Corrupt Corporate Executive: The protagonist soon has to resort to this in order to quickly save his business.However, they are dreadfully easy to break out of. Cardboard Prison: Some stores try to drop the person shaking them down into a "Loss Prevention Holding Unit" after they attempt their shakedown.Capitalism Is Bad: The game is not subtle at all about how this is its main message, being about every single dirty, underhanded, and predatory trick modern Mega Corps use to skirt around the law and government regulations, making their products worse to cut costs while also inflating prices, creating monopolies, and generally conning and fleecing their customers.The last you see of him is escaping Hawaii as a wanted criminal. First he was roped into faking gameplay video to promote "Gamer Cola" and then after having a rather stable shift job, got roped into doing crime with Scooter and Al for "publicity". Butt-Monkey: "Chad" AKA "MC Balm Drop" is this to highly exaggerated levels.Some cashiers will fight you head-on during Shakedowns.Some civilians will retaliate with handguns or baseball bats if you attack them. And Now for Someone Completely Different: The game will occasionally switch characters to focus on The CEO's attempt to rebuild his company, his son Scooter's GTA-esque street crime levels and Al, the "consultant" used to settle affairs overseas whose stages are purely combat oriented.Anachronism Stew: See Retro Universe below.Taking place 30 years after Retro City Rampage, it stars an old, overweight (soon to be) Corrupt Corporate Executive in a quest to save his floundering company via crooked business practices aided by his son and his hired gun, in 16-bit graphics and Synthwave soundtrack. The game uses same gameplay and graphic style as its predecessor (though where Retro City aimed for an 8-bit aesthetic, Shakedown tries to emulate the games of the 16-bit era), but the story this time leans less towards parody, and more heavily towards satire. And yes, you really are reading these last two consoles and dates correctly. It was released on May 7th, 2019 for Microsoft Windows on Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, Play Station Vita, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch, followed by ports on July 9th, 2020 for the Wii and August 2020 for the Wii U (along with a Windows release via Steam). Shakedown: Hawaii, developed by Canadian studio Vblank Entertainment, is the spiritual sequel to Retro City Rampage.
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