History VideoGame / SonicExeSpiritsOfHell

* ArcWords: "For atrocities, a [[BigBad Villain]] is needed. For a [[BigBad Villain]] a [[TheHero Hero]] is needed. But if there is no [[BigBad Villain,]] there is no [[TheHero Hero]] either." -[[GoodNeedsEvil The words that appear when you start the story of Whisper Of Soul.]]
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: In the Whisper Of Soul's [[spoiler:Final boss, despite showing that the whole cast came to fight back against Exeller, you can only pick one character to show up on screen at the time by switching between them.]] In Spirits Of Hell's Knuckles and Tails duo, you can [[SwitchOutMove switch between two characters, and only one can appear on screen at the time.]]
** SwitchOutMove: [[spoiler:You will have to switch between characters because of the trope above: while you are holding the switch button, the time conveniently stops around you. There is no cooldown to this, and you can hold it as long as you want, which can lead to an easy exploit that you can use to cheese the Final Boss himself.]]
* AllForNothing: Both games that don't end with the Best Ending. [[spoiler:[[PyrrhicVictory Doesn't end well for the heroes,]] in Spirits Of Hell, they get killed off screen, and in the Whisper Of Soul, if you beat Solo Sally's boss, all you get is a [[GroinAttack kick in the face]] by Exeller, as you [[PyrrhicVictory watch Sally fly down from the building to presumably plummet to her death.]] Others just suicide, or face worse fates than death, but it all ends with the timeline getting reset, the only reason you are doing this is to get the Best Ending, that is locked behind an requirement of getting all 20 endings.]]

** SoftGlass: [[spoiler:In the Cream Solo, Cream dashes through an window, breaking it with her speed and weight, she gets no major injuries or embeded glass stuck inside her, same thing happens to Tails in the Tails and Sally Route, but he gets thrown through the window by Knuckles, and finally in the Best Ending, Tails Doll with Cream get launched through the window, while desperately trying to escape Exebark, nothing happens to them again.]]

** In Whisper of Soul, normally before a boss battle starts or some new level that will introduce you to new mechanics, or just a character who you are playing as for the first time, a tutorial will appear to show what they are all capable of doing or just how exactly it all works. They are also [[{{Cutscene}} unskippable]] so...you will be forced to watch them every single time you replay them.
* AllDeathsFinal: If you fail to save a character, they will stay dead for the whole duration of the round.
* ArtShift:
** In the Spirits Of Hell: Sonic starts in the sprite style of Modgen, but when he gets [[spoiler:Possessed by Exeller.]] His sprite style changes to Sonic 3.
** In the Whisper Of Soul: The character's design gets fully changed to Modgen; Tails in particular, instead of only having yellow colors, now has orange and yellow mixed up with him. (In his sprite sheet, it is labeled as an alternative color palette.) And Knuckles and Eggman have also got their respective Modgen designs. Amy gets a Justified Modgen design due to her [[spoiler:aging up using Sally's machine.]] But in the first screen of Spirits Of Hell and its Best Ending credits cutscene, it shows her younger than Whisper Of Soul shows. Also, Execun and Exebark looked different than what we got in the full game.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Sonic R'', Tails Doll is one of the antagonists that serves Eggman to assist him in his global domination. In this game, he serves as a valuable ally to Cream and and her friends. [[spoiler:Except until things go wrong, and someone out of the main cast dies, he will do a HeelFaceTurn and decide to attack Cream due to the curse he is placed under by Execun.]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: Rotor, who goes from easy going and bashful [[spoiler:to a downright unreasonable and antagonistic Freedom Fighter (once Execun-Sally rules Freedom City) who has no qualms gunning down two minors and at one point, even threatening to kill Cream in her Solo run. It takes Tails being alive to recognize him, and even then, he is only convinced when Tails cuts his hand as proof of being a living being.]]

** CheckPoint: In both games, some levels have this feature, in case you failed a long level, and the game clearly understands that.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom:
** Eggman in the Sprits Of Hell: During the "..." level, when you pass up to an difficulty of Medium, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Advancing Wall Of Doom]] will appear behind Eggman's tail, and if you won't hurry up and let it touch you, is an instant kill.
** In the Cream's Solo Route of Whisper Of Soul, during a level "Danger Spectre" you will pass an trigger that activates rain, and an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Advancing Wall Of Doom]] with it.
* AmbiguousSituation: In the [[spoiler:VS Metal Sonic]] game over sequence: [[spoiler:The group will find Cream's corpse, whenever who actually killed Cream (Amy due to her psychotic state, or Metal Sonic) is not revealed. As Amy has hallucinations before the fight even starts. Amy is then seen insane, and standing on the ledge, wanting to jump off.]]
* ActionBasedMission: Once the Main Cast will stop hiding under their skirts in the first part. Then they normally start to retaliate back in the second part.
* BookEnds: In the Spirits Of Hell's Best Ending: [[spoiler:It will show young Amy and Cream, looking for Cheese in the forest, then when you boot up the sequel, Amy looks different and much older, and that cutscene from Spirits Of Hell doesn't happen at all.]]
* BlahBlahBlah: When Exeller is being questioned by Amy on who he is, he replies back with:
-->'''Exeller''': "''Fine... I'm a highest, guardian of the universe, blah-blah, we protect you mortals from evil and stuff''"

