Denser and Wackier: Rumble Roses XX is a mild example, having added such things as the playable bear, the Street Fight mode where getting hit can the girls flying 20 feet in the air, and "moves" like Bloody Shadow's opponent-inhaling giant frog, and pretty much everything about Lady X Subsistence.Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Rumble Roses has the same control scheme as the contemporary games in the WWE series, but the actual buttons aren't mapped exactly alike, so get ready to run headlong into your opponent a few times when you meant to grapple them.Western audiences, however, found it to incredibly weird and creepy. This was supposed to be a selling point of the game. The idea was that the girl who lost the match would suffer a penalty, like having to sweep around a pool with a push broom, and then she'd react to it by getting angry, sad or embarrassed. Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle: Queens Mode in Rumble Roses XX.Clothing Switch: Rumble Roses XX had a feature where the player could buy extra outfits for the girls, including each other's outfits.Carpet of Virility: Disturbingly sported by Sebastian the Clown.Averted by Aigle, who's as much if not more of a power wrestler than Dixie but who sports a modest bust (and memetically admires Dixie's in her story mode). ![]() Boobs of Steel: Dixie Clemets is the wrestler with the most power-based moves in her arsenal, and one of the bustiest as well.But played incredibly straight with Non Non in Rumble Roses XX.Subverted in The Black Belt Demon's entrance.There's also no blood in this game, even though blood was commonplace in wrestling games at the time the original Rumble Roses was released. Beauty Is Never Tarnished: The girls' heads and hair repel the mud in the mud matches.Oh, and by the way, there's also a mud wrestling match, which takes place at said beach arena, and the only selectable outfits for that match type are the swimsuits. There's also the option to wrestle in swimsuits. Even Sebastian, the only male character, does this.Bare Your Midriff: Characters NOT doing this are the exception.Averted by all of the Lady X incarnations, they are rather simple, which wouldn't help her human opponents considering how little energy the robot would use compared to a human girl just getting into the ring.Others such as Yasha's literally requires nameless ninja women to die as part of it. Awesome, but Impractical: Most of the girls have highly entertaining and energetic introductions, but some such as all of Becky's would leave her pretty tired 'before' the match starts.In American marketing, Dixie to Reiko as well.Alliterative Title: By being a way to refer to combat, and also referring to pretty women.Anyway, at the end of the tournament, the player fights one of Anesthesia's cyborgs, Lady X, and whoever wins goes home happy. Miss Spencer enters the tournament accidentally while trying to chase down a recalcitrant runaway student (Candy Cane). Candy Cane wants the cash prize to save the orphanage she grew up in. Makoto Aihara is an Olympic judoka seeking competition. Aisha is obsessed with a rematch against Dixie Clemets, who she was never able to beat. Reiko Hinomoto is trying to live up to her mother's legacy and search for her lost sister. Each of the girls has their own reason for being involved in the tournament. ![]() She plans to take the DNA of the tournament winner to make an unstoppable cyborg army. She plans to use a wrestling tournament to do it, offering a large cash prize to the winner as an incentive. Anesthesia, the Big Bad of the series, wants to take over the world. ![]() It's set up more like a Fighting Game than a Wrestling Game. The story modes for each wrestler persona are also notable in a B-movie way. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. The end result was a big fanservice extravaganza, with 10 ladies (each with her own face and heel persona) wearing quite revealing outfits, appealing to various fetishes. However, to the surprise of many, Konami announced that this game would feature an all female cast. In 2004, Konami decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre (well, at least outside Japan) which in the last years was in the hands of THQ, the holder of the WWE license.
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