History VisualNovel / DateWarp

*** WordOfGod is that the writer didn't intend for this to be seen as an indictment against having sex. It's just that sleeping with Linds makes Janet too distracted with romantic drama to focus on what's happening.

*** WordofGod is that the writer didn't intend for this to be seen as an indictment against having sex. It's just that sleeping with Linds makes Janet too distracted with romantic drama to focus on what's happening.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In one of the endings, soon as Janet finds out about [[spoiler:Nathaniel and Bianca]] she decides to give up pursuing him and instead focuses on helping to cure her. [[spoiler: In this particular ending, it only partially works: she wakes up in Bianca's body and Nathaniel is overjoyed at getting his lover back, but since it's Janet in Bianca's body and the real Bianca is gone Janet technically never actually "gave up" Nathaniel.]]

* AlternateUniverse - Janet discovers that she and Bradley are in an alternate universe where TheAmericanRevolution never happened, and the country is called Atlanta. [[spoiler:However, it isn't quite that simple.]]

* All-Loving Hero: Rafael, who takes a pretty shitty backstory with a sunny smile and unshaken faith.

* TheMessiah: Rafael.

* DeadLittleSister - Bradley's sister Susan isn't ''dead'' per se, just missing. [[spoiler:She only comes back in one ending. Also, Bianca might sort of count.]]

A VisualNovel released in English by [[http://www.hanakogames.com Hanako Games]] in 2010. Take a sprinkling of OtomeGame, a dash of SpeculativeFiction, a lot of sneaky references to a [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow certain movie]] - and serve over a bed of plot twists that make it hard to describe anything much about the story without giving too much away.

* [[spoiler: ParentalAbandonment - A rare ''justified'' example! Rafael's parents abandoned him...but only so he could have better access to health care than his parents were capable of providing. In fact, when Janet criticizes Rafael's parents' abandonment, Rafael responds in bitterness, but unlike usual examples of this trope the bitterness is ''in their defense'', saying he's sorry they weren't perfect.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning - Mostly averted with Bradley. [[spoiler: Although he seems like he plays this trope straight at first because upon entering the mansion, he threatens everyone with a gun since he thinks they all did something to his sister. The aversion occurs because after he's neutralized, he never does anything else wrong and that gun pays off in one of the endings.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: If Janet, after reading Bianca's diary, chooses to tell Nathaniel that Bianca wasn't the pure woman Nathaniel thought her to be, and that Bianca actually slept with multiple guys before she and Nathaniel started dating... well what made Janet think Nathaniel wasn't already aware of this? He and Bianca had already talked about this and decided to move on like adults, not like a ''child'' like Janet who sneaks around and snoops into private diaries. This is a strong enough What the Hell Hero that it plants you firmly along the path to Nathaniel's bad ending.]]

** You wouldn't expect it from a novel with a female protagonist and male romanceable options, but there's a bathroom scene in which the player gets to see Janet in a bra. Linds ends up walking in on her; Janet can choose to either freak out or stay cool about it.

* HoYay - Linds and Rafael are... very close.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: If Janet, after reading Bianca's diary, chooses to tell Nathaniel that Bianca wasn't the pure woman Nathaniel thought her to be, and that Bianca actually used to be a huge slut who slept with multiple guys before she and Nathaniel started dating...well what made Janet think Nathaniel wasn't already aware of this? He and Bianca had already talked about this and decided to move on like adults, not like a ''child'' like Janet who sneaks around and snoops into private diaries. This is a strong enough What the Hell Hero that it plants you firmly along the path to Nathaniel's bad ending.]]

* DarkSkinnedRedhead - Janet. (She's Indian.)

* {{Fanservice}}: You wouldn't expect it from a novel with a female protagonist and male romanceable options, but there's a bathroom scene in which the player gets to see Janet in a bra. Linds ends up walking in on her; Janet can choose to either freak out or stay cool about it.

* HeroesWantRedheads: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]; Janet the redhead is romancing the heroes (in all the routes she's the one who has to bring up the idea of a romantic relationship).

* {{Fanservice}}: You wouldn't expect it from a novel with a female protagonist and male romanceable options, but there's a bathroom scene in which the player gets to see Janet in a bra. Linet ends up walking in on her; Janet can choose to either freak out or stay cool about it.

* InsufferableGenius - Janet used to be one of these.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In one of the endings, soon as Janet finds out about [[spoiler:Nathaniel and Bianca]] she decides to give up pursuing him and instead focuses on helping to cure her.

* LonelyRichKid: Nathaniel's childhood in a nutshell. Even though now he's not a kid , he still qualifies.

* MultipleEndings

* RedEyesTakeWarning - Mostly averted with Bradley.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: If Janet chooses to tell Nathaniel that Bianca wasn't the pure woman Nathaniel thought her to be, and that Bianca actually used to be a huge slut who slept with multiple guys before she and Nathaniel started dating...well as it turns out, Nathaniel already ''knew'' that! He and Bianca had already talked about this and decided to move on like adults, not like a ''child'' like Janet who sneaks around and snoops into private diaries.]]

* OptionalSexualEncounter - [[spoiler: With Linds. With the other boys, it doesn't really go beyond kissing.]]

* ParentalAbandonment - A rare ''justified'' example! Rafael's parents abandoned him...but only so he could have better access to health care than his parents were capable of providing. In fact, when Janet criticizes Rafael's parents' abandonment, Rafael responds in bitterness, but unlike usual examples of this trope the bitterness is ''in their defense'', saying he's sorry they weren't perfect.

* TheMessiah: Rafael.
* TheWhitePrince: Nathaniel

* [[spoiler:HalfIdenticalTwins - Alben and Bianca, who [[DifferentAsNightAndDay couldn't be more different]].]]

* EquivalentExchange: [[spoiler: In order for Bianca to gain a soul and come back to life, someone else's soul needs to be sacrificed in exchange. That someone is usually whichever girl gets trapped in the GroundhogDayLoop.]]

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: In order to get a good-ish end, [[spoiler: the Bianca experiment has to either fail or get called off.]] [[spoiler: The only expection is the true end.]]