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* ContinuityNod: The first stage is set in the same temple Lu Zhishen used to serve as a monk (before the corrupt Abbot and his mooks too over), and the background's wall is notably collapsed. In the novel, Lin Chung first met Lu Zhishen after watching the former's staff training in the temple over a fallen wall.
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* CanonForeigner: The first stage ends with a DualBoss, Zhang-San and Li-Shi, neither whom are from the novel. They;re given ridiculously generic names, too - Zhang-San and Li-Shi is basically the Chinese Dynastic equivalent to "Tom, Dick and Harry".
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''Shuihuzhuan: Liangshan Yingxiong'' (''The Water Margin: Heroes of Liangshan'') is a 1997 arcade-style BeatEmUp game developed by Panda Entertainment, a somewhat obscure and short-lived Taiwanese company.
Owing to the success of Capcom's ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''-based duology, ''VideoGame/DynastyWars'' and the follow-up, ''VideoGame/WarriorsOfFate'' (both which were well-received in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, predictably), Panda Entertainment decides that yes, they'll ''need'' their own arcade game based on another Chinese literary classic.
But with ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' (based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'') released the same year, Panda Entertainment decides to adapt another Chinese epic instead, that being ''Literature/TheWaterMargin'' [[note]]Of note, the four classic epics of Chinese literature are ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', ''Literature/TheWaterMargin'' and ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'' - an action game based on ''Red Chamber'' would be a '''terrible''' idea[[/note]]. Loosely based chapters 6th to 11th of the novel - Framing of Lin Chung in White Tiger Hall - players can choose between five heroes lifted from the book's pages, to re-enact the chapters arcade game-style.
Players can choose between:
* '''Lin-Chung''', the ''Panther Head'' (豹子頭林沖) - expectedly, since the game's adapting chapters featuring him as protagonist, he's the JackOfAllStats main character for players to use;
* '''Lu Zhishen''' the ''Flower Monk'' (花和尚魯智深) - Lin Chung's bestie, both in the game and novel, a chubby, {{boisterous|bruiser}} monk and TheBigGuy;
* '''Yang Zhi''' the ''Green Faced Beast'' (青面獸楊志) - formerly an enemy of Lin Chung, who bonds with the Outlaws of the Marsh after his defeat;
* '''Jing-er''' the ''Cunning Spirit'' (鬼精灵锦兒) - the handmaiden of Lin-Chung who's secretly a martial artist investigating the corrupt Senator Gao while posing as Lin's servant.
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!! On the Journey to Mount Liangshan...
* {{Acrofatic}}: Lu Zhishen, the chubby Flower Monk, can move with surprising speed. There's also the temple's boss, a hugely overweight corrupt monk who can pull off a DashAttack.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** Jing-er went from a handmaiden in the novel to a very competent ass-kicking martial artist who beats up plenty of mooks using her metal hoops.
** Gao Ya-nei is hardly a fighter in the novel, relying on framing Lin-Chung and fleeing in panic when things go south, but his game counterpart is a dangerous boss near the final stage.
** Gao-Qiu in the source material is a CorruptPolitician, but nowhere a physical threat. Here, he's depicted as the ''High Commander'' of the rebel army and the difficult FinalBoss.
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The underground mausoleum has closing walls that the player must repeatedly hit to avoid getting crushed.
* AmazonBrigade: Gao Ya-nei have his personal legion of female bodyguards who fights unarmed, but can still dish out some hits. They tend to be far more agile than male mooks.
* AscendedExtra: In the novels, Jing-er is merely a minor handmaiden serving Lin-Chung. She's one of the game's major heroes, likely to fulfill TheSmurfettePrinciple (after all, ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' had the Dragon Princess...).
* BarefootPoverty: The civilians seen in the game's backgrounds are often barefoot, to depict how corruption within the Song Dynasty's ruling government thanks to Gao-Qiu's takeover have destroyed their lives. Especially evident in one stage set in snowy winter.
* BattleButler: Gao Ya-nei's manservant, Fu-An, who offers to fend off the player when his boss makes a run with Lin-Chung's wife. Despite being a servant he's quite capable as a boss.
* BoobyTrap:
** White Tiger Hall is loaded with traps, from fire-breathing bronze tiger heads to spiked walls and pitfalls.
** Gao's gardens contains statues of Chinese dragons... outfitted with flamethrowers.
* BroomstickQuarterstaff: Some of the monks in the temple stages are armed with brooms, though it's downplayed that they're not very good fighters.
* CanonForeigner: The first stage ends with a DualBoss, Zhang-San and Li-Shi, neither whom are from the novel. They;re given ridiculously generic names, too - Zhang-San and Li-Shi is basically the Chinese Dynastic equivalent to "Tom, Dick and Harry".
