History VideoGame / GhostHospital

* {{Retraux}}: ''Ghost Hospital'''s style is meant to emulate UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor games.

* DrivingQuestion: How and why was Robin sent to Ghost Hospital, despite still being alive?

* RandomNumberGod: There's no way to tell when Robin's anxiety will set in during battles. An encounter might pass entirely without her breaking down, only for her to be constantly paralyzed in the next one, leaving Jay and maybe Sarcastic Ghost, to do all the work, unless Jay wastes on turn to Encourage her.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sarcastic Ghost's demand to be let into the party is met with Robin and Jay listing all the reasons he's given them to not do that: He was rude to them from the minute they entered his room, is acting incredibly shady, doesn't seem like he'd be of any use to them and was very eager to make them leave until he suddenly decided he wanted to team up.

* MoneySpider: Beating the Corrupted Ghosts nets you a small amount of money. Might be justified, since the Corrupted Ghosts used to be regular patients at the hospital, so while they can't really use it any more in their current state, it makes sense they would have carried some with them when they were still sane.

* AndIMustScream: Corrupted Ghosts are forever stranded in the Hospital, unable to move on or die and foreve rhungering for life force. The condition is irreversible.

** Subverted with Robin. Yes, she's in Ghost Hospital, but her heart is still beating, meaning she's still alive.

* WelcomeToCorneria: Most [=NPC=]s only have one set of dialogue. Downplayed with some characters, like Vinny, Minerva and Edesia, who start out with unique dialogue, but then settle into standard lines after a certain point. Lampshaded at one point, when Jay calls one of the patients out for gossiping to Robin about him while he's standing right next to them.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Robin's anxiety is presented in-game as red additional flavor text that will pop up from time to time to demean her choices and insult her, creating an uncomfortable and tense atmosphere. Due to said anxiety, Robin will also sometimes randomly break down in the middle of a battle and either hysterically beg for her life (which does nothing) or just not do anything at all.

* RandomNumberGod: There's no way to tell when Robin's anxiety will set in during battles. An encounter might pass entirely without her breaking down, only for her to be constantly paralyzed in the next one, leaving Jay and maybe Sarcastic Ghost, to do all the work.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sarcastic Ghost's demand to be let into the party is met with Robin and Jay listing all the reasons he's given them to not do that: He was rude to them form the minute they entered his room, is acting incredibly shady, doesn't seem like he'd be of any use to them and was very eager to make them leave until he suddenly decided he wanted to team up.

* StealthPun: Robin's signature color is red, while Jay's is blue. They're a red robin and a blue jay.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One can reasonably expect a person with anxiety, especially a child, to struggle with something as stressful as combat. So while it might be annoying, Robin sometimes freezing up or breaking down during battles makes her anxiety something actually tangible, rather than an InformedFlaw.

* MoneySpider: Beating the Corrupted Ghosts nest you a small amount of money. Might be justified, since the Corrupted Ghosts used to be regular patients at the hospital, so while they can't really use it any more in their current state, it makes sense they would have carried some with them when they were still sane.

** Played straight at the end of the demo. The red flavor text suddenly starts to address the player directly, mocking them for wasting their time playing an unfinished game and musing about how Robin's story probably won't have a happy ending.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One can reasonably expect a person with anxiety, especially a child, to be not really capable of handling something as stressful as combat. So while it might be annoying, Robin sometimes freezing up or breaking down during battles makes her anxiety something actually tangible, rather than an InformedFlaw.

* BodyHorror: The Corrupted Ghosts all have some form of this going, with some drooling OminousObsidianOoze from their eyelids, others looking like they've been bisected at the waist and ,any more [[SarcasmMode charming]] deformities.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Jay has blue eyes and hair.

* {{Retraux}}: ''Ghost Hospital'''s style is meant to emulate UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor games.

You play as Robin, a young girl who one day finds herself waking up in a hospital for ghosts -- despite being perfectly alive and well, as her assigned ghost doctor, Dr. Poe, soon finds out. She then starts to seek her way out of the hospital and find her way back home, and along the way, she meets and partners up with a ghost boy named Jay, and the mysterious Sarcastic Ghost, who help her fight corrupted ghosts as well as her own paralyzing anxiety and depression.

* {{Retreaux}}: ''Ghost Hospital'''s style is meant to emulate UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor games.

The game's official development blog can be found [[http://ghosthospitalgame.tumblr.com/ here]].