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''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going by the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a ''lot'' of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, currently at version 0.17, with "lol" being known only by a few site accounts listed below. As of 0.10 and onwards, the game now has a proper endgame/final chapter and multiple endings, though the "multiple" status is of some debate.
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''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going by the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a ''lot'' of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, currently at version 0.17, 18, with "lol" being known only by a few site accounts listed below. As of 0.10 and onwards, the game now has a proper endgame/final chapter and multiple endings, though the "multiple" status is of some debate.
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''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going by the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a ''lot'' of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, currently at version 0.17, with "lol" being known only by a few site accounts listed below. As of 0.10 and onwards, the game now has a proper endgame or final chapter, as well as three endings, both of which increase in length as one continues to explore through the game.
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''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going by the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a ''lot'' of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, currently at version 0.17, with "lol" being known only by a few site accounts listed below. As of 0.10 and onwards, the game now has a proper endgame or final chapter, as well as three endgame/final chapter and multiple endings, both of which increase in length as one continues to explore through though the game.
"multiple" status is of some debate.
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** The Broom event is a direct homage to ''[[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]''[='=]s Witch event, and Studio Ghibli's ''Kiki's Delivery Service.''
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** The Broom event is a direct homage to ''[[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]''[='=]s ''YumeNikki''[='=]s Witch event, and Studio Ghibli's ''Kiki's Delivery Service.''
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** A minor one in an empty room of the Apartments: wandering around inside has a random chance to make one of those cute, orange blobs fall from the ceiling. The "scare" comes from how the blob appears very suddenly and out of nowhere.
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* DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to speculation, though, the [[spoiler:True Ending (Oxidation, as its called)]] is interpreted as the "happy" one, so that one could be a {{Bittersweet Ending}}.
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* DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to speculation, though, However, given the [[spoiler:True Ending (Oxidation, as its called)]] is interpreted as events of the "happy" one, so that one could be final ending, some have come to interpret it as a {{Bittersweet Ending}}.BittersweetEnding.
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* MoneyForNothing: Averted, unlike ''YumeNikki'': you get money from a random chance when killing [=NPCs=] - always 100 at a time - and the money can be spent at the Sugar Hole, either 100 for a drink or 300 for tea and cake. You have to buy tea and cake three times over separate sessions to obtain the Sugar Menu type, and as of v.018 a previously inaccessible event can be unlocked by buying tea and cake up to 10 times, and interacting with one of the gas-mask maids at least once during the current session.
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An English translation of the latest version, 0.17, can be found [[http://www.mediafire.com/download/ylxc48yy6nod8bp/flow0.17_eng.rar here]]. Various other versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]]. The author, lol, has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
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An English translation of the latest version, 0.17, 18, can be found [[http://www.mediafire.com/download/ylxc48yy6nod8bp/flow0.17_eng.com/download/d3o9n0kkrnhvzyc/.flow_v.0.18_eng.rar here]]. Various other versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]]. The author, lol, has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
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* SurrealHorror
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* SurrealHorrorSurrealHorror: There are just so many strange creatures that appear to have no purpose.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The general consensus is that version 0.16 counts as this, depending on just how much of an AprilFools joke you take it as.
* WombLevel: One area is made out of flesh, with a few rooms shaped like organs, and the area's music contains heartbeat-like sounds.
* WombLevel: One area is made out of flesh, with a few rooms shaped like organs, and the area's music contains heartbeat-like sounds.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The general consensus is that version 0.16 counts as this, depending on just how much of an AprilFools joke you take it as.
as. It attempts to explain the relationship that Smile and Sabitsuki had as children.
* WombLevel: One area is made out of flesh, with a few rooms shaped like organs, and thearea's area' music contains heartbeat-like sounds.
* WombLevel: One area is made out of flesh, with a few rooms shaped like organs, and the
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** In Rust's Corrupted School event, [[spoiler:some of the Kaibutsu get transformed into the giant red demons]], complete with painful screaming.
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** In Rust's Corrupted School event, [[spoiler:some of the Kaibutsu get transformed into the giant red demons]], complete with painful screaming.screams of pain heard nowhere else in the game.
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* DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to speculation, though, the True Ending (Oxidation, as its called) in interpreted as the "happy" one.
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* DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to speculation, though, the True [[spoiler:True Ending (Oxidation, as its called) in called)]] is interpreted as the "happy" one.one, so that one could be a {{Bittersweet Ending}}.
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* DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to speculation.
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* DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to speculation.speculation, though, the True Ending (Oxidation, as its called) in interpreted as the "happy" one.
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* AcidTripDimension: The world accessed by Sabitsuki's computer. Fans are divided on what to name it, but it's usually referred to as Sabitsuki's mind or mental world.
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* AcidTripDimension: The world accessed by Sabitsuki's computer. Fans are divided on what to name it, but it's usually referred to as Sabitsuki's mind or mind/[[DreamWorld mental world.world]] or simply .flow.
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* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' - speed improvement, basically - and is also similar to the witch effect from the same game, down to being able to access a special flying event hidden somewhere in a maze or maze-like area.
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* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' - speed improvement, basically - and is also similar to the witch Witch effect from the same game, down to being able to access a special flying event hidden somewhere in a maze or maze-like area.
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* ImaginaryFriend: It's speculated that Oreko is one to Sabitsuki.
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* AcidTripDimension: The world accessed by Sabitsuki's computer. Fans are divided on what to name it.
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* AcidTripDimension: The world accessed by Sabitsuki's computer. Fans are divided on what to name it.it, but it's usually referred to as Sabitsuki's mind or mental world.
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* AntiHero: Possibly Rust, the more malevolent version of Sabitsuki, who is controlled throughout the endgame. Notably, her sprite is more paler, as well as more detailed than Sabitsuki's sprites.
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* AntiHero: Possibly Rust, the more malevolent version speculated to be an alter-ego of Sabitsuki, who is controlled throughout the endgame. Notably, her sprite is more paler, as well as paler and more detailed than Sabitsuki's sprites.sprites, but only when in the world via computer.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: Sabitsuki's dreams are so bloody that the blood appears in reality. See the Corruption Meter detailed above.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: Sabitsuki's dreams There are so bloody that a number of events can affect the blood appears in reality.real world. See the Corruption Meter detailed above.
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** In the endgame, if Rust is hit by enough demons to the stage before death, looking closely at her sprite she looks a lot like a red demon, raising this implication. There is also a version of Rust, bleeding, who more obviously has horns.
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** In the endgame, if Rust is hit by enough demons to the stage before death, looking closely at her sprite she looks a lot like a red demon, raising this implication. There is also a version of Rust, bleeding, who - more obviously - has horns.
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* YouWillBeAssimilated
** In the endgame, if Rust is hit by enough demons to the stage before death, looking closely at her sprite she looks a lot like a red demon, raising this implication. There is also a version of Rust, bleeding, who more obviously has horns.
** In Rust's Corrupted School event, [[spoiler:some of the Kaibutsu get transformed into the giant red demons]], complete with painful screaming.
** In the endgame, if Rust is hit by enough demons to the stage before death, looking closely at her sprite she looks a lot like a red demon, raising this implication. There is also a version of Rust, bleeding, who more obviously has horns.
** In Rust's Corrupted School event, [[spoiler:some of the Kaibutsu get transformed into the giant red demons]], complete with painful screaming.
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* EmptyRoomPsyche: Several rooms are empty and serve no purpose. Though one room in particular, in the apartments area, if you walk around, causes an orange, smiling blob-monster to fall from the ceiling! In the endgame, however, some of these empty rooms house red demons.
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* EmptyRoomPsyche: EmptyRoomPsych: Several rooms are empty and serve no purpose. Though one room in particular, in the apartments area, if you walk around, causes an orange, smiling blob-monster to fall from the ceiling! In the endgame, however, some of these empty rooms house red demons.
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* EmptyRoomPsyche: Several rooms are empty and serve no purpose. Though one room in particular, in the apartments area, if you walk around, causes an orange, smiling blob-monster to fall from the ceiling! In the endgame, however, some of these empty rooms house red demons.
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* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of effects are simply cosmetic and either have only little animations with no major uses or do nothing.
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* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of effects are simply cosmetic and either have only little animations with no major uses uses, or simply do nothing.
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** A few of Sabitsuki's effects invoke this - the Arm effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed form, and the Viscera effect has her walk around with her [[Squick intestines just hanging out]], and its side-effect is Sabitsuki attempting to stuff them back in.
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** A few of Sabitsuki's effects invoke this - the Arm effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed form, and the Viscera effect has her walk around with her [[Squick [[{{Squick}} intestines just hanging out]], and its side-effect is Sabitsuki attempting to stuff them back in.
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* DreamLand: The world you explore via the computer.
* DreamPeople: Everything about the world via the computer. [[spoiler:Except for a single gas-mask maid in the endings.]]
* DreamPeople: Everything about the world via the computer. [[spoiler:Except for a single gas-mask maid in the endings.]]
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* DreamLand: The world you explore via the computer.
computer, though there are hints that it's not quite a "dream".
* DreamPeople:Everything about Every [=NPC=] in the world via the computer. [[spoiler:Except for a single gas-mask maid in the endings.endings...]]
* DreamPeople:
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The general consensus is that version 0.16 counts as this, depending on just how much of an April Fools joke you take it as.
* WombLevel: One major area is a cavern full of fleshy walls, with a few rooms that resemble organs. Also, one can hear a dull thumping noise like a heart beat.
* YourHeadASplode: Attempting to enter the bloody room before the endgame will cause Sabitsuki to shake her head and refuse to go in. When you then try to leave the area, she falls to her knees as her head bleeds profusely and falls apart.
* WombLevel: One major area is a cavern full of fleshy walls, with a few rooms that resemble organs. Also, one can hear a dull thumping noise like a heart beat.
* YourHeadASplode: Attempting to enter the bloody room before the endgame will cause Sabitsuki to shake her head and refuse to go in. When you then try to leave the area, she falls to her knees as her head bleeds profusely and falls apart.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The general consensus is that version 0.16 counts as this, depending on just how much of an April Fools AprilFools joke you take it as.
* WombLevel: Onemajor area is a cavern full made out of fleshy walls, flesh, with a few rooms that resemble organs. Also, one can hear a dull thumping noise shaped like a heart beat.
organs, and the area's music contains heartbeat-like sounds.
*YourHeadASplode: YourHeadASplode
** Attempting to enter the bloody room before the endgame will cause Sabitsuki to shake her head and refuse to go in. When you then try to leave the area, she falls to herknees knees, coughing up blood as her head bleeds profusely and falls apart. apart.
* WombLevel: One
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* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal]]: Sabitsuki's dreams are so bloody [[spoiler:that the blood appears in reality]].
* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of effects, but especially the Hoodie effect, which has no action at all associated with it and only purpose seems to be making Sabitsuki wear a hoodie. Some of the new effects serve the same purpose, like the funeral gown and the school uniform. [[FridgeHorror Until you think about what this means to Sabitsuki...]]
* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of effects, but especially the Hoodie effect, which has no action at all associated with it and only purpose seems to be making Sabitsuki wear a hoodie. Some of the new effects serve the same purpose, like the funeral gown and the school uniform. [[FridgeHorror Until you think about what this means to Sabitsuki...]]
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* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal]]: YourMindMakesItReal: Sabitsuki's dreams are so bloody [[spoiler:that that the blood appears in reality]].
reality. See the Corruption Meter detailed above.
* YourRewardIsClothes: A number ofeffects, but especially the Hoodie effect, which has no action at all associated with it and only purpose seems to be making Sabitsuki wear a hoodie. Some of the new effects serve the same purpose, like the funeral gown are simply cosmetic and the school uniform. [[FridgeHorror Until you think about what this means to Sabitsuki...]]either have only little animations with no major uses or do nothing.
* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of
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[[caption-width-right:320:Think [[HubLevel the nexus]] looks a bit unsettling? Just wait.]]
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* OneHitKill: The Corrupted School event, where the [[spoiler:pipe-carrying Kaibutsu kill you should they reach you,]] and the same with [[spoiler:Smile if you interact with him.]]
** [[spoiler: If not for a glitch in Rust's version of the corrupted school event, the giant red demons would do the exact same thing.]]
** The Kaibutsu in the bar [[spoiler: will murder you if you try to smack her.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: There is a room in the WombLevel where Sabitsuki can sit on a throne. [[spoiler:One of the empty boxes comes from a giant black-haired, blue-shirted girl on a giant throne from the same level. And the endgame has a bloody, damaged Sabitsuki sitting on a throne [[MindScrew Whicfghh you kill]].]]
* PerpetualBeta: Although it's still, version number-wise, farther in development than YumeNikki.
** [[spoiler: If not for a glitch in Rust's version of the corrupted school event, the giant red demons would do the exact same thing.]]
** The Kaibutsu in the bar [[spoiler: will murder you if you try to smack her.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: There is a room in the WombLevel where Sabitsuki can sit on a throne. [[spoiler:One of the empty boxes comes from a giant black-haired, blue-shirted girl on a giant throne from the same level. And the endgame has a bloody, damaged Sabitsuki sitting on a throne [[MindScrew Whicfghh you kill]].]]
* PerpetualBeta: Although it's still, version number-wise, farther in development than YumeNikki.
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* OneHitKill: OneHitKill
** The Corrupted School event, where the[[spoiler:pipe-carrying [[spoiler:Sabitsuki-lookalike, pipe-carrying Kaibutsu kill you should they reach you,]] and the same with [[spoiler:Smile if you interact with him.]]
