History VideoGame / BlueGuardianMargaret

--> ''Margaret'': What a wonderful place it is... I can't believe it is filled with monsters... I must defend and save the tower! Apollo, [[LetsGetDangerous let's find those committing a crime in the tower and repel them!]]
--> ''Apollo'': ...Okay, Margaret. *thinking* At last she seems to realize her duty as the Guardian.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: When you reach the end of the trial version, which is right at a SavePoint, Margaret laments that she can't go any further because the room she's in is so messy above her (which means in gameplay that she can't jump and grab the ledge to continue). Apollo appears and literally tells her that he'll have the room tidied up by the time she (as in you, the player) buys the full version of the game. He even tells Margaret that she can use the trial's save file as an OldSaveBonus towards the full version to continue through the rest of the game right from that SavePoint.

* CombatTentacles: There are freaky underwater monsters with these. They attempt to kill Margaret by grabbing her and strangling her until she drowns. Shooting them with bullets retracts their tentacles, and they can only be kill outright with missiles.

* DeadpanSnarker: Apollo tends to be this way towards Margaret when she doesn't take her Guardian job seriously, sometimes threatening her with a divine intervention (or rather, a divine ''retribution'').

--> Apollo: "[[DeadpanSnarker Margaret, GET DRESSED.]]"

* NippleAndDimed: Completely [[AvertedTrope averted]] with the heroine herself whenever her breasts are showing for the first time in a Fox Eye game, as past Fox Eye protagonists could only have BarbieDollAnatomy. This is a byproduct of being under the adult-oriented "Fox Eye Abyss" label.

* [[SexySoakedShirt Sexy Soaked Dress]]: Margaret's blue dress will stay soaked for a little while after swimming, making it translucent. You won't be able to sleep in a SavePoint bed until either it dries off or you have her take it off.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Having lost everything he worked so hard for following his defeat at Margaret's hands, Blaine's final attack on her during her escape is to blow himself up. He dies, and his explosion fails to hurt Margaret, but it instead causes the area Margaret's in to completely flood, putting her at a huge risk of drowning if she doesn't find an air pocket quickly during her escape.]]

* TheTease: Half of the time Margaret talks to a Survey Corps soldier while in her underwear or in the nude, [[MsFanservice she'll flirt with the soldier over her curvy body]], much to Apollo's disapproval and annoyance.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The Underground Laboratory Base. Among other things, it's the home base of BigBad General Blaine and his wizard henchmen, all of whom are invincible and, upon spotting Margaret, will use their security system to gas her, and then execute her via water torture.]]

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After escaping the collapsing tower at the very end, Apollo questions to Margaret if she knows what happened to Lancer, especially after Blaine bombarded him with missiles yet was still able to attack his {{BFG}} and seemingly escape. [[SomebodyElsesProblem Margaret is more worried about eating]], which in turn worries Apollo on if she's actually learned anything from her adventure as a Guardian]].

* AncientGreece: What the game appears to take place in. Gods from UsefulNotes/GreekMythology, as well as their guardians, are heavily involved in the protection and maintenance of human civilization in this game's world, and one of the gods, the son of Zeus, Apollo, happens to be Margaret's superior and MissionControl.

Apollo, the son of the almighty god Zeus who runs communications between guardians and gods, orders Margaret to fix her mistake by traveling through the tower, eliminating the monsters and finding the source of all of the water pollution, all while taking care not to drown in the tower's flooded areas, or get murdered or even molested by the monsters that await her. Margaret will also have to protect the Survey Corp soldiers that decided to investigate the tower on their own in her absence, but Lancer, the leader of the soldiers, may have something else planned in mind...

