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* {{Main/Irony}}: Ruby is the fastest runner of the sisters, despite having a leg brace and walking with a noticeable limp.
** Many of Ginger's quotes have her talk about wanting to hide from others, while at the same time never having others hide from her. [[spoiler: The only way to activate Ginger's Wolf scene is to turn Ginger so she's facing away from the Girl in Red Wolf, allowing the [=GiRW=] to approach her from behind.]]
** Many of Ginger's quotes have her talk about wanting to hide from others, while at the same time never having others hide from her. [[spoiler: The only way to activate Ginger's Wolf scene is to turn Ginger so she's facing away from the Girl in Red Wolf, allowing the [=GiRW=] to approach her from behind.]]
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If you wish to get the full experience out of the game, stop reading now and play it for yourself. Most of the fun is in not knowing what comes next. It first came out in 2009 on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], and you can buy it [[https://taleoftales.itch.io/the-path here]]. The game is also available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/27000/ here]].
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If you wish to get the full experience out of the game, stop reading now and play it for yourself. Most of the fun is in not knowing what comes next. It first came out in 2009 on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], and you can buy it [[https://taleoftales.itch.io/the-path here]]. The game is also available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/27000/ here]].
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* LevelMapDisplay: The game will show the player's trail every 100 meters.
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* LevelMapDisplay: The game will show the player's trail every 100 meters. Additionally, the player can bring up the map at-will by visiting grandmother's house three times.
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* LevelMapDisplay: The game will show the player's trail every 100 meters.
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* VideoGameGeography: The forest uses a wrap around mechanic, although backgracking on the path and running past Grandmother's house has some special handling.
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* VideoGameGeography: The forest uses a wrap around mechanic, although backgracking mechanic. In case of backtracking on the path and running past Grandmother's house has some special handling.path, it's an endless loop with a quick return.
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trope is renamed Prefers Going Barefoot. Dewicking old name
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%%* DoesNotLikeShoes: Ginger.
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* CameraScrew: Normally, the camera follows you from behind, but at certain parts in the forest, the camera will jump to a fixed point, changing the controls from "forward is where the camera faces" to "forward is where the girl is facing". Also, when you run for a few seconds, the camera pans back, giving you a limited view of what's ahead.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The entire family is quite messed up when you look right past the surface. Grandmother's a disabled shell of a women, too ill to get out of bed or move, [[spoiler:and potentially an alcoholic as each sister brings her a new bottle of wine.]] Their Mother is almost never home, leaving a barely adult Scarlet to take care of herself and five sisters. Scarlet's overworked and isolated from her peers, giving up her life too look after her sisters, [[spoiler:she's on the brink of a mental break and attempting suicide, wanting nothing more than to escape her family to become a musician.]] Carmen's a self obsessed teenager with an inferority complex who wants nothing more than to be in a relationship [[spoiler:and is willing to change or do anything to have someone love her, whether its violent sex or becoming a completely different person for her lover.]] Ruby's a disabled mentally ill teenager willing to [[spoiler:do drugs, harm herself and commit crimes if it makes her friends like her]]. Ginger's a loner rebel [[spoiler:always preparing to run away from getting hurt, rejecting femininity and growing up as much as she can despite her oncoming puberty, and is a heavily closted lesbian/trans person]]. Rose is nearly always in her own world, so disconnected that she invented her own worldview where everything is either good or bad, and expects that her life will turn out just like Scarlet's. Robin is extremely sheltered, unaware of any sort of danger but [[spoiler:incredibly aware of her families financial situation, and doesn't understand how close her grandmother is to death.]]
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The entire family is quite messed up when you look right pass the surface. Grandmother's a disabled shell of a women, too ill to get out of bed or move, [[spoiler:and potentially an alcoholic as each sister brings her a new bottle of wine.]] Their Mother is almost never home, leaving a barely adult Scarlet to take care of herself and five sisters. Scarlet's overworked and isolated from her peers, giving up her life too look after her sisters, [[spoiler:she's on the brink of a mental break and attempting suicide, wanting nothing more than to escape her family to become a musician.]] Carmen's a self obsessed teenager with an inferority complex who wants nothing more than to be in a relationship [[spoiler:and is willing to change or do anything to have someone love her, whether its violent sex or becoming a completely different person for her lover.]] Ruby's a disabled mentally ill teenager willing to [[spoiler:do drugs, harm herself and commit crimes if it makes her friends like her]]. Ginger's a loner rebel [[spoiler:always preparing to run away from getting hurt, rejecting femininity and growing up as much as she can despite her oncoming puberty, and is a heavily closted lesbian/trans person]]. Rose is nearly always in her own world, so disconnected that she invented her own worldview where everything is either good or bad, and expects that her life will turn out just like Scarlet's. Robin is extremely sheltered, unaware of any sort of danger but [[spoiler:incredibly aware of her families financial situation, and doesn't understand how close her grandmother is to death.]]
