History VisualNovel / FatalHearts

* MultipleEndings: Christina can end up [[spoiler: killed by the vampire cultists in an ambush, killing the vampire cult and herself, becoming vampires together with Jeremy as they make the world a better place (maybe) from behind the scenes, going through the ceremony to become the vampire Bastian's eternal bride, fleeing town with Lucy on a bus, trying to confront the cult on her own and getting sacrificed, screw up trying to bring peace and getting Randy and Bastian locked in combat, getting the help of both Randy and Lucy to bring Katie to Bastian and thus making it unnecessary for Bastian to pursue Christina, abandoning Lucy and Bastian to die in a burning mansion, fleeing Lucy's parents' mansion with Lucy in Lucy's car (this is the optional lesbian ending), approaching Bastian as an equal and bringing peace between vampires and werewolves through her persuasive skills, going to the police for help with Elizabeth, killing Bastian the vampire by pretending to accept his love and then killing him upon getting close, or getting killed by Tim (in Tim's defense this happens by accident as he tries to impale Bastian with a spear but Christina got caught between them)]].

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[[caption-width:530: Fatal Hearts]]
Fatal Hearts is a visual novel from Creator/HanakoGames, an independent American group of small time game makers.

Fatal Hearts is a heartrendingly sad and romantic coming of age story about Christina, a bored teenager wasting her summer with her friend Lucy. When young women begin to turn up murdered in abandoned areas, and Christina happens across one of them, her life is changed forever as she is drawn into a strange world of vampire cults and werewolf clans. If the player makes the right choices, Christina can pair up with (almost) anyone, but if you play your hand wrong, you might just be killed by your former allies.

Fatal Hearts is a visual novel from [[http://www.hanakogames.com Hanako Games]], an independent American group of small time game makers.

* JapaneseVampire: Sebastien

* [[OutOfFocus Out of Focus]]/[[ADayInTheLimelight A Day in the Limelight]]: If you take a "vampire" route, Elizabeth practically disappears from the plot, except for one ending where you can call the police with her (Elizabeth is even ''murdered'' if you take a route that requires you to stay over at Lucy's house). This is in direct contrast to how important Elizabeth is if you take a "werewolf" route, including the fact that [[spoiler: Elizabeth is indirectly responsible for Randy and Bastien killing each other in the Pyrrhus ending, since on Tim and Randy's orders she uses her enhanced werewolf strength to ''hold you against your front door'' so you can't stop the werewolves' battle with Bastien.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Randy's little sister, Katie.]]

* [[OutOfFocus Out of Focus]]/[[ADayInTheLimelight A Day in the Limelight]]: If you take a "vampire" route, Elizabeth practically disappears from the plot, except for one ending where you can call the police with her. This is in direct contrast to how important Elizabeth is if you take a "werewolf" route, including the fact that [[spoiler: Elizabeth is indirectly responsible for Randy and Bastien killing each other in the Pyrrhus ending, since on Tim and Randy's orders she uses her enhanced werewolf strength to ''hold you against your front door'' so you can't stop the werewolves' battle with Bastien.]]

* ArrangedMarriage: But played much less seriously than the usual examples of this trope. Early on, Lucy's parents try to set her up with a really rich guy. It doesn't go as planned since the really rich guy also happens to be ''nice'', so he turns it down for Lucy's sake. You learn all this after the fact when Lucy explains why she was grounded last night.

* ChekhovsGunman: This is a bit of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it example. There's a character that's brought up in a casual conversation who turns out to be much more important than she sounds, given that the context in which she is brought up is simply Christina getting to know someone else. That's because [[spoiler: Randy's little sister, Katie, has the second-most number of "Kirsten pieces", with Christina having the most. If the player wants to reunite Bastien with his loved one but doesn't want pair him up with Christina, the player has the option of bringing Katie to Bastien instead, which will satisfy him.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Either Jeremy or Randy will try to warn you that Lucy is either going to do something nasty to you out of spite for not achieving her dream (Jeremy's idea) or that Lucy is mixed up in the bad things going on in town (Randy's idea). This is a red herring; Jeremy is telling you this as part of a scheme, and Randy is simply mistaken. Lucy is a good girl...however, her ''parents'' are a different story altogether, and Lucy ends up unwillingly roped into the shenanigans when her parents abuse their parental authority to make Lucy go along with the cult.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Either Jeremy or Randy will try to warn you that Lucy is either going to do something nasty to you out of spite for not achieving her dream (Jeremy's idea) or that Lucy is mixed up in the bad things going on in town. This is a red herring; Jeremy is telling you this as part of a scheme, and Randy is simply mistaken. Lucy is a good girl...however, her ''parents'' are a different story altogether, and Lucy ends up unwillingly roped into the shenanigans when her parents abuse their parental authority to make Lucy go along with the cult.]]

