History VideoGame / Kinder

** [[MoodWhiplash Ni-Chome Mama End]]: Replaces the Everyone Dies Ending, but the condition of Shunsuke being the only survivor stands. [[spoiler:Before Shunsuke commits suicide, the Archangel Takumiel intervenes and helps him escape, promising to give him success in the nightlife later on. Years later, it's revealed that Shunsuke now owns and runs a bar. And has apparently become a crossdresser or transsexual, since he's referred to as Shunsuke Mama.]]

* YourCheatingHeart
** Yuuichi's father was cheating on his wife. [[spoiler:With Shunsuke's mother.]]
** The True End has Shunsuke reveal that [[spoiler:his father being on frequent business trips had him wonder if his father was having an affair with another woman. Shunsuke overheard a phone-call of his mother's and realized that his mother ''was'' the other woman. He was the child of his father's affair, and his frequent business trips are him being with his real family]].

* DevelopersForesight: Dialogue changes to reflect which friend the player has chosen to come along at certain points. And all boss fights can be won, regardless of a character being alive or having died, with the exception of the final boss. For one boss battle, Shunsuke gains an ability that compensates for the death of a party member.

* EvilElevator: Hiroto actually points this trope out. [[spoiler:Rei]] also ends up getting stuck in one, and will die because of it, if the player fails to solve the puzzle.

Shunsuke left his hometown to visit his grandparents. Upon returning, he finds his hometown to be completely barren and ruined, and nobody seems to be around. Fortunately, some of his friends have managed to take shelter in their secret base.

As Shunsuke and his friends try to contact someone, they encounter Yuuichi Mizuoka, a second grader. He reveals himself to be [[BigBad the cause of the town's change]] and invites them all to play the 'Friends Game' with him. If they manage to avoid the traps set in town and defeat the three Mistresses, they win.

!! Tropes found in the original ''Kinder''

!! Tropes added in ''Re:Kinder''

* MoodWhiplash: The game tends to switch from horror to comedy abruptly, often dropping in SurrealHumor in the middle of a serious scene.

** [[BadEnding False/Killer End]]: If even one child dies before completing the [[spoiler:Aneha Apartment]] scenes. [[spoiler:Shunsuke heads back to the base, only to find Yuuichi there. He says the Friends Game is over because it doesn't matter and that he sent the surviving children back to the real world. Shunsuke finds himself back to how things were before he went on his trip, but is plagued by nightmares of the children's deaths. In Re:Kinder, he is implied to kill Yuuichi.]]
** [[KillEmAll Everyone Dies Ending]]: Shunsuke must be the only survivor. [[spoiler:He commits suicide, or almost does in Re:Kinder before [[GainaxEnding Takumi comes back as an angel and takes him on a journey that ends with him running a gay bar]].]]

* MoodWhiplash: Plays this up by adding a lot more humor into the dialogue.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Sayaka runs on this trope. The player can listen to her and Ryou play a game of 'adultery between a boss and his secretary', with her blackmailing Ryou over some incriminating photos she took.

* HairColorDissonance
** Mami has green hair in her in-game sprite, but auburn in her portrait.
** Takumi has orange hair for his in-game sprite, but his portrait is blond.
* HystericalWoman: Rei. She screams and runs into Yuuichi's house if [[spoiler:Aya]] isn't rescued in time, leading to her and Shunsuke finding nothing but a corpse. She will also insist on everything being her fault if [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies later on, until Shunsuke slaps her. Her unique ability is also Hysteria.
* ItsAllMyFault
** Hiroto thinks this when Rei runs off, wondering if he was too harsh.
** Rei will insist on [[spoiler:Hiroto]]'s death being her fault, should that child die.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch:
** Yuuichi was one for [[spoiler:his mother]], until things reached their limit.

* MultipleEndings

* NonStandardGameOver: Choosing to ignore the plot and walking down the road next to the bus stop results in the author dropping a bomb onto the town.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Aya]]'s death, though it's not noticeable immediately.
* OneWingedAngel: The image of the final boss changes during its final phase, which includes growing wings.

* PuzzleBoss: Majority of the bosses involve some puzzle to beat them.
* PressXToDie

* TheQuietOne: Aya's so quiet that she can [[spoiler:slip away without anyone noticing]].
* RandomEncounters
** Averted. Yuuichi says that he purposefully keeps the town's monsters away from the children.
** Played straight. During the timed mission, the party can encounter Obake Asphalt. Since there's no escape option, the player must defeat it, though it can re-appear during the segment.
* RealityWarper: Yuuichi.

