History VideoGame / TheNightOfTheRabbit

** MysteriousWatcher: The wood-spite often does for inspiration for his stories. Kitsune also does this [[spoiler:in the forum of a statue]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite all hardships (see DarkerAndEdgier above), Jerry manages to get one. [[spoiler:He overcomes his fears, defeats the BigBad, restores his father back into his world, returns back to his own time and place in time from dinner and is greeted by both of his parents]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story starts as a innocent quest of kid pursuing his dream, but after Jerry [[spoiler:learns his 5th spell]] the game the story takes a sharp darker turn and his quest becomes more personal. More specifically, [[spoiler:the BigBad casts a curse in Mousewood and Jerry is thrown to his home just to find out that he had been missing for years and that his mother is no more around (possibly dead). On the top of that, his father has been expelled from Jerry's world, erased from everyone's memory and is lost in the space between worlds]].

** After you enter [[spoiler:the 4th portal]]. Right before that, the game is kind enough to warn you that things won't be like before once you come out and that if you are still looking for something you should not enter yet (all the sidequests become [[LostForever unavailable]] from this point on and [[spoiler:Mousewood's citizens will be cursed]]).

*** An image of a flooded and abandoned city with a giant red bridge in the background, sets up the BadFuture in ''VideoGame/{{ANewBeginning}}''
*** An image of a giant petrified many-eyed fish is actually seen in a dark cave in ''VideoGame/{{TheWhisperedWorld}}''

** Late in the game, [[spoiler:in the area past the 5th portal,]] Jerry sees an image of and makes a remark about a suitcase being packed with a bolt cutter. This is part of the very first puzzle in ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'', another game produced by Daedalic Entertainment.

** Subverted with Jerry, as he draws many parallels to Simon from SimonTheSorcerer except for personality. They are both [[PortalFantasy sent to a fantasy world]] to be trained in the ways of magic, and both have magic [[NiceHat hats]] that they [[BagOfHolding carry the entire inventory in]]. The difference is that Simon is a complete {{Jerkass}} who only gets worse in the sequels, while Jerry is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness almost "too" friendly and good natured.]]

* JackassGenie: The leprechaun Jerry meets. Jerry wishes to be successful, and he is turned into an [[SuperMarioBros Italian plumber with a mustache]].

* ShoutOut: At some point a leprechaun turns you into a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros plumber with a mustache and Italian accent]].

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: The world where Mousewood is. [[spoiler:Or it at least is what it seems at first. Late in the game, while you are on the top of a tree, you see what looks like a human city, suggesting that Mousewood it is actually a MouseWorld]].

!!The Night of the Rabbit contains examples of:

->''Nothing is impossible in a day of summer vacation.''
->--'''Marquis de Hoto'''

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* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The real Marquis de Hoto.]]

''The Night of the Rabbit'' is a 2013 [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] AdventureGame developed by DaedalicEntertainment and designed by Matthias Kempke, who is known for the indie game [[http://lassiegames.com/stitch What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time]].

* ShoutOut: At some point a leprechaun turns you into a [[SuperMarioBros plumber with a mustache and Italian accent]].
** Late in the game, [[spoiler:in the area past the 5th portal,]] Jerry sees an image of and makes a remark about a suitcase being packed with a bolt cutter. This is part of the very first puzzle in {{Deponia}}, another game produced by Daedalic Entertainment.

Jeremiah "Jerry" Hazelnut is a 12 years old boy who dreams to become a magician. He is on summer vacation, which it is going to end in just two days. Jerry is visited by the mysterious rabbit Marquis de Hoto who invites him to [[GhibliHills Mousewood]], a fairytale-like place populated by colorful [[FunnyAnimal sentient animals]], where he will be trained to be a magician.

** Subverted with Jerry, as he draws many parallels to Simon from SimonTheSorcerer except for personality. Both are British kids sent to a fantasy world to be trained in the ways of magic, and both have magic [[NiceHat hats]] that they [[BagOfHolding carry the entire inventory in]] the difference is that Simon is a complete Jerkass who only gets worse in the sequels. While Jerry is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness almost "too" friendly and good natured.]]

** In the game the character Kitsune's name (which mean fox in japanese) is oftend prounced Kitsu-Na, while the true japanese pronunciation is Kitsu-NEY.

* SceneryPorn: The game shows two distinct art styles - one for the gameplay, one for the narration of background story and for the quartet cards -, which ressemble the illustrations of a children's book. Characters, settings and items are all hand-drawn.

** Early on in the game, you have to deliver a letter to A. Molena. Sent by one [[GrimFandango M. Calavera, travel agent]].

* Sugarbowl: Subverted: While Mousewood in the game rather subverts this trope, as [[spoiler: the game gets rather dark]] The audiobook backstories are full of cutesy whimsy akin to Beatrix Potter.

* Sugarbowl: Subverted: If you ingore the "dark" scenes in the game. Mousewood is a place full of whimsy almost akin to that of Beatrix Potter, this is most notable in the audiobook backstories.

* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight with Spietswig who (during the second encounter with Humbert) could easily use his adult superiority to tell the brat to buzz off, as he and Jerry have important business. But instead just says (paraphrasing) "Kids will be kids, I'm sure you can handle him yourself"

** Subverted with Jerry, as he draws many parallels to Simon from SimonTheSorcerer except for personality. Both are British kids sent to a fantasy world to be trained in the ways of magic, and both have [[NiceHat hats]] that they [[BagOfHolding carry the entire inventory in]] the difference is that Simon is a complete Jerkass who only gets worse in the sequels. While Jerry is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness almost "too" friendly and good natured.]]

** Subverted with Jerry, as he draws many parallels to SimonTheSorceror except for personality. Both are British kids sent to a fantasy world to be trained in the ways of magic, and both have [[NiceHat hats]] that they [[BagOfHolding carry the entire inventory in]] the difference is that Simon is a complete Jerkass who only gets worse in the sequels. While Jerry is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness almost "too" friendly and good natured.]]