History VideoGame / EndRoll

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: If you manage to beat [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss the informant]]]] and access the bonus room where you can talk to every character and BE any main recruitable character, the informant will be very worried about you going into the bath next door (where [[spoiler:the monster representing Russell's father]] resides) if you talk to him as Yumi and will advise you to be careful. As a character who has been a {{Jerkass}} through the entire game, it's really nice to see he genuinely cares about some denizens in the dream world.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: The Informant becomes this at the end of the BonusDungeon.]]

* FanDisservice: The BigBad ''would'' be an example of EvilIsSexy, were it not for her [[ButterFace disgusting face]], [[ExtremeLibido creepy obsession with sex]], and awful treatment of [[spoiler:''[[AbusiveParents her own son]]'']].

** Jealous One is [[GreenEyedMonster Envy, obviously, representing [[spoiler:Mirielle]]’s desire to have the married [[spoiler:Saxon]] for herself.

** Witnessing One is {{Wrath}}, representing Russell’s hatred of the "annoying monkeys" [[spoiler:and possibly the beginning of his [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone self-hatred]]]].

** Jealous One is {{Envy}}, obviously, representing [[spoiler:Mirielle]]’s desire to have the married [[spoiler:Saxon]] for herself.

* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: A species in the dream world are just talking penguins. They are noted to be a kind but weak-willed species that are good at construction.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Russell's father was this to Yumi.]]
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Russell's parents.]]
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: This starts to happen to some [=NPCs=] as the dream breaks down.
* AdultFear: The church is on fire [[spoiler:and your children are still inside.]]
** [[spoiler:Your child falls down, or is pushed down, a huge flight of stairs and breaks her neck, dying slowly and in agony the whole time... on her ''birthday''.]]
* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler: Russell's father.]]

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: This starts to happen to some NPC's as the dream breaks down.

** [[spoiler: Your child falls down, or is pushed down, a huge flight of stairs and breaks her neck, dying slowly and in agony the whole time... on her ''birthday''.]]

* AndYouWereThere: People in the dreams are based on people Russell knew in the waking world. [[spoiler: Often, people he either killed or felt he killed.]]
* AwfulTruth: The entire game consists of uncovering these - although it's unclear whether Russell recognizes the people in the town at first, it's quickly revealed that [[spoiler: they're all people whose deaths Russell feels he is responsible for, whether he actually killed them or not. The AwfulTruth aspect comes from Russell reliving in great detail what he did to each individual person, and having to accept the guilt that comes from his understanding.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: If you manage to beat [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss the informant]]]] and access the bonus room where you can talk to every character and BE any main recruitable character, the informant will be very worried about you going into the bath next door (where [[spoiler:the monster representing Russell's father]] resides) if you talk to him as Yumi and will advise you to be careful. As a character who has been a Jerkass/Jerkass Woobie through the entire game, it's really nice to see he genuinely cares about some denizens in the dream world.

* BonusDungeon: Requires a certain password on a certain door to get in, and is full of [[spoiler: abandoned books in what appears to be Russell's old home. Working through the dungeon also gets you a fight with the Informant.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Happens fairly often within the game, but in particular, the implications regarding [[spoiler: [[AbusiveParents Russell's mother]]/[[BigBad The Indecent One]]]] fall into this category. The most glaring example is the game's final dungeon, which is [[spoiler:the "nest" of the monster representing Russell's dad. The "nest" comes in the form of a woman's naked abdomen with hands gripping it everywhere, and the entrance to the nest is at pelvis level.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All of the endings. In one, the experiment fails, so Russell will most likely be executed. In the first True Ending, the experiment succeeds, but Russell is so overcome with guilt at his actions that he kills himself with the empty syringe. In the second True Ending, Russell chooses to remain in the Happy Dream and never wakes up in the real world.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When you visit Russell's memories of him after his parents, [[spoiler:you can see Yumi's cowboy hat on the ground, hinting at her sexual relationship with Russell’s dad]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: In the True Ending, [[spoiler: the experiment works, and Russell finally understands and experiences guilt. Unfortunately, he understands it so intimately that, after waking, the first thing he does is commit suicide by stabbing himself to death with the empty syringe.]]

** [[spoiler:Russell's father was a horrible drunk who made Russell [[TheAlcoholic buy him beer]] and beat him often. He also cheated on his wife with Russel's [[IntergenerationalFriendship older]] OnlyFriend Yumi, and eventually killed her, causing Russel to snap and [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his parents]]. His dream world counterpart, the [[TheHeavy Toxic One]], is a vile monster that terrorizes Nameless Town and is still [[{{Yandere}} disturbingly attracted]] to the dream version of Yumi.]]

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Russell in the second True Ending.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Indecent One]] is the source of the monsters in Russell’s dream, and his biggest tormentor. She [[spoiler:represents Russell’s [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]], who- along with his father- made him the SerialKiller he grew up to be.]]