**[[spoiler: If not for a glitch in In Rust's version of the corrupted school event, the Corrupted School, [[spoiler:the giant red demons would do kill her if she is touched]], and [[spoiler:she performs one on Smile when you interact with him]]. Due to a glitch, the exact same thing.]]
[[spoiler:giant red demons]] don't actually kill Rust, however in the English translation of 0.17, the translator has fixed this glitch up.
** The Kaibutsu in the bar[[spoiler: will murder kill you if you try to smack her.]]
her.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: There is a room in the WombLevel where a black-haired girl sits on a throne of flesh. If you kill her, Sabitsuki can siton a throne. [[spoiler:One of the empty boxes comes from a giant black-haired, blue-shirted girl on a giant throne from the same level. And the endgame has a bloody, damaged Sabitsuki sitting on a throne [[MindScrew Whicfghh you kill]].]]
there as well.
* PerpetualBeta: Although it'sstill, version number-wise, still farther in development than YumeNikki.''YumeNikki'', version-number wise, as ''YumeNikki'' never went past version 0.10.
** The Corrupted School event, where the
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** The Kaibutsu in the bar
* OrcusOnHisThrone: There is a room in the WombLevel where a black-haired girl sits on a throne of flesh. If you kill her, Sabitsuki can sit
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* RelationshipValues: There is a value for the relationship you have with Oreko. Interacting with her while she's outside her house nets you five points while killing her takes away ten. This mechanic is used to obtain the Orange Menu. See VideoGameCaringPotential below.
* SchmuckBait: As in ''Yume Nikki'', inactive enemies don't like being attacked. One in particular in a bar will even [[spoiler:kill Sabitsuki for trying to hit him]].
** Hitting Smile with the steel pipe in his house.
* ShoutOut: In particular, there are at least two that refer back to ''Yume Nikki''. The arm effect makes Sabitsuki look like Monoko's five-armed form. An image similar to Uboa also appears on the wall of a maze-like area that is also a dead end. More obscurely, the tumbling doll effect is functionally similar to the severed head effect in ''Yume Nikki'', and is in an endlessly looping area full of Kaibutsu.
** Another area appears to be a shout out to [[{{Earthbound}} Moonside]].
** Using the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki [[KikisDeliveryService a large red bow and blueish dress]].
** Madotsuki appears in the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
* SlasherSmile: The appropriately named character known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Smile']] gets one of these when [[spoiler:you whack him with the steel pipe.]]
** In the seemingly true ending, [[spoiler: when Sabitsuki is approached by a maid wielding a chainsaw, Sabitsuki sprouts one, right before she suicidally lunges at the chainsaw, wounding and probably killing herself]].
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror Blowing the whistle in one part of the industrial snow area reveals a ghost of a younger Sabitsuki wearing an orange scarf...]]]]
* SchmuckBait: As in ''Yume Nikki'', inactive enemies don't like being attacked. One in particular in a bar will even [[spoiler:kill Sabitsuki for trying to hit him]].
** Hitting Smile with the steel pipe in his house.
* ShoutOut: In particular, there are at least two that refer back to ''Yume Nikki''. The arm effect makes Sabitsuki look like Monoko's five-armed form. An image similar to Uboa also appears on the wall of a maze-like area that is also a dead end. More obscurely, the tumbling doll effect is functionally similar to the severed head effect in ''Yume Nikki'', and is in an endlessly looping area full of Kaibutsu.
** Another area appears to be a shout out to [[{{Earthbound}} Moonside]].
** Using the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki [[KikisDeliveryService a large red bow and blueish dress]].
** Madotsuki appears in the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
* SlasherSmile: The appropriately named character known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Smile']] gets one of these when [[spoiler:you whack him with the steel pipe.]]
** In the seemingly true ending, [[spoiler: when Sabitsuki is approached by a maid wielding a chainsaw, Sabitsuki sprouts one, right before she suicidally lunges at the chainsaw, wounding and probably killing herself]].
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror Blowing the whistle in one part of the industrial snow area reveals a ghost of a younger Sabitsuki wearing an orange scarf...]]]]
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* RelationshipValues: There is a value for the relationship you have with Oreko. Oreko, known as the Friendship Meter. Interacting with her while she's outside her house Oreko nets you five points while points, and interacting her with the Diving Helmet effect on can net you an extra five, whilst killing her takes away subtracts ten. This mechanic is used to Thirty points and up, a ghostly Oreko will appear in the lights-filled area where you obtain the Machine effect, and interacting with her gives you the Orange Menu. See VideoGameCaringPotential below.
Menu type.
* SchmuckBait: As in''Yume Nikki'', ''YumeNikki'', the inactive enemies Kaibutsu don't like being attacked. One in particular in a bar will even [[spoiler:kill Sabitsuki for trying And attempting to hit him]].
** Hittingattack Smile with the steel pipe in his house.
just makes him [[NoSell laugh at you]].
*ShoutOut: ShoutOut
** In particular, there areat least two many that refer back to ''Yume Nikki''. ''YumeNikki''.
*** Thearm Arm effect makes Sabitsuki look like Monoko's five-armed form. An form, and an image similar to Uboa also appears on the wall of a maze-like area that is also a dead end. end in the maze-area accessed via the Ocean world.
*** More obscurely, thetumbling doll Tumbling Doll effect is functionally similar to the severed head effect in ''Yume Nikki'', Severed Head effect, and is found in an endlessly looping area full of Kaibutsu.
** Another area *** Everything about the Witch Effect. An [=NPC=] resembling Witch-effect Madotsuki appears in the FC World, and interacting with her gives you the Witch effect. The Witch effect is functionally a mix of ''YumeNikki''[='=]s Witch and Bicycle effects, and can be used to be activate a shout out special flying event in the Rainbow Maze area, similar to [[{{Earthbound}} Moonside]].
''YumeNikki''[='=]s flying event.
**Using Outside of ''YumeNikki'', the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki [[KikisDeliveryService a large red bow and blueish dress]].
**Madotsuki appears in Another area, accessed near the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
Rainbow Maze area, resemble's ''{{Earthbound}}'''s Moonside.
* SlasherSmile:The appropriately named character known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Smile']] gets one of these when [[spoiler:you whack him with Nearly every single mouth in the steel pipe.]]
** In the seemingly true ending, [[spoiler: when Sabitsuki is approached by a maid wielding a chainsaw, Sabitsuki sprouts one, right before she suicidally lunges at the chainsaw, wounding and probably killing herself]].
game, most notably Smile's.
* SnowMeansDeath:[[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror The industrial snow area has a few of these.
** It is where the Dress effect is found - with said effect resembling a black funeral gown.
** There is a special plant in a building which, when interacted with, turns the area overgrown and makes it loop.
** Blowing the whistle inone part of the industrial snow area reveals a ghost of a younger Sabitsuki wearing an orange scarf...]]]]a scarf.
* SchmuckBait: As in
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* SlasherSmile:
** In the seemingly true ending, [[spoiler: when Sabitsuki is approached by a maid wielding a chainsaw, Sabitsuki sprouts one, right before she suicidally lunges at the chainsaw, wounding and probably killing herself]].
* SnowMeansDeath:
** It is where the Dress effect is found - with said effect resembling a black funeral gown.
** There is a special plant in a building which, when interacted with, turns the area overgrown and makes it loop.
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* ThemeNaming: Another fangame character with a 'tsuki' in their name, though in Sabitsuki's case it means ''covered with''.
* TheVirus: [[spoiler:Parts of the game hint that Sabitsuki had, or currently has a mental disease or virus]]. The red demons could also been seen as these, especially in the endgame.
* TheVirus: [[spoiler:Parts of the game hint that Sabitsuki had, or currently has a mental disease or virus]]. The red demons could also been seen as these, especially in the endgame.
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* ThemeNaming: Another fangame character with a 'tsuki' "tsuki" in their name, though in Sabitsuki's case it means ''covered with''.
with'' rather than the usual ''moon''.
* TheVirus:[[spoiler:Parts Parts of the game hint that Sabitsuki had, or currently has a mental disease or virus]].virus. The red demons could also been seen as these, especially in the endgame.
* TheVirus:
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* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The Witch Event, an homage to the Witch Event from ''YumeNikki''.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: There's a scene Sabitsuki can get to where she either has to kill her way through, or can get through with skillful manipulation of the whistle. The same thing happens in the scene regardless, but it's a little faster with the whistle since you don't have to wait for the [=NPCs=] in the way to fade first.
** There's a hidden friendship counter involving Oreko. It increases when you interact with her and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential decreases when you kill her.]] Maxing it out not only lets you get [[YourRewardIsClothes a unique menu style change]], but also [[spoiler: makes [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming a ghostly Oreko holding hands with a ghostly Sabitsuki appear]] in the dream world]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The steel pipe, Sabitsuki's equivalent to Madotsuki's knife, can be used to kill things, and there are oh so many defenseless characters out there to beat to death.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The same kind as present in ''Yume Nikki'': Trying to kill a Kaibutsu will just annoy them and make them chase Sabitsuki.
** Trying to kill the one in the bar will just [[spoiler:get Sabitsuki killed via a crowbar the Kaibutsu is holding]]. As an added note, swinging around your pipe at everything may result in some serious consequences. Mainly, smacking a Kaibutsu in a specific foggy area [[spoiler:[[SilentHill shall turn the whole place rusted and horrific]]]].
* VideoGameCaringPotential: There's a scene Sabitsuki can get to where she either has to kill her way through, or can get through with skillful manipulation of the whistle. The same thing happens in the scene regardless, but it's a little faster with the whistle since you don't have to wait for the [=NPCs=] in the way to fade first.
** There's a hidden friendship counter involving Oreko. It increases when you interact with her and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential decreases when you kill her.]] Maxing it out not only lets you get [[YourRewardIsClothes a unique menu style change]], but also [[spoiler: makes [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming a ghostly Oreko holding hands with a ghostly Sabitsuki appear]] in the dream world]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The steel pipe, Sabitsuki's equivalent to Madotsuki's knife, can be used to kill things, and there are oh so many defenseless characters out there to beat to death.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The same kind as present in ''Yume Nikki'': Trying to kill a Kaibutsu will just annoy them and make them chase Sabitsuki.
** Trying to kill the one in the bar will just [[spoiler:get Sabitsuki killed via a crowbar the Kaibutsu is holding]]. As an added note, swinging around your pipe at everything may result in some serious consequences. Mainly, smacking a Kaibutsu in a specific foggy area [[spoiler:[[SilentHill shall turn the whole place rusted and horrific]]]].
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* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The flying, or Witch Event, an event accessed in the Rainbow Maze, a homage to the Witch Event similar event from ''YumeNikki''.
*VideoGameCaringPotential: There's a scene Sabitsuki VideoGameCaringPotential
** A random event, exclusive to Sabitsuki, leads to an area full of [=NPCs=] blocking the path. You canget to where she either has to kill her way through, or can get through by killing the [=NPCs=] with a pipe or with skillful manipulation of the whistle. whistle.
** Thesame thing happens in the scene regardless, but it's a little faster with the whistle since you don't have to wait for the [=NPCs=] in the way to fade first.
** There's a hidden friendship counteraforementioned Friendship Meter, involving Oreko. It increases when you interact with her and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential decreases when you kill her.]] Maxing it out not only lets you get [[YourRewardIsClothes a unique menu style change]], but also [[spoiler: makes [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming a ghostly Oreko holding hands with a ghostly Sabitsuki appear]] in the dream world]].
Oreko.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Thesteel iron pipe, Sabitsuki's equivalent to Madotsuki's knife, can be used to kill things, and there are oh so many defenseless characters [=NPCs=] out there to beat to death.
*VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: VideoGameCrueltyPunishment
** The same kind as present in''Yume Nikki'': ''YumeNikki'': Trying to kill a Kaibutsu will just annoy them and make them chase Sabitsuki.
** Trying to kill theone Kaibutsu in the bar will just [[spoiler:get get Sabitsuki killed via a crowbar the Kaibutsu is holding]].herself. As an added note, swinging around your pipe at everything may result in some serious consequences. Mainly, Notably, smacking a Kaibutsu in a specific foggy area [[spoiler:[[SilentHill shall turn the whole place rusted and horrific]]]].
*
** A random event, exclusive to Sabitsuki, leads to an area full of [=NPCs=] blocking the path. You can
** The
** There's a hidden friendship counter
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The
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** Trying to kill the
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** Used in both Corrupted School events, right before either [[spoiler:Smile kills Sabitsuki]] or [[spoiler:a very Kaibutsu-lookalike Rust kills Smile]]. [[NightmareFuel Unsettling laughter can be heard both times]].
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** Used in both Corrupted School events, right before either [[spoiler:a Sabitsuki-lookalike Kaibutsu kills Sabitsuki/Rust]], [[spoiler:Smile kills Sabitsuki]] or [[spoiler:a very Kaibutsu-lookalike Rust kills Smile]]. [[NightmareFuel Unsettling laughter can be heard both times]].
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* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the FC world. When you leave, you will appear to not have taken that damage, but you have.
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* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the FC world. When you leave, you Rust will appear to not have taken that any damage, but you have.actually has.
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** The red eye world, or the world north of the Nexus, has a random event where a "door" can appear, leading to an area with three Kaibutsu. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[HolyShitQuotient comes out of nowhere]]''. The only way to evade this fourth Kaibutsu is with the Ghost effect's InvisibilityCloak.