* AncientGreece: What the game appears to take place in. Gods as well as their guardians are heavily involved in the protection and maintenance of human civilization in this game's world, and one of the gods, the son of Zeus, Apollo, happens to be Margaret's superior and MissionControl.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:General Blaine. He's part of the reason for the tower's contamination, as he's searching for the Ancient Weapons to turn Margaret's nearby town into a destructive military site. Part of this involved drugging Lancer to put him to sleep, then disguising as him to set him up for the water tower's problems. He eventually finds and uses one of the weapons, but gets thwarted by Margaret after Lancer cuts opens a spot on the weapon, forcing Blaine to use it while his head's exposed but giving Margaret a clear shot at him. His final action near the very end of the game is to perform a failed suicidal explosion on Margaret as she escapes from the tower.]]

* BullfightBoss: The first boss cannot be harmed from the front, and periodically charges at you in a straight line.

* LizardFolk: One of the types of monsters in the game. They can [[PlayingWithFire breathe fire]] and [[SuperNotDrowningSkills breathe underwater]]. You fight one of them as the second boss and [[PowerCopying gain his ability to shoot missiles]] after you beat him.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: For the first time since the English version of ''Blue Port J'', this game has mostly averted GoodBadTranslation by having quite a comprehensible English script, this time by a group called the [[{{Fanservice}} Topless Girls]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Club]].

* ActionGirl: Margaret is the current successor of Fox Eye protagonists that emphasize this trope, following after Mana of ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish'', and Yuna of ''Sufferer''. She is planning to be succeeded, herself, by a {{Ninja}} girl named Nene in a TBA title.

Apollo, a messenger god who runs communications between guardians and gods, orders Margaret to fix her mistake by traveling through the tower, eliminating the monsters and finding the source of all of the water pollution, all while taking care not to drown in the tower's flooded areas, or get murdered or even molested by the monsters that await her. She will also have several run-ins with the Survey Corp soldiers, who are also clearing out the tower, but Lancer, their leader, may have something else planned in mind...

* AncientGreece: What the game appears to take place in. Gods as well as their guardians are heavily involved in the protection and maintenance of human civilization, and one of the gods, the son of Zeus, Apollo, happens to be Margaret's superior and MissionControl.

* {{Expy}}: [[WordOfGod Fox]] confirmed that Margaret is one to the protagonist of his previous game, ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish''[='=]s Mana. Both are young, energetic, HairOfGoldHeartOfGold girls in cute dresses that use guns to fight off demons. The settings of both games are almost in complete contrast from each other within the afterlife locales of [[AncientGreece Greek Mythology]] (''Hades'' takes place in Hell, namely the titular Underworld of Hades, while ''Margaret'' takes place in a world that is heavily watched over by the Greek gods of Heaven, such as Apollo).

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: For the first time since the English version of ''Blue Port J'', this game has averted GoodBadTranslation by having a very well-done English script, this time by a group called the [[{{Fanservice}} Topless Girls]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Club]].

* TheTease: Half of the time Margaret talks to a Survey Corps soldier while in her underwater or in the nude, [[MsFanservice she'll flirt with the soldier over her curvy body]], much to Apollo's disapproval and annoyance.

* GlassCannon: Margaret can turn into this if [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 her Excitement Meter is raised high enough, as this makes her aroused]], and it can be raised faster the less clothes she wears. Her shots do extra damage, but she will also take extra damage from attacks, and her OxygenMeter will drop faster due to her increased heart hate requiring more oxygen. Calming her down will bring the meter down and remove this status.

* HaveANiceDeath: Similar to previous Fox Eye games ''The Bottom and the Moon and the Mermaid'' and ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish'', every time Margaret dies, you're treated to a GameOver image showing how she died in greater detail. It ranges from [[AuthorAppeal drowning]] to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown being beaten to a bloody pulp]] to... [[BestialityIsDepraved passing out from a giant rat]] [[{{Squick}} molesting her from behind]], among other deaths. As a bonus, whatever condition her clothes were in at the point of her death also gets reflected when she's shown in the GameOver image. As there are 9 different states Margaret can be in (fully- to half-clothed to nothing on either the top or bottom half to completely naked), combine this with the [[TheManyDeathsOfYou large amount of ways Margaret can die]], and you can have over ''100'' different GameOver illustrations. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven when Margaret gets caught and gassed in the laboratory (the second time), which leads to an entire cutscene of dialogue between her and General Blaine that ends with her drowned in a water torture tank. This cutscene automatically plays out by itself without the player's input as Margaret's OxygenMeter drops during the talk, which leads straight to a unique GameOver screen after she drowns. It's also the only death in the game that doesn't have any clothing variations, as Margaret is always completely naked in it.]]

