History VideoGame / DisasterReport

''Disaster Report'' is a 2002 survival "horror" game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, the beginning of a series known in Japan as ''VideoGame/ZettaiZetsumeiToshi'' (''The Desperated City''). It's unique in that it nixes the monsters and blood for an earthquake scenario, thus, helping establish the Disaster Survival subgenre. The game has several quirks that make it seem more like an experimental [=PS1=] game than a typical [=PS2=] title of the time. The thing just screams budget issues, with cheap sound effects, unintentionally campy voice acting, mediocre graphics, etc. Also had an amount of westernization and cultural censorship that seems strange by today's standards, for example, a handful of characters had their hair dyed blond for the sole purpose of looking white.

* {{Irony}}: ''Raw Danger'' has Paige helping Emily, a girl who mercilessly bullied her. Should she choose to anyway. Also, if she chooses, she can [[TheDogBitesBack get back at her in some ways.]] like saying that Paige will help Emily if she apologizes for the bullying. Or even make fun of her.

* SadisticChoice: Paige can pull this with Emily when they are almost to the roof, and the stairs will collapse. Emily will hold on to the edge begging Paige to help her, you can help her without hesitation, or make fun of her some more. (Though doing this too much will result [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment in Paige falling to her death after another tremor]].) or Paige can choose to [[LeftForDead leave Emily to her fate and save herself.]]

** Also as Paige, when Emily, the girl who bullied her is hurt and begs Paige to help her, Paige can choose to get even with Emily by making fun of her, or make her apologize for Emily's treatment of her to get help from her.

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Raw Danger!''

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Your characters can find backpacks with varying amounts of space inside, and you'll have to decide what's most valuable to fill them with
* Irony: Raw Danger has Paige helping Emily, a girl who mercilessly bullied her. Should she choose to anyway. Also, if she chooses, she can [[TheDogBitesBack get back at her in some ways.]] like saying that Paige will help Emily if she apologizes for the bullying. Or even make fun of her.

* VendorTrash: Every item you can pick up in the game is useful. However, it's possible to pick up items that ''were'' useful earlier, and now have no purpose at all, or items that ''haven't'' been useful, and won't be for a very long time. They exist only to take up space in your backpack.

* BigBad: The mastermind behind the natural disasters threatening Stiver Island is [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Albert Sims]], director of the Land Development Department that made the island and is being paid by an unknown client to destroy it]].

The story concerns Keith Helm, a newspaper reporter who while commuting to work on Stiver Island, a deadly Earthquake hits. Stranded on the island, he teams up with a girl and together they explore the wreckage to find supplies and a way to be rescued. Over the course of the game, it is revealed that not everything is the way it seems.

* AdultFear: Kelly is worried about her younger brother's whereabouts on the island after the earthquake hits. [[spoiler: Thankfully, he turns out to be alive and well.]]