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** Taken UpToEleven in ''Epiphany'', where [[spoiler: using Joey's tie on Abe Goldfarb's portrait at the Vantini bar]] will warp Joey to another dimension, where every single one of Abe Goldfarb's characters from all Wadjet Eye titles up till then are arguing with each other.

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** Taken UpToEleven in In ''Epiphany'', where [[spoiler: using Joey's tie on Abe Goldfarb's portrait at the Vantini bar]] will warp Joey to another dimension, where every single one of Abe Goldfarb's characters from all Wadjet Eye titles up till then are arguing with each other.
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* DummiedOut: [[spoiler: The scene in ''Epiphany'' where Rosa would've met the police commissioner, which can still be accessed through the developer's commentary.]]
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** At the end of ''Epiphany'', Rosa was meant to meet [[spoiler: Jocelyn. However, when Dave Gilbert learned Lauren's voice actress Dani Marco was visiting New York, he asked her to record some dialogue and quickly rewrote the scene to include Lauren instead.]]
** Also in that game, Rosa would've met the police commissioner [[spoiler: who was hinted to be part of Gavin's group]]. The scene ended up being DummiedOut.
** Nishanthi was meant to have a larger role, as Gilbert had planned a character arc for her early on. However, he later decided for whatever reason that it wasn't going to work, hence [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome her sudden disappearance]] post-''Convergence''.

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** At ''Deception'' ends with [[spoiler:Rosa swearing to track down the rest of Gavin's group]], which was supposed to be the focus of the next game. In the early development of ''Epiphany'', Dave Gilbert felt this wasn't strong enough conclusion to the Blackwell saga, so the story was completely changed for the game, and this plotline was dropped. The only remnants are [[DummiedOut dummied out]] voice lines of [[spoiler:the police commissioner, who appeared at the ''Deception'''s ending and was hinted to be part of Gavin's group]], and a minor, unexpected confrontation with someone.
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the end of ''Epiphany'', Rosa was meant to meet [[spoiler: Jocelyn. However, when Dave Gilbert learned Lauren's voice actress Dani Marco was visiting New York, he asked her to record some dialogue and quickly rewrote the scene to include Lauren instead.]]
** Also in that game, Rosa would've met the police commissioner [[spoiler: who was hinted to be part of Gavin's group]]. The scene ended up being DummiedOut.
** Nishanthi was meant to have a larger role, as Gilbert had planned a character arc for her early on. on (her original backstory was that [[spoiler:she used to be Lauren's neighbor back in ''Unbound'''s time]]). However, he later decided for whatever reason that it wasn't going couldn't a way to work, fit her into the main story without feeling superfluous, hence [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome her sudden disappearance]] post-''Convergence''.
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** Nishanthi was meant to have a larger role, as Gilbert had planned a character arc for her early on. However, he later decided for whatever reason that it wasn't going to work, hence her sudden disappearance post-''Convergence''.

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** Nishanthi was meant to have a larger role, as Gilbert had planned a character arc for her early on. However, he later decided for whatever reason that it wasn't going to work, hence [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome her sudden disappearance disappearance]] post-''Convergence''.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Joey [[TheShivah used to be a rabbi.]] Or maybe he dropped out of [[VideoGame/GeminiRue spaceship pilot school.]]
** Gavin is an [[VideoGame/GeminiRue ex-Boryokudan assassin turned detective]]
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** The original climax for ''Convergence'' would've taken place at Times Square in full view of the public, which Dave Gilbert nixed for being too audacious.
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** ''Unbound'' features an EasterEgg where Lauren can call rabbi Stone from VideoGame/TheShivah. Afterwards, she comments on how his voice sounds strangely familiar. Both Stone and Joey are voiced by Abe Goldfarb.
** Taken UpToEleven in ''Epiphany'', where [[spoiler: using Joey's tie on Abe Goldfarb's portrait at the Vantini bar]] will warp Joey to another dimension, where every single one of Abe Goldfarb's characters from all Wadjet Eye titles up till then are arguing with each other.
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** Nishanthi was meant to have a larger role, as Gilbert had planned a character arc for her early on. However, he later decided for whatever reason that it wasn't going to work, hence her sudden disappearance post-''Convergence''.
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** At the end of ''Epiphany'', Rosa was meant to meet [[spoiler: Jocelyn. However, when Dave Gilbert learned Lauren's voice actress Dani Marco was visiting New York, he asked her to record some dialogue and quickly rewrote the scene to include Lauren instead.]]
** Also in that game, Rosa would've met the police commissioner [[spoiler: who was hinted to be part of Gavin's group]]. The scene ended up being DummiedOut.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dave Gilbert's plan for the series originally involved ten installments in the series. Some of the planned storylines of the games was later dropped or merged when the final number of installments landed on five.
** Unbound and Convergence were originally planned to be one single game but development was takeing to long so unbound became a separate entry.

