History VideoGame / TheWitchsHouse

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: The true ending reveals that, before the start of the game, Ellen and Viola had swapped bodies. The third pseudo-ending implies that Ellen had planned stealing someone's body from the beginning, as that was the spell she received from the demon's contract.]]

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: The true ending reveals that, before the start of the game, Ellen and Viola had swapped bodies. It was only supposed to be for one day...but Ellen changed her mind.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Viola finally comes face-to-face with the witch, all that's left of her is her mangled upper body. [[spoiler: It's implied Ellen did it herself, as the bed is covered in blood and the item required for the true ending is her knife.]]

* LosingYourHead: In addition to the aforementioned decapitation-by-GiantSpider, putting on the red shoes without washing them results in Viola's body running off without its head.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Viola finally comes face-to-face with the witch, all that's left of her is her mangled upper body. [[spoiler: It's implied Ellen did it to herself, as the bed is covered in blood and the item required for the true ending is her knife.]]

* OneHitKill: Every pursuer and obstacle in the game will kill Viola instantly.

* SchmuckBait: Don't step on that blood pool in the middle of the first note room. Don't lend the invisible chef [[ExactWords a hand]] (unless it's not yours). Don't read [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Book of Death]]. And don't touch the clock on the fourth floor. There's also one room where Viola is explicitly told to let nothing distract her, and doing anything but walking in a straight line to the exit, such as investigating the items, results in her being crushed by a boulder.

* SpookyPainting: One of the pursuers is a Mona Lisa-esque portrait which will [[AndIMustScream turn Viola into a painting if it catches her]]. The only way to defeat it is by tearing its canvas in half.

* SchmuckBait: Don't step on that blood pool in the middle of the first note room. Don't lend the invisible chef [[ExactWords a hand]] (unless it's not yours). Don't read [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Book of Death]]. And don't touch the clock on the fourth floor. There's also one room where Viola is explicitly told to let nothing distract her, and doing anything but walking in a straight line to the exit results in her being crushed by a boulder.

* SchmuckBait: Don't step on that blood pool in the middle of the first note room. Don't lend the invisible chef [[ExactWords a hand]] (unless it's not yours). Don't read [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Book of Death]]. And don't touch the clock on the fourth floor.

* SpookyPainting: One of the pursuers is a Mona Lisa-esque portrait which will [[AndIMustScream turn Viola into a painting if it catches her]]. The only way to defeat it is by burning its canvas.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Viola finally comes face-to-face with the witch, all that's left of her is her mangled upper body.

* PlayerPunch: Viola finds a cute frog, but has to feed it to a giant snake to proceed. Later, she meets its tadpoles, who accuse her of murdering their father. And just before entering the witch's room, she finds the corpse of the black cat that's been accompanying her through the house. [[spoiler: Both endings show it alive, although the psuedo-third ending reveals it was a demon. There's also the true ending.]]

* [[spoiler:WeUsedToBeFriends: Viola clearly cared a lot about Ellen, as one book implicitly states that the body-swapping spell required a bond of trust to succeed. When Ellen betrayed her, Viola was forced to try trapping and killing her to get her body back.]]

* SchmuckBait: Don't lend the invisible chef [[ExactWords a hand]] (unless it's not yours). Don't read [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Book of Death]]. And don't touch the clock on the fourth floor.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: The last of the witch's diary, where she describes stealing her friend's body - "Isn't that right, '''Viola'''?"]]

** And [[spoiler: from the cat - "Good luck with the rest, Ellen...my faithful witch."]]

** [[spoiler: And then double-subverted when he's revealed to be the demon that gave Ellen her powers.]]

* [[spoiler:TheDogWasTheMastermind: The "pseudo-third" ending reveals that the savepoint cat is the demon which gave Ellen her powers, and was most likely claiming poor Viola's soul.]]

* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: Ellen gets away with killing her parents, an untold number of lost children, and Viola, going off to live the latter's life.]]

* PlayerPunch: Viola finds a cute frog, but has to feed it to a giant snake to proceed. Later, she meets its tadpoles, who accuse her of murdering their father. And just before entering the witch's room, she finds the corpse of the black cat that's been accompanying her through the house. [[spoiler: Both endings show it alive, however.]]

* SpookyPainting: One of the pursuers is a Mona Lisa-esque portrait which will [[AndIMustScream turn Viola into a painting if it catches her]]. The only way to defeat it is by burning the canvas.

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: The true ending. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Everything the player does]] is ''helping'' the witch, and she escapes with Viola's body; the real Viola is murdered by her own father.]]

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Viola can meet her end by [[TheWallsAreClosingIn sliding walls]], getting eaten by a piano, being shot by a giant toy soldier, having a grandfather clock fall on her...

!!''TheWitchsHouse'' contains examples of:
* BearsAreBadNews: The very first pursuer is a giant, demonic teddy bear.

* BigDamnHeroes: In the normal ending, Viola's father arrives and blasts the witch to bits with his shotgun when it follows her out of the house. [[spoiler: Tragically subverted by the true ending; he unknowingly murdered his daughter and took the witch home in her place.]]

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: The true ending reveals that, prior to the start of the game, Ellen and Viola had swapped bodies. It was only supposed to be for one day...but Ellen changed her mind.]]
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: The true ending. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Everything the player does]] is ''helping'' the witch, and she escapes with Viola's body; the real Viola is murdered by her own father.]]

* [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe: The true ending reveals that, prior to the start of the game, Ellen and Viola had swapped bodies. It was only supposed to be for one day...but Ellen changed her mind.]]

* GiantSpider: There's one lurking on the second floor of the house, which will [[LosingYourHead bite off Viola's head]] if you try to leave the room after taking a butterfly from its web.

[[http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/witchhouse.htm An English translation can be downloaded here]].