History VideoGame / TsuguNoHi

* MultipleEndings: ''Evil God Korone'' has a good ending and a bad ending. The [[spoiler:horrifying]] bad ending is obtained [[spoiler:if the protagonist answers the Koronesukis that he does like Korone, leading to him being turned into a Koronesuki.]] The [[spoiler:hilarious]] good ending is achieved [[spoiler:by ignoring the Koronesukis' question and walking away from them, leading to Korone getting arrested.]]

* SillinessSwitch: Averted at first. ''Evil God Korone'' starts off just as sinister as the rest of the Tsugu No Hi games, with the cutesy Korone being portrayed as a terrible abomination spearheading a twisted cult of Koronesukis. The bad ending [[spoiler:doubles down on the horror, where the protagonist is forcibly turned into a Koronesuki with all the BodyHorror it entails]], but the good ending [[spoiler:veers away from the horror and goes straight into comedy, with Korone being arrested and smacked silly by the police.]]

* BetaTestBaddie: [[spoiler: The villain of ''Ai’s Silent Cries'' is implied to be the original version of the A.I that would become Kizuna Ai]].

* FourIsDeath: A recurring element in Uramikko. [[spoiler: What separates the spirit Shikiko and the real Shikiko is the first kanji or their first name. The student has "four" while the spirit has "death.]]
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:The ghost Shikiko killed the real student Shikiko Muraoka and took her name, become the Shikiko of the urban legend.]]

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: In the end of Death Smell, when the main character has figured it all out and goes to bury Yukie's corpse, he runs into the other ghosts and expresses sympathy for them. His kindness is enough for them to move on.]]

* HorrifyingTheHorror: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. [[spoiler: In the Akihabara chapter Luna and Yuri are stalked by a creep and Yuri unleashes her psychotic side to scare him away. However it turns out he wasn't a creep, he was just socially awkward.]]

* SoulEater: [[spoiler:The apparition in the third game seems to be one of these, turning those it possesses/spirits away into what look like telephone poles or signs and then eating them in the other world]].

* TheMerch: ''Supernatural Supermarket'' features a cute plushie of the ghost boy from the first game, aptly named Tsugunohi-kun. [[spoiler:But poor Tsugunohi-kun gets taken by the spirit realm too...]]

* CallBack: ''A Closed Future'' has a brief cameo of the main character from the first game. [[spoiler:Ghost boy riding on his back and all]]. ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' also features the protagonist from ''The Parallel Train in the Dark'' appearing at the start of the game.
* CreepyChild: The ghost in the first game. Also the spirit of Kana Mizuki [[spoiler:and Tsugumi's apparition after she dies.]]. The ghost of the twintailed girl in ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' slams straight ''into your face'', grinning madly at you with her eyeless face until ''her head falls off'' with a disgusting sound.

-->"You can see me, right? ''You can see me, right?'' You can see- ''You can see-'' '''You can see-''' '''''YOU CAN SEE ME, RIGHT?"''''' ''(cue RedEyesTakeWarning)''

* Tsugu no Hi -Supernatural Supermarket-

* BittersweetEnding: ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' ends with [[spoiler:the protagonist's death by being run over, but her last moments are to hug and comfort her dead twin sister's spirit, joining her in death, and the credits have them sitting beside each other, content being together once again.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The vast majority of the games' stories end in horrifying downers, with a few exceptions such as ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' whose ending is more bittersweet, and ''Evil God Korone'' has a good ending that's [[SillinessSwitch utterly hilarious.]]]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The appearance of an apparition is often accompanied with a ghastly wail. ''The Parallel Train in the Dark'' has the protagonist walk through the increasingly corrupted train, and sometimes as she walks, some very gross sounds are played.

* NothingIsScarier: The first day of each game usually has no apparitions to be found save at the very end, and even then, they're often barely noticeable and can be easily missed.

* NervesOfSteel: ''Yumi Kiritachi.'' She navigates through the spirit realm in ''Supernatural Supermarket'' without flinching too much, determined to [[spoiler:rescue her kouhai Meguro]], and even on the hexed day [[spoiler:where she gets a nail in her right eye and is clearly weakened, she manages to carry her blinded manager on her back (mind you, the manager is a grown adult man and she's a 17 year-old girl) and still pushes further to try and find an escape route. It isn't until the very last scene that she tragically breaks and falls.]]

