History VideoGame / GriefSyndrome

* CosmeticAward: The game features UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork-esque trophies for accomplishing certain goals in the game.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Oktavia von Seckendorf appears as an optional boss if Sayaka dies at any point of the game, which makes sense considering her fate in the anime series.]]

* FlunkyBoss: All of them, except [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss Oktavia von Seckendorf]].]]

* {{Speedrun}}: The game tracks how long it took you to beat it. Beating it quickly is somewhat harder, since you have less time to grind levels on weak witches.

* GolfClubbing: [[spoiler:Another Homura's WeaponOfChoice.]]

* NintendoHard: The third level in the game has an ''insane'' amount of hazards such as electrified floors, huge gaping pitfalls, indestructible projectiles, and enemies that drop televisions on your head and fly at you when you can't see them. [[UpToEleven And on higher laps...]]

** Sayaka has jumped up from being the weakest fighter in the original series to arguably one of the strongest in the game.

** Also, [[spoiler:Another Homura. The cute, inexperienced {{Meganekko}} damages other characters with her pipe bombs, and her main weapons are a {{shotgun|sAreJustBetter}}, a {{handgun}} and [[ImprobableWeaponUser a golf club]], as she hasn't yet acquired the military arsenal available to her more experienced counterpart.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: [[spoiler:Homura from the earlier timelines in the anime series added in v1.10]].

''Grief Syndrome'' is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp [[DoujinSoft doujin game]] by Creator/TwilightFrontier, the makers of the ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'' series, the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fighting games along with other ''Touhou'' fan-games, and ''Higurashi Daybreak''.

''Grief Syndrome'' is a fan-game based on the anime and manga series, ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. In this game, players can play as Madoka Kaname, Sayaka Miki, Homura Akemi, Mami Tomoe, and Kyoko Sakura across five stages to slay waves of familiars and take down the witch waiting at the end of each stage. Unlike most beat 'em ups, each magical girl's life is dependent on her Soul Limit, which also acts a timer as it depletes over time. If a magical girl has taken some damage, she can automatically replenish her HitPoints for some of her Soul Limit, but dying comes at a greater expense in order to be revived shortly after. Once a magical girl's Soul Limit reaches zero, [[FinalDeath she is dead for good]] until a new game starts.

* FinalDeath: If you merely run out of health, you'll be revived, but at a significant cost to your Soul Limit; [[KilledOffForReal and when that runs out, you're gone for good.]] Your soul gradually drains at all times, much more quickly while your health is regenerating. [[spoiler:In Saya's case, once she dies, she becomes Oktavia von Seckendorf and can be fought as an optional boss.]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: Sayaka , Mami and Kyouko, all scoring Grade A.

* WeddingDay: [[spoiler:Two of the game's ending have Homura marrying Madoka (which to Madoka, seems like a [[FateWorseThanDeath Fate Far Worse Than Death]]) if they are the only ones to survive in the end, and Sayaka marrying Kyoko (which they lived MaybeEverAfter) if they survive in the end instead.]]

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* AdaptationalBadass: [[BadassAdorable Madoka]], since she doesn't see much action in the original anime but is a magical girl who fights alongside her friends in this game. To be fair, her incarnations from alternate realities in the anime and [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion the movie]] demonstrated well enough that she's more than capable of handling herself as an ordinary magical girl.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:If Mami is the only magical girl to survive at the end of the game, a still image of her sitting all alone at a table with tea and snacks prepared for her friends, who are all dead.]]

* JokeCharacter: In v1.10, Kyubey becomes playable if there are more players than characters alive. He can't fight at all and can be killed off by the other players.
** Also possibly justified in-universe, in what might called a case of FridgeBrilliance: ''of course'' Kyubey won't fight. Why would he? He is immortal/there are infinite "hims", and can afford to die any number of times he desires. He'd probably consider fighting a gross waste of energy.

* ScoringPoints

* ZettaiRyouiki: Sayaka, Mami and Kyouko.

* CosmeticAward: The game features [[PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Network]]-esque trophies for accomplishing certain goals in the game.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: If Mami is the only magical girl to survive at the end of the game, a still image of her sitting all alone at a table with tea and snacks prepared for her friends, who are all dead.]]

* [[spoiler:EverybodyLives: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's exactly what it says]] if nobody died at the end of the game.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Meganekko}}: Homura from the earlier timelines in the anime series added in v1.10]].

* [[spoiler:ResetButtonEnding: If the player finishes the game in a way that doesn't meet the requirements of certain specific endings, the ending shows Homura waking up from her hospital bed just as in the anime series.]]

* [[spoiler:WeddingDay: Two of the game's ending have Homura marrying Madoka (which to Madoka, seems like a [[FateWorseThanDeath Fate Far Worse Than Death]]) if they are the only ones to survive in the end, and Sayaka marrying Kyoko (which they lived MaybeEverAfter) if they survive in the end instead.]]

See also ''VideoGame/HomuraCombat'', a ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce'' fan-game by OHBADO staring Homura Akemi.

'''''Grief Syndrome''''' is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp [[DoujinSoft doujin game]] by Creator/TwilightFrontier, the makers of the ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'' series, the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fighting games along with other ''Touhou'' fan-games, and ''Higurashi Daybreak''.