History VisualNovel / WillAWonderfulWorld

Received a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port on October 18th, 2018 and a UsefulNotes/Playstation4 port on July 2, 2019.

* InterfaceSpoiler: With the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} trading cards, as they all depict people that write letters Will and Myth will receive. [[spoiler:Notably, Park Sang-Gun isn't depicted, but Pi is, hinting at their connection.]]

* SoreLoser: Taken UpToEleven with the kid that Jimmy beats in the fighting game tournament, who starts spreading rumors that Jimmy is a pedophile.

* ProfessionalKiller: [[spoiler:Alicia, Carlos' sister]], is forced to become one to avoid death.

* RefugeInAudacity: Will states that any event swapping can work as long as it still follows the structure of the event as a whole, in a sequence that requires swapping [[spoiler:a fish with a gun]].

* HourglassPlot: If you include their backstories, this can happen ''twice'' between [[spoiler:Kang (saved Chang as a kid, became disillusioned from the Unit 2 incident, gets his passion reignited by Chang joining the squad) and Chang (started as an ordinary kid, becomes passionate after the childhood incident, can potentially choose to retire early if his bond with Kang isn't close enough to be invited to his new task force).]].

* BookEnds: Li Wen's story begins and ends with her practicing tennis on an abandoned court. [[spoiler:At least, until Will starts doing the editing.]]

** Yang Ying laments about her doomed crush on Wen Zhaoren for a good portion of her only letter. In the S ending of said letter, she is vividly reminded of her younger self when looking at Li Wen. This foreshadows [[spoiler: Li Wen's relationship with Wen Zhaoren ending in tragedy in certain timelines.]]
** Carlos comes to the attention of the gang he's recruited into after one of their higher ups sees a picture of Alicia on his phone. Much later, it's revealed that he recognizes her due to her being [[spoiler: a highly ranked assassin in the gang.]]

* {{Gaydar}}: Kang Baek-Ya claims (in an internal monologue) to be able to tell if a man is gay thanks to being around gay acquaintances. However several events in previous letters (being flustered around Chang in the bathhouse, [[spoiler: the BedmateReveal with Pi]]) imply that this trope is actually in play.

* GuideDangIt: Sometimes, it's impossible to get a certain rank on an event until you play through a different event that shows up later on. For example, [[spoiler:you can't get an S rank on Chang Gyeong-Min's "Unit 4: Gone" event until you first get an S rank on Spottie's "Meow, Meow, Meow" event, so that Spottie won't be in the toilet and thus won't disrupt Chang's attempt to gather files.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: When re-editing people's fates, certain events still happen in other people's timelines, even if their paths were altered by swapping events from the edited person's pleas. The most notable example is [[spoiler: Kang still ending up in a shootout with Unit 3 even if Chang was assigned to the Archives instead of Unit 4 (an event that now concludes with a still-alive Jin saving him, as the information he originally died for is now easily obtained from archivist Chang).]]

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The Fury of the Cat reveals that this is the case for all of [[spoiler:Park Sang-Gun's]] letters, since said character is [[spoiler: suffering from a mental disorder brought about from his ''mother's'' unrelenting abuse.]]

* WhamLine: In ''The Fury of the Cat'', a (to Spottie) throwaway line reveals that [[spoiler:Park Sang-Gun's letters were written ThroughTheEyesOfMadness. While the doctor previously told him that this was the case, the player has no reason to believe him and every reason to doubt him; Spottie, on the other hand, is an uninvolved observer with absolutely no reason to lie.]]

* VerbalTic: Most of Jimmy's recounts of events involve him ending sentences with emojis.

* PaedoHunt: Pedophiles and child abusers make up the majority of Pi's victims.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Sometimes, Myth and Will receive pleas from people first encountered in other characters' story lines, such as Busan Police's Unit 4 head Kang Baek-Ya and its newest recruit Chang Gyeong-Min.

** The game as a whole starts with an urban legend about praying to gods to change fate. It ends with an urban legend about [[spoiler:a girl in a cheongsam that can solve problems, which is referring to Myth]].

** [[spoiler: Due to Daddie's death, Spottie started to distrust humans and see them as tools for his own gain]].
** [[spoiler: Kang Baek-Ya started off as a cop who wanted to fight for justice, but his unauthorized solo scouting mission in W602 caused Unit 2, including their leader, to be killed by the gangs (or so he convinced himself). This made him disillusioned and despaired, the way he is now in the story]].
** [[spoiler: Will had been trying to change their fate for years while Myth is asleep, but a millennia without results caused him to be resentful of it]].
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Kim, the head of Busan Police's Unit 3, who caused the entire Unit 2 to be killed by the gangs and essentially helped the gangs regain power]].
* DoingInTheWizard: [[spoiler:There are no gods; just man-made machines with the power to manipulate probability and change reality]].

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:Humanity fought over the ability to control WILL when it was first revealed, the fallout of which ended all life and caused an EndlessWinter]].

* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Chang's motivation to enact justice stems from a childhood incident where he was saved from a fire by an older kid, whose actual identity he doesn't remember. [[spoiler:It was, coincidentally, Kang.]]

* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:Despite knowing how people would fight over WILL, their creators had to reveal it to the public before saving their children. Otherwise, they'd have no reason to create the device that saved their children, and the timeline would revert to its initial state]].

* HostileShowTakeover: [[spoiler:When Myth starts remembering too much about her past, Will resets her memories and convinces her that he's her Master, taking her responsibility for rewriting fate in the process.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: With the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} trading cards, as they all depict people that write letters Will and Myth will receive. [[spoiler:Notably, Park Sang-Gun isn't depicted, but Pi is.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Pi spites the existence of gods due to his childhood, which has led to him being a unrepentant killer whose motivation is to save the world using terror. Despite this, he's one of the prayer senders whose timeline is changed by "gods", and he's eventually the one who finds the metal boxes that (unbeknownst to him) contains WILL, essentially saving the entire world by keeping them as mere trinkets, out of sight of people that would fight wars over them]].

* MissedHimByThatMuch: [[spoiler:How Carlos' search for his sister ultimately ends, at least in-game.]]

* MoodWhiplash: One moment you're helping a chinese student with her everyday lives, a korean justice-obsessed cop fight crimes, and the next moment you're helping a a mexican young woman escape slavery.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Various characters end up having these sorts of connections, though one that occurs in the game's backstory is [[spoiler:Kang saving Chang from a fire, and instilling Chang with a passion for justice, when they were both children]].

* PartingWordsRegret: [[spoiler:If you get an S rank for Li Wen's event "The Cafe across the Street", you learn that in Li Wen's backstory, she used to live with her father, but they had a huge argument because he was drunk and Li Wen shouted, "I hate you, Father!" Unfortunately he died that same night, so those were the last words Li Wen ever said to him.]]

* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Happens to Park Sang-Gun after he's committed to a mental institution.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Myth and Will aren't gods, but machines called WILL created by married scientists, with personalities based on their two children and built to save those kids from a fatal car crash. They've also outlived humanity by hundreds of millions of years, and Will's been trying to avert TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt instead of merely responding to the pleas of a select few individuals]].

* StalkingIsLove: [[spoiler:Jimmy]]'s first attempts to make contact with his crush Li Wen involve hacking into a credit machine to find both her email and real-life address.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The Fury of the Cat reveals that this is the case for all of [[spoiler: Park Sang-Gun's]] letters, since said character is [[spoiler: suffering from a mental disorder brought about from his ''mother's'' unrelenting abuse.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Carlos's reactions when he realizes [[spoiler:he's falling in love with Ye]] in his final letter.

* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Will laments that he and Myth don't get many prayers because their job is to prevent disasters worth praying about from happening in the first place.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: The outcome of every event is ranked from S, for perfect, to X, for bad. However, some glossary terms, and even entire plot lines, are only seen with less-than-perfect outcomes.

** [[spoiler: Kang Baek-Ya started off as a cop who wanted to fight for justice, but his unauthorized solo scouting mission in W602 caused Unit 2, including their leader to be killed by the gangs (or so he convinced himself). This made him disillusion and despaired and made him the way he is now in the story]].

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Kim, the head of Busan Police's Unit 3, who caused the entire Unit 2 to be killed by the gangs and essentially helped the gangs regain power]]

* DysfunctionJunction: Due to the background of some of the senders and how consistently the senders found themselves in messed up situations that requires the gods to alter their fate again and again.

* PrettyBoy: Hotaru, an imprisoned male geisha. Park Sang-Gun is a rather pretty child [[spoiler:which unfortunately causes him to catch the eye on a depraved doctor once he's institutionalized.]]

* TalkingAnimal: Will has a mostly dog-like appearance, save for two tiny horns.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Despite spiting the existence of gods due to his childhood and being a unrepentant killer whose motivation was to save the world using terror, Pi ended up being one of the senders that the gods change his timeline and eventually the one who found a metal box that unbeknownst to him, contains Will and essentially saved the entire world]].

* AbusiveParents: Park Sang-Gun, whose first event is him as a child, dealing with his drunk father attempting to strangle his mother to death. [[spoiler:However, Sang-Gun's version of events might not match reality, due to mental issues.]]

* CharacterTics: Will has a habit of touching his face when he's fibbing. [[spoiler:Will's aware of this, so also does this move when telling Myth a painful truth so she won't believe him]].

* ExactTimeToFailure: Towards the end of the game, a clock starts counting down, showing how long until [[spoiler:WILL completely runs out of energy]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: All over the place thanks to the non-linear timeline of recieved letters.

* PerspectiveFlip: Sometimes, Myth and Will receive pleas from people first encountered in other characters' story lines, such as Busan Police's Unit 4 head Kang Baek-Ya and newest recruit Chang Gyeong-Min.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: A very cynical story where, even with Myth constantly altering events to ensure everybody [[spoiler: is graded S for all of their timelines, their situations doesn't improve or even becomes worse, which obviously takes a toll on Myth]].
* SoreLoser: Taken UpToEleven with the kid that Jimmy beats in the fighting game tournament. He starts spreading rumors that Jimmy is a pedophile!