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Metal Sonic, previously thought to be destroyed by Exeller from ''Spirits of Hell'', makes an appearance in Knuckles and Amy's duo ending and the True Ending route, where Amy personally fights it.]]
* BeingEvilSucks: Exeller notes during the worst ending in ''Whisper of Soul'' that despite his obvious glee while on a murderous rampage, [[spoiler:his inborn psychosis and mastery of time magic means that he has no actual freedom. He can't resist his urge to kill or to use his powers, both making it so that he's trapped killing the same six people forever (along with whoever else gets in the way). Even when he succeeds in his goal of attaining ultimate power and his revenge in a given loop, he'll eventually reset the timeline anew out of sheer boredom]].
** HypocriteHasAPoint: [[spoiler:And yet he stil acts like he is not that [[BlackAndGrayMorality bad,]] because you are forced to gain all endings, he will keep justifyng it by saying things like "[[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat Is easy to judge when you don't know the facts]]" meanwhile the whole thing you do in the game, is hunting down all endings to achieve the GoldenEnding one, while he keeps killing others, over and over again.]]

** InvincibleVillain: He's immortal.
** NeckLift: He seems to keen on lifting people by it's necks, sometimes he will be lazy enough to do that, and will just [[PsychicStrangle choke them and lift them up by force.]]
** ScrewDestiny: And he screws the destiny and it's prophecy real hard.
** SmugSnake: Also part of Exeller's personality, acting all cocky like, with a smug mug.
** YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: And you really don't, as DLC shows that if he gains enough INSANITY, he goes mad and destroys Mobius in a wild rage.

* BlueScreenOfDeath: Appears when you start Whisper Of Soul, after a curtain amount of time, with a loud BEEEEEEEEP. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Time.]] If you try to skip it, the game will just skip to the beeping sound straight away, expect of just skipping it out right. You are stil forced to hear it.

--->''I don't see on the digital screen of what I am pressing. I need a loud and abnoxious BEEP to let me know!''

** In Spirits Of Hell's cutscene: [[spoiler:In the Hide and Seek act 2, you can jump while in a cutscene, which will get your cover blown and Tails killed.]]

* ItsPersonal: Crazy Amy route: [[spoiler:She forgets about her struggles with Exeller the moment he shows her who killed her parents, it was Eggman, and now it has became [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin personal]] for her.]]

* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Downplayed. In the Whisper Of Soul's first part, you will find a Forester's Gate blocking Amy's way. Is possibile to try to jump over it, but there will be an invisibile wall in the way. So either [[LockAndKeyPuzzle find a Key]] or [[CuttingTheKnot Break it.]]
* IKnewThereWasSomethingAboutYou: "Hmph, somehow, I knew i'll find you here" [[spoiler:said by Exeller to Alice in the Worst Ending route.]]

* NoSell: In the Whisper Of Soul: Before starting the Volcano Valley Tails level, a cutscene plays where Tails tries to [[spoiler:behead Exeller in the same way as he did in his Spirits Of Hell solo, but it proves uneffective, as Tails finds out that he can't be killed all this time.]]

** In the Spirits Of Hell: If you waste all of your lifes on Tails part, you will be treated to a cutscene of Exeller overlooking his next victim, Knuckles. The same thing would happen with Knuckles, but he will be addreasing to the player, and dying on Eggman, will have his body ripped in half. Some routes even get unique cutscenes for dying. If for example Tails and Knuckles die before they meet up with Exeller, he will have his decapitated heads in his hands, if in Tails and Eggman route Tails dies, Eggman decides to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm escape while he still can.]] Or if Eggman dies to a wrong choice, Tails will be executed in the darkness.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If Tails tries to leave Green Hill early by backtracking to his plane when he says that he should "Go and warn the others." Exeller will spawn to take him out with no continues. Following with a message that is addresed to the player.

* SadisticChoice: If at any point Amy or Cream die in their first part of Whisper of Soul, [[spoiler:it will interupt the Round 1 sequence with Exeller arriving to tell them that they forgot about the girls, and then either one of them or two at the same time appear in their demonized versions to confront them. If two of them appear there will be no choice, and all of them get killed off. But if there is only one of them, a choice will appear, choosing between Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman. When one of them gets choosen the others die as the result. If that wasn't enough you also have to fight the RouteBoss of your choice, funny enough, if Eggman gets chosen against Amy.exe, the boss battle gets skipped. (SkippableBoss.)]]

* BigBad: Exeller. The main Villain of the Spirits Of Hell and Whisper Of Soul games, and its DLC. As an aside, you play as him in the DLC.
** TheUnfettered: Will do whatever necesary, even if it's un-moral.
** TheKingslayer: Before the events of the game, Exeller assasinates the King.
** FromNobodyToNightmare: What Exeller claims he have become in the [[spoiler:Alternative Crazy Amy ending.]] Saying that Alice didn't care about him at all when she found out who he was.
** ForTheEvulz: Subverted, [[spoiler:he actully does it all, to not go insane and BERZERK, but he hides it well in the Spirits of Hell, but then gets the weakness go loose in the Whisper Of Soul and the DLC.]]
** HopeCrusher: That's one thing he will do in your vulnerable state.
** ItAmusedMe: Might be the only reason, he keeps running his gauntlet of games by killing his victims over and over.

