History VisualNovel / SuckerForLove

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The protagonist has no given name and is simply referred to as "Darling" by Ln'eta, or "Dearest" by Estir.

* TheGhost: Muu, the creator of the books. Nyanlathotep shows up with a book she intimidated her into making so that you can banish her, so that the figurative bridge between worlds stays severed for the mutual safety of both sides. [[spoiler: Muu double crosses her by hiding a banishing ritual and defenses against her torments in the book, but you have to be canny enough to spot it first.]]

** By the True End of the final route,[[spoiler: even Nyanlathotep, who is stated to be the second strongest of the Elder Gods, is terrified of him because of his sheer, lust-driven determination to smooch all of the Elders Gods and eventually ''the cosmos itself'']].

** "MEET AG-END": [[spoiler: L'neta and the protagonist mutually decide that it's better to break off their relationship, deciding that it's not good for either of them, though Ln'eta believes that there may be a chance for them in a different reality. She still kills the protagonist regardless, though only to spare him from a slow, agonizing death. The ending still depicts the protagonist dead but seemingly at peace with it.]]
** "AWAKEREDUX": [[spoiler: L'neta stops the protagonist from reciting the final incantation, offering to dream a little longer so that they can stay together. "Darling" initially agrees with her, but decides to go through with reading the spell anyway. Despite her pleas and insistence that they stay together, he reasons that if he's her dream guy, they'll simply meet again in another reality. The ending stills have her waking up from the dream in tears, thanking "Darling" for giving her a dream that she can remember clearly. The final still shows a doodle of the protagonist in her notebook with a note reminding herself of what he looks like so she can dream of him again.]]
** "TERRIBLE END": [[spoiler: If the player gets two black broken hearts with Estir before the ending, she'll go back on her word to give the protagonist his promised kisses while still expecting him to pledge his servitude. Defiant and desperate at this point, "Dearest" reads the incantation that brings Carcosa, the planet Estir represents, dangerously close to the Earth with the intent of kissing it. Despite her warnings that doing so will result in an extinction level event which will kill them both, he continues reciting the spell until the planet slams into the earth, killing everything and everyone on it.]]

* TheGhost: Muu, the creator of the books. Nyanlathotep shows up with a book she intimidated him into making so that you can banish him, so that the figurative bridge between worlds stays severed for the mutual safety of both sides. [[spoiler: He double crosses her by hiding a banishing ritual and defenses against her torments in the book, but you have to be canny enough to spot it first.]]

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* CuteMonsterGirl: Ln’eta, a cute, curvy {{Cthulhumanoid}}. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness At least this is how the protagonist sees her...]]

* AllForNothing: ''First Date'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Ln'eta ended the protagonists reality even if you severed his connection to her with the 'Break Up' spell, rendering the "Good (Enough) Ending" moot. Worst of all, the player didn't even get a smooch for his troubles]].

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Ln'eta seems to understand human concepts of morality, but she clarifies that she is not ending reality out of any kind of malice - to her, all of reality as we know it is AllJustADream that, no matter how pleasant, she simply has to wake up from eventually.

* AllForNothing: ''First Date'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Ln'eta ended the protagonists reality even if you severed his connection to her with the 'Break Up' spell, rendering the "Good (Enough) Ending" moot. Worst of all, the player didn't even get a smooch for his troubles.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Ln'eta seems to understand human concepts of morality, but she clarifies that she is not ending reality out of any kind of malice - to her, all of reality as we know it is a dream that, no matter how pleasant, she simply has to wake up from eventually.

** "AWAKEREDUX": [[spoiler: L'neta stops the protagonist from reciting the final incantation, offering to dream a little longer so that they can stay together. "Darling" initially agrees with her, but decides to go through with reading the spell anyway. Despite her pleas and insistance that they stay together, he reasons that if he's her dream guy, they'll simply meet again in another reality. The ending stills have her waking up from the dream in tears, thanking "Darling" for giving her a dream that she can remember clearly. The final still shows a doodle of the protagonist in her notebook with a note reminding herself of what he looks like she so can dream of him again.]]

