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* TheWikiRule: [[http://obscure.wikia.com/wiki/ObsCure_Wiki Right here.]]
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* DummiedOut: One of the original trailers shows an extended version of the starting NightmareSequence. The Steam trailer, which re-creates this trailer, replaces it with some footage from later in the game.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The re-release had to remove Music/Sum41's "Still Waiting" from the opening scene and replace it with a generic PopPunk track, likely because the rights had expired.
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Correcting Main/Reboot link to Continuity Reboot.


*** After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} of the series, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.

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*** After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] of the series, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.
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Hey Its That Guy cut by TRS decision. Ditto for Hey Its That Voice.


* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first game, Creator/StephanieSheh, Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas, Creator/SamRiegel, and Creator/TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.
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* DivorcedInstallment: ''Final Exam'' was originally designed as a sequel and, later, an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, as seen under WhatCouldHaveBeen below.
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Shout Out is not a Trivia trope. Moving.


* ShoutOut:
** In the first game, a flyer in the girls' bathroom in the administration building tries to warn people that aliens are among us, which the characters dismiss as paranoid nonsense -- a reference to ''Film/TheFaculty'', one of the game's main inspirations.
** There has to be a reason why the first game has characters named [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Stan, Kenny, and Mr. Garrison]]...
** Jedidiah in the second game is a fairly obvious one to [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]].
** In ''Final Exam'', Nathan's monster-trap special attack is this to ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', even referencing it in the description.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first game, Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinterniklaas, SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first game, Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinterniklaas, SamRiegel, Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas, Creator/SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt Creator/TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.
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** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been one of the main characters instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off.

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** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been one of the main characters instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off. Indeed, the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHC84igPwW0 the game's trailer]] shows Kenny getting killed and dragged off by a monster, which obviously wasn't in the final game.
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*** The first incarnation, ''[=ObsCure=]: Dark Aura'', was to have featured Shannon as the main character. It was scrapped, with elements from it being used for...
*** ''[=ObsCure=] D'', which was to have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]]. That version was canceled after Hydravision went out of business.

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*** The first incarnation, ''[=ObsCure=]: Dark Aura'', was to have featured take place right after the end of the second game, with Shannon as the main character. It was scrapped, with elements from it being used for...
*** ''[=ObsCure=] D'', which was to have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding games. It would have been about a group of people, led by Ashley's younger sister Liddyah, [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to searching for Josh and Ashley]].Ashley]] a few days before the events of the second game. It was here that the more exaggerated, LighterAndSofter art style of what became ''Final Exam'' is first known to have showed up, as well as the TwoAndAHalfD gameplay. That version was canceled after Hydravision went out of business.



** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been one of the main characters [[spoiler:instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off]].

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** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been one of the main characters [[spoiler:instead instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off]].off.
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** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of [[spoiler:getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been the fifth main character instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off.]]

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** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of [[spoiler:getting getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been one of the fifth main character instead characters [[spoiler:instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off.]]off]].
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** Jedidiah in the second game is a fairly obvious one to [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As seen [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ here]], ''Final Exam'' went through multiple incarnations and quite a bit of DevelopmentHell before it was released.
** The first incarnation, ''[=ObsCure=]: Dark Aura'', was to have featured Shannon as the main character. It was scrapped, with elements from it being used for...
** ''[=ObsCure=] D'', which was to have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]]. That version was canceled after Hydravision went out of business.
** After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} of the series, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.
::The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been the fifth main character instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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As seen [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ here]], ''Final Exam'' went through multiple incarnations and quite a bit of DevelopmentHell before it was released.
** *** The first incarnation, ''[=ObsCure=]: Dark Aura'', was to have featured Shannon as the main character. It was scrapped, with elements from it being used for...
** *** ''[=ObsCure=] D'', which was to have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]]. That version was canceled after Hydravision went out of business.
** *** After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} of the series, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.
::The ** The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of getting [[spoiler:getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been the fifth main character instead of Kenny, who was originally the one who got killed off.]]
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::The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of [[spoiler:getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been the fifth main character instead of Kenny, who was to die in the prologue instead]].

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::The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of [[spoiler:getting getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been the fifth main character instead of Kenny, who was to die in originally the prologue instead]].one who got killed off.
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::The data files for the first game also reveal that Dan was intended to play a much larger role than he actually did. Instead of [[spoiler:getting killed in the prologue, he was supposed to have been the fifth main character instead of Kenny, who was to die in the prologue instead]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of ''Final Exam'' shows that it would have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]]. After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} of the franchise, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A As seen [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of here]], ''Final Exam'' shows that went through multiple incarnations and quite a bit of DevelopmentHell before it would was released.
** The first incarnation, ''[=ObsCure=]: Dark Aura'', was to have featured Shannon as the main character. It was scrapped, with elements from it being used for...
** ''[=ObsCure=] D'', which was to
have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]]. That version was canceled after Hydravision went out of business.
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After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} of the franchise, series, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of ''Final Exam'' shows that it would have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of ''Final Exam'' shows that it would have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]]. After the project was resurrected by Mighty Rocket, it was intended as a {{reboot}} of the franchise, but [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan backlash]] over the game's radically different [[GenreShift gameplay]], [[ArtShift art style]], and story forced the developers to {{retool}} it into a non-canon spinoff.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of ''Final Exam'' shows that it would have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=] games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of ''Final Exam'' shows that it would have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=] ''[=ObsCure=]'' games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]].
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Development was first mentioned in early 2008. It was released five years later, after the dissolution and reformation of its studio.

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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Development on ''Final Exam'' was first mentioned in early 2008. It was released five years later, after the dissolution and reformation of its studio.studio, and after being {{divorced|Installment}} from the ''[=ObsCure=]'' series.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Development was first mentioned in early 2008. It was released five years later, after the dissolution and reformation of its studio.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A [[http://www.unseen64.net/2012/11/27/obscure-d-cancelled-xbox-360-ps3-pc/ leaked plot synopsis]] for the original incarnation of ''Final Exam'' shows that it would have been an {{interquel}} to the two ''[=ObsCure=] games, filling in the gaps surrounding [[AnotherSideAnotherStory what happened to Josh and Ashley]].
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** In ''Final Exam'', Nathan's monster-trap special attack is this to ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', even referencing it in the description.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://obscure.wikia.com/wiki/ObsCure_Wiki Right here.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinterniklaas, SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first game, Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinterniklaas, SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinternikklas, SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinternikklas, MichaelSinterniklaas, SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/StephanieSheh, MichaelSinternikklas, SamRiegel, and TaraPlatt voice Shannon, Kenny, Josh, and Ashley respectively.
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* ShoutOut:
** In the first game, a flyer in the girls' bathroom in the administration building tries to warn people that aliens are among us, which the characters dismiss as paranoid nonsense -- a reference to ''Film/TheFaculty'', one of the game's main inspirations.
** There has to be a reason why the first game has characters named [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Stan, Kenny, and Mr. Garrison]]...
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