History VideoGame / Wraith

* GrumpyOldMan: Barnes Etcher, taken UpToEleven. [[spoiler:Then subverted, when it's revealed that it was all an act he put on so that Lily would be more susceptible to his curses ([[ItMakesSenseInContext which was what she wanted]]).]]

* KnifeNut: [[spoiler:Cyrus]].

'''Wraith''' is an indie computer game made by Neo Kuriyo, or Neok as he is known on the [=RPGmaker=].net forums. It's a horror-based AdventureGame made with RPG Maker 2003, and was Neok's first game on the site.

According to the developer's description:

"During a 3-day workshop in Australia, a girl named Kana discovers a dark secret hidden beneath the manor she is staying at. Now she must work against time to save her friends from a fate worse than death. There are two objectives: Solve the mystery behind the existence of the wraith, and live to see the morning sun. Dawn is only a few hours away..."

The object of the game is to peruse the darkened manor, tracking down the servants and students before the titular wraith can get to them, then discover a way to destroy the soul-sucking entity on the loose.

The game features both [[MultipleEndings a good and a bad ending]], complete with unlockable cutscene [=CGs=] for certain events in the game. It features an overhead retrogame view and a FirstPersonShooter-like battle screen. In terms of RPG Maker games, it is short, with around 4 hours of playthrough for those well-versed in the game. The game is on its third and final update (the second version accidentally caused the Good Ending to be impossible to achieve as it did not allow for some of the characters to be rescued). Apart from the inability to speed up text, the game is quite enjoyable.

While still a relatively unknown game, it is making headway in the gaming community. Upon the creation of this trope page, one LetsPlay had already been added to the fan fray. The game can be found [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/379/ here.]]

There is also a short sequel, ''Sainth''. It shifts the focus of the story to Lily, Kana's best friend, and takes the plot in a very different (and oftentimes confusing) direction. It can be found [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/463/ here.]] A third game, ''Candice'', was originally planned, but seems to have been cancelled.

* MostWritersAreMale: Neo Kuriyo, fits this trope...[[SubvertedTrope but only in the sense he is male]]. Unlike many male developers, his female characters are all fully developed and are believeable, not just dainty or overly busty damsels. Though there's several jokes that appeal to both genders throughout the game.

* ArtEvolution

* VisualNovel: There's much less actual gameplay to be had than in the first game.

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** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:The Order.]]

** The game also doesn't tell you how many available lightstones there are in the game[[hottip:*:12, though one is used up in a cutscene, which only leaves 2 'free' lightstones if you want to have the maximum amount by the endgame]], nor that you need to save them up to have even the slightest chance of surviving the final battle.

* AndIMustScream: It's alluded to that anyone, including Kana, has the potential to suffer this fat, as if s/he spends too long around the Wraith, s/he may [[spoiler:become one themselves]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:It would be theoretically possible for the Agency to find out what wraith Kana was fused with. Couldn't they just exorcise it to return her to normal, instead of going through the whole true sainth process?]]
** In that same vein, [[spoiler:if Lily infused Kana with sainth essence, shouldn't the two cancel out and destroy each other, rather than just keeping each other neutral? Or did it turn Kana into {{God}} instead of cancelling out?]]
*** Lily's [[spoiler:sainth didn't completely fuse with Kana, so it was neither able to cancel the wraith nor to form a god. It only gave Kana a way to hold the wraith at bay until she could figure out what to do with herself. Even that was limited, since Kana said the wraith was winning toward the end.]]

* GrumpyOldMan: Barnes Etcher, taken UpToEleven. [[spoiler:Then subverted ''hard'', when it's revealed that it was all an act he put on so that Lily would be more susceptible to his curses ([[ItMakesSenseInContext which was what she wanted]]).]]

* {{God}}: [[spoiler:Kana says that she thinks a god/the Judeo-Christian God (since it's not capitalized, it's impossible to tell which one she means) is formed when a sainth and wraith fuse without cancelling one another out.)

* {{God}}: [[spoiler:Kana says that she thinks a god/the Judeo-Christian God (since it's not capitalized, it's impossible to tell which one she means) is formed when a sainth and wraith fuse without cancelling one another out. Which, come to think of it, would be a nice explanation for why some people think TheBible portrays God as a schizophrenic who alternates between wrath and forgiveness arbitrarily.]]

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler:Eugene, if you had just ''told'' Cyrus and Ristof that it was possible for Erina's wraith to be exorcised, you might not have had to kill everyone...]]