Magical Warrior Diamond Heart/Content Warnings

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Magical Warrior Diamond Heart contains content that may be frightening or upsetting to some players. Since everyone has a different tolerance level, potential triggers are listed here, regardless of how mild or infrequent they may be. Many warnings apply to the full game and are not applicable to the common route. This page contains some spoilers for the full game.

Specific character routes are marked with citation/reference notes and can be viewed by hovering over the citation note or viewing the list at the bottom of the page.

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Technical Warnings

These warnings apply to the presentation and technical aspects of the game rather than written prose and illustration.

  • Fast Moving Images: Animations, particularly during battles, may move very quickly across the screen, flash rapidly between images, or otherwise move in a way that can be triggering to those with photosensitive epilepsy or suffer from migraines. (Option to toggle disorienting animations available!)
  • Dizzying Movements: Animations on screen may rotate, blur, and wobble in ways that can be disorienting or nauseating. (Option to toggle disorienting animations available!)
  • Glitching and Text Effects: During some scenes, character artwork, dialogue text, and UI elements may take on a “glitching” effect.
    • Some scenes briefly display distorted or overwritten text for dramatic effect. This may include lines that appear and are immediately replaced.
  • Scripted interface interruptions: Some scenes intentionally delay or disable normal player input and skipping for dramatic or comedic timing. These moments are part of the game’s presentation and are not a bug.

General Warnings

These content warnings apply to the common route (episodes 1-14) and involve scenes that are present in the demo version of the game.

Vulgarity

  • Crude Language: Characters infrequently use profanity with varying degrees of severity ranging from “crap”, “hell”, and “damn” to words such as “shit”, and “fuck”.
  • Crude Humor: Dialogue involving vulgar antics, including “toilet humor”.
  • Comic Mischief and Slapstick: Depictions or dialogue involving slapstick. Characters often fight or rough-house in a cartoonish manner.

Sexual Themes

  • Suggestive Themes: References to sex or sexuality.
    • Characters may make provocative jokes or comments and some characters may make references to mature media (e.g. Ethan being characterized as a BL fan and Chandra being a fan of eroge.)
    • Implications that Zacharie’s aunt is a sex worker.

Mental Health

  • Mental Health Struggles: Characters may struggle with their mental health. Depression, anxiety, trauma, panic attacks, and self esteem issues all occur.
    • Villains often take advantage of and manipulate characters due to their mental health struggles.
  • Alcohol Reference: Adult characters[1] are described as consuming alcoholic beverages and becoming heavily drunk.
  • Loss of Autonomy: A character[2] loses the ability to control their own body, as if they are experiencing possession/mind control. Episode 14 of the common route contains one such unavoidable scene.
    • Villains manipulate and use force to make characters behave in ways they otherwise would not want to.

Violence and Frightening Imagery

  • Fantasy Violence: Magic based fight scenes. Characters use spells and magic to attack and “purify” monsters. Magic is also used outside of battle for slapstick purposes.
  • Life-threatening danger: Characters are mentioned to be in danger and may fear for their life.
  • Body Horror: Transformations and supernatural mutations to the body that may be considered disturbing or frightening. Depicted in both written prose and visual illustrations.
  • Blood/Graphic Violence: Characters may become injured during fights. Injuries range from mild cuts and bruises to broken bones and near death.
    • Illustrations may depict blood, cuts, and bruising, and written prose may contain descriptions of violence.
    • In one route[3], a character becomes severely injured and breaks their ribs.
  • Kidnapping: In one route,[4] a character is captured by the villains and made prisoner.
  • Threats of violence: Some scenes include characters[5][6] threatening to hurt or kill others, sometimes in comedic or exaggerated contexts.
    • The villains often threaten the heroes and order their monsters to perform violent acts.
    • A character[6] uses phrases such as "kill yourself" as a hostile insult.
  • Drowning: A certain character's[6] route features someone being thrown into a large body of water by one of the villains and nearly drowning.
  • Strangulation: A character is strangled by a villain and fears for their life in one route.[7]
  • Hospital Settings: A character visits the hospital due to injuries from battle in certain routes.[6][8][9]