!!Tropes Applying to the ''Dread X Collection 2 / Prelude'' version:

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: ''First Date'' reveals that the Ln'eta ended the protagonists reality even if you severed his connection to her with the 'Break Up' spell, rendering the "Good (Enough) Ending" moot. Worst of all, the player didn't even get a smooch for his troubles.]]
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: [[spoiler: Inverted in Estir's ''KING IN WHITE'' ending. When listening the terms of his eternal servitude to her, the protagonist explains that it just sounds like marriage and is excited instead of horrified, much to Estir's anger and confusion. Estir's confusion continues into the ending still, which shows the pair getting married]].

* BittersweetEnding: Choosing to go through with the date with L'neta ends with the destruction of reality ... but at least Ln'eta delivered on that kiss she promised. [[spoiler: ''First Date'' confirms that even if you break up with L'neta and turn her into a harmless squid, she ends reality anyway and you wake up in an alternate one. She remembers what you did and tears the break up incantation out to prevent you from doing it again.]]
** [[spoiler: The redux edition of the "AWAKEN" ending from ''First Date''. Ln'eta suggests they put off invoking the final incantation and spend a while longer in her dream state to repeat the process of the rituals forever. And while the protagonist initially agrees, he completes the spell anyway despite her pleas and promises to meet her in her next dream. The ending shots show Ln'eta crying before drawing what he looks like in her notebook to remind herself of him in the next reality they meet in.]]

** [[spoiler: There's also an instance of it in Estir's ''First Date'' path. Once the player chooses to wear the stage mask, he is unable to take it off, as his face begin to mold to fit it perfectly. He also cannot blink anymore, as his eyes are permanently stretched open to look through the eye holes. If the player continues to pursue Ln'eta after this, the protagonist will rip the mask off his face, taking his eyeballs, nose and skin around the mask with it in order to hide his secret meeting with Estir from her. He can still see somehow despite this.]]

** [[spoiler: ''First Date'' suggests that Ln'eta has developed actual feelings for the protagonist, as she continues dreaming of him after his original reality is destroyed. This serves as an explanation for why he was able to continue on after his death.]].

* TheOjou: Estir, The King in Yellow, who appears as a romance option in ''First Date''. She embodies multiple aspects of the trope such as having a notable NoblewomansLaugh.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Ln'eta disappears from the narrative in Estir's route if the player chooses to continue pursuing Estir without invoking anymore of her incantations. While Estir does briefly mention her toward the end, simply saying she "got rid of her", it's never shown what happens to her. This can be averted if the player attempts to continue a romance with Ln'eta after Estir's Banquet]].

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: In ''First Date'' the alternate romanceable options are connected to Ln'eta's initial path. This means choosing to pursue Estir would mean cheating on her even if the player chooses to cast the 'Break Up' spell at the end of her route, which the protagonist acknowledges and fears the consequences of. The player can choose to be faithful to Ln'eta which will lead to an alternate version of the original "AWAKEN" ending]].

** [[spoiler: There's also an instance of it in Estir's ''First Date'' path. Once the player chooses to wear the stage mask, he is unable to take it off, as his face begin to mold to fit it perfectly. He also cannot bling anymore, as his eyes are permanently stretched open to look through the eye holes.]]

* CuteMonsterGirl: Ln’eta, a cute, curvy {{Cthulhumanoid}}. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness At least this is how the protagonist sees her...]] Also applies to the other romanceable options in ''First Date''.

* BodyHorror: As he performs more rituals, the protagonists body begins to change, such as growing tentacles out of his face. L'neta finds him to be more attractive this way.

* {{Yandere}}: L'neta angrily warns the player against talking about other girls while on their date.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Ln’eta, a cute, curvy {{Cthulhumanoid}}. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness At least this is how the protagonist sees her...]]

''Sucker for Love'' is a combination DatingSim and {{Horror Visual Novel|s}}, developed by Akabaka (''VisualNovel/{{Chromatose}}'') and published by [=DreadXP=]. Originally a one-segment experience that was part of ''VideoGame/DreadXCollection 2'', it was later expanded into a three-chapter "''First Date''" version with ([[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574270/Sucker_for_Love_First_Date/ to quote the store page]]) "Three" "fully-voiced" "dateable" "girls" and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No horror elements or danger whatsoever]].

