History VideoGame / CorruptionOfLaetitia

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: There are all sorts of actions that player can take to increase their corruption level, but many of these means losing out on potential allies (including the only early-game healer) or possibly having to fight them, requiring the player to adopt a mindset of PragmaticVillainy to raise their corruption without shooting themselves in the foot. An example of this is the option to burn a town rather than conquer it in a tactics minigame. While burning the town takes less effort and allows the player to loot dead bodies for souls, doing so locks them out of the town's stores and sidequests.

* OurGodsAreGreater: CelestialParagonsAndArchangels fill the role of deities. If Celeste advances high enough in the Tower, she can pray to her mother in battle, getting all kinds of healing and buffing.

* BonusBoss: When fighting the Predatory Birds in the map north of Gruhnwald, there's a chance that [[spoiler:Hawkzombie]] will show up in the second turn to fight the party.

** One of the achievements is called Literature/PSILoveYou, and another is called LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer

!! Tropes present in this game:

* GotMeDoingIt: At one point, Riliane takes on Celeste’s PungeonMaster antics:

Damn, she’s rubbed off on me.

** In the first dungeon, one of the books you can find is titled “[[VideoGame/Portal2 the combustable properties of lemons]]”.
** In the next dungeon, checking a barrel will cause Malayna to remark “[[VideoGame/StarFox64 Do a barrel roll!]]”

** One of the guards in Savia village says “[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim I used to be an adven..]] ...Never kind my life story.”
** In Yua Temple B2, Riliane will say “This isn’t regular darkness... it’s [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants ADVANCED darkness]].”

* WholePlotReference: The credits and collectable books make no secret that the setting is based on various ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'' songs, such as [[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles "Daughter of Evil"]] and "Boss Death." Some of the dialogue quotes the songs word for word.

** The angels have a very skewed view of good and evil, considering demons, fallen angels, and any angel who breaks the rules to be evil and demanding torture or destruction. [[spoiler:Celeste's final test to return to angelhood is to defend the imprisoned and tortured Archangel Aeria from her own kind, and fighting her fellow angels ''cleanses'' her of corruption.]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood This seriously perplexes the angels]].

* CorruptChurch: The Elysian Order is run by Alfredus Marian and supports his paranoid and militaristic policies with no regard to the environment. [[spoiler:An update extends the endings and reveals that in the light route, Celeste, Riliane, and Aeria reform the order into a SaintlyChurch that promotes coexistence with the demons and monster tribes.]]

''Corruption of Laetitia'' is a 2019 {{freeware|Games}} UsefulNotes/RPGMaker game developed by Kayako Amaya. It can be downloaded [[https://kayakoamaya.itch.io/corruption-of-laetitia here.]]

The protagonist, Celeste Avadona, is a half-angel who was raised by the Elysian clergy to fight the demons overrunning the world of Laetitia. She and her paladin allies eventually storm the Ramarian Keep and defeat the demons' leader, allowing them to choke the demons' main access point to the mortal realm. This victory is short-lived, as Cardinal Alfredus Marian betrays Celeste and prepares to sacrifice her to steal her divine power. Before Celeste is killed, the demon leader, Malayna, offers to turn her into a demon in order to save her life. Celeste accepts and works with her former foes in order to end Marian's reign over the nations of Elphegort and Eidelwalt.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: There are all sorts of actions that player can take to increase their corruption level, but many of these means losing out on potential allies (including the only early-game healer) or possibly having to fight them, requiring the player to adopt a mindset of PragmaticVillainy to raise their corruption without shooting themselves in the foot.