Forest

**Forest** is the location where the game **Saiko no Sutoka: Halloween Edition** takes place.

## General

It represents a forest full of dry trees and shrubs covered with greenery. It have a cave with a green wooden door, which is both the start and finish point of the game. The atmosphere of the dead night forest is complemented by absolute silence, broken only by the chirping of crickets, which allows the player to listen to the surrounding environment in search of (or avoiding) Saiko and Yui, but also not allowing him to be distracted from the feeling of persecution and fear of getting lost.

## Structure

This is a randomly generated location consisting of a variety of alleys, intersections and turns, dead ends and small open spaces teeming with trees and bounded by impassable shrubs on all sides. It always begins with a cave (which the player sees only from the outside), which always (except for a Hard mode) will have heart and, not yet reanimated, Saiko. On the tree above Saiko's corpse hangs a note, presumably written by Yui, and on the side is a wooden sign with a painted house pointing towards the cave.

The cave.The pointer.
## Items

In addition to main character, Saiko and Yui, various items necessary to complete the game will be scattered randomly in the forest.

### Skeletons

The remains of people who died in this forest before the events of the game. It is unknown who are they and what they represents. They serve as a source of body parts for Saiko needed to complete the level, and if Saiko has at least one eye but at least some part of the body is missing, she will approach the corresponding skeleton and interact with it. Total (except for the "Hard mode", where they will not be present at all) of 8 skeletons appear: 2 skeletons with an arm, 2 skeletons with a leg, and 4 skulls with an eye.

Skeleton with a hand.Skeleton with a leg.Skull with an eye.
### Food

They represent the "fresher" remains of people in the form of cut-off hands and feet, with meat and skin. They literally serve as food for Saiko, helping to control her hunger. Saiko will ALWAYS interact with the food in her sight, eating it on the spot or, if she is not hungry, trying to share it with Senpai. Being hungry, she will snatch food from Akira's hands if she gets close enough. In total, 6 pieces of food will appear on the map - 3 arms and 3 foots.

## Trivia

* If you hold down the W key when pressing Start, then dawn will eventually begin in the forest.
* Palm prints of past victims can be found on trees (they are especially clearly visible on high graphics settings).
* In early versions, a note on a tree could be interacted with as a note on the desk of the principal's office in school, after which the inscription "The switch is in the pantry" appeared with the postscript "I didn't want to do this, I'm sorry." This bug was quickly fixed.
* In the planned update for Steam, in addition to the new ending, "Yangire Mode" will be added with a secret mode for Hatsune Elissu. The forest will also be generated randomly, but it will be expanded and have two doors: locked one at the beginning and unlocked one somewhere deep in the woods. The key to the locked door can be stolen from Yui or Yangire, if she kills Yui first. Also, there will be no zombie Saiko, and weapons - a bat and an axe - will appear on the map to protect against Yangire's attacks.

* There are 3 types of pointer in the game files - with the image of the house (used in the game), the school and the Saiko apartments. At the moment, their purpose is unknown.
	+ Also, there are two skins for zombie Saiko - bloody (shown in the teasers for Halloween Edition on the Habupain's channel) and with a clean face, used in the game.

## References

1. ↑  Video of Beta-tester Brick Shooter
2. ↑  Video of Beta-tester Brick Shooter (version 18+)
3. ↑ Short video of ZeroZepoX
4. ↑  Video of Beta-tester CorpseBombKeef