History VideoGame / WitchsHeart

[[caption-width-right:350: '''Clockwise from top left:''' [[TheStoic Wilardo Adler]], [[GeniusSweetTooth Ashe Bradley]], [[BunniesForCuteness Charlotte]], [[CatSmile Lime]], [[TheAlcoholic ????]], [[MellowFellow Zizel]], [[GenkiGirl Claire Elford]], [[GentleGiant Noel Levine]], [[{{Tsundere}} Sirius Gibson]].]]

Witch's Heart is an adventure game by IZ (BLUE STAR Entertainment) made in RPG Maker 2000. It's a story-focused game with some light action, horror and puzzle elements. While it stars a heroine and four of her co-residents who each have a route of their own, it's very far from [[OtomeGame romance-focus]], and for what reason you may find out quite soon...

* {{Dehumanization}}: [[spoiler:Lime (when she was human) and the other "witches," girls who are [[FantasticRacism treated as lower-class slaves]] and are forced to bear the brunt of everyone else's abuse. Not to mention they're imprisoned until they reach a certain age, in which they are burned at the stake in a public execution.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: '''Clockwise from top left''': [[TheStoic Wilardo Adler]], [[GeniusSweetTooth Ashe Bradley]], [[BunniesForCuteness Charlotte]], [[CatSmile Lime]], [[TheAlcoholic ????]], [[MellowFellow Zizel]], [[GenkiGirl Claire Elford]], [[GentleGiant Noel Levine]], [[{{Tsundere}} Sirius Gibson]].]]

-> ''"Do you have... a '''wish''' you'd be willing to '''kill''' for?"''

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Occurs very often. The whole game shifts perspective from a character to another frequently, in order to tell it's story. Every time this happens, a screen with a heart and "Side *character*" (ie, Side Claire, Side Ashe, Side Wilardo) appears.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: [[spoiler: The childhood trio of Noel, Sirius and Claire could be seen as such.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Making a wish through the demonic contract causes the contractor to [[spoiler: lose the body part connected to their contract.]]
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Claire]] at the end of the bonus stage.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The ax mounted on the wall of Claire's room sure comes in handy when Sirius needs to defend himself on the Bad End.]]

** Turns out Sirius [[spoiler: has Dorothy's smoke bombs]], or at least found out how to [[spoiler: make said bombs himself]].

* DealWithTheDevil: Demonic contracts, namely [[spoiler: Dorothy and Rouge, Fiona and Charlotte, and Claire and Zizel.]]

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Ashe in the Bad End]], and [[spoiler: Sirius]] in [[spoiler: his own route.]]
* DownerEnding: Every scenario in the vanilla game and Bonus Stage ends up with [[spoiler: Claire dying. Sirius dies in all but one of these scenarios as well]]. It's [[spoiler: finally subverted in Sirius' Conclusion, which is a BittersweetEnding instead.]]

** in Ashe's route after [[spoiler:Sirius is found dead]], Wilardo told Claire not to trust Ashe. [[spoiler: He had every reason to do so]], as Bonus Stage revealed [[spoiler: he saw Ashe lockpicking the mansion in the very beggining of the story.]]
** Near the end of Wilardo's route, one can see a silhouette of [[spoiler: Lime putting the contract on table in the secret room [[FreezeFrameBonus for a brief second]]]]. [[spoiler: [[DragonInChief She has and hides the contract that Claire was searching for all along.]]]]

** In Sirius's route day 3, Wilardo came out of Noel's bedroom. [[spoiler: He finds the contract earlier, and kills Sirius to find more information in his room, making him the culprit of the story.]]
** Also in Sirius' route when playing as Noel, [[spoiler:he can interact with [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Zizel]]]] in the dining room. The information that Noel can [[spoiler:see things others can't]] is only given in the next and last route - Noel's route.
** In Noel's route after Claire had a dream about Patricia, Ashe wakes her up and mention that her door wasn't even locked. [[spoiler: This foreshadows his ability to lockpick, which he use to open the door and kill Claire at the end of the route.]]
** In Noel's route, [[spoiler: after Ashe and Sirius get brutally murdered]], Noel starts acting coldly towards Wilardo, accusing him of having something to do with the situation. Wilardo laughs it off, saying that he feels something's wrong and [[spoiler: even though only Noel, Claire and himself are left]] he can't suspect anyone. [[spoiler:He was, of course, right on the money: Ashe killed Sirius and used his corpse to crate the impression two murders had happened. Claire, Wilardo and Noel were ''all'' innocent]].

