History VideoGame / HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak

* HeroicMime: Hamtaro can't speak beyond what the player tells him to, making his dialogue consist solely of single-world sentences and ambiguous grunts.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the first area of the game, Bijou gets separated from Hamtaro and ends up finding a hamster named Arnie instead. Bijou just wants help finding Hamtaro, but Arnie brushes her concerns aside and insists that the two of them should "take a break" together in his ''bedroom''. He look suitably alarmed when the "break" is interrupted by his baby brother.

* ThatOneRule: In-universe. You meet a hamster in Fun Land who complains about not being allowed to play [=DigDig=] It because it's a two-player game that would work just as fine with one player.

* AnimalsNotToScale: We get a monkey barely bigger than a hamster.

* ExpositionFairy: Bijous serves as this for the majority of the game.

* ShoutOut: Hamtaro imitates [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link's]] [[ItemGet "You got an item"]] pose when pulling out the sword in Wildwoods. [[spoiler: But it peters out when Hamtaro learns that the "sword" is really a giant spoon.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: Boo Manor has a contest where couples who make it to the end win a prize. However, the place has a trap door leading to a cage below, a funeral parlor that can allow anyone to get locked inside a coffin, and ghosts who kidnap and torture guests. [[SarcasmMode Fun]].

* ScrappyMechanic: In-universe. You meet a hamster in Fun Land who complains about not being allowed to play [=DigDig=] It because it's a two-player game that would work just as fine with one player.

* ExactWords: Class A of the dance competition enforces a rule where couples who take part must sing. No singing, no winner. [[spoiler: The contest can be won by inserting the Ham-Chat "Lalala" at the end of the sequence.]]

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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After having to get turned by an angel by Harmony, it is unknown if Spat reformed in the end of Ham-Ham Heartbreak since he just disappeared.

* ToiletHumor: Go-P returns from Ham-Hams Unite.
** The Blushie hamster is embarrassed because if you Stickie the bush again, the stick will have his poop stuck to it. Yuck.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Pfft" was Spat's catchphrase.

* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: Not all relationships Hamtaro and Bijou save are of the romantic kind. An early quest involves repairing the relationships between two brothers, and there are several more between friends. One love to solve is the love between a roboticist and his malfunctioning creation.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After having to got turned by an angel by Harmony, it is unknown if Spat reformed in the end of Ham-Ham Heartbreak since he just disappeared.

** There's also the [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Ham Rangers,]] composed of Ham Red, Ham Blue, Ham Yellow, Ham Green and Ham Pink.

* LicensedGame: [[NoProblemWithLicensedGames And a surprisingly good one at that.]]

* SoloSequence: Bijou is forced to operate on her own what Hamtaro falls down a trap door in Boo Manor. This is made more disconcerting given tha t the elevators in the area demand at least two people to use, trapping her.

* AdultFear: In Boo Manor, you'll happen upon a painting of a crying hamster. Listen close enough, and you'll hear her crying...and then she'll step out of the painting and tell you she's crying because her son's run away from home.

* RobotBuddy: Ham-O-Matic.
* RunningGag: The merchant.