''End Roll'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] [[UsefulNotes/RPGMaker RPGMaker 2000]] game published in the summer of 2016 by a developer named Creator/{{Segawa}}. Described as a "regretful adventure RPG", it follows a fourteen-year-old murderer named Russell on his journey of depressing self-discovery in the world of his dreams with the help of an experimental drug called Happy Dream. Normally, Russell would have been given the death penalty for his crimes, but, in order to perfect their drug-which has never successfully worked before-and to try to reform Russell, the creators of Happy Dream managed to get him into their program. Now, he must inject himself with Happy Dream every morning to see if he, a boy described as emotionless, [[TheLudovicoTechnique is capable of figuring out what guilt and remorse are and whether he can feel guilty about the horrible crimes he's committed]] by interacting with the ghosts of his past in his dreams.

In his dreams, Russell finds the community and friends he'd always wished for in the waking world, and starts feeling and discovering new, painful things, which seem to point to success for the experiment. But how much guilt can a person handle, especially if they've killed multiple people?

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Starts to happen to some NPC's as the dream breaks down.

* DraconicHumanoid: The Draken are a species of this. They vary between mostly human looking with horns to being a walking dragon.

* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: A species in the dream world are just talking penguins. They are noted to be a kind but weak willed species that is good at construction.

* LordBritishPostulate: The Nightmares start their first turn with a AOE attack that never misses and usually does 999 damage, meaning that the party is usually wiped out in the first turn. Despite having extremely low speed, allowing you to attack it first, it also has extremely high defense. But if your whole party has 999 HP and has a extremely high attack and/or mind stat, then if one party member survives it's attack, he can use a Higan Manjuu to revive the rest of the party. From the second turn, the Nightmare use a strong but inaccurate physical attack, meaning that the party can simply attack it until it runs out of HP.

** True End: [[spoiler:To reach this ending, you decide to end the dream world. You must then go someone in town and tell them the truth and let them kill you. After waking up in the real world, Russell commits suicide out of guilt.]]

** Witnessing One is {{Wrath}}, respresenting Russell’s hatred of the “annoying monkeys” [[spoiler:and possibly the beginning of his [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone self-hatred]]]].

* AwfulTruth: The entire game consists of uncovering these.

** [[spoiler:Russell's father was a horrible drunk who made Russell [[TheAlcoholic buy him beer]] and beat him often. He also [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on his wife]] with Russel's [[IntergenerationalFriendship older]] OnlyFriend Yumi, and eventually killed her, causing Russel to snap and [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his parents]]. His dream world counterpart, the [[TheHeavy Toxic One]], is a vile monster that terrorizes Nameless Town and is still [[{{Yandere}} disturbingly attracted]] to the dream version of Yumi.]]

''End Roll'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] [[UsefulNotes/RPGMaker RPGMaker 2000]] game published in the summer of 2016 by a developer named Segawa. Described as a "regretful adventure RPG", it follows a fourteen-year-old murderer named Russell on his journey of depressing self-discovery in the world of his dreams with the help of an experimental drug called Happy Dream. Normally, Russell would have been given the death penalty for his crimes, but, in order to perfect their drug-which has never successfully worked before-and to try to reform Russell, the creators of Happy Dream managed to get him into their program. Now, he must inject himself with Happy Dream every morning to see if he, a boy described as emotionless, [[TheLudovicoTechnique is capable of figuring out what guilt and remorse are and whether he can feel guilty about the horrible crimes he's committed]] by interacting with the ghosts of his past in his dreams.

Also see ''VideoGame/FarethereCity'' and ''VideoGame/WalkingOnAStarUnknown'', another game published by the same creator.

''End Roll'' is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] [[VideoGame/RPGMaker RPGMaker 2000]] game published in the summer of 2016 by a developer named Segawa. Described as a "regretful adventure RPG", it follows a fourteen-year-old murderer named Russell on his journey of depressing self-discovery in the world of his dreams with the help of an experimental drug called Happy Dream. Normally, Russell would have been given the death penalty for his crimes, but, in order to perfect their drug-which has never successfully worked before-and to try to reform Russell, the creators of Happy Dream managed to get him into their program. Now, he must inject himself with Happy Dream every morning to see if he, a boy described as emotionless, [[TheLudovicoTechnique is capable of figuring out what guilt and remorse are and whether he can feel guilty about the horrible crimes he's committed]] by interacting with the ghosts of his past in his dreams.

* HateSink: While [[VillainProtagonist Russell himself]] is a sympathetic character despite being a SerialKiller, the same cannot be said for [[spoiler:his AbusiveParents. His father was a horrible drunk who made Russell [[TheAlcoholic buy him beer]] and beat him often. He also [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on his wife]] with Russel's [[IntergenerationalFriendship older]] OnlyFriend Yumi, and eventually killed her, causing Russel to snap and [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his parents]]. His dream world counterpart, the [[TheHeavy Toxic One]], is a vile monster that terrorizes Nameless Town and is still [[{{Yandere}} disturbingly attracted]] to the dream version of Yumi. Russell's mother, meanwhile, was [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]], preferring to spend her time cheating on her husband [[ReallyGetsAround with several men]]. When Yumi was murdered, she just watched, uncaring. In the dream world, she appears as the Indecent One, [[BigBad the source of the monsters within the dream world]]. In the final dungeon, she [[BreakThemByTalking taunts Russel about him murdering his friends and constantly insults him]], and various aspects of their encounter imply that she [[ParentalIncest outright molested him]]. Utterly uncaring of anything beyond their own hedonistic pleasures, Russell's parents are the reason he grew up to be the twisted boy he is]].