History VideoGame / CustomRobo

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The reason people don't remember that Rahu destroyed the earth in ''Battle Arena'' is because of a memory-erasing watch. The ultimate fate of the villains in the same game was to wipe their memories and make them actors.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Most of the franchise follows a mostly light-hearted [[ShonenDemographic Shonen style]] what with standard competitions, tournaments and occasional dirty play among kids and teens with criminals causing trouble, usually only getting tense later in the stories. ''Battle Revolution'' dissects this formula thoroughly with a generally older cast than the rest of the series with mostly young to older adults, a far more serious tone with our main heroes being bounty hunters fighting a criminal organization that genuinely threatens people's lives, and comes up with a justification for why just about ''everyone'' in the entire city uses the Robos beyond just being a common hobby: [[spoiler: it's a secret government-directed effort to prepare counter-measures and have the populace trained for if [[BigBad Rahu]] was ever unsealed again.]]

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: Somewhat subverted in the case of ''Battle Revolution''. Questions asked by the chief of police near the end of the game involve answers about the world and it's composition. [[spoiler: The correct answer is generally the opposite of what the player would choose without a second thought.]]

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: Somewhat subverted in the case of Battle Revolution. Questions asked by the chief of police near the end of the game involve answers about the world and it's composition. [[spoiler: The correct answer is generally the opposite of what the player would choose without a second thought.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Most of the franchise follows a light-hearted [[ShonenDemographic Shonen style]] what with standard competitions, tournaments and occasional dirty play among kids and teens with criminals causing trouble. ''Battle Revolution'' dissects this formula thoroughly with a generally older cast than the rest of the series with mostly young to older adults, a far more serious tone with a genuine crime syndicate that actually attacks people and proliferate illegal parts all over, and actually comes up with a justification for why just about everyone in the entire city uses the Robos: [[spoiler: it's a secret government-directed effort to prepare counter-measures and have the populace trained for if [[BigBad Rahu]] was ever unsealed again, as it already ended most of the world and wiped out civilization as we know it previously.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Most of the franchise is your fairly standard competitions, tournaments and occasional dirty play among kids and teens. ''Battle Revolution'' dissects this formula thoroughly with a generally older cast than the rest of the series with mostly young to older adults, a far more serious tone with a genuine crime syndicate that attack people and proliferate illegal parts all over, and actually comes up with a justification for why just about everyone in the entire city uses the Robos: [[spoiler: it's a secret government-directed effort to prepare counter-measures and have the populace trained for if [[BigBad Rahu]] was ever unsealed again, as it already ended most of the world and wiped out civilization as we know it previously.]]

** ''GX'' takes it [[SerialEscalation far higher than eleven]], as mandatory tournaments comprise ''the entire game'', excepting only the a small portion at the end where you storm the Nikaidou Group's headquarters to take out the BigBad and his elite henchmen. Then you get to the postgame, which is composed of - you guessed it - ''more tournaments''.

* ThePowerofFriendship: Anthony in ''Battle Revolution'' is surprised when he and Thomas lose to Harry and the hero, claiming that they had the power of friendship on their side.

*** '''[[MostAnnoyingSound THAT]]'''[[EvilLaugh Laugh]].

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''Custom Robo'' is an action/third-person shooter/RPG/mecha video games series created by Noise and published by Nintendo. You're in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture game, with the biggest difference between us and them is that they have super advanced robots that fight each other. Sounds cool? Taking the HumongousMecha premise and [[InvertedTrope kicking it squarely in the chin]], these robots are between eight and ten inches in height. They fight in Holosseums, which are areas designed specifically for this type of combat. They're controlled via "diving" into the robo, where the operator psychically becomes one with their robo. With about 200 different parts, including around 30 different robos, 5 customizable areas (Robo, gun, bomb, pod, legs), and a lot of options for each area, the series intends to live up to the word ''custom''.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: In ''Arena'', Angelica/Cattleya uses her custom-designed Carat robo in the strictly regulated Great Robo Cup, making it as far as the semi-finals. Said character is the absurdly wealthy granddaughter of the world's leading robo developer and chief sponsor of said tournament. Said robo and its weapons are ''military-grade'' and highly illegal in the competitive environment. But, being a [[RichBitch rich]] [[CaptainObvious bitch]] and all...

->''There are worlds slightly different from our own. This is the story of one of them.''

''Custom Robo'' is an action/third-person shooter/RPG/mecha game by Nintendo. You're in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture game, with the biggest difference between us and them is that they have super advanced robots that fight each other. Sounds cool? Taking the HumongousMecha premise and [[InvertedTrope kicking it squarely in the chin]], these robots are between eight and ten inches in height. They fight in Holosseums, which are areas designed specifically for this type of combat. They're controlled via "diving" into the robo, where the operator psychically becomes one with their robo. With about 200 different parts, including around 30 different robos, 5 customizable areas (Robo, gun, bomb, pod, legs), and a lot of options for each area, the series intends to live up to the word ''custom''.

* TournamentArc: The Grand Battle in Battle Revolution. Not quite a real tournament in practice, though, as it's ultimately every character in the game vs. you.
** In the main story for ''Battle Revolution', the player takes part in three tournament over the course of the story, each one longer than the last.

