History VideoGame / SakuraWars3IsParisBurning

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''Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?'' is the third installment in Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series and the first of two video games developed by Overworks for the Platform/{{Dreamcast}}. Originally released in 2001, the game has since been ported to Windows computers in 2004 and the Platform/PlayStation2 in 2005. This was also the first of two games to feature in-game 2D sequences from {{Creator/Daume}}.

''Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?'' is the third installment in Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series and the first of two video games developed by Overworks for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. Originally released in 2001, the game has since been ported to Windows computers in 2004 and the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2005. This was also the first of two games to feature in-game 2D sequences from {{Creator/Daume}}.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Great Oak Tree, the Phantoms of Paris and Salu's lair.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Justified in [=ST3=]. The French military and police weren't trained to fight off demon invasions and it was their defeat that forced the French government to allow the Paris Combat Revue to take the lead in raiding Salu's hideout, the Great Oak Tree.
* CurbStompBattle: During a trip to France, Sakura, Sumire and Iris easily take down Ciseaux or Python who previously gave the Paris Combat Revue more trouble on their own. It serves to demonstrate not only the difference in power between the two groups, but also shows how far the Flower Division has come in terms of experience and teamwork.

Picking up one month after the events of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'', our hero Ichiro Ogami (voiced by Akio Suyama) arrives in Paris to lead the Paris Combat Revue, a new combat unit based on the Imperial Combat Revue. Headquartered at the cabaret club Les Chattes Noires, the group consists of clumsy nun-in-training Erica Fontaine (Creator/NorikoHidaka), temperamental noblewoman Glycine Bleumer (Creator/SaekoShimazu), Vietnamese circus magician Coquelicot (Creator/EtsukoKozakura), Italian-Romanian criminal Lobelia Carlini (Creator/KikukoInoue), and French-Japanese widow Hanabi Kitaoji (Creator/YoshinoTakamori). With the assistance of their leader Isabel "Grand-Mère" Lilac (Keiko Aizawa), they must stop the Paris Phantoms, as well as the jester Salu (Creator/MinamiTakayama) from terrorizing Paris.

* BittersweetEnding: At the end of the game, Salu and the Paris Phantoms are no more and Paris is restored to its former glory. However, Ogami and the Paris Combat Revue must go their separate ways. As he leaves for Tokyo to [[Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie help the Flower Division fight Brent Furlong in Tokyo]], Ogami promises to meet his friends again, [[VideoGame/SakuraWars4FallInLoveMaidens and they do so six months later]].

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Justified in [=ST3=]. The French military and police weren't trained to fight off demon invasions and it was their defeat that forced the French government to allow the Paris Combat Revue to take the lead in raiding Salu's hideout.

* TheManBehindTheMan: As it turns out, Salu is the one responsible for manipulating the Paris Phantoms so he can resurrect the Gauls, who were killed by the Roman Empire years ago, through the use of the Great Oak Tree.

* BookEnds: The game features trains at the start and end of the game. In the opening, Ogami arrives in Paris via train. By the end, Ogami leaves on a train for Tokyo while reading the note from one of the girls he romanced throughout the game.

* CastingGag: Shinsho Nakamaru plays Norimichi Sakomizu, the Japanese ambassador to France. This is not the first time he's played Frenchman before, as he previously voiced [=LeFou=] in the Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

* CastingGag: Shinsho Nakamaru plays Norimichi Sakomizu, the Japanese ambassador to France. This is not the first time he's played Frenchman before, as he previously voiced Lefou in the Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

* DeathSeeker: Because Hanabi has lost her beloved Philippe, she practically decides [[DrivenToSuicide to attempt suicide in the water]] so she can be with him.

* TimeSkip: The game takes place one moth after the events of ''Thou Shalt Not Die''.

''Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?'' is the third installment in Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series and the first of two video games developed by Overworks for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast. Originally released in 2001, the game has since been ported to Windows computers in 2004 and the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 in 2005.

Picking up one month after the events of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'', our hero Ichiro Ogami (voiced by Akio Suyama) arrives in Paris to lead the Paris Combat Revue, a new combat unit based on the Imperial Combat Revue. Headquartered at the cabaret club Les Chattes Noires, the group consists of clumsy nun-in-training Erica Fontaine (Creator/NorikoHidaka), temperamental noblewoman Glycine Bleumer (Creator/SaekoShimazu), Vietnamese circus magician Coquelicot (Creator/EtsukoKozakura), Italian-Romanian pyrokinetic criminal Lobelia Carlini (Creator/KikukoInoue), and French-Japanese noblewoman Hanabi Kitaoji (Creator/YoshinoTakamori). With the assistance of their leader Isabel "Grand-Mère" Lilac (Keiko Aizawa), they must stop the Paris Phantoms, as well as the jester Salu (Creator/MinamiTakayama) from terrorizing Paris.

* TimeLimitBoss: If you fail to destroy Calmar when Notre Dame's bell tolls for the fifth time in Chapter 9, it will force you to restart the level.

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