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** The red eye world, or the world north of the Nexus, has a random event where a "door" can appear, leading to an area with three Kaibutsu.Kaibutsu, known as the Kaibutsu Chase event. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[HolyShitQuotient comes out of nowhere]]''. The only way to evade this fourth Kaibutsu is with the Ghost effect's InvisibilityCloak.InvisibilityCloak, which opens up the path to the Corrupted School Events.
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* MoodWhiplash: Through the red tentacle land of darkness and blood... technicolor and a cheery background tune along with cats and rainbow doorways, along with an [[UnexpectedShmupLevel incredibly uplifting scene!]]
** Also, going through the alleyway hospital to [[spoiler: dead and dying children. Everywhere.]]
* MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after completing all of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]]]
* NightmareFace: The Kaibutsu develop these when enraged. The world to the north also has things with wide-open mouths.
** Sabitsuki's face gets messed up as she takes more damage in the endgame. Even if there's not much to see, your mind will fill in the gaps.
** One part of the WombLevel has a creepily detailed mouth that is bleeding. It's terrifying.
* NothingIsScarier: There is a sequence involving an open, pitch black doorway with blood and gore splattered all around it. You can't see what's on the other side of the doorway at first, [[spoiler:and you never will as Sabitsuki. Sabitsuki refuses to go through the doorway, and the only way to leave the room is to step back, and when you do, Sabitsuki starts oozing blood ''everywhere'' causing her to pass out in the dream world and wake up to discover blood all over her keyboard - it's one of the few events that ramps up the erosion counter high enough by itself to do this. In other words, whatever Sabitsuki saw on the other side of that doorway was so horrifying that '''''[[YourMindMakesItReal it might have actually caused her physical harm]]'''''.]]
* PeopleJars: Two examples of this - both in the looping, industrial, orange lava maze accessible by the sewers. One is a giant Oreko in a tube, touching her changes the maze to a simple path. You can smash her tube, but it doesn't do anything (except keep the maze as a maze). Now, in the endgame, you can go deeper in via the simple path. At the end, you can go to a room inaccessible before the endgame. And here, where you get one of the [[spoiler:empty boxes]], is [[spoiler:a giant Sabitsuki]] in a tube.
* PlantPerson: The Plant effect makes Sabisuki into one. Fittingly, it's found in the plant labyrinth.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The tumbling doll effect causes Sabitsuki's body to fall apart. Also the viscera effect, where Sabitsuki casually walks around with her intestines hanging out and casually tries to shove them back inside when using the action button.
** The endgame trumps all that, as Sabitsuki continues to casually wander around even as her body is torn apart by demons.
* OneHitKill: The corrupted School event. [[spoiler: Both the pipe-carrying Kaibutsu and Smile will kill you should they reach you.]]
** Also, going through the alleyway hospital to [[spoiler: dead and dying children. Everywhere.]]
* MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after completing all of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]]]
* NightmareFace: The Kaibutsu develop these when enraged. The world to the north also has things with wide-open mouths.
** Sabitsuki's face gets messed up as she takes more damage in the endgame. Even if there's not much to see, your mind will fill in the gaps.
** One part of the WombLevel has a creepily detailed mouth that is bleeding. It's terrifying.
* NothingIsScarier: There is a sequence involving an open, pitch black doorway with blood and gore splattered all around it. You can't see what's on the other side of the doorway at first, [[spoiler:and you never will as Sabitsuki. Sabitsuki refuses to go through the doorway, and the only way to leave the room is to step back, and when you do, Sabitsuki starts oozing blood ''everywhere'' causing her to pass out in the dream world and wake up to discover blood all over her keyboard - it's one of the few events that ramps up the erosion counter high enough by itself to do this. In other words, whatever Sabitsuki saw on the other side of that doorway was so horrifying that '''''[[YourMindMakesItReal it might have actually caused her physical harm]]'''''.]]
* PeopleJars: Two examples of this - both in the looping, industrial, orange lava maze accessible by the sewers. One is a giant Oreko in a tube, touching her changes the maze to a simple path. You can smash her tube, but it doesn't do anything (except keep the maze as a maze). Now, in the endgame, you can go deeper in via the simple path. At the end, you can go to a room inaccessible before the endgame. And here, where you get one of the [[spoiler:empty boxes]], is [[spoiler:a giant Sabitsuki]] in a tube.
* PlantPerson: The Plant effect makes Sabisuki into one. Fittingly, it's found in the plant labyrinth.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The tumbling doll effect causes Sabitsuki's body to fall apart. Also the viscera effect, where Sabitsuki casually walks around with her intestines hanging out and casually tries to shove them back inside when using the action button.
** The endgame trumps all that, as Sabitsuki continues to casually wander around even as her body is torn apart by demons.
* OneHitKill: The corrupted School event. [[spoiler: Both the pipe-carrying Kaibutsu and Smile will kill you should they reach you.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: Through MoodWhiplash
** North to thered tentacle land of darkness Nexus is a strange world, known as the Red Eye world, filled with eyes and blood... technicolor hands and things with mouths, and a cheery background tune along red eye in the background. From here you can enter a strange area filled with hands and a Kaibutsu, to a world of red tentacles, footprints and creepy, eerie music... and then you can follow a path of pawprints to a maze of rainbows, upbeat music, cats and rainbow doorways, along with an event where you [[UnexpectedShmupLevel incredibly uplifting scene!]]
** Also, goingcan fly a broom through the rainbow-colored skies]]!
** The alleyway hospital is eerie but otherwise innocuous. Going through the back of the hospital leads to[[spoiler: an area with strange music and meat hooks on the ceilings... then you can go into an elevator, which breaks down, and leads to an area of the hospital full of dead and dying children. Everywhere.children.
* MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after collecting all three empty boxes and traversing the last area of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the Nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]
*MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after completing all of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]]]
* NightmareFace:NightmareFace
** The Kaibutsu develop these when enraged. Depending on the Kaibutsu, they have a bloody face with a giant hole, a giant mouth, or two messed-up eyes. One special type of Kaibutsu, that resembles Sabitsuki, has a definite SlasherSmile.
** The world to thenorth also north, or the Red Eye world, has strange things with wide-open mouths.
mouths. In a random event, three of these things can appear in a group, one as a "door" leading to the Kaibutsu Chase event.
**Sabitsuki's In the endgame, Rust's face gets messed up as she takes more damage in the endgame. via red demons. Even if there's not much to see, see due to the small sprites, your mind will fill in the gaps.
** One part of the WombLevel has a creepily detailed mouth that is bleeding. It's terrifying.
* NothingIsScarier: There is a sequence involving an open, pitch black doorway with blood and gore splattered all around it. You can't see what's on the other side of the doorway at first, [[spoiler:and and you never will will, as Sabitsuki. Sabitsuki anyway. Sabitsuki refuses to go through the doorway, and the only way to leave the room is to step back, and when back. When you do, Sabitsuki [[spoiler:Sabitsuki starts oozing blood ''everywhere'' ''everywhere'', causing her to pass out in the dream world and wake up to discover blood all over her keyboard - it's keyboard.]] It's one of the few events that ramps up gives points to the erosion counter high enough by itself Corruption Meter, causing blood to do this. appear in Sabitsuki's room. In other words, whatever Sabitsuki saw on the other side of that doorway was so horrifying that '''''[[YourMindMakesItReal it might have ''it actually caused her physical harm]]'''''.]]
harm''.
* PeopleJars: Two examples of this - both in the looping,industrial, orange lava orange-glowing industrial maze accessible by the sewers. One is a giant Oreko in a tube, where touching her changes the maze to a simple path. You can smash her tube, but all it doesn't do anything (except does is keep the maze as a maze).maze. Now, in the endgame, you can go deeper in via the simple path. At While before the end, endgame you can't go any further, but as Rust you can go to a room inaccessible before deeper in, and at the endgame. And here, where you get one end of the [[spoiler:empty boxes]], path is [[spoiler:a a tube holding a giant Sabitsuki]] in a tube.
Sabitsuki.
* PlantPerson: The Plant effectmakes turns Sabisuki into one.one, and the side-effect causes her to wither. Fittingly, it's found in the plant labyrinth.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Thetumbling doll Tumbling Doll effect causes Sabitsuki's body limbs to fall apart. Also become cut off, and the viscera effect, where Viscera effect has Sabitsuki casually walks walking around with her intestines hanging out and casually tries to shove them back inside when using out. However, the action button.
** Theendgame trumps all that, both of those effects, as Sabitsuki Rust continues to casually wander around even as her body is torn apart by the red demons.
* OneHitKill: Thecorrupted Corrupted School event. [[spoiler: Both event, where the pipe-carrying [[spoiler:pipe-carrying Kaibutsu and Smile will kill you should they reach you.you,]] and the same with [[spoiler:Smile if you interact with him.]]
** North to the
** Also, going
** The alleyway hospital is eerie but otherwise innocuous. Going through the back of the hospital leads to
* MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after collecting all three empty boxes and traversing the last area of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the Nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]
*
* NightmareFace:
** The Kaibutsu develop these when enraged. Depending on the Kaibutsu, they have a bloody face with a giant hole, a giant mouth, or two messed-up eyes. One special type of Kaibutsu, that resembles Sabitsuki, has a definite SlasherSmile.
** The world to the
**
* PeopleJars: Two examples of this - both in the looping,
* PlantPerson: The Plant effect
* OnlyAFleshWound: The
** The
* OneHitKill: The
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Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist - other [=NPCs=] have FanNicknames, be it from a filename or elsewhere.
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Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist - other [=NPCs=] have FanNicknames, [=NPCs=], events, and areas are all [[FanNickname nicknamed by fans]], be it from a filename or elsewhere.
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* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain [=NPCs=], namely causing some to flee from Sabitsuki.
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* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun Handgun effect, which has certain effects on certain [=NPCs=], namely causing some to flee from Sabitsuki.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: Sabitsuki appears to be one [[IllGirl among]] [[MonstrousHumanoid other]] things.
* HollywoodCyborg: The mechanical effect, which replaces her arms and legs with robotic parts and gives her robotic headgear.
* {{Homage}}: Mechanical things seem to have been inspired by asgr's designs for cyborgs and machines.
** The Broom event is a direct homage to [[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]'s Witch event.
* HollywoodCyborg: The mechanical effect, which replaces her arms and legs with robotic parts and gives her robotic headgear.
* {{Homage}}: Mechanical things seem to have been inspired by asgr's designs for cyborgs and machines.
** The Broom event is a direct homage to [[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]'s Witch event.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: Sabitsuki appears to be one one, [[IllGirl among]] [[MonstrousHumanoid other]] things.
* HollywoodCyborg: Themechanical Machine effect, which replaces her arms and legs with robotic parts and gives her some sort of robotic headgear.
*{{Homage}}: Mechanical {{Homage}}
** The more mechanical side of things seem to have been inspired by asgr's designs for cyborgs and machines.
** The Broom event is a direct homage to[[YumeNikki ''[[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]'s Nikki]]''[='=]s Witch event.event, and Studio Ghibli's ''Kiki's Delivery Service.''
* HollywoodCyborg: The
*
** The more mechanical side of things seem to have been inspired by asgr's designs for cyborgs and machines.
** The Broom event is a direct homage to
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** The big question in .flow appears to be less about the main character's status then about the world it takes place in - [[MindScrew and how much of it is really Just A Dream]].
* InvisibilityCloak: The Ghost effect.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
* JumpScare: One random event in the red eye world, there is a "door" leading to an area with three Kaibutsu. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[HolyShitQuotient comes out of nowhere]]''.
** When you find Smile and his sister in their house, and decide to hit them with your steel pipe. ''[[spoiler: HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT]]''
** The event in the bar where you [[spoiler: try to attack a drinking Kaibutsu and she ''immediately'' counters your attack, killing you in the process.]]
** The very last scene of [[spoiler: the GoldenEnding. SUDDEN BLAST OF STATIC!]]
* KillItWithFire: The aforementioned Bar Kaibutsu [[spoiler: will stuff you into a furnace after killing you]].
* LaughingMad: Smile ''laughs'' when hit by your pipe.
* MeaningfulName: Sabitsuki translates to "covered in rust". Given the game's darker visual style and audio style along with it really fits. [[spoiler: The endgame has you play as "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.]]
** Smile. Also Sister, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Smile's little sister]].
* InvisibilityCloak: The Ghost effect.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
* JumpScare: One random event in the red eye world, there is a "door" leading to an area with three Kaibutsu. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[HolyShitQuotient comes out of nowhere]]''.
** When you find Smile and his sister in their house, and decide to hit them with your steel pipe. ''[[spoiler: HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT]]''
** The event in the bar where you [[spoiler: try to attack a drinking Kaibutsu and she ''immediately'' counters your attack, killing you in the process.]]
** The very last scene of [[spoiler: the GoldenEnding. SUDDEN BLAST OF STATIC!]]
* KillItWithFire: The aforementioned Bar Kaibutsu [[spoiler: will stuff you into a furnace after killing you]].
* LaughingMad: Smile ''laughs'' when hit by your pipe.
* MeaningfulName: Sabitsuki translates to "covered in rust". Given the game's darker visual style and audio style along with it really fits. [[spoiler: The endgame has you play as "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.]]
