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* ParentalAbandonment: Poor [[spoiler:Takkun]] was abandoned by ''both'' of his parents in his infancy. He never meets his father, and [[spoiler:Kotono]] leaves when he's just two years old.
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* YouAllLookFamiliar: A particularly bad case. All of the non-Going Home Club members and Musicians, with the exception of Marie, have just one base character model per gender, with the only differences being hair color and their Catharsis Effects.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: All the World Reward dungeons.
** The new postgame dungeon. Unlike every other dungeon in the game, you're not allowed to return to the entrance or even ''save'', so you need to beat the whole thing in one sitting.
** The new postgame dungeon. Unlike every other dungeon in the game, you're not allowed to return to the entrance or even ''save'', so you need to beat the whole thing in one sitting.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: All the World Reward dungeons.
dungeons. Good luck [[GuideDangIt unlocking them]], though.
**The new postgame dungeon.Echoing Obsession. Unlike every other dungeon in the game, you're not allowed to return to the entrance or even ''save'', so you need to beat the whole thing in one sitting.
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* {{Foil}}: μ and Aria. μ is beautiful and a perfectionist, where Aria is cheerful and casual.
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* NiceHat: Suzuna gains a large one resembling those worn by witches while her Catharsis Effect is active.
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* NiceHat: Suzuna gains a large one resembling those worn by witches while her Catharsis Effect is active. Lucid also has a nice wide-brim hat.
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* FaceHeelTurn: ''The protagonist'' can do this in ''Overdose'', causing them to become the Musician known as Lucid.
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* ScaryLibrarian: Shonen Doll is this for the city's library.
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* SyntheticVoiceActor: μ, who is essentially a ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'' in all but name.
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* SyntheticVoiceActor: μ, μ and Aria, who is are essentially a ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'' ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}''s in all but name.name. Kuchinashi also does not have a voice actor due to her speaking through the device over her mouth.
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* DysfunctionJunction: ''Every single character'' has their own issues.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Mobius is a world based on peoples' hopes and desires, so to that end it's also based off their ideas of what certain locations look like. This leads to things like the third and fourth floors of Kishimai High having such jumbled hallways, or Papico being a four-story mall where the buildings seem to be on top of each other.
* BlackoutBasement: The school has one. Justified in that apparently μ and Aria didn't have much data on schools with basements, so they used video games as inspiration when designing the school.
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* EvilCounterpart: Several of the Musicians are this to members of the Going-Home Club: Mirei for Kotono, Ike-P for Izuru, and Shadow Knife for Kotarou.
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* EvilCounterpart: Several of the Musicians are this to members of the Going-Home Club: Mirei for Kotono, Ike-P for Izuru, and Shadow Knife for Kotarou.Kotaro.
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* InTheHood: Shonen Doll's face is hidden by her cloak.
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* InTheHood: Shonen Doll's face is hidden by her his cloak.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: A few scenes in Character Episodes are played for comedy and then become much less funny once you learn the context behind them. For example, Mifue's behavior around restaurants, likened by Aria to a wild animal, is because of [[spoiler:her serious self-image and weight issues, not to mention her anorexia.]]
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* GameBreakingBug: The Version 1.03 patch introduced a catastrophic glitch where saving on a certain floor of the Landmark Tower -- frustratingly, one right before a boss fight -- causes all your saved files to be erased. As of this writing on Version 1.05, it has yet to be fixed.
* GildedCage: Mobius. Everything there is great, you don't need to pay for anything, everyone gets along... but you can never leave and you're probably there to escape from something horrible in real life.
* GildedCage: Mobius. Everything there is great, you don't need to pay for anything, everyone gets along... but you can never leave and you're probably there to escape from something horrible in real life.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: A few scenes in Character Episodes are played for comedy and then become much less funny once you learn the context behind them. For example, Mifue's behavior around restaurants, likened by Aria to a wild animal, is because of [[spoiler:her serious self-image and weight issues, not to mention her anorexia.]]
