History VideoGame / ForestOfDrizzlingRain

* TheAtoner: The 2022 remake reveals the villagers made the Kanzaki family into the village leaders as atonement for [[spoiler: not doing anything to save Tsuyu Kanzaki when she was unjustly imprisoned and killed.]]

* ConnectedAllAlong: The 2022 remake reveals that Shiori and Suga are the descendants of [[spoiler: The Taking Spirit and the Stone Guardian respectively.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When exploring the museum at the beginning, Shiori can find weird memos with general statements like "The museum's closed" and "Where is your mother?". It hints that [[spoiler: the manager can't speak]].

** BittersweetEnding: However the 2022 remake clarifies that [[spoiler: the glowstone only erases memories. So while the Taking Spirit forgets about her grudge on the village, she also forgets about her love for her child. Her child forgets his own memories as well, but is happy that his mother won't hurt anyone again.]].
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: According to the 2022 remake, the more worshipers a god has, the greater their power. [[spoiler: The God of the Azakawa Village forest had been reduced to a small snake due to losing his faith power.]]

** 2022 remake: [[spoiler: The God of the Forest, resenting humans for not worshipping them like in the past, curses the Stone Guardian and Tsuyu Kanzaki for accidentally killing him. Which results in the Stone Gurdian going mad with desire and Tsuyu becoming the Taking Spirit. Ultimately, all the sorrow and deaths at the hands of the Stone Guardian and Taking Spirit can be traced back to him, and yet he [[NeverMyFault blames everyone but himself]] for what happened.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At Ending 1, Shiori and Suga use the glowstone to purify the Taking Spirit and the ghost children. However the 2022 remake clarifies that the stone doesn't purify them, it just erases their memories. Which means that not only the Taking Spirit and the ghost children will forget their grudge, but the Taking Spirit and the White Child will forget about each other. He's satisfied with it, as his mother won't hurt anyone anymore.]]

** [[spoiler: It was used in the past by Shiori's family to make her lose all her memories of the village so she won't be targetted by the Taking Spirit.]]
** [[spoiler: In Ending 2, Suga uses it to wipe Shiori's memories again.]]
** [[spoiler: In Ending 1, Shiori and Suga use it on the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit and the spirits of the dead children. With it, their forget about their grudges and ascend to the afterlife. Unfortunately that means the Taking Spirit and the White Child forget about each other.]]

** [[CruelTwistEnding Ending 6]], exclusive to the remake: [[spoiler: Forest God's Promise. Added in the 2022 remake, Shiori realizes the snake that captured Sakuma is the God of the Forest in the village. Since most people in the modern era don't believe or worship them like they used to anymore faith, he had been reduced to a small snake....a snake that the Stone Guardian and Tsuyu Kanzaki killed in the past. He took revenge by cursing them, resulting in the Stone Guardian losing his sanity and Tsuyu becoming the Taking Spirit. Recognizing Shiori as a descendant of the Taking Spirit, the Forest God tells her that if she wants to life the curse and save Sakuma, she must sacrifice herself. Later the god exterminates the spirits and lifts the curse, but Shiori is dead and Sakuma and Suga are shown mourning her.]]
** [[BonusContent Extra Ending]], also exclusive to the remake: [[spoiler: No Need for Promises. The 2022 remake add a bonus scenario showing what happened to the village after the curse was broken during Ending 1.]]

** In Ending 6 of the remake, it's revealed [[spoiler: Shiori is a descendant of the Taking Spirit. Which the God of the Forest uses to guilt-trip her into becoming a sacrifice to lift the curse of Azakawa Village.]]

After the sudden death of her parents, a young woman named Shiori Kanzaki finds a picture of a man that she believes to be her grandfather, and travels to Azakawa Village, where he was apparently from, in hopes of meeting him. However, when she arrives, she learns that her grandfather has already passed on, and the family manor converted to a museum. There she meets Miyako Sakuma, a middle school girl who tends to get herself in trouble; Officer Mochizuki, the cop who usually busts Sakuma; and Suga, the strange manager of the museum who only communicates in written memos. Suga grudgingly allows her to stay there for a while and research her family.

After the sudden death of her parents, a young woman named Shiori Kanzaki finds a picture of a man that she believes to be her grandfather, and travels to Azaka Village, where he was apparently from, in hopes of meeting him. However, when she arrives, she learns that her grandfather has already passed on, and the family manor converted to a museum. There she meets Miyako Sakuma, a middle school girl who tends to get herself in trouble; Officer Mochizuki, the cop who usually busts Sakuma; and Suga, the strange manager of the museum who only communicates in written memos. Suga grudgingly allows her to stay there for a while and research her family.

* TownWithADarkSecret: Azakawa Village seems like a quaint little village under the protection of a generational line of heroes (the Stone Guardian), but it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the first such hero was a tyrant who instituted a system where criminals would be forced to sell their wives and children into sexual slavery, and they were kept in a prison in the forest to be tortured and raped. This is what turned an innocent woman into the [[BigBad Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit]]; the whole legend involving her is a malicious lie]].

* DyingTown: Azakawa used to be a mining town, but their primary resources have dried up. As a result, they've stopped running the buses because there's so few people around to use them, and lacks a proper inn or other establishment for guests to stay.