* SacrificialLamb: Mami and Takumi.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Yuuichi.
* SlashersPreferBlondes: Takumi's the only blond amongst the children and can't be saved.
* SneakyDeparture: [[spoiler:Aya]] pulls this twice because of a desire to disappear. Both times can end in death.

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Yuuichi watched his mother struggle with mood swings and suicidal depression, and getting no help from her abusive, unfaithful husband or incompetent doctors that insisted there's nothing wrong with her. And when Yuuichi reached his limit with tolerating this, and his mother was having another moment of contemplating on jumping off a building, he paralyzed and pushed her off.]]
* StepfordSmiler
** Yuuichi's mother.
** Yuuichi turns out to be one, as well.

* CatchPhrase: In ''Re:Kinder'', Yuuichi tends to appear while saying "Vamos cantar!" [[note]]Portugueses for 'Let's sing'[[/note]]

* ClippedWingAngel: ''Re:Kinder'' turns the last phase of the final boss into this. [[spoiler:Yuuichi only uses ''Campanella'', which paralyzes every party member, except for Shunsuke because he's wearing the White Rose Ring. And winning merely requires the player to use the Red Rose Book.]]

* GuideDangIt

* InvincibleMinorMinion: Tyltylmytyl replaces Obake Asphalt, who is the sole random encounter enemy. It only appears during one segment of the game, when the player has a short time-limit to [[spoiler:find Aya before Yuuichi kills her]], and cannot be harmed. It's the only battle in the game that the player can actually run away from.
* KillerTeddyBear: The creepy doll that attacks, and could kill, Sayaka is replaced by a teddy bear.

* RedShirt: Takumi wears one now.

* CreepyChild: Yuuichi Mizuoka.

* CreepyDoll: One tries to kill Sayaka near the beginning of the game, and can succeed, if the player messes up.

* DelayedCausality: This is how [[spoiler:Aya]]'s death is played out. Shunsuke and Rei are relieved, and think they made it in time, only for the corpse's head to fall off.

* DiesWideOpen: If the player fails to notice that [[spoiler:Ryou disappeared from the party]] in the dark room, the corpse will be seen hanging upside-down in a closet with blank, white eyes.
* DissonantSerenity: Yuuichi's disturbingly cheerful, given all the horror he inflicts.

* DrivenToSuicide
** The Sea of Memories shows that Yuuichi's mother jumped off a building in front of him. [[spoiler:Until he reveals otherwise...]]
** Potentially the fate of [[spoiler:Aya]] through the use of a gun.
** [[spoiler:Yuuichi]] contemplates this himself. [[spoiler:And goes through with it in the True Ending.]]
** The Everybody Dies Ending has Shunsuke commit suicide.

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Aya's defining trait.

* EnfantTerrible: Yuuichi Mizuoka, who is responsible for killing the townspeople and turning it into a wasteland.

* {{Expy}}: Yuuichi Mizuoka's a red-haired, delusional, yet optimistic boy and is naive and unstable[[spoiler:, indirectly provoked his mother's suicide, and has the plot start after he horribly kills a person he blames for everything that wronged him]]. Sounds a lot like Francie Brady from ''Literature/TheButchersBoy''!
* EyeScream

* FalseReassurance: On the rooftop of the abandoned building, Aya asks Shunsuke to leave her alone. Shunsuke makes her promise [[spoiler:to not jump off the roof]]. She agrees. [[spoiler:After all, she's got a gun.]]
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Yuuichi]], of course, with two phases. And only on the True Ending path.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Rei gets slapped by Shunsuke when she insists on [[spoiler:Hiroto]]'s death being all her fault.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Ryou]] can end up getting ripped in half and more pieces.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Fail to defeat the third Mistress and [[spoiler:Hiroto]] will be skewered by a lightpost.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch

** Hiroto references this just before the final battle. He advises Shunsuke to be absolutely sure about his desire to [[spoiler:try and help Yuuichi]], as people with such emotional issues would be a full-time commitment.
* {{Mana}}: Called Willpower.

* MoodWhiplash: The game seems nice and happy, until Shunsuke returns from his trip. Then things go bad.