* {{Callback}}: As far as the gameplay itself goes, ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret'' combines several design aspects of 4 of Fox Eye's previous 2D games into one, such as ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'', ''VideoGame/SacrificeGirl'', ''Sufferer: The Final Escape'', and ''The Bottom and the Moon and the Mermaid''.

* {{Callback}}: As far as the gameplay itself goes, ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret'' combines several design aspects of 4 of Fox Eye's previous 2D games into one, such as ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'', ''VideoGame/SacrificeGirl'', ''Sufferer: The Final Escape'', and ''The Bottom and the Moon and the Mermaid''. It also takes after a bit of the developer's previous game, ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish''. See {{Expy}} below.

* NippleAndDimed: Completely played straight with the heroine herself for the first time in a Fox Eye game, as past Fox Eye protagonists could only have BarbieDollAnatomy. This is a byproduct of being under the adult-oriented "Fox Eye Abyss" label.

* RegionCoding: Before the game's English release, its original Japanese release was completely off-limits by pretty much anyone without a Japanese operating system or system locale. This could be worked around by changing everything to Japanese, but this was considered too tedious to those that attempted it and then had to change it all back to English after closing the game. Luckily, like some previous Fox Eye games, this one only took about a month later to get officially released in English, and after finding out about the above issue, [[WordOfGod Fox]] made the English release completely region-free as a RegionalBonus.

* NonLethalKO: Not every death in the game actually involves Margaret dying, but they all still nonetheless give the player a GameOver. Most of these usually involve an enemy sexually abusing her until she passes out from the strain, instead.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After escaping the collapsing tower at the very end, Apollo questions to Margaret if she knows what happened to Lancer, especially after Blaine bombarded him with missiles yet was still able attack his BFG and seemingly escape. Margaret [[SomebodyElsesProblem seems more worried about eating]], which in turn worries Apollo]].

* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:In a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'', after defeating the [[TrueFinalBoss Soul of the Great Beast]], ''the entirety of the Tower of the Water Deity becomes this'', because one of the Survey Corps set off a bomb in a last-ditch effort to destroy the corrupted tower. Margaret then has 4 minutes to escape the massive tower before she gets crushed and caved in by its destruction. After she escapes, this trope gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as the tower, being forged from the gods, cannot be destroyed by human means, and fixes itself following Margaret's purification the Oruboros' soul.]]

* {{BFG}}: [[spoiler:The Ancient Weapons are flying tanks shaped like this.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:General Blaine. He's part of the reason for the tower's contamination, as he's searching for the Ancient Weapons to turn Margaret's nearby town into a destructive military site. Part of this involved drugging Lancer to put him to sleep, then disguising as him to set him up for the water tower's problems. He eventually finds and uses one of the weapons, but gets tharted by Margaret after Lancer cuts opens a spot on the weapon, forcing Blaine to use it while his head's exposed but giving Magaret a clear shot at him. His final action near the very end of the game is to perform a failed suicidal explosion on Margaret as she escapes from the tower.]]

* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:In a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'', after defeating the [[TrueFinalBoss Soul of the Great Beast]], ''the entirety of the Tower of the Water Deity becomes this''. Margaret then has 4 minutes to escape the massive tower before she gets crushed and caved in by its destruction. After she escapes, this trope gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as the tower was actually fixing itself following Margaret's purification the beast's soul.]]

** TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Soul of the Great Beast. It must be purified with Magaret's guns in order to restore the tower back to normal. [[LoadBearingBoss Not before it causes]] [[CollapsingLair the whole tower to collapse]] in order to accomplish this, though.]]

* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Defeating the TrueFinalBoss makes the tower start to collapse. If Magaret doesn't make it out in 4 minutes, she gets buried alive from the rubble.]]
* LuminescentBlush: Margaret gets a heavy blush when her [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Excitement Meter is raised high enough]].

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Blaine's final attack on Margaret during her collapsing tower escape is to blow himself up. He dies, and the attack fails to hurt Margaret, but it instead causes the area Margaret's in to completely flood, putting her at a huge risk of drowning if she doesn't find an air pocket quickly during her escape.]]

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After escaping the collapsing tower at the very end, Apollo questions to Margaret if she knows what happened to Lancer, especially after Blaine bombarded him with missiles yet was still able to escape. Margaret [[SomebodyElsesProblem doesn't worry about it too much]], which in turn worries Apollo]].

* TakenForGranite: There are long, invincible snakes that can unleash a ray from their eyes that petrifies Margaret when she's within its range, leading to an instant GameOver. You must move past them slowly without shooting at them to avoid that.

* GrimyWater: [[spoiler:If the water is blood red, it will hurt Margaret even if it only touches her feet.]]

* DoubleJump: You get this after beating the man-eating centipede boss.

* CheckPoint: One is made every time Margaret goes into a different room or a crucial spot within the room. You will respawn at the check point every time you get a GameOver and continue, and can even do so beforehand by pausing the game, but quitting the game removes the check point and defaults to the last SavePoint you made, instead. See below.

* BlackCloak: [[spoiler:Wizards with such outfits appear everywhere in the laboratory. Margaret can't fight them as they will sound an alarm, releasing DeadlyGas that knocks her out and leads to a water torture cutscene.]]

* BonusMaterial: Beating the game unlocks the "GC Viewer", which lets you view every artwork that you've encountered in your playthrough. This includes all 9 variations of the game's ending cutscenes and GameOver images based on Margaret's state of dress (from fully-clothed to half-clothed on the top and/or bottom half to completely naked). There are also extra images that are unlocked by achieving special requirements, such as shooting a lot of bullets, retrying a lot (either from pausing or from a GameOver), beating the game on "[[NintendoHard Expert]]" difficulty, [[spoiler:collecting all of the hidden artifacts, and getting through the entire laboratory without being detected]].

* GorgeousGorgon: They're immune to Margaret's bullets and can only be killed by her missiles. If they're encountered underwater, they'll attempt to drown her by [[UnderwaterKiss literally sucking the air out of her]]. This is a non-issue on land besides tearing up her clothes and LesYay raising her [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Excitement Meter]].

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Margaret contributes into [[AuthorAppeal a rather-lengthy line of blonde-haired Fox Eye protagonists]] (which includes the likes of [[VideoGame/{{Holdover}} Marie]], [[VideoGame/HadesVanquish Mana]], and [[VideoGame/NatikaAndSandysSinkingAndRescuingOperations Natika]]). She is also one of the most [[TheHero heroic]] characters in Fox Eye's entire roster.

* KnightOfCerebus: Margaret's journey to fix the tower becomes more serious after [[spoiler:General Blaine reveals himself and his goals, which occurs not too long after Margaret completely loses her ability to talk to Apollo for guidance]].

* SavePoint: These are scattered throughout the labyrinth tower. Margaret can sleep in a bed to save her progress and heal, and reset her Excitement Meter, or dive in a pool of holy water to heal, as well. She can also reload her missile ammunition, change into a fresh new set of clothes, [[{{Fanservice}} or just take off her current set and and run around naked]]. [[spoiler:This becomes very important during the laboratory raid, where Margaret is stripped of her clothes and guns and must find a SavePoint in the lab to get them all back should the player fail to not get detected]].

