History VideoGame / PawapokeDash

* DyingAlone: Wanko's fate if you fail to befriend her, after she pretends she's just moving to another school far way.

** Igumori is doomed to die, but her friendship with Hero Dash can allow her to pass away peacefully.

** Igumori dies towards the end of the story for failing her deal with the Baseball God. The best Hero Dash can do is to let her pass away happily.

* DyingAlone: Igumori's fate if you fail to befriend her. ''Geez''.

* FurryDenial: 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.

** Igumori dies alone as her deal with the Baseball God expires, while the narrator remarks she could never make a bond with anyone in her short life.
** Rika and her mother are sent away to some island. A letter she sends to Hero Dash makes it seem like they're at peace, but the first character of each line reveals a cry for help that implies they're forced into IndenturedServitude and became addicted to drugs like the people in Happiness Island were.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Even though the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket R'' remake of the first two games got the series' age rating finally bumped to a CERO B (12 years and up), the port of ''Pawapoke Dash'' it included as a pre-order bonus for it [[https://twitter.com/tsumori_/status/1465828088646881287 has censored dialogue]].

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Even though the age rating for the ''Power Pro-kun Pocket R'' remake of the first two games got the series' age rating finally bumped to a CERO B (12 years and up), the port of ''Pawapoke Dash'' it included as a pre-order bonus for it [[https://twitter.com/tsumori_/status/1465828088646881287 has censored dialogue]].

* StandardStatusEffects: ''Hell Dungeon'' has Sleep (unable to act for some turns or until being attacked), Paralysis (unable to act for some turns), Poison (takes damage every turn until healing it) and Petrification (instantly kills the player if not healed within a random number of turns).

* DiscontinuityNod: The game does not include ''Pawapoke Koshien'' in its series chronology, presumably because it had a standalone non-canon story. Later in 2006, Konami even removed ''Pawapoke Koshien'' from the series' homepage without an official statement and went on to not market the next ''Power Pro-kun Koshien'' games as part of the ''Pawapoke'' series.

''Pawapoke Dash'' is a 2006 visual novel + card game + roguelike RPG developed by Pawapuro Productions, formerly Diamond Head, and published by Konami for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance. It is a spinoff released after ''Pawapoke 8'' for the Nintendo DS, but story-wise it is connected to all previous installments and is regularly referenced afterwards. The game does not feature a Baseball simulator or any real life teams, and instead introduces the Card Baseball system.

** The Card Baseball system is just simple enough that if a Western player manages to understand the gist of it and get out of the tutorial, they should beat the game without much trouble.

** Igumuri dies alone as her deal with the Baseball God expires, while the narrator remarks she could never make a bond with anyone in her short life.

* BrotherSisterIncest: One of the love interests, Sakura, is really the protagonist's lost twin sister. If Hero Dash dates her and doesn't discover the truth, he breaks up with her at his father's request. If he does discover the truth, then he also breaks up with her... by putting on a harsh JerkassFacade and driving her away without explaining anything.

* TitleScreen: A different voice than usual shouts the game's title.

* OffModel: There's a strange mistake in the quick time event minigame -- Hero Dash's portrait in the corner of the screen has him wearing a cap marked with a "H" from Hanamaru Highschool instead of a baseball.

* TheMaze: One of the minigames is a randomly-generated first-person dungeon crawler.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game comes with a recap of all previous games. This includes the then recently-released ''8'', but its plot and characters aren't explained in detail.

* SoundTest: Like in ''Pawapoke 8'', the Sound Test menu is available from the beginning. All tracks are unlocked by default.

* EvilUncle: Downplayed with Suguru. After his wife died in an accident and he accidentally killed his brother-in-law, he was left in despair and began to present himself as a evil man to his nephew Hero Dash. They eventually reconcile and he adopts the boy until Ball Father's human form is restored.

* LuckBasedMission:
** ''Hell Dungeon'' is a roguelike RPG, so randomness is a given.

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

* SoundTest: Like in ''Pawapoke 8'', the Sound Test menu is available from the beginning.

* SkillScoresAndPerks: In ''Hell Dungeon'' the various positive and negative Baseball perks that typically have no effects in the series' visual novel modes do change the protagonist's attributes.

* CursedItem: Blassed items in ''Hell Dungeon'' 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.

* BreakablePowerup: Usable items in ''Hell Dungeon'' are divided in three kinds and there are traps in the dungeon that will break a random one of a certain kind in your inventory if stepped on.

* BreakablePowerups: Usable items in ''Hell Dungeon'' are divided in three kinds and there are traps in the dungeon that will break a random one of a certain kind in your inventory if stepped on.