History VideoGame / SayonaraWildHearts

* BadassFingersnap: ''Parallel Universes'' has the Stereo Lovers switch the level between two layouts with a snap and near the end The Fool turns this around on them.

* BookEnds: The ''Wild Hearts Never Die'' medley ends with [[spoiler:one final section of ''Clair de Lune'', complete with The Fool falling off the road and catching the diamond butterfly again. The game itself concludes with the protagonist, her heart restored at last, returning to her room.]]

** [[spoiler:In teh final level, Death and the other cursed Arcana extract the Fool and fuse with it, forcing the protagonist to face it one last time in a BossRush.]]

* MushroomSamba: In ''Forest Dub'' one of the Howling Moon's tosses glittering powder at The Fool that makes her hallucinate the usual chase sequence through a psychedelic landscape involving actual mushrooms.

* CoupDeGrace: Every confrontation with one of the tarot ends with two blows. One to destroy their bodies, another to destroy their hearts.

* TitleDrop: Several. TheNarrator declares "Sayonara, wild hearts!" after you beat the Stereo Lovers and at the end of the credits sequence. [[spoiler:Also, the Divine Arcana finish their end-game speech with "Sayonara, wild heart".]]

* BigBad: [[DarkActionGirl Little Death]] is the leader of the cursed Arcanum who stole all the love from the Astral Highways for themselves to fuel their sinister hearts.

* TheNarrator: Done by Music/QueenLatifah, of all people. According to WordOfGod, her inclusion was both very last minute (i.e. a ''week'' before release) and only half-seriously considered until it turned out she had an opening. That lateness is why the marketing made no mention of her.

'''Sayonara Wild Hearts''' is a story-driven RhythmGame[=/=]EndlessRunningGame hybrid, developed by three-person Swedish independent studio Simogo, and published by Annapurna Interactive. It was released on September 19th, 2019, for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS devices]] and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] through the Apple Arcade.

Once upon a time, another, harmonious universe existed beyond ours, called the Astral Highways, and three divine beings called The Empress, The High Priestess, and The Hierophant, watched over it. One day, Little Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Dancing Devils, the Howling Moons, the Stereo Lovers, and [=Hermit64=] to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, before fading away, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken woman to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Multivirate]]: Little Death and her allies who stole all the love from the Astral Highways for themselves to fuel their sinister hearts.

Once upon a time, another, harmonious universe existed beyond ours, called the Astral Highways, and three divine beings called The Empress, The High Priestess, and The Hierophant, watched over it. One day, Little Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Dancing Devils, the Howling Moons, the Stereo Lovers, and Hermit64 to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, before fading away, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken woman to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

Once upon a time, another, harmonious universe existed beyond ours, called the Astral Highways, and three divine beings called The Empress, The High Priestess, and The Hierophant, watched over it. One day, Little Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Dancing Devils, the Howling Moons, the Stereo Lovers, and Hermit 64 to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, before fading away, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken woman to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Multiumvirate]]: Little Death and her allies who stole all the love from the Astral Highways for themselves to fuel their sinister hearts.

''Sayonara Wild Hearts'' is a story-driven RhythmGame[=/=]EndlessRunningGame hybrid, developed by three-person Swedish independent studio Simogo, and published by Annapurna Interactive. It was released on September 19th, 2019, for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS devices]] and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] through the Apple Arcade.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Let's Pop!"]]

Once upon a time, another, harmonious universe existed beyond ours, called the Astral Highways, and three divine beings called The Empress, The High Priestess, and The Hierophant, watched over it. One day, Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Devil, the Moon, the Lovers, and the Hermit to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, before fading away, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken woman to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

''Sayonara Wild Hearts'' is a story-driven RhythmGame[=/=]EndlessRunningGame hybrid, developed by Swedish three-person developer Simogo, and published by Annapurna Interactive. It was released on September 19th, 2019, for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS devices]] and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] through the Apple Arcade.

