Burial is an RPG Maker Explorer Horror game by Tokiiro Kaeru. It stars Kai, a boy who finds himself standing in front of a gravestone with no idea how he got there. He meets a red-haired girl, Lily, and helps her escape from a sword-wielding white-haired girl, and the two decide to hide in the basement of a nearby church.
This leads them to an entire dungeon underneath the church, once used during a horrific, incurable plague to quarantine the afflicted and leave them to die suffering. Those who died there became Vengeful Ghosts and now haunt the catacombs, so Kai and Lily will have to escape while finding an exit.
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This game contains examples of:
- Apocalyptic Log: The bottom of the catacombs, where the patients of the plague were held, contain plenty of notes from the patients describing their horrible conditions and general suffering as they slowly died from the disease.
- Big Bad: The white-haired girl with a sword is chasing after Kai and Lily, forcing them to travel into the dangerous church catacombs to escape from her, except she's only doing it to bring them to the afterlife- the real villain is Lily, who lured Kai to the church and wants him to be trapped with her forever.
- Multiple Endings: Four, depending on your decisions.
- End 4: The standard ending. Kai reaches a dead end, upon which Lily reveals she is a spirit who lured him here because he is the reincarnation of the man who tried to save her, and she wants him to be with her forever. You also get this ending if you get to the End 1 final area but fail to complete the last puzzle in 90 seconds.
- End 3: The ending achieved if Kai says he isn't sure if they will get out. It is the same as End 4, only Suzette (the white-haired Grim Reaper girl) arrives in time to lay the two main characters to rest.
- End 2: Get caught by the white-haired girl at any point, and the main characters will suddenly die, their spirits shown as a blue butterfly. Lees of a true ending and more of a Non-Standard Game Over.
- End 1: Get the toy plush and little white flower, then tell Lily you are sure you will escape. Suzette comes and saves Kai from Lily, then tells him the truth and tasks him with breaking the curse on the church so the spirits can move on- should he do so, he and Lily are reunited and sent off to the afterlife.
- The Plague: The backstory concerns one that resulted in tone of people being locked up within the church catacombs to prevent it from spreading. According to notes by the patients, it would slowly rot the body until it was a pitch-black foamy substance.
- Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice: In the backstory, a deadly plague that had no cure was affecting so many people that it was decided to lock them all up inside the dungeon underneath a church and leave them there to die. This had the effect of turning everyone that died into Vengeful Ghosts.
- Shout-Out: The game page explicitly says the art style was inspired by Rozen Maiden.
