The main playable character in ''Red Hood's Woods
is Red Hood, who based on the fairy tale character of the same name. For Black Souls I
and Black Souls II
, the player controls an undead male protagonist who is named by the player. Black Souls I
is set in the "Lost Empire," which is described as a world suffocating under a mysterious mist that transforms humans into monsters. Following the events of its predecessor, Black Souls II'' takes place in a seemingly desolate world, filled to the brim with horrifying monsters.
''Red Hood's Woods'' Red Hood enters a fantastical world through a mirror, where she journeys with a wolf named Poro, encounter several monsters, and confronts the memory of being
sexually abused by her grandfather. After killing him, she rejects Poro's offer to ignore the truth and finds her grandmother, who tries to kill her upon learning of her husband's death. After defeating her, Red Hood awakens.
Black Souls I At a library, Alice confirms the protagonist's name and class before she is killed. The protagonist awakens in a prison, where the Holy Knight Jeanne rescues him. During the escape, she is burned alive by the dragon Helkaiser, the protagonist's future
archenemy. Waking up again in the Holy Forest, the protagonist goes on an adventure to prevent the spread of a mist that transforms people into monsters. Players can recruit ten heroines in total, including Leaf and Red Hood. During the adventure, many
fairies mention a name, Mary Sue. Eventually, the protagonist meets five demonic princesses, each ruling her own land overrun with demon beasts. He must choose to enter a covenant with them or slay them in battle, thereby changing the fate of the Lost Empire. Twenty-four different endings are possible, depending on the player's actions. Ending C reveals that Leaf is in fact Mary Sue, who tampered with everyone's happy endings. In Ending D, the protagonist joins the Black Trial and receives various requests from Baphomet, the group's leader. After completing all the requests, the protagonist sends Baphomet to the Holy Forest. After destroying the Holy Forest, Baphomet imprisons Leaf, claiming that she does not want to play the role of the "archdemon". After being defeated by the protagonist and Leaf, Baphomet reveals that she is Leaf's mother. Leaf then laughs and offers to remain lovers with the protagonist forever. Suddenly, Alice appears, clapping, and approaches the protagonist.
Black Souls II The game's story takes place immediately after Ending D of
Black Souls I. In the prologue, the player is asked to define Alice's role as
mother, daughter, or little sister. The protagonist then enjoys a fleeting happy moment with the Alice of his memory. However, while he sleeps, she vanishes, the backdrop collapses, and he plummets into a falling room. After dying for the first time, he gains access to the Library Dream, the game's main hub. His quest to find Alice in Wonderland begins, but he soon discovers this realm descending into madness. Concurrently, he himself grows increasingly obsessed with all things related to Alice. During his adventure, the protagonist may kill, pledge vows to, or violate various heroines, 45 in total. Some of those he rapes later appear within the Library Dream's dungeon. The base game has eight endings. After many cycles and revisions, the protagonist in the final story route sees through the illusions and attempts to break free. This will allow him to enter the Little Girl's Nightmare, a secret area. The
Crawling One—the
Outer God who breached
Elysium and brought the protagonist to Wonderland—appears and grows enraged when the player perceives Wonderland's true nature. Progressing the area will result in meeting Red Hood and Leaf, and the player will be given the choice to side with one of them against the other. In Ending G, after siding with Red Hood to kill Leaf and ultimately defeat the Crawling One, the garden begins to collapse. While fleeing, Red Hood and Poro become trapped by debris in a hallway. The protagonist then encounters the soul of
Alice Liddell, who has escaped the Crawling One's grasp following its defeat. Managing to escape the garden, he is reunited with a one-armed Red Hood in the outside world. However, after the story concludes, he is transported once again to the Library Dream. This indicates that the story has not truly ended. Shortly after Ending G of the original game, the third
downloadable content (DLC), Crown of the Lion and Unicorn, added three more endings. In the Heartbroken ending, the player ultimately encounters the
Grand Guignol. She is revealed to be an artificial, mechanical Outer God who controls Wonderland. It is precisely because of the Grand Guignol (who is in fact Mary Sue's power of creation given form and therefore intrinsically linked with the protagonist) that the protagonist was pulled back into Wonderland in the previous ending. After defeating the Grand Guignol and breaking the endless loop of cycles, the protagonist is helped by Red Hood as he attempts to finally escape. However, when the Crawling One intervenes in a mad frenzy, the protagonist severs his own arm to allow Red Hood to get away. The Crawling One encompasses him, attempting to completely overwrite his mind so that he thinks only of them. Yet, a fragment of Alice extends herself, leading him out of the Crawling One's grasp and back to reality as the story reaches its final conclusion. Red Hood lives out the rest of her days in apparent peace with the protagonist until her death at the age of twenty, due to a curse placed on her by Mary Sue. ==Development==