Pop'n Music: Dingomi's Fray! is a 2D beat-em-up/open-world game idea by Travis4205, based on Pop'n Music Lapistoria, released for PC, it tries to Emulate the gameplay of the One Piece platformer made by Dimps.
Premise[]
enter Dingomi Sasaki, a female Dingo who is a recently moved to Lapistoria.
Characters (and the fan-casting)[]
- Dingomi Sasaki - Coleen Clinkenbeard (English) Ayaka Fukuhara (Japanese)
- Nyami - Diana Garnet (English, Reprising her role from Super Bomberman R, this time without the robotic effects) Marina Goto (Japanese)
- Mimi - Tomomi Shimada (English, reprising her role from Super Bomberman R, this time without the robotic effects) Rie Murakawa (Japanese)
- Kurumi - Angie Beers (English)
Tropes[]
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- The player can choose to unlock Mimi or Nyami at the very beginning in case the Pop'n Music veteran is unfamiliar with Dingomi.
- If you're playing as Kurumi and you manage to bring a boss into it's second phase while she's on low health, her lapis will give her a free small heal.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Dingomi's Telekinesis, while Dingomi can drag enemies/bosses around and deal a devastating amount of damage, but she can only control one enemy, and is left vunerable, and some bosses are even immune to this! (Poet and Jade for example, although the former isn't immune when playing on Normal or easier), it's also VERY power-consuming, each second using Telekinesis uses one whole bar.
- 1-Up: these are rare items, depending on character, for Dingomi, it's her cap, Mimi's 1-Up is her bow, Nyami's 1-Up is her necktie, and Kurumi's 1-Up is her pearl necklace, the item also changes accordingly when switching untagged characters, there is a setting to switch to change to a smaller model of the character in the style of the first Pop'n Music game, or the Lapistoria plushies, on top of the default cap/bow/necktie/necklace item.
- Adaptational Badass: The lapis where it's just a story element in Pop'n Music Lapistoria, here, they have an ACTUAL purpose here. (Like Dingomi's Gravity Manipulation from her black lapis and Kurumi's healing abilities from her green lapis for example)
- Duel Boss: the first mini-boss Dingomi can fight is two of the catgirl hencemen of the Moon Man (neither of them being Nyami)
- Emergency Energy Tank: at the small cost of three power bars (two if your using it on Kurumi herself), Kurumi can use her lapis to heal you to your maximum health.
- Expressive Health Bar: Dingomi and her friends when you're playing as them, has their portrait next to the health bar, that changes depending on situation, Dingomi for example, is having her usual cocky smirk at high health that diminishes into an annoyed expression once below half, and finally into an extremely tired expression when it gets so low, changing into a very weak expression that is similar to Kindom Hearts when she runs out of health
- Game Over Man: Depending on who you died as, either a Tired Dingomi, a Crying Mimi, a Dizzy Nyami, or an Angered Kurumi appears on the continue screen everytime you die, a la One Piece for GBA.
- Last-Chance Hit Point: Dingomi has this to compensate from being the one that takes the most damage.
- Limit Break: Dingomi and her friends all have three each (one for the Lapis the character is holding, two for others).
- Mind Over Matter: The Limit Break of Dingomi's lapis.
- Multiple Health Bars:
- Dingomi initially only has one whole bar, but she can upgrade her max health, if it does, there will be a green layer above it, gradually turning blue if the green health bar is above 50%.
- Jadeite had FIVE OF THEM
- One-Hit-Kill: the bomberman bombs instantly kills you if you're playing as Mimi or Nyami, likely because of the reference of being playable on Super Bomberman R, Kurumi (because she receives the most damage) instantly dies unless her health is upgraded enough times, while Dingomi (at full health and no maximum health upgrades) gets reduced to 1hp.
- Parrying Bullets: Dingomi's Deflect Kick.
- Shock-And-Awe: Nyami's Lapis posesses this.
- Tag-Team: Possible with either Mimi, Nyami or Kurumi being the other teammate, at the cost of both taking double the damage.
- The Bus Came Back
- Kurumi is the BIGGEST example for this game.
- Poet, who originally didn't appear in Lapistoria, is an additional boss (and a friendly NPC if you don't challenge her to a fight) in this fangame, she appears with the same outfit as she did in Pop'n Music Sunny Park.
- Timer (Nyami's boyfriend) makes a small cameo.
- RIE-Chan and Sanae-Chan make cameos, either just standing there at school in their uniform, or wearing some casual wear while walking in the mall.
- Wall Jump: Thanks to the power of Dingomi's Lapis (Gravity Manipulation), Dingomi can wall jump like Mega Man X, Mimi, Nyami and Kurumi all still has the ability to Wall Jump, albeit they can only wall jump the traditional way.