** Smile. Also Sister, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Smile's little sister]].
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*
* JumpScare: One random event
* JumpScare
** The red eye world,
** When you find Smile and his sister in their house, and decide to hit
** The event
**
* KillItWithFire: The aforementioned
* LaughingMad: Smile ''laughs'' when
** One scene of the third ending requires you to hit
* MeaningfulName: Sabitsuki translates to "covered in rust". Given
* KillItWithFire: The aforementioned Bar Kaibutsu will [[spoiler:stuff you into a furnace]] after killing you.
* LaughingMad: Creepy, unsettling laughter plays many, many times throughout the game. This laughter is normally associated with the crazy Kaibutsu, Smile, and deranged versions of Sabitsuki and/or Rust.
* MeaningfulName
**
** Smile, the nickname given to the black-haired boy seen around the School area, with plus-marked eyes and a tendency to give creepy smiles. His little
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* MentalWorld: Sabitsuki explores her mind in some fashion. [[spoiler: It seems straightforward until the Endgame, where strange things start happening to her real life room, eventually waking up in her bed as if nothing happened. Of course, until you get to the very last ending.]]
* MindControlDevice: The Whistle effect causes most [=NPCs=] to move in the direction Sabitsuki is facing and the Gun causes most to move away from Sabitsuki.
* MindScrew: The entire game makes very little sense and is given no context. Especially prevalent in [[spoiler:scenes where Sabitsuki is forcibly woken up.]]
** The alleyway hospital [[spoiler: (dead and dying children EVERYWHERE, including Sabitsuki herself in a room)]] and the endgame, where [[spoiler: Sabitsuki leaves her room, only to turn into a kaibutsu, get killed by a robot maid, and then shown off like a trophy.]]
*** The back of the alleyway hospital , for some (probably sinister) reason, has a bunch of ''meat hooks'' hanging up in the hallways.
** Sabitsuki traverses the final part of the endgame [[spoiler: and ends up killing herself who is sitting on a throne - wait, what?]]
* MiniGame: Shinsoku Neko.
* MindControlDevice: The Whistle effect causes most [=NPCs=] to move in the direction Sabitsuki is facing and the Gun causes most to move away from Sabitsuki.
* MindScrew: The entire game makes very little sense and is given no context. Especially prevalent in [[spoiler:scenes where Sabitsuki is forcibly woken up.]]
** The alleyway hospital [[spoiler: (dead and dying children EVERYWHERE, including Sabitsuki herself in a room)]] and the endgame, where [[spoiler: Sabitsuki leaves her room, only to turn into a kaibutsu, get killed by a robot maid, and then shown off like a trophy.]]
*** The back of the alleyway hospital , for some (probably sinister) reason, has a bunch of ''meat hooks'' hanging up in the hallways.
** Sabitsuki traverses the final part of the endgame [[spoiler: and ends up killing herself who is sitting on a throne - wait, what?]]
* MiniGame: Shinsoku Neko.
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* MentalWorld: Sabitsuki explores her mind in some fashion. [[spoiler: fashion via her computer. It seems straightforward until you uncover the Endgame, effects of the "Corruption Meter"[[hottip:*:Sometimes also known as the "Erosion" or "Corrosion" Meters]], where strange things start happening to her certain events can affect the real life room, eventually waking world. The endgame messes everything up in her bed as if further, say nothing happened. Of course, until you get to of the very last ending.]]
endings.
* MindControlDevice: The Whistle effect causes most [=NPCs=] to move in the direction Sabitsuki isfacing facing, and the Gun Handgun effect causes most to move away from Sabitsuki.
* MindScrew:The entire game makes very little sense and True to its [[YumeNikki predecessor]], ''.flow'' is given no context. Especially prevalent in [[spoiler:scenes where Sabitsuki is forcibly woken up.]]
** The alleyway hospital [[spoiler: (dead and dying children EVERYWHERE, including Sabitsuki herself in a room)]] andfilled with many MindScrew themes. ''.flow'' also takes the endgame, where [[spoiler: Sabitsuki leaves her room, only to turn into a kaibutsu, get killed by a robot maid, and then shown off like a trophy.]]
*** The backMindScrew themes further than ''YumeNikki'', an example of the alleyway hospital , for some (probably sinister) reason, has a bunch of ''meat hooks'' hanging up in the hallways.
** Sabitsuki traverses the final part of the endgame [[spoiler: and ends up killing herself who is sitting on a throne - wait, what?]]
which can be seen above under MentalWorld.
* MiniGame: ShinsokuNeko.Neko, a cute little 8-bit minigame where you control a black cat and try to catch as many fish as possible. It is harder than it sounds.
* MindControlDevice: The Whistle effect causes most [=NPCs=] to move in the direction Sabitsuki is
* MindScrew:
** The alleyway hospital [[spoiler: (dead and dying children EVERYWHERE, including Sabitsuki herself in a room)]] and
*** The back
** Sabitsuki traverses the final part of the endgame [[spoiler: and ends up killing herself who is sitting on a throne - wait, what?]]
* MiniGame: Shinsoku
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** Used in both Corrupted School events, right before either [[spoiler:Smile kills Sabitsuki]] or [[spoiler:a very Kaibutsu-lookalike Rust kills Smile]]. [[NightmareFuel The Kaibutsu's laughter can be heard both times]].
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** Used in both Corrupted School events, right before either [[spoiler:Smile kills Sabitsuki]] or [[spoiler:a very Kaibutsu-lookalike Rust kills Smile]]. [[NightmareFuel The Kaibutsu's Unsettling laughter can be heard both times]].
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* CoolMask: The Gas Mask effect.
* CosmeticAward: Obtaining the special Flower, Orange, Rust, and Smile menus simply change the look of your menu when you talk to the front desk of the school.
** Averted with the Sugar Menu, which actually causes you to buy the meal, as opposed to just the drink, more often in the Sugar Hole.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the 8-bit area. When you leave, you will appear to not have taken that damage, but you have.
* CosmeticAward: Obtaining the special Flower, Orange, Rust, and Smile menus simply change the look of your menu when you talk to the front desk of the school.
** Averted with the Sugar Menu, which actually causes you to buy the meal, as opposed to just the drink, more often in the Sugar Hole.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the 8-bit area. When you leave, you will appear to not have taken that damage, but you have.
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* CoolMask: The Gas Mask effect.
effect. The maids of the Sugar Hole all wear gas masks.
* CosmeticAward: Obtaining the special Flower, Orange, Rust, and Smile menus simply change the look of your menu when you talk to the Kaibutsu at the front desk of theschool.school. The trope is averted with the Sugar Menu, which actually causes you to buy the meal, as opposed to just the drink, more often in the Sugar Hole.
** Averted with the Sugar Menu, which actually causes you to buy the meal, as opposed to just the drink, more often in the Sugar Hole.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the 8-bit area.FC world. When you leave, you will appear to not have taken that damage, but you have.
* CosmeticAward: Obtaining the special Flower, Orange, Rust, and Smile menus simply change the look of your menu when you talk to the Kaibutsu at the front desk of the
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* {{Cyclops}}: The Mono Eye ability gives Sabitsuki a single, large red eye on her face. It blinks in rapid succession with the action button.
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* {{Cyclops}}: The Mono Eye Monoeye ability gives Sabitsuki a single, large red eye on her face. It blinks Its side-effect is blinking in rapid succession with the action button. succession.
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki either appears to or explicitly dies.]]
* DreamLand: the dreams/hallucinations that you explore for a vast majoroty of the game thanks to .flow
* DreamPeople: Every object/creature/person in .flow is limited to there. Everyone except [[spoiler: one of the maids in the true ending.]]
* DreamLand: the dreams/hallucinations that you explore for a vast majoroty of the game thanks to .flow
* DreamPeople: Every object/creature/person in .flow is limited to there. Everyone except [[spoiler: one of the maids in the true ending.]]
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki either appears does not meet a very good end. ''What'' kind of end it is, is up to or explicitly dies.]]
speculation.
* DreamLand:the dreams/hallucinations that The world you explore for a vast majoroty of via the game thanks to .flow
computer.
* DreamPeople:Every object/creature/person in .flow is limited to there. Everyone except [[spoiler: one of Everything about the maids world via the computer. [[spoiler:Except for a single gas-mask maid in the true ending.endings.]]
* DreamLand:
* DreamPeople:
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* EyesAlwaysShut: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the Mono Eye effect.
* EyeScream: A couple of the posters in the school area depict a pair of eyes which appear to be either bleeding profusely or heavily tattooed. Some fans also speculate that [[spoiler: Smile's eyes are either missing, scarred or severely damaged as a result of their strange '+' shape. The effect you get from him is called 'tattoo', however, so it's unclear whether or not the '+' is just a design he has on his face or something even worse.]]
** As of V0.15, there is an eye graffiti in the apartments, that you can smack with the pipe and cause it to bleed.
* FanNickname: ''Candle World Kaibutsu'', for the Kaibutsu in the blood-path area after the hospital. Enrage it, and [[OhCrap it chases you faster than the Broom can fly]].
** ''Gabe'', a Kaibutsu that can be found in the ''Sugar Hole'' Bar.
* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain [=NPCs=] (as well as causing some to flee from her).
* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' and is also similar to the witch effect from the same game.
* EyeScream: A couple of the posters in the school area depict a pair of eyes which appear to be either bleeding profusely or heavily tattooed. Some fans also speculate that [[spoiler: Smile's eyes are either missing, scarred or severely damaged as a result of their strange '+' shape. The effect you get from him is called 'tattoo', however, so it's unclear whether or not the '+' is just a design he has on his face or something even worse.]]
** As of V0.15, there is an eye graffiti in the apartments, that you can smack with the pipe and cause it to bleed.
* FanNickname: ''Candle World Kaibutsu'', for the Kaibutsu in the blood-path area after the hospital. Enrage it, and [[OhCrap it chases you faster than the Broom can fly]].
** ''Gabe'', a Kaibutsu that can be found in the ''Sugar Hole'' Bar.
* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain [=NPCs=] (as well as causing some to flee from her).
* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' and is also similar to the witch effect from the same game.
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* EyesAlwaysShut: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with by the Mono Eye effect.
Monoeye effect, and Sabitsuki as a cat.
*EyeScream: A couple of the EyeScream
** Many posters in theschool area School depict a pair of eyes which appear to be either bleeding profusely or heavily tattooed. Some fans also speculate Smile has + eyes, similar to these posters, which has caused speculation that [[spoiler: Smile's eyes they are either missing, scarred damaged, missing or severely damaged as a result of their strange '+' shape. The heavily tattooed. It's worth noting that the effect you get from him a version of Smile is called 'tattoo', however, so it's unclear whether or not the '+' is just a design he Tattoo effect.
** The apartments area hason his face or something even worse.]]
** As of V0.15, there is an eyea wall graffiti in the apartments, that you of an eye. From version 0.15 onwards, Sabitsuki can smack it with the her pipe and cause it to bleed.
bleed.
* FanNickname:''Candle Nearly everyone who isn't Sabitsuki. Notably, there is:
** "Candle WorldKaibutsu'', Kaibutsu" for the Kaibutsu in the blood-path area after the hospital.Hospital, via the Neon World. Enrage it, and [[OhCrap it chases you faster than the Broom can fly]].
**''Gabe'', a "Bar Kaibutsu" for the Kaibutsu that can be found in the ''Sugar Hole'' Bar.
Sugar Hole on occasion.
** One variety of Kaibutsu is known as "Gabe" by fans. Strange, as they're all female.
* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain[=NPCs=] (as well as [=NPCs=], namely causing some to flee from her).
Sabitsuki.
* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' - speed improvement, basically - and is also similar to the witch effect from the samegame.game, down to being able to access a special flying event hidden somewhere in a maze or maze-like area.
*
** Many posters in the
** The apartments area has
** As of V0.15, there is an eye
* FanNickname:
** "Candle World
**
** One variety of Kaibutsu is known as "Gabe" by fans. Strange, as they're all female.
* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain
* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' - speed improvement, basically - and is also similar to the witch effect from the same
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* GasMaskMooks: The maids, who all wear gas masks.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Sabitsuki's killing implement of choice is a steel pipe.
* GoodGuyBar: The Sugar Hole, populated by one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki can occasionally get a beer there, or just have a meal at varying prices.
* {{Gorn}}: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki'' fangames. We have the tumbling doll, corpse and viscera (spilled guts) effects for Sabitsuki.
** Getting hit by red demons during the end game further and further decays Sabitsuki, to the point where her face is mangled and she's coated in blood.
* GottaCatchEmAll: All 24 effects (plus the 25th effect, the instructions) as Sabitsuki, then the [[spoiler:3 empty boxes corresponding to important parts of Sabitsuki's mind]].
* GuideDangIt: You ''will'', at some point or another, need to look up some videos or guides if you want to find some of the effects.
* TheHeroDies: In her mind mind you, Sabitsuki can try to bonk a Kaibutsu in the head and get [[MadeOfPlasticine torn to pieces]] for her efforts. There is also the "Bloody Room" event where her head explodes.
** [[spoiler: The endings make it unclear whether she's dead or not, but she's definitely messed up.]]
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Sabitsuki's killing implement of choice is a steel pipe.
* GoodGuyBar: The Sugar Hole, populated by one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki can occasionally get a beer there, or just have a meal at varying prices.
* {{Gorn}}: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki'' fangames. We have the tumbling doll, corpse and viscera (spilled guts) effects for Sabitsuki.
