonten's divine power and single-handedly routs a Takeda army sent against her, which is expressed in actual gameplay with the skill "commander charge" where she attacks first (killing about 100-200 troops) before her army attacks. She doesn't suffer any counterattack damage when doing this either.

* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Parodied with Cough Cough Disease, moreso by the fact that the disease is curable. A citizen informs Nozomi of this, but is quickly shot down by her Hanny tormenters because "incurable girls are moe". This is [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|actually rather jarring]] considering Okita Nozomi is based on the historical Okita Souji, who died of tuberculosis.

* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: Time in the game is simply given as 'turns' instead of actual time. However, events starts to occur as turns passes.. Many of the events can be lost forever, such as {{spoiler|saving Soun}}, as taking too much time results in {{spoiler|Ran leaving on her own}}. Furthermore, the less time you take, the greater your score in the end.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: The biggest offender is probably Hojo Soun, who is actually happy that Nanjo Ran {{spoiler|finds love with Rance as he is about to die}}. Rance actually takes advantage of this to {{spoiler|force the unwilling Ran into being his lover}}. The ever so innocent Kenshin is fully willing to give up Rance or share him with other women as long as Rance is happy.

* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: There's no other trope that can describe what Rance does to get information out of important prisoners.

* [[Jerkass]]: Who else but Rance? As an example: When an earthquake devastates a nation he is at war with, he immediately gets the idea to send them poisoned relief supplies. What a hero. Fortunately, his [[Morality Pet]] Sill replaces the poison with laxatives as a less-lethal alternative.

** Oh, definately has a Heart of Gold but only shows it to certain women. Rizna is a great example for the older games, but for Sengoku Rance it is likely Kenshin.

*** Isoroku definitely counts in {{spoiler|her route. What, being one of the few women if not the <s>second</s> (his supposedly first child did not appear due to the fact that the first woman Rance impregnated had to do an abortion and thus Rance started to take birth control seriously and the second one was with the Devil Ferris. The son's name is Dark Rance) son that came from him? After she requested that she did not need to have a son anymore due to her feelings for Rance? And Rance gets touched himself?}}

** To make matters worse, some generals can only be recruited after their country is conquered, AND they must join another country first before they can be brought to your side. The three Takeda generals (Baba Shouen, Yamagata Masakage, and Yoshikage Kousaka) can be a real pain to search after Takeda's fall, to the point where trying to recruit them almost requires its own playthrough.

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Keikoku, who seems to have no other purpose than to show up in the three heroine routes and cause trouble/be a general asspain.

* [[Manly Gay]]: Gigai, who is thus the only man Rance is ''truly'' afraid of.

* [[Marry Them All]]: Any girl who thinks that Rance will settle for anything less than this probably hasn't been paying attention.

** [[Ninja Maid]]: Kikkawa Kiku.

* [[Miko]]: A unit type. They specialise in archery and healing magic. They also run the Miko Institute, a neutral nation.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Ok Miki, {{spoiler|Kentarou is already dying}} but did you just have to slap him when your breasts were touching him or something?

** Occurs a lot, actually. Going from 3G flying up in the air making 'Youkai Phone Calls' to {{spoiler|Xavier ordering Kouhime be raped.}}

* [[One-Hit Kill]]: The ninjas have the Assassinate skill which pretty much kills its target if it succeeds. There's also Isoroku's Whirlwind Shot which is arguably better than Assassinate and Yuzumi's Aim and Shoot, which can be a [[Game Breaker]] by itself.

* [[One-Man Army]]: {{spoiler|Ogawa Kentarou after he becomes a demon can pretty much defend entire territories by himself--assuming that the enemy side doesn't have any demon class units. If they're all human, drain all of his units and let him fight against the whole army. He won't get scratched at all. Of course, by the time this happens you WILL be seeing demons, so this is more or less academic.}}

** {{spoiler|Supposedly, this was also Natori's condition as well, until Rance came along. If anything, instead of outright killing Rance, it ''makes him stronger''. And, for those who were paying attention, the first miko he sleeps with says she's a fukuman and she increases the ability of great men she sleeps with. Left unsaid is what happens to people she sleeps with who are not. So the fact that she makes Rance stronger is actually foreshadowed.}}