*** Ashe will also throw it away most of the time, but has a [[RandomEvent very low chance]] of drinking ''without'' healing. [[spoiler: He has a DrowningMySorrows issue.]]

** If you approach the distorted "Dearest Maria" painting with Invective in your party (which is only possible during Wilardo's route), she'll declare her disgust for the thing. [[spoiler: She's the Maria depicted in the painting.]]
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler: Sirius, Claire, and Noel were childhood friends, however, Claire had an accident that gave her amnesia, and Noel used to go by the name of Patricia. Sirius does actually recognize Claire, but knows about the accident and thus pretends not to.]]
** Lime [[spoiler: was the one who tipped Ashe off about the Witch's Heart, but he doesn't seem to remember her when he meets her again during Bonus Stage]]. She was [[spoiler: partly disguised]] during that, though.
* FramingDevice: In the opening, we're told about different stories that revolve around the titular Witch's Heart, all of them fictional in-universe.

* FourIsDeath: The first part of the game consists of four scenarios. [[spoiler: Claire and Sirius die in every scenario.]]

* GiveHerANormalLife: [[spoiler: Dorothy use Fiona's Witch's Heart to erase Claire's memories in hope that she will live a happy life.]]
* GreyAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler: Nearly everyone in the game.]]
* GhostStory: In Ashe's route, he proposes that everybody find a scary story to tell under the full moon, to pass the time. It was all fun and game until Ashe tells his story of choice, which for a reason pisses Sirius off hard time...

** [[spoiler: Sirius and Claire were separately adopted by Dorothy in their childhood.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, Wilardo was once a stray child adopted by a kindly old man. Said old man was immortal and tricked Wilardo in order to pass down his immortality to him.]]
* IdiotHair: Ashe, Wilardo, and Noel. This leads to a subtle RunningGag that if you have none like Claire and Sirius, [[spoiler:you're surely doomed]], and the more you have (like Noel's twin ahoge), [[spoiler:you live long but suffer]].

--> [[spoiler:'''Ashe''': ''"These lumps of charcoal, that I couldn't even distinguish between... I was unable to accept the fact that they were once my family. This is all a bad dream. As if, as if this could happen?"'']]
--> [[spoiler:'''Ashe''' :''"It was all put into coffins, and everything ended. Or rather... it became "over". Unable to keep up, my heart was left behind as reality moved on. […] ...This, all of this, isn't real. No longer could I believe the things I saw."'']]
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler: Noel feels responsible for the incident his father caused in the mansion 12 years ago]]. Also [[spoiler: Ashe, who blamed himself for his family's death after his friend burned his house down]].

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: [[spoiler: Because of his FriendlessBackground and his father's abuse, Noel became very attached to Claire in their childhood. This caused him to value the time spent with her even more leading to him setting up the GroundhogDayLoop so he could stay with Claire and prevent her death.]]
* MacGuffinTitle: Witch's Heart is the legendary wish-granting treasure, as well as the main motivation for the characters in the story. [[spoiler: It can also refer to Claire's heart, (who is the grandaughter of the Witch Dorothy) where the MacGuffin itself resides.]]

* OffWithHisHead : [[spoiler: Ashe's little stunt during Noel's route.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Most of the human-esque demons [[OlderThanTheyLook are at least 100 years old]]. Also the case for [[spoiler: Wilardo, who has lived for more than 500 years and his gramps, over a thousand years.]]