** [[BadEnding False End]]: If even one child dies before completing the [[spoiler:Aneha Apartment]] scenes. [[spoiler:Shunsuke heads back to the base, only to find Yuuichi there. He says the Friends Game is over because it doesn't matter and that he sent the surviving children back to the real world. Shunsuke finds himself back to how things were before he went on his trip, but is plagued by nightmares of the children's deaths.]]
** [[KillEmAll Everyone Dies Ending]]: Shunsuke must be the only survivor. [[spoiler:He commits suicide.]]
** [[BittersweetEnding True End]]: All children have to survive the game, until the confrontation with the final boss. [[spoiler:Despite his efforts, Shunsuke cannot help Yuuichi, who commits suicide. The children are rescued, but separated and taken in by other families or institutions. Shunsuke resolves to do his best to become a kinder adult.]]
* NoFinalBossForYou: If any child dies before the True End path is reached, the game ends early and nets the player the False End/Killer End.

* AndIMustScream: The False End has [[spoiler:Hiroto]] point out to have been conscious when skewered by a lightpost.
* AnkleDrag: If the wrong action is chosen[[spoiler:, Ryou gets dragged into the dome and killed]].

* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. Yuuichi's father gets portrayed as one for most of the game, but acknowledges later on that his behavior was him lashing out. The player can also get a chance to read a message written by him[[spoiler:, where he admits his problems, including that he's too weak of a person to help his son, and asks for help on a message board. The response he was given was less than helpful.]]
* BadassNormal: Hiroto participates in all three Mistress battles [[spoiler:and takes one down solo]].

* BigBad: Yuuichi is the cause of the town’s horrific transformation.

* BrokenPedestal: Yuuichi brings up an actress that Rei happens to look up to, then points to a porno on his father's shelf. It involves said actress getting inappropriate [[BestialityIsDepraved with dogs]], leading to Rei thinking about that in shock.
* CellphonesAreUseless

** Subverted. Yuuichi sends a text to Rei and Shunsuke when they're exploring the empty lot with the pipes, telling them about how [[spoiler:Aya]] wandered off, and the time limit they have to find their disappeared comrade. [[spoiler:He sends another one, if the player doesn't manage to find Aya in time.]]

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Shunsuke wonders this when discovering [[spoiler:Yuuichi's father's corpse]].
* CoolBigSis: Shunsuke sees Mami as one.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Subverted. There's a road by the bus stop that leads out of town. Trying to leave causes a 'strange power' to prevent the player from having Shunsuke leave. Picking the option to 'ignore the plot and force your way out of town' results in [[spoiler:the author blowing up the town]].
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The introduction portrays the world as seemingly nice and happy, before Shunsuke steps on the bus to visit his grandparents. Playing the game reveals how messed up things were all along.

* StepfordSmiler: Yuuichi's mother.

** The True End has Shunsuke reveal that [[spoiler:his father being on frequent business trips had him wonder if his father was having an affair with another woman. Shunsuke overheard a phone-call of his mother's and realized that ''his mother'' was the other woman. He was the child of his father's affair, and his frequent business trips are him being with his real family]].

[[caption-width-right:250:[[CrapSaccharineWorld Don't believe its colorful title screen]]]]

As Shunsuke and his friends try to contact someone, they encounter Yuuichi Mizuoka, a second grader. He reveals himself to be the cause of the town's change and invites them all to play the 'Friends Game' with him. If they manage to avoid the traps set in town and defeat the three Mistresses, they win.

* RetGone: The False End [[spoiler:has the children that died to have been erased from existence, with Shunsuke being the only one to remember them]].

* InterfaceSpoiler: Takumi is labeled as [[SacrificialLamb Noble Sacrifice]], and Yuuichi as [[DevilInPlainSight 2nd Grade Culprit]], when they briefly join the party.

* AndIMustScream: The False End has [[spoiler:Hiroto]] point out to have been alive when dragged, and then skewered by a lightpost.

** RandomEncounters: During the timed mission, the party can encounter Tyltylmytyl, who replaces Obake Asphalt. Tyltylmytyl is invincible, so the player's only option is to escape.

* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: ''Re:Kinder'''s plot itself is as dark as it originally was, but filled with more humor and silly music.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: If the player manages to save [[spoiler:Rei]], but [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies, she'll insist that it's all her fault. Shunsuke slaps her and asks if she's okay.

* GratuitousEnglish: The ending screen of ''Kinder'''s False End.

