History VideoGame / DarkFall

* CreepyChild: Timothy Pike, though he's also really friendly
** Amy Haven, from ''Dark Fall: Lost Souls'', takes CreepyChild up to eleven.
** Quite a few ghostly children haunt Harwood House and the grounds around it, but the Crying Boy is [[ManOnFire the most alarming]]. Also a little ''creep'', no "y" attached.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Gloria Grable's version in ''Journal'' showed no indications of being anything more than [[spoiler: a greed-driven criminal]], but in ''Light's Out'', it's strongly hinted that [spoiler: the bank she and her lover robbed was run by Nazi collaborators, and the robbery was covertly green-lit by British Intelligence to acquire proof of this.]]

* ItsUpToYou: In every game, you're pretty much working solo to resolve the situations you find yourself in, although a ghost will occasionally offer a bit of advice or an item in ''Journal'' and ''Ghost Vigil''. In ''Lost Souls'', Echo provides a hint between the taunts once in a while, [[spoiler: although even then, it's still ''you'', as Echo is the Inspector's conscience]].

%%* LighthousePoint: Fetch Rock

** In an in-Verse example, the Shangri-La staff don't seem to know whether the youngest girl's name is Louise or Louisa, using either or both spellings in documents scattered around Harwood House. [[spoiler: This ambivalence as to her name's form makes one of the game's puzzles harder, as deducing the girl's country-of-origin is part of the challenge.]]

** Loads of mid-80s pop culture memorabilia lie scattered among the debris at Harwood House, from Colin Baker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' postcards to magazine covers of Music/TheEurythmics to scrapbooks of Olympic soccer stars.

* NoOshaCompliance: Even if you discount the haunting, Shangri-La doesn't seem to have been a very safe place for children. Pupils were expected to perform their Astronomy schoolwork on a portico roof without railings, and an asbestos-contaminated room was used as a ''nursery''.

* NoOshaCompliance: Even before some of its stairways collapsed, Shangri-La doesn't seem to have been a very safe place for children, haunting or no haunting. Pupils were expected to perform their Astronomy schoolwork on a portico roof without railings, and an asbestos-contaminated room was used as a ''nursery''.

* ApocalypticLog: George's notes in ''Journal'', the head lighthouse-keeper's diary in ''Light's Out'', and Thomas's various writings in ''Ghost Vigil''.

%%* UltimateEvil: [[spoiler:The Dark Fall itself]]

** Amy Haven, from ''Dark Fall: Lost Souls'', takes CreepyChild UpToEleven.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Some details of your character in ''The Journal'' are implied (rough age, last name, etc..), but most of his or her identity is left vague. The nameless Inspector of ''Lost Souls'' has a voice and history, but you have to work fairly hard to learn about the latter. Averted in ''Lights Out'', where your character's identity is about the ''only'' thing you can be certain of at the start. Played straight in ''Ghost Vigil'', in which your fellow ghost-hunters address you as "you" and refer to your character simply as "the newbie".

* LighthousePoint: Fetch Rock
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Betty

* MindScrew
* MisfortuneCookie

* UltimateEvil: [[spoiler:The Dark Fall itself]]

* UrbanLegends
* VaderBreath

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Mr. Bones speaks in a distorted Malakai-esque voice, for no explained reason.

* NoOntologicalInertia: ''Journal'': [[spoiler: The final cinematic vaguely suggests that defeating the Dark Fall undid ''everything'' it ever did over the centuries. Some of the ghosts even spell it out:]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Matilda Fly''': I can feel the change!]]

* PayPhone:
** In ''The Journal'', You can use a candlestick-type phone in the train station's lobby to contact Nigel Danvers, who gives you instructions on how to get into his hotel room.
** ''Lost Souls'' reworks it to a rotary phone design in the same area, and the Inspector has to call the hotel in order to enter it.

* AdultFear: The Matron and senior nurse at Shangri-La both denied the existence of the supernatural, yet definitely ''were'' fearful for their charges' welfare, due to unexplained injuries and the trauma of [[spoiler: Ollie's, Thomas's, and Lizzie's deaths]].

* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In ''Lost Souls'', Amy sometimes hums a higher-pitched version of ''The Journal's'' theme, also heard from a music box later on.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In ''Lost Souls'', Amy sometimes hums a higher-pitched version of ''The Journal's'' theme, also heard from a music box later on.
** The same tune is used in a musical puzzle in ''Ghost Vigil''.