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{{quote|''[[Memetic Mutation|''WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!'']]''|What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. <ref>[[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!]]</ref>.}}
{{quote|''[[Mondegreen|''WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!'']]''|What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. <ref>[[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!]]</ref>.}}


A [[Beat'Em Up]] by Sega, appearing at the arcades in the late 1980's, and later ported to home consoles like the [[Sega Master System]] and [[Sega Genesis]]. Two pseudo-sequels were made, one for the [[Game Boy Advance]] titled ''Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms'', and a [[PlayStation 2]] sequel titled ''Project Altered Beast'' (which was released in Japan and Europe, [[No Export for You|but not in America]]). The main gimmick is that your character can turn into various humanoid monsters, like werewolves and dragons.
A [[Beat'Em Up]] by Sega, appearing at the arcades in the late 1980's, and later ported to home consoles like the [[Sega Master System]] and [[Sega Genesis]]. Two pseudo-sequels were made, one for the [[Game Boy Advance]] titled ''Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms'', and a [[PlayStation 2]] sequel titled ''Project Altered Beast'' (which was released in Japan and Europe, [[No Export for You|but not in America]]). The main gimmick is that your character can turn into various humanoid monsters, like werewolves and dragons.
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Story-wise, the original game has [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]]' daughter Athena being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Neff and two centurions being [[First-Episode Resurrection|resurrected]] to rescue her.
Story-wise, the original game has [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]]' daughter Athena being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Neff and two centurions being [[First-Episode Resurrection|resurrected]] to rescue her.


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In ''Project Altered Beast'' the story follows a man called Luke Custer who is a [[Super Soldier|"Genome-Cyborg"]], [[Bio Augmentation|a human whose DNA and other genetic make-up has been artificially altered]] allowing [[Lego Genetics|micro-chips containing the genetic make-up of other creatures]] to [[Shapeshifting|transform]] him into an [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|anthropomorphic beast]]. After surviving a [[Hellish Copter|helicopter crash]], Luke [[Amnesiac Dissonance|loses his memory]] and sets off to learn about the truth behind his past and the Genome-Cyborgs.
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=== Altered Beast uses the following tropes: ===
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The NES version adds a werelion, wereshark, and werebird, and the GBA game adds power-ups and beasts.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The NES version adds a werelion, wereshark, and werebird, and the GBA game adds power-ups and beasts.
* [[Animorphism]]
* [[Animorphism]]
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** Technically, levels 4 and 5 are also underground. The centurions are traveling to the ''underworld'', after all.
** Technically, levels 4 and 5 are also underground. The centurions are traveling to the ''underworld'', after all.
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The orbs that pop out of the blue wolves when you kill them.
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The orbs that pop out of the blue wolves when you kill them.
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== The [[PlayStation 2]] game ''(Project) Altered Beast'' has examples of these tropes: ==
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: This is Luke's specialty. He can equip different types of Genome Chips and transform into the beast most suited to deal with the current situation.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The [[Humanoid Alien|U.W.H. (Unidentified Weightless Human)]] twenty-hit combo. On the plus side, it can [[One-Hit Kill|kill any enemy]] except bosses. On the negative side, it requires [[Some Dexterity Required|memorizing a twenty button sequence, good timing]] and it only targets one enemy at time; in a game where monsters love to swarm you. Nonetheless, it's still necessary to defeat one of the [[Metal Slime|rare enemies]].
* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: The Balrog.
* [[Body Horror]]: The transformation cutscenes. They're all quite detailed and [[Painful Transformation|painful looking]].
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: The Weretiger form. Unlocked after obtainning every single Enemy, Beast, Boss and Unique data...which leaves nothing else to do.
* [[Cannibalism Superpower]]: {{spoiler|Anastasia}}.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Giant Spider]]: Xenesthis.
* [[In Name Only]]: The only relation with the original is the fact that the protagonist becomes beasts, one of which is a werewolf [[Mythology Gag|(with the weretiger and werebear as unlockables)]]. It is in a modern setting, with the transformations being caused by genetic experiments.
* [[Monster Compendium]]: Aside from the [[Flavor Text]], it also includes a small detail of the elemental tolerances and the option of looking at the monster's 3D model from different angles.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Anastasia.
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr. Eric Jobs]] quickly forgets about his previous subjects once he starts working on a new one. This gets to the point it becomes the cause of {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Anastasia]]'s Start of Darkness}}.
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: The Leviathan.
* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: There are 3 of these', first is a flashback sequence showing a fight between {{spoiler|Luke and Brad}} shown upon getting the Minotaur form, the second is an actual playable fight against {{spoiler|Brad}} and the third is against {{spoiler|Anastasia}}
* [[Super Soldier]]: the "Genome Cyborgs".
* [[The Virus]]: the "Genome Mist".


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Revision as of 16:52, 23 June 2017
WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!
—What "Rise from your grave" sounds like. [1].

A Beat'Em Up by Sega, appearing at the arcades in the late 1980's, and later ported to home consoles like the Sega Master System and Sega Genesis. Two pseudo-sequels were made, one for the Game Boy Advance titled Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms, and a PlayStation 2 sequel titled Project Altered Beast (which was released in Japan and Europe, but not in America). The main gimmick is that your character can turn into various humanoid monsters, like werewolves and dragons.

Interestingly enough, the first game of this series is considered by many as a cult-classic game and an average game at the same time. The reason is because the Sega Genesis port was extremely similar to the arcade version in gameplay, sounds and even graphics[2]. This doesn't sound awesome nowadays (we even have a trope called Porting Distillation), but don't forget we are talking about the late 80's, ports were either terrible, different or simpler games.

Story-wise, the original game has Zeus' daughter Athena being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Neff and two centurions being resurrected to rescue her.

Tropes used in Altered Beast include:

Neff: WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!

  1. ↑ Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!
  2. ↑ although hardware limitations prevented the inclusion of the rather impressive (for the time) scaling effects sequences seen on the arcade original
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