* GameBreakingBug: The Version 1.03 patch introduced a catastrophic glitch where saving on a certain floor of the Landmark Tower -- frustratingly, one right before a boss fight -- causes all your saved files to be erased.As of this writing on Version 1.05, it It has yet to be fixed.
* GildedCage: Mobius. Everything there is great, you don't need to pay for anything, everyone getsalong...along for the most part... but you can never leave and you're probably there to escape from something horrible in real life.
* GameBreakingBug: The Version 1.03 patch introduced a catastrophic glitch where saving on a certain floor of the Landmark Tower -- frustratingly, one right before a boss fight -- causes all your saved files to be erased.
* GildedCage: Mobius. Everything there is great, you don't need to pay for anything, everyone gets
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* NewGamePlus: Curiously, it took until an update in October Version 1.06 added this, giving players the ability to go back through the game with their levels, skills and Causality Link progress intact (except for this to be implemented.Character Episodes), and also (optionally) increase the levels of enemies.
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An UpdatedRerelease, ''Caligula OVERDOSE'', Overdose'', has been announced for a May 17, 2018 release on the PlayStation4 in Japan, featuring an expanded story, new allies and enemies, a selectable female protagonist, and the ability to [[HeelFaceTurn side with the Ostinato Musicians]]. An anime adaptation is also set to air in April 2018.
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* ColorMotif: White and pink are two of the game's most used colors. In ''Overdose'', it's white and gold instead.
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* NoOSHACompliance: The Landmark Tower is a 67-story tall building currently under construction, and yet people are just walking around freely inside.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Shougo (30), Kotono (23), Kensuke (19) and Mifue (17).]]
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* NoOSHACompliance: The Landmark Tower is a 67-story tall building currently under construction, and yet people are just walking around freely inside. \n [[spoiler:The real Landmark Tower probably doesn't have this problem as its construction is complete; the Landmark Tower in Mobius is as it appears the day Ichika committed suicide.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook:[[spoiler:Shougo [[spoiler:Shogo (30), Kotono (23), Kensuke (19) and Mifue (17).]]
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* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:Shogo and Ichika made one thirteen years before the events of the game, but Shogo backed out at the last possible second, leaving Ichika to die alone.]]
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A spin-off novel titled ''Caligula EPISODE: Marie Mizuguchi ~Kanojo no mita Sekai~'' [[note]]''The World She Saw''[[/note]] was released on October 15. It's written by Ryouko Seki, of ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'' fame.
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A spin-off novel titled ''Caligula EPISODE: Marie Mizuguchi ~Kanojo no mita Sekai~'' [[note]]''The World She Saw''[[/note]] was released on October 15.15, 2016. It's written by Ryouko Seki, of ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'' fame.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:Before the game's release, several fans guessed correctly that Kensuke and Kagi-P were the same person, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jr_dmRZ1Y this trailer]] revealed that they both looked identical and were voiced by Shouta Aoi. Additionally, Kagi-P was both excluded from the group shot of the Ostinato Musicians in the trailer and lacked an entry on [[http://www.cs.furyu.jp/caligula/character/index.html the official website]], further fueling that theory.]]
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:Before the game's release, several fans guessed correctly that Kensuke and Kagi-P were the same person, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jr_dmRZ1Y this trailer]] revealed that they both looked identical and were voiced by Shouta Aoi.Creator/ShoutaAoi. Additionally, Kagi-P was both excluded from the group shot of the Ostinato Musicians in the trailer and lacked an entry on [[http://www.cs.furyu.jp/caligula/character/index.html the official website]], further fueling that theory.]]
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* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Levels Whatever the level cap at 99, but is, it hasn't been hit yet. [[https://twitter.com/rjnbhptwdkpm/status/878019591322050562/photo/1 It's higher than 227]], yet the final boss is only level 30...''30''.
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* INeverToldYouMyName: [[spoiler:When Marie comes to free the Go-Home Club from their room, she refers to the main character as "President", which she shouldn't know.]]
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* BlandNameProduct: The social network "Gossiper" is very clearly supposed to be representative of ''Website/{{Twitter}}''.
