History VideoGame / RingOfRed

Not to be confused with that problem your UsefulNotes/Xbox360 has hanging over its head. Or a HeroicRedRingOfDeath.

!!This Game Provides Examples of:

* {{Expy}}: Oddly enough, Dora Gustav become this to the titular Franchise/MetalGear. [[spoiler:Giant WalkingTank with [[DeathFromAbove long range nuclear delivery capabilities]], even though this function in itself considered incidental and simply CrazyEnoughToWork at the time.]]

** Ippei's "Kamui", an obsolete Japanese light [=AFW=] (based in the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_Chi-Ha_medium_tank Type 97]]'') heavily modified to serve an Anti-[=AFW=] role. In fact, the [=AFW=] is Ippei's weapon since World War II, and serves as a feared unit that anticipates the creation of the Anti-[=AFW=]s.

* AntiVehicle: One of the AFW types ("Anti-[=AFW=]"), mostly as a state-of-the art weapon developed by the Soviets. The Capitalist main characters' Anti-[=AFW=] models are a heavily customized [[WhatAPieceOfJunk old Japanese WWII Light AFW model]], and an Anti-[=AFW=] found within the Communist Japan zone [[spoiler:which is one of the many Soviet AFWs that were secretly developed by the same Germans who supply weapons to the Capitalists, unbeknownst to the Americans, which later gets the heroes' German commander in ''big'' trouble]].

* TheBigGuy: John Caster and his "Little John".

* ChickenWalker: Light [=AFW=]s, which in-game are the technlogical evolution of the initial 4-Leg [=AFW=]s, but weren't sophisticated enough to carry solid armor and heavy cannons like the latter models (although they're useful for reconaissance and anti-infantry purposes). One model even ''looks'' like a giant mechanical chicken.

* JackOfAllStats: Medium [=AFWs=] are capable of fighting well with their medium cannon as well as mixing it up in close combat (though not as well as Anti-[=AFWs=]).

* SpiderTank: 4-Leg [=AFW=] units belong to this type of mecha. In fact, the setting's PointOfDivergence is the deployment of a German four-legged [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery self-propelled gun]] in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk Battle of Kursk]] (Ayana's 4-Leg "Ohbu" is mentioned to be a direct successor) to no success: German engineers continued to improve their technology for Imperial Japan in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall Operation Downfall]], while the Americans were interested in their possible nuclear protection capabilities (much like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiekt_279 Obiekt 279]]) but finally preferred their use as 4-Leg heavy cannon platforms, and the Soviets simply borrowed the German technology to develop them into more sophisticated weapons like the Anti-AFW models.

* SuperPrototype: One gets stolen from you by Kaiho during the prologue missions. It's an all-in-one AFW lethal at any distance, the MBT to the game's tank-class system. Fast as a Light, guns powerful as a 4-leg, twin {{Power Fist}}s like an Anti, and the toughness and shields of a Medium. However, it trades long-range accuracy due to the guns being mounted in its ''[[UnusualWeaponMounting elbows,]]'' of all places.

** Crews give their vehicles options to load specific ammo. In most cases, this is normal: they simply load the shell into the main gun and let the pilot fire. In some cases, however, the [=AFW's=] gun is not a breech loader; as a result, the crews make do by loading the ammo into a signal flare gun and shot them directly. This includes [[IncendiaryExponent incendiary shrapnel]], poison gas, and armor piercing rounds strong enough to damage other [=AFWs=].

* AnchoredAttackStance: 4-legged AFW's deploy stabilizers from their legs at the very least. The ''Little John'' even has a firing spade (which, as the name suggests, is a shovel that digs into the ground to keep it from moving back when it fires).

* ChickenWalker: Light AFW's, which in-game are the technlogical evolution of the intial 4-Leg AFWs, but weren't sophisticated enough to carry solid armor and heavy cannons like the latter models (although they're useful for reconaissance and anti-infantry purposes). One model even ''looks'' like a giant mechanical chicken.

** Anti and Light AFW's, soldiers with Grenades, and Mechanics in general (being armed with grenades as their standard attack).
** Ryoko's AFW is specced for close-ranged fighting moreso than a Medium walker is normally, having a snub-nosed cannon and a PowerFist that puts some Anti-AFW's to shame. [[spoiler: It may have something to do with her morbid terror of the things.]]

