History VideoGame / RumbleRoses

* DenserAndWackier: ''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.
* DefeatByModesty: Sort of. There are various moves in the game that cause a "humiliation meter" to rise. The moves that do these are moves that put one or both of the girls in some kind of compromising position. For example, most girls in the game have a backdrop in which they lift the other girl behind the knees so that the audience gets a good look at her crotch before suplexing her, and that move fills the meter ''fast''. Most moves fill the defender's h-meter, although several fill both fighters and a couple fill the attacker's. When a character's humiliation meter is filled, their opponent can then perform a "humiliation finisher", which is invariably a submission hold that puts them in an embarrassing position as well as being painful. H-finishers give the attacker several more seconds to keep the hold applied than even other finishers, and in ''Rumble Roses'' are the only way to beat the computer by submission on hard difficulty.

* HumiliationConga: A potential result of losing a queens match, the loser first could be humiliated, then finished with an attack meant to embarrass her until she can't take it anymore. Following this the loser then has to do a task such as clean the pool, apply oil to the winner, or dance. All of these actions also involve the loser wearing what the opponent wants. Some of the girls appear visibly hurt afterwards by this.

* LongHairIsFeminine: Mostly averted, most of the girls have short hair even the girly girls tend to have shorter hair with the longest hair (Dixie, Benikage) not being much longer than shoulder length, ostensibly to minimize NoFlowInCGI. Some girls that have girly hair styles like Becky/Candy Cane have Pigtails which are not that long. The few girls who do have longer hair (Aigle/Killer Khan, Ms./Mistress Spencer) have it either braided or done up so as to keep it out of the way-- a sensible choice for wrestling and grappling.

** The Humiliation Move is this; if you've filled up the meter to use this move, you likely could've won normally, and all Humiliation Moves are some kind of submission hold putting the opponent on display. It's also extremely embarrassing in Rumble Roses Canon to lose via H-KO/Humiliation Move, to the point that losing in such an embarrassing way ends feuds.

* MaleGaze: Everything but the one that really stands out is when a character is ready to be finished off with a Humiliation Move. Also the character select screen in ''XX'', which includes a close up of each character's butt.

** Reiko looks a lot like [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]], particularly in her early career as Kana before she started dyeing her hair. The only major difference is Reiko wears boots while Kana was barefoot with kick pads.

* PainToTheAss: The atomic drop and Manhattan drop[[note]]A move where the attacker brings the defender down tailbone-first on the attacker's knee. In the atomic drop the defender faces away from the attacker, in the Manhattan drop, towards[[/note]] both exist in this game, and they're moves in which the attacker drives the defender tailbone first onto the attacker's knee. While the move supposedly compresses the spine and hurts the back, the Roses sell it by holding their butts. That being said, the holding-your-butt sell is used for a lot of back based slams and throws, and sometimes just randomly.

* PunishmentDetail: In one of the game's queen's match punishments the loser can be made to [[https://i.imgur.com/eMw6Yqn.mp4 clean]] the pool area. A further humiliation could be that the loser has to wear what the winner chooses for them.

* {{SNK Boss}}: Lady X. She has a ridiculously overpowered unblockable move for a ''taunt'', but even without the taunt, most of her regular moves are other wrestlers' finishing moves, and her humiliation meter fills at about a tenth of the speed of anyone else's. ''Rumble Roses XX'' has Lady X "Subsistance", who is even stronger than Substance in terms of offense and defense, and even has an attack stronger than the "Human" girls Killer/Lethal attacks where she places her robotic fingers on her opponent's ears and uses her [[https://www.deviantart.com/allthestawf/art/Rumble-Roses-XX-Lady-X-Cleans-Becky-s-Ears-808825763 rotating parts]] to rotate her fingers while they are in the ears of her opponent that can leave lower defense characters like Becky unable to kick out in two cycles.
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Although the attire of even the good girls could hardly be called modest, in general the good girls dress a bit more modestly than the bad girls. For example, Aisha wears pants and a sports bra while [=Showbiz/Sista A=] wears a skimpy 2 piece, and Black Belt Demon wears her judogi looser exposing more of her bra than Makoto Aihara.

