History VisualNovel / Sampaguita

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of the game, the protagonist goes on a mental rant about his friends getting girls so easily while he doesn't. And then he meets [[LoveInterest Maria]], plunging him into one hell of a story that will change his life forever. [[MultipleEndings The outcome]], [[HappyEnding happy]] or [[DownerEnding not]], will depend [[{{Gamebooks}} on your choices]].

-->'''Old Man''': In Japan, you'll meet [[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration a man]] who will be of the upmost, precious significance to you. [[MultipleEndings Whether you'll become happy or not]], will [[{{Gamebooks}} depend on his actions]].

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon:

* ConspicuousCG:
** The buildings in the background, during the sequence where a car is running on a highway (said sequence is the very first scene in the game's 1st opening).
** The airplanes in the very last scene of Good End 2.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of the game, the protagonist goes on a mental rant about his friends getting girls so easily while he doesn't. And then he meets [[LoveInterest Maria]], plunging him into one hell of a story that will change his life forever. [[MultipleEndings The outcome]], [[HappyEnding happy]] or [[DownerEnding not]], will depend [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure on your choices]].

-->'''Old Man''': In Japan, you'll meet [[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration a man]] who will be of the upmost, precious significance to you. [[MultipleEndings Whether you'll become happy or not]], will [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure depend on his actions]].

''Sampaguita'' (サンパギータ) is the third entry in the interactive anime VisualNovel series ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'', produced by SonyComputerEntertainment, and developped by Sugar&Rockets and Creator/ProductionIG. The game was initially released in 1998 on [[UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]], then re-released in 2005 on UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable.

Suddenly, a police car comes his way. Thinking about it, there were an awful lot of them moving around the station... The policemen in the car ask the protagonist if he has seen a South Asian-type individual nearby, to which he answers he didn't. The policemen let him go while asking him to call them in case. A few minutes later, in a dark backstreet, the protagonist has a chance meeting with a girl. She clearly is South Asia-typed, has a wound at the forehead, she's limping, [[IdentityAmnesia and has lost her memories]]: the only thing she remembers is her name, "Maria Santos". Touched by her plight, the protagonist carries her back to his home.

* [[WhatBeautifulEyes (Beautiful)]] brown eyes: Maria's distinctive physical trait, as the game's cover above testifies.

* [[WhatBeautifulEyes (Beautiful)]] BrownEyes: Maria's distinctive physical trait, as the game's cover above testifies.

* {{Badass}}: Boy qualifies for it big time. [[spoiler: See KnightTemplarBigBrother, NeckSnap and WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut below.]]

''Sampaguita'' (サンパギータ) is the third entry in the interactive anime VisualNovel series ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'', produced by SonyComputerEntertainment, and developped by Sugar&Rockets and Creator/ProductionIG. The game was initially released in 1998 on [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]], then re-released in 2005 on PlaystationPortable.

The "Autumn" title of the four original [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]] ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' games, ''Sampaguita'' was directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (''Anime/GhostInTheShell movie'', ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', ''Anime/{{Patlabor}} 2 The Movie''), and the character design is courtesy of Creator/ShirowMasamune (''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'') and Takayuki Goto (''Manga/BlueSeed'', ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth OAV'').

The "Autumn" title of the four original [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]] ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' games, ''Sampaguita'' was directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (''Anime/GhostInTheShell movie'', ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', ''Anime/{{Patlabor}} 2 The Movie''), and the character design is courtesy of Creator/ShirowMasamune (''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'') and Takayuki Goto (''Manga/BlueSeed'', ''PleaseSaveMyEarth OAV'').

The "Autumn" title of the four original [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]] ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' games, ''Sampaguita'' was directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (''Anime/GhostInTheShell movie'', ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', ''{{Patlabor}} 2 The Movie''), and the character design is courtesy of Creator/ShirowMasamune (''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'') and Takayuki Goto (''Manga/BlueSeed'', ''PleaseSaveMyEarth OAV'').

The "Autumn" title of the four original [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]] ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' games, ''Sampaguita'' was directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (''Anime/GhostInTheShell movie'', ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', ''{{Patlabor}} 2 The Movie''), and the character design is courtesy of Creator/ShirowMasamune (''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'') and Takayuki Goto (''BlueSeed'', ''PleaseSaveMyEarth OAV'').

