History VideoGame / Enigmatis

* TheDragon: The flying creature appears to be this for the Preacher, causing the crash in the beginning.

[[Tropes for ''The Shadow of Karkhala'']]

* TheBigBoard: Both games feature this as the protagonist’s way of collecting and organizing information for the various mysteries she’s solving in each location. ''Maple Creek'' has a wall in her hotel room, and ''Ravenwood'' has an old tool board.

* CliffHanger: Both games end with [[spoiler:the evil preacher from Maple Creek escaping, with the second having an added bonus of hinting he's going to become the reincarnated demon of Asmodai.]]
* DamselInDistress: Kate, the missing girl in the first game, and Becky, the little girl you find in the second.

[[folder: Tropes for both games]]

''The Mists of Ravenwood'', the second game, begins two years after the last left off, the detective following some leads along the west coast for investigation. As she’s driving through the woods, a mysterious creature nearly runs her off the road—straight to an abandoned and torn up camper, outside the gates to Park Ravenwood. She ends up embroiled in another set of strange disappearances, the activities of a bloodthirsty cult, and supernatural phenomenon.

* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Private Investigator Hamilton, mostly in the first game]]. He's motivated primarily by revenge rather than justice, and his murderous intent conflicts with the main detective--but he shows numerous times that he's willing to help those in need, and only targets the cruel and unjust.

* ChekhovsGun: The ritual dagger, [[spoiler: which Hamilton steals to kill the preacher with. It's revealed in the second game that it's the only weapon that can kill a disciple of Asmodai.]]

* FairCop: The detective--any time the audience gets a good look at her in cutscenes she shows herself to be fairly good looking.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Both games feature these as part of demonic rituals to obtain power in honor of the demon Asmodai.]]
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: It's revealed in the second game that the priest from the first game and Whitmarsh from the second are granted immortality through their bond with the evil demon Asmodai, and they maintain that bond through ritual sacrifice of innocent people.]]
* JumpScare: At least one or two per game. For example [[spoiler: there’s the dead body you find in the basement of the boarding house in ''Maple Creek'', and then the skeleton hand that falls out of the brick in the maze in ''Ravenwood''.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: Emily Smith is this for Hamilton. He hunts and combats the preacher for over 30 years to get revenge for her death, and always keeps her picture with him in his case notebook.]]

* PeekABooCorpse: Standard practice. In particular there’s [[spoiler: all of the dead women shoved under the floorboards of the chapel]], and [[spoiler: the rotten bodies stuffed in barrels in the catacombs.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: When first heading downstairs in the Boarding House and flipping out the light switch, it brightens enough to show the form of [[spoiler: a dead body that you get to see in more detail later when you fix the lights]]. This is so brief that you only get the hint of a glimpse of it.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The man who breaks into the detective’s room early on, and later [[spoiler: all the citizens in Maple Creek]]. While their behavior isn’t necessarily dangerous, it is frightening and [[spoiler: indicates they’ve become mindless puppets to the preacher’s will.]]
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: The detective says this to [[spoiler: Hamilton, as he’s about to kill the preacher]]. This doesn’t do much to sway the man’s mind—killing the culprit had been his aim for at least thirty years.

* PetTheDog: Kate’s boyfriend tries to insist that the mysterious stranger, [[spoiler: really detective Hamilton]], is a dangerous lunatic. The detective wonders why he would bother patching up the man’s wounds if he was so unconcerned with human life.
* CreepyBasement: There’s one in the church [[spoiler: where the preacher hides some of his equipment for the ritual.]]
* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler: The true culprit behind the disappearances and the strange behavior of the townspeople. He used dark magic to suck their life force and keep himself alive, brainwashing them into his servants.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: By the time the game begins it’s become evident that everything is completely messed up—by commentary you can see on some forums discussing the town in-game it was like this before the storm. Nice, but strange behavior from the residents.

* AdrenalineTime: When the detective is thrown out of the camper at the beginning. It happens again when [[spoiler: the bird kidnaps Becky.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Not the Raven, but the Priest. The evil preacher gets exactly what he wants--to kill the last other disciple of Asmodai, and thus to become the most powerful.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The preacher has the ritual knife, and is about to become the disciple who will reincarnate Asmodai. But the Watchman, Becky, her parents, the detective, and Hamilton all get out relatively unscathed, and Ravenwood will no longer be able to harm anyone ever again.]]
* ContinuityNod: In the savaged camper in the very beginning of the game you can find a painting of the lake-front cottage that [[spoiler: the evil preacher was hiding out at.]]

* TheDragon: The giant raven ends up being one of these, having been summoned by [[spoiler: Whitmarsh]] to do their dirty work.
* EnemyMine: Though she doesn't know it, the detective is working alongside [[spoiler: the priest from the first game, who has his own reasons to kill Whitman]].
* ForegoneConclusion: In the bonus chapter featuring the Ticket Seller as the protagonist, the player already knows that [[spoiler:she fails to save her friend and fiance, and is enslaved by Whitmarsh by the end.]]
* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Hamilton]]. "Always be suspicious of someone who 'wants to show you something interesting'."
* ShoutOut:

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: Hamilton. In the first game, he was a revenge focused, secretive hermit who locked Kate's boyfriend in a basement and tried to murder the preacher instead of taking him in. Here, he rescues Becky, tries to rescue the detective, treats her like an old friend, and has even switched voice actors so that the deep, dark tone of his previous self has been replaced with a warmer, older sounding voice.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I lied to you, Detective. There are still two Reapers remaining."]]
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler: The Priest says this to the detective after she lets him out of his cage, citing not only her aid to him in this game but also refusing to let Hamilton kill him in ''The Ghosts of Maple Creek''.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The preacher has the ritual knife, and is about to become the disciple who will reincarnate Asmodai. But the Watchman, Becky, her parents, the detective, and Hamilton all get out relatively unscathed, and Ravenwood will no longer be able to harm anyone ever again.

* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler: The Priest says this to the detective after she lets him out of his cage, citing not only her aid to him in this game but also refusing to let Hamilton kill him in ''The Ghosts of Maple Creek''.

* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Private Investigator Hamilton]]. He's motivated primarily by revenge rather than justice, and his murderous intent conflicts with the main detective--but he shows numerous times that he's willing to help those in need, and only targets the cruel and unjust.

* CliffHanger: The story ends with [[spoiler: both Hamilton and the preacher escaping]]

* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: The preacher maintains his power through ritual sacrifice of innocent young women who come to Maple Creek, sucking the life force of his flock.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I lied to you, Detective. There are still two Reapers remaining.]]

* AdrenalineTime: When the detective is thrown out of the camper at the beginning.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Hamilton does this again]], by rescuing Becky when the monster attacks. She refers to him as a friend.

* InMediaRes: The story begins after the detective’s initial investigation was concluded, trying to pick up the pieces of what she discovered during that time.