* TheTease: Half of the time Margaret talks to a Survey Corps soldier while in her underwater or in the nude, she'll flirt with the soldier over her curvy body, much to Apollo's disapproval and annoyance.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The Underground Laboratory Base. Among other things, it's the home base of BigBad General Blaine and his wizard henchmen, all of whom are invincible and will gas Margaret and execute her via water torture if they spot her.]]
* WallJump: You get this after beating the man-eating plant boss. Afterwards, Margaret will slide down walls to kick off of them, and you can adjust how fast or slow she slides.

* ActionGirl: Margaret is the current successor of Fox Eye protagonists that emphasize this trope, following after Mana of ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish'', and Yuna of ''Sufferer''. She is planning to be succeeded, herself, by a {{Ninja}} girl named Nene in an as-of-yet-unnamed title coming in late 2017.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Being a "Fox Eye [[HotterAndSexier Abyss]]" title, this get [[AvertedTrope averted]] for the first time in a Fox Eye history, in that Margaret's nipples can be seen when she's not wearing a top. This trope still gets played straight with her crotch, however.

Apollo, a messenger god who runs communications between guardians and gods, orders Margaret to fix her mistake by traveling through the tower, eliminating the monsters and finding the source of all of the water pollution, all while taking care not to drown in the tower's flooded areas, or get murdered or even molested by the monsters that await her. She will also have several run-ins with the Survey Corp soldiers, who are also clearing out the tower, but their leader may have something else planned in mind...

In short, the game is HotterAndSexier compared to past Fox Eye titles due to introducing some softcore {{Hentai}} elements into the game, and as a result, ''definitely NotSafeForWork'' (but still much more tame than a typical full-on HGame). As is the game's [[http://www.foxeye.squares.net/abyss/margaret/index.htm website]].

* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for the first time in a Fox Eye game in that Margaret's nipples can be seen, but still played straight with her crotch.

* [[spoiler:BlackCloak]]: [[spoiler:Wizards with such outfits appear everywhere in the laboratory. Margaret can't fight them as they will sound an alarm, releasing DeadlyGas that knocks her out and leads to a water torture cutscene.]]

* BlueIsHeroic: [[CaptainObvious Look at the page image above and read the title, again.]] [[spoiler: Also played straight by Lancer, who is an armored knight with a blue cape that's also trying to fix the tower with his men]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by [[spoiler: General Blaine, who was disguised as Lancer, including wearing a blue cape, but he is definitely ''not'' a hero by any means]].

* ClothingDamage: Margaret will get her clothes shredded off as she takes damage until she's left completely naked. This makes her more vulnerable to damage and also slowly increases her Excitement Meter. Her state of dress (or lack thereof) gets reflected in her dialogue portraits (similar to ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}''), her GameOver images, how she appears in the title screen after saving, and [[spoiler:even at the very end after successfully escaping the collapsing tower]]. This also affects Margaret's conversations with [=NPCs=], namely the male Survey Corps soldiers [[WhatTheHellHero who will scold Margaret if she talks to them while she's naked.]] Margaret will likewise [[HandOrObjectUnderwear cover herself]] and [[AllMenArePerverts scold them back for looking at her naked body]], or just tease them for so, instead. This is even referenced in the game's preview images:

* DarkerAndEdgier: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While the overall game is not nearly as dark in its theme as the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'' or ''VideoGame/SacrificeGirl'', failure can still be a ''very'' cruel mistress to Margaret compared to most of Fox Eye's other heroines as its [[NightmareFuel/BlueGuardianMargaret Nightmare Fuel page]] can assess to. [[spoiler:Also, the GameOver scene of Margaret being captured, stripped, and drowned in a water torture tank takes the developer's SignatureStyle [[UpToEleven and plays it as graphically and mercilessly as it can be.]]]]
* [[spoiler:DeadlyGas]]: [[spoiler:The underground laboratory will trigger this if Margaret is spotted in it by the wizards or their security machines. The gas chokes her and knocks her out, but it won't actually kill her as the trope implies. When this happens the first time she's at the lab, she's stripped of her clothes and weapons and gets drowned in a water torture tank, but then survives and gets thrown in a cell. If this happens again from when she escapes to reclaim her gear, she's drowned again and this time for good, making getting gassed an extended GameOver sequence with a unique illustration for it to match]].

