History VideoGame / GigaWing

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: This happens to Limi in the second game, leaving her ship to be piloted by Dewey, which is a sentient program installed by Kart on Limi's ship. After defeating the FinalBoss, Limi's survival depends on your choice in the ending.]]

* MinimalistRun - ''Giga Wing'' allows for a 0-score run, but it is very difficult as it is also a PacifistRun, as your medal-increased multiplier starts off at 1. ''Giga Wing 2'', on the other hand, starts your multiplier off at ''zero'', meaning that so long as you never pick up a single medal, you can commit total genocide of the enemy forces and still finish with a score of 0.

** Uses 3D graphics instead of 2D, and adds a new kind of reflect attack, the Reflect Laser. Also introduces the "volcano" mechanic: if enough medals are on the screen, a "volcano" of medals will erupt, producing even more medals. The Dreamcast port adds a 4-player option, a rarity for a shoot-em-up.

** In the second game, there is a cap of 110 medals on screen as well as an unknown total object cap; reaching either will cause an item volcanon, where the background will go black and then each medal will split into 10 or more kite-shaped medals.

* GratuitousEnglish - ''Giga Wing 2'': "RIFUREKUTO FO-SU!"
** And when the reflector charges up again, the voice is supposed to say "Okay", but it sounds like "Otay".

* ExcusePlot - Averted in ''Giga Wing Generations'', which has ''no plot at all.''

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience - In the first two games, the lowest 8 digits of your score are colored blue, the next four yellow digits (the ''oku'' places) are yellow, the four digits in the ''chou'' supergroup is colored red, and (in the second game, where such scores are possible) the digit(s) afterward (''kei'') are cyan[[note]]In Japan as well as all of East Asia, supergroups of four digits are common rather than supergroups of three digits as in Western society; rather than thousand, million, ... their supergroups go ''man'' (ten thousand; 10^4), ''oku'' (one hundred million; 10^8), ''chou'' (10^12), ''kei'' (10^16) and so on.[[/note]]. ''Generations'' uses a different color scheme (red for ''kei'', yellow for ''chou'', green for ''oku'', gray for anything smaller).

* GlassCannon / FragileSpeedster - The [[SecretCharacter secret ship]] from the first game. Very fast, and it has a ridiculously powerful weapon and bomb. However, it's [[OneHitPointWonder as fragile as any other ship]], so it's not quite a LightningBruiser.

* TrueFinalBoss - ''Two'' of them, in ''Giga Wing'': [[spoiler:the black ship you've been chasing, and the Medallion. Both are fought simultaneously, and only appear if you've completed the first six stages on one credit.]]

* FanNickname - [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Giga Wang]].

* NoExportForYou: ''Giga Wing 2'' had no arcade release in the US, but the Dreamcast version was localized. Completely played straight with ''Giga Wing Generations''.

** Ruby, to a lesser extent. She has the narrowest coverage, but she also does the most damage to single targets, and her high speed allows her to scoop up medals easily.

* DifficultButAwesome - Stuck/Widerstand. His bomb weapon is tricky, but if you get good enough at using him, he's not only powerful but also the best scorer.

* BittersweetEnding - ''Giga Wing'': Your character [[spoiler:sacrifices himself or herself to destroy the Medallion.]] In order to avert this ending, you must beat the first six stages on one credit to see the true final stage (and [[TrueFinalBoss boss]]). [[spoiler: Beating the game with two players will also avert the need for HeroicSacrifice.]]

* TrueFinalBoss - ''Two'' of them, in ''Giga Wing'': [[spoiler:the black ship you've been chasing, and the Medallion. Both are fought simultaneously.]]

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience - In the first two games, the lowest 8 digits of your score are colored blue, the next four yellow digits (the ''oku'' places) are yellow, the four digits in the ''chou'' supergroup is colored red, and (in the second game, where such scores are possible) the digit(s) afterward (''kei'') are cyan[[hottip:*:In Japan as well as all of East Asia, supergroups of four digits are common rather than supergroups of three digits as in Western society; rather than thousand, million, ... their supergroups go ''man'' (ten thousand; 10^4), ''oku'' (one hundred million; 10^8), ''chou'' (10^12), ''kei'' (10^16) and so on.]]. ''Generations'' uses a different color scheme (red for ''kei'', yellow for ''chou'', green for ''oku'', gray for anything smaller).

* GuestFighter - [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]] can be unlocked in the first game.

* GlassCannon / FragileSpeedster - The [[SecretCharacter secret ship]] from the first game. Very fast, and it has a ridiculously powerful weapon and bomb. However, it's a OneHitPointWonder just like all the other ships, so it's not quite a LightningBruiser.

* LightningBruiser - The [[SecretCharacter secret ship]] from the first game. Very fast, and it has a ridiculously powerful weapon and bomb.

** The US version of ''Giga Wing 2'' uses commas when displaying the player's score at the end of a stage, though still has the myriad-based (supergroups of four digits as is common in east Asia; see below) color-coded digit groupings otherwise.

* SequelEscalation - [[SerialEscalatio Each game ups the ante]] with more medals to collect and thus more points to be had. ''Giga Wing''[='=]s 15 digits? Nothing compared to ''Giga Wing 2''[='=]s 17 digits...which in turn is surpassed by ''Giga Wing Generations'', quite possibly the only commercial game where you can achieve '''20-digit scores.'''

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/ZeroWing''.