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Any [=AFWs=] and Infantry Squads can still keep going and be brought back from the brink of destruction if they have 1 HP. However, squads assigned to crew the AFW's will call damage reports, indicating that each shot causes internal damage and increases the felt weight of the unit, with the final shot wrecking enough internals that it can no longer keep upright. Infantry squads also lose members as their HP goes down.

* GrenadeLauncher: Mechanic and Supply troops are armed with shoot-through type rifle grenades (most rifle grenades use a blank charge to provide launch pressure, shoot-through catches the bullet instead). This allows them to use their carbines against AFW's and infantry as the situation warrants.

** Medium and Anti AFW's have a machine gun turret to deter infantry attacks. [[PointDefenseless It's a complete waste of space, money, time, etc.]]

* LandMineGoesClick: And then "Boom!" Comes in three flavours, regular, magnetic, and chain (reaction). Except for the Chain Mine, they’re only effective against AFW's.

* LongRangeFighter: Four-Legged AFW's and Shooters who know Homing Shot.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Medium and certain light and anti AFW's have ablative armor plating used to stop a few hits early in deployment.

* PuttingOnTheReich: Played with; South Japanese infantry unit uniforms look very similar to WWII German uniforms, but they're not the bad guys.

* SpiderTank: 4-Leg [=AFW=] units belong to this type of mecha. In fact, the setting's PointOfDivergence is the deployment of a German four-legged [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery self-propelled gun]] in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk Battle of Kursk]] (Ayana's 4-Leg "Ohbu" is mentioned to be a direct successor) to no success: German engineers continued to co-develop their technology for Imperial Japan in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall Operation Downfall]], while the Americans were interested in their possible nuclear protection capabilities (much like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiekt_279 Obiekt 279]]) but finally preferred their use as 4-Leg heavy cannon platforms, and the Soviets simply borrowed the German technology to develop them into more sophisticated weapons like the Anti-AFW models.



* SovietSuperscience: PlayedWith. Both factions of the Cold War have their own HumongousMecha (AFW) bias: Soviets prefer more advanced [[AntiVehicle Anti-AFW]] units (Although some internal factions push independently the unsuccessful [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMK_tank twin]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-100_tank turret]]-style mecha), Americans prefer the older [[SpiderTank Spider Tanks]] to [[MoreDakka mount huge cannons]]... And both Japanese factions, backed by Soviet or German-American developers, use mostly older [[ChickenWalker Light]] and [[JackOfAllTrades standard]] units. However, the plot kickstarts when the Communist Japanese faction steals a seemingly more advanced German-Japanese Anti-AFW SuperPrototype from the Capitalists, although [[spoiler: the stolen Anti-AFW turns out to have been developed by Capitalist defectors in the Communist faction and financed with German backing, which means that the advanced weapon was all along Communist, and that the German developers are secretly selling weapons to both sides... Ironically, this incident is merely a cover-up to the Communist theft of a German-American [[LoopholeAbuse Loophole Abusing]]-superweapon]].)

* StupidJetpackHitler: As mentioned above, the AFW's were developed by Germany in the tail-end of WWII. It's downplayed, however, as they're AwesomeButImpractical in most places EXCEPT Japan, where their legs can outperform caterpillar treads or wheels on the tectonically-active archipellago, and are as cheap and easy to mass-produce as tanks (once the bugs were worked out, that is. Their complexity compared to wheeled vehicles stalled the whole project).
* SubSystemDamage: The legs and gun can be crippled on most AFW's.

* ChickenWalker: Light AFW's. One model even ''looks'' like a giant mechanical chicken.

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: Shringen reveals himself to be the traitor of the Streifen unit and tells them to "die an honorable death" as the last mission. Guess what? They failed miserably to accomplish his orders]].

* FormerRegimePersonnel: Shrigen and Rodriguez were both AFW specialists for Nazi Germany given amnesty by the Western Allies for their technical expertise, similar to Wernher von Braun in RealLife.

%% * SpiderTank: 4-Leg [=AFW=].

* CoolGun: The light AFW's crewmen fire their special rounds (whether they are shrapnel, incendiary shrapnel, chemical agents, armor piercing rounds, etc) into a humble signal flare gun. They're just as effective when the crews manning bigger guns load them via shells.