* DialogueTree: Different conversations can happen between Margaret and everyone else depending on whether she's wearing clothes or not. A lot of the ones when she's naked tend to be [[RuleOfFunny hilarious]]. [[spoiler:This stops after the game's plot forces her to be naked when she's forced to drown in a water torture tank very late in the game.]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:The water torture tank sequence near the end of the game. It can be completely avoided, but if Margaret is caught by the wizards, she loses her clothes and weapons and gets thrown into the tank, where she passes out from lack of air, and then thrown into a cell. If she's caught again before or after she gets all of her stuff back, she's thrown into the tank naked, again, this time being drowned for real.]]

* {{Expy}}: [[WordOfGod Fox]] confirmed that Margaret is one to the protagonist of his previous game, ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish''[='=]s Mana. Both are young, energetic, HairOfGoldHeartOfGold girls in cute dresses that use guns to fight off demons. The settings of both games are almost in complete contrast from each other within the afterlife locales of [[AncientGreece Greek Mythology]] (''Hades'' takes place in Hell, namely the Underworld of Hades, while ''Margaret'' takes place in a world heavily watched over by the Greek gods of Heaven).
* {{Fanservice}}: ClothingDamage and {{Stripperific}} are both accounted for in this game. If you don't mind having a lower defense, you can even use a SavePoint to play through the game with Margaret completely naked without having to suffer through ClothingDamage first.

** TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Soul of the Great Beast. It must be purified with Magaret's guns in order to restore the tower back to normal. [[LoadBearingBoss Not before it causes the whole tower to collapse]], though.]]

* GlassCannon: Margaret can turn into this if her Excitement Meter is raised high enough and she becomes aroused, which can be raised faster the less clothes she wears. Her shots do extra damage, but she will also take extra damage from attacks, and her OxygenMeter will drop faster. Calming her down will bring the meter down and remove this status.
* [[spoiler:GrimyWater]]: [[spoiler:If the water is blood red, it will hurt Margaret even if it only touches her feet.]]
* GorgeousGorgon: They're immune to Margaret's bullets and can only be killed by her missiles. If they're encountered underwater, they'll attempt to drown her by [[UnderwaterKiss literally sucking the air out of her]]. This is a non-issue on land besides tearing up her clothes and raising her Excitement Meter.

* GunsAkimbo: Margaret carries two pistols on her person at all times that let her shoot magic bullets at enemies. The bullets become more powerful the more aroused she is, and they can be upgraded to shoot missiles, too, which are all affected by Margaret's state of arousal. [[spoiler:Beating Lancer, the 6th boss, gives Margaret the permanent Hyper Shot, which is even stronger and can pass through walls.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Margaret is next in [[AuthorAppeal a rather-lengthy line of blonde Fox Eye protagonists]] (such as [[VideoGame/{{Holdover}} Marie]] and [[VideoGame/HadesVanquish Mana]]), and she is a very kindhearted and heroic one.

* LuminescentBlush: What happens to Margaret when her Excitement Meter is raised high enough.

