An Affectionate Parody of Eastern RPGs, Bad JRPG: The Legends of Krys is a show created by Drawfee. Hosted by Nathan Yaffe, Jacob Andrews and — eventually — Jake Young, it follows them as they pitch ideas for the Troperiffic, entirely fictional video game The Legends of Krys, the worst experience found in all of JRPG media.
Originating as a segment of Morning Drawfee, it was later expanded into a full series. Unlike Drawga — which had a similarly humble beginning — there has been no serious attempt at a Defictionalization, meaning that as of this writing, the show stands on its own.
It can be viewed on Youtube here.
This series contains examples of:
- Action Girl:
- Proporzha, a "punchwoman" who mines for ore by punching rocks (ala Mine Craft) with her stone glove.
- Also Gunthia, an absolute mountain of a woman. Though the Brawn Hilda aspect is downplayed in that she mostly uses guns. Her muscles are simply a result of the extreme, constant recoil.
- Not to mention Riboflavia, a Cute But Psycho Little Miss Badass wielding a ridiculously oversized spoongun.
- A God Am I: Skitter Bug eventually manages to obtain its true Power, becoming The Skitter King, the True Final Boss of the game.
- The Alleged Car: Krys's car, which he inherited from his grandfather Krisp.
- American Kirby Is Hardcore: Parodied when the artists draw the hypothetical, localized American cover art for the game, which dives headfirst into this trope.
- And Call Him "George": Big Beefo is really a Cuddle Bug who just wants to be loved. To bad hos armor is covered in Spikes of Villainy...
- Anthropomorphic Personification: The first enemies you face are the avatars of extinction. They are pretty easy to beat, and only worth 4 XP. After that, the enemies get progressively more mundane.
- Artifact of Doom: The Money Staff, which corrupts the wielder into an Idle Rich Corrupt Corporate Executive. Naturally, you have to pay to use it.
- Artificial Limb: Aside from her Arm Cannon, Gunthia has also replaced a foot with a (leaking) soup can and another foot with an — also leaking — sandwich. (Or perhaps she just stuck her leg in the sandwich. It's not entirely clear.)
- Bee-Bee Gun: Subverted with the Beesmaster class. The "bees" are actually flies, but Krys can't tell the difference.
- You do eventually unlock an item containing actual bees... called a "Hornets Nest.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Krys has this with his lancer, the tomboyish Proporzha.
- BFS: Krys's sword — which he inherited from his father — is noted to be far too big to actually be practical.
- Big Bad Wannabe: XshadoX420 tries to be a
Magnificent Bastard and The Chessmaster, but he's far too weak to actually pose a threat to our heroes. - Boss in Mook Clothing: The Skitter Bugs. They are said to be the cockroaches of the video game world, small and impossible to kill.
- Cain and Abel: Lucianosaurus and Krys — the Big Bad and The Hero, respectively — are actually adopted-brothers-turned-rivals.
- Cephalothorax: "The Fuckers" are a rather perverse race of these. Oh, and they have raptor claws. Their queen is called "The Mother Fucker."
- Cool Sword: Parodied with Big Jeff the Welshman's trusty Garble-Barble, which is made from the toe of a dragon, and causes poison damage just from the sheer smell.
- Creator Cameo: A quite dark, In-Universe example. The game contains the actual, cursed souls of the developers who perished making it, and they will haunt the players both while playing it and then later in their sleep.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The True Final Boss of the game turns out to be... the Team Pet Bunby, who previously just came across as a Creepy Cute cynic with a Dark and Troubled Past. The fight is completely skippable, however. Depending on the player's choices, Krys can simply not believe Bunby and just let him be on his dark throne.
- Doomed Hometown: Krys is motivated to fight for justice after his village is destroyed.
- Fetish Retardant: Invoked In-Universe with the Whalemyn, who are basically bikini-clad women with whale heads and -tails, with cat ear fins.
- Foe Romance Subtext: Invoked quite heavily between Big Beefo and Krys. The former kills people by hugging them, and the latter defeats the former with a Kiss of Death.
