Lamento -Beyond the Void-

Lamento - beyond the void is a Boys Love Game made by Nitro+CHiRAL; it is noteworthy for feature catpeople as characters.

The game takes place in a fictional world inhabited by a people called Ribika who look like humans but have cat ears and tails. Ribika has fallen into dark times - a mysterious void has made some places impossible to reach and most animals disappeared, causing major food shortages. There is an unknown and strange illness that has begun to plague the Ribika people; it has killed off a large percentage of the female Ribika population.

The hero, Konoe (who you guide through the game), lives alone in the starving village of Karou, where the villagers have turned to a lottery system of cannibalism. The victims are called "sacrifices" and are chosen by draw.

Konoe begins to have terrifying dreams of snakes, and one night wakes up with strange marks appear on his body and his beige ears and tail turned to black -- the signs of a curse. To make things worse, Konoe is informed that he will be the next "sacrifice" victim. Konoe flees Karou and heads to the city of Ransen to try to find a way to rid himself of the curse...

The trailer for the game can be seen here.


 * Abusive Parents:
 * Badass: Rai, Asato and Bardo in their routes.
 * Badass Long Hair: Rai.
 * Battle Couple: Though this could be applied to the other couples Rai and Konoe fit this bill the most because
 * Big Eater: Asato, who ate everything on the plate including the decorative flowers.
 * Blue Eyes: Asato, Rai, and Razel.
 * Blood Lust: Froud and Rai. Though
 * Blood On These Hands: Rai.
 * Body Horror: Shiku, the strange disease that plagues the Ribika and makes body parts disappear.
 * Boys Love
 * Burn the Witch: One of the reasons for
 * Cast Full of Pretty Boys: There are two female characters, one who only appears in one character's route. Justified as the plague is killing the female Ribkia off.
 * Cats Are Mean: Though most of the non-cat cast actually say that cats are liars, that doesn't mean that they don't like cats.
 * Catch Phrase: Rai likes calling others "baka neko" which means stupid cat.
 * Catgirl: Was totally used to lure in nekomimi fans.
 * Cherry Blossoms: In all of the good endings.
 * Creepy Twins: Kil & Ul before the last battle with the boss baddie of the game. Let's say that the two are so close that they don't mind sharing bodies.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Konoe removes Rai's eyepatch and kisses his scar saying that he is really important to him so everything that is Rai is beautiful.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The whole soundtrack.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Poor Rai... poor Konoe... poor Asato...
 * Dead All Along:
 * Dead Ex Machina:
 * Depraved Homosexual: Froud, The Devil of Joy. His ending includes strange use of tentacles.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Firi, would have assumed that he was a chick until you see how flat he is and hear his voice.
 * Elemental Powers: Kaltz with the power of ice, Froud with the power of wind, Verg with the power of lighting, and Razel with the power of fire.
 * Eroge
 * Everythings Cuter With Kittens: of course, since all chars are catpeople. Tokino is particularly cute.
 * Explicit Content: specially the "bad" endings... but with the non-Devil endings, you could remove the sex and have the storyline essentially unchanged.
 * Fan Preferred Couple: there is a very sensitive war going on until today about who is Konoe's best choice for partner. Considering he have three options, it's not an easy discussion but Rai seems to be the favorite of the majority (and his ending is the so called "true ending" of the game).
 * Feuding Families: The Kira and Meigi clan.
 * The Final Temptation: Depending on who you're going for Leaks offers this to them.
 * Garden of Evil: The void, in which one will be harmed if one touches the void.
 * Good Samaritan: Rai
 * Hero Worshipper: Asato. Who keeps on saying that Konoe is so great and amazing.
 * Hey It's That Voice: Rai is Sephiroth, Bardo is Loz, Kaltz is Rufus Shinra.
 * Don't you forget Froud is voiced by Link, although it is hard to recognize.
 * Hidden Heart of Gold:
 * I Am Who??:
 * Ice Queen: Rai some characters describe him as being cold though that's because he's a Tsundere.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Rai makes Konoe promise to kills him if he goes to a blood frenzy because he doesn't want to hurt him. This subject is so important to Rai that he spend some time avoiding Konoe and asking if Konoe is completely sure that he wants him around.
 * Katanas Are Better: all the heroes fight with swords.
 * May-December Romance: Bardo's route.
 * Mismatched Eyes: Verg has one gray eye and one green eye.
 * Multiple Endings: six "bad" endings and three "good" endings.
 * My Instincts Are Showing: Though it's only natural that they behave like cats, some of their natural instincts are just looked down upon or so rare that it's deemed inappropriate and embarrassing.
 * My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: When Leaks
 * Naughty Tentacles:
 * Nightmare Fuel: Konoe's journey starts with him having nightmares and after some time, he even has nightmares when he is not sleeping.
 * The Nose Knows: Konoe figures out where Rai went after smelling the perfume on him.
 * Oblivious to Love:
 * Parent Ex Machina:
 * Only Child Syndrome: All of the cast in Lamento with the exception of Kil and Ul.
 * The Promise:
 * Psycho Serum: Rai's bad ending.
 * A Shared Suffering: Asato and Konoe.
 * Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Leaks,
 * Situational Sexuality: there are not many females, but the catpeople have mating seasons, so...
 * Snow Means Love:
 * The Stoic: Konoe never loses his patience, specially with Rai.
 * Stoic Woobie: Rai.
 * Surprisingly Good English: Itou Kanako sang a song with Watanabe Kazuhiro, both voices singing entirely accentless English. Even Watanabe's voice sounded like someone singing a song out of Lion King (in the sense that his accents are so English-like, rather than Japanese-like).
 * Super Senses: Firi reveals to Konoe that he has this.
 * Survivor Guilt: Bardo.
 * The Talk: Rai and Bardo do this to Konoe, though you could probably say the same about Asato.
 * Tag Team Suicide: In Rai's good ending Konoe fulfills the promise he made with Rai
 * To Be Lawful or Good: Asato
 * Too Many Belts: Rai has 4 belts on his waist and 3 of them on his cape. Verg has 3 on each leg and one on his waist. Kaltz has them all over his outfit, one on each of his arms or legs, 5 on his cape, and 3 around his waist.
 * Tsundere: Rai who constantly insults everyone and seems to be angry all the time, but that doesn't mean that he hates everyone.
 * Turn the Other Cheek: Konoe
 * Visual Novel: there is no translation for this game, so if you don't know Japanese, you're doomed to play with AGTH and Atlas and their funny translations. Considering the quantity of text that this game have and how much is repetitive it gets quickly annoying - some players just skip most part of the screens.
 * Walk On Water: Happens in Rai's route though the water's actually solid.....at least the surface.
 * Where Are They Now? Epilogue: In all the good endings, and Razel's ending.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Rai, complete with a seiyuu who is quite known to voice White Haired Pretty Boys.
 * Witch Doctor: It wouldn't be a medieval-ish fantasy without a witchdoctor!
 * The Woobie: Asato.
 * World Half Empty: Or probably getting there due to Shikku, the Void, and low female population.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Kaltz has blue hair and Froud had green hair.