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: [[spoiler:Beating "Exeller" in Whisper Of Soul's Best Ending is this, as he already managed to achieve the Master Emerald he was craving for, if you lose during his fight, he will just drag you back to the start of the fight, it will loop around for as long as you can't beat him, if you do win, he will provide an opportunity for Sally to ask her three questions, then as she does so, she will find Sonic unconscious, and something that has red glowing eyes in the darkness....Is a win never then less for Exeller.]]

* HowWeGotHere: Implied in the Whisper Of Soul: If you switch to story page, all main characters are shown to be already together, but they are in a cave for some reason.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In Spirits Of Hell: [[spoiler:Knuckles sets up an ambush trap switch in his solo route, which backfires into him opening the door with it, rather than activating the trap, Exeller then uses this opportunity to behead him using the same switch he used to open the door.]]
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The game will switch to an different Character once he is safe and sound, both of them then should meet up with each other.

* HeroicBSOD: In the Knuckles and Cream route. [[spoiler:Cream will make a run for it, as Knuckles does an HeroicSacrifice to get Cream to live for some time. Then she gets surrounded, closes her eyes and [[CornerOfWoe turns into a ball]], as she cries her soul out to spare her, but then the whole scene around her turns into a void, and there is nothing around her anymore. Her only choice is to move forward into the abyss.]]
* HopeSpot: Has a lot of moments in both of the games. Or even consisted of.

* TheBigDamnKiss: In one of the Memory Fragments, [[spoiler:Sonic gets Kissed by Amy. Who then shyfully runs away.]]
* TookALevelInDumbass: Tails in the Spirits Of Hell: Tails is pictured as an smart guy in the Sonic Universe, (well mostly, don't count the adventure 2 moment.) who when gets the power from Master Emerald to teleport into any point of location on Mobius. Decides to completly waste it in his solo route to teleport [[IdiotBall back to his plane for some stupid reason.]]

** Sally Acorn: A queen of Mobius that wields an family heirloom gadget that can make a sword physically appear in her hands with other coloured elements to boot, and she can even back kick the BigBad in the face. When being interrogated by a highest in the glasses for asking the Queen of Highests for help, she responds that she is doing that to "Save her friends". ([[spoiler:which may also be a white lie, as when she spots them one of them, she will point her sword at them in case of their attack, which is justified since she just saw her royal servant Antoine being killed and replaced by Execun. But in the Sally and Cream route, if Cream will try to bring her friends up in hopes of her not killing her, she will turn her into barbeque, but if she brings her family instead, she will be spared, and protected from Amy.exe]]) She is also a very "people" person, as at the start of almost every route, she will mention the word "People."

Remakes for the first game and the DLC (the first being ''[[https://gamejolt.com/games/SOHRecoded/785237 Spirits of Hell: RECODED]]'' by [=GoldCodeX=] (led by [=KoolTimYT=]) and ''[[https://gamejolt.com/games/sonicexesohdlcremake/849715 The Prophecy Remake]]'' by [=MoonyEclipsy=]) are in the works to revamp and/or complete the experience for newer fans to the games.

''[[http://gamejolt.com/games/SonicExeTSOH/306847 Sonic.Exe: Spirits of Hell]]'' and its sequel, ''[[http://gamejolt.com/games/SonicExeTSOH2/376138 Sally.Exe: Whisper of Soul]]'' are two game series based on ''Videogame/SonicExe'' by [=Danuha2526=] (aka Dan the Patient Bear). The first game was released on June 18, 2018, while the sequel is released on August 19, 2021. Then got cancelled by Demotivation on 15th of June 2022. It is set in the SharedUniverse with ''VideoGame/SonicExeNightmareBeginning''.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: In the Whisper Of Soul's [[spoiler:Final boss, despite showing that the whole cast came to fight back against Exeller, you can only pick one character to show up on screen at the time by switching between them.]] In the Spirits Of Hell's Knuckles and Tails duo: You can [[SwitchOutMove switch between two characters, and only one can appear on screen at the time.]]

*** CheeseStrategy: If you are still interested. [[spoiler:If, while holding a switch, you keep switching to Amy, attack, and then switch back to other characters and back to her again, you can essentially attack infinitely in the Za Warudo fashion. Get closer to Exeller and repeat the producure until he dies, literally dominating God himself.]]
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Reinforced, you will keep switching between characters repeatedly, whether they die or not, in Rounds 1 and 2.

* ArcWords: "For atrocities, a [[BigBad Villain ]] is needed. For a [[BigBad Villain ]] a [[TheHero Hero ]] is needed. But if there is no [[BigBad Villain, ]] there is no [[TheHero Hero ]] either." -[[GoodNeedsEvil The words that appear when you start the story of Whisper Of Soul.]]

