History VideoGame / TheWitchAndTheHundredKnight

''The Witch and the Hundred Knight'' is an ActionRPG by Creator/NipponIchi (more specifically, the team behind ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'') for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3. It is also Nippon Ichi's first true VideoGame3DLeap.

An UpdatedRerelease called ''Revival Edition'' was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in 2016 with updated graphics, an improved frame rate and a new dungeon; the Tower of Illusions, which allows the player to take control of Metallia (or rather an alternate version of her, known as Lia).

* BonusBoss:
** [[spoiler:It's possible to find and properly fight the various Dark Witches you encounter in chapters 4, 9 and 10, and is required to unlock Chapters 12 and 13.]]
** [[spoiler: Every boss in Chapters 12 and 13. Some of which were TheUnfought in the story proper while others (mainly Totopepe, Purple Peel, and Malia) are rematches, and some are new opponents and thus {{Walking Spoiler}}s (Dulche Valentine and especially Niike).]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* AbortedArc: Metallia's 100 days to live. The timer drops at the end of every chapter, but what it means is never fully explained, nor is any attention called to it outside of when its first mentioned. [[spoiler: And Metallia's actual "death" in the True Ending and sacrifice in the Bad Ending take place long after this timer has supposedly hit zero.]]

* DubNameChange: To most likely prevent legal issues with the [[Music/{{Metallica}} band]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]], NISA changed Metallica's name to "Metallia".

* [[CatGirl DogGirl]]: Visco ala BalefulPolymorph. Then there's Liffey, who is a cow girl.

* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:A few for Metallia are shown. These include a {{Delinquent}} at a WizardingSchool, a bratty but lonely IllGirl, and Torude, who is an OlderAndWiser Metallia]]. ''Revival Edition'' also adds Lia, an alternate universe version of Metallia whom you can play as inside the Tower of Illusions.

%%* MightyGlacier: The Power Fortress facet, which improves your guard and damage resistances to Slash and Blunt, but makes you incredibly vulnerable to Magic. Although the Facet itself doesn't reduce your speed, it specializes in Hammers, which are the slowest weapon class.

* ShroudedInMyth: According to legend, the Hundred Knight is several stories tall, has multiple arms carrying enchanted weapons, thirteen all-seeing eyes, a legion of 100 soldiers at its command, and the ability to shoot liquid fire from its face and crotch. None of these are even remotely accurate.

* AnyoneCanDie: Given how {{Darker and Edgier}} the game is, Metallia will be mowing through many of the characters throughout the game.

* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:A few for Metallia are shown. These include a {{Delinquent}} at a WizardingSchool, a bratty but lonely IllGirl, and Torude, who is an OlderAndWiser Metallia.]]
** ''Revival Edition'' also adds Lia, an alternate universe version of Metallia whom you can play as inside the Tower of Illusions.
* AlternateUniverse: [[spoiler:There are many of them out there and Niike's job is to stop them from getting too numerous.]]

* BloodierAndGorier[=/=]DarkerAndEdgier: Oh, so much. The game is generally more dark in tone than the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series and is comparable to ''[[VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters Soul Nomad]]'' in terms of some of the situations and sheer levels of nastiness that some of the members of the cast operate at, along with its twisted fairytale fantasy setting and blood being visible.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:It's possible to find and properly fight the various Dark Witches you encounter in chapters 4, 9 and 10, and is required to unlock Chapters 12 and 13.]]
** [[spoiler: By extension, every boss in Chapters 12 and 13. Some of which were TheUnfought in the story proper while others (mainly Totopepe, Purple Peel, and Malia) are rematches, and some are new opponents and thus {{Walking Spoiler}}s (Dulche Valentine and especially Niike).]]

* BubblegloopSwamp: Metallia lives in one...
** SwampsAreEvil: ...And it is not a welcoming place. Just the stench alone is enough to incapacitate or even kill the weak.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Those seemingly random cut scenes and the small village visited during the tutorial level? Yeah, they come back later.]]

** ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The old hag, Belda and Totopepe. The last two are villains with seemingly innocent first impressions and the old hag is actually the Great Witch Uruka]].

* GuideDangIt: The game has a bad habit of this whenever no objective markers are present, but the conditions to get the GoldenEnding are easily the worst offender, [[spoiler: involving hunting down and defeating the 3 dark witches encountered earlier in the game to unlock the last two chapters and the TrueFinalBoss.]]

* TheHeartless: Dark Witches, Witches whose souls have been overwhelmed by [[TheCorruption dark magic]] and transformed into mindless, bestial killing machines. [[GreatBigBookOfEverything The Witch Doctrine]] goes so far as to outlaw Witches from interacting with them, lest they become corrupted as well.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Omega weapons. There's one of each weapon class, and they become available towards the end of the game. While [[RareRandomDrop Legendary rank 12 weapons]] still beat them out for raw numerical damage, they provide a different damage type, which is crucial for defeating enemies with higher defense.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: While the Omega Spear, Sword and Hammer and incredibly powerful, the Omega Staff and Spear are...lacking.

* LimitBreak: Chaos Awakening, which greatly improves your stats but drains your GCals at a rapid pace.

** AdorableEvilMinions

* TalkingToThemself: Lavi holds conversations with and takes advice from her completely ordinary stuffed bunny, providing its voice herself.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The Hundred Knight is free to ransack people's houses and steal their stuff.
** VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Though doing it too much will make villagers attack you on sight, and shops will charge exorbitant prices for their goods.
* VillainProtagonist: Metallia.

* {{Stripperific}}: [[http://rpgfan.com/pics/The_Witch_and_the_Hundred_Soldiers/art-005.jpg ...Metallia demonstrates this for us.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the second chapter of the manga, Visco and the Knight(s) milk some of Liffey the cow witch's cattle. It turns out that [[spoiler:they were girls transformed into cows, and that they may have been milking their ''[[ThanksForTheMammary breasts]]'']].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the Walpurgisnacht, a vote is made to decide if Metallia should be considered an official witch. When Visco states she votes in Metallia's favor, the Fog Witch Nezaria counts it as a credible vote. One would ordinarily think she's simply being a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reasonable Authority Figure]] open to input from non-witches, [[spoiler: but in the later chapters, we learn that Visco is in fact the daughter of the Sun Witch, and Nezaria considered her a fellow witch casting her vote.]]

* Foreshadowing: At the Walpurgisnacht, a vote is made to decide if Metallia should be considered an official witch. When Visco states she votes in Metallia's favor, the Fog Witch Nezaria counts it as a credible vote. One would ordinarily think she's simply being a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Reasonable Authority Figure]] open to input from non-witches, [[spoiler: but in the later chapters, we learn that Visco is in fact the daughter of the Sun Witch, and Nezaria considered her a fellow witch casting her vote.]]

** CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:Interestingly, Metallia's Dark Hero antics in her parallel world cause this to happen to a lot of the other characters too, even some of the minor ones and villains. You get to see them all towards the end of Chapter 13 (If you got past Chapter 11's [[GuideDangIt Downer]] [[DownerEnding Ending]]), and they're almost all pretty touching.]]

A sequel, ''The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2'' was released in February 23, 2017 in Japan and March 2018 for the west.

A sequel, ''The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2'' was released in February 23, 2017 in Japan.

* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' meets ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. [[spoiler:The Bad Ending adds ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' for good measure]].