Miscellaneous

  • Implications of racial prejudice: Valerie implies the existence of racial segregation in her city.
  • Religion: Specifically references to Christianity, however, Ethan is also a practicing Jewish character.
    • Alex, one of the main characters, is a devout Catholic, and makes frequent references to Catholicism and Christianity. Characters mention celebrating religious holidays and discuss religion casually.
  • Emetophobia: Mentions of vomiting and nausea, and written prose describing nausea. Valerie experiences intense feelings of nausea when sensing the presence of monsters.
    • Some characters also have green-faced "sick" expressions for their portraits intended for comedic effect. There is no vomit depicted in visual illustrations.

Full Game

Content Warnings that apply only to episodes 15 and beyond. These warnings are in addition to the common route warnings listed above, and some topics may be expanded on in more detail.

Sexual Themes

  • Suggestive Themes: References to sex or sexuality. No graphic depictions of sexual acts are in this game, visual or otherwise.
    • Characters may make provocative jokes or comments. Discussions of, and allusions to sex and intimacy occur. Characters may bluntly discuss sex and sexual intimacy with their partners.
    • An aroace character[1] is implied to a casual and ambiguously intimate relationships with supporting cast members. This is played for laughs and is not a point of discomfort for the character.
  • Slut-shaming/Virgin-shaming:
    • On one character's route[3], someone is judged and criticized in a sexually demeaning way due to assumptions about their sexual behavior and clothing.
    • A character is mocked for being a virgin on a certain character's[3] route.
  • Implied sexual intimacy: Scenes that imply sexual acts after a cut or a "fade to black", and dialogue that implies intimacy previously happened may occur.
  • Intimacy and Boundaries: Some romantic scenes involve intimacy escalating quickly and characters panicking due to overwhelm. Boundaries are discussed afterward.
  • Threatening Sexual Language: A character's[7] route includes verbal references to sexual violence during moments of emotional distress. No sexual assault is depicted.
  • Teen pregnancy: One character's[7] side stories features someone announcing a pregnancy while still in high school.
  • Artistic Nudity: Non-sexual, mild depictions of nudity such as nipple-less/”barbie-doll style” anatomy and chests with minimal coverage present during some symbolic moments, magic-based scenes, and transformation scenes late in the story.

Mental Health

  • Mental Health Struggles: Characters may struggle with their mental health. Depression, anxiety, trauma, violent intrusive thoughts, panic attacks, compulsions, self esteem issues, suicidal ideation, and grief are present.
  • Suicidal thoughts: Some routes[8][3][6] feature a character losing the will to live.
  • Self Harm: Characters may engage in self-destructive behavior.
    • Certain characters[7][10] are seen engaging in a form of trichotillomania, causing themselves to bleed heavily.
    • A character [7] is implied to be engaged in off-screen self-destructive coping and compulsive behaviors.
  • Alcohol Reference: Adult characters are described as consuming alcoholic beverages and becoming heavily drunk.
    • One route[1] features a character struggling with alcoholism.
  • Loss of Autonomy: Characters may lose their ability to control their own actions.
    • A character[2] loses the ability to control their own body, as if they are experiencing possession/mind control. Episode 14 of the common route contains one such unavoidable scene.
    • A character[7] struggles with an extreme fear of losing control throughout their route.
    • The villains manipulate and use magic-based force to make their victims behave in ways they otherwise would not want to.
  • Intrusive Thoughts and Fear of Harm: Certain characters[7] experience intense intrusive thoughts. These scenes may include panic attacks, self-blame, compulsive behavior and violent imagery. Some of these thoughts may be described graphically in written prose.