** In Whisper of Soul, normally before a boss battle starts or some new level that will introduce you to new mechanics, or just a character who you are playing as for the first time, a tutorial will appear to show what they are all capable of doing or just how exactly it all works. They are also [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cutscene?from=Main.UnskippableCutscene unskippable]] so...you will be forced to watch them every single time you replay them.

** [[spoiler:if you choose to view Amy's past in Whisper of Soul, she will become hellbent on revenge of killing Robotnik after that point, even killing Knuckles and Tails for not cooperating with her, who are her friends, and that she is burning all possible bridges in order to corner Robotnik. And in the end, becoming a boss fight in her own [[RouteBoss Route]]. In some cases, Exeller will simply kill Amy outright since she's no longer useful for him (i.e. Robotnik has already died before she views her past).]]

->Exeller : "''Fine... I'm a highest, guardian of the universe, blah-blah, we protect you mortals from evil and stuff''"

* BittersweetEnding: Some of them do happen in the end at the Round 1. But it then gets averted that [[spoiler:all non-best endings will get those who lived till the end killed off anyways. [[KilledOffscreen Off-Screen.]] Which then serves as a [[AllForNothing pointless feat]] to do, as it destroys all the purpose to even do them in the first place. What's the point if the reward is just them getting killed off, [[KilledOffscreen off-screen?]] ]] But then the Round 2 reconstructs it, as some endings are in fact [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet,]] some even live to the end, and actually manage to escape the chaos that is Freedom City. It still gets the timeline to reset, but at least some of them did in fact lived until the end.

*** VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: But if you break the Forester's gate, [[spoiler:he won't be able to appear to save you from Exeller, as Amy gets [[OneHitKill Insta-Killed,]] with [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Permadeath no continue screen what so over.]] ]]

* ControllableHelplessness: During the Whisper of Soul's Trio route. [[spoiler:If you let Tails die and you have no lifes left, Exeller instead of blowing up the train, will instead throw Sally into an [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/Unwinnable unwinnable level]] where the [[TheWallsAreClosingIn walls are starting to close in on her,]] and all you can do is to [[DeathIsTheOnlyOption wait until they come down on Sally and crush her.]] This level is an ShoutOut to the original Sally.exe]]

* CutSceneIncompetence: Outside of gameplay, characters in one moment are kicking ass, and in another, are forcefully getting killed in the cutscenes, those normally happen if you let someone die or made the wrong choice earlier, and it comes back to bite you in for that. Rendering possibile Ending combinations impossible to achieve.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cutscene Cutscene]]: Tails and Amy route: [[spoiler:The game will just put you through cutscenes, with no gameplay what so ever, that ends in their suicide.]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CliffHanger CliffHanger]]: Round 2's Best Ending.

* CallBack: A fairly small one, but the music heard in Tails's variant of Volcano Valley is the same remix that was heard during the original [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TailsNightmare ''Tails' Nightmare'' Flash game,]] which also depicted Tails wandering through a ruined environment to survive.
** Exeller in the [[spoiler:Whisper Of Soul's Finale Battle.]] Will mention about an universe, where Tails became the villain. And that he and him were [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different.]] He was referencing to the Fan Made comic [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/WhereWasMyHero "Where Was My Hero." ]] Which due to poor events that happen to Tails, make him turn [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RogueProtagonist rogue.]]

* [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Protagonists:]] The games don't establish who is the [[TheProtagonist True Main Protagonist,]] they are all [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin decoys]] in a sense. As anyone can die, and the game will try to continue without them.
* [[DeterminedDefeatist DeterminedDefeatists]]: If things don't go well with the Main Cast, some of them will keep going, despite all odds stacking against them.

* [[DeathSeeker DeathSeekers]]: We have 3 out of 6 Main Characters, who are such like it's own squad of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SuicideSquad2016 suicide squaders.]] They will look for death in the most hopeless situations, meanwhile the other 3 despite all odds, are actively trying to fight for their life, no matter what. How exactly can you trust those people? When it all goes south they take the easy way out?

** In the Spirits Of Hell:
*** Eggman, the main villain of Sonic universe, decides to team up with Heroes Tails and Knuckles, to fight back against Exeller.
** In the Whisper Of Soul:
*** [[spoiler:Amy. Her morale compass gets completly breaked by revelation of Eggman killing her parents, and so she goes after him.]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Foreshadowing Foreshadowing]]: Limp City. [[spoiler:This is what will happen to the Freedom City if Sally fails to save it from Exeller. As Sally even notes on it just being the Freedom City, but turned red.]]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/Flashback Flashbacks]]: The Whisper Of Soul has a lot of those, they appear mostly after the credits of an ending, with some expections, they also happen in gameplay.

--->''[[spoiler:Tails : If only I was there... With her... Exeller just drove us in circles..]]''