* DidntSeeThatComing : [[spoiler: Shringen reveals himself to be the traitor of the Streifen unit and tells them to "die an honorable death" as the last mission. Guess what? They failed miserably to accomplish his orders]].

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: Light and Anti-[=AFWs=] will become significantly disadvantaged at Medium or Long Range.
* ArbitraryMinimumRange: 4-Leg [=AFWs=] are at their worst if the battle starts at Medium or Short range.

* DieselPunk: Cold-War era with reverse-engineered nazi {{Giant Robot}}s. They even have disel motors hanging off their backs.

* SpiderTank: 4-Leg [=AFW=].

** The first story arc involves the GrandTheftPrototype of an [[AMechByAnyOtherName Armored Fighting Walker]] that combines all the disparate roles of the game's various types of walker (except for artillery, due to the accuracy proplems inherent in its UnusualWeaponMounting-someone thought it was a good idea to put its guns in its elbows, of all places). The enemy army supporting it is only there to slow your guys down so it can escape, as it's fully capable of mopping the floor with them in a standup fight.

* NonindicativeName: The ''non-lethal gas'' shells are incorrectly labeled "White Phosphorous" when they're actually just "Tear Gas".[[note]]White Phosphorous is incredibly volatile due to being highly flammable and pyrophoric (self-igniting) upon contact with air. It can be used to generate smoke, set buildings on fire, and kill personnel. And it accomplishes the latter not by setting people on fire but either by suffocating them, burning their flesh, or causing other serious complications such as organ failure from inhalation of white phosphorous smoke.[[/note]]

* GrenadeLauncher: Mechanics are armed with shoot-through type rifle grenades (most rifle grenades use a blank charge to provide launch pressure, shoot-through catches the bullet instead). This allows them to use their carbines against AFW's and infantry as the situation warrants.

* LandMineGoesClick: And then "Boom!" Comes in three flavours, regular, magnetic, and chain (reaction). Only effective against AFW's though.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Citys/Villages/Prison Camps that are marked with a star contain infantry squads that need to rescued. If a damaged enemy [=AFW=] recovers on those places, the squads are lost.

* ShipTease: Ayana actively tries to interact with Wei in chapter 5 and 6. However. it also highlight his CharacterDevelopment, and could be interpreted as [[TrueCompanions platonic]].

* SniperScopeSway: The targeting of your cannon swings accross the body, gun, and legs of the enemy mech, zooming in and tightening over the legs as the targeting computer calculates an optimum solution. If you're careful, you can use this to snipe their gun or legs at low accuracy.

* TurnBasedStrategy

* BadassGrandpa: Ippei Kirino and Hidetomi Minakawa.

* StockFootage: Played in very interesting way, most of the [[FullMotionVideo live action sequences]] are RealLife war footage... but in certain scenes, [[HumongousMecha AFWs]] are [[ChromaKey inserted creatively]] that because the footage is [[JustifiedTrope old, has low framerate, and very much grayscale]], the mech's presence and actions look [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome very realistic]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuizKom-bjo Observe]].

* BombDisposal: Troops with "Cleanup" can defuse enemy land mines.

* SuperPrototype: One gets stolen from you by Kaiho during the prologue missions. It's an all-in-one AFW lethal at any distance, the MBT to the game's tank-class system. Fast as a Light, guns powerful as a 4-leg, and has twin {{Power Fist}}s like an Anti, and the toughness and shields of a Medium. However, it trades long-range accuracy due to the guns being mounted in its ''[[UnusualWeaponMounting elbows,]]'' of all places.

* SuperPrototype: One gets stolen from you by Kaiho during the prologue missions.

* CloseRangeCombatant: Anti and Light AFW's, soldiers with Grenades, and Mechanics in general (being armed with grenades as their standard attack).

* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Even if a shot lands smack in the enemy vanguard, if it was aimed at the enemy's AFW, it doesn't count.

* RandomNumberGod: The optimum accuracy percentage for shooting at [=AFWs=] is between 70 and 80%. But the moment you know that the game is screwing you over is when you miss a +90% shot (+90% shots have very little chance of missing and will likely cause critical damage). On the other hand, landing a last-second snapshot at 50% accuracy is very satisfying.