** He's neither a vampire nor a werewolf, but he doesn't quite count as normal...

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Jeremy was born to a family that was not only poor, but extremely uneducated, so not only would they not provide Jeremy with books, they couldn't possibly understand why Jeremy would ''want'' books. Needless to say Jeremy got out of there as fast as he could when he grew up, but it's Jeremy's main motivation both for all of his beliefs/philosophy and for what happens in his ending, in which he and Christina become lovers and manipulate the world from behind the scenes for the greater good.]]
** [[spoiler: Bastian is another example; he used to be a human named Sebastien, and Sebastien used to think vampires were evil. He even killed a vampire named Tarrenta and cut out her heart because of that (and because Tarrenta was trying to steal him away from Kirsten), sealing it in a cave...but then his lover Kirsten died, and Sebastien felt he was powerless to defeat the bandits responsible unless he used the heart of Tarrenta to become a powerful vampire himself.]]

* [[spoiler: Reincarnation: A complicated example, and you only find out the full story if you click on one of the two "Secrets" links and highlight the text in the official walkthrough, since the game itself doesn't quite explain everything. Sebastien's lover Kirsten has been reincarnated...to lots and ''lots'' of girls, all of whom have ''pieces'' of Kirsten in them. The reason Bastian is pursuing Christina in the modern day is because Christina has the most pieces of Kirsten in her and thus Christina has the strongest "Kirsten" presence, hence Christina being the one to get {{PastLifeMemories}} in her dreams and being chosen by the vampire cult. Bastian gets his lover Kirsten back if either Christina accepts him, or alternatively if Christina brings a girl named "Katie" to him instead, since Katie is second only to Christina in the amount of pieces of Kirsten she has in him.]]
* [[spoiler: ReincarnationRomance: Bastian is trying to pull this off, since he's a vampire who used to be a human named Sebastien, but his lover Kirsten died. He thinks Christina is the reincarnation of Kirsten and wants to be together with her again. Since (see above trope) this is only ''partially'' right, Bastian will be happy if either Christina accepts him or she ''doesn't'' accept but brings the second-strongest reincarnation Katie to him instead.]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: If you pay attention, there are quite a few subtle hints which mean nothing by themselves, but when taken all together strongly suggest that [[spoiler: Lucy is in love with her best friend Christina. At the beginning of the game Lucy tells Christina "I know you're gorgeous, but you can't just stare at yourself all night." Later, as they're both swimming in a pool, Lucy grills Christina on what Christina wants for the future. Eventually Christina asks Lucy what Lucy wants in a man, and Lucy blurts out "I don't want anything in a man." but then hastily corrects that she means she doesn't want a perfect man, the "people" she falls in love with she'll love for themselves. When they go to the mall, Lucy buys Christina a pretty necklace and begs her to put it on, and then Lucy and Christina watch a movie together. When Tim and Randy approach Christina after the movie, Lucy makes them buzz off like she's "defending" Christina. Much later in the game, Christina buys a perfume, and Lucy gushes that Christina smells great with it. Finally, when Lucy's undergoing a crisis, she makes a teary urgent phone call to Christina so Christina can come over to her house and be a source of strength, as if Christina were a loved one.]]

