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''[[Ib]]'' is a horror adventure game created by kouri in February 2012, using RPG Maker 2000. It follows the experiences of a nine-year-old girl named Ib, who visits an art gallery with her parents. While looking around, she finds herself stuck in a strange, surreal world where the art has come to life. What's worse, Ib's life is now linked to that of a red rose she picks up, and if all the petals fall she will die.
Luckily, Ib finds friends along her journey
An English-translated version can be obtained [https://web.archive.org/web/20130317112255/http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/ib.htm here].
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: One little blue doll is quite taken with Garry, and follows him everywhere trying to get him to play. This being [[Cowardly Lion|Garry]], he's terrified of her.
* [[Action Survivor]]: All of the protagonists.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]:
** [[Karmic Death]]:
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Garry uses lavender linguistics common of gay men in Japan, but this could be a personal choice that doesn't necessarily reflect his sexual identity. If you ask him why he talks like that, he's vague about it.
* [[Art Initiates Life]]: As Guertena seems to believe. What with the Ladies paintings chasing you down, this seems to be true for at least the "other" art gallery. {{spoiler|And Mary
{{quote|''It's said that spirits dwell in objects into which people put their feelings. I've always thought that, if that's true, then the same must be true of artwork. So today, I shall immerse myself in work, so as to impart my own spirit into my creations.''}}
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Garry's got a pretty cool coat.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Depending on which ending you get, this could be the outcome.
* [[Cat Scare]]:
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The handkerchief Ib's mother reminds her about at the beginning of the game {{spoiler|is essential for getting the best ending}}.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: Garry runs into some major problems with them.
* {{spoiler|[[Cute and Psycho]]
* [[The Doll Episode]]: Garry ends up finding a room full of the "cute" dolls.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: Sort of. You need to retrieve Garry's flower from the painting holding it hostage first before he joins you.
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* {{spoiler|[[Gory Discretion Shot]]}}: The ending of the book ''Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois''.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: In certain story paths, {{spoiler|Garry gives Mary his rose in order to save Ib's life}}.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Ib and Garry.▼
* [[If We Get Through This]]: If you talk to Garry under the fake sunlight in the Sketchbook area, he will mention eating macarons at a cafe the day before going to the art gallery. He will then ask Ib if she wants to go there together ''if'' they manage to get out, before proceeding to fix his words and promise that they ''will'' get out and ''will'' eat macarons together.
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▲* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Ib and Garry.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Breaking lots of artwork is generally not a good idea and smashing or kicking the [[Creepy Doll|Creepy Dolls]] and mannequin heads will lock you out of the game's best endings.▼
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: {{spoiler|Tearing down or removing Mary's painting won't work. To kill her, you have to burn her painting with Garry's lighter}}.
* [[Life Meter]]: Each character you control has a rose with a number near it on the top of the screen. Should the number hit zero from coming in contact with too many dangerous enemies, it's Game Over.▼
▲* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Breaking lots of artwork is generally not a good idea and smashing or kicking the [[Creepy Doll
▲* [[Life Meter]]: Each character you control has a rose with a number near it on the top of the screen. Should the number hit zero from coming in contact with too many dangerous enemies, it's [[Game Over]].
* [[Living Statue]]: Some of the statues come to life and chase you.
* [[Loves Me Not]]: There is a book in one of the rooms saying that "the women here love playing 'Loves Me, Loves Me Not'
* [[Mad Artist]]: Guertena.
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: A common joke interpretation of Ib and Garry's relationship.
* [[Mirror Scare]]: At one point, you and Garry find yourselves in a room where the only thing you can do is to look in a mirror. {{spoiler|Doing so reveals nothing scary, but when you look away, you discover that a mannequin head is blocking the door. You can't budge it so you have no choice but to look into the mirror agaAAAAH THAT MANNEQUIN HEAD IS LOOKING AT US OVER GARRY'S SHOULDER
* [[Multiple Endings]]
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: In spite of death being a very real threat in this game, the D-word is never explicitly said. This becomes rather heartbreaking in the endings where Ib finds {{spoiler|Garry "sleeping" after Mary plucks all the petals from his rose}}, the implication being that she is [[Innocent Inaccurate|too young to realize]] [[Please Wake Up|the full truth]].
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* [[Ominous Music Box Tune]]: The opening screen plays a rather [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-5OA-BQua8&feature=related Sad and wistful tune] incorporating a music-box like melody.
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Garry.
* [[Phantom Zone Picture]]: {{spoiler|In the Forgotten Portrait ending, The Hanged Man painting is replaced by a picture of Garry, presumably that of the "sleeping" Garry in the Toy Box area. The title of the painting is as the ending suggests
* [[Porn Stash]]: There's a book of in one of the rooms in the purple gallery. Ib doesn't understand most of the words, and Garry abruptly closes the book, saying it is too soon for her to read that, hinting that it is a book of erotic stories.
* [[Portal Picture]]: Ib goes into the other world through the "Abyss of the Deep" painting {{spoiler|and returns through the "Fabricated World" mural
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* [[Reality Warper]]: {{spoiler|Mary, as the Sketchbook and Toy Box areas show
* [[Relationship Values]]: Which ending you get depends heavily on how well you treat the painting world's inhabitants and how close you are to Garry.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: In the "Together Forever" ending, {{spoiler|everyone but Ib remembers Mary as Ib's little sister}}.
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* [[Strange Girl]]: Mary.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: Garry is associated with The Hanged Man.
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: As one book discloses: "If your spirit suffers too much, you will soon start to hallucinate and in the end you will be destroyed. And more worrying yet is that [[Paranoia Fuel|you will not even be conscious of that fact]]." This is also almost certainly the explanation for why Garry sees [[Creepy Doll
▲* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|Mary is Guertena's final painting, not a real human.}}
* [[The Tragic Rose]]: Roses might represent life in this game, but this means that it's all too easy for them to wilt away or have their petals [[Loves Me Not|plucked away to nothing]]. There's also a sculpture of a thorny rose in the gallery titled "Embodiment of Spirit" and is described as "beautiful at first glance, but if you get too close, it will induce pain."
* [[Wackyland]]: The sketchbook area.
* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: The results of some endings.
* {{spoiler|[[Yandere]]}}: Mary.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Garry. While both Ib and Mary have real-life hair colors, Garry stands out with his purple hair. It could be dyed
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