Makoto Mobius is a 2014 horror game made by Charon in RPG Maker.
Watarou is a normal high school student. One day, his classmate Makoto asks him if she’s better off dead. The next day, Watarou is informed that Makoto has died. Makoto’s best friend Mikio talks to Watarou and tells him that Makoto can be saved. Now Watarou is now stuck looping through the day Makoto died and he must find a way to save Makoto and escape the loop.
Makoto Mobius Contains Examples of:
- Bittersweet Ending:
- Bad End 6 has tones of this. Makoto convinces Watarou to come back and see her in the loop. This means they’ll be trapped in the loop with each other as their only company and they’ll never die.
- The True End also is this. Watarou commits suicide and spares Makoto from her untimely death. Unfortunately, there’s the sinister implication that Makoto will go through a similar journey to save Watarou, meaning she’ll be trapped within a different loop.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Watarou has brown hair and eyes, Makoto has grey hair and eyes, and Mikio has teal eyes and hair.
- Downer Ending: A majority of the Bad Ends have some negative outcome.
- Bad End 1 plays without Watarou’s interference with Makoto’s father convincing her to perform a double-suicide with him. Watarou watches in horror as his classmate dies.
- Bad End 2 has Watarou kill Makoto’s father, but when Makoto finds out what he did, she’s unable to handle the grief and kills herself.
- Bad End 3 is similar to the above where Mikio kills herself to save Makoto and Makoto is upset over her friend’s death. However, she retaliates by killing Watarou after he admitted why a Mikio died.
- Bad End 4 seems like a good ending when Watarou makes Makoto’s father take some sleeping pills, thus ensuring neither dies. Unfortunately, Watarou’s mother somehow ends up dying in a house fire that night.
- Driven to Suicide: A common theme for this story is around suicide.
- It’s initially unknown to Watarou how Makoto died. He wasn’t sure if Makoto killed herself or not. According to the first Bad End, she might have killed herself or have been killed by her father. Based off Makoto’s diary, she seems to have had severe depression, which might have been why she was willing to kill herself.
- In Bad End 2, she’s so upset over her father’s death that she kills herself. Watarou trying to explain the situation to her doesn’t help ease her pain either.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: Watarou is stuck looping through June 23, 2013 until he figures out a way to save Makoto.
- Here We Go Again!: In the True End, after the credits roll, Makoto has an eerily similar speech about how she doesn’t really care that her classmate died just like Watarou had for her in the beginning. However, later games confirm that Makoto doesn't enter another loop, and simply carried on her life as normal.
- Heroic Sacrifice:
- In Bad End 3, Mikio kills herself when Watarou calls her and explains the situation to her.
- In the True End, Watarou uses the kitchen knife to kill himself and save Makoto from her early demise.
- Important Hair Cut: Makoto cuts her long hair in Bad End 2. It’s not so much a good thing once she reveals that she knows Watarou is involved with her father’s death.
- Mercy Kill: In Bad End 5, Watarou decides to kill Makoto himself so that she won’t suffer.
- Multiple Endings: There are six Bad Ends and one True End.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: Most of the Bad Ends are a result of Watarou trying and failing to save Makoto. Things like killing her father, making him swallow sleeping pills, etc.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Watarou gets called out by Makoto for making bad choices in a couple Bad Ends.
- Makoto asks Watarou what he thought would happen when he killed Maokoto’s father in Bad End 2, not realizing that her losing her father would only amplify her pain.
- Makoto also isn’t pleased when Mikio dies in Bad End 3 and Watarou is accused of “tempting” Mikio into killing herself for Makoto’s sake.
- Yandere: Mikio is one. She sends Watarou to the past to save Makoto. She’s quite willing to die for Makoto in one Bad End and she says in another Bad End that she refuses to live in a world without Makoto. She doesn’t care who dies so long as Makoto gets to live, and outright claims that Makoto belongs to her.