* GuideDangIt: Beating the third Mistress [[spoiler:with only Hiroto]]. The player is required to pick up certain items, which allow the controlled child to create something to one-shot kill the Mistress, and only has 15 seconds to do so, before the battle resumes. While the player ''can'' redo the action that allows for another round of picking up items, it's only possible if they ''didn't'' pick up certain items before. Especially bad since one of the items to pick up causes the Mistress to use one-hit kill attack.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Should the player fail to defeat the third Mistress, [[spoiler:Hiroto]] will be skewered by a lamppost.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Yuuichi's also the only character to have filled out Willpower (MP), hinting that he's an opponent to fight eventually. There's also his two abilities, Smile and Bravado, which have the descriptions of smiling/being brave, even when one doesn't feel that way. They hint to his actual mindset, long before the game portrays them.

** Rei is introduced by trying to call for help on her cellphone. Of course, she gets no signal, and loudly complains about this being typical.

* CreepyDoll: One tries to kill Sayaka near the beginning of the game, and can succeed, if the player chooses to do the wrong thing.

** The Everybody Dies Ending in ''Kinder'' had Shunsuke commit suicide.
* DungeonTown: Kowada Town, though Yuuichi admits to keeping the random-encounter monsters away from them. Except for one single instance [[spoiler:against an invincible enemy that will only waste the player's limited time to find Aya]].

** ''Kinder'' gave the player money, but it served no purpose.

After visiting his grandparents, Shunsuke returns to find his hometown has become barren and ruined. Fortunately, some of his friends have taken shelter in their secret base... along with a few other kids. However, this is only the start of their troubles, and Shunsuke soon finds himself forced to play a DeadlyGame.

''Kinder'' is a 2003 horror RPG made by Parun for RPG Maker 2003. He made a remake called ''Re:Kinder'' for RPG Maker VX, and there is an English translation available [[http://vgperson.com/games/rekinder.htm here]].

!!''Kinder'' contains examples of:
%% This should be divided into original and remake-exclusive tropes once we can get enough. %%