** Getting hit by red demons during the end game further and further decays Sabitsuki, to the point where her face is mangled and she's coated in blood.
* GottaCatchEmAll: All 24 effects (plus the 25th effect, the instructions) as Sabitsuki, then the [[spoiler:3 empty boxes corresponding to important parts of Sabitsuki's mind]].
* GuideDangIt: You ''will'', at some point or another, need to look up some videos or guides if you want to find some of the effects.
* TheHeroDies: In her mind mind you, Sabitsuki can try to bonk a Kaibutsu in the head and get [[MadeOfPlasticine torn to pieces]] for her efforts. There is also the "Bloody Room" event where her head explodes.
** [[spoiler: The endings make it unclear whether she's dead or not, but she's definitely messed up.]]
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* GasMaskMooks: The Sugar Hole maids, who all wear gas masks.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Sabitsuki's killing implement of choice isa steel an iron pipe.
* GoodGuyBar: The Sugar Hole, populated by gas-mask maids, one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki canoccasionally get a beer drink or meal there, or just have a meal at varying prices.
* {{Gorn}}: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki''fangames. We fangames.
** For effects, we have thetumbling doll, corpse Tumbling Doll[[hottip:*:Sabitsuki loses all her limbs]], Corpse and viscera (spilled guts) Viscera[[hottip:*:Sabitsuki's intestines hang out]] effects for Sabitsuki.
** Getting hit by red demons - during theend game endgame only - further and further decays Sabitsuki, Rust, to the point where her face is mangled and she's coated in blood.
* GottaCatchEmAll: All 24 effects(plus - plus the 25th effect, "effect", the instructions) game's instructions - as Sabitsuki, then the [[spoiler:3 empty boxes corresponding three "empty boxes" as Rust. All of the collectibles correspond to important parts some part of Sabitsuki's mind]].
mind.
* GuideDangIt: You ''will'', at some point or another, need to look up some videos or guides if you want to find some of theeffects.
effects. Let's not count out the empty boxes either, which can be even more troublesome than the effects to find, especially since Rust can't use any effects to find them.
*TheHeroDies: In her mind mind you, TheHeroDies
** Sabitsuki can try tobonk a smack the Bar Kaibutsu in with the head pipe and get [[MadeOfPlasticine torn beaten to pieces]] death for her efforts. efforts.
** There is also the "Bloody Room" event whereher she coughs up blood and collapses. Similarly, in the endgame, getting hit by too many red demons causes Rust's head explodes.
to explode.
**[[spoiler: The Sabitsuki doesn't get any better luck in the endings make it unclear either, though due to the very ambigious nature of the endings, whether she's dead she dies or not, but she's definitely messed up.]]not is unclear.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Sabitsuki's killing implement of choice is
* GoodGuyBar: The Sugar Hole, populated by gas-mask maids, one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki can
* {{Gorn}}: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki''
** For effects, we have the
** Getting hit by red demons - during the
* GottaCatchEmAll: All 24 effects
* GuideDangIt: You ''will'', at some point or another, need to look up some videos or guides if you want to find some of the
*
** Sabitsuki can try to
** There is also the "Bloody Room" event where
**
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** The Television effect gives Sabitsuki a television for a head. Its side-effect is Sabitsuki switching on the TV screen, which can show a number of things.
* ArtShift: The [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] area is rendered in 8-bit.
* ArtShift: The [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] area is rendered in 8-bit.
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** The Television effect gives Sabitsuki a television for a head. Its side-effect is Sabitsuki switching on the TV screen, which can show a number of things.
things, such as bloodstains or Sabitsuki's face.
* ArtShift: The [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]]area or FC world is rendered in 8-bit.8-bits.
* ArtShift: The [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]]
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** Used in both Corrupted School events, [[spoiler: right before Smile kills Sabitsuki when done with Sabitsuki, and right before a deranged form of Rust kills Smile when done with Rust]]. [[NightmareFuel Laughter can be heard both times]].
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** Used in both Corrupted School events, [[spoiler: right before Smile either [[spoiler:Smile kills Sabitsuki when done with Sabitsuki, and right before a deranged form of Sabitsuki]] or [[spoiler:a very Kaibutsu-lookalike Rust kills Smile when done with Rust]]. Smile]]. [[NightmareFuel Laughter The Kaibutsu's laughter can be heard both times]].
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*** In the Rooftop Ending, [[spoiler: it cuts from Sabitsuki on a balcony, to bloody footprints on a black blackground with some black-haired girls in there as well.]]
*** In the [[spoiler: Maid ending, it cuts from the maid and Sabitsuki on a balcony, to the Maid carrying a seemingly dead Sabitsuki in her arms]]
*** In the True Ending, [[spoiler:it's used right before Rust kills Demon Sabitsuki and is followed by her waking up. Also used in the last scene, where we see a grinning, demonic Sabitsuki rush into the maid's chainsaw. We then see a legless Sabitsuki briefly squirming at the feet of the maid before lying completely still.]]
* BlobMonster: The slime effect turns Sabitsuki into one of these, with the action button causing her to sink into herself.
** The smiley, cute orange blob monsters you can find in the hotel. They move every now and then and smile constantly but otherwise do nothing.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Several events will add to Sabitsuki's "Erosion Counter," and as the counter goes up more and more blood appears in her room, [[spoiler: eventually accompanied by what may be life-support devices near the computer.]]
** The best way to distinguish an enraged Kaibutsu from a calm one is this.
** Blood can be seen on Smile's mouth.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh yes. This game redefines ''rusting'' to mean ''grows increasingly bloodier'' and there are several events where areas rust [[spoiler: including Sabitsuki herself]].
** Specifically, there's a hidden counter called the "erosion counter" that basically tics up every time Sabitsuki[[spoiler: or Rust]] experiences a particularly traumatic event. As this goes up, [[spoiler:more blood starts to show up in her normal room.]]
** The most disturbing scene in the game, [[spoiler:known as the "Dying Girls Event", has Sabitsuki witnessing 9 black haired girls spontaneously exploding one after another and then witnessing viscera splitting out of the stomach of a large black haired girl on the wall. After witnessing this event, Sabitsuki's vision goes blurry and she wakes up.]]
* BodyHorror: All over the place. Sabitsuki also has an effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed form.
** In the endgame, as you get hit by more and more red demons, [[spoiler:Rust]] decays more and more, causing more wounds to appear until death.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The endgame has the player become "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.
* CarryABigStick: Sabitsuki uses a steel pipe to kill things.
* {{Catgirl}}: The cat effect. Sabitsuki can turn into a cat while this effect is active.
* CheshireCatGrin: Smile's smile is unnerving.
*** In the [[spoiler: Maid ending, it cuts from the maid and Sabitsuki on a balcony, to the Maid carrying a seemingly dead Sabitsuki in her arms]]
*** In the True Ending, [[spoiler:it's used right before Rust kills Demon Sabitsuki and is followed by her waking up. Also used in the last scene, where we see a grinning, demonic Sabitsuki rush into the maid's chainsaw. We then see a legless Sabitsuki briefly squirming at the feet of the maid before lying completely still.]]
* BlobMonster: The slime effect turns Sabitsuki into one of these, with the action button causing her to sink into herself.
** The smiley, cute orange blob monsters you can find in the hotel. They move every now and then and smile constantly but otherwise do nothing.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Several events will add to Sabitsuki's "Erosion Counter," and as the counter goes up more and more blood appears in her room, [[spoiler: eventually accompanied by what may be life-support devices near the computer.]]
** The best way to distinguish an enraged Kaibutsu from a calm one is this.
** Blood can be seen on Smile's mouth.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh yes. This game redefines ''rusting'' to mean ''grows increasingly bloodier'' and there are several events where areas rust [[spoiler: including Sabitsuki herself]].
** Specifically, there's a hidden counter called the "erosion counter" that basically tics up every time Sabitsuki[[spoiler: or Rust]] experiences a particularly traumatic event. As this goes up, [[spoiler:more blood starts to show up in her normal room.]]
** The most disturbing scene in the game, [[spoiler:known as the "Dying Girls Event", has Sabitsuki witnessing 9 black haired girls spontaneously exploding one after another and then witnessing viscera splitting out of the stomach of a large black haired girl on the wall. After witnessing this event, Sabitsuki's vision goes blurry and she wakes up.]]
* BodyHorror: All over the place. Sabitsuki also has an effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed form.
** In the endgame, as you get hit by more and more red demons, [[spoiler:Rust]] decays more and more, causing more wounds to appear until death.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The endgame has the player become "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.
* CarryABigStick: Sabitsuki uses a steel pipe to kill things.
* {{Catgirl}}: The cat effect. Sabitsuki can turn into a cat while this effect is active.
* CheshireCatGrin: Smile's smile is unnerving.
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*** In the Rooftop Ending, [[spoiler: it first ending, the scene cuts from Sabitsuki on standing over a balcony, balcony to bloody footprints on a black blackground with some black-haired girls in there as well.]]
screen.
*** In the[[spoiler: Maid second ending, it the scene cuts from the maid and Sabitsuki on a balcony, to the Maid carrying a seemingly dead Sabitsuki in her arms]]
*** In the True Ending, [[spoiler:it's used right before Rust kills DemonSabitsuki and is followed by her waking up. Also used in [[spoiler:a gas-mask maid from the last scene, where we see Sugar Hole]] standing over the balcony to a grinning, demonic black screen.
*** In the third and final ending, the scene cuts from [[spoiler:the maid pulling out a chainsaw, then Sabitsukirush into the maid's chainsaw. We then see a legless Sabitsuki briefly squirming charging at the feet of the maid before lying completely still.]]
her]], to a black screen.
*BlobMonster: BlobMonster
** The slime effect turns Sabitsuki into one of these, with the action button causing her to sink into herself.
**The smiley, cute In the apartments area, two orange blob monsters you blob-monsters can find in the hotel. be found. They move every now and then and smile constantly make bubbly sounds when interacted with, but otherwise do nothing.
*BloodFromTheMouth: BloodFromTheMouth
** Several events will add to Sabitsuki's "ErosionCounter," Counter", and as the counter goes up more and more blood appears in her room, [[spoiler: eventually [[spoiler:eventually accompanied by what may be life-support devices near the computer.]]
]] One of these events in particular has Sabitsuki coughing blood from the mouth before fainting.
** The best way to distinguish an enraged Kaibutsu from a calm oneis this.
- calm Kaibutsu resemble normal schoolgirls with slightly bloody faces, while enraged ones have very bloody faces, usually accompanied by some kind of body horror.
** Blood can be seen on Smile'smouth.
mouth, as well as several mouth posters in the school area.
** One area of the WombLevel has a very detailed mouth in the background, decayed and bleeding profusely.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh yes. This game redefines ''rusting'' to mean ''grows increasingly bloodier'' and there are several events where areasrust [[spoiler: including rust, [[spoiler:including Sabitsuki herself]].
** Specifically, there's a hidden counter called the "erosion counter" that basically tics up every time Sabitsuki[[spoiler: or Rust]] experiences a particularly traumatic event. As this goes up, [[spoiler:more blood starts to show up in her normal room.]]
** The most disturbing scene in the game, [[spoiler:known known as the "Dying [[spoiler:"Dying Girls Event", Event"]], has Sabitsuki witnessing 9 [[spoiler:nine black haired girls spontaneously exploding one after another another, and then witnessing viscera splitting out of the stomach of a large black haired girl on the wall. wall.]] After witnessing this event, Sabitsuki's vision goes blurry and she wakes up.]]
up.
* BodyHorror: All over the place.Sabitsuki also has an There are very many examples of body horror to be found.
** A few of Sabitsuki's effects invoke this - the Arm effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armedform.
form, and the Viscera effect has her walk around with her [[Squick intestines just hanging out]], and its side-effect is Sabitsuki attempting to stuff them back in.
** In the endgame, as you get hit by more and more red demons,[[spoiler:Rust]] Rust decays more and more, causing more wounds her to appear become blood-covered and severely mangled, until death.
she dies.
* BroughtDownToNormal:The endgame has the player become "Rust", a possible speculated to be an alter-ego of Sabitsuki.
Sabitsuki, who you play as in the endgame, has no access to any of Sabitsuki's effects. Despite this, Rust can go some places Sabitsuki could not.
* CarryABigStick: Sabitsuki usesa steel an iron pipe to kill things.
* {{Catgirl}}: Thecat effect. Sabitsuki can turn into a cat while this effect is active.
Cat effect, as described above under {{Animorphism}}.
* CheshireCatGrin:Smile's smile is unnerving. Unnerving smiles can be found in many places, some bleeding. Smile, to his name, has one very unnerving one, and the pigtailed Kaibutsu's enraged form has a very bloody one. Occasionally, Sabitsuki or Rust can spout one at times.
*** In the
*** In the True Ending, [[spoiler:it's used right before Rust kills Demon
*** In the third and final ending, the scene cuts from [[spoiler:the maid pulling out a chainsaw, then Sabitsuki
*
** The slime effect turns Sabitsuki into one of these, with the action button causing her to sink into herself.
**
*
** Several events will add to Sabitsuki's "Erosion
** The best way to distinguish an enraged Kaibutsu from a calm one
** Blood can be seen on Smile's
** One area of the WombLevel has a very detailed mouth in the background, decayed and bleeding profusely.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh yes. This game redefines ''rusting'' to mean ''grows increasingly bloodier'' and there are several events where areas
* BodyHorror: All over the place.
