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  • Broken Base: The Genre Shift to visual novels (and by extension, going back to being H-games). Was it good or bad?
  • Complete Monster: Miranda Jahana is the founder of Section-9 who wants to create the perfect fighter by any means necessary. To that end, she forces her own daughter, Reimi, to undergo Training from Hell and experimentation, abandoning her without a second thought when she loses to Yuka Takeuchi and hiring Saki Shinjo to brutally kill her. She also creates hybrids through genetic manipulation, using the tournament to test them against unsuspecting contestants, only to cruelly kill them off when they also lose. Determined to break Yuka for overcoming her hybrids, Miranda temporarily drives her to despair by blaming her for the deaths of the hybrids. After being defeated, Miranda shoots Chiho Masuda and tries to flee.
  • Cult Classic: For those that knew about the mainstream reboot and the OVA.
  • Dry Docking: You'd think that an entire cast of single hot waitresses would be a shipper's dream come true. Yet, the only known fan pairing is Tamao/Yuka, which is popular in Japan. Otherwise, shipping is virtually nonexistent among the fandom.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: False Yuka has quite a presence in fan material. She was even popular enough to return in one of the official side story novels.
  • Even Better Sequel: The Advanced V.G. games are considered to be superior to the original series of H-Games. In terms of the Advanced series itself, Advanced V.G. 2 is held in high regard and is usually considered one of the original PlayStation's most underrated fighters.
  • Fanon Discontinuity:
    • V.G. Custom. Yet another remake of the original game, but this time using recycled assets from Advanced V.G. 2 and re inserting the H-scenes (recycled from one of the games in the original series). It's considered pretty bad, not just because of it being a blatant cash grab release, but because it was also quite buggy. So much that it's nigh impossible to play properly on more modern systems as attempting to adds more bugs (which include screwed up palettes and messed up controls).
    • Created originally as a Fighting Game, the Genre Shift to Visual Novels is considered as this for various V.G. fans (see Broken Base).
  • Game-Breaker: Advanced V.G. 2 is a pretty high-damage game. Characters can easily land combos that take 65-75% of a lifebar when dumping all their meters, while Kaori, Miranda and Chiho could whip out practical infinites. Still, the somewhat slow pace and defensive nature of the game prevent them from happening too often.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Western fans know this game series thanks to the PlayStation versions and Emulation, and since the Turn of the Millennium gained more fans thanks to M.U.G.E.N and their character adaptations (included from the previous H-Games and V.G. Max), which are even better than the source, having a fanbase that continues until these days.
  • Les Yay:
    • Tamao nurses a canonical girl crush on her "Sempai" and has even fantasized about being with her (seen at 0:27-0:54). There's also an official sketch of Tamao, wherein, she gift wraps herself as a present to Yuka and offers her birthday sex. Yuka smiles sheepishly and declines.
    • The same is true of Ayako's unrequited crush on Satomi, as seen in the OVA. She becomes the target of a second unrequited crush in the third Light Novel, when a new female transfer student becomes smitten with her and steals Satomi's First Kiss.
  • Narm: As mentioned, the Sega Saturn port of Advanced V.G. re inserted the lose scenes from the original games in a bowdlerised form. Needless to say the end result looks....odd.
  • Never Live It Down: For fans of the Advanced V.G. series, the original H-Games count as a meta example. Despite the reboot, none of them have ever been available outside Japan, so most are only aware of the original H-games because of their notoriety.
  • Polished Port: The Saturn version of the first Advanced game. Averted with the second, as it was made exclusively for the Playstation.
  • Replacement Scrappy / Creator's Pet: By today's standards, Tamao would likely be considered both. Yet, she somehow managed to avoid being branded as either and eventually became quite popular.
  • The Woobie: Satomi was the primary example, having had a generally crappy life; but then the truth about Reimi's upbringing came out and revealed she was one too.

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