History VideoGame / FightNRage

** Ricardo can perform his own version of the [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Shoryuu-reppa]] [[spoiler:(After performing his Tauro Uppercut, keep holding the Attack button, tap the direction you want to go and release Attack as you land on the ground)]].

* ALittleBitBeastly: The catgirl in the shop menu section looks like she came from a traditional anime. With only feline ears, fangs and tail. No explanation why she looks more human than the rest of the mutants.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Endings G and H have the heroes defeat the Leader, but fail to save Jennifer, which weighs heavily on them, ''especially'' Ricardo. Gal's Ending G alleviates this somewhat by focusing more on [[SequelHook Gal preparing to find and fight the Leader's secret benefactor]] than on Jennifer's murder.]]

* CastFromHitPoints: Just like [[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage SoR3]], you have a SP meter that drains when you use your special attack and then refills slowly over time, and if you use it again when the meter isn't full, it drains your HP instead.

* TheExtremistWasRight: If you choose the "escape" route at the warehouse, you eventually meet a human tribe with a female mechanic named Iris. After it becomes clear that the mutants knew about the warehouse rescue mission, Iris and the village elder have an argument about how to proceed from there: the elder wants to take the more prudent route and escape before the mutants find them, while Iris's plan is more violent; she wants to take the truck and fight the mutants directly. [[spoiler:Iris turns out to be right; if you ''don't'' go with Iris's plan, the mutants will launch a raid on the humans and kill almost the entire group, though at least Iris herself will survive.]]

* HopeSpot: Promise Village, which our heroes can go to after rescuing Jennifer in the first stage. The villagers have managed to get a peace treaty with The Boss' mutants, letting peaceful humans and mutants join their ranks to live safely... [[spoiler:They keep that peace treaty by giving up any deserters to the mutants, and that includes our heroes and Jennifer]].

* IAmAHumanitarian: The Slaughterhouse is all but stated to house humans that the mutants later kill and cook for food, what with the bloody cells that have humans in them, butcher's charts on the walls depicting female humans, and the [[BloodyHorror blood soaked kitchen]] that the protagonists will recognize to smell like human corpses.

** If ''THAT'' isn't hard enough for you... the last unlockable difficulty is called '''''Unfair''''', and it's the rough equivalent to '''''[[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage SoR2's]]''''' '''''Mania difficulty!!!'''''. Fortunately, there aren't any unlockables that require you to beat ''this difficulty''.

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: When you defeat an enemy, you can keep attacking [[LudicrousGibs until it explodes in a shower of bones]] for more points, [[Franchise/MortalKombat just like a Brutality.]]

* GirlyRun: The normal walk cycle for female [=NPCs=]. Frankly it looks necessary to keep their [[GagBoobs assets]] under control.

* WorldOfBuxom: There is only one chest size here, and it's [[GagBoobs Gal]].

* {{Gainaxing}}: Almost every female character has a large, jiggly bust.

* MultipleEndings: Every playthrough can have one of eight different endings, and there are seven possible combinations (each character, the three possible pairings, or the three characters together), [[UpToEleven bringing the grand total to 56 endings!]]

** If ''THAT'' isn't hard enough for you... the last unlockable difficulty is called '''''Unfair''''', and it's the rough equivalent to '''''[[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage SoR2's]]''''' '''''[[UpToEleven Mania difficulty!!!]]'''''. Fortunately, there aren't any unlockables that require you to beat ''this difficulty''.

* YanktheDogsChain: One of the major path options is saving the hostage in the first level. If you escort her to a village, [[spoiler:she winds up being killed anyway, as it was all a big trap]].

* ALoadOfBull: One of the main characters, Ricardo is a Minotaur.

* TheRunaway: If you play as F.Norris, you gradually learn that F.Norris is a runaway from the Ancient Order, but it's never made clear why F.Norris ran away or what the Ancient Order is like, though The Boss makes an insulting remark that F.Norris was seduced by "coward ideals".

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: When you defeat an enemy, you can keep attacking [[LudicrousGibs until it explodes in a shower of bones]] for more points, [[VideoGame/MortalKombat just like a Brutality.]]

