History VideoGame / LittleMisfortune

''Little Misfortune'' is a PointAndClick AdventureGame developed by Killmonday, the makers of ''VideoGame/FranBow'', and released September 18th of 2019 for [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through Platform/{{Steam}}. It is an interactive story, focused on exploration and characters, both sweet and dark, where your choices have consequences.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Lampshaded by Misfortune after she manages to get the crow to release her and she free falls back down to the docks. Justified, since her dress acted as a sort of parachute to slow her fall.

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Misfortune always carries her glitter bottle around to sprinkle onto things and make them fabulous in her eyes. Sparkles appear over objects that glitter can be used on, which will display a more pleasant overlay of the object, made on drawn paper cutouts. Using glitter on every object possible [[spoiler:unlocks the true ending of the game, where she does grant her mother the "True Happiness" that she promised]].

* MissXPun: The titular Little Misfortune is an 8 year old "little lady" that has both an unfortunate life and an accidental tendency of bringing misfortune wherever she goes. She knows that she's her mother's "little misfortune" as an unwanted child.

* UnreliableNarrator: Taken to its logical extreme - [[spoiler:the narrator's word can't be trusted because he's been lying to Misfortune about ''everything'' in order to keep her trapped in his realm. Ironically, the only thing he is truthful about is Misfortune's upcoming death, and he relays this to the player, not to Misfortune herself.]]
** The ''one'' thing [[spoiler:Morgo]] likely isn't lying about is that he's seen worse than the scary looking ladies at the bus stop, [[spoiler:given his true nature as an otherworldly, parasitic, demonic being.]]

''Little Misfortune'' is a PointAndClick AdventureGame developed by Killmonday, the makers of ''VideoGame/FranBow'', and released September 18th of 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. It is an interactive story, focused on exploration and characters, both sweet and dark, where your choices have consequences.

* TheNineties: A newspaper is dated October 11, 1993.
* ActionSurvivor: Misfortune survives a great deal of physical trauma that should have caused her grievous injury, likely due to her ability to cause misfortune to ''others'' while staying mainly clear of it herself. [[spoiler: Subverted in the end game, where it's reveal that Misfortune has been dead the entire game, making it no wonder how she survived so many incidents.]]

* ArtsyBeret: Misfortune is a creative child who is introduced doing arts and crafts, and so she also wears a pink beret, even indoors.

* BlatantLies: The moment when Mr. Voice realizes that Misfortune heard his narration:

* SexyCillainsChasteHeroes: Morgo has an alluring [[ArousedByTheirVoice accent]] and well-defined muscles. This is in contrast to the good characters, who are pretty much nonsexual (one being a child and another being [[spoiler:a fox without any notable anatomical similarity to humans]]).

!! The this game contains the following tropes:

* AngelsDemonsAndSquid: In Videogame/FranBow, Angels (Valokas from the realm of light) opposed Demons (Kamalas from the realm of darkness). Here, a Squid joins the fun - the Squid being [[spoiler:a parasite from the Beyond, weird realm with, for now, incomprehensible laws]]. Interesting that visually the Squid isn't that different from Kamalas (and they both resemble a wendigo).

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Benjamin saving Misfortune from Morgo's realm.]]

-->'''Mr. Voice:''' The sad part is... Today is the day she will die.
-->'''Misfortune:''' I can hear you, you know... <...> What did you say about me dying today?
-->'''Mr. Voice:''' Die? No! Nobody said anything about anyone dying today.

* CooldownHug: [[spoiler: Near the end, when Misfortune looks upon her own dead body and realizes that she is actually dead, she starts crying uncontrollably. But then Benjamin, whom Misfortune thought was lost, comes up to her, making her feel a little relieved and happy to see him. He pulls her into a comforting hug, which somewhat calms her down.]]
* CreepyGood: [[spoiler:Benjamin’s boss. She has a grim reaper-like design, but she sends Benjamin to help Misfortune. When she finally meets Misfortune, she speaks to her in a kind voice and refers to her as “Lady Misfortune”. She also welcomes Misfortune when she enters the Fifth Reality with Benjamin.]]

* DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody: [[spoiler: After Morgo is defeated, and everything is seemingly back to normal for the most part, Misfortune heads outside to see her own mom and a policeman talking, upon examining the covered body on the road... It's revealed to be ''Misfortune's'' own dead body, as she was hit by her dad's own car, this understandably leaves Misfortune in tears.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Much like in VideoGame/FranBow before her, Misfortune's reactions to some of the deeply disturbing things she sees around her tend to be mildly perturbed at worst, rather than the genuine horror that one would consider to be a "normal" response. This is partially due to [[InnocentInaccurate her young age]], and partially due to [[CloudCuckooLander her own innate weirdness.]]
* EldritchLocation: The Ultra-Reality, which appears in this game both as a reference to VideoGame/FranBow, and [[spoiler: is implied to be where the entire game takes place. In particular, Morgo is suggested to exist somewhere deep within "The Beyond," an uncharted area of the Ultra-reality that exists between Misfortune's world and ours.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Four notable ones for TheReveal that [[spoiler: Misfortune was DeadAllAlong]]:
** In the very beginning of the game, when Misfortune is leaving her home to follow Mr. Voice's quest, [[spoiler: she pauses in the middle of the road for quite a while, and has a brief flash to the Ultrareality while standing in the exact spot where her body lies in the end game.]]
** The song Misfortune dances to at the beginning. [[spoiler: "Dance to this music forever. Love this song forever."]]
** Toward the very end of the game, Misfortune finds Benjamin's bag, which contains [[spoiler: a list of situations in which Protectors must intervene and save the souls of potential victims. One situation listed is when the victim is dead already, and doesn't know it.]]
** During the climax of the game, [[spoiler: Morgo]] says to Misfortune, "You [[spoiler: crossed the path]] and now you're mine!" not only implying TheReveal but also that [[spoiler: Morgo might have deliberately lured her to her death]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Misfortune was DeadAllAlong. She died crossing the street in the very beginning of the game, and simply wasn't aware of it due to Morgo's influence.]]

* SharedUniverse: Little Misfortune is set in the same universe as Videogame/FranBow, 49 years after the latter.

* TheNineties: A newspaper is dated October 11, 1993.

* TitleDrop: A sorrowful one at the end where [[spoiler: Misfortune acknowledges that she was her mother's "little misfortune" right before she leaves with Benjamin.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: Taken to its logical extreme - [[spoiler: the narrator's word can't be trusted because he's been lying to Misfortune about ''everything'' in order to keep her trapped in his realm. Ironically, the only thing he is truthful about is Misfortune's upcoming death, and he relays this to the player, not to Misfortune herself.]]
** The ''one'' thing [[spoiler: Morgo]] likely isn’t lying about is that he’s seen worse than the scary looking ladies at the bus stop, [[spoiler: given his true nature as an otherworldly, parasitic, demonic being.]]