Douggle Unlimited

Douggle Unlimited is an Action RPG/Adventure game developed by DOUG STUDIO and released in 2014 exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It is the 3rd game in the Douggle series and known as the game that introduced the now-iconic location of Sacramento to the series.

Gameplay
Douggle Unlimited plays a lot like the previous games, but with some changes. Generally, enemies are more numerous and weaker compared to the fewer stronger enemies of the first two titles. As well as this, Dougie's attacks are faster and cover a wider area.

New to this game is Unlimit Mode. Unlimit Mode can be activated when the Unlimit Bar is full. When activated, Dougie's attacks are even faster, do more damage, slightly 'drift' towards groups of enemies, and launch enemies hit (which in turn damage other enemies they collide with). The Unlimit Bar is filled by defeating enemies and taking damage as well as slowly filling automatically when Dougie has less than 25% health remaining.

Finally, in place of a Continuation Finisher the player can now press roll to perform a Super Evade. This was introduced as playtesters claimed they felt 'trapped' by the now-far-more-numerous enemies in combat.

Story
Douggle Unlimited is split into 9 chapters across two four-chapter parts (excluding the final chapter, which is in its own one-chapter part).

Part 1 - Dougtopia Falls
Dougie D. Wabblo, last seen declaring himself leader of the Italian Mafia's Berlin branch, wakes up under rubble surrounded by an ongoing battle. He looks around for a few moments before passing out again.

Eight hours earlier, Dougie is well off with his Dougtopian German Italian Crime Money™. He is browsing Amazon for a celebratory bunny suit when his underboss, Big Alberto, walks in with a stack of paper. He places the paper in front of Dougie as it is shown to be hastily-photocopied documentation of evidence held by the police. Alberto explains that the Swiss Mafia in Berlin have managed to pin every single one of their crimes in the past six years on Dougie's Dougtopian German Italian Mafia. As the two decide to go ask the enemy some questions, the building is hit with a poorly-planned Swiss Mafia raid.

Dougie, Alberto, and the present Dougtopian German Italian Mafia members successfully take down most of the attackers. As the rest attempt to flee, one slips on some Dougtopian beer spilled in the battle. Dougie moves to question him, but the man is shot before he can explain why the Swiss Mafia are targeting Dougie's gang. Alberto searches his pockets and finds a note with a lock combination on it, which the two assume is for the Swiss Mafia's hideout's door. They head to the hideout, but on the way learn that they are now wanted for Literally Everything™ because German police are too good at their jobs.

After unsuccessfully evading (and subsequently fighting off) the police, Dougie and Alberto arrive at the Swiss Mafia hideout. The code doesn't work. After about 20 minutes of discussing their next move, the two realise the door wasn't locked when a Swiss Mafia soldier walks out for a smoke. Dougie knocks the soldier out, but his head hits the door buzzer and alerts the rest of the occupants to their presence. Dougie and Alberto fight through the hideout, eventually coming to a large workshop with walls covered in photos of the moon. At this moment, Eric Grillo enters. Dougie has no idea who this guy is but Alberto quickly recognises him as the big bossman of the entire Swiss mafia. They fight, with Grillo ending up defeated. Grillo gives a short speech about the "limits of humanity" before admitting he wasn't meant to let anyone see the current room and pulling out a grenade. Alberto attempts to take it from him, but it explodes killing both in the process. Dougie stares in disbelief at what just happened for a few moments before hearing sirens nearby. He decides to grab a nearby booklet from a workdesk and leave before the police arrive.

Later, back at his own hideout, Dougie is struggling after the abrupt death of his best guy. They weren't amazing friends or anything but Alberto was like super good at his job. He decides to try to watch tv, but almost every channel is news about his own false accusations or some conspiracy theory about the moon. Suddenly he gets a text from an unknown number warning him to get out of Berlin when possible, followed by a set of geographic coordinates. He puts the phone away and decides to get a drink, as today has been too much. He goes to his favourite pizza place and orders his usual - a half pint of olive oil. An unknown amount of time passes before Dougie, in a moment of boredom, checks social media only to see Dougtopia trending. He taps for more information and is met with photographs of a full-on war in streets only a few hundred meters away. Suddenly, he is interrupted by a soldier with a sword bursting into the building and IMMEDIATELY calling in backup at the sight of Dougie. In response Dougie fights through the soldiers to get back home, but as soon as he steps inside the roof caves in.

Part 2 - Welcome to Sacramento
Dougie wakes up again after passing out before the flashback. He leaves the building to find the entirety of the surrounding area destroyed. To try and find out more about what happened, he checks his phone and sees the extent of the damage. Most of Germany is destroyed, there's apparently a new crater on the moon, and the entirety of Dougtopia is now under control of Chatlantis, who have soldiers patrolling what remains of Berlin (which Dougie sees upon looking up from his phone). He finds the nearest working car, steals it, googles the nearest intact airport, and drives there.

