History VideoGame / TheLegendOfDarkWitch

The game has, to date, spawned two sequels (''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDarkWitch2'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDarkWitch3''), and a few spinoffs (''Dark Witch Music Episode: Rudymical'', ''Brave Dungeon'', and ''Majin Shoujo Combat''[[note]]''Combat'' will be released alongside an enhanced port of ''Brave Dungeon''[[/note]]).

''The Legend of Dark Witch'' (''Majin Shoujo'' in Japan) is a digtial-exclusive game developed by indie group Inside System and translated into English by digital publisher Circle Entertainment. It was released worldwide for the Nintendo 3DS eShop in 2014 and Steam in 2015, with Japan and other Asian countries also receiving a Playstation Vita port in 2015.

A sequel, ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfDarkWitch2 The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2 -The Price of Desire-]]'', released in 2015 in Japan and North America and will release in 2016 elsewhere.

* BigBoosHaunt: Blad's stage.

* BlackoutBasement: Halfway through the seventh stage.

** SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[JapaneseRanguage Both Sola and Sora]] are used in the character's BattleIntro.

* EpicFail: Al's attempt to join Riva's side.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Riva]]
* FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler:The second fight very quickly turns into BulletHell if you do not know how to deal with each enemy she summons.]]

* InsultBackfire: [[spoiler:Riva's death threats usually fall flat, but [[HotLibrarian Klinsy's]] reaction is this.]]

* TheLostWoods: [[spoiler:Verri's stage]].
* MonsterTown: Papelne's stage

* PalmtreePanic: Stoj's stage.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The second character's story ends with a vague note that "something else" was going on during the Syega crisis.]]
* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:You fight Riva's normal form before taking on her OneWingedAngel form.]]

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Al's stage.

* TempleOfDoom: [[spoiler:Riva's stage]]. The "look" part is obvious, the "trap" part isn't. [[spoiler:The stage's description in the sound test all but outright states that the BossRush happens due to the temple's defenses.]]

* XMeetsY: ''Mega Man'' with ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'s'' upgrade system.

** SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:You fight her normal form before taking on her OneWingedAngel form.]]
** VictoryByEndurance: [[spoiler:Her second form cannot be damaged by your weapons. Instead, her HP slowly drains while she summons other monsters to do her bidding.]]
** FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler:The second fight very quickly turns into BulletHell if you do not know how to deal with each enemy she summons.]]

* VideogameSettings:
** AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: The start of each stage, the BlackoutBasement in the seventh stage, and [[spoiler:the final boss arena]].
** BigBoosHaunt: Blad's stage.
** TheLostWoods: [[spoiler:Verri's stage]].
** MonsterTown: Papelne's stage
** PalmtreePanic: Stoj's stage.
** TempleOfDoom: [[spoiler:Riva's stage]]. The "look" part is obvious, the "trap" part isn't. [[spoiler:The stage's description in the sound test all but outright states that the BossRush happens due to the temple's defenses.]]
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: Al's stage.

A sequel, ''The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2 -The Price of Desire-'', released in November 2015 in Japan and will release early 2016 elsewhere. The official website is [[http://insidesystem.heteml.jp/mjsj2/ here]].

* NonDubbedGrunts: The one-liners between the versus screen and an actual boss fight are completely untranslated. Taken UpToEleven in ''Episode 2'', which has voice work during the actual fights.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:It is implied that Riva kills Verri when the latter attempts to prevent the former from using the full power of the Syega crystals]].
!!''The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2'' contains examples of:
* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Sola is PromotedToPlayable this time around.
* BossSubtitles: They were [[{{Woolseyism}} exclusive to the English version of the first game]], but are included in the Japanese version this time around.
* CharacterCustomization: The Enforcement Slot gauge can be customized this time around. One example given is that Wing (Zizou's second slot) can be replaced by the Dash that originally belonged to Riva.
* DemotedToExtra: Al and Papelne run shops in Episode 2.
* EasierThanEasy: The new Very x2 Easy difficulty, which plugs certain bottomless pits and lets players destroy some otherwise-unkillable enemies. It also apparently lets the player keep their Enforcement Slot abilities after death.
* GratuitousJapanese: Zizou exclaims "YATTANE" in roman letters after she defeats a boss, even in the English translation.
* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Very x2 Easy, Casual, Expert, and Lunatic, with Casual presumably replacing Easy and Expert presumably replacing Normal.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Inverted; the ''Episode 2'' website treats Blad and Stoj as secret characters even though their identities are immediately obvious to anyone who played the first game.
* LimitBreak: Revenge Magic, powerful attacks that require the user to receive damage. Both the player characters and the bosses can use them.
* ManaMeter: The new Capacity meter. All weapons pull from this rechargeable meter, instead of from the Enforcement Gauge as in the first game.
* RecurringBoss: Klinsy is a standard boss (and again gives Dia Missile), while Blad and Stoj join two new characters to form a second set of bosses after the initial 8.
* SequelEscalation: ''Episode 2'' raises the stage count from a relatively small 8 stages to a ''Mega Man''-sized 13 stages, on top of adding many more enemy types, more voice acting, single-use items, Revenge Magic, and more minigames.
* VideogameSettings:
** AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: As in the first game.
** BigBoosHaunt: Litty's stage.
** TheLostWoods: Rudy's stage. It is similar to the seventh stage of the first game.
** {{Tomorrowland}}: Icke's stage.
** TheWildWest / ShiftingSandLand: Mari's stage.
** {{Wutai}}: Kuito's stage.

