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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Some sound effects are quite sudden; one sound of glass windows breaking always makes me jump, but YMMV.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Ryuji was a deadbeat dad in life (and as a spirit too)
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Abuse
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Several children die or are injured. One character’s father is verbally abusive.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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“For spectacle” is doing some heavy lifting here but there is some very graphic description of violence against a female character in two routes. This is not sexualised but it is almost cartoonishly horrific. It does serve a plot purpose so is definitely not solely for spectacle, but the extreme nature of the violence does have a spectacular element to it. There are no visuals and the violence is described only through text.
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A certain character in Holiday Star essentially has this as their backstory
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Is someone gaslighted?
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One character lies to another that they will kill themselves together, but abandons him and steals their identity
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Sakuya's dad. He's a d**k that taught his son extremely racist views and disowns him for the horrible crime of... loving music and wanting to be a musician.
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Addiction
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A character is tricked into taking drugs.
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Animal
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Does a dragon die?
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You can imagine it though.
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Is an animal sad?
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This is a game about birds, the majority of whom don't have very pleasant lives. There's bird characters losing family members and/or friends, a bird character suffering from clinical depression and a bird ghost who gets to pass on the instant he confesses his love to the MC.
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Are animals abused?
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Well, it's very hard to call what happens animal abuse. Yes they are technically animals, but they are so intelligent that they sit more on the gray area of like, furries. If you wouldn't consider furry on furry violence to be animal abuse, then this isn't animal abuse
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Several pigeons and other birds die or get killed during the events of the game and its endings.
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Assault
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Is someone drugged?
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A character is repeatedly dosed with a drug without his consent.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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In the sequel, a character gouges out their own eyes
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Is someone tortured?
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There is quite a bit of off screen torture, but it rarely actually makes it on screen. On screen torture is almost all psychological
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Is there cannibalism?
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Depending on your definition of 'cannibalism'. A bird character, who has human-level intelligence and attends school, is murdered and cooked off screen. His corpse is sent to the human main character as a gift from his murderer under the guise of being a 'Christmas turkey', which she eats without hesitation.
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Is there amputation?
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not quite amputation, but a character after death is dismembered.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A character struggles to breathe due to being sick, and does die from it.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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An important character asphyxiates to death after getting sick
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Nageki is seemingly implied to have committed suicide by jumping out of a window in his route. However, the Bad Boys Love route reveals that he did not jump out of the window.
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Is there excessive gore?
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There is some description of gore and violence, but all of it is pretty mild
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Someone gets decapitated if that counts
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Is someone burned alive?
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A main character is killed after being trapped in a burning building.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Though actual life stages and lifespawns of characters in the game may be debatable, clearly some characters were very young when they died. There is also a massacre in an orphanage.
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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A lot of pigeons die.
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Does someone die?
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Brah
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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How would this f*****g work, they're png birds
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Ryouta’s route revolves around this
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Is someone kidnapped?
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In one of the bad endings, the main character’s house is broken into and they either kill her there or kidnap and kill her. It’s not really clear which.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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The game is entirely still visuals and text. I don't think a non-moving visual can really be a jumpscare. You control the pace at which everything pops up, although there are some scary images that appear somewhat unexpectedly, it's slow enough that I would in no way consider it a jumpscare
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Is someone possessed?
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A main character willingly allows himself to be temporarily possessed by a benevolent ghost in order to help said ghost communicate with someone who is otherwise unable to see or hear ghosts.
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Are there ghosts?
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One of the main characters is revealed to be a ghost.
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Gross
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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No, but a certain partridge really deserves it.
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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One character named Anghel Higure has a birthname that is used a couple of times by his mother and the main character; it's clear hearing the name causes him distress, although it's unclear if this is due to being transgender, or if it's simply his chosen name because it's the name of his main character in his fantasy manga that he's writing. Either way it could be upsetting; it's played for laughs and not taken seriously.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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A character refers to the cross-dressing cafe he works at as a transvestite cafe.
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
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Not cancer but a character has a terminal illness.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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While no hospital is present some routes involve frequent visits to the school doctor
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Mental Health
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Not outright, but a character repeatedly states that he wants to die.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Many characters suffer heavily traumatic events and have lots of their behaviour and mentality heavily altered due to it. Some characters are implied to have PTSD.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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There is a character who is somewhat implied to be autistic/very easily read that way, who is pretty heavily abused, however the abuse ultimately has nothing to do with whether or not the character has autism. So no autism specific abuse, but if just seeing an autistic character be abused in general is a trigger for you, I'd say proceed with some caution.
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Suicide is a heavy and persistent theme throughout both games in the series. It is heavily discussed, and is also shown onscreen, narrated from the dying characters perspective
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Hitori/Nanaki-sensei is heavily implied to be psychotic and suffer from a dissociative disorder. Hitori shoots Shuu thrice.
Many other characters are also implied to be mentally ill, and many characters have contributed to injury or death of another.
Many other characters are also implied to be mentally ill, and many characters have contributed to injury or death of another.
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And succeeds
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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The screen briefly shakes in certain scenes, such as when characters throw tantrums or fight.
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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The in-game date is shown in the top left corner of the screen. When Hiyoko (main character) comes back to school a day before it reopens after summer break, Nanaki-sensei tells her to check the top left corner (where it is one day before the start of the term)
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Pregnancy
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Are there abortions?
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In a flashback, a sapient bird character is forced to destroy the egg of his unhatched sibling.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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In eggs
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Prejudice
Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Okosan, a bird character who communicates in simple sentence structure, speaks in the third persson and is shown to have habits and obsessions that seem to indicate him being neurodivergent, is ocassionally bullied for being 'stupid'.
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Is there hate speech?
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There is no homophobia or transphobia. The hints of ableism are so minor as to be questionable if it counts at all. There is significant classism. While there is no racism between human races, there is racism between different types of bird, as well as between humans and birds. None of the fantasy racism is allegorical to racism in our own world
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Does the black guy die first?
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A character that's implied to die in almost every route happens to be Filipino.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Crossdressing is common, and while it is often approached humorously, it's very respectful. No jokes are ever made at the crossdressing characters' expense, and they aren't especially embarrassed by it. The humor is more "We're playing dress up and it's silly" than any sort of transphobic joke. There are multiple gender non-conforming characters, and at least one that is heavily implied to be transgender. Gender is approached with a very open mind.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Some jokes about one bird being more round than others, due to the type of bird he is, if that counts
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Does an LGBT person die?
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There is no targeted hate crime towards a character solely for being LGBTQ+. A lot of characters end up dead/injured in many endings, and majority of the characters happen to be coded as LGBTQ+.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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There is a student/teacher relationship instigated by the student, and another instance where a student attempts to instigate a relationship with a teacher and is rejected. There is little focus on these relationships and they are not romanticized.
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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There are a couple of sexual references in the game, but not many. A bird character mentions that his species reaches sexual maturity quickly while flirting with the protagonist in once scene, pornography is mentioned in another, and necrophilia is alluded to in a certain ending.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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A character is implied to either have run away or been kicked out of his house in one ending, but (with almost no delay) goes to stay indefinitely at the main character's home as they previously promised if anything happen to him.
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Spoiler
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Children should not play this game, but no, nothing is said about Santa.
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Vehicular
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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Multiple bird characters are shot in the Bad Boys Love route. One unnamed extra is killed; a main character is wounded but revealed to be alive in the epilogue.
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