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{{quote|''"Will you love me forever?"''|Tagline in the trailers of the game, said by the main heroine, '''Maria'''}}
''Sampaguita'' (サンパギータ) is the third entry in the interactive anime [[Visual Novel]] series ''[[Yarudora]]'', produced by [[Sony Computer Entertainment]], and developped by Sugar&Rockets and [[Production I.G]]. The game was initially released in 1998 on [[PlayStation|Playstation 1]], then re-released in 2005 on [[
Autumn, in Tokyo. In the middle of a rainy night, the main protagonist (i.e. the character controlled by the player), an [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary University Student]], comes out of a mixer party organised by his fellow comrades of his part-time job. The train and bus services are long over, and there's no taxi around: he has no choice but to walk his way home, bemoaning on how his friends manage to get girls so easily while he doesn't.
Suddenly, a police car comes his way. Thinking about it, there were an awful lot of them moving around the station... The policemen in the car ask the protagonist if he has seen a South Asian-type individual nearby, to which he answers he didn't. The policemen let him go while asking him to call them in case. A few minutes later, in a dark backstreet, the protagonist has a chance meeting with a girl. She clearly is South Asia-typed, has a wound at the forehead, she's limping, [[Identity Amnesia|and has lost her memories]]: the only thing she remembers is her name, "Maria Santos". Touched by her plight, the protagonist carries her back to his home.
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* [[Big No]]: Maria, if following the {{spoiler|Good End 3}} route, when {{spoiler|the protagonist dies in her arms after [[Taking the Bullet]] for her}}.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!|(Beautiful)]] [[Brown Eyes]]: Maria's distinctive physical trait, as the game's cover above testifies.
* [[Canon Name]]: While the game [[Hello, Insert Name Here|lets you name your protagonist]], in the Drama CD, the player protagonist is named "Ryousuke Tsugihara". This is a trope of note, as the Drama CD's story follows the {{spoiler|Good}} End {{spoiler|3}} route: {{spoiler|see [[Someone to Remember Him By]] and [[Dead Guy, Junior]] below}}.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]:
** The buildings in the background, during the sequence where a car is running on a highway (said sequence is the very first scene in the game's 1st opening).
** The airplanes in the very last scene of Good End 2.
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* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]]: One of the [[Triad]] members does this at the game's climax. The scene where he cocks his shotgun is also viewable in the game's 1st opening, without the cocking sound however.
* [[Ending Tropes]]:
** [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Good End 2 and 3. The former is on the sweeter side; the latter on the more bitter side.}}
** [[Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Good End 1}}.
** {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}: {{spoiler|In Good End 3. He [[Taking the Bullet|takes the bullet]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|in order to save Maria]]}}.
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: During the [[Storming the Castle]] sequence.
* [[The Triads and the Tongs]]: One of the antagonist factions after Maria. {{spoiler|Or, this is what [[Never Trust a Trailer|the trailers]] and the Attract Mode video would make you believe; they're actually on Boy and the protagonist's side, as they're here to [[I Owe You My Life|repay the life debt they owe to Boy]], by helping them saving Maria from the [[Yakuza]]'s clutches.}}
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Hikaru Sato is a prime example of this trope. Being born and raised in a very rich family, "A human being's value is decided upon his [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|wealth]], his [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|power]], and his [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful|beauty]]" is his motto, and he's such an unsufferable [[Jerkass]] the protagonist is the [[Only Friend|only person]] who can ([[Poisonous Friend|barely]]) stand him.
* [[Visual Novel]]
* [[We Have to Get the Bullet Out]]: {{spoiler|Boy}} does it to himself {{spoiler|after he escapes an assassination attempt by the Yakuza thanks to the protagonist}}. With a knife, lots of cotton, a bottle of disinfectant, and bandages. And he manages to be healthy enough two days later to kick some major {{spoiler|Yakuza}} ass during the [[Storming the Castle]] event.
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