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[[File:Fiona_Hewie.jpg|frame|Fiona, the player character and her [[Canine Companion|dog companion]], Hewie.]]
''[[Haunting Ground]]'' (a.k.a. ''Demento'') is a lesser-known adventure-horror game released by Capcom.
Fiona Belli is a young woman who was unfortunately involved in a car accident. However, she awakens in a castle and has no idea how she got there. Her main objective is to basically get the hell out of there, but the sinister residents of the castle have different plans for our heroine...
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Now has a [[Haunting Ground/Characters|Character Sheet]].
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* [[Alchemy]]: One of the major themes of the game, and many of the trappings of alchemy show up (such as an elixir that grants life eternal, artificial life, the colored stages of purification, and so on).
* [[And Call Him George]]: Debilitas, who thinks Fiona is a ''big doll for him to play with''.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Patient outfit, normal outfit without shoes, Frog Mascot, Cowgirl, *ahem* dominatrix... Even Hewie gets a different fur color scheme as well as one that makes him look like a [[Bragging Rights Reward|stuffed animal (which grants him invincibility)]].
* [[Anti-Villain]]:
** Debilitas is the most obvious example. He's mentally handicapped, and much like a young child, is only a threat to Fiona because he doesn't know any better.
** Daniella has darker motives than Debilitas, but given her past and her condition (brainwashed into thinking she's some unnatural artificial human, no sense of taste or smell, unable to feel pain or pleasure) it's hard not to feel sorry for her. She just wants to be complete.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Azoth, which in alchemy is pretty much a cure-all and can restore youth, ensure long life, cure any injuries, and so on. {{spoiler|Turns out Fiona's body is full of it, which is why everyone except Debilitas is hunting her}}.
* [[Artificial Human]]: Daniella. Some of the levels also have failed homunculi standing around in various places doing strange things.
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* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: An affliction ''everyone'', but Hewie<ref> He has the [[Cutscene Power to the Max|opposing condition, himself]].</ref> suffers throughout the game.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: If you {{spoiler|incapacitate rather than kill Debilitas during his boss fight, he sees Fiona as a sort of holy figure and will leave her alone, even allowing her to escape Belli Castle in one of the endings}}.
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Beat the game once, and you unlock German Shepherd Hewie, a more realistic-looking German Shepherd. He's harder to control and not as obedient as regular Hewie, but his attacks are much stronger.
** Using Stuffed Hewie [[Lethal Joke Item| (see below)]] counts too, for the opposite reason.
* [[Everybody Lives]] {{spoiler|In the [[Golden Ending]] Fiona escapes without killing any of the villains, even the ones who deserve it.}}
* [[Everyone Is Related]]
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Springing traps usually means instant (and gruesome) death for Fiona.
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* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Lorenzo, who {{spoiler|temporarily restores his youth}}.
* [[Jiggle Physics]]: Fiona is... uh... '''really''' bouncy.
* [[Joke Item]]: The "Illegal in Some States" costume (a dominatrix outfit), unlocked by beating the game once, and Texas Cowgirl costume, unlocked by finishing with Ending A. Exactly why Fiona would dress in BDSM gear while trying to escape this horrible place is a mystery, but aside from sex appeal, it gives no real gameplay benefit.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: All of the stalkers are more than willing to harm or kill Hewie. In the Chaos Forest, he is shot by Riccardo, but Fiona fortunately comes to his aid. {{spoiler|In the worst ending though, he will actually die. This ending is achieved by having a bad relationship with Hewie, which includes abusing (and literally kicking) him}}.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: {{spoiler|Fiona, with Hewie's help, drops Lorenzo into a pit of lava. He emerges as a flaming skeleton, but finally succumbs to the flames}}.
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* [[Licking the Blade]]: Daniella does this with a big shard of glass (or a fire poker, if she's optionally traded in the glass shard).
* [[Light and Mirrors Puzzle]]
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]:
** The Frog costume (unlocked by beating the game with [[Golden Ending| Ending C]]) is downright silly, making it look like Fiona is wearing a child's Halloween costume that was resized for an adult. Still, if you overlook this, the costume is ''very'' useful, letting her run with no loss of stamina.
** Stuffed Hewie is unlocked by beating the game on Hard mode. This replaces regular Hewie with a [[Living Toy| living toy version of Hewie]]. This version is invulnerable to damage, but his attacks are weaker.
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: {{spoiler|Beating Lorenzo causes the section of the castle you're in to collapse. There's no time limit while Fiona escapes; however, she still needs to be quick, because being touched by Lorenzo's fire form will kill her in one hit}}.
* [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard]]: The entire game can be seen as an extended version of this, as Fiona can easily find or make everything she needs to {{spoiler|defeat her pursuers and escape the castle}}. One has to wonder why they even left her alone in the first place...
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** Fiona means "white, fair".
** Hewie and Ugo (Fiona's father) are the diminutive and the Italian variant, respectively, of "Hugh", meaning "heart, mind, spirit".
* [[Mercy Rewarded]]: {{spoiler| Fiona has two options in the [[Boss Battle]] with Debilitas; kill him (likely using Hewie and chemical explosives she finds) or using the Chandelier, which does not kill him. If the latter option is taken and you complete the game, you can access the [[Golden Ending]] on a second playthrough where he helps Fiona escape. Sadly, unless this ending is unlocked there is no way to defeat the other bosses without killing them - Daniella must die no matter how much you sympathize with her.}}
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Usually depends on how well you treated Hewie for most of the game. Another major contributor is whether you {{spoiler|kill Debilitas or let him live}}.
* [[Musical Spoiler]]: The music becomes chaotic when Fiona runs into enemies. When she successfully evades an enemy (usually by hiding), the music returns to normal.
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