The coordinates received in the mysterious text earlier in the day lead to Sacramento, a major town under Chatlantis control. Dougie gets a flight there and checks into his hotel. Hungry, he chooses to look for a local restaurant but ends up walking in on a gang-run execution. The gang ignore their original victim and attempt to kill Dougie but fail as he frees the captive. The victim introduces himself as Drimm Kedi and the two head to a nearby restaurant, avoiding the local gang in the process.

After a lengthy chat in the restautant, Dougie and Drimm decide it's not worth avoiding the gang when they can just beat their asses instead. Dougie asks Drimm if he knows if Sacramento has anything to do with the destruction of Dougtopia, which he responds to with a surprising amount of information. The destruction of Dougtopia, something long thought way beyond human limits, was something planned by the soon-to-be-elected mayoral candidate, Larry Jervis. Jervis wanted to prove he was "above the human (he) was running against", and destroyed Dougtopia out of nowhere. Dougie and Drimm head to Jervis' office to interrogate him, but are met with many of the same soldiers Dougie ran into in Berlin. After fighting their way to the office, Dougie is shot by Jervis. Drimm quickly knocks him out and performs first aid on Dougie, who says he just needs some oil.

Back at Dougie's hotel room, he and Drimm have Jervis tied to a chair and ask how he destroyed Dougtopia. In response, he asks how they got him to the hotel room without being questioned (Dougie and Drimm both have no idea, they just dragged him and it worked). Jervis admits that he used some in-development equipment held at the Sacramento Space Centre. Before he can say any more, his soldiers knock down the hotel room door and Drimm remarks that they maybe should've tried to hide Jervis in transport. After beating the soldiers, they leave Jervis there and head to the space centre which is full of more soldiers (wow!). The duo fight off most of them, then decide to hide once APCs turn up outside. They lock themselves in a room with a large machine in the middle, which Dougie feels might be what Jervis referred to. He starts reading a nearby manual which describes it as the Unlimited Artillery Device, a machine that remotely detaches chunks of the moon to act as a form of orbital bombardment. Drimm states that all manuals were supposed to be hidden before they got here, then strikes Dougie in the back of the head.

Dougie wakes up in a prison cell, having been betrayed by Drimm. He convinces a guard to unlock the door to bring him a bottle of olive oil, then steals his baton and makes his escape (reclaiming his clothes and phone in the process). Taking a few steps outside, he regains signal and gets a lot of notifications at once as his phone almost vibrates out of his pocket. He takes it out to check and it's every news site reporting the same thing: A man has captured a piece of military-secret technology and is using it to hold Sacramento itself ransom from the roof of the Sacramento Space Centre. Dougie recognises it immediately as Drimm and starts walking to the space centre.

Part 3 - Unlimited
Dougie reaches the space centre only to find it crawling with Swiss Mafia. Hew attempts to fight his way through all of them but struggles after accidentally alerting a warehouse full of 30 men. After some unsafe forklift usage, he escapes and starts to ascend the roof access stairwell.

Reaching the roof, Dougie is congratulated by Drimm on "slaughtering them just like last time". Dougie remarks that he doesn't think anyone died downstairs, but before he can continue Drimm interrupts. He reveals his true name as Detlef Simons, the brother of Pierre Simons (the Swiss politician killed by Dougie in Douggle 2). Dougie tries to explain how it was an accident, but Detlef doesn't listen and turns on the machine, stating they have about five minutes until a moon chunk starts falling to their position. He explains that his own survival and the preservation of the machine are worth losing just to kill Dougie, and the two fight each other.

As Detlef falls to his knees, Dougie walks over to the machine and turns it off. Only then does he realise the many (MANY) police officers surrounding the building. Detlef attacks from behind while Dougie was distracted, but ends up thrown off the roof to his presumed death. Dougie rightfully decides there's no way to avoid the police from here, and realises he's lost everything anyway. He lies down to rest and waits for whatever happens to happen.

Three months later, the election results come in. Jervis did not win. The new Mayor of Sacramento is revealed to be Dougie, who was found by the courts to be an innocent victim of Detlef's trickery and considered by the people to be essentially the saviour of their city. The office of Mayor Dougie is shown as he receives a phone call of only three words: "Dingus is Coming".

Trivia

 * Dingus Bobingus, the main villain of parts 1 and 2 of Douggle Unlimited 2, was originally intended to appear in Douggle Unlimited but DOUG STUDIO couldn't get his usage rights in time and had to rewrite a lot of the story. Many of the scrapped Douggle Unlimited story is repurposed in Douggle Unlimited 2, though a lot is also newly-written to follow on from the new ending of Douggle Unlimited.
 * This is the first game in the series to not feature Douggle 1's main location, Luxembourg.