** A few of Sabitsuki's effects invoke this - the Arm effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed
** In the endgame, as you get hit by more and more red demons,
* BroughtDownToNormal:
* CarryABigStick: Sabitsuki uses
* {{Catgirl}}: The
* CheshireCatGrin:
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''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going under the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a LOT of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, with "lol" being known only by a twitter and a {{Pixiv}} account. As of 0.1, the game now has an end game that leads up to an ending that increases in length as one continues to explore.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[MeaningfulName Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer (in one way or another, whether it be the internet or artificially-induced dreaming) to explore a surreal world while collecting special abilities known as 'effects'. These 'effects' change Sabitsuki's appearance, varying from witch clothes to a corpse. Notably, some such as the whistle and the pipe shall affect NPC's, although most [[GogglesDoNothing do nothing]].
Various versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]]. Version 0.15 can be found [[http://loda.jp/lol_rust/ here]]. The author also has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[MeaningfulName Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer (in one way or another, whether it be the internet or artificially-induced dreaming) to explore a surreal world while collecting special abilities known as 'effects'. These 'effects' change Sabitsuki's appearance, varying from witch clothes to a corpse. Notably, some such as the whistle and the pipe shall affect NPC's, although most [[GogglesDoNothing do nothing]].
Various versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]]. Version 0.15 can be found [[http://loda.jp/lol_rust/ here]]. The author also has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist.
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''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going under by the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a LOT ''lot'' of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, currently at version 0.17, with "lol" being known only by a twitter and a {{Pixiv}} account.few site accounts listed below. As of 0.1, 10 and onwards, the game now has an end game that leads up to an ending that increases a proper endgame or final chapter, as well as three endings, both of which increase in length as one continues to explore.
explore through the game.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[MeaningfulName Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer(in - in one way or another, whether it be as the internet or artificially-induced dreaming) method is not explicitly mentioned - to explore a surreal world while collecting special abilities known as 'effects'. "effects". These 'effects' "effects" change Sabitsuki's appearance, varying from a witch clothes outfit and a broom to a corpse. Notably, some Some effects, such as the whistle and the iron pipe shall can affect NPC's, [=NPCs=] and certain objects, although most [[GogglesDoNothing do nothing]].
only have a small animation or side-effect that can be activated, while some are simply cosmetic.
An English translation of the latest version, 0.17, can be found [[http://www.mediafire.com/download/ylxc48yy6nod8bp/flow0.17_eng.rar here]]. Various other versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]].Version 0.15 can be found [[http://loda.jp/lol_rust/ here]]. The author also author, lol, has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than theprotagonist.
protagonist - other [=NPCs=] have FanNicknames, be it from a filename or elsewhere.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[MeaningfulName Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer
An English translation of the latest version, 0.17, can be found [[http://www.mediafire.com/download/ylxc48yy6nod8bp/flow0.17_eng.rar here]]. Various other versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]].
Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the
'''Note:''' Unless otherwise stated, assume all examples below apply to the latest version of the game.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewers area actually includes a bar! And a pretty nice one at that.
* AcidTripDimension: .flow
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream]]
* {{Animorphism}}: The Cat ability turns Sabitsuki into a small white cat.
* AntiHero: Possibly [[spoiler: Rust]], the more malevolent version of Sabitsuki.
* AprilFools: The game had an update on April Fools, where only one event is added. [[MindScrew It only succeeds in adding more questions.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: The machine effect gives these to Sabitsuki.
** The TV effect gives Sabitsuki a TV for a head.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewers area actually includes a bar! And a pretty nice one at that.
* AcidTripDimension: .flow
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream]]
* {{Animorphism}}: The Cat ability turns Sabitsuki into a small white cat.
* AntiHero: Possibly [[spoiler: Rust]], the more malevolent version of Sabitsuki.
* AprilFools: The game had an update on April Fools, where only one event is added. [[MindScrew It only succeeds in adding more questions.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: The machine effect gives these to Sabitsuki.
** The TV effect gives Sabitsuki a TV for a head.
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* AntiHero: Possibly
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* CyclopsEffect: The Mono Eye ability gives Sabitsuki a single, large red eye on her face. It blinks in rapid succession with the action button.
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[[caption-width-right:320:Think [[HubLevel the nexus]] looks a bit unsettling? Just wait.]]
''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going under the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a LOT of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, with "lol" being known only by a twitter and a {{Pixiv}} account. As of 0.1, the game now has an end game that leads up to an ending that increases in length as one continues to explore.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[MeaningfulName Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer (in one way or another, whether it be the internet or artificially-induced dreaming) to explore a surreal world while collecting special abilities known as 'effects'. These 'effects' change Sabitsuki's appearance, varying from witch clothes to a corpse. Notably, some such as the whistle and the pipe shall affect NPC's, although most [[GogglesDoNothing do nothing]].
Various versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]]. Version 0.15 can be found [[http://loda.jp/lol_rust/ here]]. The author also has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist.
[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with the 2006 freeware life simulation game ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28video_game%29 Flow]]''.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewers area actually includes a bar! And a pretty nice one at that.
* AcidTripDimension: .flow
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream]]
* Animorphism: The Cat ability turns Sabitsuki into a small white cat.
* AntiHero: Possibly [[spoiler: Rust]], the more malevolent version of Sabitsuki.
* AprilFools: The game had an update on April Fools, where only one event is added. [[MindScrew It only succeeds in adding more questions.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: The machine effect gives these to Sabitsuki.
** The TV effect gives Sabitsuki a TV for a head.
* ArtShift: The [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] area is rendered in 8-bit.
* BellyMouth: The Red Demons all have a huge one.
* BlackScreenOfDeath
** Used in both Corrupted School events, [[spoiler: right before Smile kills Sabitsuki when done with Sabitsuki, and right before a deranged form of Rust kills Smile when done with Rust]]. [[NightmareFuel Laughter can be heard both times]].
** All three endings make use of this:
*** In the Rooftop Ending, [[spoiler: it cuts from Sabitsuki on a balcony, to bloody footprints on a black blackground with some black-haired girls in there as well.]]
*** In the [[spoiler: Maid ending, it cuts from the maid and Sabitsuki on a balcony, to the Maid carrying a seemingly dead Sabitsuki in her arms]]
*** In the True Ending, [[spoiler:it's used right before Rust kills Demon Sabitsuki and is followed by her waking up. Also used in the last scene, where we see a grinning, demonic Sabitsuki rush into the maid's chainsaw. We then see a legless Sabitsuki briefly squirming at the feet of the maid before lying completely still.]]
* BlobMonster: The slime effect turns Sabitsuki into one of these, with the action button causing her to sink into herself.
** The smiley, cute orange blob monsters you can find in the hotel. They move every now and then and smile constantly but otherwise do nothing.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Several events will add to Sabitsuki's "Erosion Counter," and as the counter goes up more and more blood appears in her room, [[spoiler: eventually accompanied by what may be life-support devices near the computer.]]
** The best way to distinguish an enraged Kaibutsu from a calm one is this.
** Blood can be seen on Smile's mouth.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh yes. This game redefines ''rusting'' to mean ''grows increasingly bloodier'' and there are several events where areas rust [[spoiler: including Sabitsuki herself]].
** Specifically, there's a hidden counter called the "erosion counter" that basically tics up every time Sabitsuki[[spoiler: or Rust]] experiences a particularly traumatic event. As this goes up, [[spoiler:more blood starts to show up in her normal room.]]
** The most disturbing scene in the game, [[spoiler:known as the "Dying Girls Event", has Sabitsuki witnessing 9 black haired girls spontaneously exploding one after another and then witnessing viscera splitting out of the stomach of a large black haired girl on the wall. After witnessing this event, Sabitsuki's vision goes blurry and she wakes up.]]
* BodyHorror: All over the place. Sabitsuki also has an effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed form.
** In the endgame, as you get hit by more and more red demons, [[spoiler:Rust]] decays more and more, causing more wounds to appear until death.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The endgame has the player become "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.
* CarryABigStick: Sabitsuki uses a steel pipe to kill things.
* {{Catgirl}}: The cat effect. Sabitsuki can turn into a cat while this effect is active.
* CheshireCatGrin: Smile's smile is unnerving.
* ColorMotif: Both dark red and orange come up in this game frequently. The dark red is most likely a reference to rust and/or blood, while the orange is one for Oreko and most likely Sabitsuki herself.
* CoolMask: The Gas Mask effect.
* CosmeticAward: Obtaining the special Flower, Orange, Rust, and Smile menus simply change the look of your menu when you talk to the front desk of the school.
** Averted with the Sugar Menu, which actually causes you to buy the meal, as opposed to just the drink, more often in the Sugar Hole.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the 8-bit area. When you leave, you will appear to not have taken that damage, but you have.
* Cyborg: Sabitsuki with the Machine effect.
* CyclopsEffect: The Mono Eye ability gives Sabitsuki a single, large red eye on her face. It blinks in rapid succession with the action button.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The general atmosphere of ''.flow'' is much darker than ''Yume Nikki''.
* DarkWorld: The Corrupted School and Corrupted Hospital are even scarier versions of the School and Hospital, right down to the [[HellIsThatNoise incredibly unsettling laughter]] in both.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Oreko doesn't wear shoes shoes in any of the locations you find her in.
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki either appears to or explicitly dies.]]
* DreamLand: the dreams/hallucinations that you explore for a vast majoroty of the game thanks to .flow
* DreamPeople: Every object/creature/person in .flow is limited to there. Everyone except [[spoiler: one of the maids in the true ending.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Kaibutsu, which means "monster", is a perfect way to describe the [[DemonicSpider demonic spiders]] the game throws at you.
* EyesAlwaysShut: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the Mono Eye effect.
* EyeScream: A couple of the posters in the school area depict a pair of eyes which appear to be either bleeding profusely or heavily tattooed. Some fans also speculate that [[spoiler: Smile's eyes are either missing, scarred or severely damaged as a result of their strange '+' shape. The effect you get from him is called 'tattoo', however, so it's unclear whether or not the '+' is just a design he has on his face or something even worse.]]
** As of V0.15, there is an eye graffiti in the apartments, that you can smack with the pipe and cause it to bleed.
* FanNickname: ''Candle World Kaibutsu'', for the Kaibutsu in the blood-path area after the hospital. Enrage it, and [[OhCrap it chases you faster than the Broom can fly]].
** ''Gabe'', a Kaibutsu that can be found in the ''Sugar Hole'' Bar.
* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain [=NPCs=] (as well as causing some to flee from her).
* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' and is also similar to the witch effect from the same game.
* GainaxEnding: The game has three endings, each one less coherent than the last.
* GasMaskMooks: The maids, who all wear gas masks.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Sabitsuki's killing implement of choice is a steel pipe.
* GoodGuyBar: The Sugar Hole, populated by one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki can occasionally get a beer there, or just have a meal at varying prices.
* {{Gorn}}: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki'' fangames. We have the tumbling doll, corpse and viscera (spilled guts) effects for Sabitsuki.
** Getting hit by red demons during the end game further and further decays Sabitsuki, to the point where her face is mangled and she's coated in blood.
* GottaCatchEmAll: All 24 effects (plus the 25th effect, the instructions) as Sabitsuki, then the [[spoiler:3 empty boxes corresponding to important parts of Sabitsuki's mind]].
* GuideDangIt: You ''will'', at some point or another, need to look up some videos or guides if you want to find some of the effects.
* TheHeroDies: In her mind mind you, Sabitsuki can try to bonk a Kaibutsu in the head and get [[MadeOfPlasticine torn to pieces]] for her efforts. There is also the "Bloody Room" event where her head explodes.
** [[spoiler: The endings make it unclear whether she's dead or not, but she's definitely messed up.]]
* HeroicAlbino: Sabitsuki
* {{Hikikomori}}: Sabitsuki appears to be one [[IllGirl among]] [[MonstrousHumanoid other]] things.
* HollywoodCyborg: The mechanical effect, which replaces her arms and legs with robotic parts and gives her robotic headgear.
* {{Homage}}: Mechanical things seem to have been inspired by asgr's designs for cyborgs and machines.
** The Broom event is a direct homage to [[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]'s Witch event.
* IllGirl: Sabitsuki is generally considered to be one (either physically, mentally, or both), to the point where it verges on being canon. To get an idea of how accepted this theory is, ''there aren't any popular alternatives.''
** The big question in .flow appears to be less about the main character's status then about the world it takes place in - [[MindScrew and how much of it is really Just A Dream]].
* InvisibilityCloak: The Ghost effect.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
* JumpScare: One random event in the red eye world, there is a "door" leading to an area with three Kaibutsu. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[HolyShitQuotient comes out of nowhere]]''.
** When you find Smile and his sister in their house, and decide to hit them with your steel pipe. ''[[spoiler: HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT]]''
** The event in the bar where you [[spoiler: try to attack a drinking Kaibutsu and she ''immediately'' counters your attack, killing you in the process.]]
** The very last scene of [[spoiler: the GoldenEnding. SUDDEN BLAST OF STATIC!]]
* KillItWithFire: The aforementioned Bar Kaibutsu [[spoiler: will stuff you into a furnace after killing you]].
* LaughingMad: Smile ''laughs'' when hit by your pipe.
* MeaningfulName: Sabitsuki translates to "covered in rust". Given the game's darker visual style and audio style along with it really fits. [[spoiler: The endgame has you play as "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.]]