* WrestlingDoesntPay: As par for the course. Reiko is a race queen/bikini model, Miss Spencer is a teacher, Aisha is a pop idol, so on and so forth.

As of right now there is one {{sequel}}, ''Rumble Roses XX'', which was released in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360. It introduced three new modes (Tag Team, Queens Match and Street Fight) as well as a very unelaborate create-a-wrestler feature. It also introduced "[[SuperMode Superstar]]" personas for each character's face and heel modes. Unfortunately, it featured no storyline mode at all, and an incredibly labyrinthine and time-consuming method of unlocking characters and rewards. Additionally, the extras like Queens Mode, Street Fight, the shoddy create-a-wrestler system and the playable bear proved very unpopular overseas. While ''Rumble Roses'' is generally considered to be a decent game, ''Rumble Roses XX'' was enough of a flop that it seems to have [[FranchiseKiller brought the series to an end]]. The series fell into obscurity with the closest to a revival being Reiko making a playable cameo in ''Super VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} R''. Additionally, there's also a Japan-only slot machine game titled ''Rumble Roses 3D''.

* GameMod: There's a fan-made ISO for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 version that removes the severely limiting Face/Heel restriction and lets you use both versions of every character in all match types.

* ObviousBeta:
** In the North American version of the game, some "submission holds" aren't completed, and simply end rather than go into the usual submission hold minigame. This is a holdover from early games in the ''WWF [=SmackDown=]!'' series, where submission holds were just a "[=will they tap yes/no?=]" situation instead of having a minigame to escape them. Holds that had been in the ''[=SmackDown!=]'' series longer were less likely to have been updated into actual submission holds, while the newer ones and the ones programmed specifically for ''Rumble Roses'' worked properly.
** ''Rumble Roses'' had a couple of really blatant [[AIIsACrapShoot flaws in the AI]] ("ignore the running opponent", "continually go for pins in submission-only matches" and the usual "just doesn't work right outside the ring"), one ''completely finished'' ring that just wasn't included in the final version along with a couple partly-finished ones, a match type that wasn't actually selectable (although you could configure the rules to get the same thing).
** Dixie's swimsuit character model had a glaring mesh error on her right hand.
** ''Rumble Roses XX''[='=]s labyrinthine unlocking system is believed to be the result of inadequate playtesting.
** Some girls didn't receive a partner and official teams have unique tag moves. Two such girls who didn't get an official partner are Becky and Yasha, while they are not a real team they have a double X attack but using them together makes one of the turnbuckles make the victim act oddly when thrown into it for some reason.

In 2004, Creator/{{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 Creator/{{THQ}}, the holder of the Wrestling/{{WWE}} license. However, to the surprise of many, Konami announced that this game would feature an all female cast. The end result was a big {{fanservice}} extravaganza, with 10 ladies (each with her own {{face}} and {{heel}} persona) wearing quite [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches.

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!!Tropes that are present in the games:

* AwesomeButImpractical: 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. Others such as Yasha's literally requires nameless ninja women to die as part of it.

* ArtificalStupidity: The CPU pays no attention to actual win conditions, and will keep going in for the pin even in an H-KO only match where pinfalls don't count. Because of this, H-KO matches against the AI are a lot harder to lose since it doesn't think to prioritize filling up the opponent's humiliation meter the way a human player would.

* BoobsOfSteel: Dixie Clemets is the wrestler with the most power-based moves in her arsenal, and one of the bustiest as well. 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).

* WorkingTitle: Was originally announced as ''WWX: Rumble Rose.'' A single announcement trailer was released with this name before it was changed to its current title. The initial trailer was even RE-released with this new title.

* BareYourMidriff: Characters NOT doing this are the exception.
** Even Sebastian, the only male character, does this.

* LongHairIsFeminine: Mostly averted, most of the girls have short hair even the girly girls tend to have shorter hair with the longest hair not being much longer than shoulder length. Some girls that have girly hair styles like Becky/Candy Cane have Pigtails which are not that long. The few girls who do have longer hair (Aigle, Ms. Spencer) have it either braided or done up so as to keep it out of the way-- a sensible choice for wrestling and grappling.