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According to the developer's description:

"During a 3-day workshop in Australia, a girl named Kana discovers a dark secret hidden beneath the manor she is staying at. Now she must work against time to save her friends from a fate worse than death. There are two objectives: Solve the mystery behind the existence of the wraith, and live to see the morning sun. Dawn is only a few hours away..."

 

 

The game features both [[Multiple Endings|a good and a bad ending]], complete with unlockable cutscene CGs for certain events in the game. It features an overhead retrogame view and a [[First-Person Shooter]]-like battle screen. In terms of RPG Maker games, it is short, with around 4 hours of playthrough for those well-versed in the game. The game is on its third and final update (the second version accidentally caused the Good Ending to be impossible to achieve as it did not allow for some of the characters to be rescued). Apart from the inability to speed up text, the game is quite enjoyable.

There is also a short sequel, ''Sainth''. It shifts the focus of the story to Lily, Kana's best friend, and takes the plot in a very different (and oftentimes confusing) direction. It can be found [http://rpgmaker.net/games/463/ here.] A third game, ''Candice'', was originally planned, but seems to have been cancelled.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Kana.

* [[Almost-Dead Guy]]: Supposedly dying people are able to say an ''awful'' lot before finally kicking the bucket in this game.

* [[Always Night]]: Almost the entire game is set during the night.

* [[Ancient Tomb]]: The Wellington mausoleum, to a degree.

** {{spoiler|It also contains a hidden entrance to Victor's underground laboratory.}}

** This happens to {{spoiler|half of the Wellington family during the backstory; Regina gets horribly mutated, and Erina gets turned into a wraith}}.

** Technically, {{spoiler|you ''can'' be rid of it, but only if you get the good ending}}.

* [[Big Bad]]: Cases can be made for both {{spoiler|Eugene}} and {{spoiler|Victor}}, though both are somewhat tenuous.

* [[Black Comedy]]: Though the game advertises itself as horror, there are so many comic relief moments that it often feels more like this.

* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Ryan.

* [[Book Ends]]: Sort of. The poem quoted at the beginning of this article is displayed on the title and save screens (and is therefore the first thing the player sees), and its final two lines make up [[The Stinger]].

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Sort of. Kana's supply of ammo never runs dry, though her gun does need to be reloaded.

** Although, when {{spoiler|Eugene kills the scientists in the game's climax, he fires off ''ten'' bullets from that same gun without ever needing to reload; he plugged five of them into [[Made of Iron|Cyrus]] beforehand, and kills the five scientists with one each.}}

* [[Cessation of Existence]]: What is implied to happen to a wraith that is destroyed by light.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: In the good ending, {{spoiler|Kana is taken by people who pretend to be from the Agency, and is never found again...}}

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: If you make it to the good ending, you'll see that {{spoiler|Erina Wellington}} fits this description, as {{spoiler|she was bound and barricaded inside the unfinished lighthouse and left to die in order for her soul to become a wraith}}.

* [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]: Kana, on her trip to the bathroom, forgoes her bladder's urges to follow Ristof and Cyrus into the underground labs, where the wraith gets loose and she is sent on a mission to find a way to destroy it.

* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Inverted, in a way. Everyone says that they won't blame Kana if she just waits out the night (and it is entirely possible for the player to do so if they desire), but she takes it upon herself find out the truth behind the wraith.

* [[Description Porn]]: Pretty much anything {{spoiler|Cyrus}} says in his "reveal all" speech about the Wellington family background, the wraith, and random other factoids the player is yet to encounter.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Using {{spoiler|the Hand icon}} in the final battle allows Kana to use {{spoiler|the soul mirror}} as a weapon, which basically functions as an infinite-use lightstone.

** Averted with the friendly mutant, who still has her hair and clothes. She's also not evil, though.

* [[Failure Knight]]: {{spoiler|Eugene}}, who tries to {{spoiler|exorcise Erina's wraith so she can die peacefully}}, but ultimately fails.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Ryan has these.

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Todd and Ryan, as well as the male servants.

** During the spare parts box quest, this happens big time when {{spoiler|mutant fish converge on Kana as she tries to leave a watery area with one box}}.

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Our Wraiths Are Different]]

** A straighter example is {{spoiler|during the good ending, where you have twenty minutes to capture and exorcise Erina before the facility self-destructs}}.

* [[Unwinnable]]: If you have less than 5 lightstones by the end of the game, have taken heavy soul damage, or both, say goodbye to your chances of surviving the [[Final Boss]].

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Eugene. He only wanted to let Erina die peacefully.}}

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]: The wraith's soul-draining touch is the type 2 variant. It's revealed midway through the game that the reason wraiths do this is because {{spoiler|they are a soul twisted and broken by hatred and negativity, so they desire a normal soul to replace their own. This is also why they specifically target blessed souls. However, this doesn't actually work; the only way for a wraith to find peace is to fix its own soul.}}

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Barnes Etcher, taken [[Up to Eleven]]. {{spoiler|Then subverted ''hard'', when it's revealed that it was all an act he put on so that Lily would be more susceptible to his curses ([[It Makes Sense in Context|which was what she wanted]]).}}

* [[Heroic Mime]]: Sort of. Being our narrator, Lily can be described as quite the chatterbox in the [[Flash Back|Flash Backs]], but the only time she speaks during the actual game portion is in the [[Golden Ending]].

* [[Mid-Air Bobbing]]: {{spoiler|Candice}} and {{spoiler|Kana's image during her recorded messages}}.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Two, one good and one bad.

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