History VideoGame / ForestOfDrizzlingRain

[[http://www.mediafire.com/download/2a6xpt71fws04ru/kirisame1.06.rar An English translation of the game can be downloaded here]]

** 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 Taking Spirit can be traced back to him.]]

** In the original game, [[spoiler:the first Ogami-san, though seemingly a benevolent hero of old, is revealed to have a dark secret. Running a system in which crimes are punished by selling the wives and children of the criminal into [[SexSlave sexual slavery]], he fell in lust with a village woman. To make her his, he falsely accused her husband of crimes to imprison her, before having her husband and unborn baby executed. She commited suicide and her vengeful ghost became the Kotori Obake.]]
** The 2022 remake instead has [[spoiler: The God of the Forest. Resenting humans for not worshipping them like in the past, he 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 Taking Spirit can be traced back to him.]]

* BigBad: The Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit is a vengeful ghost who kidnaps children who step foot in her forest, and Shiori must rescue Sakuma from her and escape her to avoid becoming her next victim.
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The God of the Forest, which is responsible for everything that went wrong.]]

* DontGoInTheWoods: According to the old legends, the Taking Spirit used to haunt the forest and mountains surrounding the village. Suga also repeatedly warns Shiori against going to the woods. And it's worse if it happens to be raining...

* AllMythsAreTrue: Azakawa's legend of the Taking Spirit, the evil spirit haunting the forest and kidnapping children who wander inside. She is real, [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope but]] the tale of her creation is [[MaliciousSlander a vicious lie]]]].

* BigBad: The Taking Spirit is a vengeful ghost who kidnaps children who step foot in her forest, and Shiori must rescue Sakuma from her and escape her to avoid becoming her next victim.

* DeathOfAChild: The Taking Spirit [[WouldHurtAChild exclusively targets children]], [[spoiler:because her own children, including an infant, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds were brutally murdered]]]].

* GoldenEnding: Ending 1 is the happiest ending as [[spoiler:Shiori and Suga make it out alive, and the Taking Spirit haunts the village no more, meaning the forest is back to normal and the town is safe.]]

** [[spoiler: The first Stone Guardian, though seemingly a benevolent hero of old, is revealed to have a dark secret. Running a system in which crimes are punished by selling the wives and children of the criminal into [[SexSlave sexual slavery]], he fell in lust with a married woman named Tsuyu Kanzaki. To make her his, he falsely accused her husband of crimes to imprison her, before having her husband and unborn baby executed. She commited suicide and her vengeful ghost became the Taking Spirit.]]
** The 2022 remake gave us [[spoiler: The God of the Forest. Resenting humans for not worshipping them like in the past, he 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 Taking Spirit can be traced back to him.]]

** [[spoiler: In Ending 1, Shiori and Suga use it on the 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.]]

** [[GoldenEnding Ending 1]]: [[spoiler:Their Promise. Shiori and Suga reunite the Taking Spirit with the spirit of her unborn child, pacifying her. When the spirits of the children killed by her curse appear, Suga uses the night glowstone to ward them off. The glowstone makes all the spirits lose their memories and without their grudges keeping them bound to the land, they ascend to the afterlife. As a result, the curse is broken, and Suga regains his voice.]]

** [[BarrierMaiden Ending 3]]: [[spoiler:The Promise's Guardian. Although the Taking Spirit is reunited with her child, the spirits of those she killed overwhelm her and continue the curse. Since they're afraid of Suga, he has to stay in Azakawa, while Shiori is forced to leave for her own safety.]]
** [[HeroicSacrifice Ending 4]]: [[spoiler:The Promise He Kept. Shiori accepts the night glowstone from Suga, and he sacrifices himself to protect her. After his funeral, Shiori leaves, and continues to be haunted by the Taking Spirit whenever it rains. But as long as she keeps the glowstone with her, she's protected...]]
** [[DownerEnding Ending 5]]: [[spoiler:The Broken Promise, the Fulfilled Promise. Without even a glowstone for protection, Suga is forced to lash out at Shiori to ensure she doesn't follow him. Though she's rescued from the forest, Shiori can't escape the Taking Spirit's curse, and returns to Azakawa.]]
** [[CruelTwistEnding Ending 6]]: [[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]]: [[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.]]

** The Taking Spirit hates Suga because he is the last known descendant of [[spoiler: Stone Guardian, the man who ruined her life]].
** In Ending 6 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.]]

* 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 Taking Spirit]]; the whole legend involving her is a malicious lie]].

''Forest of Drizzling Rain (霧雨が降る森 Kirisame ga Furu Mori)'' is a freeware horror puzzle game made in RPG Maker VX Ace by Stardust KRNKRN (who would later go on to create ''VideoGame/AngelsOfDeath'').

