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Among the many battle techniques employed by characters in Problem Sleuth are especially powerful attacks which can only be activated after a certain amount of damage is sustained. Making use of the communal forcesPS icon between heroes and their female alter egos, when one character takes damage the gauge for their counterpart of the opposite sex fills up, and vice versa. Each gauge is looked over by a bird which also taps into these communal forces, flipping outPS icon when their associated heroes are disturbed.

Each of these attacks is only used once in the events of Problem Sleuth.

Concept and creation[]

Attacks which charge by taking damage are similar to the Limit Break ability from the Final Fantasy series of RPGs, which the Charm Break is seemingly named for. Similarly, the Ostentation Drive shares the word 'drive' with various iconic Final Fantasy attacks, such as Meteodrive or Revolver Drive, seemingly derived from 'overdrive'. These attacks also all incorporate a fanciful collective name for that kind of bird: a charm being one name for a group of magpies, an ostentation a group of peacocks, and so forth.

Problem Sleuth and the Hysterical Dame[]

Clemency owl
Empathy magpie

Damage takenPS icon by the Hysterical Dame causes Problem Sleuth's Clemency OwlPS icon to hoot emphatically. The resulting Parliament Uproar! is PS' Trusty KnivesPS icon, which he rather unceremoniously and brutally throws into his opponent.

HD's Empathy MagpiePS icon, meanwhile, flaps harder when PS takes damage,PS icon which has the bonus effect of rousing HD from unconsciousness if she has previously been knocked out.PS icon When filled, HD can use the Charm Break! Kiss of Death,PS icon which combines the functionality of both her lipstick and chainsaw at the same time, culminating in a similarly brutalPS icon chainsaw attack directly into the face - the so-called deadly kiss. While the main purpose of PS' attack is seemingly violence for violence's sake, the Kiss of Death is momentarily responsible for taking the Mobster Kingpin out of the equation: only through Death's negligencePS icon is MK able to survive such a fatal blow.

Ace Dicks[]

Rapport peacock

Lacking a true alter ego, all three instances of Ace Dick share Rapport PeacocksPS icon which squawk when any of the three bear the brunt of some damage. The resulting Ostentation Drive! is an improved form of signature move called Double Truffle Shuffle Trouble,PS icon which as its name suggests combines the hefty power of two Dicks at once. Being a dance-based attack, it lacks the ultraviolence of PS and HD's attacks - rather, it simply disintegrates the target wholesale.PS icon

Pickle Inspector and the Nervous Broad[]

Affinity crow

When the Pickle Inspector takes damage, the Affinity CrowPS icon responds by flapping frantically. This fills the Murder Flux! gauge, giving NB access to a Nervous Breakdown,PS icon in which she simultaneously consoles herself with a teddy bear and console[s] everyone down with [her] with a knife. Though it is brutally effective, the wild knife swinging can result in some friendly fire.PS icon

Despite the name of the Murder Flux!, it seemingly has no connection to the status of NB's nerves.PS icon However, the exertion of using the attack did result in an improvement to one of her Nervetechs, improving Case of the Vapors from LV. 3 to LV. 8.

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