* NoNameGiven: In-game, characters are only referred to using their biker names, but the protagonist, the Dancing Devils, the Howling Moons, and the Stereo Lovers [[https://twitter.com/SideCarryRight/status/1234212666169864192 all are named in the source code]].

* NoNameGiven: In-game, characters are only referred to using their biker names, but the protagonist, the Dancing Devils, and the Howling Moons [[https://twitter.com/SideCarryRight/status/1234212666169864192 all are named in the source code]].

''Sayonara Wild Hearts'' is a story-driven RhythmGame[=/=]EndlessRunningGame hybrid, developed by a Swedish three-person studio Simogo, and published by Annapurna Interactive. It was released on September 19th, 2019, for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS devices]] and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] through the Apple Arcade.

Once upon a time, another, harmonious universe existed beyond ours, called the Astral Highways, and three divine beings called The Empress, The High Priestess, and The Hierophant, watched over it. One day, Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Devil, the Moon, the Lovers, and the Hermit to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, before fading away, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken women to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter: The Stereo Lovers wield transforming katanas.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The Game. Just in the Dancing Devil boss fight, the gameplay switches wily-nily between racing game, fighter, bullet hell and flying, all with little to no warning.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Little Death vomits after being punched the first time. A lot. It propels her backwards and forms a slightly odd section of her level where the fool rides after her on a spiraling road made of her pale green sick.

Once upon a time, another, harmonious universe existed beyond ours, called the Astral Highways, and three divine beings called The Emperor, The High Priestess, and The Hierophant, watched over it. One day, Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Devil, the Moon, the Lovers, and the Hermit to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, before fading away, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken women to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

* BookEnds: The ''Wild Hearts Never Die'' medley ends with [[spoiler:one final section of ''Clair de Lune'', complete with The Fool falling off the road and catching the diamond butterfly, which turns into the pieces of her heart instead of the tarot card like in the beginning. The game itself concludes with The Fool, her heart restored at last, returning to her room.]]

* CardsOfPower: Tarot cards can become people, animals,obstacles, buildings, hover boards to traverse a dimensional space on, and vehicles to ride or weapons to wield.

* FairPlayVillain: The Stereo Lovers give you The Strength to wield in a swordfight with them.

* TheMarvelousDeer: The Emporer takes the form of a white stag.

* TitleDrop: TheNarrator declares "Sayonara, wild hearts!" at the end of the credits sequence.

* PlayingWithFire: The Dancing Devil's can attack from a distance with fireballs.

* PlayingWithFire: The Dancing Devil's can attack from a distance with fireballs.

* TheMarvelousDeer: The Emporer takes the form of a white stag.

The game starts when Death of the Arcanum teams up with the Devil, the Moon, the Lovers, and the Hermit to steal all the love for themselves, sealing it away in their wicked hearts. In response, the Divine Trio set out to create The Fool to combat them, calling forth a heartbroken women to bring balance to all. [[RhythmGame All though the power of music.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: The last boss isn't Little Death even with all her form changes.

* EnemyWithout: After Little Death is truly defeated in her final form, her and all the other arcana cards pull The Fool card, which manifested from her broken heart, out of the heroine and fuse with it. This causes it to manifest its own form which is a clone of her that recreates all their battles against her.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The Fool's hair is a pixie cut until the end of the game, where she grows it out again after healing her broken heart.

* HurtingHero: The prologue narration describes the hero as someone whose heart had been broken so profoundly that it echoed throughout time and space. The ending narration says she spent some time since spiraling into stages of depression before the events of the game helped bring her out of it.

* NarratorAllAlong: A variant. While the Narrator herself is a separate character, the credits reveal that the Fool was the one singing all the vocal tracks.

* TrueFinalBoss: The last battle isn't with Little Death but with the manifestation of The Fool's own broken heart fused with the five arcanum that have been fought before. Instead of punching her, she instead has to kiss her in each of her forms.

* canum is represented by a world where they are CardsOfPower that can become people, items, or locations. Vaguely existing in parallel pocket dimensions in another reality that is loosely connected in some way to the mundane world.