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In 1989, [[Capcom]] published '''''Sweet Home'''''; based on [[Sweet Home (~~Film~~)|the movie of the same name]], this [[RPG]] with [[Adventure Game]] elements arguably [[Trope Maker|set the stage]] for the [[Survival Horror]] genre. The game often receives credit as one of the inspiring forces behind the original ''[[Resident Evil]]'' -- the game that ended up coining the genre's name -- and potentially inspiring its English title (at one point in ''Sweet Home'', a character refers to the Mamiya mansion as a "house of residing evil").

In 1989, [[Capcom]] published '''''Sweet Home'''''; based on [[Sweet Home (film)|the movie of the same name]], this [[RPG]] with [[Adventure Game]] elements arguably [[Trope Maker|set the stage]] for the [[Survival Horror]] genre. The game often receives credit as one of the inspiring forces behind the original ''[[Resident Evil]]'' -- the game that ended up coining the genre's name -- and potentially inspiring its English title (at one point in ''Sweet Home'', a character refers to the Mamiya mansion as a "house of residing evil").

The story of the game mirrors the film's: [[Five-Man Band|a five-person crew]] ventures into the long-abandoned mansion of famed artist Mamiya Ichirou, intent on filming a documentary while trying to restore Mamiya's works. Upon entering the mansion, the group discovers that the ghost of Lady Mamiya, Ichirou's wife, haunts the place…and she does not intend to let the intruders escape with their lives. The crew must try to find a way out of the haunted mansion alive -- and lay Lady Mamiya to rest once and for all in the process.

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=== ''Sweet Home'' contains examples of the following tropes: ===

* [[Accidental Murder]]: Lady Mamiya accidentally {{spoiler|killed her baby by [[Murder By Cremation|turning on the furnace]] when he was playing inside it}}.

* [[Accidental Murder]]: Lady Mamiya accidentally {{spoiler|killed her baby by [[Murder by Cremation|turning on the furnace]] when he was playing inside it}}.

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The game arguably does a better job of conveying a horror atmosphere (what with the constant tension of not letting your characters die and the emphasis on teamwork to survive) than the movie it is based on. The film fleshes out [[All There in the Manual|the background for the actual characters]], however.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: It seems weird that Asuka brought a vacuum cleaner to a haunted house -- however, the film shows that she's a professional art restorer, and the vacuum is a precision item for cleaning neglected works of art.

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* [[Really Dead Montage]] [[Cutscene]]: If one of the characters die, a short cutscene plays that drives home their death. Akiko, Asuka and Emi collapse into a spreading pool of blood, while Kazuo and Taguchi become [[Half the Man He Used To Be|Half The Man They Used To Be]]. {{spoiler|Oh, and Yamamura ''melts''.}}

* [[Say My Name]]

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: {{spoiler|The Memorial Tower where Lady Mamiya's baby is entombed is the only thing stopping Mamiya from haunting the house and continuing to kidnap babies.}}

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: {{spoiler|The Memorial Tower where Lady Mamiya's baby is entombed is the only thing stopping Mamiya from haunting the house and continuing to kidnap babies.}}

* [[Spared By the Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Taguchi, Asuka, and Yamamura}} all die in the movie, but can survive the game depending on how you play.

* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Taguchi, Asuka, and Yamamura}} all die in the movie, but can survive the game depending on how you play.

* [[Trope Maker]]: The game is arguably the precursor to the [[Survival Horror]] genre that was popularized/[[Trope Codifier|codified]] almost a decade later by ''[[Resident Evil]]''.

* [[True Companions]]: [[Invoked]] in the game. You will have to learn to depend on your other characters and not to leave them for dead.