History VideoGame / ChimeraBeast

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* ConceptArt: A huge number of them [[http://arcadeheroes.com/2013/07/03/discovering-jalecos-unreleased-chimera-beast/ here]].

* KillEmAll: The Eaters do this to the world in the Bad ending. They then proceed to move on to other planets to do the same...

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* SpikesOfVillainy: The FinalBoss has them, and they are used for his ThatOneAttack.

* VideoGameSettings:
** HighAltitudeBattle: The third stage, "Birds", takes place in the sky.
** JungleJapes: The fourth stage, "Reptiles", took place in a jungle with many hard-to-kill [[DemonicSpiders spiders]] and tortoise enemies.
** MouseWorld: Microbes, the first level. Your Eater is microscopically sized at that point, and fights enemies like cells and copepods.
** LethalLavaLand[=/=]UndergroundLevel: The fifth stage, "Mammals", had your Eater venture into a lava cavern, killing lots of armadillos and moles on the way.
** UnderTheSea: The second stage, "Fish", takes place under the sea.

The chief innovation of Chimera Beast is its power-up system. Instead of collecting gun upgrades as in most games of this genre, the player's Eater enhances itself by [[MegaManning eating other creatures and assuming their abilities and defenses]]. Instead of simply having various types of projectile weaponry, the game attempts to make these new abilities as varied as possible. Consuming a crustacean might give the player's Eater a hard protective shell, for example, while an insectoid creature might offer a poisonous tail instead. The game even includes the ability to use cancer as a weapon.

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The second boss, a squid with an extendable head.

''Chimera Beast'' takes place on a planet which is described as distant and Earth-like. The planet is overrun by evil creatures known as [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Eaters]], capable of eating other [[MegaManning creatures and acquiring their abilities or characteristics]]. The [[VillainProtagonist player controls one of these Eaters]] and progresses through the game by means of evolution, consuming microscopic organisms in the first stage, fish in the second, and so on. When the player's creature gets big enough to take on humanity, the goal of the game is revealed. The planet's humans have developed space travel, which the player must thwart, so as not to give the Eaters a means of escaping the planet. There are two possible endings: one in which the player is able to stop the Eaters from escaping the planet, and one in which the Eaters do escape and, we are told, will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eventually make their way to Earth]].

''Chimera Beast'' takes place on a planet which is described as distant and Earth-like. The planet is overrun by evil creatures known as [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Eaters]], capable of eating other [[MegaManning creatures and acquiring their abilities or characteristicsgs: one in which the player is able to stop the Eaters from escaping the planet, and one in which the Eaters do escape and, we are told, will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eventually make their way to Earth]].

