History VideoGame / TheGuardianLegend

** The Fireball weapon can be hard to use due to being a [[PainfullySlowProjectile]], but does large amounts of damage and makes the Optomon bosses trivially easy by burning up the tentacle lines they shoot at you.

According to the UWW of this game, LordKaT apparently discovered the ripple weapon being incredibly useful against the later bosses once fully upgraded. It's all a matter of using it correctly.

* DifficultButAwesome: According to the UWW of this game, LordKat apparently discovered the ripple weapon being incredibly useful against the later bosses once fully upgraded. It's all a matter of using it correctly.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The goal of the game is to prevent this from happening.
** ... by making it happen to ''someone else''.

* DestructibleProjectiles: All of the enemy bullets can be destroyed, and you can get random drops from them.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Guardian's name [[NoNameGiven is never revealed in the game or the English instruction manual]]. According to the [[CanonName original Japanese manual]], she is called "Miria" (full name: "Strongest Warrior System D.P., pet name Miria"). {{Fanon}} refers to the Guardian as "Alyssa".

[[caption-width-right:220:[[CoversAlwaysLie Pretty much the only thing this cover gets right]] is the phrase "[[PasswordSave Includes Password Feature]]". Oh, ''boy'' does this game include a password feature...]]

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* CoversAlwaysLie: The North American boxart for the game looks like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/TGL_Box.jpg this]], and has pretty much nothing to do with the game. The European boxart, shown above, is slightly better in that it at least shows a RobotGirl, even if said girl looks nothing like the protagonist. Pretty much the only thing either cover got right is the blurb that the game "[[PasswordSave Includes Password Feature]]". Oh, ''boy'' does it include a password feature...

* CoversAlwaysLie: The North American boxart for the game looks like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/TGL_Box.jpg this]], and has pretty much nothing to do with the game.

** Or not. The pyramids close slowly enough that you can run out before the boss appears if you're quick!

* SequelFirst: More precisely, GaidenGame first. The original ''Guardic'' was a Japanese-only MSX game.

* FighterLaunchingSequence

Provides examples of:

* BeamSpam: Many of the corridor areas have enemies that shoot a hail of lasers (especially at the end, when the [[DemonicSpiders laser-shooting ships have DEADLY beams]]). Also Eyegore, a [[ExtraEyes multi-eyed]] skull boss loves this trope too.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: For example, in the manual, "The Guardian is a sophisticated aerobot transformer".

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYH7pRottu8 The intro stage's music]] sounds suspiciously similar to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDzQROcDNA the overworld theme of]] ''[[ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]''.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Guardian's name is never revealed in the game or the English instruction manual. According to the [[CanonName original Japanese manual]], she is called "Miria" (full name: "Strongest Warrior System D.P., pet name Miria"). {{Fanon}} refers to the Guardian as "Alyssa".

* AWinnerIsYou: "You are the greatest player." is displayed at the end, along with your score and some extra art.

* InsurmountableWaistHighFence - Those indestructible pyramids blocking your passage, until you gain enough speed upgrades to outrun the miniboss room ones.
* IntangibleMan: You can easily walk though vertical 1-thin walls (apparently depends on a couple of factors, like emulator being used, etc).

* EyeScream: Inevitable, given the number of eyeball-related enemies. Optomon even TurnsRed and turns up the number of objects it spits at you once you've punched out its main eyeball.

* Intangibility: You can easily walk though vertical 1-thin walls (apparently depends on a couple of factors, like emulator being used, etc).

* EveryTenThousandPoints: The game rewards high scores by increasing you health meter every 30000 points. At the same time, the game will '''crash''' if you reach the score's {{cap}}.

* TheJimmyHartVersion: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYH7pRottu8 The intro stage's music]] sounds suspiciously similar to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDzQROcDNA the overworld theme of]] ''[[ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]''.

The game is about a female robot, codenamed "the Guardian", who is commissioned with stopping an alien-infested planet called Naju from [[ColonyDrop crashing into Earth]] and killing everyone. To do this, she must set off ten strategically-placed explosives within the corridors (by transforming into a spaceship and flying through them) and defeat the bosses within.

* CoresAndTurretsBoss: The very first boss of the game, as well as [[EyeScream two of the organic corridor bosses]].