Underworld Capital Incident
(獄都事変 Gokuto Jihen) is a 2015 Horror Video Game made in RPG Maker and published by rinnedou.
In the world of demons, there exists the Underworld Capital, where the demons, evil spirits, and other such beings live. The Underworld Escorts are demons who protect humans from the evil spirits. You play as an underworld escort called Kirishima, who is given one task; go to an abandoned school and capture "the deceased one", an evil spirit responsible for many mysterious deaths in the area, and rescue Kinoshita, a fellow Escort sent to capture her who has never returned. Naturally, it isn't an easy task.
Currently has a manga adaptation. There is also a short sequel, FILAMENT, where you play as a girl, Chihiro, who gets in a car crash and loses her memories. Called over to the mysterious Licorice Hospital, which is run by the demons, she must work with the Doctor to recover her memories within seven days.
Gokuto Jihen contains examples of:
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the original game, all the underworld escort characters share the exact same generic sprite and portrait designs and can only be distinguished from one another by their different design palettes. The manga on the other hand not only diversified the characters' designs from one another but also upgraded their appearances into handsome young men.
- Big Bad: Maki, the deceased one, is the Vengeful Ghost killing people in the high school that Kirishima is sent to investigate, and is holding Kinoshita hostage.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Since the Escorts aren't humans, they can't understand them well. While
Word of God mentions that they do feel emotions, they don't feel them the same way humans do. - Color-Coded Characters: Each one of the underworld escorts has a color assignated to them. Their eyes are also of said color.
- Kirishima - Dark Blue
- Saeki - Light Blue
- Hirahara - Yellow
- Tagami - Orange
- Tanizaki - Purple
- Kinoshita - Green
- Rokkaku - Red
- Old School Building: The main setting is a high school at night which is being haunted by Maki and several other spirits.
- Multiple Endings:
- Normal End: Get to the end of the game. Kirishima captures Maki and stops her rampage, and she is sent to her judgement with no sense of closure.
- Good End: Get all the broken metal pieces and the Blue Stone, then take them to be repaired by Saeki, and Kirishima will give the resulting necklace to Maki, which reminds her of her Only Friend Yui and convinces her to stop her rampage of her own free will.
