History VideoGame / HeartAndSlash

* DummiedOut: The [=RRR=]/R3/Roaming Rebel Rogues. They were originally meant to be robots not under [=QuAsSy=]'s control, and as such, ostensibly working against it, albeit with little effort on their part. They would have been the ones to reactivate Heart, and there are still a few mentions of them floating around the game, but they've been entirely excised from the main plot.

* KnightOfCerebus: [=QuAsSy=], the main antagonist of the game, is devoid of a lot of the humor of regular enemies, along with the other principle castmembers, with its physical presence ''significantly'' darkening the tone and plot of the game.

* FrickinLaserBeams: One of the possible equipments for the enemies. For the player, there's the Lasergun and the [[spoiler:B-DSS Head]].

* NoDamageRun: You get an achievement for completing an entire level without taking any damage.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Naturally, taking only equipment that lowers your defense and/or damage is one way to give yourself a challenge. However, if you play as the [[spoiler:Robnin]], you're stuck with only three elemental katanas and you can't have other body parts, this means you can only have so much damage, health and defense. Needless to say, you want to play as this character only if you're looking for a bit more challenge.

A Website/{{Kickstarter}} was launched in February 14, 2014 and successfully funded on March 19, 2014, then a [[http://gamejolt.com/games/heart-slash/23115 demo of the game was released]] on Website/GameJolt. In October 21, 2014 the game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access, then fully released on July 24, 2016 on UsefulNotes/XboxLive and UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork. It was later released on Steam on August 9, 2016 and on Nintendo Switch on December 22, 2017.

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!!Examples:

* ZeroEffortBoss: [[spoiler:[=QuAsSy=] goes down in a single hit in the good ending.]]

* EarlyGameHell: The game starts you off with some fairly basic equipment, and you will likely not be used to the large swarms of enemies thrown their way, but as the game goes on and you defeat more enemies and unlock gear, the odds greatly tip to your favor. It's helped by the fact that the base playable character, HEART, with certain achivements, carries over some health, defense, and attack upgrades.

* FireBreathingWeapon/LightningGun: The Particle Cannon. You can switch between electric or fire damage in order to damage the appropriate weapons.

* EarlyGameHell: The game starts you off with some fairly basic equipment, but as the game goes on and you defeat more enemies and unlock gear, the odds greatly tip to your favor. It's helped by the fact that the base playable character, HEART, with certain achivements, carries over some health, defense, and attack upgrades.

* MagikarpPower: The Training Weights. They are not that good at the beginning, but if you use them long enough they will eventually fully upgrade themselves without the need to spend a single box of scrap, becoming strong and fast enough to deal with most enemies.

A Website/{{Kickstarter}} was [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597522957/heartandslash launched in February 14, 2014 and successfully funded on March 19, 2014]], then a [[http://gamejolt.com/games/heart-slash/23115 demo of the game was released]] on Website/GameJolt. In October 21, 2014 the game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access, then fully released on July 24, 2016 on UsefulNotes/XboxLive and UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork. It was later released on Steam on August 9, 2016 and on Nintendo Switch on December 22, 2017.

* BossSubtitles

* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: You can find robot dogs in the game, and some of them are equipped with a sword they hold in their mouth. [[spoiler:The unlockable character Eclipse is a robot husky and plays like that.]]

** Lt. Copgore drops mooks to fight you most of the time, but it doesn't dislike shooting you with a machine gun and drop bombs on your head.

* ImprobableWeaponUser / ImprovisedWeapon: Oh, so much. Just to name a few, you can unlock a couple of Training Weights, an Electric Guitar, a radio affixed to a stick (named [[{{Pun}} Beat Stick]]) and even kitchen tools as weapons. Yes, including a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] and a [[RollingPinOfDoom rolling pin]].

** Some Utility Bots have an healing ray and use it to cure their allies, but you can step in front of it and gain 1 heart;

* KnightOfCerebus: [=QuAsSy=], the main antagonist of the game, is devoid of a lot of the humor of regular enemies, along with the other principle castmembers, with his physical presence ''significantly'' darkening the tone and plot of the game.

* EarlyGameHell: The game starts you off with some fairly basic equipment, but as the game goes on and you defeat more enemies and unlock gear, the odds greatly tip to your favor. It's helped by the fact that the base playable character, HEART, with certain achivements, carry over some health, defense, and attack upgrades.

* PlayableEpilogue: All playthroughs after the Good Ending [[spoiler:feature [=QuAsSy=] not even bothering to keep up his Sympathic charade, spitefully trying to demoralize you]].

* SequelHook: While the Good Ending closes the story adequately, [[spoiler:later playthroughs show that [=QuAsSy=] seems to have survived his defeat, leaving room for a possible followup]].

* EarlyGameHell: The game starts you off with some fairly basic equipment, but as the game goes on and you defeat more enemies and unlock gear, the odds greatly tip to your favor.

* FlunkyBoss: two of them.

* FreezeRay: The Freezer, a gun that can [[ExactlyWhatSaysOnTheTin freeze enemies]].

* HeartsAreHealth: Considering the {{Motif}} of the game, this was expected.

* LifeMeter: Given the main {{Motif}}, the health is represented by hearts, unsurprisingly. You start with 6 of them and you can upgrade yourself or recycle items while you have full health to obtain more, up to 20 hearts. By obtaining specific achievements, HEART will start with more health in every new playthrough.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Guns tend to be rather slow and require you to stand still in order to aim, making you an easy target (especially for enemies that can shoot). However, they can remove huge chunks of armor, leaving them open to melee attacks.

* AmnesiacHero: HEART's memory module 2 is damaged, so it cannot remember anything from 100 years ago. It doesn't even remember who or what itself is.

* EndlessRunningGame: An endless mode was added to the game after the game's release and when he game launched on different consoles. In it, you play as Slash and try your best to get the highest score you can until you die.

A [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597522957/heartandslash Kickstarter]] was launched in February 14, 2014 and successfully funded on March 19, 2014, then a demo of the game was released on [[http://gamejolt.com/games/heart-slash/23115 Game Jolt]]. In October 21, 2014 the game was released on Steam Early Access, then fully released on July 24, 2016 on Xbox Live and [=PlayStation=] Network. It was later released on Steam on August 9, 2016 and on Nintendo Switch on December 22, 2017.

A [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1597522957/heartandslash Kickstarter]] was launched in February 14, 2014 and successfully funded on March 19, 2014, then a demo of the game was released on [[http://gamejolt.com/games/heart-slash/23115 Game Jolt]]. In October 21, 2014 the game was released on Steam Early Access, then fully released on July 24, 2016 on Xbox Live and [=PlayStation=] Network. It was later released on Steam on August 9, 2016.

* LifeMeter: Given the main {{Motif}} of them, the health is represented by hearts, unsurprisingly. You start with 6 of them and you can upgrade yourself or recycle items while you have full health to obtain more, up to 20 hearts. By obtaining specific achievements, HEART will start with more health in every new playthrough.