* AbandonedHospital: There is a clinic in Kowada Town, and of course it's abandoned. But you never actually go in.
* ActionSurvivor: The younger kids are not as tough as Rei and Hiroto, but they have helpful abilities in battles.
** Shunsuke ranks just below Rei in battle skills, but he insists on participating in every adventure. Also, it's up to him to save all of his friends, [[spoiler:except Hiroto]].
** Sayaka won't even participate in a battle unless you select her for the final boss battle.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with [[OverlyLongName "names" that are quite long, weird and hard to translate]] are now princesses, [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses for some reason]].
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Re:Kinder'', there are points where the player switches to [[spoiler:Yuuichi]] and [[spoiler:Hiroto]], respectively.
* AnkleDrag: If you take the wrong action the first time, [[spoiler:Ryou gets dragged into a cave and ripped to pieces]].
* AnyoneCanDie
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: For most of the game, only three kids go out at a time.
* AssholeVictim: {{Deconstructed}}: Yuuichi saw [[spoiler:his father]] as one, but towards the endgame, acknowledges he was just lashing out. Shunsuke also gets a chance to read a message written by said {{Jerkass}} where [[spoiler:he admits his issues and asks for help on a message board. The response he got was less than helpful]].
* BadassNormal: Hiroto, assuming you keep him alive, ends up [[spoiler:helping to take down all three mistresses]], including [[spoiler:taking one down solo]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Several times in ''Re:Kinder''. For instance, at one point Shunsuke gives directions as "We should just keep going to the player's left."
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: The time bomb alarm clock wakes Shunsuke from two different dreams.]] Just about every strange element in the game is brought up at least twice, as well. Yuuichi and his dog, for example.
* BrokenPedestal: Yuuichi brings up a movie on his father's shelf and mentions an actress whom Rei happened to look up to. Then Yuuichi tells Rei that the movie is inappropriate, and then he disappears, letting Rei think about that for a moment in shock.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Only comes up during ''Re:Kinder''.
* CatchPhrase: In ''Re:Kinder'', Yuuichi says "Vamos cantar!" (Portuguese for "Let's sing")
* CellphonesAreUseless: Shunsuke first meets Rei while she is trying to call for help on her cell phone. Of course, she can't get a signal.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} when Yuuichi sends Rei a text saying that [[spoiler:Aya]] wandered off while she and Shunsuke were searching the lot with the pipes and that they have to find her.
* CharacterSelectForcing: [[spoiler: Didn't bring either Hiroto or Aya to the final battle? Then through brute force alone, you can't win.[[note]] Hiroto can disable the [[TotalPartyKill party wiping]] Flower Ring Rocket, or Aya can lock him down on turns he would use it, and without either of them, the battle simply cannot be won unless you use the Eternal Force Blizzard. [[/note]] ]]
* ClippedWingAngel: In ''Re:Kinder'', the only attack of the final phase of the FinalBoss [[spoiler:Yuuichi is to paralyze your entire party, not doing any damage. Shunsuke is immune to this effect because of the [[EleventhHourSuperpower White Rose Ring]], and simply uses the [[VillainBeatingArtifact Red Rose Book]] to defeat him.]]
** ZeroEffortBoss: Although the difficulty of the boss's second phase makes up for this... as long as you didn't use the Eternal Force Blizzard to easily kill that too.
* ColorFailure: In ''Re:Kinder'', when characters are shocked, scared or upset, they lose all the color in their irises.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Shunsuke wonders if he's starting to become this after discovering [[spoiler:the remains of Yuuichi's father]].
* ContractualBossImmunity: {{Inverted}} with the Eternal Force Blizzard from ''Re:Kinder'' which {{One Hit Kill}}s the FinalBoss only.
* CoolBigSis: Mami's been one to Shunsuke.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: {{Subverted|Trope}}. There's that road by the bus stop that leads out of town. [[spoiler:But if you try to leave that way, a "strange power" prevents you from escaping. You have the option to "ignore the plot and force your way out of town," but that results in the [[NonstandardGameOver author blowing up the town.]]]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Before Shunsuke left on the bus at the beginning, the world seemed nice and happy. But gradually it's revealed just how messed up it was all along.
* CreepyChild: Yuuichi, all the way.
* CreepyChildrenSinging: [[spoiler:Yuuichi turns on a normal TV program of children singing to lure Shunsuke into his father's room.]]
* CreepyDoll: Tries to kill Sayaka near the beginning of the game. And succeeds, if you [[ViolationOfCommonSense keep trying the busted door even when it starts repeating the same message.]] Players probably won't realize that Sayaka actually can die during this part for the first few runs, so it can be that LastLousyPoint for those actually going for the "everyone dies" ending.
** KillerTeddyBear: Replaces it in ''Re:Kinder''.
* DeadlyGame: Yuuichi's 'Friends Game'.
* DelayedCausality: [[spoiler:Happens to Aya if you don't find her in time.]] Shunsuke and Rei are relieved when they think they made it, but then the head falls off.
* DenserAndWackier: ''Re:Kinder'' changed the "[[KillEmAll everyone dies]]" ending from a DownerEnding into a gag.
* DevelopersForesight: Dialogue constantly changes to reflect the presence of your friends or not. In addition, every boss fight can be won regardless of who is alive and who isn't, albeit with accommodations at times. Shunsuke even gains an ability to compensate for the death of a party member during one sequence.
