History VideoGame / PawapokeDash

* CursedItem: Blassed items have improved effects and cursed items have inverted effects. Only the AutoRevive item has no cursed or blessed status. Cursed equipment won't have stat changes but [[StuckItems cannot be removed]] until blessed or broken.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Happens with half of the love interests.

* InformedEquipment: You can equip helmets, shoes and armor in ''Hell Dungeon'' but only a generic sword and shield will appear on Hero Dash's sprite.

* EscapeRope: One item in ''Hell Dungeon'' warps you back to floor 1. Keep one for using after defeating the BonusBoss, as the bottom of the dungeon is a dead end.

Incidentally, ''Pawapoke Koshien'' and its follow ups [[CanonDiscontinuity do not count]] as proper ''Pawapoke'' games.

* DiscontinuityNod: The game does not include ''Pawapoke Koshien'' in its series chronology. Later in 2006, Konami quietly removed ''Pawapoke Koshien'' from the series' homepage.

* PettingZooPeople: Igumori says she's human but has dog ears and her dates involve playing playing with her like she's one. In fact she was an actual dog who got run over by a car. The Baseball God gave her a hybrid form and some more years to live for a Baseball career challenge similar to the one he presented Hero Dash with.

In it, the pitcher and the batter pick cards worth certain fractions of the strike zone. If they match, the batter makes contact and the result is then decided via a roulette. If the cards don't match, it is a strike out for the pitcher. This system was made an optional mode the player could choose for the Outer Successes from ''Pawapoke 9'' to ''12''. The RPG mode featured in this game is also unique for being the only roguelike in the series.

** ''Hell Dungeon'' has a fairly generous time limit, but it has a hunger meter on top of it. Oh, if time runs out the game erases your save file even if you still have continues.

-->'''Hero Dash''': Touch?

** The new year minigame in this installment is ''that'' automated path-swapping ladder thing. Naturally, you can't accurately guess which path will lead to the best result. Especially because the monkeys on the way to the top are another factor that causes the protagonist to swap paths.

** The titular Ball Father is one to his son.

* EasterEgg: If you load the game on a Nintendo DS, it will sometimes display an unique title screen with Hero Dash holding a Stylus pen. Unfortunately, that's all it changes.
-->'''Hero Dash''': Can I touch it?

* EasterEgg: If you load the game on a Nintendo DS, it will sometimes display an unique title screen.

* EasterEgg: If you load the game on a Nintendo DS, an unique title screen appears.

* PressXNotToDie: The QuickTimeEvent from the first three games returns when Suguru challenges his nephew to a batting match towards the end of the story. The input prompts are FINALLY given as arrows instead of kanji. Both arrows and the action keys will score you a point when pressed correctly, so the duel goes by pretty fast.

* ThePromise: When dating Momoko, you must visit her just once per month on a specific week. Forget it and she will ditch you.

* SoundTest: From here on, the Sound Test menu is available from the beginning.

* TogetherInDeath: Hero Dash's parents are living together in the underworld during ''Hell Dungeon''.

* AIBreaker: Say you are batting and the best card you have only matches 4 of the pitcher's 5. Choosing another card that fills the missing spot will work most of the time.

* ContinuingIsPainful:
** You get a few continues in either 2 hours long story mode. Run out and back to the beginning you go. Moreover, if you lose in certain ways, the game just eats ''all'' your continues at once, because the auto-save would send you to an unsalvageable situation anyway.

* EarnYourBadEnding: It is actually hard to run out of time in ''Hell Dungeon'' by mistake. But you need that game over to complete the Gallery.

** You get a few continues in either 2 hours long story mode. Run out and back to the beginning you go.

* LuckBasedMission: The new year minigame in this installment is ''that'' automated path-swapping ladder thing. Naturally, you can't accurately guess which path will lead to the best result. Especially because the monkeys on the way to the top are another factor that causes the protagonist to swap paths.

* PettingZooPeople: Igumori says she's human but has dog ears and her dates involve playing playing with her like she's one. In really she was an actual dog who got run over by a car. The Baseball God gave her a hybrid form and some more years to live for a Baseball career challenge similar to the one he presented Hero Dash with.