* '''Gal''': a girl who has escaped the clutches of human slave traffickers. She uses her own style of martial arts based on [[KickChick Kickboxing]] and, [[SheFu plenty of cartwheels and jumps.]]

* ApocalypseHow: "The Great Pulse", it rendered every technological device useless, leaving the world at mercy of the mutant animals.
* ArtificialStupidity: The game even admits that the AI helpers aren't very smart, though in all fairness it is selling them short. They can pull their weight rather well but they are a bit too aggressive and will grab enemies that counter grabs, stand near bosses who punish players for being too close when they get up, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and refuse to eat food until they're almost dead]]. The first three problems are what rookies would do anyway.

* BerserkerTears: Implied in a particular path where The Player Characters start the stage instantly in a powered up state after [[spoiler: Jennifer, whom they just rescued, is murdered.]]

* BonusFeatureFailure: Several of the unlockable characters fall into this in comparison to the cooler and more practical main characters. Though to be fair, if you thought characters like [[{{Mooks}} Filcher]] were going to be of any value then there's something wrong with you.
* CastFromHitPoints: Just like [[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage SoR3]], you have a SP meter that refills slowly when you use your special attack, and if you use it again when the meter isn't full, it drains your HP instead.
* ContinuingIsPainful: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] on Easy and Normal (and after an update Hard and Hardest), continuing will return you to the start of the section where you lost all of your lives. Played straight on Insane and higher difficulties, where you return to the '''start''' of the stage.

* DoubleUnlock: Taken to the extreme as just about everything is a double unlock. For example, to unlock the enemy characters for use in other modes (except Arcade Mode and Training Mode), you have to defeat a set number of them on the Arcade Mode, after that they will be available to buy on the Extras Menu.

** Mutants call all their female human captives "gals". As an escapee from a human trafficking ring, it's possible the playable Gal [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep has no name of her own]].

* HopeSpot: Promise Village, which our heroes can go to after rescuing Jennifer in the first stage. The villagers have managed to get a peace treaty with The Boss' mutants, letting peaceful humans and mutants join their ranks to live safely... [[spoiler: They keep that peace treaty by giving up any deserters to the mutants, and that includes our heroes and Jennifer]].

* LastChanceHitPoint: when two or three players are present (AI included), if one (or two) player(s) runs out of lives but the other(s) doesn't, the LifeMeter will recover slowly until it fills up, then the downed player(s) will revive with 20% of their life, and you can use this indefinitely. At least, until all the players have lost all of their lives.

* TheLostLenore: If you play as F.Norris and rescue Jennifer the hostage, Jennifer will remind F.Norris of an unnamed lost love, and F.Norris will be very protective of Jennifer [[spoiler:which makes it worse when Jennifer is killed anyway after the villagers sell her out.]]

* MultipleEndings: Every playthrough can have one of eight different endings, and there're seven possible combinations (each character, the three possible pairings, or the three characters together), [[UpToEleven bringing the grand total to 56 endings!]]

** If ''THAT'' isn't hard enough for you... the last unlockable difficulty is called '''''Unfair''''', and it's the rough equivalent to '''''[[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage SoR2's]]''''' '''''[[UpToEleven Mania difficulty!!!]]'''''. Fortunately, there aren't any unlockables that require you to beat THIS DIFFICULTY.
* NoFairCheating: The "Clear arcade on X difficulty" costumes can only be unlocked via singleplayer, so a group of players can't just breeze through the game and earn unlockable content.

* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter: Character selection influences what happens in a given run and the dialogue in cutscenes reflects that. For instance, if you escape in the first level as Gal or F. Norris, the resistance mourn Ricardo's apparent death; if playing as Ricardo, they're overjoyed to find him again and make no mention of the other human characters.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Every ending heavily implies that there was some else pulling the Boss' strings.]]

* StoryBranching: There are multiple paths for the players to explore, either by walking upon certain paths of by making choices, [[MultipleEndings and everything counts upon getting a different ending.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Sometimes Ratty enemies will try to attack you by running you over with motorcycles regardless of whether or not that's really a good idea, like ''inside an elevator or driving into an oncoming truck''.