** [[spoiler: Yuuichi is also tough enough that the game simply locks you out of fighting him if any of the kids have died and gives you an ending before the final boss.]]
* DiesWideOpen: If you fail to notice that [[spoiler:Ryou has disappeared from your party]] in the dark room, you'll later see the corpse hanging upside down in a closet with BlankWhiteEyes.
* DissonantSerenity: Yuuichi is disturbingly chirpy and cheerful, given the horrors he's inflicted.
* DoomedHometown: Kowada Town, of course.
** DungeonTown: It doubles as this but the characters are protected from RandomEncounters for nearly the entire game.
** GhostTown
* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''Kinder'' refers to the protagonists being children as well as [[spoiler:wanting to become kinder/live in a kinder world]]. This is {{Woolseyism}}, of course.
* DreamWorld: [[spoiler: The storybook world is Yuuichi's. The events of the game as a whole may or may not be a dream world in and of themselves.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** The Sea of Memories shows that [[spoiler:Yuuichi's mother jumped off a building in front of him]]. [[spoiler:Or so it seems...]]
** Potentially the fate of [[spoiler:poor Aya]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuichi himself]] also contemplates this.
** In the original game, [[spoiler:if all of his friends died, Shunsuke would kill himself]]. ''Re:Kinder'' replaces this with a MoodWhiplash moment.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Aya has these.
* DwindlingParty: If you don't take the proper steps to save your friends then this will happen. The game even tells you this while AddressingThePlayer at the beginning of the game, even before things start going to shit.
* EnfantTerrible: Yuuichi Mizuoka, who is responsible for massacring the town and turning it into a wasteland.
* EvilElevator: [[spoiler:Rei]] gets stuck in one and will die in there if you don't solve its puzzle.
* {{Expy}}: Yuuichi is a red-haired delusional and optimistic boy who is naive and unstable, [[spoiler: indirectly provoked his mother's suicide and the plot starts after he horribly kills a person he blamed upon everything that wronged him?]]. Sounds like Francie Brady from TheButchersBoy to me!
* EyeScream: If you take the wrong action the first time, [[spoiler:Ryou gets dragged into a cave, gets ripped to pieces, and has his eyes gouged out]].
* FalseReassurance: On the rooftop, this happens if [[spoiler:Shunsuke leaves Aya alone at her request. He makes her promise not to jump, and she agrees. After all, she's got a gun..]].
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: What does a third grader like Sayaka think she's talking about?
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The entire television and story book motif is one [[spoiler: regarding the potential reality of the situation, and how Yuuichi came to find himself within it.]]
* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: If [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies, but Rei is still alive, she will insist that [[ItsAllMyFault it is all her fault]], disregarding everything Shunsuke tells her. Soon enough, Shunsuke slaps her and asks her if she is okay.
* GratuitousEnglish: This is used on the ending screen of the original ''Kinder'''s "False End". (It's not present in the equivalent "[[spoiler:Killer]] End" in ''Re:Kinder''.)
-->Thank you for a play.
-->But an end is a lie.
-->There is other truth.]
* GuideDangIt: The elevator password and the third Princess [[spoiler: when Hiroto is alone]]. The second example is especially obnoxious, as picking up one of two items (one of which ''crumbles'' and is rendered useless after picking it up) renders the battle unwinnable, as does picking up two other items without first gaining everything you need to win. And then you have the item that, without warning or explanation, gives the boss an Insta-Kill attack.
* HairColorDissonance: Mami's sprite has green hair, but her character portrait shows it to have a reddish-brown tone.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: If you take the wrong action the first time, [[spoiler:Ryou gets dragged into a cave and ripped to pieces.]]
* HystericalWoman: Rei. If [[spoiler:Aya dies]], Rei screams and runs inside [[spoiler:Yuuichi's house]]. More notably, if [[spoiler:Rei survives but Hiroto dies]], she will scream and insist it is all her fault, until Shunsuke [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan slaps]] her. She also has the ability [[UselessUsefulSpell Hysteria]], which almost never works.
* ItsAllMyFault: Hiroto seems to think this when Rei runs off. Rei actually says this if [[spoiler:she survives but Hiroto dies]].
* ImAHumanitarian: A note in ''Re:Kinder'' refers to this.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies if [[spoiler:he can't figure out the trick to beating the third boss]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle with [[spoiler:Crimson Naked-Eye Black Seal-Ink Man (whose design was replaced by Princess Utsuroi Momogi in ''Re:Kinder'')]], you have to temporarily blind the enemy and quickly search the room for anything you can use against them.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: In ''Re:Kinder'', the game's one sidequest rewards you with the Eternal Force Blizzard, an item that can be used to OneHitKill the enemy... but it only works on the FinalBoss.
* InterfaceSpoiler: When Takumi and Yuuichi are in your party in ''Re:Kinder'', they are labeled "[[SacrificialLamb Noble Sacrifice]]" and "2nd Grade Culprit" respectively. Granted, you might not take them seriously when playing for the first time, and their significance is revealed only a minute afterward anyway.
** This is an interesting example, as the interface spoiler with Yuuichi is clearly intentional - his two abilities are a window into his mindset far earlier than the more blatant examples seen later in the game.
* InvincibleMinorMinion: Tyltylmytyl, who attacks you in RandomEncounters on your way to save Aya in ''Re:Kinder''. It's notable for being the only random encounter in the entire game, and thus the only enemy that you actually can run from.