** Smile. Also Sister, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Smile's little sister]].
** The white-haired, humanoid creatures that may or may not chase you are called "Kaibutsu," meaning "monster."
* MentalWorld: Sabitsuki explores her mind in some fashion. [[spoiler: It seems straightforward until the Endgame, where strange things start happening to her real life room, eventually waking up in her bed as if nothing happened. Of course, until you get to the very last ending.]]
* MindControlDevice: The Whistle effect causes most [=NPCs=] to move in the direction Sabitsuki is facing and the Gun causes most to move away from Sabitsuki.
* MindScrew: The entire game makes very little sense and is given no context. Especially prevalent in [[spoiler:scenes where Sabitsuki is forcibly woken up.]]
** The alleyway hospital [[spoiler: (dead and dying children EVERYWHERE, including Sabitsuki herself in a room)]] and the endgame, where [[spoiler: Sabitsuki leaves her room, only to turn into a kaibutsu, get killed by a robot maid, and then shown off like a trophy.]]
*** The back of the alleyway hospital , for some (probably sinister) reason, has a bunch of ''meat hooks'' hanging up in the hallways.
** Sabitsuki traverses the final part of the endgame [[spoiler: and ends up killing herself who is sitting on a throne - wait, what?]]
* MiniGame: Shinsoku Neko.
* MoodWhiplash: Through the red tentacle land of darkness and blood... technicolor and a cheery background tune along with cats and rainbow doorways, along with an [[UnexpectedShmupLevel incredibly uplifting scene!]]
** Also, going through the alleyway hospital to [[spoiler: dead and dying children. Everywhere.]]
* MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after completing all of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]]]
* NightmareFace: The Kaibutsu develop these when enraged. The world to the north also has things with wide-open mouths.
** Sabitsuki's face gets messed up as she takes more damage in the endgame. Even if there's not much to see, your mind will fill in the gaps.
** One part of the WombLevel has a creepily detailed mouth that is bleeding. It's terrifying.
* NothingIsScarier: There is a sequence involving an open, pitch black doorway with blood and gore splattered all around it. You can't see what's on the other side of the doorway at first, [[spoiler:and you never will as Sabitsuki. Sabitsuki refuses to go through the doorway, and the only way to leave the room is to step back, and when you do, Sabitsuki starts oozing blood ''everywhere'' causing her to pass out in the dream world and wake up to discover blood all over her keyboard - it's one of the few events that ramps up the erosion counter high enough by itself to do this. In other words, whatever Sabitsuki saw on the other side of that doorway was so horrifying that '''''[[YourMindMakesItReal it might have actually caused her physical harm]]'''''.]]
* PeopleJars: Two examples of this - both in the looping, industrial, orange lava maze accessible by the sewers. One is a giant Oreko in a tube, touching her changes the maze to a simple path. You can smash her tube, but it doesn't do anything (except keep the maze as a maze). Now, in the endgame, you can go deeper in via the simple path. At the end, you can go to a room inaccessible before the endgame. And here, where you get one of the [[spoiler:empty boxes]], is [[spoiler:a giant Sabitsuki]] in a tube.
* PlantPerson: The Plant effect makes Sabisuki into one. Fittingly, it's found in the plant labyrinth.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The tumbling doll effect causes Sabitsuki's body to fall apart. Also the viscera effect, where Sabitsuki casually walks around with her intestines hanging out and casually tries to shove them back inside when using the action button.
** The endgame trumps all that, as Sabitsuki continues to casually wander around even as her body is torn apart by demons.
* OneHitKill: The corrupted School event. [[spoiler: Both the pipe-carrying Kaibutsu and Smile will kill you should they reach you.]]
** [[spoiler: If not for a glitch in Rust's version of the corrupted school event, the giant red demons would do the exact same thing.]]
** The Kaibutsu in the bar [[spoiler: will murder you if you try to smack her.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: There is a room in the WombLevel where Sabitsuki can sit on a throne. [[spoiler:One of the empty boxes comes from a giant black-haired, blue-shirted girl on a giant throne from the same level. And the endgame has a bloody, damaged Sabitsuki sitting on a throne [[MindScrew Whicfghh you kill]].]]
* PerpetualBeta: Although it's still, version number-wise, farther in development than YumeNikki.
* RandomlyDrops: Money from killing enemies, as well as several events.
* RelationshipValues: There is a value for the relationship you have with Oreko. Interacting with her while she's outside her house nets you five points while killing her takes away ten. This mechanic is used to obtain the Orange Menu. See VideoGameCaringPotential below.
* SchmuckBait: As in ''Yume Nikki'', inactive enemies don't like being attacked. One in particular in a bar will even [[spoiler:kill Sabitsuki for trying to hit him]].
** Hitting Smile with the steel pipe in his house.
* ShoutOut: In particular, there are at least two that refer back to ''Yume Nikki''. The arm effect makes Sabitsuki look like Monoko's five-armed form. An image similar to Uboa also appears on the wall of a maze-like area that is also a dead end. More obscurely, the tumbling doll effect is functionally similar to the severed head effect in ''Yume Nikki'', and is in an endlessly looping area full of Kaibutsu.
** Another area appears to be a shout out to [[{{Earthbound}} Moonside]].
** Using the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki [[KikisDeliveryService a large red bow and blueish dress]].
** Madotsuki appears in the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
* SlasherSmile: The appropriately named character known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Smile']] gets one of these when [[spoiler:you whack him with the steel pipe.]]
** In the seemingly true ending, [[spoiler: when Sabitsuki is approached by a maid wielding a chainsaw, Sabitsuki sprouts one, right before she suicidally lunges at the chainsaw, wounding and probably killing herself]].
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror Blowing the whistle in one part of the industrial snow area reveals a ghost of a younger Sabitsuki wearing an orange scarf...]]]]
* SurrealHorror
* ThemeNaming: Another fangame character with a 'tsuki' in their name, though in Sabitsuki's case it means ''covered with''.
* TheVirus: [[spoiler:Parts of the game hint that Sabitsuki had, or currently has a mental disease or virus]]. The red demons could also been seen as these, especially in the endgame.
* TooManyMouths: The Red Demons have a mouth on their stomachs and have one covering their entire face.
* TheUndead: The Corpse effect.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The Witch Event, an homage to the Witch Event from ''YumeNikki''.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: There's a scene Sabitsuki can get to where she either has to kill her way through, or can get through with skillful manipulation of the whistle. The same thing happens in the scene regardless, but it's a little faster with the whistle since you don't have to wait for the [=NPCs=] in the way to fade first.
** There's a hidden friendship counter involving Oreko. It increases when you interact with her and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential decreases when you kill her.]] Maxing it out not only lets you get [[YourRewardIsClothes a unique menu style change]], but also [[spoiler: makes [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming a ghostly Oreko holding hands with a ghostly Sabitsuki appear]] in the dream world]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The steel pipe, Sabitsuki's equivalent to Madotsuki's knife, can be used to kill things, and there are oh so many defenseless characters out there to beat to death.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The same kind as present in ''Yume Nikki'': Trying to kill a Kaibutsu will just annoy them and make them chase Sabitsuki.
** Trying to kill the one in the bar will just [[spoiler:get Sabitsuki killed via a crowbar the Kaibutsu is holding]]. As an added note, swinging around your pipe at everything may result in some serious consequences. Mainly, smacking a Kaibutsu in a specific foggy area [[spoiler:[[SilentHill shall turn the whole place rusted and horrific]]]].
* WeatherControlMachine: The Watering Can effect makes it rain in varying degrees, from a slight drizzle to a downpour.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The general consensus is that version 0.16 counts as this, depending on just how much of an April Fools joke you take it as.
* WombLevel: One major area is a cavern full of fleshy walls, with a few rooms that resemble organs. Also, one can hear a dull thumping noise like a heart beat.
* YourHeadASplode: Attempting to enter the bloody room before the endgame will cause Sabitsuki to shake her head and refuse to go in. When you then try to leave the area, she falls to her knees as her head bleeds profusely and falls apart.
** After you activate the event that starts the endgame, this happens if you bump into too many red demons.
* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal]]: Sabitsuki's dreams are so bloody [[spoiler:that the blood appears in reality]].
* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of effects, but especially the Hoodie effect, which has no action at all associated with it and only purpose seems to be making Sabitsuki wear a hoodie. Some of the new effects serve the same purpose, like the funeral gown and the school uniform. [[FridgeHorror Until you think about what this means to Sabitsuki...]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:Think [[HubLevel the nexus]] looks a bit unsettling? Just wait.]]
''.flow'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] ''YumeNikki'' [[SpiritualSuccessor fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going under the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a LOT of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, with "lol" being known only by a twitter and a {{Pixiv}} account. As of 0.1, the game now has an end game that leads up to an ending that increases in length as one continues to explore.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[MeaningfulName Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer (in one way or another, whether it be the internet or artificially-induced dreaming) to explore a surreal world while collecting special abilities known as 'effects'. These 'effects' change Sabitsuki's appearance, varying from witch clothes to a corpse. Notably, some such as the whistle and the pipe shall affect NPC's, although most [[GogglesDoNothing do nothing]].
Various versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [[http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]]. Version 0.15 can be found [[http://loda.jp/lol_rust/ here]]. The author also has a [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,]] a [[http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account]] and a [[http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page]].
Notably, much like [[YumeNikki the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[EpilepticTrees are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist.
[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with the 2006 freeware life simulation game ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28video_game%29 Flow]]''.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewers area actually includes a bar! And a pretty nice one at that.
* AcidTripDimension: .flow
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream]]
* Animorphism: The Cat ability turns Sabitsuki into a small white cat.
* AntiHero: Possibly [[spoiler: Rust]], the more malevolent version of Sabitsuki.
* AprilFools: The game had an update on April Fools, where only one event is added. [[MindScrew It only succeeds in adding more questions.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: The machine effect gives these to Sabitsuki.
** The TV effect gives Sabitsuki a TV for a head.
* ArtShift: The [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] area is rendered in 8-bit.
* BellyMouth: The Red Demons all have a huge one.
* BlackScreenOfDeath
** Used in both Corrupted School events, [[spoiler: right before Smile kills Sabitsuki when done with Sabitsuki, and right before a deranged form of Rust kills Smile when done with Rust]]. [[NightmareFuel Laughter can be heard both times]].
** All three endings make use of this:
*** In the Rooftop Ending, [[spoiler: it cuts from Sabitsuki on a balcony, to bloody footprints on a black blackground with some black-haired girls in there as well.]]
*** In the [[spoiler: Maid ending, it cuts from the maid and Sabitsuki on a balcony, to the Maid carrying a seemingly dead Sabitsuki in her arms]]
*** In the True Ending, [[spoiler:it's used right before Rust kills Demon Sabitsuki and is followed by her waking up. Also used in the last scene, where we see a grinning, demonic Sabitsuki rush into the maid's chainsaw. We then see a legless Sabitsuki briefly squirming at the feet of the maid before lying completely still.]]
* BlobMonster: The slime effect turns Sabitsuki into one of these, with the action button causing her to sink into herself.
** The smiley, cute orange blob monsters you can find in the hotel. They move every now and then and smile constantly but otherwise do nothing.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Several events will add to Sabitsuki's "Erosion Counter," and as the counter goes up more and more blood appears in her room, [[spoiler: eventually accompanied by what may be life-support devices near the computer.]]
** The best way to distinguish an enraged Kaibutsu from a calm one is this.
** Blood can be seen on Smile's mouth.
* BloodierAndGorier: Oh yes. This game redefines ''rusting'' to mean ''grows increasingly bloodier'' and there are several events where areas rust [[spoiler: including Sabitsuki herself]].
** Specifically, there's a hidden counter called the "erosion counter" that basically tics up every time Sabitsuki[[spoiler: or Rust]] experiences a particularly traumatic event. As this goes up, [[spoiler:more blood starts to show up in her normal room.]]
** The most disturbing scene in the game, [[spoiler:known as the "Dying Girls Event", has Sabitsuki witnessing 9 black haired girls spontaneously exploding one after another and then witnessing viscera splitting out of the stomach of a large black haired girl on the wall. After witnessing this event, Sabitsuki's vision goes blurry and she wakes up.]]
* BodyHorror: All over the place. Sabitsuki also has an effect that makes her look like Monoko's five-armed form.
** In the endgame, as you get hit by more and more red demons, [[spoiler:Rust]] decays more and more, causing more wounds to appear until death.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The endgame has the player become "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.
* CarryABigStick: Sabitsuki uses a steel pipe to kill things.
* {{Catgirl}}: The cat effect. Sabitsuki can turn into a cat while this effect is active.
* CheshireCatGrin: Smile's smile is unnerving.
* ColorMotif: Both dark red and orange come up in this game frequently. The dark red is most likely a reference to rust and/or blood, while the orange is one for Oreko and most likely Sabitsuki herself.
* CoolMask: The Gas Mask effect.
* CosmeticAward: Obtaining the special Flower, Orange, Rust, and Smile menus simply change the look of your menu when you talk to the front desk of the school.
** Averted with the Sugar Menu, which actually causes you to buy the meal, as opposed to just the drink, more often in the Sugar Hole.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: The endgame has a glitch that involves taking damage in the 8-bit area. When you leave, you will appear to not have taken that damage, but you have.
* Cyborg: Sabitsuki with the Machine effect.