* ContinuityNod: The first stage is set in the same temple Lu Zhishen used to serve as a monk (before the corrupt Abbot and his mooks too over), and the background's wall is notably collapsed. In the novel, Lin Chung first met Lu Zhishen after watching the former's staff training in the temple over a fallen wall.
* DegradedBoss: Most of the earlier bosses return as common enemies, and in later stages they can be encountered more than one at a time.
* DualWield:
** Zhang-san carries two bronze hammers during his fight.
** There's an acrobatic mook enemy who carries two [[MatchstickWeapon torches]] at the same time.
** The FinalBoss, Gao Qiu, carries two axes as big as himself.
* FrogMen: Oddly enough, the marsh stages contains frog-people who leaps out of the water and attacks with their OverlyLongTongue. They're ''definitely'' not from the novel.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Low on health? There's always fruit baskets, sticks of roast, a whole chicken, and even ''ginseng'' that can be consumed to restore the LifeMeter.
* PantheraAwesome: The White Tiger Hall's inner sanctums are inexplicably guarded by fierce tigers. They're presumably bred by Gao Ya-nei for security purposes. More tigers appears as above-average mooks in the woods.
* RecurringBoss: Gao Ya-nei, who pulls a ScrewThisImOuttaHere when his health bar is reduced to a fraction in his initial boss battle. He returns later in the mansion's exit, with twice the health.
* ShieldBearingMook: Gao Ya-nei have a squadron of soldiers carrying shields painte3d with tiger faces. They're among the few enemies who ''doesn't'' get knocked over instantly by projectile-based attacks.
* SwordBeam:
** The unnamed Traitor General boss can release a ''spear'' beam which deals extra damage.
** Gao Qiu can unleash an ''ax'' beam from both his bronze axes.
* WarriorMonk: Lu Zhi-sheng is a monk and a perfectly capable fighter, just like his literary counterpart. The temple also contains corrupt fighter-monks as recurring enemies.
* WeaponSpecialization: All the characters wields weapons identical to their literary counterparts, save for the handmaiden Jing-Er who isn't a combatant in the novel but is given a hefty AdaptationalBadass.
** Lin Chung, a retired soldier, uses his trusty spear (a weapon widely associated with said character in all adaptations)
** Lu Zhishen, being a former monk and the largest playable character, swings his hefty monk spade.
** Yang Zhi, descended from a line of generals, uses his trusty saber, presumably the same saber he nearly sold in the novel.
** Jing-er, the sole female playable character who relies on WaifFu uses two blunt metal hoops allowing her to grab and ensnare enemies.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Lu Jian, one of the bosses (in the novel he's an EvilFormerFriend to Lin Chung) will make this deal before his boss fight. Which the player instantly rejects, being more interested to slice up a traitor than to join him. Cue boss fight.
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''Shuihuzhuan: Liangshan Yingxiong'' (''The Water Margin: Heroes of Liangshan'') is a 1997 arcade-style BeatEmUp game developed by Panda Entertainment, a somewhat obscure and short-lived Taiwanese company.
Owing to the success of Capcom's ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''-based duology, ''VideoGame/DynastyWars'' and the follow-up, ''VideoGame/WarriorsOfFate'' (both which were well-received in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, predictably), Panda Entertainment decides that yes, they'll ''need'' their own arcade game based on another Chinese literary classic.
But with ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' (based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'') released the same year, Panda Entertainment decides to adapt another Chinese epic instead, that being ''Literature/TheWaterMargin'' [[note]]Of note, the four classic epics of Chinese literature are ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', ''Literature/TheWaterMargin'' and ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'' - an action game based on ''Red Chamber'' would be a '''terrible''' idea[[/note]]. Loosely based chapters 6th to 11th of the novel - Framing of Lin Chung in White Tiger Hall - players can choose between five heroes lifted from the book's pages, to re-enact the chapters arcade game-style.
Players can choose between:
* '''Lin-Chung''', the ''Panther Head'' (豹子頭林沖) - expectedly, since the game's adapting chapters featuring him as protagonist, he's the JackOfAllStats main character for players to use;
* '''Lu Zhishen''' the ''Flower Monk'' (花和尚魯智深) - Lin Chung's bestie, both in the game and novel, a chubby, {{boisterous|bruiser}} monk and TheBigGuy;
* '''Yang Zhi''' the ''Green Faced Beast'' (青面獸楊志) - formerly an enemy of Lin Chung, who bonds with the Outlaws of the Marsh after his defeat;
* '''Jing-er''' the ''Cunning Spirit'' (鬼精灵锦兒) - the handmaiden of Lin-Chung who's secretly a martial artist investigating the corrupt Senator Gao while posing as Lin's servant.
-----
!! On the Journey to Mount Liangshan...
* {{Acrofatic}}: Lu Zhishen, the chubby Flower Monk, can move with surprising speed. There's also the temple's boss, a hugely overweight corrupt monk who can pull off a DashAttack.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** Jing-er went from a handmaiden in the novel to a very competent ass-kicking martial artist who beats up plenty of mooks using her metal hoops.
