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  • By its nature, the game is full of this, but the Darkness route might be the biggest source. Haruaki is branded as a "wolf" and seeing no choice but to play the part to gather information to break out of the loop (with any attempts to convince the other wolves to not murder destined to fail), ends up becoming an incredibly twisted murderer.
  • Wit is also an extremely unsettling route, with the Chiemi that you came to love in the first route suddenly and without warning turning into a Ax-Crazy madwoman. Mochi's transformation as well, since up to that point he had been portrayed as a harmless, if slightly odd kid.
  • Finding out the depth of Chiemi's madness once the truth about her remembering the loops as well. Imagine dying over and over hundreds of times in a mass murder spree, continuously trying to prevent it until you go so mad that you end up participating in it yourself. She's so deeply twisted that she ends up killing Haruaki multiple times once he proposes going through the feast again, just to make herself feel better. Her facial expressions when doing this are also nothing short of terrifying.
  • Nearly all the female characters get at least one Nightmare Face at some point.
  • Kaori going mad during the first loop, with an appropriate Nightmare Face to accompany it.
  • Most of the soundtrack, which is filled with creepy songs, but special attention goes to Prayer to Shin'nai (Distorted) which is a seriously creepy version of the song that combines For Doom the Bell Tolls and Hell Is That Noise. The scene and CG that accompany it are pretty freaky too.
  • The truth behind the Feast. It is entirely man-made with nothing supernatural about it, and is simply used as a tool of social control in retaliation for something that happened hundreds of years ago.
  • The fact that Yasumizu's people are okay with voting to lynch someone, with some even viewing it as a way to eliminate fellow residents they didn't like. Even the town's name is derived from the words for "human sacrifice".
  • Out of all the lynchings, Hisako's in one of Wit's bad endings where she's outed as a wolf is among the hardest to watch. Being an outsider, she doesn't have any of Yasumizu's social conditioning to make her go along with being hanged, and Haruaki sympathizes with her as an innocent who just happened to get stuck in this village and caught up in their horrific ritualistic murder. When she understandably freaks out over being voted for, they bind and gag her, leaving her terrified and struggling up until the moment she's executed.
  • Hisako's fate in the main path of Wit isn't any kinder, in Revelation Mode: Chiemi cheerfully drops the bomb that they're going to dispose of her now, and she gives Hisako a false chance of survival by holding her at gunpoint and telling Hisako to remove her wolf uniform and that she'll spare Hisako if she manages to escape to safety. No such thing, of course—once the uniform's off, Hisako barely gets anywhere before the rabid dogs maul her to death.

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