* GainaxEnding: The Whisper of Soul's Best Ending: [[spoiler:They defeat Exeller, and then he gives Sally an opportunity to ask the remaining lore questions she has, she in return [[StoppedCaring doesn't seem to be interested in his past]] but asks them anyways, but only three of them, as after that, it shifts her back to where they standed nearby with the others. Sally is waking up only to see Sonic's unconscious body on the ground, and something (That is presumed Exeller) having glowing evil red eyes in the darkness, then it ends like that on a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cliffhanger cliff hanger.]] The series has also been cancelled, so is unlikely that Dan will ever come back to finish it. ]]

->[[spoiler:''Amy: "Dr.Robotnik... Is he still alive?"'']]
->[[spoiler:''Exeller: "He is (alive)dead... And unfortunately you're useless to me... For now."'']]

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Knockback Knockback]]: Getting hit by damage, will knock the character backwards.

->[[spoiler:''Exeller: "Of course, it's easy to judge when you don't know the facts. Screw you both."'']]
->[[spoiler:''Rexer: "Those were your last words..."'']]

->[[spoiler:''Sally: "We had a deal!"'']]
->[[spoiler:''Exeller: "[[ILied And i've done my part of the deal. I've teleported CITIZENS of the freedom city... But sadly, your friends are not citizens."]]'']]
->[[spoiler:''Sally: "[[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt You knew exactly what I meant!]]"'']]

* MissingSecret: The Tails vs. Eggman boss fight in the Knuckles and Eggman duo route ​was [[DummiedOut Dummied Out]]. Subverted due to the battle being available in the Level Select.

->[[spoiler:''Tails : "Y-You are immortal?"'']]

->''(Sonic)Exeller: "Do I know you?"''
->''Rexer: "I already know it's you Exeller, don't play dumb with me."''

* PlatformHell: In the Spirits Of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/Irony Hell]]: Eggman's level "..." has a Difficulty describing one part as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin HELL]] for a reason.

* PlotCouponThatDoesSomething: In the Amy and Cream Duo route: Amy can find an Fire Ring, [[spoiler:which can be used as a Safety Net in case you fail the upcoming QTE or die as Amy in the Prison level.]] If you don't grab it [[spoiler:Cream will freeze to death if you fail an QTE. And if Amy dies in the Prison level, and Cream has no Fire Ring, the game would still put you through an level anyways, until Cream finds Tails Doll in her way, as Fire Ring should normally save her. This time however, Tails Doll obliterates Cream's face off.]] In the Spirits Of Hell: There are rings littered around in each character's levels, they are mostly placed in the beginning, Black Rings will require you to traverse through the level, then [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/Backtracking backtrack back to the beginning of an level after you reached some distance,]] it will spawn a Black Ring back there, which when grabbed will act as a save net for Solo Routes, Green Rings if grabbed, will save you from a Bad Choice, which will become [[UselessItem useless]] if you [[EverybodyKnewAlready already know what to pick to not die.]] Oh, and they can be only [[ItOnlyWorksOnce used once.]]

** StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler:A fight then breaks out on top of the train, at the end of it, Exeller will pull out some kind of detonator in his hand, and then he will say that a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/Understatement "Big Boom" will soon follow.]] He presses it, and off it goes!]]

->''THERE ARE NO EASTER EGGS!''

* SequelHook: In the Round 1 at the end of Best Ending, he asks the player. "Ready for Round 2?" The same thing is implied in Round 2, but instead it just ends on a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CliffHanger Cliffhanger,]] instead of confirming it out right.

* StoryBranching: In the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Shadow The Hedgehog]] fashion, you have 8 main endings to discover! [[StoryBranching Which one is canon? A single one in the Round 1.]] But in the Round 2, you are forced to get every ending to get the [[GoldenEnding golden one,]] again in the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Shadow The Hedgehog]] fashion, expect in that game you could have just get half of the endings, and it will unlock the GoldenEnding anyways.

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Seers Seers]]: Downplayed, despite other characters getting an curtain feeling that this happened before, they are stil scripted to get visions or react the same way in the future runs, their power of predicting future is limited, and doesn't work on command, so they are not that psychic in a way.

** Tails Doll: Had some chances of an CharacterDevelopment along with Cream, but the kicker is that [[spoiler:every time someone out of the main cast dies, he gets corrupted by the curse Execun transmited him with, and Cream is forced to either abandon him, or risk getting killed by him, as in some routes he [[HeroicSuicide Heroic Suicides]] in order for her to not get hurt. He does try to be friendly before that, protects her from Execun, and tries to search food for her when she says that she is hungry, in the Best Ending he is somewhat vindicated with his pep talk he had with Cream, and he is still forced into an HeroicSuicide in the Best Ending, as Curse almost fully corrupted him and he is at the end of his rope, he decides to get incenerated along with defeated Execun as Cream watches him, and his only crystal being the only thing that is left of him.]]

->This information is not needed for mortals.

--->''[[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAaF64WH9J0&google_comment_id=Ugz-CZ2Q-LWZjjxrFL94AaABAg Tails Doll boss in Tails and Cream duo route: Im gonna break all your nerves, ankles, your keyboard and make you ragequit the game for months.]] ]]''

** Some Bosses or Levels, require you to fail or die numerous times to get them right, some even counting as NintendoHard, they vary from each other, but [[ThatOneBoss Those One's Bosses.]] That take the cake are [[spoiler:The Tails and Cream, RouteBoss]] then [[spoiler:Ultimate Execun in the Best Ending,]] the [[spoiler:VS Metal Sonic, in the Best Ending.]] and finally [[spoiler:VS Alice in the Worst ending]] is been noted that those specific bosses gave the [[RageQuit most pain imaginable.]] Also in the oldest versions of Spirits Of Hell, if you died once to a Best Ending boss, the game suddenly decides to play the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/Permadeath Permadeath]] trope, and will NOT give you another try, even if you stil have more lifes left. This is the only moment that happens through the whole game, thankfully is no longer the case, as it is patched.