* SomethingWeForgot: In Sirius' Conclusion, Wilardo has to remind Noel [[spoiler: Ashe was LockedUpAndLeftBehind in Sirius' room and will die if the mansion collapses with him still inside]].
* TheBlackDeath: Heavily implied to be the disease that killed [[spoiler: Charlotte, when she was still human]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Lime asks [[spoiler: Charlotte]] how she died during the [[spoiler:"Fate of the unfortunate girl" side story, Charlotte delivers a pretty hefty one on Lime's attempts to empathize with the other hater demons.]] She also does it [[spoiler: during the Bonus Stage, towards Claire about how she continues to die due to her excessive need to trust and see the good in people.]]
** In Bonus Stage, Sirius ''explodes'' at [[spoiler: Ashe and Wilardo]] for trying to gain happiness by creating misery: for him, that just makes the joy obtained empty and pointless.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Excluding the demons' appearances, Claire is the only girl residing in the mansion. Claire even lampshades it when she meets Zizel the first time.

--> [[spoiler:'''Wilardo''': "...I'll have my gun back."]]
--> '''Lime''': Hand over your life to me, I'll live it big and bold instead.
--> [[spoiler: '''Ashe''']]: Now... Everyone can come back.
--> '''Lime''': I miiiight have [[spoiler: erased the word "positive" from the contract I showed Ashe, though...]]

** Ashe uses a knife, or [[spoiler: [[DeadlyDoctor scaples coated with poison.]]]]
** Wilardo has his gun, and [[spoiler: a knife he used to take the Witch's Heart from Claire if he's the culprit.]]
** Sirius uses amulets, which only affect the monsters in a considerable amount (unless you level him up), [[spoiler: but he can also harm [[BigBad Lime.]]]]
** Noel uses a knife, too. [[spoiler: Or, he can just pass through since he's on the demon's side.]]
** Charlotte use a [[ShearMenace scissor]] [[spoiler: despite being an ex-soldier.]]
** Lime [[spoiler: likes PlayingWithFire. It's also [[BurnTheWitch what killed her as a human.]]]]

--> [[EndingTheme Take me back to that time, please,\\

And never, never will I let go...]]

--> [[VideoGame/WitchsHeart Never, never can I forget...]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Some of the characters has their own ways to deal with monsters or fights in the mansion:

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Many characters have strange hair colors.

--> ''"Do you have... a '''wish''' you'd be willing to '''kill''' for?"''

Witch's Heart is an adventure game by IZ (BLUE STAR Entertainment) made in RPG Maker 2000. It's a story-focused game with some light action, horror and puzzle elements. While it stars a heroine and four of her co-residents who each have a route of their own, it’s very far from [[OtomeGame romance-focus]], and for what reason you may find out quite soon...

* ButThouMust: You must get the [[NonStandardGameOver Common Bad End]] in order to advance to Sirius’ route. Sure, you still get to choose not to break Sirius’ rule while replaying that scene, but you won’t go any further than that.

** Claire was abandoned at the forest without any memory about her true parents. [[spoiler:It’s actually ''worse'' than that - her mother was executed in the witch hunt, her best friend suddenly disappeared, then she herself fell off a cliff and her grandmother died afterwards, being blamed as a heinous witch. Thanks to Noel’s time-looping however, [[SubvertedTrope she’s by far the sanest and most normal of the entire cast.]]]]

** Noel [[spoiler:was abused by his own father and then cursed to become a demon. He is doomed to be trapped in the mansion forever while witnessing the death of everyone, especially [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Claire]], all because of the Witch’s Heart, without being able to do a thing. After all the time-looping, he’s dying, and in Sirius’ Conclusion he’s even [[HeelRealization stricken with a morality crisis]] concerning the similarities between him and Ashe.]]

** Remember the pink chest in the corner Lime's room that you cannot open no matter what? [[spoiler:Lime hides the contract in there, as we found out in Sirius’ Conclusion.]]