''The Legend of Dark Witch'' (''Majin Shoujo'' in Japan) is a digtial-exclusive game developed by indie group Inside System and translated into English by digital publisher Circle Entertainment. It was released worldwide for the Nintendo 3DS eShop in 2014, and the Playstation Vita in Japan in May 2015. A Steam release is also in early development and is tentatively slated for 2016.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: CIRCLE Entertainment's translation, while far from unintelligible and certainly better than [[TranslationTrainwreck their work]] on fellow eShop title ''Demon King Box'', feels like a rough draft. Spelling and grammar errors are all over the place, even within menus. It's certainly not helped by the amount of {{Engrish}} from the Japanese version that was retained, such as a menu called "Playing Level" that contains in-game achievements.

* NotActuallyCosmeticAward: Reaching the in-game achievements unlocks concept art, which isn't all that useful in terms of gameplay. Then you finish the game and find out that each achievement gives you currency for the NewGamePlus shop.

* RecurringBoss: Klinsy is a standard boss (and again gives Dia Missile), while Blad and Stoj join two new characters to serve as what are presumably this game's equivalents to the Wily Castle bosses.

** TheWildWest: Mari's stage.
** {{Wutai}}: While lacking pagodas (that we know of), Kito's stage is named Japanesque Night and features ninja and cherry blossoms.

''The Legend of Dark Witch'' (''Majin Shoujo'' in Japan) is a digtial-exclusive game developed by indie group Inside System and translated into English by digital publisher Circle Entertainment. It was released worldwide for the Nintendo 3DS eShop in 2014, and the Playstation Vita in Japan in May 2015.

A sequel, ''The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2 -The Price of Desire-'', will release in November 2015 in Japan and early 2016 elsewhere. The official website is [[http://insidesystem.heteml.jp/mjsj2/ here]].

A sequel, ''The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2 -The Price of Desire-'', [[http://insidesystem.heteml.jp/mjsj2/ is in development]] and will release sometime in 2015.

** TempleOfDoom: [[spoiler:Riva's stage]] has the look, but not the traps.

* OneHitPointWonder: One of the NewGamePlus options applies this to your character.

* PromotedToPlayable: Sola is the second player character alongside Zizou.

* EasierThanEasy: The new Very x2 Easy difficulty, which apparently lets the player keep their Enforcement Slot abilities after death.

* LimitBreak: Revenge Magic, powerful attacks that require a secondary gauge to be filled. Both the player characters and the bosses can use them.
* ManaMeter: All weapons now pull from this rechargeable meter.
* MissionPackSequel: The game is shaping up to be one of these.
* RecurringBoss: Klinsy returns as a boss in this game.

** TheWildWest: One of the stages appear to be based on it.

** TheLostWoods: Similar to the seventh stage in the first game.

** {{Tomorrowland}}: Ikke's stage appears to have a more technological bent that anything else in this game or the previous.

A sequel, ''Majin Shoujo Episode 2: Negai e no Daika'', [[http://insidesystem.heteml.jp/mjsj2/ is in development]] and will release sometime in 2015.

* InTheHood: Zizou wears a large hood in the opening.

* PalmtreePanic: Stoj's stage.