''Sampaguita'' (サンパギータ) is the third entry in the interactive anime VisualNovel series ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'', produced by SonyComputerEntertainment, and developped by Sugar&Rockets and ProductionIG. The game was initially released in 1998 on [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]], then re-released in 2005 on PlaystationPortable.

* [[spoiler: HotMom]]: Maria becomes one in [[spoiler: Good]] End [[spoiler: 2 and 3]].

Autumn, in Tokyo. In the middle of a rainy night, the main protagonist (i.e. the character controlled by the player), an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary University Student]], comes out of a mixer party organised by his fellow comrades of his part-time job. The train and bus services are long over, and there's no taxi around: he has no choice but to walk his way home, bemoaning on how his friends manage to get girls so easily while he doesn't.

* LongSongShortScene: Track n°40 "Ending 6", played at the very last scene of Good Ending 2. It lasts 1 minute and 45 seconds before looping; however, only the first 30 seconds of it are played during that scene, before the protagonist's last line and the credits cut it short.

'''BEWARE, this game is very story-driven. DO NOT HIGHLIGHT THE MARKED SPOILERS BELOW if you want to keep the full experience of the game. YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

* [[spoiler: BloodOnTheseHands / TheseHandsHaveKilled]]: In Good Ending 2, right after the protagonist [[spoiler: has shot down the Yakuza Boss to protect Maria, he contemplates in horror his hands soaked with blood. After he, Maria and Boy make their escape out of the building, he again contemplates his hands all while telling Boy and Maria he won't follow them any further, and will surrender himself to the police, as he feels that no matter the reasons, he has killed a human being with these hands of him, and [[TheAtoner has to atone for it]].]]

The "Autumn" title of the four original [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]] ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' games, ''Sampaguita'' was directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (''GhostInTheShell movie'', ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', ''{{Patlabor}} 2 The Movie''), and the character design is courtesy of ShirowMasamune (''GhostInTheShell'', ''{{Appleseed}}'') and Takayuki Goto (''BlueSeed'', ''PleaseSaveMyEarth OAV'').

* FlowerMotif: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasminum_sambac sampaguita, or Jasminum Sambac]]. Not only it symbolizes Maria, a delicate, exotic flower lost in the middle of an unknown country, but it also symbolizes the relationship between her and the main protagonist, as it has a meaning of "[[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080616042333AA1XdsF a promise of eternal love between two people]]".

** The [[TradingCardLame Collectible Card Collection]] went with Good End 2 as the main storyline, while Good End 3, Normal End 2, Bad End 1, and Bad End 9 became Parallel Stories;

-->'''Protagonist''': "There's something I understood [[spoiler: when I became a ghost]]. [[spoiler: Even when you become a ghost]], you don't fly in the sky like in {{manga}}s. Things like gravity and the law of inertia are still in full effect. When you have to travel to a faraway place, you still have to use means of transport after all. That said, nobody will be angry at you even if you don't buy a ticket..."

** Regarding communication:

-->'''Protagonist''' [[spoiler: ''[as he has arrived in Manilla and is about to meet Maria]'']]: In my happiness [[spoiler: ''[of being about to meet Maria]'']], something surprised me. What everyone were saying... I could understand all of it! I don't know why, but I could understand [[spoiler: the language of that country]]!! Is that because [[spoiler: I'm a ghost]]? If that's the case, then [[spoiler: being a ghost]] is not that bad of a thing.

The "Autumn" title of the four original [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1]] ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' games, ''Sampaguita'' was directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (''GhostInTheShell movie'', ''TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', ''{{Patlabor}} 2 The Movie''), and the character design is courtesy of ShirowMasamune (''GhostInTheShell'', ''{{Appleseed}}'') and Takayuki Goto (''BlueSeed'', ''PleaseSaveMyEarth OAV'').

* [[BrownEyes (Beautiful) Brown Eyes]]: Maria's distinctive physical trait, as the game's cover above testifies.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Played straight for the heroic characters: neither the protagonist nor [[spoiler: Boy]] get graphical representations of their deaths in Bad Endings, the camera focusing on their killers' faces instead. Averted for the BigBad characters though, who are killed with graphical [[BoomHeadshot shots to the head]] or blade slashes.

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: They may [[NotBloodSiblings not be blood siblings]], but Boy considers Maria as his little sister, and is '''very''' protective of her. [[spoiler: They're actually in Japan as a condition for letting Maria go off the Chinese Syndicate, as he vehemently opposed to making her work in it and dirty her hands.]] He's ''extremely'' hostile to the protagonist and the relationship he has with Maria until the FireForgedFriends event; [[spoiler: and the Yakuza soon learn the meaning of suffering when he rescues Maria from their clutches]].