** Spirits Of Hell:
*** [[spoiler:Eggman Solo Boss. Which will allow you to SpamAttack Exeller.]]
** Whisper Of Soul:
*** [[spoiler:Amy Solo Boss. Almost the same thing as Eggman's.]]

** Whisper Of Soul: Amy will [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/LANoire Press X To Doubt]] with [[spoiler:Fake]] Sonic, and may even fly around in the Special Stage section. Cream will play a RacingMinigame with the Butterfly, [[spoiler:Alice,]] and either will feature in a Stealth Level, or gather 6 talismans to unlock a door, to then a Flashlight level sequence in the house. Sally's mechanics would want you to juggle around her elements Boost, Fire, Electric, Wind, and Boulder. You can only switch between them in that order, and only with one button, no hot keys. Oh and right there are also [[PressXToNotDie QTE'S]] at the beginning of Amy's and Cream's levels.

->[[spoiler:''Exeller : "[[RageBreakingPoint Grrrr,]] you obstinate little [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]] [[ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal Don't like playing by the rules?]] [[ImpliedDeathThreat Let's see what the odds become when I get you.]] ''"]]

* BungledSuicide: In some [[spoiler:Cream starting routes, [[StartsWithASuicide Cream will begin with the attempt of a suicide]] by jumping onto spikes. She of course will always be interrupted no matter what.]]

** DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[spoiler:Due to Exeller's nature, in the DLC it gets revealed that he has INSANITY meter, and to lower it down, he would have to resort by killing people in the brutal ways. Which you can [[SadisticChoice make the choice yourself.]] If INSANITY meter gets filled up fully, he will go off the rails, and just destroys Mobius in a violent rage.]]
** CutscenePowerToTheMax: All of the crazy stuff that Exeller does, normally happens in a cutscene. While in the [[spoiler:VS Alice fight. He won't be able to do any of it. Justified as he is weakened by the proximity of the Master Emerald, [[AssPull or so it seems...]] ]]
*** AssPull: [[spoiler:When being literally next to Master Emerald, in some endings, he will still be immortal after being shot by Eggman with his gun, or outright freeze characters, while in the Best Ending, he will outright say that the proximity of the Master Emerald can't get him here. (Which contradicts what he still does in the other endings.) So he gets away with freezing them all, and he takes the Chaos Emerald. And also, he can still teleport around them on the spot.]]
** TalkingToThemself: Justfied, as the In-universe explaination is that Sonic is also with him all this time in the DLC.
** TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: The more victims he kills, the more his tracking powers increase in range. Meaning that the characters can't just hide away from him until it blows over.
** TheUnfought: Techinically, you never truly fight Exeller. As he [[spoiler:is an immortal being, every fight would end with him being the victor.]]

* ChessWithDeath: In the Best Ending. [[spoiler:Exeller will publicly announce his presence, and state that he will assault freedom city in curtain amount of time. It means WAR. And the whole Best Ending is essentially playing Chess with Exeller, he is sending clones of his servants to destroy generators? Sally takes care of that. Curtain generators need to be powered? Knuckles the treasure hunter is on the job. One generator has to be fixed? Tails will go after it. And so on.]]

%% ** [[BigBad Exeller]], too, has such a past.

* [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter They Wasted Perfectly Good Characters]]: Knuckles, Eggman, Rexer, and Tails Doll in the Whisper Of Soul: (with many many other side characters that get featured in the story.)
** Knuckles: [[spoiler:Gets almost to no CharacterDevelopment in the game. (He makes appearences in the Memory Fragments and in the celebration christmas video, and the only string Exeller seem to pull on in the Best Ending Final Battle, is his Echidna clan, that would have been ashamed of what he is doing right now. Which kinda misses the point when he barely has anything related to them to appear in his routes.) He is just there to find out what happened to Sonic, and when he does, he just kind of tags along with Tails and Eggman to guard them to their destination, and when things go [[DarkestHour TERRIBLY WRONG.]] He's the only one who gets killed in his OWN! SOLO! Every ending with him ends with him and the others killed or much worse. [[ButtMonkey He is just of a bad omen for those who tag along with him.]] ]]

* BattleInTheRain: [[spoiler:VS Alice boss fight, where both Exeller and Alice fight during the rain weather.]]
* BackToBackBadasses: Duo endings or Trio endings. As they gather the power in numbers. [[spoiler:Expect that SadisticChoice in the Whisper Of Soul.]]
* BerserkButton: Amy, if she finds out that [[spoiler:Eggman killed her parents.]]
* BungledSuicide: In some [[spoiler:Cream starting routes, [[StartsWithASuicide Cream will begin with the attempt of a suicide,]] by jumping onto spikes, she of course will always be interrupted no matter what.]]
** InterruptedSuicide: Our brave and heroic [[spoiler:Knuckles]] mostly comes to save the day...He tries his best at least.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Exeller as every .exe follows this same trope of his eyes having blood soaking out of it, in one ending Exeller even tries to wipe it off with his hand, just for it to flow back on his sockets.