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* YouCanKeepHer: Mirei threatens Kotono by kidnapping her (not current) boyfriend Ryosuke and putting his life in danger, but it turns out to not work as a threat because not only are they not dating, Kotono ''hates'' Ryosuke. Ultimately averted, though.
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''The Caligula Effect'' (known simply as ''Caligula'' in Japan) is an {{RPG}} for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita, developed by Aquria and published by [=FuRyu=]. It was released in Japan on June 23, 2016, with an international release planned for May 2, 2017; {{Creator/Atlus}} will be handling the localization.
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''The Caligula Effect'' (known simply as ''Caligula'' in Japan) is an {{RPG}} for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita, developed by Aquria and published by [=FuRyu=]. It was released in Japan on June 23, 2016, with an international release planned for in North America on May 2, 2017; {{Creator/Atlus}} will be handling the localization.
2017, and in Europe on May 9, 2017. It was localized by {{Creator/Atlus}}.
* InterfaceSpoiler: For a short time at the beginning of the game, Naruko follows you around. If you open up the submenu when facing her, you can see a character episode progress bar... which only playable characters have.
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''The Caligula Effect'' (known simply as ''Caligula'' in Japan) is an {{RPG}} for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita, developed by Aquria and published by [=FuRyu=]. It was released in Japan on June 23, 2016, with an international release planned for May 2, 2017; {{Creator/Atlus}} will be handling the localization.
The vocal software known as μ has enabled people to escape from the despair of reality by listening to her song; those who are "saved" by listening to her are granted their every wish through Mobius. In the virtual world of Mobius, everyone is an ideal high school student at Kishimai High School in the idyllic Miyabi City, repeatedly reliving high school days, blissfully unaware that they are not in reality. A small group of men and women figure out that Mobius is not the real world, and form the "Going-Home Club" in order to find a way back to reality. Each one of them has violated certain taboos, and each one has dark secrets...
However, their desire to escape does not go unnoticed. The Ostinato Musicians, eight composers who provide music for μ (the music itself being composed by actual musicians popular on websites like Website/NicoNicoDouga), oppose the Going-Home Club for disrupting the order.
Each member of the Going-Home Club fights using the "Catharsis Effect", a black mass that erupts out of them and forms into weapons and accessories that represent each member's true self; it also seems to cause parts of their personality that are normally repressed to come to the surface.
But perhaps the game's biggest claim to fame is that it is written by Tadashi Satomi, the father of the ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' series.
A spin-off novel titled ''Caligula EPISODE: Marie Mizuguchi ~Kanojo no mita Sekai~'' [[note]]''The World She Saw''[[/note]] was released on October 15. It's written by Ryouko Seki, of ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'' fame.
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j94nO7oylEo Trailer 1]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jr_dmRZ1Y Trailer 2]]
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!!This game contains examples of:
* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Levels cap at 99, but the final boss is only level 30...
* AnimeThemeSong: "Idolatry", sung by Creator/EmiNitta (Sweet-P), Creator/ErikoNakamura (Mirei), and Creator/YukaOotsubo (Thorn) under the alias [=REPLiCA=].
* AttackDrone: Naruko's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a pair of these.
* BareYourMidriff: Mirei wears her outfit in this manner.
* BeefGate: Quite a few sidequest objectives and chests are guarded by (or are) very powerful enemies; it's possible to get around some of them, but most of the time the chests they guard are locked anyway.
* BeneathTheMask: Each character's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a weapon representative of their true self, while also causing repressed traits of the user's personality to surface.
* BladeOnAStick: Suzuna's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a spear. Thorn wields a giant halberd in her boss battle.
* BlandNameProduct: The social network "Gossiper" is very clearly supposed to be representative of ''Website/{{Twitter}}''.
* {{BFG}}: Shogo's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a revolver the length of his lower body.
* {{BFS}}: Kensuke's Catharsis Effect is a massive sword about half his height, with a blade wider than he is.