!!Tropes Applying to the ''Dread X Collection 2'' version:

* VillainsNeverLie: Ln'eta may be a vicious, world-ending EldritchAbomination, but she never once makes any attempts to deceive you. She typically won't tell you WHAT exactly her rituals do until after you perform them, but there's no explicit falsehood on her part. She also makes no illusions about [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what will happen]] once the date ends. Finally there's the Awake Ending, where [[spoiler:she keeps her end of the bargain and smooches you as her true form awakens to destroys the universe]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu trope below]]. The protagonist’s [[{{Determinator}} single-minded determination]] to get a smooch from Ln'eta does end up wooing her; however, she still plans on ending all of existence once the date is over and has no intention of sparing him. There’s also the fact that as the game progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that being around her and performing her dating rituals has adverse effects on his mental [[spoiler:and physical]] health.

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:When Ln'eta tearfully asks why you severed their connection in the Good (Enough) Ending, you respond that allowing her to end reality isn’t worth a smooch. She then brings up the fact that you were the one who summoned her in the first place, knowing full well what she was capable of, to which you just kinda brush her off.]]
* VillainsNeverLie: Ln’eta may be a vicious, world-ending EldritchAbomination, but she never once makes any attempts to deceive you. She typically won’t tell you WHAT exactly her rituals do until after you perform them, but there’s no explicit falsehood on her part. She also makes no illusions about [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what will happen]] once the date ends. Finally there’s the Awake Ending, where [[spoiler:she keeps her end of the bargain and smooches you as her true form awakens to destroys the universe]].

* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: The point of the game: You summoned a dark god from beyond the veil with the power to destroy all of creation...in order to smooch her. [[HorrifyingTheHorror Its initial reaction is a request to go back to millenniums of imprisonment]]
* MoodWhiplash: Starts out as a somewhat comedic DatingSim about romancing a CuteMonsterGirl. Should you actually go through with it, [[CosmicHorrorStory things]] [[{{Yandere}} don’t]] [[RoomFullOfCrazy end]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt well.]]

* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:If you successfully sever your connection with Ln’eta, she becomes depowered into a harmless squid-like form. [[NightmareFetishist The Protagonist still has no problems smooching her in this form.]]]]

* VillainsNeverLie: Ln’eta may be a vicious, world-ending EldritchAbomination, but she never once makes any attempts to deceive you. She typically won’t tell you WHAT exactly her rituals do until after you perform them, but there’s no explicit falsehood on her part. She also makes no illusions about [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what will happen]] once the date ends. Finally there’s the Awake Ending, where [[spoiler:she keeps her end of the bargain and smooches you as her true form awakens to destroys the universe.]]

''Sucker for Love'' is a combination DatingSim and {{Horror Visual Novel|s}}, developed by Akabaka (creator of ''VisualNovel/{{Chromatose}}'') and published by [=DreadXP=]. Originally a one-segment experience that was part of ''VideoGame/DreadXCollection 2'', it was later expanded into a three-chapter "''First Date''" version with ([[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574270/Sucker_for_Love_First_Date/ to quote the store page]]) "Three" "fully-voiced" "dateable" "girls" and "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No horror elements or danger whatsoever]]".

Obsessed with rituals and haunted by visions of an eldritch horror, a young man acquires [[TomeOfEldritchLore a copy of the Necronomicon]] that's oddly pink. Reciting the only legible ritual within it, he inadvertently summons Ln'eta, a [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute]] {{Cthulhumanoid}} who offers him a kiss in exchange for a few more rituals that now suddenly make sense in your mind. Will he find love, or will he just end up a sucker?

''Sucker for Love'' is a combination DatingSim and HorrorVisualNovel, developed by Akabaka (creator of ''VisualNovel/{{Chromatose))'') and published by [=DreadXP=]. Originally a one-segment experience that was part of ''VideoGame/DreadXCollection 2'', it was later expanded into a three-chapter "''First Date''" with ([[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574270/Sucker_for_Love_First_Date/ to quote the store page) "Three" "fully-voiced" "dateable" "girls" and "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No horror elements or danger whatsoever]]".