* Foreshadowing: If you pay attention, there are quite a few subtle hints which mean nothing by themselves, but when taken all together strongly suggest that [[spoiler: Lucy is in love with her best friend Christina. At the beginning of the game Lucy tells Christina "I know you're gorgeous, but you can't just stare at yourself all night." Later, as they're both swimming in a pool, Lucy grills Christina on what Christina wants for the future. Eventually Christina asks Lucy what Lucy wants in a man, and Lucy blurts out "I don't want anything in a man." but then hastily corrects that she means she doesn't want a perfect man, the "people" she falls in love with she'll love for themselves. When they go to the mall, Lucy buys Christina a pretty necklace and begs her to put it on, and then Lucy and Christina watch a movie together. When Tim and Randy approach Christina after the movie, Lucy makes them buzz off like she's "defending" Christina. Much later in the game, Christina buys a perfume, and Lucy gushes that Christina smells great with it. Finally, when Lucy's undergoing a crisis, she makes a teary urgent phone call to Christina so Christina can come over to her house and be a source of strength, as if Christina were a loved one.]]

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The vampires and werewolves. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; it's a visual novel where the player-as-Christina can end up being romantically involved with either vampires ''or'' werewolves, so Fatal Hearts goes out of its way to give the player reasons why one might be sympathetic to either side. The vampires have a point in that there is value in art and education and that the werewolves are too violent to appreciate that, and the werewolves have a point in that the vampires are insensitive and tend to look down on and mistreat the "little people".

* GoodParents: Christina's mother, Mrs. Robinson. [[spoiler: Subverted with Lucy's parents, Jeanette Torvill and Steve Torvill, who are members of Bastien's vampire cult and force unwilling Lucy to join.]]

* MultipleEndings: Christina can end up [[spoiler: killed by the vampire cultists in an ambush, killing the vampire cult and herself, becoming vampires together with Jeremy as they make the world a better place (maybe) from behind the scenes, going through the ceremony to become the vampire Bastien's eternal bride, fleeing town with Lucy on a bus, trying to confront the cult on her own and getting sacrificed, screw up trying to bring peace and getting Randy and Bastien locked in combat, getting the help of both Randy and Lucy to bring Katie to Bastien and thus making it unnecessary for Bastien to pursue Christina, abandoning Lucy and Bastien to die in a burning mansion, fleeing Lucy's parents' mansion with Lucy in Lucy's car (this is the optional lesbian ending), approaching Bastien as an equal and bringing peace between vampires and werewolves through her persuasive skills, going to the police for help with Elizabeth, killing Bastien the vampire by pretending to accept his love and then killing him upon getting close, or getting killed by Tim (in Tim's defense this happens by accident as he tries to impale Bastien with a spear but Christina got caught between them)]].

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Jeremy was born to a family that was not only poor, but extremely uneducated, so not only would they not provide Jeremy with books, they couldn't possibly understand why Jeremy would ''want'' books. Needless to say Jeremy got out of there as fast as he could when he grew up, but it's Jeremy's main motivation both for all of his beliefs/philosophy and for what happens in his ending, in which he and Christina become lovers and manipulate the world from behind the scenes for the greater good.]

* FurAgainstFang:

* MultipleEndings: Christina can end up [[spoiler: killed by the vampire cultists in an ambush, killing the vampire cult and herself, becoming vampires together with Jeremy as they make the world a better place (maybe) from behind the scenes, going through the ceremony to become the vampire Bastien's eternal bride, fleeing town with Lucy on a bus, trying to confront the cult on her own and getting sacrificed, screw up trying to bring peace and getting Randy and Bastien locked in combat, getting the help of both Randy and Lucy to bring Katie to Bastien and thus making it unnecessary for Bastien to pursue Christina, abandoning Lucy and Bastien to die in a burning mansion, fleeing Lucy's parents' mansion with Lucy in Lucy's car (this is the optional lesbian ending), approaching Bastien as an equal and bringing peace between vampires and werewolves through her persuasive skills, going to the police for help with Elizabeth, killing Bastien the vampire, or getting killed by Tim (in Tim's defense this happens by accident as he tries to impale Bastien with a spear but Christina got caught between them)]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Unfortunately, [[spoiler: that would be you.]]

* ThreePlusFiveMakeFour: One puzzle has you doing this with flour. You need 2/3 cup, and you only have an 800ml cup and a 100ml cup. I hope you're good at converting...