* {{Metroidvania}}: Even with the Fox Eye-flavored design and AncientGreece-based setting, this game seems to be the closest to playing like [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} its grand inspiration]] compared to Fox Eye's [[VideoGame/{{Holdover}} previous]] [[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl Metroidvanias]]. You mainly use a gun to fight monsters and solve puzzles, and you can get powerups that give Margaret missiles and improve her gun and skills in order to reach areas she previously couldn't and uncover hidden items. There are also {{Save Point}}s where she can recover her health, reload her missile ammo, and put on a new set of clothes if her previous set got damaged at all, [[{{Fanservice}} or even take them off to purposely play the game in the buff, if you prefer]]. [[spoiler:There's even a countdown sequence at the end of the game where Margaret must backtrack to the very beginning of the game within a 4-minute time limit.]]
* MissionControl: Apollo, the messenger god. He's the one who sent Margaret on her quest through the water tower, and will talk to her from time to time to check on her progress, offer her advice, and point her to where she needs to go next. However, he can only talk to her outdoors as a magical magnetic field in the tainted tower is preventing him from communicating with Margaret while she's indoors. [[spoiler:This gets worse later on in the game, when Apollo is unable to communicate with her at all and Margaret has to start figuring things out by herself. Then it's later revealed that the magnetic field was made by General Blaine's wizard henchmen. After Margaret beats Blaine in the FinalBoss fight, the wizards flee the tower and Margaret regains her communication with Apollo, where he then instructs her on how the [[TrueFinalBoss Soul of the Great Beast]] can be defeated.]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Besides the obvious {{Fanservice}}, a lot of conversations with [=NPCs=] change dramatically from the original intent of them if Margaret engages in them while she's in the nude. They usually result in Margaret either scolding them or teasing them, much to Apollo's dismay.

* OxygenMeter: Fox Eye's SignatureStyle returns once again. This time, it is affected by Margaret's Excitement Meter, where it will go down faster the more she's aroused. This can make it impossible to reach certain areas in this game without drowning unless the player holds the "Check" button to calm Margaret down. Beating the third boss extends the time she can hold her breath, and there are a few underwater enemies that can force her to drown faster. [[spoiler:Also, while the game locks the meter in place during dialogue, this ''doesn't'' apply to the avoidable water torture tank sequence late in the game as it's meant to be a part of [[BigBad General Blaine]]'s execution of Margaret and to gloat at her failure to stop him.]]

* RegionCoding: Before the game's English release, its original Japanese release was completely off-limits by pretty much anyone without a Japanese operating system or system locale. This could be worked around by changing everything to Japanese, but this was considered too tedious to those that attempted it and had to change it all back to English later. Luckily, like most other Fox Eye games, this one only took about a month later to get released in English, and after finding out about the above issue, [[WordOfGod Fox]] made the English release completely region-free as a RegionalBonus.
* SavePoint: These are scattered throughout the labyrinth tower. Margaret can sleep in a bed to save her progress and heal, and reset her Excitement Meter, or dive in a pool of holy water to heal, as well. She can also reload her missile ammunition, change into a fresh new set of clothes, [[{{Fanservice}} or just take off her current set and and run around naked]]. [[spoiler:This becomes very important during the laboratory raid, where Margaret is stripped of her clothes and guns and must find a SavePoint in the lab to get them all back]].

* ShamefulStrip: [[spoiler:In the Underground Laboratory, should Margaret be spotted by General Blaine's wizard henchmen, she will be captured and wake up naked and tied up inside a water tank. They all gloat and taunt her until she passes out from lack of air, then she'll wake up in a cell, still naked. She must then break out and continue sneaking through the base to recover her clothes and weapons in a SavePoint. Even after she does, if she gets spotted again at this point, she'll automatically be caught and stripped of everything again and they'll throw her in the water tank a second time until she drowns for real.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Blaine's final attack on Margaret during her tower escape is to blow himself up. The attack misses and he dies, but it causes the area Margaret's in to completely flood and puts her at a huge risk of drowning if she doesn't find an air pocket fast during her escape.]]

* YouDirtyRat: [[BestialityIsDepraved Don't let them get you from behind!]]

* ActionGirl: Margaret is the current successor of Fox Eye protagonists that emphasize this trope, following after Mana of ''VideoGame/HadesVanquish'', and Yuna of ''Sufferer''.