Violence and Frightening Imagery

  • Body Horror: Transformations and supernatural mutations to the body that may be considered disturbing or frightening. Depicted in both written prose and visual illustrations.
    • A character's[3] magic has disturbing and horrific effects. Liam’s healing ability causes plants to grow on the injured character’s body in order to repair the tissue and is typically described as being an extremely painful experience.
    • Certain routes[7][6][3] feature a character undergoing painful mutations to their body.
    • The villains cause their victims to undergo frightening transformations when turning them into Nightmares.
    • Body Horror as Comedy: Liam's healing ability is revealed to cause plant growth on the recipient's body in a silly or comedic manner (Such as an X-Ray depicting a smiling flower on a character's ribs)
  • Blood/Graphic Violence: Characters may become injured during fights. Injuries range from mild cuts and bruises to broken bones, dismemberment, and near death.
    • Illustrations may depict blood, cuts, and bruising, and written prose may contain graphic descriptions of violence and gore.
    • A character's[3] route features someone briefly hallucinating graphic violent imagery.
  • Death: Multiple characters are mentioned to be in danger and may fear for their life. Bad endings may contain character death. Some routes contain major character death as part of their storyline.
    • Character death played for laughs. Slapstick-esque deaths and joke endings, such as a temporary character death due to a time loop gimmick
    • Death of a loved one: Some characters[5] have family members who have passed on and may be dealing with that grief.
  • Abuse: Characters have story lines dealing with abusive family members. Depictions of physical, financial, and emotional abuse, parental neglect, and controlling parents are present, as well as abusive relationships between partners.
    • Mentions of physical abuse: One character's[7] route features casual mentions of "whoopings".
    • Threats of Physical Assault: A character's[7] parent threatens them with physical assault on their route.
    • Financial Abuse: A character's[3] parent begins financially abusing them on their route.
    • Parental Neglect and Emotional Abuse: Certain characters[3][6] have neglectful and absent parents. A character[11] is implied to have been disowned, and another[3] fears disownment on their route.
  • Physical Intimidation and Restraint: Characters may be pinned, grabbed, restrained, or physically threatened outside of battle scenes.
    • In one route[4], a character is captured by the villains and made prisoner.
  • Hospital Settings: A character visits the hospital due to injuries from battle in certain routes.[6][8][9]
    • Certain characters become heavily injured and spend an extended amount of time in the hospital during one character's[8] route.

Bigotry

  • Ableism: Bigotry toward disabled people. Includes both experienced bigotry and discussions/implied ableism in the written prose.
    • Some characters[3][10][11] face bigotry and discrimination due to being autistic.
    • A character's route[3] contains ableist remarks directed toward Val due to her ADHD.
    • Internalized ableism, ableist slurs: A character[3] expresses ableist beliefs about themself and refers to themself as a "cripple"
  • Queerphobia: Implications of bigotry. Characters may mention having to have faced LGBTphobia. Some minor characters have bigoted beliefs.
    • A character behaves insensitively toward an asexual character[10] on their route and must unlearn their biases.
  • Racism: Discussions of race-based bigotry occur. Characters may face discrimination due to their race, ethnicity, or skin color.
    • Racial allegory: A half non-human character[7] experiences fetishization due to their species, and discrimination based on “sub-species” occurs within non-human species.

Miscellaneous

  • Religion: Specifically references to Christianity, however, Ethan is also a practicing Jewish character.
    • Alex, one of the main characters, is a devout Catholic, and makes frequent references to Catholicism and Christianity. Characters mention celebrating religious holidays and discuss religion casually.
  • Emetophobia: Mentions of vomiting and nausea, and written prose describing nausea. Valerie experiences intense feelings of nausea when sensing the presence of monsters.
    • Some characters also have green-faced "sick" expressions for their portraits intended for comedic effect. There is no vomit depicted in visual illustrations.

Route Reference List

Expand to view the listed character routes and the content warnings associated with that route/character.

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