* YanktheDogsChain: One of the major path options is saving the hostage in the first level. If you escort her to a village, [[spoiler:she winds up killed anyway as it was all a big trap]].
** Similarly, there's an alternate path in the nightclub where you find a woman dangling from a rope. [[spoiler:After being pulled offscreen, Attary piledrives and kills her for no reason other than because he can]]. However, in this latter case, [[spoiler:you can subvert the trope and save the woman's life if you choose ''not'' to take the detour to the basement; you'll still have to fight Attary as a boss, but the woman will be unharmed afterwards.]]

* AirboneMook: The human-sized flies with boxing gloves, they are incredibly annoying due to their fast attacks and how hard is to hit them. Surprisingly, none of the bird enemies actually fly in battle.

* ContinuingIsPainful: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] on Easy and Normal(and after an update Hard and Hardest), continuing will return you to the start of the section where you lost all of your lives. Played straight on Insane and higher difficulties, where you return to the '''start''' of the stage.

* GirlyRun: The normal walk cycle for female NPCs. Frankly it looks necessary to keep their [[GagBoobs assets]] under control.

* IAmAHumanitarian: The Slaughterhouse is all but stated to house humans that the mutants later kill and cook for food, what with the bloody cells that have humans in them, butcher's charts on the walls depicting female humans, and the [[BloodyHorror blood soaked kitchen]] that Ricardo will recognize to smell like human corpses.

In a distant future, a great apocalypse known as "The Great Pulse" has devastated most of the technology on Earth, and the animals had muted and reclaimed the planet under orders from "The Leader" ([[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk no relation]]), whose only law is the Law of the Jungle. But not everything is lost: two humans and a rebel mutant decide to fight against the savage regime by the leader and free the oppressed humans.

* ArtificialStupidity: The game even admits that the AI helpers aren't very smart, though it is a bit of an overstatement. They can pull their weight rather well but they are a bit too aggressive and will grab enemies that counter grabs, stand near bosses who punish players for being too close when they get up, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and refuse to eat food until they're almost dead]].

* FragileSpeedster: F.Norris has great speed and attack, but he has lower defense.

* IAmAHumanitarian: The Slaughterhouse is implied to hold human meat that the mutants later cook for food, what with the bloody cells that have humans in them, and butcher's charts on the walls depicting female humans.

** Playing as Gal, it becomes clear rather quickly that both her and the other female slaves were not given a [[GoGoEnslavement choice]] about wearing such a {{Stripperriffic}} outfits, with Gal being earmarked for The Boss' personal possession before she managed to break free.

* NoFairCheating: The "Clear arcade on X difficulty" costumes can only be unlocked via singleplayer, so other players can't just win the game for you.
* NoTrueScotsman: If you play as Ricardo, The Boss will pull this fallacy on him; The Boss will claim that no ''true'' mutant would ''ever'' advocate for peace between humans and mutants as Ricardo does.

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: When you defeat an enemy, you can keep attacking [[LudicrousGibs until it explodes in a shower of bones]] for more points, [[VideoGame/MortalKombat just like a Brutality.]] and nobody is excluded for that

* '''Gal''': a girl who has escaped the clutches of human traffickers. She uses her own style of martial arts based on [[KickChick Kickboxing]] and, [[SheFu plenty of cartwheels and jumps.]]

** Due to the sheer number of endings (see MultipleEndings below), you only need to clear the game following a specific path. Heck, you can clear the game on Easy and still get the ending.

** The game offers AI partners as an unlockable, mainly so they can help you get endings that require multiple characters.

* BerserkerTears: Implied in a particular path where The Player Characters are instantly in a powered up state after [[spoiler: Jennifer, whom they just rescued, is murdered.]]

* BrickJoke: Of a rather twisted variety. If you go to the nightclub stage you'll find some Privates trying to figure out what to do with a girl they caught with one suggesting they use her as bait to lure people to Attary's arena. Taking the detour earlier in the level has them doing just that.

* HardModePerks: enemies get stronger and the EliteMooks appear early, but you earn more coins for unlocking the Extras at the end of the run.