** It is the counterpart of the original game's Obake Asphalt. The original game did not have a "run" command at all, so it could be beaten, but it would "suddenly disappear" instead of die and you could run into it again. Because you had to actually beat it the time limit is much longer than it is in the remake.
* JokeItem: "Smile", which is a picture of (now dead) real-life actress Toki Shiozawa smiling, that can be bought from the vending machine for free. It can be used an infinite number of times outside of battle to bring up a message, and other than that serves literally no purpose.
-->Back in kindergarten, you thought Toki Shiozawa was the devil.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original ''Kinder'' is no longer available for download. And it was never translated either. However, there is [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5913953 one]] surviving LetsPlay of it on Website/NicoNicoDouga.
* KindheartedCatLover: [[spoiler:The Mizuokas have a cat in ''Re:Kinder'' who basically exists to show that for all their issues, they weren't ALL bad.]]
* LetsSplitUpGang: {{Lampshaded}} at the apartments, where they discuss the stupidity of splitting up before doing it anyway.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler:Yuuichi was one to his mother, until that wasn't required anymore...]]
** Referenced before the final confrontation with Yuuichi; [[spoiler:Hiroto]] advises Shunsuke that [[spoiler:trying to help Yuuichi]] is a full time commitment.
* MoneyForNothing: {{Inverted}} in ''Re:Kinder''; you start with ¥520 and there is no way to get any more for the entire game. The only thing money is good for in this game is buying items from the vending machine, but you don't really need the items.
** The original played this straight to its LogicalExtreme by starting you off with ¥600 but giving you nothing to use it on; see TheArtifact below.
* MoodWhiplash: The game is nice and happy up until Shunsuke comes back home to a DoomedHometown.
** ''Re:Kinder'' does much more of this in the process of adding humor.
* {{Mordor}}: ''Re:Kinder'' changes the aesthetic of Kowada Town from just a GhostTown, into this.
* MultipleEndings:
** [[DownerEnding False End]]: [[spoiler:Yuuichi abruptly returns all of the survivors of the 'Friends Game' to the 'real world'. However, everyone who was killed got {{Ret Gone}}d. Shunsuke has terrible nightmares about their deaths]].
*** In ''Re:Kinder'' this ending is renamed as [[KickTheSonOfABitch Killer End]] [[spoiler:as a scene was added where Shunsuke sees Yuuichi outside his door later and murders him.]]
** [[EverybodysDeadDave Everybody's Dead, Shunsuke]]: If everyone but Shunsuke gets killed by the 'Friends Game', [[spoiler:Shunsuke kills himself]].
*** In ''Re:Kinder'', this is replaced by the [[MoodWhiplash Ni-chome Mama ending]] when [[spoiler:the Archangel Takumiel intervening before Shunsuke can go through with it and helping him escape. We then see that years later, Shunsuke apparently became a cross-dresser or transsexual (since he is called Shunsuke Mama) working in a bar]].
** [[BittersweetEnding True End]]: [[spoiler:Despite all his efforts, Shunsuke can't save Yuuichi, who kills himself in front of them. The children are rescued, but separated from each other and sent to different places. Shunsuke resolves to do his best to be a kinder adult. In the original, it shows the characters reminiscing.]]
*** In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows [[spoiler: Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]
* NoFinalBossForYou: If you let any of your friends die, your game will end early. [[spoiler:Yuuichi sends everyone back to the real world, resulting in the False/Killer End.]]
* NoTimeToExplain: When [[spoiler:Ryou is about to get dragged in the dome]], Shunsuke can either hang on to him or go to Hiroto for help. If he does the latter, he has the option to explain what is going on. This leads to Hiroto getting confused and Shunsuke trying to explain, and [[spoiler:Ryou gets dragged into the dome.]]
* NonSequitur: Universal Radio Town. (Exclusive to ''Re:Kinder'' of course.)
** Countless ones pop up elsewhere in the remake as well from Yuuichi, quite intentionally.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two characters from a television show Yuuichi enjoyed watching appear with different sprite and character portrait styles than the rest of the cast.
* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the secret base causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen. Trying to leave the town causes the author to blow it up.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Poor Aya]] can get killed this way, [[DelayedCausality though the head doesn't actually fall off right away]].
* OneWingedAngel: In the original ''Kinder'', the final boss's graphic changes during the second (final) phase, and, yes, grows wings. In ''Re:Kinder'' there is a third phase to the battle and the first two are condensed into one battle with no graphic change. The new final phase does use a different graphic.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: An excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers is used during a few boss battles.
* PuzzleBoss: Almost every boss is one of these.
* PressXToDie: Jumping off the bed in the secret base.
** Trying to escape from the town results in an explosion who kills them all and resulting into a NonStandardGameOver.
** Later, the [[spoiler:Suicide Bed in the Storybook World]] does the same thing, but hilariously enough, the translator accidentally switched the Yes and No on its dialogue prompt.
* TheQuietOne: Aya, to the point that [[spoiler:she's able to slip away without anyone noticing]].
* RealityWarper: Yuuichi.
* RedShirt: Takumi wears one in ''Re:Kinder''.
* ResetButton: [[spoiler: Only in the False/Killer ending. Though see RetGone regarding the "Friends Game" victims.]]
* RetGone: In the False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End, [[spoiler:those who died in Yuuichi's world have been erased from existence, with only Shunsuke remembering them]].
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: ''Re:Kinder'''s plot itself is as dark as ever but it's now filled with humor and silly music.

