History VideoGame / FarethereCity

* SurpriseCreepy: Played with. [[spoiler:While the game definitely has dark secrets and horrific areas and scenes, the setting is still ultimately idealistic and the focus on leisurely daily life is not a trick or lie]].

* SurrealSymbolicHeads: Docta has a cardiograph for a head, all Temanekis/Omens have papers or something else covering their faces, and almost everyone in Scraperton has clocks for heads.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Luna and Sana's father.]]
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The Mermech in Deepsea City does this.

''Farethere City'' (Japanese: ''Minoniyoku City'') is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] [[VideoGame/RPGMaker RPG Maker 2000]] game made by Segawa. It is about a one-eyed creature named Pigula who moves into an idyllic town called Farethere City to fulfill his dream of opening a general store. The city's acting mayor Hopopo is quick to offer him a property costing only 5000 yen to renovate into a store, and the city's inhabitants are happy to welcome him.

Also see ''VideoGame/EndRoll'' and ''Walking on a Star Unknown'', another RPG Maker game from the same creator.

Also see ''VideoGame/EndRoll'', another RPG Maker game from the same creator.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Izanai]] is the one causing all the bizarre events with the intent of tormenting the other characters.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The dark-haired spirits with hidden faces are called Temanekis or Omens but many of them are not evil. [[spoiler:Even [[BigBad Izanai]], the only one of them who could be called "evil", can be interpreted as just having a different philosophical view on life than Michibiki and the secret area of Forgotnot's Crescent reveals that [[PetTheDog she's helped out at least one lost soul.]]]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Izanai]] is the one causing all the bizzare events with the intent of tormenting the other characters.

->''"You can't become aware."''

* DarkIsNotEvil: The dark-haired spirits with hidden faces are called Temanekis or Omens but many of them are not evil. [[spoiler:Even Izanai, the only one of them who could be called "evil", can be interpreted as just having a different philosophical view on life than Michibiki and the secret area of Forgotnot's Crescent reveals that she's helped out at least one lost soul.]]

''Farethere City'' (Japanese: ''Minoniyoku City'') is a [[FreewareGames freeware]] [[RPGMaker RPG Maker 2000]] game made by Segawa. It is about a one-eyed creature named Pigula who moves into an idyllic town called Farethere City to fulfill his dream of opening a general store. The city's acting mayor Hopopo is quick to offer him a property costing only 5000 yen to renovate into a store, and the city's inhabitants are happy to welcome him.

* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Anyone with a modicum of [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] can tell from the start that Farethere is more than just an innocuous little city. However, see the Crapsaccharine World entry above.]]
* WistfulAmnesia: [[spoiler:Some souls have only a vague awareness that they've forgotten something, like Garuru who comes out on some nights to sit on the cliff and try to remember.]]
* {{Workaholic}}: Everyone in Scraperton is like this.

* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:At least part of the reason why Izanai despises Farethere/Michibiki so much is because she's jealous of how nice it is. She outright states that she hates how pretty it is, and how unfair that is.]]

''Farethere City'' is a freeware RPG Maker game made by Segawa. It is about a one-eyed creature named Pigula who moves into an idyllic town called Farethere to fulfill his dream of opening a general store. The city's mayor Hopopo is quick to offer you a property to renovate into a store and the city's inhabitants are happy to welcome you. This is the perfect opportunity for Pigula to make his dream come true and find new friends and a home in the process... if he can ignore these ominous dreams he's been having or the items in his room that he can't recall having put there.

The English translation of the game by vgperson can be found [[http://vgperson.com/games/faretherecity.htm here]].

* SignificantAnagram: [[spoiler:Farethere = Hereafter.]]

* CreepyGood: Several characters, like the nurse who's a little too enthusiastic about delivering shots, the who has a cardiograph for a head and NoIndoorVoice, and even [[spoiler:Farethere's actual mayor who looks like a dark-haired ghost with an X obscuring his face]] have disconcerting appearances and/or mannerisms but are genuinely friendly and helpful.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The dark-haired spirits with hidden faces are called Temanekis or Omens but many of them are not evil. [[spoiler:Even the Omen who runs the [[DarkWorld Otherworld]], the only one of them who could be called "evil", can be interpreted as just having a different philosophical view on life than Michibiki.]]

* DreamingTheTruth: [[spoiler:Pigula's dreams start out rather cryptic, but eventually become fully-fledged flashbacks.]]

* SecretLevel: Three areas ([[spoiler:Eater Island, Shoal Shore, and Forgotnot's Crescent]]) can be accessed only if you eat certain foods and [[spoiler:the four Path of Rebirth areas plus Omen Capital]] require you to go even further out of your way to obtain a number of passwords.

* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Anyone with a modicum of [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] can tell that Farethere is more than just an innocuous little city. However, see the Crapsaccharine World entry above.]]

* TeruTeuBozu: Karakoro seems to be designed to invoke one of these. [[spoiler: This takes on a dark double meaning when you learn the way he died.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Several of Farethere's inhabitants. Karakoro/Shouta was a terminally ill child who was hanged in his hospital room by his mother when she could no longer bear to take care of him, Luna and Sana were abused by their father and died either at the hands of their mother or by accidentally running off a cliff just after they finally escaped him, and Jekyll died in prison hating the people who implicitly falsely accused him of committing a crime.]] Noticeably averted by Pigula/Yuuya and Gilbert, however, who appear to have led relatively happy lives before dying.]]