The chief innovation of Chimera Beast is its power-up system. Instead of collecting gun upgrades as in most games of this genre, the player's Eater enhances itself by [[MegaManning eating other creatures and assuming their abilities and defenses]]. InsteAlliterative Name: Ange Amou.
Art Evolution: In the original Under the Knife, she looked a lot like a teenager despite being 21. Starting from the remake Second Opinion, she looks closer to her actual age.
But Not Too Foreign: She is part-German.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Despite her insistence that there's nothing between her and Derek, Angie gets noticeably more aggressive or passive-aggressive respectively when she sees Mayuzumi or Heather close to him.
Easily Forgiven: Averted with her father. Even after it becomes clear that he only aided Delphi to prevent her from being kidnapped as a child and used to incubate a new strain of GUILT, she insists that he was still in the worng for doing so and doesn't let up on her disapproval.
Establishing Character Moment: When Angie first appears, she arrives slightly late—because she either witnessed a man on a bus having a heart attack (Under the Knife) or witnessed a man getting hit by a car (Second Opinion), and in either case, she personally helped the man to the hospital and thus was responsible for the man receiving quick treatment. This establishes how hard a worker Angie is and how seriously she takes her job, in contrast to Derek's (initial) laziness.
Foil: To Elena. While Angie is bolder and more skilled, she's rather emotionally immature and quick to anger, tears, and belittlement of others. Elena, on the flipside, is more composed, cheerier, and prefers to give the doctors positive encouragement instead.
Hair-Trigger Temper: It's actually surprisingly easy to piss her off.
Hypocrite: Early on in Under The Knife / Second Opinion, Angie criticizes Derek for "not showing proper bedside manner" to a patient (even though all he did was tell him "we'll do the best we can"). A few chapters later, she and Derek save the life of a teenage, suicidal GUILT patient named Linda Reid. After Linda snaps at the two hospital workers for saving her, Angie loses her own temper and responds by angrily telling her that saving her was a mistake and that she should just die. Way to follow your own advice, Ang.
I Know Karate: "I have studied Aikido."
Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
She's The Lancer, but good God, she is such a bitch most of the time. She berates and blames Derek for Emilio's death when in reality he was forced to make a very difficult call as a doctor during a terrorist attack-level emergency that mirrors a sadly common situation doctors go through on a near-daily basis.
Another notable example is when she berates him for an admittedly negligent decision to not properly examine a patient so he could attend a symposium, telling him that he doesn't deserve to be a doctor... and then comes crying for his help when another patient suffers cardiac arrest and she doesn't know what to do.
Karma Houdini: She never gets called out for her unprofessional behavior. This might not be so jarring if she weren't constantly berating Derek for not being professional enough.
Last Minute Hookup: With Derek, in the second game.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Frequently.
Shipper on Deck: A very subtle example, but after Derek cures Dr. Greg Kasal of the Tetarti strain of GUILT, Cybil says that Dr. Kasal needs time to recover, even though he'll probably try to return to work right away. So Angie suggests that it looks like they're understaffed, so perhaps Cybil could assist Dr. Kasal?
To Be a Master: When Derek finally decides to transfer from Hope Hospital to Caduceus, Angie goes with him, both because the hospital thought Derek needed someone he was familiar with to help him, and, as Angie explains, because Angie wants to be a "master assistant" just as Derek wants to be a master surgeon.
Tsundere: The manual outright says that she "can be childish and moody from time to time". Starts out as a Type A towards Derek, but gradually warms up to him. She still shifts back every so often, though.
By Chapter 6 in Second Opinion, when Derek becomes infected with GUILT, Angie volunteers to assist Dr. Kimishima, but at certain moments the former is unable to see Derek in the condition he was in, cries many times, and jumps to severe conclusions.
What the Hell, Hero?:
Delivers two of these in the first Trauma Center: Under the Knife (and its remake, Second Opinion). The first one to Derek, when Derek's carelessness in refusing to analyze a patient in detail (so that Derek could attend a symposium) caused complications later on, and the second one to Linda Reid, because Angie believes that with so many people in the hospital struggling to live, if Linda wants to die then she should die, and make room for the others.
Delivers yet another one to Derek in Under the Knife 2 after Emilio dies. While she agrees that there was nothing that could be done about it, she also points out that Stiles' overconfidence in the Healing Touch has made him increasingly more arrogant and led him to underestimate his patients' wounds.ad of simply having various types of projectile weaponry, the game attempts to make these new abilities as varied as possible. Consuming a crustacean might give the player's Eater a hard protective shell, for example, while an insectoid creature might offer a poisonous tail instead. The game even includes the ability to use cancer as a weapon.

''Chimera Beast'' takes place on a planet which is described as distant and Earth-like. The planet is overrun by evil creatures known as [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Eaters]], capable of eating other [[MegaManning creatures and acquiring their abilities or characteristics]]. The [[VillainProtagonist player controls one of these Eaters]] and progresses through the game by means of evolution, consuming microscopic organisms in the first stage, fish in the second, and so on. When the player's creature gets big enough to take on humanity, the goal of the game is revealed. The planet's humans have developed space travel, which the player must thwart, so as not to give the Eaters a means of escaping the planet. There are two possible endings: one in which the player is able to stop the Eaters from escaping the planet, and one in which the Eaters do escape and, we are told, will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt eventually make their way to Earth]].

The chief innovation of Chimera Beast is its power-up system. Instead of collecting gun upgrades as in most games of this genre, the player's Eater enhances itself by [[MegaManning eating other creatures and assuming their abilities and defenses]]. Instead of simply having various types of projectile weaponry, the game attempts to make these new abilities as varied as possible. Consuming a crustacean might give the player's Eater a hard protective shell, for example, while an insectoid creature might offer a poisonous tail instead. The game even includes the ability to use cancer as a weapon.

* WallJump: Used by the boss of Mammals. [[CollapsingCeilingBoss: It also causes it to rain lava rocks whenever it does so]].

* WallJump: Used by the boss of Mammals.

''Chimera Beast'' is a HorizontalScrollingShooter ArcadeGame developed by C.P. Brain in 1993 for Creator/{{Jaleco}}, but never released except as a prototype.