History VideoGame / HotaruNoNikkiTheFireflyDiary

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game is about guiding a little girl through essentially death trap while several shadow creatures are out to kill her, and it only gets darker as you uncover more of Mion's past. On top of that, it lacks the humor that even some of Nippon Ichi's darker games have. The color palette is also much darker than usual, using mostly greens, greys, browns, and blacks.
* {{Determinator}}: Did you die 100 times? Have a trophy titled, "Unbreakable Resolve!"

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Courtesy of Mion being a OneHitWonder.

* HornedHumanoid: Mion has tree branch-like antlers. [[spoiler:They are what designates her as a Mion clone. When the original Mion possesses the clone body, the antlers fall off.]]

* HornedHumanoid: Mion has tree branch-like antlers.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Clone Mion kills Lumen and Umbra, Mion's parents, after feeling that she had gone through everything just to be abandoned for the original Mion. The original Mion, with her parents dead and no longer capable of using her body, breaks down and cries. Clone Mion, realizing what she had done, consoles the original Mion and the two enjoy a moment in the sun before their spirits disappear. Basically, [[KillEmAll everyone died]].]]

* BloodlessCarnage: Played with. Many of Mion's deaths can be pretty gruesome, which includes getting crushed by gears and being chopped up by buzzsaws. Luckily, she simply faints when she gets killed, her body never appearing physical harmed in any way. However, her "fainting" is accompanied by the screen being splattered with blood.

** BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:At the very least, both original and clone Mion reconcile with each other and spend their last moments basking in the sunshine.]]
* GainaxEnding: The normal ending. [[spoiler:Just when Mion is about to go outside, she becomes very weak to the point of having to crawl out the door. Then, just barely a few feet from the door, she plummets into a giant pit. When she finally wakes up, she finds herself in the very same ruins in which she started her journey.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Clone Mion kills Lumen and Umbra, Mion's parents, after feeling that she had gone through everything just to be abandoned for the original Mion. The original Mion, no longer capable of using her body, breaks down and cries. Clone Mion, realizing what she had done, consoles the original Mion and the two look to the sun before their spirits disappear. Basically, [[KillEmAll everyone died]].]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Mion. ''Both of them''. The spirit of the original Mion, feeling that she had been replaced by her clone, kills her parents and her dog in retaliation. Then in the true ending, the clone Mion, feeling that she had been abandoned by her parents for the original Mion, attacks them in retaliation. It doesn't end well for either of them.]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Mion. ''Both of them''. The spirit of the original Mion, feeling that she had been replaced by her clone, kills her parents and her dog in retaliation. Then in the true ending, the clone Mion, feeling that she had been abandoned by her parents for the original Mion, attacks them in retaliation. It doesn't end for either of them.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game is about guiding a little girl through essentially death trap while several shadow creatures are out to kill her, and it only gets darker as you uncover more of Mion's past. On top of that, it lacks the humor that even some of Nippon Ichi's darker games have.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Mion. ''Both of them''. The spirit of the original Mion, feeling that she had been replaced by her clone, kills her parents and her dog in retaliation. Then in the true ending, the clone Mion, feeling that she had been abandoned by her parents for the original Mion, attacks them in retaliation. It doesn't end for any of them.]]

* GainaxEnding: The normal ending. [[spoiler:After going through all that hell, the ruins are finally behind her and before her lies the door and the beautiful blue sky. All she needs to do is walk out there. Unfortunately, after previously experiencing MindRape from the silhouettes of her parents, she becomes very weak. Still, nothing is going to stop her from getting out there, so she slowly walks outside. She finally takes her first step out the door, but she becomes so weakened that she collapses to the ground. Still, that doesn't stop her as she start crawling her way into the beautiful outside world...where she is greeted by a bottomless pit. The credits roll as she falls, hitting rock bottom when its finally over. When Mion regains consciousness, she finds her in the exact same place she started. Lumen finds her and they go on their journey all over again.]]

* GainaxEnding: The normal ending. [[spoiler:After going through all that hell, the ruins are finally behind her and before her lies the door and the beautiful blue sky. All she needs to do is walk out there. Unfortunately, after experience MindRape from the silhouettes of her parents, she becomes very weak. Still, nothing is going to stop her from getting out there, so she slowly walks outside. She finally takes her first step out the door, but she becomes so weakened that she collapses to the ground. Still, that doesn't stop her as she start crawling her way into the beautiful outside world...where she is greeted by a bottomless pit. The credits roll as she falls, hitting rock bottom when its finally over. When Mion regains consciousness, she finds her in the exact same place she started. Lumen finds her and they go on their journey all over again.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game is about guiding a little girl through essentially death trap while several shadow creatures are out to kill her, and it only gets darker as you uncover more of Mion's past.

* {{Minimalism}}: Compared to other Nippon Ichi games, ''htoL#NiQ'' has no spoken dialogue at all and very little narration (if Mion does speak to anyone, it's rendered as a speech bubble with a picture), similar to indie games like {{Limbo}}.

The game also features a storybook-like art style very different from previous Nippon Ichi games.

* AdultFear: Mion is all alone underground when you first find her. That alone would be scary enough, but then you find out there are a whole bunch of shadow creatures looking to kill her as are all the traps and hazards along the way. [[spoiler:And it only gets worse from there with her memory fragments revealing that someone broke into her room and killed her while she was asleep.]]

The year is 9999 when a young girl named Mion wakes up within the depths of dark ruins, alone, afraid, and confused. Luckily, she is quickly found by two fireflies. One is named Lumen, who lights her way and guides her way, and the other is named Umbra, who hides in Mion's shadow and has the power to affect the physical world by traveling through the shadows. Together, the two vow to lead Mion into the world above while Mion tries to piece together her past.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The game's title, [=htoL#NiQ=], is a stylized version of the Japanese title Hotaru no Nikki[[note]]'''H'''o'''t'''a('''o''')ru('''[[JapaneseRanguage l]]''') no(#) '''Ni'''kki(Q)[[/note]]. This translates to "Firefly's Diary", which makes the title ''Firefly's Diary: The Firefly Diary''.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The game's title, htoL#NiQ, is a stylized version of the Japanese title Hotaru no Nikki[[note]]'''H'''o'''t'''a('''o''')ru('''[[JapaneseRanguage l]]''') no(#) '''Ni'''kki(Q)[[/note]]. This translates to "Firefly's Diary", which makes the title ''Firefly's Diary: The Firefly Diary''.

''[[=htoL#NiQ=]]: The Firefly Diary'' is a 2-D puzzle platforming game by Creator/NipponIchi released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in 2015.

''htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary'' is a 2-D puzzle platforming game by Creator/NipponIchi released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita in 2015.