* AllInARow: Some games in the series don't let you walk through your followers either.

* AllInARow: Several times in both Arena and Battle Revolution
** Exaggerated in the Gamecube game, late in the story, where up to six people follow the protagonist, all in a line.

*** ''GX'' takes it [[SerialEscalation far higher than eleven]], as mandatory tournaments comprise ''the entire game'', excepting only the a small portion at the end where you storm the Nikaidou Group's headquarters to take out the BigBad and his elite henchmen. Then you get to the postgame, which is composed of - you guessed it - ''more tournaments''.

* WhamLine: About two-thirds of the way into the game, leading into TheReveal, the player is asked what they know about the world. The two options they're presented with are [[spoiler:"The world is round," and "The world is flat."]] The player, upon their first time playing the game, will more than likely choose the former answer. They're then treated to this exchange:

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Lampshaded in the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] game. During the police-sponsored doubles tournament, a pair of "Boy" characters claim that they are going to lose because they were unnamed, and would bemoan this fact every time they are spoken to. They manage to make it to the top eight pairs, however, because everybody in their tournament block was also a unnamed "Boy" character.
** Also pulled off somewhat strangely; the background characters may all look the same as similarly-categorized characters (Boy, Girl, Scientist, Customer, etc), but there are a large number of recurring background characters with distinct personalities and quirks, such as a scientist who always whispers and a "cop" who is actually just a fanboy wearing a police uniform. This is very easily missed by players who do not TalkToEveryone. Additionally, some side characters of absolutely no importance have distinct model differences, such as an [[GiantMook obese mook]] in Eliza's maze, and Paulie, a cop with PermaStubble.
* YourCheatingHeart: Subverted: One of Steel Hearts Missions involved trying to break up a fighting couple (who incidentally were also the main protagonist's next door neighbors), eventually having to fight each one and defeat them in order to calm them down. The reason why they were fighting is because the wife found a phone number sheet in her husband's clothes,(which he picked up the other day) she called and discovered it was a woman on the other line. She assumed that husband was having an affair, and was upset. Turns out that not only was the dad not even guilty of having an affair, but the phone number was actually the same one Harry got from the woman at the testing hall. It fell out of his pocket as he rushed off to call her the previous evening, thus indirectly, and unintentionally starting that mess. Incidentally, Harry was moping throughout the entire mission until he got the phone number back.

''Custom Robo'' is an action/third-person shooter/RPG/whatever game by Nintendo. You're in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture game, with the biggest difference between us and them is that they have super advanced robots that fight each other. Sounds cool? Taking the HumongousMecha premise and [[InvertedTrope kicking it squarely in the chin]], these robots are between eight and ten inches in height. They fight in Holosseums, which are areas designed specifically for this type of combat. They're controlled via "diving" into the robo, where the operator psychically becomes one with their robo. With about 200 different parts, including around 30 different robos, 5 customizable areas (Robo, gun, bomb, pod, legs), and a lot of options for each area, the series intends to live up to the word ''custom''.

* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler:The Gamecube game reveals that the entire world is in a dome, because a demon-possessed robo destroyed the rest.]]
** Actually, it was [[spoiler:some sort of unstoppable evil force, until it tried controlling a robo and got stuck inside of it]], which is why everyone uses Custom Robos. [[spoiler:It's so the govenment can find and train people like the hero, in case Rahu wakes up.]]

* ButThouMust: Strategy speeches before battles all end with an option for "Got It," "Don't Got it," and a third, usually humorous, situation-specific option. Picking anything but "Got It" makes the speaker repeat himself or herself. Granted, the point was to get the speaker to repeat the strategic advice, but there's no reason that options like "Ha ha! They called you a jerk!" or "[=SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!=]" should make Harry repeat himself. Also subverted at one point in ''Battle Revolution'' - by saying "no" enough times, you ''won't'' have to follow Harry into the enemy-filled bathroom.

*** The backtracking isn't really worth it. Just keep the watch and shorten the whole Rahu scene...

** [[spoiler:Ray Legend]], a secret Robo in Battle Revolution [[spoiler:based off of the original Ray model,]] also counts. Sporting more power than even [[spoiler: Rahu III]] but less defense than your average Little Raider, [[spoiler: Ray Legend]] makes up for this lack of bulk by packing a whopping SIX air dashes with which to completely dance around attacks.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The reason people don't remember that Rahu destroyed wrought havoc on the earth in ''Battle Arena''; also, the ultimate fate of the villains in the same game was to wipe their memories and make them actors.]]

* LightningBruiser: Rahu gets bigger and bigger over the course of the game, but never seems to slow down any as a consequence.
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Double-subverted in ''Battle Revolution''. [[spoiler:When asked if the world is round or flat, saying that the world is round gets you chastised by your friends. Apparently, the world being flat is gradeschool knowledge. Soon enough, you find out that you've been living in a domed city and your "flat world" was actually the last inhabitable area of a ruined round planet.]]

** The exception is ''Custom Robo GX'' for the [[GameBoyAdvance GBA]], where nearly every gun is uniquely named; for instance, Bubble ''Smasher'', Glider ''Wing'', Gatling ''Cannon'', to name a few.