But there is a legend in the village of the [[BigBad Taking Spirit]], a demon woman who abducts children who go into the nearby forest. When Sakuma goes missing, Shiori is forced to venture into the forest and confront the demon to save her. How is the tale of the village connected to Shiori's past, and why does she hear voices calling her, commanding her to "Come fulfill the promise"?

''Forest of Drizzling Rain (Kirisame ga Furu Mori)'' is a freeware horror puzzle game made in RPG Maker VX Ace by Stardust KRNKRN (who would later go on to create ''VideoGame/AngelsOfDeath'').

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 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.

But there is a legend in the village of [[BigBad "Kotori Obake"]], a demon woman who abducts children who go into the nearby forest. When Sakuma goes missing, Shiori is forced to venture into the forest and confront the demon to save her. How is the tale of the village connected to Shiori's past, and why does she hear voices calling her, commanding her to "Come fulfill the promise"?

* AllMythsAreTrue: Azakawa's legend of the Kotori Obake, the evil spirit haunting the forest and kidnapping children who wander inside. She is real, [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope but]] the tale of her creation is [[MaliciousSlander a vicious lie]]]].
* BigBad: The Kotori Obake is a malicious {{Youkai}} who kidnaps children who step foot in her forest, and Shiori must rescue Sakuma from her and escape her to avoid becoming her next victim.
* ButThouMust: When [[spoiler:Sakuma is kidnapped by the Kotori Obake]], your only option is to go into the forest, despite being warned to avoid it at all costs.

* DeathOfAChild: The Kotori Obake [[WouldHurtAChild exclusively targets children]], [[spoiler:because her own children, including an infant, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds were brutally murdered]]]].
* DontGoInTheWoods: According to the old legends, the Kotori Obake used to haunt the forest and mountains surrounding the village. Suga also repeatedly warns Shiori against going to the woods. And it's worse if it happens to be raining...

* GoldenEnding: Ending 1 is the happiest ending as [[spoiler:Shiori and Suga make it out alive, and the Kotori Obake haunts the village no more, meaning the forest is back to normal and the town is safe.]]
** BittersweetEnding: However the 2022 remake clarifies that [[spoiler: the glowstone only erases memories. So while the Kotori Obake 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.]].
* HateSink: [[spoiler:The first Ogami-san, though seemingly a benevolent hero of old, is revealed to have been the GreaterScopeVillain who warped an innocent woman into becoming the [[BigBad Kotori Obake]]. Running a system in which crimes are punished by selling the wives and children of the criminal into [[SexSlave sexual slavery]], he fell in lust with a woman, and so falsely accused her of crimes to imprison her, before having her family executed. He then raped her and later killed the fetus, finally driving her insane. Ultimately, all the sorrow and child deaths at the hands of the Obake can be traced back to him.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At Ending 1, Shiori and Suga use the glowstone to purify the Kotori Obake 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 Kotori Obake and the ghost children will forget their grudge, but the Kotori Obake and the White Child will forget about each other. He's satisfied with it, as his mother won't hurt anyone anymore.]]

** [[spoiler:Suga-kun]] was also picked on and isolated as a child. In particular, the bullies liked to claim that their MissingMom was actually the Kotori Obake.

** [[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 Kotori Obake.]]

** [[spoiler: In Ending 1, Shiori and Suga use it on the Kotori Obake and the spirits of the dead children. With it, their forget about their grudges and ascend to the afterlife. Unfortunately that means the Kotori Obake and the White Child forget about each other.]]

** [[GoldenEnding Ending 1]]: [[spoiler:Their Promise. Shiori and Suga reunite the Kotori Obake with the spirit of her unborn child, pacifying her. When the spirits of the children killed by her curse appear, Suga uses the night glowstone to ward them off. The glowstone makes all the spirits lose their memories and without their grudges keeping them bound to the land, they ascend to the afterlife. As a result, the curse is broken, and Suga regains his voice.]]

** [[BarrierMaiden Ending 3]]: [[spoiler:The Promise's Guardian. Although the Kotori Obake is reunited with her child, the spirits of those she killed overwhelm her and continue the curse. Since they're afraid of Suga, he has to stay in Azakawa, while Shiori is forced to leave for her own safety.]]
** [[HeroicSacrifice Ending 4]]: [[spoiler:The Promise He Kept. Shiori accepts the night glowstone from Suga, and he sacrifices himself to protect her. After his funeral, Shiori leaves, and continues to be haunted by the Kotori Obake whenever it rains. But as long as she keeps the glowstone with her, she's protected...]]
** [[DownerEnding Ending 5]]: [[spoiler:The Broken Promise, the Fulfilled Promise. Without even a glowstone for protection, Suga is forced to lash out at Shiori to ensure she doesn't follow him. Though she's rescued from the forest, Shiori can't escape the Kotori Obake's curse, and returns to Azakawa.]]

* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:[[TownWithADarkSecret Azakawa Village]] used to sell the wives and children of convicted criminals into slavery as punishment.]]
** Also Suga is the last known descendant of [[spoiler: Ogami-san, the man who ruined her life]]. Which is why the Kotori Obake is so callous and sadistic towards him.

* TownWithADarkSecret: Azakawa Village seems like a quaint little village under the protection of a generational line of heroes (the Ogami-san), 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]]; the whole legend involving her is a malicious lie]].

* HateSink:
** The nameless Government Official only appears in one scene near the beginning, but establishes himself as a SmugSnake nonetheless. In said scene, he informs Suga, the manager of the local museum, that the government plans to demolish the museum to make room for land development. He proceeds to be rude and disrespectful to Suga, outright telling him he does not care if Suga ends up jobless, then when Sakuma objects, he tells her that her father would support the demolishment. Finally, when Shiori tells him that she is the heir to the museum and can shut him down, he rudely expresses disbelief before storming out in a huff.
** [[spoiler:The first Ogami-san, though seemingly a benevolent hero of old, is revealed to have been the GreaterScopeVillain who warped an innocent woman into becoming the [[BigBad Kotori Obake]]. Running a system in which crimes are punished by selling the wives and children of the criminal into [[SexSlave sexual slavery]], he fell in lust with a woman, and so falsely accused her of crimes to imprison her, before having her family executed. He then raped her and later killed the fetus, finally driving her insane. Ultimately, all the sorrow and child deaths at the hands of the Obake can be traced back to him.]]

** It was used in the past

* GoldenEnding: Ending One is the happiest ending as [[spoiler:Shiori and Suga make it out alive, and the Kotori Obake is saved, meaning the forest is back to normal and the town is safe.]]

** [[GoldenEnding End 1]]: [[spoiler:Their Promise. Shiori and Suga reunite the Kotori Obake with the spirit of her unborn child, purifying her. When the spirits of the children killed by her curse appear, Suga uses the night glowstone to protect her. As a result, the curse is broken, and Suga regains his voice. Plus, it is implied that both will stay in contact or possibly even have a RelationshipUpgrade.]]
** [[BittersweetEnding End 2]]: [[spoiler:The Vanished Promise. Shiori makes Suga keep the night glowstone for protection, so he survives, and they escape together. However, when seeing her off at the station, Suga uses it to erase her memories again.]]
** [[BarrierMaiden End 3]]: [[spoiler:The Promise's Guardian. Although the Kotori Obake is reunited with her child, the spirits of those she killed overwhelm her and continue the curse. Since they're afraid of Suga, he has to stay in Azakawa, while Shiori is forced to leave for her own safety.]]
** [[HeroicSacrifice End 4]]: [[spoiler:The Promise He Kept. Shiori accepts the night glowstone from Suga, and he sacrifices himself to protect her. After his funeral, Shiori leaves, and continues to be haunted by the Kotori Obake whenever it rains. But as long as she keeps the glowstone with her, she's protected...]]
** [[DownerEnding End 5]]: [[spoiler:The Broken Promise, the Fulfilled Promise. Without even a glowstone for protection, Suga is forced to lash out at Shiori to ensure she doesn't follow him. Though she's rescued from the forest, Shiori can't escape the Kotori Obake's curse, and returns to Azakawa.]]

-->I made a promise to protect [[spoiler:Suga-kun]]!

* InfantImmortality: Averted. The Kotori Obake [[WouldHurtAChild exclusively targets children]], [[spoiler:because her own children, including an infant, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds were brutally murdered]]]].

* ColorCodedCharacters: Shiori's main outfit is bright yellow with an [[HairDecorations orange ribbon hairband]]. Suga wears all black. Mochizuki has his blue police uniform, and Sakuma-chan's [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack school uniform]] is a dark pinkish-red.

But there is a legend in the village of [[BigBad "Kotori Obake"]], a demon woman who abducts children who go into the nearby forest. How is this story connected to Shiori's past, and why does she hear voices calling her, commanding her to "Come fulfill the promise"?

* BigBad: The Kotori Obake is a malicious {{Youkai}} who kidnaps children who step foot in her forest, and Shiori must rescue [[spoiler:Sakuma]] from her and escape her to avoid becoming her next victim.