* BodyHorror: A mild example, but the Catharsis Effect causes alterations to parts of the user's body, along with a stake rupturing through the chest from which flowers grow.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Sweet-P, Shonen Doll and Ike-P in the final dungeon.]]
* BrutalBonusLevel: All the World Reward dungeons.
** The new postgame dungeon. Unlike every other dungeon in the game, you're not allowed to return to the entrance or even ''save'', so you need to beat the whole thing in one sitting.
* ChainedByFashion: Shogo has a pair of broken handcuffs shackled to his wrists while in Catharsis Effect. Mirei has a small ball and chain attached to her right ankle.
* CheckpointStarvation: Save points in dungeons were initially few and far between (about one per floor), but an update made it so that there are about three per area.
* CoatCape: Izuru, Kensuke, and Kagi-P wear their coats in this manner.
* CoolMask[=/=]TwoFaced: While in Catharsis Effect, Izuru wears a mask covering the left half of his face.
* CoolSword: Izuru's Catharsis Effect is this; Shadow Knife uses a similar sword.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Kagi-P/Kensuke.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:This happens to Shadow Knife after fighting him on top of the Landmark Tower, and also Thorn after her defeat in the final dungeon.]]
* DropTheHammer: Mifue's Catharsis Effect gives her what looks like a Croquet hammer. Mirei uses a mace that she wields like a hammer.
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:Mirei and Wicked in the final dungeon.]]
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Anyone created by μ who didn't enter Mobius themselves (like Suzuna's classmates) are soulless husks. They have some degree of emotion, but nothing complex.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Several of the Musicians are this to members of the Going-Home Club: Mirei for Kotono, Ike-P for Izuru, and Shadow Knife for Kotarou.
* EnergyBow: Kotono wields one for her Catharsis Effect. Sweet-P also uses one during her boss fight.
* GameBreakingBug: The Version 1.03 patch introduced a catastrophic glitch where saving on a certain floor of the Landmark Tower -- frustratingly, one right before a boss fight -- causes all your saved files to be erased. As of this writing on Version 1.05, it has yet to be fixed.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Everyone in Mobius is continually reliving the same three years of high school.
* GunsAkimbo: The protagonist's Catharsis Effect gives him a set of dual pistols, [[HandCannon each as big as his lower arm]]. Ike-P fights with a pair of sub-machine guns.
* InTheHood: Shonen Doll's face is hidden by her cloak.
* KnifeNut: As his name suggests, Shadow Knife is one of these.
* TheLeader: Shogo is this to the Going-Home Club at first, but he passes his role onto the protagonist. Thorn is this to the Ostinato Musicians.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Each of the Ostinato Musicians has a song that sung by μ, that they wrote themselves and represent their characters.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to the Going-Home Club, there are ''over 500'' students within Mobius, each of whom can become a party member.
* LonersAreFreaks: Shonen Doll despises companionship, and actively looks down on anyone who leads any sort of social life.
* MadBomber: [[spoiler:When her features are revealed, Wicked turns out to be this.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Ostinato" is a musical term referring to a continually repeated rhythm; fitting for a setting with a time loop.
** ''Caligula'' itself refers not to UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} the Roman emperor, but to a term (the Caligula effect) that describes a desire to see/do things one is not normally allowed to see/do.
* NiceHat: Suzuna gains a large one resembling those worn by witches while her Catharsis Effect is active.
* NoNameGiven: Because players can name him themselves, the protagonist has no canon name, and is simply referred to as "Hero" in the trailers. The other Going-Home Club members only refer to him in conversation as "President", as he is the club's [[TheLeader leader]].
** Sweet-P and Shonen Doll are also not given real names, whereas all the other musician's names come out eventually.
* NewGamePlus: Curiously, it took until an update in October for this to be implemented.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Landmark Tower is a 67-story tall building currently under construction, and yet people are just walking around freely inside.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Shougo (30), Kotono (23), Kensuke (19) and Mifue (17).]]
* OminousMultipleScreens: Thorn uses such a set-up to communicate with the other Ostinato Musicians simultaneously and display information on the Going-Home Club members.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Ostinato Musicians are initially portrayed as this, with all of them, except Thorn, being shrouded in shadows until they are formally met in-person by the Going-Home Club.