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: Boy]] does a graphical one to a {{Mook}} at the beginning of the StormingTheCastle event.
* StormingTheCastle: The event that gives the "Action" label to the game, as well as the warnings of graphical violence on the game's box. At the game's climax, [[spoiler: Boy and the {{Triad}} members who owe him a life debt go and storm the {{Yakuza}}'s headquarters in order to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue the kidnapped Maria]]. The protagonist can join the battle as well in Good End 2 and 3 routes]].

* {{Yakuza}}: One of the antagonist factions after Maria. [[WouldHitAGirl And they're not above hitting a girl]], much less killing those who stand in their way -including the protagonist.

->Tagline in the trailers of the game, said by the main heroine, '''Maria'''

* FireForgedFriends: The main protagonist and Boy eventually become this, [[spoiler: [[IOweYouMyLife after the protagonist saves Boy from an assassination attempt by the Yakuza]]]].

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: They may [[NotBloodSiblings not be blood siblings]], but Boy considers Maria as his little sister, and is '''very''' protective of her. [[spoiler: They're actually in Japan as a condition for letting Maria go off the Chinese Syndicate, as he vehemently opposed to making her work in it and dirty her hands.]] He's ''extremely'' hostile to the protagonist and the relationship he has with Maria until the FireForgedFriends event; [[spoiler: and the Yakusa soon learn the meaning of suffering when he rescues Maria from their clutches]].
* StormingTheCastle: At the game's climax, [[spoiler: Boy and the {{Triad}} members who owe him a life debt go and storm the {{Yakuza}}'s headquarters in order to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue the kidnapped Maria]]. The protagonist can join the battle as well in Good End 2 and 3 routes]].

Autumn, in a big Japanese town. In the middle of a rainy night, the main protagonist (i.e. the character controlled by the player), an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary University Student]], comes out of a mixer party organised by his fellow comrades of his part-time job. The train and bus services are long over, and there's no taxi around: he has no choice but to walk his way home, bemoaning on how his friends manage to get girls so easily while he doesn't.

Suddenly, a police car comes his way. Thinking about it, there were an awful lot of them moving around the station... The policemen in the car ask the protagonist if he has seen a South Asian-type individual nearby, to which he answers he didn't. The policemen let him go while asking him to call them in case. A few minutes later, in a dark backstreet, the protagonist has a chance meeting with a girl. She clearly is South Asia-typed, has a wound at the forehead, she's limping, [[IdentityAmnesia and has lost her memories]]. Touched by her plight, the protagonist carries her back to his home.

Once there, they examine the girl's belongings. Inside her bag, they find a photo with the girl's name, "Maria", written on it; a wad of cash; a make-up set... and, to their surprise, a small, but real handgun. Maria being cleary in shock and tired, the protagonist puts her to bed. The following morning, the protagonist goes to his work, assuming that Maria would have slipped away when he would come back in the afternoon. Instead, he finds his flat cleaned-up and Maria still there. "I have nowhere else to go..."

And thus begins the protagonist and Maria's cohabitation, as they go on a [[QuestForIdentity quest for her identity]]. As time passes, their relationship blossoms into romance. [[EarnYourHappyEnding But their love will soon be put to test]], as a mysterious man from [[{{UsefulNotes/Philippines}} the Philippines]] will appear, and the {{Triad}}, the {{Yakuza}} and the Japanese police will come after Maria, and not for good intentions...

** EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Good End 1]].

** [[spoiler: NewChildLeftBehind]]: [[spoiler: In Good End 2. The protagonist is caught by the police for killing the Yakuza boss while defending Maria, and gets jailed for 4 years. He serves his prison time and reunites with Maria, who now has a young boy born from her and the protagonist, concieved during the time they were cohabiting]].
** [[spoiler: SomeoneToRememberHimBy]]: [[spoiler: In Good End 3. The protagonist dies protecting Maria. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent He becomes a ghost]] who wanders for a time in Japan, before finally realizing his situation, and deciding to go search for Maria. He finds her, and discovers she has a baby, born from her and him. The baby is able to see him, and the protagonist feels happy and at peace of mind, seeing them safe.]]
* FireForgedFriends: The main protagonist and Boy eventually become this.

* StuffBlowingUp
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: One of the antagonist factions after Maria.

* {{Yakuza}}: One of the antagonist factions after Maria.