* BottomlessPits: And both games really love this trope, fair or unfair, there will be levels that feature them, and if you fall into them, you will lose a life.
* BittersweetEnding: Some of them do happen in the end at the Round 1. But it then gets averted that [[spoiler:all non-best endings that happen at the end, will get those who lived till the end, killed off anyways. [[KilledOffscreen Off-Screen.]] Which then serves as a [[AllForNothing pointless feat]] to do, as it destroys all the purpose to even do them in the first place, what's the point if the reward is just them getting killed off, [[KilledOffscreen off-screen?]] ]] But then the Round 2 reconstructs it, as some endings are in fact [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet,]] some even live to the end, and actully manage to escape the chaos that is Freedom City. It stil gets the timeline to reset, but at least some of them did in fact lived until the end.
* BigBad: Exeller. The main Villain of the Spirits Of Hell and Whisper Of Soul games, and it's DLC...
** AGodIsYou: You play as him in the DLC.
** CantTakeCriticism: When he gets faced by Rexer for his TheKingslayer behaviour, he parries it by saying that he "Doesn't know the facts." and insults him by saying that he would "[[ToHellWithThisInfernalJob Screw them both.]]" [[spoiler:Alice]] and Rexer with their puny accusations. As Rexer changes his gears to the fifth one, he then [[LeeroyJenkins charges at Exeller, but then he gets swiftly killed by him.]] Then [[spoiler:Alice]] herself does this to Exeller, he once again doesn't take it pretty well, as he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales her with extreme prejudice.]]
** DrunkWithPower: In the Whisper of Soul's Worst Ending. [[spoiler:Exeller will say that the reset of the timeline is not required, as he has the power. The power of souls. To this Alice will ask about [[YouUsedToBeBetterSpeech what happened to him?]] Exeller in response will say something along the lines of that "What happened is that I only got stronger, as I will show you" prompting an fight with her.]]
** EvilOverlord: Straight.
** FlyingBrick: He flies. He is immortal. He has magic abilities. And strength.
** FingerFirearms: Has lethal magic lasers coming out of his fingertips.
** ManipulativeBastard: Part of what he does to his victims, before killing them off, or as he says, "Pushing curtain buttons." for them to go off the rails... [[spoiler:Oddly enough, Tails is quite resistant to this.]]
** PersonOfMassDestruction: Exeller is this, one big massive weapon of Mass Destruction.
** GameOverMan: He will appear during the Continue screens, and if you waste all of your lifes on one section, a cutscene would play where he has killed the character you were controlling, and if you managed to kill them all, the Game Over screen will appear, with the murdered heroes along with the BigBad [[BreakingTheFourthWall looking directly into the screen,]] BigBad also makes an appearence even if he is not really there during the continue screen, as when it reaches zero, a laugh will play during it.
** GameplayAndStorySegregation: In the DLC. Despite having Immortality, Exeller gets a Health Bar. Which, when depleted, gets him killed. It was intended to have an effect on the INSANITY meter if you die this way, and also Exeller will try to warn the player not to test his luck by trying to actively kill him.
** BreakingTheFourthWall: In the Round 1 he seems to trigger this trope a lot, but in the Round 2, he keeps it to an moderation, but then triggers it a lot again in the DLC. Talking directly to the player in his tutorial section.

* OutsideContextProblem: In ''Whisper of Soul'', a number of endings involve the protagonist living to the end, only to get killed (or subjected to [[AndIMustScream worse fates]]) by beings that are not part of the setting's dimension, such as [[spoiler:Knuckles' solo route ending with him getting ''turned into a Chaos Emerald'' by a deranged Sonic that is completely unknown to Exeller and barely understood by his associates]], and Cream [[spoiler:falling into a black void and getting turned [[TakenForGranite into a garden statue]] by Exetior]], and finally, [[spoiler:In the Tails and Sally route, where if you pick Sally to fight the [[RouteBoss RouteBosses.]] Tails appears and out of the blue [[MurderSuicide Kills Sally and then Himself,]] as you are left shocked as to why he did that, it's then revealed, that if you play as Tails instead, he gets [[GoMadFromTheRevelation madded from the revelation]] and comes to the point that he did this already before, and maybe in the next timeline he would get better, so then he goes to Sally...]]

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Alice]] says this to Amy Rose, as a warning of who Sonic [[BigBad actully is.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Sonic R'', Tails Doll is one of the antagonists that serves Eggman to assist him in his global domination. In this game, he serves as a valuable ally to Cream and and her friends. [[spoiler:Expect until things go wrong, and someone out of the main cast dies, he will do a HeelFaceTurn and decide to attack Cream due to the curse he got inflicted by Execun.]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: Rotor, who goes from easy going and bashful [[spoiler:to a downright unreasonable and antagonistic Freedom Fighter (once Execun-Sally rules Freedom City) who has no qualms gunning down two minors and at one point, even threatening to kill Cream in her Solo run. It takes Tails being alive to recognize him, and even then, he was only convinced when Tails cut his hand as proof of being a living being.]]