* BodyHorror: Let's just say [[spoiler:becoming a Koronesuki is... not a very pleasant experience. Your head is shaved bald, your fingers are chopped off, and you get forced into a device that forces your eyes open and contorts your face into a constant smile, and said device will eventually snap off, causing your entire head to become bloated and the smile to become permanent.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: Played for horror in ''Supernatural Supermarket''. On the third day, the manager asks Kiritachi where Meguro is, even though Meguro's standing right beside her. [[spoiler:And then the manager shows Kiritachi the missing person poster, and it's revealed that Meguro was spirited away.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The appearance of an apparition is often accompanied with a ghastly wail. ''The Parallel Train in the Dark'' has the protagonist walk through the increasingly corrupted train, and sometimes as she walks, some very gross sounds play which are heavily implied to be the gory remains of the poor passengers.

* NervesOfSteel: ''Yumi Kiritachi.'' She navigates through the spirit realm in ''Supernatural Supermarket'' without flinching too much, determined to [[spoiler:rescue her kouhai Meguro]], and even on the hexed day [[spoiler:where she gets a nail in her right eye, she manages to carry her blinded manager on her back and still pushes further to try and find an escape route. It isn't until the very last scene that she tragically breaks and falls.]]

* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the Death smell movie, the boy from the first chapter is named Kimura, the girl from the second is named Miyuki Uchida. Tsugumi is given the surname Mishima and her parents are named Satomi and Shunichi. The cop who is killed is Makoto Tachibana.

* Tsugu no Hi -Abominable Night Ghost Shop-

* TogetherInDeath: ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' ends with [[spoiler:the protagonist getting run over by the same train that killed her twin sister, joining her in the afterlife.]]

* EyeScream: ''Supernatural Supermarket'' has this befall the poor employees and customers that go missing, having nails driven into their eyes. [[spoiler:And the protagonist eventually suffers the same fate.]]

-->"You can see me, right? ''You can see me, right?'' You can see- ''You can see-'' '''You can see-''' '''''YOU CAN SEE ME, RIGHT?"''''' ''(cue JumpScare)''

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:So far, there don't seem any games which end happily, except for ''Evil God Korone'' which ''does'' have a good ending that's admittedly [[SillinessSwitch quite hilarious.]]]]

* MultipleEndings: ''Evil God Korone'' has a good ending and a bad ending. The bad ending is obtained [[spoiler:if the protagonist answers the Koronesukis that he does like Korone, leading to him being turned into a Koronesuki.]] The good ending is achieved [[spoiler:by ignoring the Koronesukis' question and walking away from them, leading to Korone getting arrested.]]

* CallBack: ''A Closed Future'' has a brief cameo of the main character from the first game. [[spoiler:Ghost boy riding on his back and all]].
* CreepyChild: The ghost in the first game. Also the spirit of Kana Mizuki [[spoiler:and Tsugumi's apparition after she dies.]]. The ghost of the little girl in ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' constantly stalks you, peeking from spaces you wouldn't normally notice, until you reach the titular railroad crossing, where she's looking from a distance, then she flies up and slams straight ''into your face'', grinning madly at you with her eyeless face until ''her head falls off'' with a disgusting sound.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:So far, there don't seem any games which end happily]].

* CreepyChild: The ghost in the first game. Also the spirit of Kana Mizuki [[spoiler:and Tsugumi's apparition after she dies.]]. There's also the little girl in ''The Ethereal Railroad Crossing'' slamming straight into your face grinning madly at you before her ''head falls off.''

* HellIsThatNoise: The appearance of an apparition is often accompanied with a ghastly wail.

* SillinessSwitch: Averted. ''Evil God Korone'' starts off just as sinister as the rest of the Tsugu No Hi games, with the cutesy Korone being portrayed as a terrible abomination spearheading a twisted cult of Koronesukis. [[spoiler:There are two endings, one where the protagonist is forcibly turned into a Koronesuki with all the BodyHorror it entails, and the other one is when the silliness comes into play, with Korone being arrested and smacked silly by the police.]]