* SacrificialLamb: Mami and Takumi
** PlayerPunch
* SchrodingersButterfly: Suggested by [[spoiler:TheStinger of the True End]] in ''Re:Kinder'', which may also provide an explanation for all the MoodWhiplash.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Yuuichi. [[spoiler:With both parents.]]
* ShoutOut: [[Theatre/TheBlueBird Tyltylmytyl]] in ''Re:Kinder''.
* SlashersPreferBlondes: [[spoiler:Takumi]] is the only blonde character and the only kid who cannot be saved.
* SneakyDeparture: [[spoiler:Aya]] does this twice, because of the desire to disappear, and can get killed both times.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist
* SoundtrackDissonance: Added by ''Re:Kinder'' for comedic effect. Yuuichi's {{Leitmotif}} is a [[http://www.oo39.com/track.php?69 sassy Latin theme]], and the music for the second phase of the final boss is G.G. Allin's Dick's ''[[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/GG_Allins_Dick/King_of_the_Road/ggallinsdick-01-monocyclefromhell Monocycle from Hell]]''.
* SpaceCompression: Bizarrely, this is in play in ''Re:Kinder'' but not in the original. In the original the insides of the buildings are much more realistic, but in ''Re:Kinder'' they are shrunk and streamlined, in addition to gaining a {{Mordor}} aesthetic.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Growing up, Yuuichi watched his mother struggle with mood swings and suicidal depression, not helped by her abusive, adulterous husband or doctors insisting nothing was wrong with her. Eventually, during one of the times she contemplated jumping off a building, he paralyzed and pushed her off.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Yuuichi's mother was one]].
* TheArtifact: Like many RPG Maker games, this game has its fair share of these.
** In the original, you had money but it served no purpose. You can buy some things in the remake but considering that it doesn't help you all that much it's obviously not a key feature.
** There are {{Character Level}}s but no ExperiencePoints.
** Yuuichi is the only party member that has more than zero [[{{Mana}} Willpower]]. But you don't even get to fight anything with him in your party. All character abilities also display a Willpower cost of zero.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: {{Enforced}} by {{Deconstructing}} the concept of a world without therapy. If there were any therapists in this world then none of the game would have happened in the first place.
* TimedMission: At one point, Yuuichi initiates a deadly game of hide and seek where Shunsuke has to find one of his friends in a minute and a half. In ''Re:Kinder'', he's only given forty seconds.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As if Yuuichi's behavior wasn't bad enough, all of the kids have this to some degree.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If you earn the False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End with Ryou, Sayaka, and/or Aya still alive (and in the secret base) they won't be there when you return, only Yuuichi. They didn't die (considering [[spoiler:Shunsuke only subsequently has nightmares about the characters who actually did]]) but they aren't even mentioned for the rest of the ending.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Rei has the special ability Hysteria, and Shunsuke the ability Pacify. Both are only ever useful (which is to say, functional ''at all'') in one fight, which is incidentally the same fight.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Yuuichi's father was cheating on his mother with Shunsuke's mother.]] In the True End, it's also revealed that [[spoiler:Shunsuke's father has an entirely different family, and his frequent 'business trips' are actually him going off and living with them]].

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Dialogue constantly changes to reflect the presence of your friends or not. In addition, every boss fight can be won regardless of who is alive and who isn't, albeit with accommodations at times. Shunsuke even gains an ability to compensate for the death of a party member during one sequence.

* EvilElevator: [[spoiler:Kills Rei if you don't solve its puzzle.]]

* CharacterSelectForcing: [[spoiler: Didn't bring either Hiroto or Aya to the final battle? Than through brute force alone, you can't win.[[note]] Hiroto can disable the [[TotalPartyKill party wiping]] Flower Ring Rocket, or Aya can lock him down on turns he would use it, and without either of them, the battle simply cannot be won unless you use the Eternal Force Blizzard. [[/note]] ]]

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Poor Aya]] can get killed this way, though the head doesn't actually fall off right away.

* {{Expy}}: Yuuichi is a red-haired delusional and optimistic boy who is naive and unstable, [[spoiler: indirectly provoked his mother's suicide and the plot starts after he horribly kills a person he blamed upon everything that wronged him?]]. Sounds like Francie Brady from The Butcher Boy to me!

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: If [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies, but Rei is still alive, she will insist that it is all her fault, disregarding everything Shunsuke tells her. Soon enough, Shunsuke slaps her and asks her if she is okay.