** Also in Sirius' route when playing as Noel, [[spoiler:he can interact with [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Zizel]]]] in the dining room. The information that Noel can [[spoiler:see things others can’t]] is only given in the next and last route - Noel's route.

* IdiotHair: Ashe, Wilardo, and Noel. This leads to a subtle RunningGag that if you have none like Claire and Sirius, [[spoiler:you’re surely doomed]], and the more you have (like Noel's twin ahoge), [[spoiler:you live long but suffer]].

--> [[spoiler:'''Ashe''' :''"It was all put into coffins, and everything ended. Or rather... it became “over”. Unable to keep up, my heart was left behind as reality moved on. […] ...This, all of this, isn't real. No longer could I believe the things I saw."'']]

--> '''Claire:''' ''”Wheww! There’s a girl beside me! I was feeling awkward with all these guys.”''

--> "Do you have... a '''wish''' you'd be willing to '''kill''' for?"

Witch's Heart is an adventure game by IZ (BLUE STAR Entertainment) made in RPG Maker 2000. It's a story-focused game with some light action and OtomeGame elements, as it stars a heroine and four love interests who each have a route of their own.

** Claire was abandoned at the forest without any memory about her true parents. [[spoiler:It’s actually ''worse'' than that - her mother was executed in the witch hunt, her best friend suddenly disappeared, then she herself fell off a cliff and her grandmother died afterwards, being blamed as a heinous witch.]]
** Ashe's [[spoiler:family died in a fire caused by his supposedly best friend Matty, taking everything away from him. His mindset has never been healthy since then, Lime told him about "witches" to boost, and he transformed into a murderous, heartless monster.]]
** Wilardo [[spoiler:was tricked by the gramp who took him in as an orphan to pick the Dark Lily that made him an immortal in his place. Wandering aimlessly for centuries, his life has become meaningless to the point all he wishes for is death.]]
** Sirius [[spoiler:lost his parents in the witch hunt, later forced to witness Dorothy's death and the nightmarish massacre, but no one ever listened to him since he was too young. He secluded himself for a straight 12 years out of distrust of people.]]
** Noel [[spoiler:was abused by his own father and then cursed to become a demon. He is doomed to be trapped in the mansion forever while witnessing the death of everyone, especially [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Claire]], all because of the Witch’s Heart, without being able to do a thing.]]

* GhostStory: In Ashe's route, he proposes that everybody find a scary story to tell under the full moon, to pass the time. It was fun until Ashe tells his story of choice.

* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction

** If you approach the distorted "Dearest Maria" with Invective in your party (which is only possible during Wilardo's route), she'll declare her disgust for the thing. [[spoiler: She's the Maria depicted in the painting.]]

Witch's Heart is an adventure game by IZ (BLUE STAR Entertainment) made in RPG Maker 2000. It's a story-focused game with some light action elements.

She then finds a mansion deep in the woods and ran into Ashe Bradley and Wilardo Adler, who are also caught in the rain. While exploring, the three find monsters roaming about in the hallway, as well as [[ClosedCircle no way out of the mansion]]. They also met two other people, Noel Levine and Sirius Gibson, and the five decided to work together to figured a way out.

Just as things got even more confusing, Claire finds out that she's in a [[DealWithTheDevil Demonic Pact]] with a demon named Zizel. And that the legendary wish-granting treasure, the Witch's Heart, is hidden somewhere in the mansion.

Currently, it is comprised of 4 main scenarios, which are about 3 hours each, a "Bonus Stage", and Sirius' route conclusion.

* AssholeVictim: The player may see [[spoiler:Ashe]] as this during the [[spoiler:bad end]], especially if they have completed all four scenarios.
** No one would argue [[spoiler: mayor Nicholas Levine]]'s spot in this trope, though.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Occurs very often. The whole game shifts perspective from a character to another frequently, in order to tell it's story.
--> Side *character*.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad:
--> "Demons love negativity not positivity. Because they're contrary."