* CyclopsEffect: The Mono Eye ability gives Sabitsuki a single, large red eye on her face. It blinks in rapid succession with the action button.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The general atmosphere of ''.flow'' is much darker than ''Yume Nikki''.
* DarkWorld: The Corrupted School and Corrupted Hospital are even scarier versions of the School and Hospital, right down to the [[HellIsThatNoise incredibly unsettling laughter]] in both.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Oreko doesn't wear shoes shoes in any of the locations you find her in.
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: No matter which ending you choose, Sabitsuki either appears to or explicitly dies.]]
* DreamLand: the dreams/hallucinations that you explore for a vast majoroty of the game thanks to .flow
* DreamPeople: Every object/creature/person in .flow is limited to there. Everyone except [[spoiler: one of the maids in the true ending.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Kaibutsu, which means "monster", is a perfect way to describe the [[DemonicSpider demonic spiders]] the game throws at you.
* EyesAlwaysShut: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the Mono Eye effect.
* EyeScream: A couple of the posters in the school area depict a pair of eyes which appear to be either bleeding profusely or heavily tattooed. Some fans also speculate that [[spoiler: Smile's eyes are either missing, scarred or severely damaged as a result of their strange '+' shape. The effect you get from him is called 'tattoo', however, so it's unclear whether or not the '+' is just a design he has on his face or something even worse.]]
** As of V0.15, there is an eye graffiti in the apartments, that you can smack with the pipe and cause it to bleed.
* FanNickname: ''Candle World Kaibutsu'', for the Kaibutsu in the blood-path area after the hospital. Enrage it, and [[OhCrap it chases you faster than the Broom can fly]].
** ''Gabe'', a Kaibutsu that can be found in the ''Sugar Hole'' Bar.
* FiringInTheAirALot: The Gun effect, which has certain effects on certain [=NPCs=] (as well as causing some to flee from her).
* FlyingBroomstick: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''YumeNikki'' and is also similar to the witch effect from the same game.
* GainaxEnding: The game has three endings, each one less coherent than the last.
* GasMaskMooks: The maids, who all wear gas masks.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Sabitsuki's killing implement of choice is a steel pipe.
* GoodGuyBar: The Sugar Hole, populated by one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki can occasionally get a beer there, or just have a meal at varying prices.
* {{Gorn}}: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki'' fangames. We have the tumbling doll, corpse and viscera (spilled guts) effects for Sabitsuki.
** Getting hit by red demons during the end game further and further decays Sabitsuki, to the point where her face is mangled and she's coated in blood.
* GottaCatchEmAll: All 24 effects (plus the 25th effect, the instructions) as Sabitsuki, then the [[spoiler:3 empty boxes corresponding to important parts of Sabitsuki's mind]].
* GuideDangIt: You ''will'', at some point or another, need to look up some videos or guides if you want to find some of the effects.
* TheHeroDies: In her mind mind you, Sabitsuki can try to bonk a Kaibutsu in the head and get [[MadeOfPlasticine torn to pieces]] for her efforts. There is also the "Bloody Room" event where her head explodes.
** [[spoiler: The endings make it unclear whether she's dead or not, but she's definitely messed up.]]
* HeroicAlbino: Sabitsuki
* {{Hikikomori}}: Sabitsuki appears to be one [[IllGirl among]] [[MonstrousHumanoid other]] things.
* HollywoodCyborg: The mechanical effect, which replaces her arms and legs with robotic parts and gives her robotic headgear.
* {{Homage}}: Mechanical things seem to have been inspired by asgr's designs for cyborgs and machines.
** The Broom event is a direct homage to [[YumeNikki Yume Nikki]]'s Witch event.
* IllGirl: Sabitsuki is generally considered to be one (either physically, mentally, or both), to the point where it verges on being canon. To get an idea of how accepted this theory is, ''there aren't any popular alternatives.''
** The big question in .flow appears to be less about the main character's status then about the world it takes place in - [[MindScrew and how much of it is really Just A Dream]].
* InvisibilityCloak: The Ghost effect.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
* JumpScare: One random event in the red eye world, there is a "door" leading to an area with three Kaibutsu. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[HolyShitQuotient comes out of nowhere]]''.
** When you find Smile and his sister in their house, and decide to hit them with your steel pipe. ''[[spoiler: HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT]]''
** The event in the bar where you [[spoiler: try to attack a drinking Kaibutsu and she ''immediately'' counters your attack, killing you in the process.]]
** The very last scene of [[spoiler: the GoldenEnding. SUDDEN BLAST OF STATIC!]]
* KillItWithFire: The aforementioned Bar Kaibutsu [[spoiler: will stuff you into a furnace after killing you]].
* LaughingMad: Smile ''laughs'' when hit by your pipe.
* MeaningfulName: Sabitsuki translates to "covered in rust". Given the game's darker visual style and audio style along with it really fits. [[spoiler: The endgame has you play as "Rust", a possible alter-ego of Sabitsuki.]]
** Smile. Also Sister, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Smile's little sister]].
** The white-haired, humanoid creatures that may or may not chase you are called "Kaibutsu," meaning "monster."
* MentalWorld: Sabitsuki explores her mind in some fashion. [[spoiler: It seems straightforward until the Endgame, where strange things start happening to her real life room, eventually waking up in her bed as if nothing happened. Of course, until you get to the very last ending.]]
* MindControlDevice: The Whistle effect causes most [=NPCs=] to move in the direction Sabitsuki is facing and the Gun causes most to move away from Sabitsuki.
* MindScrew: The entire game makes very little sense and is given no context. Especially prevalent in [[spoiler:scenes where Sabitsuki is forcibly woken up.]]
** The alleyway hospital [[spoiler: (dead and dying children EVERYWHERE, including Sabitsuki herself in a room)]] and the endgame, where [[spoiler: Sabitsuki leaves her room, only to turn into a kaibutsu, get killed by a robot maid, and then shown off like a trophy.]]
*** The back of the alleyway hospital , for some (probably sinister) reason, has a bunch of ''meat hooks'' hanging up in the hallways.
** Sabitsuki traverses the final part of the endgame [[spoiler: and ends up killing herself who is sitting on a throne - wait, what?]]
* MiniGame: Shinsoku Neko.
* MoodWhiplash: Through the red tentacle land of darkness and blood... technicolor and a cheery background tune along with cats and rainbow doorways, along with an [[UnexpectedShmupLevel incredibly uplifting scene!]]
** Also, going through the alleyway hospital to [[spoiler: dead and dying children. Everywhere.]]
* MultipleEndings: Three of them - one after collecting all the effects, one after dropping all the effects, and one after completing all of the endgame. All of these happen by leaving your room by the nexus door in the real world. [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Though they may or may not be all the same ending.]]]]
* NightmareFace: The Kaibutsu develop these when enraged. The world to the north also has things with wide-open mouths.
** Sabitsuki's face gets messed up as she takes more damage in the endgame. Even if there's not much to see, your mind will fill in the gaps.
** One part of the WombLevel has a creepily detailed mouth that is bleeding. It's terrifying.
* NothingIsScarier: There is a sequence involving an open, pitch black doorway with blood and gore splattered all around it. You can't see what's on the other side of the doorway at first, [[spoiler:and you never will as Sabitsuki. Sabitsuki refuses to go through the doorway, and the only way to leave the room is to step back, and when you do, Sabitsuki starts oozing blood ''everywhere'' causing her to pass out in the dream world and wake up to discover blood all over her keyboard - it's one of the few events that ramps up the erosion counter high enough by itself to do this. In other words, whatever Sabitsuki saw on the other side of that doorway was so horrifying that '''''[[YourMindMakesItReal it might have actually caused her physical harm]]'''''.]]
* PeopleJars: Two examples of this - both in the looping, industrial, orange lava maze accessible by the sewers. One is a giant Oreko in a tube, touching her changes the maze to a simple path. You can smash her tube, but it doesn't do anything (except keep the maze as a maze). Now, in the endgame, you can go deeper in via the simple path. At the end, you can go to a room inaccessible before the endgame. And here, where you get one of the [[spoiler:empty boxes]], is [[spoiler:a giant Sabitsuki]] in a tube.
* PlantPerson: The Plant effect makes Sabisuki into one. Fittingly, it's found in the plant labyrinth.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The tumbling doll effect causes Sabitsuki's body to fall apart. Also the viscera effect, where Sabitsuki casually walks around with her intestines hanging out and casually tries to shove them back inside when using the action button.
** The endgame trumps all that, as Sabitsuki continues to casually wander around even as her body is torn apart by demons.
* OneHitKill: The corrupted School event. [[spoiler: Both the pipe-carrying Kaibutsu and Smile will kill you should they reach you.]]
** [[spoiler: If not for a glitch in Rust's version of the corrupted school event, the giant red demons would do the exact same thing.]]
** The Kaibutsu in the bar [[spoiler: will murder you if you try to smack her.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: There is a room in the WombLevel where Sabitsuki can sit on a throne. [[spoiler:One of the empty boxes comes from a giant black-haired, blue-shirted girl on a giant throne from the same level. And the endgame has a bloody, damaged Sabitsuki sitting on a throne [[MindScrew Whicfghh you kill]].]]
* PerpetualBeta: Although it's still, version number-wise, farther in development than YumeNikki.
* RandomlyDrops: Money from killing enemies, as well as several events.
* RelationshipValues: There is a value for the relationship you have with Oreko. Interacting with her while she's outside her house nets you five points while killing her takes away ten. This mechanic is used to obtain the Orange Menu. See VideoGameCaringPotential below.
* SchmuckBait: As in ''Yume Nikki'', inactive enemies don't like being attacked. One in particular in a bar will even [[spoiler:kill Sabitsuki for trying to hit him]].
** Hitting Smile with the steel pipe in his house.
* ShoutOut: In particular, there are at least two that refer back to ''Yume Nikki''. The arm effect makes Sabitsuki look like Monoko's five-armed form. An image similar to Uboa also appears on the wall of a maze-like area that is also a dead end. More obscurely, the tumbling doll effect is functionally similar to the severed head effect in ''Yume Nikki'', and is in an endlessly looping area full of Kaibutsu.
** Another area appears to be a shout out to [[{{Earthbound}} Moonside]].
** Using the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki [[KikisDeliveryService a large red bow and blueish dress]].
** Madotsuki appears in the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
* SlasherSmile: The appropriately named character known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Smile']] gets one of these when [[spoiler:you whack him with the steel pipe.]]
** In the seemingly true ending, [[spoiler: when Sabitsuki is approached by a maid wielding a chainsaw, Sabitsuki sprouts one, right before she suicidally lunges at the chainsaw, wounding and probably killing herself]].
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror Blowing the whistle in one part of the industrial snow area reveals a ghost of a younger Sabitsuki wearing an orange scarf...]]]]
* SurrealHorror
* ThemeNaming: Another fangame character with a 'tsuki' in their name, though in Sabitsuki's case it means ''covered with''.
* TheVirus: [[spoiler:Parts of the game hint that Sabitsuki had, or currently has a mental disease or virus]]. The red demons could also been seen as these, especially in the endgame.
* TooManyMouths: The Red Demons have a mouth on their stomachs and have one covering their entire face.
* TheUndead: The Corpse effect.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The Witch Event, an homage to the Witch Event from ''YumeNikki''.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: There's a scene Sabitsuki can get to where she either has to kill her way through, or can get through with skillful manipulation of the whistle. The same thing happens in the scene regardless, but it's a little faster with the whistle since you don't have to wait for the [=NPCs=] in the way to fade first.
** There's a hidden friendship counter involving Oreko. It increases when you interact with her and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential decreases when you kill her.]] Maxing it out not only lets you get [[YourRewardIsClothes a unique menu style change]], but also [[spoiler: makes [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming a ghostly Oreko holding hands with a ghostly Sabitsuki appear]] in the dream world]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The steel pipe, Sabitsuki's equivalent to Madotsuki's knife, can be used to kill things, and there are oh so many defenseless characters out there to beat to death.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The same kind as present in ''Yume Nikki'': Trying to kill a Kaibutsu will just annoy them and make them chase Sabitsuki.
** Trying to kill the one in the bar will just [[spoiler:get Sabitsuki killed via a crowbar the Kaibutsu is holding]]. As an added note, swinging around your pipe at everything may result in some serious consequences. Mainly, smacking a Kaibutsu in a specific foggy area [[spoiler:[[SilentHill shall turn the whole place rusted and horrific]]]].
* WeatherControlMachine: The Watering Can effect makes it rain in varying degrees, from a slight drizzle to a downpour.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The general consensus is that version 0.16 counts as this, depending on just how much of an April Fools joke you take it as.
* WombLevel: One major area is a cavern full of fleshy walls, with a few rooms that resemble organs. Also, one can hear a dull thumping noise like a heart beat.
* YourHeadASplode: Attempting to enter the bloody room before the endgame will cause Sabitsuki to shake her head and refuse to go in. When you then try to leave the area, she falls to her knees as her head bleeds profusely and falls apart.
** After you activate the event that starts the endgame, this happens if you bump into too many red demons.
* [[spoiler:YourMindMakesItReal]]: Sabitsuki's dreams are so bloody [[spoiler:that the blood appears in reality]].
* YourRewardIsClothes: A number of effects, but especially the Hoodie effect, which has no action at all associated with it and only purpose seems to be making Sabitsuki wear a hoodie. Some of the new effects serve the same purpose, like the funeral gown and the school uniform. [[FridgeHorror Until you think about what this means to Sabitsuki...]]
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