** Gao Ya-nei is hardly a fighter in the novel, relying on framing Lin-Chung and fleeing in panic when things go south, but his game counterpart is a dangerous boss near the final stage.
** Gao-Qiu in the source material is a CorruptPolitician, but nowhere a physical threat. Here, he's depicted as the ''High Commander'' of the rebel army and the difficult FinalBoss.
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The underground mausoleum has closing walls that the player must repeatedly hit to avoid getting crushed.
* AmazonBrigade: Gao Ya-nei have his personal legion of female bodyguards who fights unarmed, but can still dish out some hits. They tend to be far more agile than male mooks.
* AscendedExtra: In the novels, Jing-er is merely a minor handmaiden serving Lin-Chung. She's one of the game's major heroes, likely to fulfill TheSmurfettePrinciple (after all, ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' had the Dragon Princess...).
* BarefootPoverty: The civilians seen in the game's backgrounds are often barefoot, to depict how corruption within the Song Dynasty's ruling government thanks to Gao-Qiu's takeover have destroyed their lives. Especially evident in one stage set in snowy winter.
* BattleButler: Gao Ya-nei's manservant, Fu-An, who offers to fend off the player when his boss makes a run with Lin-Chung's wife. Despite being a servant he's quite capable as a boss.
* BoobyTrap:
** White Tiger Hall is loaded with traps, from fire-breathing bronze tiger heads to spiked walls and pitfalls.
** Gao's gardens contains statues of Chinese dragons... outfitted with flamethrowers.
* BroomstickQuarterstaff: Some of the monks in the temple stages are armed with brooms, though it's downplayed that they're not very good fighters.
* CanonForeigner: The first stage ends with a DualBoss, Zhang-San and Li-Shi, neither whom are from the novel. They;re given ridiculously generic names, too - Zhang-San and Li-Shi is basically the Chinese Dynastic equivalent to "Tom, Dick and Harry".
* ContinuityNod: The first stage is set in the same temple Lu Zhishen used to serve as a monk (before the corrupt Abbot and his mooks too over), and the background's wall is notably collapsed. In the novel, Lin Chung first met Lu Zhishen after watching the former's staff training in the temple over a fallen wall.
* DegradedBoss: Most of the earlier bosses return as common enemies, and in later stages they can be encountered more than one at a time.
* DualWield:
** Zhang-san carries two bronze hammers during his fight.
** There's an acrobatic mook enemy who carries two [[MatchstickWeapon torches]] at the same time.
** The FinalBoss, Gao Qiu, carries two axes as big as himself.
* FrogMen: Oddly enough, the marsh stages contains frog-people who leaps out of the water and attacks with their OverlyLongTongue. They're ''definitely'' not from the novel.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Low on health? There's always fruit baskets, sticks of roast, a whole chicken, and even ''ginseng'' that can be consumed to restore the LifeMeter.
* PantheraAwesome: The White Tiger Hall's inner sanctums are inexplicably guarded by fierce tigers. They're presumably bred by Gao Ya-nei for security purposes. More tigers appears as above-average mooks in the woods.
* RecurringBoss: Gao Ya-nei, who pulls a ScrewThisImOuttaHere when his health bar is reduced to a fraction in his initial boss battle. He returns later in the mansion's exit, with twice the health.
* ShieldBearingMook: Gao Ya-nei have a squadron of soldiers carrying shields painte3d with tiger faces. They're among the few enemies who ''doesn't'' get knocked over instantly by projectile-based attacks.
* SwordBeam:
** The unnamed Traitor General boss can release a ''spear'' beam which deals extra damage.
** Gao Qiu can unleash an ''ax'' beam from both his bronze axes.
* WarriorMonk: Lu Zhi-sheng is a monk and a perfectly capable fighter, just like his literary counterpart. The temple also contains corrupt fighter-monks as recurring enemies.
* WeaponSpecialization: All the characters wields weapons identical to their literary counterparts, save for the handmaiden Jing-Er who isn't a combatant in the novel but is given a hefty AdaptationalBadass.
** Lin Chung, a retired soldier, uses his trusty spear (a weapon widely associated with said character in all adaptations)
** Lu Zhishen, being a former monk and the largest playable character, swings his hefty monk spade.
** Yang Zhi, descended from a line of generals, uses his trusty saber, presumably the same saber he nearly sold in the novel.
** Jing-er, the sole female playable character who relies on WaifFu uses two blunt metal hoops allowing her to grab and ensnare enemies.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Lu Jian, one of the bosses (in the novel he's an EvilFormerFriend to Lin Chung) will make this deal before his boss fight. Which the player instantly rejects, being more interested to slice up a traitor than to join him. Cue boss fight.
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