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Ashe, Ashe, ''Ashe.'' See ChronicBackstabbingDisorder below.]]
** This is also the case for [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard Lime]], who drove the characters to the mansion in the first place.]]
** Bonus Stage adds [[spoiler: Matty, one of Ashe's best friends and the covert arsonist who burned Ashe's family to death]] to the mix.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: The tragedy 12 years ago.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Ashe. Pretty much every scenario begins with him having a friendly and trustworthy personality, only to end up as one of the biggest threats to Claire's life. Yet this is somewhat justified, as he has lost most of his trust and faith in others when his friend turns on him by ''killing his family''.]]

* {{Dehumanization}}: [[spoiler: Lime (when she was human) and the other "witches," girls who are [[FantasticRacism treated as lower-class slaves]] and are forced to bear the brunt of everyone else's abuse. Not to mention they're imprisoned until they reach a certain age, in which they are burned at the stake in a public execution.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Invective possessing Claire during Wilardo's route.]]
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler: The Hater demons used to be humans who died while having a grudge againts humanity. The stronger the grudge, the more they can retain their human form.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: All the male characters are this in varying degrees.
** Sirius is motivated by his loyalty to Lady Dorothy and extreme distrust of people.
** Wilardo [[spoiler: wants the Witch's Heart so he can be rid of his curse of immortality.]]
** Ashe [[spoiler: wants the Witch's Heart in order to revive his deceased family, especially his little sister.]]
** Noel [[spoiler: is keeping everyone trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop to protect Claire and prevent her death.]]
* WasOnceAMan: The demon girls (Except Zizel and [[spoiler:Rouge]]) were human at one point before dying.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Demons are weak to sunlight and fantasy spaces are more likely to appear during the night for the same reason. [[spoiler:Noel sleeps through the day...]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The reason [[spoiler:Wilardo]] is searching for the Witch's Heart. And [[spoiler:his gramps who tricked him into picking the Dark Lily and getting cursed in first place]], too.

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Ashe]] at the end of Noel's route to [[facade the murder]].

* MultipleEndings: The game currently has one bad ending, four endings to each of the scenarios, a bonus scenario, and Sirius' route conclusion. The other final endings will be added later as well. Each ending gives the player more information about the characters and the circumstances of the situation they are stuck in, while Sirius' conclusion gives us one possible ending for all the stories revolve around Witch's Heart.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Most of the human-esque demons [[OlderThanTheyLook are at least 100 years old]]. Also the case for [[spoiler: Wilardo, who have lived for more than 500 years.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Lime asks [[spoiler: Charlotte]] how she died during the [[spoiler:"Fate of the unfortunate girl" side story, Charlotte delivers a pretty hefty one on Lime's attempts to empathize with the other hater demons.]] She also does it [[spoiler: during the bonus stage, towards Claire about how she continues to die due to her excessive need to trust and see the good in people.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The reason [[spoiler:Wilardo]] is searching for the Witch's Heart.

* DysfunctionJunction: Our five main characters have their own tragic backstory.
** Claire [[spoiler:was abandoned at the forest without any memory about her true parents. It’s actually ''worse'' than that - her mother was executed in the witch hunt, her best friend suddenly disappeared, then she herself fell off a cliff and her grandmother died afterwards, being blamed as a heinous witch.]]
** Ashe's [[spoiler:family died in a fire caused by his supposedly best friend, taking everything from him. His mindset has never been healthy since then, and he transformed into a murderous, heartless monster.]]
** Wilardo [[spoiler:was tricked by the gramp who took him in as an orphan to pick the Dark Lily that made him an immortal in gramp's place. Wandering aimlessly for years, his life has become meaningless to the point all he wants is death.]]
** Sirius [[spoiler:lost his parents in the witch hunt, later had to witness Dorothy's death and the nightmarish massacre, but no one believed him since he was too young. He secluded himself for 12 years out of distrust of people.]]
** Noel [[spoiler:was abused by his own father and then cursed to become a demon. He can never escape from the mansion while witnessing everyone's death without being able to do anything.]]

