Bury

The original title screen.

**Bury** is a 2014 adventure game developed by Hachisuka, using the Wolf RPG Editor program. Originate in Japanese-language released in 2024, with provided in English translation by YamikazeYami on RPGMaker.net released in 2022.

## Synopsis

A girl named Coco goes inside an abandoned mansion to look for her missing notebook. When she steps inside, she sees a shadow and follows it. As she searches for the shadow, she starts to meet strange characters who ask her to solve riddles. Soon, she encounters a little boy and an older man who join her in her quest for her notebook. Could these two be a key to solving the mystery behind the strange mansion?

## Characters

### Coco

A quiet girl who wakes up in the back of a garden belonging to an abandoned mansion. She doesn't talk much, although she loves nursery rhymes. The endings will change depending of how she treated others, revealing there's more to her than it seems.

### Little Boy

A child who visits the abandoned mansion along with his father. Getting bored, he wanders away and befriends Coco, helping her to find her notebook. He doesn't have a name, although Lyell mockingly calls him "Shorty".

### Lyell

A gloomy and sarcastic man who arrived to the mansion for business. He ends up tagging along with the children despite keeping his distance from Coco and his dislike for the Little Boy.

## Endings

Bad Ending: Bury the Past
If Coco was rude to her friends, Lyell gives up on helping Coco and the Little Boy abandons her, insisting that he must forget about her again.

Normal Ending: Remain Buried
If Lyell didn't retrieve all the notebook entries, it's revealed that the Little Boy was the Lyell from the past. Turns out he did find Coco's notebook but had to return home after his encounter with Lizzie Borden. When he told his grandfather about meeting a girl in a pink dress searching for a notebook, the old man had a heart atack from the shock. Feeling guilty, Lyell decided to forget about Coco. 10 years later, Lyell had to return to the abandoned mansion for business and met Coco again.
Deciding to make up things, Lyell and his young self (who happens to be an astral projection) merge before giving Coco back her notebook. However, due to Nancy Petticoat's interference, she doesn't see her corpse in the garden, so Coco never realizes that she's a ghost.

True Ending: Bury
If Coco was nice to her friends and Lyell retrieved the notebook entries, it's revealed that Coco died 50 years ago. She was a country girl adopted by her biological father to live in the city. However, she was mistreated for being a bastard child, unable to fit with the servants or her pureblood sisters. Her only friend was the mansion's gardener, with only him and her nursery rhymes to keep her company. Unfortunately, due to a cruel prank by her sisters, she lost her life trying to retrieve her notebook from a well. Her body was buried in a shallow grave in the garden, which Coco discovers in the present.
Finally understanding Coco (and that the gardener was his grandfather), Lyell and his young self-merge before giving her notebook back. With this, Coco is able to move on to the afterlife and disappears. Lyell puts a bouquet of flowers in her resting place before leaving.

## Trivia

* The game is more well-known for its creator refusing to allow others to translate the game and constantly taking down unofficial translations. It eventually got an approved translation in 2022.
* According to the creator, the monsters haunting the mansion are actually astral projections from Coco's notebook (who loved nursery rhymes). They're aware that if she goes to the afterlife, they'll disappear with her, so they distract her with chores and useless quests so that she won't get her notebook back. She's been doing this for 50 years.
* It got a remake in October 2021.