* SequelHook: The second character's story ends with a vague note that "something else" was going on during the Syega crisis.

* [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Princess Wins]]: Riva. Her achievement is called True End, just to nail it home.]]

!!''Majin Shoujo Episode 2'' contains examples of:

* LimitBreak: Revenge Magic, powerful attacks that require a secondary gauge to be filled.

* SuspiciouslySimilarOutfit: Zizou and Riva. [[spoiler:Riva disguised herself as a minstrel in order to infiltrate the Old Country. Zizou saw Riva and, believing that her outfit was the current fashion, copied her.]]

* NiceHat: Zizou dons one of these, along with a ScarfOfAsskicking.

''The Legend of Dark Witch'' (''Majin Shoujo'' in Japan) is a digtial-exclusive game. It was released for the Nintendo 3DS eShop in 2014, and will be released on the Playstation Vita in Japan in May 2015

* CatGirl: Papelne

* DarkIsNotEvil: Zizou is a dark witch, but she's out to save the world.

* TheEvilPrincess: [[spoiler:Riva]]

* {{Expy}}: Visually, Blad is rather blatantly based on [[Anime/KillLaKill Ryuko Matoi]].
** In Blad's concept design, she had pink hair and white eyes, making her look like [[Anime/SoulEater Crona]].
** Stoj bears a good resemblance to [[VideoGame/TouhouProject Daiyousei]]. A ''Touhou'' expy shouldn't be surprising, given that the rest of developer Inside System's output consists of ''Touhou'' DoujinSoft.

* PhysicalGod: Zizou

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted with Zizou, toyed with in Al's case, played straight with [[spoiler:Verri and Riva]].

* SwordBeam: The seventh boss has a variation where she fires a tornado at the player character.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: [[EasierThanEasy Very x2 Easy]], Casual, Expert, and Lunatic.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: Implied.

** {{Tomorrowland}}: One of the levels appears to have a more technological bent that anything else in this game or the previous.

* NintendoHard: The game is hard on enough on Easy, but Normal and Lunatic remove health drops, give enemies more health, and raise the Enforcement Slot damage penalty from 25% of the gauge to 50% and '''100%''' percent respectively.

''The Legend of Dark Witch'' (''Majin Shoujo'' in Japan) is a Nintendo 3DS eshop-only game, released on October 16, 2014.

A sequel, ''Majin Shoujo Episode 2: Negai e no Daika'', [[http://insidesystem.in.net/mjsj2/ is in development]] and will release sometime in 2015.

A sequel, ''Majin Shoujo: Episode 2'', [[http://insidesystem.in.net/mjsj2/ is in development]] and will release sometime in 2015.

!!''Majin Shoujo: Episode 2'' contains examples of:

* SequelDifficultyDrop: Implied for the "normal" difficulty.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: The developers originally tweeted that Episode 2 will have [[EasierThanEasy Very x2 Easy]], Casual, Expert, and Lunatic. The tweet has since disappeared, so there is a possibility that this will change.

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* TheWildWest: One of the stages appear to be based on it.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Sticks out since Zizou has [[MulticoloredHair two-tone]] PeekABangs. Aside from her idle sprite, the white side of her hair never faces the camera.

* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies are used to represent Tres. [[spoiler:Fittingly, the final boss turns gains butterfly wings in her One Winged Angel form.]]
* AnotherSideAnotherStory: The second playable character is [[spoiler:Riva, the game's Big Bad]].

** SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[JapaneseRanguage Both Sola and Sora]] are used in the character's BattleIntro.

** Stoj bears a good resemblance to [[VideoGame/TouhouProject Daiyousei]]. Unsurprising, given that the rest of developer Inside System's output consists of ''Touhou'' DoujinSoft.

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Zizou]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted with Zizou, toyed with in Al's case, [[spoiler:played straight with Verri and Riva]].

* SuspiciouslySimilarOutfit: Zizou and [[spoiler:Riva]]. [[spoiler:Riva disguised herself as a minstrel in order to infiltrate the Old Country. Zizou saw Riva and, believing that her outfit was the current fashion, copied her.]]

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: According to [[https://twitter.com/INSIDE_SYSTEM/status/560275458210541569 this tweet]], Episode 2 will have [[EasierThanEasy Very x2 Easy]], Casual, Expert, and Lunatic.

* RuleOfCool / RuleOfFunny: The infamous fire-breathing, body-builder snowman enemy.