* FictionalEarth: the map of the world shown in one of the books is the map of Europe mirrored and flipped upside down.

** in Ashe's route after [[spoiler: Sirius is found dead]], Wilardo told Claire not to trust Ashe. [[spoiler: He had every reason to do so]], as Bonus Stage revealed [[spoiler: he saw Ashe lockpicking the mansion in the very beggining of the story.]]
** Near the end of Wilardo's route, one can see a silhouette of [[spoiler: Lime putting the contract on table in the secret room [[FreezeFrameBonus for a brief second]]]]. [[spoiler: [[DragonInChief she has and hides the contract that Claire was searching for all along.]]]]

** Also in Sirius' route when playing as Noel, [[spoiler: he can interact with Zizel]] in the dining room.

** In Noel's route, [[spoiler: after Ashe and Sirius get brutally murdered]], Noel starts acting coldly towards Wilardo, accusing him of having something to do with the situation. Wilardo laughs it off, saying that he feels something's wrong and [[spoiler: even though only Noel, Claire and himself are left]] he can't suspect anyone. [[spoiler: He was, of course, right on the money: Ashe killed Sirius and used his corpse to crate the impression two murders had happened. Claire, Wilardo and Noel were ''all'' innocent]].

* GhostStory: In Ashe's route, he proposes that everybody find a scary story to tell under the full moon, to pass the time.

* IdiotHair: Ashe, Wilardo and Noel.
* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Ashe]] at the end of Noel's route.

* KillerRabbit: Charlotte.

* NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler: If you trade rooms for the night with Ashe, he will tell you he wants to research the place, for it is the most likely room of the witch Dorothy, whom he says he's there to study. As soon as you go to bed you hear an argument that very quickly escalates to attempted murder. Claire will wake up with Wilardo, concerned, at the door. She goes outside Ashe's room and finds a trail of blood leading to her own. Wilardo shoots the door's lock open and they find Ashe dead inside. When Claire goes to Sirius's room she finds him completely horrified, bloody and with the also bloody ax sitting beside him. It is clear he has gone off the deep end and ends up killing Claire as well.]]

* PreciousPhoto: Ashe carries one around.[[spoiler: It's of him with his deceased family.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Claire's]] eyes turn red when [[spoiler:possessed by Invective.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong :[[spoiler: Noel, endlessly repeating the events of each route to try and prevent Claire's death.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Lime asks [[spoiler: Charlotte]] how she died during the [[spoiler: Fate of the unfortunate girl side story, Charlotte delivers a pretty hefty one on Lime's attempts to empathize with the other hater demons.]] She also does it [[spoiler: during the bonus stage, towards Claire about how she continues to die due to her excessive need to trust and see the good in people.]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Excluding the demons' appearances, Claire is the only girl residing in the mansion. [[spoiler: Subverted during the bonus stage, in which all four demon girls join Claire in the mansion as "travelers".]]

* ArtifactTitle: Witch's Heart is the legendary wish-granting treasure, as well as the main motivation for the characters in the story. [[spoiler: It can also refer to Claire's heart, (who is the grandaughter of the Witch Dorothy) where the artifact itself resides.]]

* SomethingWeForgot: In Sirius' Conclusion, Wilardo has to remind Noel [[spoiler: Ashe was LockedUpandLeftBehind in Sirius' room and will die if the mansion collapses with him still inside]].

** Sirius is motivated by his loyalty to Lady Dorothy.

** In Noel's route, [[spoiler: after Ashe and Sirius get brutally murdered]], Noel starts acting coldly towards Wilardo, accusing him of having something to do with the situation. Wilardo laughs it off, saying that he feels something's wrong and [[even though only Noel, Claire and himself are left]] he can't suspect anyone. [[spoiler: He was, of course, right on the money: Ashe killed Sirius and used his corpse to crate the impression two murders had happened. Claire, Wilardo and Noel were ''all'' innocent]].

** Turns out Sirius [[has Dorothy's smoke bombs]], or at least found out how to [[make said bombs himself]].