* PowerFist: Kotarou’s Catharsis Effect, which takes the form of huge gauntlets on both arms.
* ScaryLibrarian: Shonen Doll is this for the city's library.
* SecondYearProtagonist: The protagonist, Izuru, and Naruko are this while in Mobius. [[spoiler:Mifue is this in real life, too.]]
* SempaiKohai: Just like the characters listed under SecondYearProtagonist, the actual ages of the rest of the Going-Home Club are unknown, but while in Mobius, Shogo, Kotarou, and Kotono are sempais to them, while Kensuke, Mifue, and Suzuna are kohais. [[spoiler:In real life, Suzuna is the kohai, Mifue is the same age, and all the rest don't apply because they aren't high school age.]]
* ShoutOut: Shadow Knife's appearance and mannerisms are references to an anime popular in the real world; while this is referring to an in-universe anime, his appearance nonetheless brings ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' to mind.
* SpookySilentLibrary: Shonen Doll resides in one of these.
* SinisterSilhouettes: Unlike the other Ostinato Musicians, Wicked's features are constantly shadowed, even in the trailers and [[http://www.cs.furyu.jp/caligula/trash/hp0019/index01090000.html the official website]]. Only once their identity is revealed to the party do they get identifying features.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The Ostinato Musicians want people to remain the way they are in Mobius and to that end view the Going-Home Club as a threat.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: μ, who is essentially a ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'' in all but name.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:Before the game's release, several fans guessed correctly that Kensuke and Kagi-P were the same person, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jr_dmRZ1Y this trailer]] revealed that they both looked identical and were voiced by Shouta Aoi. Additionally, Kagi-P was both excluded from the group shot of the Ostinato Musicians in the trailer and lacked an entry on [[http://www.cs.furyu.jp/caligula/character/index.html the official website]], further fueling that theory.]]
* UnknownRival: Mirei is obsessively fixated on being the most popular musician in Mobius, and as such, views μ as a threat towards attaining that goal. μ herself is oblivious to this.
* VariableMix: The first time through any dungeon, the soundtrack is instrumental but with a vocal version of the track that fades in when an encounter starts. This goes away after beating the dungeon.
* VigilanteMan: Shadow Knife is known for executing traitors in Mobius and serves as μ's bodyguard.
* VillainousFriendship: Thorn provides most of μ's music, and they have a relationship of mutual trust.
* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: The protagonist falling in battle means GameOver.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Kotarou (14).]]
''The Caligula Effect'' (known simply as ''Caligula'' in Japan) is an {{RPG}} for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita, developed by Aquria and published by [=FuRyu=]. It was released in Japan on June 23, 2016, with an international release planned for May 2, 2017; {{Creator/Atlus}} will be handling the localization.
The vocal software known as μ has enabled people to escape from the despair of reality by listening to her song; those who are "saved" by listening to her are granted their every wish through Mobius. In the virtual world of Mobius, everyone is an ideal high school student at Kishimai High School in the idyllic Miyabi City, repeatedly reliving high school days, blissfully unaware that they are not in reality. A small group of men and women figure out that Mobius is not the real world, and form the "Going-Home Club" in order to find a way back to reality. Each one of them has violated certain taboos, and each one has dark secrets...
However, their desire to escape does not go unnoticed. The Ostinato Musicians, eight composers who provide music for μ (the music itself being composed by actual musicians popular on websites like Website/NicoNicoDouga), oppose the Going-Home Club for disrupting the order.
Each member of the Going-Home Club fights using the "Catharsis Effect", a black mass that erupts out of them and forms into weapons and accessories that represent each member's true self; it also seems to cause parts of their personality that are normally repressed to come to the surface.
But perhaps the game's biggest claim to fame is that it is written by Tadashi Satomi, the father of the ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' series.
A spin-off novel titled ''Caligula EPISODE: Marie Mizuguchi ~Kanojo no mita Sekai~'' [[note]]''The World She Saw''[[/note]] was released on October 15. It's written by Ryouko Seki, of ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'' fame.