- Game-Breaking Bug: The supposed-to-be-
Dummied Out Busted Sword has an unfortunately tendencies to cause an increasing amount of these the longer you keep it in your inventory, to the point of making the game unplayable. Worse, it's really hard to get rid of it, as it keeps copying itself. - Gender Rarity Value: Parodied. A male Whalemyn is born every 100 years. However, male Whalemyn (also called Malemyn) aren't treated as a big deal and just get bullied for being different.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: The guards seem to be quite incompetent, being unable to fight even birds.
- Guns Are Useless: Actually justified with Gunthia, who only fights with airsoft guns. (She also has an Arm Cannon, but it only shoots when she punches people.)
- Heel–Face Turn: Lucianosaurus has a Heel Realization after seeing what the Skitter Bug is planning, and teams up with Krys to take him out.
- Holding Out for a Hero: Zig-Zagged. The townsfolk can mostly take care of their own business, so Krys has to sabotage their work to make them dependent on him.
- Insistent Terminology: The pantsmith is just a normal blacksmith who refers to everything he sells as pants, including "full body pants", "pointy pants", "elemental pants", "readable pants" and "drinkable pants." Of course, you pay for it with "round, shiny pants."
- Jewish Mother: Krys's mother, Krystina, is depicted as a nagging, overprotective stick-in-the-mud who doesn't like her son going on adventures and risking his life. Bonus points for actually being from a kind-of-Jewish Fantasy Counterpart Culture.
- Joke Character: Most of Krys' character classes are this. For example, neither the Beesmaster nor the Philosophy Major class are actually useful for the quest while the Slizzard class turns Krys into an alcoholic Squishy Wizard. (The alcohol might not make him invulnerable, but it does null the pain.)
- The Pie Thief, in the other hand, is actually a bit of a Lethal Joke Character, as it gives Krys an actual projectile weapon.
- Kung-Fu Jesus: Jesus is depicted as a muscular armored robot, summoned when all the twelve apostles join together as one.
- Master of None: Krys can join multiple classes, but doesn't actually have time to get good at any of them. Instant Expert is Averted hard here.
- Minion with an F in Evil: The Extinctions seem to be this, despite being designer like Eldritch Abominations. The talk in a very casual manner, and are too vain to fight our heroes unless they look their best.
- Mistaken For Bear: Krys's "pet bear" — which he names Puff-Puff — is very obviously just a Japanese guy in a fursuit, who can't explain himself due to the language barrier. The only one who understands him is the Telepath Team Pet Bunby, and even he doesn't care enough to actually do anything about the situation.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The artists lampshade that with a name like Lucianosaurus, you really can't not become a villain.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: The Harpies — who otherwise look like pelicans with human legs — have feathered brests, requiring them to wear sports bras.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. Jeff is just one of many Jeffs. (A Shout Out, mayhaps?)
- Our Elves Are Different: The Alfs note are depicted as stuck-up, pretentious Fantastic Racists who all resemble a certain alien from 80's television.
- Raised by Orcs: Gunthia was raised by talking alligators, which might be the closest thing the setting has to orcs.
- Really Royalty Reveal: Loed Covington is revealed to be a prince masquerading as a butler. It would be shocking if he didn't flat-out tell Krys this the first time they met.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted. The villagers are already using all the weapons and items found in the store, which is part of the reason why most of them don't actually need Krys's help.
- Robot Buddy: Real Bird TM is - despite claiming otherwise - an artificially intelligent drone with a fake bird head and some feathers. In fairness, they are attempting to become a real bird.
- Sapient Ship' Our protagonists' "airship" is really just a four-legged, lanky giant wearing a boat-shaped wooden harness, complete with (entirely cosmetic and pointless) oars, propellers and rudder.
- Scaled Up: Lucianosaurus's true form is that of a giant dinosaur. More specifically, a cross between a T-Rex and a Triceratops.
- The Scrappy: Invoked In-Universe with Lord Covington, an Annoying Video Game Helper the artists speculate is almost soley responsible for the game's negative reception.
- The Stoner: Subverted — suprisingly enough — with XshadoX420, who just keeps drugs on his person to look cool.
- Summon Magic: Played With. Krys claims to have this power, but really he's just calling for his dog Bahamutt and his friend Tym, who are disguised as supernatural creatures. However, later he actually gets to summon... Jesus, armed with a bread sword and a fish hand canon.
- Totally Radical: Everything about XshadoX420, up to and including his name.
- Word Salad Philosophy: Philosophy-Major!Krys basically just goes around sprouting this.