* AndShowItToYou: In one of Amy's death scenes, Exeller tears her heart out and shows it to her right before shoving it into her head. There is also Knuckles's death scene, where if you make the wrong choice. Will get his heart ripped out of by Exeller, then he shows it on display as he crushes it underneath his fingers.

** CheckPoint: In both games, some levels have this feature, in case you failed a long inducing level, and the game clearly understands that.

** [[spoiler:if you choose to view her past, she will become hellbent on revenge of killing Robotnik after that point, even killing Knuckles and Tails for not cooperating with her, which were her friends, and that she is burning all the bridges just to get to Robotnik. And in the end, becoming a boss fight in her own [[RouteBoss Route]]. In some cases, Exeller will simply kill Amy outright since she's no longer useful for him (i.e. Robotnik has already died before she views her past).]]

* AmbiguousSituation: In the [[spoiler:VS Metal Sonic]] game over sequence: [[spoiler:The group will find Cream's corpse, whenever who actully killed Cream (Amy due to her psychotic state? Or Metal Sonic.) is not revealed. As Amy has hallucinations before the fight even starts. Amy is then seen insane, and standing on the ledge, wanting to jump off.]]
* ActionBasedMission: Once the Main Cast will stop hidding under their skirts in the first part. Then they normally start to retaliate back in the second part.
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bookends BookEnds]]: In the Spirits Of Hell's Best Ending: [[spoiler:It will show young Amy and Cream, looking for Cheese in the forest, then when you boot up the sequel, Amy looks different and much older, and that cutscene from Spirits Of Hell, doesn't happen at all.]]

* BleakLevel: Hope Levels.

** Knuckles The Echidna: A solo guaridan of the Master Emerald that will guard it with his pure strength with his boxing spiked-gloves, that Exeller desperately wants to take control of, Sally also calls him a treasure hunter, which helps in the Best Ending when he is being tasked to locate the generators, although he has his ChronicHeroSyndrome, which means that he will if he has to, drop his own deared life in order to save other people that are dear to him.
** Doctor Ivo.Robotnik/Eggman: A villian genius, that can be compared with Miles's, he carries a gun for self-defense, and he also has his jetpack with him for an escape plan, but he is not that evil in the routes, as when paired with Cream, he will claim that he will not abandon a child, but he will also not a babysitter in the first place, he is also the very reason that [[spoiler:some naive girl has lost her very dear parents...]]
** Amy Rose: A naive girl, that is not so defenseless with her piko-piko hammer, she is also fearless in her Solo route as she falls down on the incoming flying badniks that she hitches a ride on, she is also aged up by using Sally's machine, which made their relationship with each other, end on a bitter tone, [[TemptingFate and you also don't want to know the wrath of a mad girl that has found out who killed her parents...]]
** Cream The Rabbit: A six year old girl, who really does not fit the critiria of a badass, she is polite and kind, and is usually backed up with her Chao friend pet Cheese, which she loses at the start of the sequel, and the main cast has a warm relationship with her, but if she is pushed to a curtain negative point, she can lash out at people via the use of a Chaos Emerald, or a Fire Ring, anger or hatred fuel as you may say, but by the Best Ending, she will have to face the toughest boss she has never ever faced before...And the only determination that will push her through this, is you.
** Sally Acorn: A queen of Mobius that wields an family heirloom gadget that can make a sword physically appear in her hands with other coloured elements to boot, and she can even back kick the BigBad in the face, she is also the one who is calling all the shots, she is in searches for her missing mother at the start of the game, when being interrogated by a highest in the glasses for asking the Queen of Highests for help, she responds that she is doing that to "Save her friends". ([[spoiler:which may also be a white lie, as when she spots them one of them, she will warylingly point her sword at them in case of their attack, which is justfied since she just saw her royal servant Antoine being killed and replaced by Execun, but in the Sally and Cream route, if Cream will try to bring her friends up in hopes of her not killing her, she will turn her into barbeque, but if she brings her family instead, she will be spared, and protected from Amy.exe]]) She is also a very "people" person, as at the start of almost every route, she will mention the word "People." many times than you can count on your fingers, because is her responsibility to take other "People's" lifes in her considiration.

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: If you can overlook some parts of the Spirits Of Hell and it's grammar, then it's a pretty solid .exe game, that can even compete with Nightmare Universe.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: [[spoiler:In the Cream Solo, Cream dashes through an window, breaking it with her speed and weight, she gets no major injuries or embeded glass stuck inside her, same thing happens to Tails in the Tails and Sally Route, but he gets thrown through the window by Knuckles, and finally in the Best Ending, Tails Doll with Cream get launched through the window, while desperately trying to escape Exebark, nothing happens to them again. Then in the Crazy Amy Route: At the end of the chase, Cream claims to have hurt her leg from falling really high, then after she deals with Amy, she proceeds to walk it off, by walking away with Eggman.]]