Majinwar (or it's known by it's full title, Majinwar: The Evil Secret) is 2-D side scrolling action game by Gamebrew launched in the early 2000s. In here, you choose to play between two characters, Azrael the Drow and Wren the Paladin. You have to fight through four levels to save a princess.
A few years later, it has a sequel titled Rage of Magic 2. Taking place after the rescue of the princess, the story becomes told from multiple perspectives. A fallen paladin by the name of Faust has returned himself from exile after a failed coup against the king, Princess Chai's father. A web of intrigue and plots become one and multiple destines become intertwined with one another.
Tropes applying to Majinwar:
- Angry Guard Dog: Abused by the enemy like crazy. They always attack out of the reach of your melee attacks, forcing you to use magic to even hit them.
- Bonus Level: Beating Nightmare and Super-Hell difficulty has your character brought to a network of caves. The second player character shows up as your help. Who are you fighting? Osama bin Laden and his soldiers.
- Dual Boss: Stage 3 has you face a duo of swordsmen guarding the doorway to the castle.
- Endless Game: Beating the game unlocks Survival mode.
- Excuse Plot: You control a character and beat your way across a variety of enemies. Also there's a princess that needs saving but you don't really know that until the final fight.
- Friendly Fireproof: Averted. Your attacks will hit your own allies if in range.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Outside of healers who won’t show up until midway through Stage 3, the only way to heal is to walk over various food on the ground. However, the enemy can take them as well...
- Multiple Endings: While the general outcome is the same, the character used differs the way it is used to finish off the Final Boss.
- Azrael uses his most powerful repel barrier to overpower Oberat's final attack after the latter got up and is planning to blowing up everyone around him. He then collapses from exhaustion as the castle collapses before Fading To Black.
- Wren along with two other paladins use their most powerful attack immediately after defeating Oberat, incinerating him in a pillar of light.
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Nintendo Hard: If you don't get your head on straight, you will find yourself getting crushed by the boss in a single instant. If you die, you have to restart the whole level. - Non-Player Companion: You have various allies help you as you progress. Hope you can keep them alive...
- Final Boss: Oberat the elf. His second phase is being a level 30 demon. Note that you are only around level 11-15 around the endgame.
- Harder Than Hard: Normal and Nightmare too easy for you? Try Super-Hell.
- Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography: You begin with a port town in ruins from an invading warlord, after that you have to fight on the beaches guarded by Amazons, the next one is a desolate wasteland that is the doorway to the castle and then the final level is the castle itself.
Tropes applying to Rage of Magic 2:
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Faust plans on celebrating his coronation by marrying Princess Chai.
- Ascended Extra: Princess Chai and Evenstul, two characters that only show up at the final level of the original are given more screentime here.
- Attract Mode: The demo has one of this in the form of an endless fight between the heroes and villains when you quit the game.
- Big Bad: Faust. And then the elves betray him and an invasion from another world commences right in his castle.
- Bittersweet Ending: Azrael finally achieves his goal of destroying the elves he was after. Wren unknowingly exhausts himself, presumably to death, in a Senseless Sacrifice fighting The Dragon who was actually a mole. Chai personally finishes off Faust with a crossbow bolt after the latter realises his mistakes and cannot risk being left alive. Meanwhile, the rest of the surviving cast is transported to another world after the invasion of the castle. The story ends with Wren's disciple in another world and put to sleep by a stranger.
- Cutting Off the Branches: Averted. It is revealed in here that both endings from the original are canon and the endings are actually two parts of a single ending. Azrael dealt the first blow with his powers and then Wren and his fellow paladins followed up with their pillars of light to finish Oberat off.
- Immediate Sequel: The story's events take place immediately after the first one with Princess Chai returning home after being rescued.
- Limit Break: The Supers.
- Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
- The Unfought: You never face Faust in combat.
