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Chimera Beast is an unreleased coin-operated [[Arcade Game]] made by Jaleco in 1993. It is a scrolling [[Shoot'Em Up]] with [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter|primarily horizontal movement]].
Chimera Beast takes place on a planet which is described as distant and Earth-like. The planet is overrun by animals known as [[Horde of Alien Locusts|eaters]], capable of eating other [[Mega Manning|creatures and acquiring their abilities or characteristics]]. The [[Villain Protagonist|player controls one of these eaters]] and progresses through the game by means of evolution, consuming microscopic organisms in the first stage, fish in the second, and so on. When the player's creature gets big enough to take on humanity, the goal of the game is revealed. The planet's humans have developed space travel, which the player must thwart, so as not to give the eaters a means of escaping the planet. There are two possible endings: one in which the player is able to stop the eaters from escaping the planet, and one in which the eaters do escape and, we are told, will [[The End of the World
The chief innovation of Chimera Beast is its power-up system. Instead of collecting gun upgrades as in most games of this genre, the player's eater enhances itself by [[Mega Manning|eating other creatures and assuming their abilities and defenses]]. Instead of simply having various types of projectile weaponry, the game attempts to make these new abilities as varied as possible. Consuming a crustacean might give the player's eater a hard protective shell, for example, while an insectoid creature might offer a poisonous tail instead. The game even includes the ability to use cancer as a weapon.
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* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Averted. Your eater becomes small and scrawny if it takes too much damage, and a few more hits from enemies will kill it.
* [[Dual Boss]]: The first boss of the "Microbes" stage are a pair of lamprey-like organisms.
* [[Everything's Squishier
* [[Evil Is Visceral]]: [[Villain Protagonist|Your character]], who looks like a mass of flesh if anything.
* [[Extra Eyes]]: Some of the enemies have this characteristic, even creatures like jellyfish. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], because the game takes place on a distant planet from Earth.
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