* [[Path of Inspiration]]: According to the [[All There in the Manual|English AliceSoft wiki]], {{spoiler|the Tenshi Sect's religion is one. First, the religion itself was founded by Geppei, the monk who sealed Xavier centuries ago... ''and Geppei is a devil, who is an antithesis of angels and God in the Rance series.'' Second, Geppei's intention in founding this faith is ''pulling souls out of the reincarnation cycle, and by extension, salvation.''}}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Swearing isn't particularly special, and course language is thrown around fairly commonly--which is all the more surprising that {{spoiler|Rance's "You idiot! You ''fucking virgin''!" towards Kentarou}} is so powerful. In this case, it's because he (and the player) are [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realize that {{spoiler|knocking Xavier out of the window was the ''worst'' possible outcome, because it gives him the opportunity to escape. And sure enough, they [[Never Found the Body]].}}

* [[Rain of Arrows]]: A special attack that archer units can do.

* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: The entire franchise has an...interesting relationship with this trope. On the one hand, the main character, Rance, is a serial rapist out to have sex with as many women as possible. On the other hand, he thinks he's God's gift to womankind, and doesn't seem to understand that what he's doing is wrong. Every good character is at least slightly distressed at his actions (not that they really do much to stop him), and all of the other rapists of the franchise are killed by Rance himself because they rape ''much'' more brutally than he does.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GauhWG340dI&feature=related My Glorious Days] is basically a rocked up version of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svCSf6ZQp3w national anthem of East Germany].

* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: Rance is not above using this in order to have sex with princesses. Sometimes he even follows through on his end of the bargain.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: An option late in the true route, in which Rance simply decides to leave JAPAN in the middle of the war, leading to a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] as while Rance most probably survives, JAPAN arguably does ''not''.

* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: The Takeda generals (minus Sanada Tourin) will try to defeat Rance, each of them having only 50 units each. If you did not deploy Rance at this battle, his unit will pretty much [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomp]] the three generals.

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Rance always claims that him and Sill aren't lovers. [[Everyone Can See It|He isn't fooling anyone, though.]]

* [[The Day the Music Lied]]: It's Naoe Ai's H scene, "My Glorious Days" is playing, he's enjoying it and she's putting up with it...then suddenly, the music stops. {{spoiler|Because he thoughtlessly says something that reminds himself she gave up her body to protect Kenshin. He even says that he's sorry, asks forgiveness, and offers to call off the whole thing--perhaps the ONLY TIME in the entire series that this has happened. Ends up being subverted when Naoe doesn't care and a remix starts playing.}}

* [[Theme Naming]]: 3G, Edge and Dokkomo are named after things relating to cellphones. In the Miko Institute, Natori, Isuzu and Maya are all named after battleships.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Happens to many character throughout the game. A few are plot relevant, but most can be induced by Rance if the player has him pick all of the [[Video Game Caring Potential|options that let Rance show his nice side.]]

* [[Tournament Arc]]: Only applies to Kenshin's route {{spoiler|where it's a race to become the emperor of JAPAN.}}

* [[Tsundere]]: Interestingly, none of the main characters (those who have their own routes, so to speak) show signs of this... whereas it's the side characters (as in, relatively irrelevant to the plot) who shows the signs of Tsundere-ness. Notable examples are Noir (part of a [[Sidequest]] involving the Dokuganryuu house), Hattori Hanzo (though it's rather uncertain if the youkai is male or female), and Elina (an extra character). Also, refer to [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] above.

** Magic the Gandhi is a pretty notable example as well, considering how she was a major character in the last game.

* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: In-universe; Free for all mode makes EVERYONE enemies.

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: The dungeon crawling sections.

* [[Victim Falls For Rapist]]: If by this point you still didn't expect this, you haven't been reading anything else posted here. It is easier to count the girls that can't fall in love with Rance after he rapes them.

** {{spoiler|Which is nearly 0, given enough time to clear routes.}}

** And, if that's not enough, the nicer options turn Rance into [[The Matchmaker]], and the resulting [[Happily Married]] [[Battle Couple|BattleCouples]] can be some of your strongest units, not to mention you even can make several characters better people in the process.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Some of us players take great pleasure in every opportunity to torment Rance, such as letting Ryouma {{spoiler|become a boy just to spite him}}.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Definitely [[Manly Gay|Gigai]].

* [[Warrior Monk]]: The high ranking members of the Tenshi Sect. Of course, the monks in this game as well.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Played painfully straight. Suzume kills 50 guards...and joins your party without complaint. Why? They were just faceless ninjas!

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: How does Rance find out whether Sill's healing abilities improved? Simple: ''slash a random guy'' and get Sill to heal him.