* IAmAHumanitarian: The Slaughterhouse is implied to hold human meat that they later cook.
* LastChanceHitPoint: when two or three players are present (AI included), if one (or two) player(s) runs out of lives but the other(s) doesn't, the LifeMeter will recover slowly until it fills up, then the downed player(s) will revive with 20% of their life, and you can use this indefinitvely. At least, until all the players have lost all of their lives.

* NintendoHard: enemies get in more numbers, have more health, and hit really hard as the game progresses (even on Normal!), and there's also the CheckpointStarvation at the Final Stage, and if you're playing on Insane or Higher, you will have to start the whole level over! See ContinuingIsPainful above.
** If ''THAT'' isn't hard enough for you..the last unlockable difficulty is called '''''Unfair''''', and it's the rough equivalent to '''''[[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage SoR2's]]''''' '''''[[UpToEleven Mania difficulty!!!]]'''''. Fortunately, there aren't any unlockables that require you to beat THIS DIFFICULTY.
* NoFairCheating: The "Clear arcade on X difficulty" costumes can only be unlocked via singleplayer.

* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:An entire village of them. If you save Jennifer the hostage in the first level, your player character and Jennifer are invited to stay in a village that has a peace treaty with the mutants. Unfortunately, you learn too late that the peace treaty requires that the village ''turn over deserters'', and Jennifer is killed anyway.]]

* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter: Character selection influences the dialogue in cutscenes. For instance, if you escape in the first level as Gal or F. Norris, the resistance mourn Ricardo's apparent death; if playing as Ricardo, they're overjoyed to find him again.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Every ending heavily implies that there was some else pulling the Leader's strings.]]

* SomeDexterityRequired: every character has access to (at least one) hidden special move that it's not documented in the tutorial:

* StoryBranching: there are multiple paths for the players to explore, either by walking upon certain paths of by making choices, [[MultipleEndings and everything counts upon getting a different ending.]]
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: when you defeat an enemy, you can keep attacking [[LudicrousGibs until it explodes in a shower of bones,]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombat just like a Brutality.]] [[NightmareFuel And no, the female human enemies aren't excluded.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Sometimes Ratty enemies will try to attack you by running you over with motorcycles regardless of whether or not that's really a good idea, like, ''inside an elevator or driving into an oncoming truck''.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Boss's real name is never given; he's only known as The Boss even after you unlock his bio.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Mutants call all their female human captives "gals". As an escapee from a human trafficking ring, it's possible the playable Gal [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep has no name of her own]].

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: due to the sheer number of endings (see MultipleEndings below), you only need to clear the game following a specific path. Heck, you can clear the game on Easy and still get the ending.

''Fight'N Rage'' is a BeatEmUp video game created by sebagamesdev, launched on {{Steam}} on September 19, 2017. Made by only one person (Sebastián García, although the soundtrack was made by Gonzalo Varela), the game is considered a tribute to all of the Beat'em Ups of The Golden Age of VideoGames.

** Similarly, there's an alternate path in the nightclub where you find a woman dangling from a rope. [[spoiler:After being pulled offscreen, Attary piledrives and kills her for no reason other than because he can]]. However, in this latter case, [[spoiler:you can subvert the trope and save the woman's life if you choose ''not'' to take the detour to the basement; you'll still have to fight Attary as a boss, the woman will be unharmed afterwards.]]

** Similarly, there's an alternate path in the nightclub where you find a woman dangling from a rope. [[spoiler:After being pulled offscreen, Attary piledrives and kills her for no reason other than because he can]].

* HyperactiveMetabolism: [[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage you can find apples and chicken]] that regenerate your HP immediately by hitting drums and being dropped by some enemies.

* BonusFeatureFailure: Several of the unlockable characters fall into this in comparison to the cooler and more practical main characters. Though to be fair, if you thought characters like [[{{Mooks}} Flicher]] were going to be of any value then there's something wrong with you.

* ContinuingIsPainful: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] on Easy and Normal, continuing will return you to the start of the section where you lost all of your lives. Played straight on Hard and higher difficulties, where you return to the '''start''' of the stage.

* NintendoHard: enemies get in more numbers, have more health, and hit really hard as the game progresses (even on Normal!), and there's also the CheckpointStarvation at the Final Stage, and if you're playing on Hard or Higher, you will have to start the whole level over! See ContinuingIsPainful above.