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j94nO7oylEo Trailer 1]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jr_dmRZ1Y Trailer 2]]
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!!This game contains examples of:
* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Levels cap at 99, but the final boss is only level 30...
* AnimeThemeSong: "Idolatry", sung by Creator/EmiNitta (Sweet-P), Creator/ErikoNakamura (Mirei), and Creator/YukaOotsubo (Thorn) under the alias [=REPLiCA=].
* AttackDrone: Naruko's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a pair of these.
* BareYourMidriff: Mirei wears her outfit in this manner.
* BeefGate: Quite a few sidequest objectives and chests are guarded by (or are) very powerful enemies; it's possible to get around some of them, but most of the time the chests they guard are locked anyway.
* BeneathTheMask: Each character's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a weapon representative of their true self, while also causing repressed traits of the user's personality to surface.
* BladeOnAStick: Suzuna's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a spear. Thorn wields a giant halberd in her boss battle.
* BlandNameProduct: The social network "Gossiper" is very clearly supposed to be representative of ''Website/{{Twitter}}''.
* {{BFG}}: Shogo's Catharsis Effect takes the form of a revolver the length of his lower body.
* {{BFS}}: Kensuke's Catharsis Effect is a massive sword about half his height, with a blade wider than he is.
* BodyHorror: A mild example, but the Catharsis Effect causes alterations to parts of the user's body, along with a stake rupturing through the chest from which flowers grow.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Sweet-P, Shonen Doll and Ike-P in the final dungeon.]]
* BrutalBonusLevel: All the World Reward dungeons.
** The new postgame dungeon. Unlike every other dungeon in the game, you're not allowed to return to the entrance or even ''save'', so you need to beat the whole thing in one sitting.
* ChainedByFashion: Shogo has a pair of broken handcuffs shackled to his wrists while in Catharsis Effect. Mirei has a small ball and chain attached to her right ankle.
* CheckpointStarvation: Save points in dungeons were initially few and far between (about one per floor), but an update made it so that there are about three per area.
* CoatCape: Izuru, Kensuke, and Kagi-P wear their coats in this manner.
* CoolMask[=/=]TwoFaced: While in Catharsis Effect, Izuru wears a mask covering the left half of his face.
* CoolSword: Izuru's Catharsis Effect is this; Shadow Knife uses a similar sword.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Kagi-P/Kensuke.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:This happens to Shadow Knife after fighting him on top of the Landmark Tower, and also Thorn after her defeat in the final dungeon.]]
* DropTheHammer: Mifue's Catharsis Effect gives her what looks like a Croquet hammer. Mirei uses a mace that she wields like a hammer.
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:Mirei and Wicked in the final dungeon.]]
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Anyone created by μ who didn't enter Mobius themselves (like Suzuna's classmates) are soulless husks. They have some degree of emotion, but nothing complex.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Several of the Musicians are this to members of the Going-Home Club: Mirei for Kotono, Ike-P for Izuru, and Shadow Knife for Kotarou.
* EnergyBow: Kotono wields one for her Catharsis Effect. Sweet-P also uses one during her boss fight.
* GameBreakingBug: The Version 1.03 patch introduced a catastrophic glitch where saving on a certain floor of the Landmark Tower -- frustratingly, one right before a boss fight -- causes all your saved files to be erased. As of this writing on Version 1.05, it has yet to be fixed.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Everyone in Mobius is continually reliving the same three years of high school.
* GunsAkimbo: The protagonist's Catharsis Effect gives him a set of dual pistols, [[HandCannon each as big as his lower arm]]. Ike-P fights with a pair of sub-machine guns.
* InTheHood: Shonen Doll's face is hidden by her cloak.
* KnifeNut: As his name suggests, Shadow Knife is one of these.
* TheLeader: Shogo is this to the Going-Home Club at first, but he passes his role onto the protagonist. Thorn is this to the Ostinato Musicians.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Each of the Ostinato Musicians has a song that sung by μ, that they wrote themselves and represent their characters.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to the Going-Home Club, there are ''over 500'' students within Mobius, each of whom can become a party member.