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The entire family is quite messed up when you look right pass past the surface. Grandmother's a disabled shell of a women, too ill to get out of bed or move, [[spoiler:and potentially an alcoholic as each sister brings her a new bottle of wine.]] Their Mother is almost never home, leaving a barely adult Scarlet to take care of herself and five sisters. Scarlet's overworked and isolated from her peers, giving up her life too look after her sisters, [[spoiler:she's on the brink of a mental break and attempting suicide, wanting nothing more than to escape her family to become a musician.]] Carmen's a self obsessed teenager with an inferority complex who wants nothing more than to be in a relationship [[spoiler:and is willing to change or do anything to have someone love her, whether its violent sex or becoming a completely different person for her lover.]] Ruby's a disabled mentally ill teenager willing to [[spoiler:do drugs, harm herself and commit crimes if it makes her friends like her]]. Ginger's a loner rebel [[spoiler:always preparing to run away from getting hurt, rejecting femininity and growing up as much as she can despite her oncoming puberty, and is a heavily closted lesbian/trans person]]. Rose is nearly always in her own world, so disconnected that she invented her own worldview where everything is either good or bad, and expects that her life will turn out just like Scarlet's. Robin is extremely sheltered, unaware of any sort of danger but [[spoiler:incredibly aware of her families financial situation, and doesn't understand how close her grandmother is to death.]]
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* BadassLongcoat: [[spoiler:Scarlet's wolf]].
* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Carmen's wolf]].
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Ginger.
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* SexyWalk: Carmen tries to pull it off.
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* SupermodelStrut: Carmen's slowest walking animation is a strut that has her swaying her hips, to illustrate her as a vain ProudBeauty. Even her in-game character description mentions that she likes to walk with a "shake of the hips" to attract guys.
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* ViolationOfCommonSense: The only way to proceed in the game is to do the opposite of what the game first tells you to do.
** Even then, with all the warnings that you can only complete the game by straying from the path, if you stay on the path and do what you're told multiple times, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures you can access to the map whenever you want so you don't get lost.]] The game is a master of mixed messages.
** Even then, with all the warnings that you can only complete the game by straying from the path, if you stay on the path and do what you're told multiple times, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures you can access to the map whenever you want so you don't get lost.]] The game is a master of mixed messages.
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* ViolationOfCommonSense: The only way to proceed in the game is to do the opposite of what the game first tells you to do.
**do. Even then, with all the warnings that you can only complete the game by straying from the path, if you stay on the path and do what you're told multiple times, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures you can access to the map whenever you want so you don't get lost.]] The game is a master of mixed messages.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Rose tries to be this.
* WolfMan / OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Robin's wolf.]]
* WoobieFamily: The entire game shows this.
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* WolfMan / OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Robin's wolf.]]
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The entire family is quite messed up when you look right pass the surface. Grandmother's a disabled shell of a women, too ill to get out of bed or move, [[spoiler:and potentially an alcoholic as each sister brings her a new bottle of wine.]] Their Mother is almost never home, leaving a barely adult Scarlet to take care of herself and five sisters. Scarlet's overworked and isolated from her peers, giving up her life too look after her sisters [[spoiler:she's on the brink of a mental break and attempting suicide, wanting nothing more than to escape her family to become a musician.]] Carmen's a self obsessed teenager with an inferority complex who wants nothing more than to be in a relationship [[spoiler:and is willing to change or do anything to have someone love her, whether its violent sex or becoming a completely different person for her lover.]] Ruby's a disabled mentally ill teenager willing to [[spoiler:do drugs, harm herself and commit crimes if it makes her friends like her]]. Ginger's a loner rebel [[spoiler:always preparing to run away from getting hurt, rejecting femininity and growing up as much as she can despite her oncoming puberty, and is a heavily closted lesbian/trans person]]. Rose is nearly always in her own world, so disconnected that she invented her own worldview where everything is either good or bad, and expects that her life will turn out just like Scarlet's. Robin is extremely sheltered, unaware of any sort of danger but [[spoiler:incredibly aware of her families financial situation, and doesn't understand how close her grandmother is to death.]]
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* NoodleIncident: The siblings refer to some 'party' that happened during their livejournal, but it's never elaborated on again.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Ginger is a tomboy who expresses no interest in guys. [[spoiler:Her wolf encounter is her and another girl chasing each other before happily laying in a field of flowers together, leading to speculation that her story is an LGBTAwakening.]]
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* PlayfulPursuit: Ginger and her wolf chase each other through the field of flowers, laughing. It can be read as either friendly or romantic.
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* ColourfulThemeNaming: The names of all six girls are associated with the color red, and in fact, "Red" can be used as a surname for all of them to create a small color-themed pun: Robin Red(breast), Ginger Red, Rose Red, Ruby Red, Carmen (Carmine) Red, and Scarlet Red.
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