History VisualNovel / SwanSong

An {{Utsuge}} VisualNovel by Flying Shine that focuses on the lives of six characters after surviving a massive earthquake. The story focuses on the group's struggle to survive in a world where law is no more and nothing is promised. To make matters worse, the earthquake happened on Christmas during a heavy snowstorm, which is not relenting no matter how long the group waits. Access to the outside world is cut off, and no signs of help are noticed, despite the quake being too large for a country to just ignore. Even after the group manages to successfully secure a stable life with other survivors in spite of the quake and endless snow and cold, many problems and complications arise. NeedsMoreLove.

* WastedSong: The entire game mostly uses either depressing or suspenseful tracks, if it uses them at all, leaving the others with little appearance. Fortunately, there's the BGM Player, but that's only unlocked after completing the game.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Takuma, ''again''.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Takuma.]]

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Averted. The businessman does not [[spoiler:take sides in the dispute between the Daichi and the school, and mentions avoiding them both to avoid getting caught up]]. Not only that, but he's a perfectly sane - if rather [[UnderStatement talkative]] - person. He even refuses to join other survivors just because he finally obtained the freedom he desired.

* HeelFaceTurn: The policemen.

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: [[spoiler: Takuma.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Mainly, Takuma.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Takuma, again.

* ThePollyana: Tanomura. However, he does acknowledge whenever a situation goes bad, and reacts accordingly. Although he always goes back to Pollyana mode once the situation ends.

* DespairEventHorizon: The pictures that appear when changing a perspective undergo a ''[[UnderStatement dramatic]]'' change late enough in the normal end to show this.

* Crossdresser: Tsukasa, for a piano recital after his suit got muddy. Not that Tsukasa knew about (or possibly even cared) the stigma of a boy wearing a dress in the first place.

* SuperSenses: Tsukasa's supernatural sense of hearing.

* RapeAsDrama: Of course, this being an 18+ work, some of it is painfully detailed.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Ryugeju]] seems to think this is the only way to become redeemed. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she doesn't die (and gets accepted) in the good end.]]
* TheQuietOne: Applies to Tsukasa.

* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:The Daichi try this on the Vigilante Corps. when they attack. They succeed holding off the Vigilante Corps. enough to have everyone escape, but they ultimately lose the battle.]]

* ItGotWorse: If you think that dying at the end of the world is bad, then you don't know what struggling to survive is.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Takuma]] crosses it when he does exactly what he originally set out to stop.

* LastStand: [[spoiler: Tanomura does that twice in the course of the game. In the first one, he successfully beats his opponents. In the second, they have shotguns.]]
* MartialPacifist: Tanomura

* WastedSong: The entire game mostly uses either depressing or suspenseful tracks, if it uses them at all, leaving the others with little appearance. Fortunately, there's the BGM Player, but that's only unlocked after completing the game.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Ryugeju]] seems to think this is the only way to become redeemed. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she doesn't die in the good end.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The key that Tanomura gives to Hibari.

* SenselessSacrifice: Subverted. Even though [[spoiler: some Daichi followers fought the Vigilante Corps. to buy some time for others to escape, the survivors were going to die of starvation or the cold unless they went to their enemy. Doubly subverted in the good end, since the Daichi survivors are eventually accepted.]] It also happens when [[spoiler: Tanomura fights the Vigilante Corps. at the church, as chances are likely that he would have been fine if he left with everyone else.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: When something is gory, it is not really shown in art, just narrated. And when it is [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel really horrible]], it is usually only slightly touched upon.

An {{eroge}} VisualNovel, of the {{Utsuge}} variety, that happens in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] world covered in snow. It tells the tale of the survivors of the event, focusing on the stories of 6 characters:

* GoryDiscretionShot: When something is gory, it is not really shown in art, just narrated. And when it is [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel really horrible]], it is usually only suggested.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Takuma, again.

* FaceHellTurn: [[spoiler:Takuma.]]

* CrapsackWorld
* DownerEnding

* HeroicSacrifice

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]

* MartialPacifist: Tanomura
* SenselessSacrifice
* ShootTheShaggyDog

* StepfordSmiler
* RapeAsDrama: Of course, this being an 18+ work, some of it is painfully detailed. Most of it is suggested though.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* TheQuietOne: Applies to Tsukasa and Takuma.

* SenselessSacrifice

Does not have any relation (that I know of) with the main [[SwanSong Swan Song]] trope.