History VideoGame / Deracine

You are the Kind Fairie, a fairie in the countryside, where a group of young children are raised by the headmaster of an old boarding school. One of these children, a girl named Yuliya, can talk to faeries, and the Kind Fairie has recently arrived at the school. The Kind Faerie goes around the school, helping and playing with the children, but it soon becomes apparent that there is something odd about the inhabitants of this school. The headmaster seems obsessed with the past, trying to undo some mistake he made.. One of the children has a wounded leg, said to have been hurt several years ago and have yet to recover, and no-one except the Kind Faerie seems to acknowledge Yuliya's presence.

* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The youngest girl has a wounded leg, which has not healed despite years passing since it happened.

* UncannyValley: What makes the Evil Faerie especially disturbing to the player is that, while time is normally stopped for everyone else, [[EvilCounterpart the Evil Faerie]] is the only being in the game who can ''still move around'' in the time-frozen landscape, just like the player can.

* ThemeNaming: The faeries gain nicknames based on their actions. The Kind Faerie is kind, while the Evil and Wicked Faerie kill senselessly.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:When you ressurect Yuliya after her death with Margareta's life force, she comes back as some kind of faerie, calling herself a "Wicked Faerie", and drains the life from her family, unable to stop herself. This is a result of a person being given someone ''else's'' life force, not their own. As stated under BittersweetEnding, the only way to avert this is for the Kind Faerie to return Yuliya's life force immediately after taking it.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The game's GoldenEnding requires you [[spoiler:to go back in time to the moment you used your red ring to absorb Yuliya's life, and refuse to do it.]] Doing so will cause the events of the game to play out as they should go, without your intervention. The children will survive, but you will fade into obscurity.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Yuliya is resurrected by you in the past. She comes back as some kind of faerie, calling herself a "Wicked Faerie", and drains the life from her family, unable to stop herself. As stated under BittersweetEnding, the only way to avert this is for the Kind Faerie to never take Yuliya's life force in the first place.]]

* DontGoIntoTheWoods: Robb's Forest is the site of many disappearances. The Evil Faerie is responsible.

* MeaningfulName: Déraciné means someone that has been uprooted and removed from their natural environment, much like [[spoiler:Yuliya is]].

* MythologyGag: The name Yuliya(/Yulia/Yuria) has made appearances in all recent FROM Soft games.

** The Wicked Faerie is [[spoiler:Yuliya, who became a faerie after you resurrected her using a red ring]].

* WasOnceAMan: All faeries seen in the game were once human. The Evil Faerie was presumably one of the Rhonian scholars, the Wicked Faerie was [[spoiler:Yuliya]], and you, the Kind Faerie, was [[spoiler:thevinfant Alexis]].

[[caption-width-right:350:"Every new faerie gets a little gift"]]

* ArcWords: "Every new faerie gets a little gift"

* BittersweetEnding: The game's GoldenEnding requires you [[spoiler:to go back in time to the moment you used your red ring to drawin Yuliya and refuse to do it.]] Doing so will cause the events of the game to play out as they should go, without your intervention. The children will survive, but you will fade into obscurity.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Yuliya is resurrected by you in the past. She comes back as some kind of faerie, calling herself a "Wicked Faerie", and drains the life from her family, unable to stop herself.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Yuliya died the night you became a faerie.]] [[spoiler:You killed her.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Headmaster asks the Kind Faerie to take his time and use it to help a young girl. Laurence tries the same to save his friends, but it's unsuccessful]].

* MustBeInvited: Of a kind. Faeries can't open door (their interactions can barely affect the world around them, except for their magic), so they can only pass through closed doors if someone opens them.

** During a trip to the past, you can find a doll that looks like the VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} doll.
** One of the students is named Laurence, who often interacts with a headmaster in a wheelchair. [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} That sounds familiar...]]

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Laurence gives up his remaining time so that the Kind Faerie can go back in time to prevent the others from leaving, and thus save them from the Evil Faerie. It's hopeless]].

* WasOnceAMan: All faeries seen in the game were once human. The Evil Faerie was presumably one of the Rhonian scholars, the Wicked Faerie was [[spoiler:Yuliya]], and you, the Kind Faerie, was [[spoiler:Alexis]].

** One of the studens is named Laurence, who often interacts with a headmaster in a wheelchair. [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} That sounds familiar...]]

Its premise is that in the countryside, a group of young children are raised by the headmaster of an old boarding school. One of these children, a girl named Yuliya, can talk to faeries, and a new one has recently arrived at the school. The Kind Faerie goes around the school, helping and playing with the children, but it soon becomes apparent that there is something odd about the inhabitants of this school. The headmaster seems obsessed with the past, trying to undo some mistake he made.. One of the children has a wounded leg, said to have been hurt several years ago and have yet to recover, and no-one except the Kind Faerie seems to acknowledge Yuliya's presence.

''Déraciné'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame with light [[PuzzleGame puzzle]] elements, developed by Creator/FROMSoftware and SIE Japan Studio, and released by Sony Entertainment in November 2018 for UsefulNotes/Playstation4 VR.

[[caption-width-right:350:Every new faerie gets a little gift]]

* ISeeDeadPeople: Yuliya can't ''see'' Faeries, but she can interact with them. [[spoiler:It's because her life-force was used to make you a faerie]].

* ArcWords: Every new faerie gets a little gift.

* MythologyGag: The name Yuliya has made appearances in all recent FROM Soft games.

Déraciné is a VR video game developed by Creator/FROMSoftware and SIE Japan Studio, and released by Sony Entertainment.

In the countryside, a group of young children are raised by the headmaster of an old boarding school. One of these children, a girl named Yuliya, can talk to faeries, and a new one has recently arrived at the school. The Kind Faerie goes around the school, helping and playing with the children, but it soon becomes apparent that there is something odd about the inhabitants of this school. The headmaster seems obsessed with the past, trying to undo some mistake he made.. One of the children has a wounded leg, said to have been hurt several years ago and have yet to recover, and no-one except the Kind Faerie seems to acknowledge Yuliya's presence.

The game is an atmospheric first person exploration game, mainly revolving around puzzle solving and exploration.

Déraciné was released in November of 2018 to mixed reviews. It was generally well received among fans, selling over 3000 copies in its first week in Japan alone, but critics were more negative, giving it an average of 68/100.

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* WasOnceAMan: All faeries seen in the game were once human. The Evil Faerie was presumably one of the Rhonian scholars, the Wicked Faerie was [[spoiler:Yuliya]], and you, the Kind Faerie, was [[spoiler:Alexis]].

* TheFairFolk: You play as the Kind Faerie, one of the three faeries we've seen in game.

* ThemeNaming: The faeries gain nicknames based on their actions. The Kind Faerie is kind, obviously, while the Evil and Wicked Faerie are evil.