* LonersAreFreaks: Shonen Doll despises companionship, and actively looks down on anyone who leads any sort of social life.
* MadBomber: [[spoiler:When her features are revealed, Wicked turns out to be this.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Ostinato" is a musical term referring to a continually repeated rhythm; fitting for a setting with a time loop.
** ''Caligula'' itself refers not to UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} the Roman emperor, but to a term (the Caligula effect) that describes a desire to see/do things one is not normally allowed to see/do.
* NiceHat: Suzuna gains a large one resembling those worn by witches while her Catharsis Effect is active.
* NoNameGiven: Because players can name him themselves, the protagonist has no canon name, and is simply referred to as "Hero" in the trailers. The other Going-Home Club members only refer to him in conversation as "President", as he is the club's [[TheLeader leader]].
** Sweet-P and Shonen Doll are also not given real names, whereas all the other musician's names come out eventually.
* NewGamePlus: Curiously, it took until an update in October for this to be implemented.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Landmark Tower is a 67-story tall building currently under construction, and yet people are just walking around freely inside.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Shougo (30), Kotono (23), Kensuke (19) and Mifue (17).]]
* OminousMultipleScreens: Thorn uses such a set-up to communicate with the other Ostinato Musicians simultaneously and display information on the Going-Home Club members.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Ostinato Musicians are initially portrayed as this, with all of them, except Thorn, being shrouded in shadows until they are formally met in-person by the Going-Home Club.
* PowerFist: Kotarou’s Catharsis Effect, which takes the form of huge gauntlets on both arms.
* ScaryLibrarian: Shonen Doll is this for the city's library.
* SecondYearProtagonist: The protagonist, Izuru, and Naruko are this while in Mobius. [[spoiler:Mifue is this in real life, too.]]
* SempaiKohai: Just like the characters listed under SecondYearProtagonist, the actual ages of the rest of the Going-Home Club are unknown, but while in Mobius, Shogo, Kotarou, and Kotono are sempais to them, while Kensuke, Mifue, and Suzuna are kohais. [[spoiler:In real life, Suzuna is the kohai, Mifue is the same age, and all the rest don't apply because they aren't high school age.]]
* ShoutOut: Shadow Knife's appearance and mannerisms are references to an anime popular in the real world; while this is referring to an in-universe anime, his appearance nonetheless brings ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' to mind.
* SpookySilentLibrary: Shonen Doll resides in one of these.
* SinisterSilhouettes: Unlike the other Ostinato Musicians, Wicked's features are constantly shadowed, even in the trailers and [[http://www.cs.furyu.jp/caligula/trash/hp0019/index01090000.html the official website]]. Only once their identity is revealed to the party do they get identifying features.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The Ostinato Musicians want people to remain the way they are in Mobius and to that end view the Going-Home Club as a threat.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: μ, who is essentially a ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'' in all but name.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:Before the game's release, several fans guessed correctly that Kensuke and Kagi-P were the same person, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jr_dmRZ1Y this trailer]] revealed that they both looked identical and were voiced by Shouta Aoi. Additionally, Kagi-P was both excluded from the group shot of the Ostinato Musicians in the trailer and lacked an entry on [[http://www.cs.furyu.jp/caligula/character/index.html the official website]], further fueling that theory.]]
* UnknownRival: Mirei is obsessively fixated on being the most popular musician in Mobius, and as such, views μ as a threat towards attaining that goal. μ herself is oblivious to this.
* VariableMix: The first time through any dungeon, the soundtrack is instrumental but with a vocal version of the track that fades in when an encounter starts. This goes away after beating the dungeon.
* VigilanteMan: Shadow Knife is known for executing traitors in Mobius and serves as μ's bodyguard.
* VillainousFriendship: Thorn provides most of μ's music, and they have a relationship of mutual trust.
* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: The protagonist falling in battle means GameOver.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Kotarou (14).]]