* SinsOfTheFather: [[spoiler:[[TownWithADarkSecret Azakawa Village]] used to sell the wives and children of convicted criminals into slavery as punishment.]]

* SinsOfTheFather: [[spoiler:[[TownWithADarkSecret Azakawa Village]] used to sell the wives and children of convicted criminals into slavery.]]

''Forest of Drizzling Rain (Kirisame ga Furu Mori)'' is a freeware horror puzzle game made in RPG Maker VX Ace by Stardust KRNKRN (who would later go on to create VideoGame/AngelsOfDeath). 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 Sakuma, a middle school girl who tends to get herself in trouble, 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.

* BigBad: The Kotori Obake is a malicious {{Youkai}} who kindles children who step foot in her forest, and Shiori must escape her to avoid becoming her next victim.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Azakawa's legend of the Kotori Obake [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} subverts]] this. The spirit exists, but the tale of her creation is [[MaliciousSlander a vicious lie]]]].

* HearingVoices: The whispers that Shiori's hearing are definitely the Evil Sauce type. [[spoiler:Sakuma-chan also gets to hear the voices of the spirits, along with the voices of the night glowstones.]]
* InfantImmortality: ''[[{{Subverted}} Nope]]''. The Kotori Obake [[WouldHurtAChild exclusively targets children]] [[spoiler:[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds because her own children, including an infant, were brutally murdered]]]].
* JerkassFacade: Suga is very rude, constantly requesting that Shiori leaves, only giving her unsatisfying answers and in general being unfriendly. [[spoiler: Justified, she is in extreme danger, [[KeepingSecretsSucks but he can't tell her about it]], so [[ShooTheDog he tries to bully her away from the village]].]] It's starts breaking when Shiori helps him save the museum from demolition. [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Things go downwards from there...]]]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Shiori's family used the power of the nightstone on her to make her lose all her memories of the village. Used on her again by Suga in Ending Two.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Poor [[spoiler:Shi-chan]] suffers from this.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: When they were children [[spoiler:growing up together in Azaka Village, Shiori was a tomboy whereas Suga was very sensitive]].

* ThePromise: Making a promise with the [[{{Youkai}} Kotori Obake]] is a ''bad idea''.

* BarrierMaiden: In one ending, this becomes the fate of [[spoiler:Suga. Since the spirits fear him, he must always remain in the museum, guarding the forest]].

* ButThouMust: When [[spoiler: Sakuma is kidnapped by the Kotori Obake]], your only option is to go into the forest, despite being warned to avoid it at all costs.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The first Ogami-san is the one responsible for turning the Kotori Obake into an evil {{Youkai}}, as he killed her family, falsely accused her of crimes, then imprisoned and raped her.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: The Kotori Obake [[spoiler:was the victim of this. [[GreaterScopeVillain The original Ogami-san]] [[{{Yandere}} lusted after her so much that he slaughtered her whole family to get to her]]]].

* TheSilentBob: Suga doesn't speak, using short notes and meaningful looks to get his point across.
* SmugSnake: The government official who wants to get rid of the museum is nothing but unpleasant, telling Suga that he doesn't care if that leaves him without a place to live.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Shiori coming to Azakawa is one for the government official, since [[spoiler:her family used to own the manor and can override their wishes]].
* SuitWithVestedInterests: There's a government official who wants to shut down the museum/old mansion in order to make way for new developments, and dismisses Suga-san's desire to keep it open as clinging to silly superstitions and the old ways. He also calls the Kotori Obake and Ogami-san bogus tales -- specifically dismissing the latter since the Ogami-san used to be well respected in the village.

* TownWithADarkSecret: Azakawa Village.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:[[BigBad The Kotori Obake]]. Turns out [[GreaterScopeVillain the first Ogami-san]], back then, [[{{Yandere}} fell in love with her]], [[MaliciousSlander tricked the village]] into viewing her as a monster, had her husband, child, and unborn baby killed, and kept her imprisoned as his personal plaything.]] And she was only the first victim.]]
* VisibleSilence: Suga's text windows are completely empty, without even a single ellipsis. However, he does get speech bubbles with these.

-->I made a promise to protect [[spoiler:Suga-kun]]!
* {{Youkai}}: The Kotori Obake.
* YouShallNotPass: In certain endings, [[spoiler:Suga-kun]] will attempt to make a LastStand against the spirits. Whether or not they survive this depends upon your choices and what you've collected.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The first Ogami-san is the one responsible for turning the Kotori Obake into an evil {{Youkai}}, as he killed her family, falsely accused her of crimes, then imprisoned and raped her.]]