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Dave Gilbert's plan for the series originally involved ten installments in the series. Some of the planned storylines of the games was later dropped or merged when the final number of installments landed on five.
** Unbound ** ''Unbound'' and Convergence ''Convergence'' were originally planned to be one single game game, but development was takeing to taking too long so unbound became a separate entry. the project was split.
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** Unbound and Convergence were originally planned to be one single game but development was takeing to long so unbound became a separate entry.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dave Gilbert's plan for the series originally involved ten installments in the series. Some of the planned storylines of the games was later dropped or merged when the final number of installments landed on five.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dave Gilbert's plan for the series originally involved ten installments in the series. Some of the planned storylines of the games was later dropped or merged when the final number of installments landed on five.five.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most widespread version.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most widespread version.version.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dave Gilbert's plan for the series originally involved ten installments in the series. Some of the planned storylines of the games was later dropped or merged when the final number of installments landed on five.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most played version.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most played widespread version.
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* TheOtherMarty: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most played version.

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* TheOtherMarty: TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most played version.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, including ''Legacy'''s re-release.

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* TheOtherDarrin: TheOtherMarty: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, including ''Legacy'''s re-release.and all of Rosa's lines in ''Legacy'' were redubbed for the re-release, which is currently the most played version.
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** Gavin is an [[VideoGame/GeminiRue ex-Boryokudan assassin turned detective]]

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** Gavin is an [[VideoGame/GeminiRue ex-Boryokudan assassin turned detective]]detective]]
* TheOtherDarrin: Before the release of ''Convergence'', Rosa was voiced by Sande Chen in ''Legacy''. She's replaced by Rebecca Whittaker from ''Convergence'' onwards, including ''Legacy'''s re-release.
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** Gavin is an [[VideoGame/GeminiRue ex-Boryokudan assassin turned detective]]
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: On Halloween 2013, Wadjet Eye Games did a special free giveaway of one of the Blackwell games to encourage people to buy their games. Even though several goofs on behalf of their download fulfillment partner BMT Micro were rectified for the most part, a large amount of the freely-distributed codes were still found to be hoarded (through spambots and IP blockers) for resale, forcing WEG to abort the giveaway and have Valve delete all still-unused Steam keys, possibly including several that were gained legitimately.

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** Gavin is an [[VideoGame/GeminiRue ex-Boryokudan assassin turned detective]]
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: On Halloween 2013, Wadjet Eye Games did a special free giveaway of one of the Blackwell games to encourage people to buy their games. Even though several goofs on behalf of their download fulfillment partner BMT Micro were rectified for the most part, a large amount of the freely-distributed codes were still found to be hoarded (through spambots and IP blockers) for resale, forcing WEG to abort the giveaway and have Valve delete all still-unused Steam keys, possibly including several that were gained legitimately.
detective]]
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: On Halloween 2013, Wadjet Eye Games did a special free giveaway of one of the Blackwell games to encourage people to buy their games. Even though several goofs on behalf of their download fulfillment partner BMT Micro were rectified for the most part, a large amount of the freely-distributed codes were found to be hoarded (through spambots and IP blockers) for resale, forcing WEG to abort the giveaway and have Valve delete all still-unused Steam keys, possibly including several that were gained legitimately.

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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: On Halloween 2013, Wadjet Eye Games did a special free giveaway of one of the Blackwell games to encourage people to buy their games. Even though several goofs on behalf of their download fulfillment partner BMT Micro were rectified for the most part, a large amount of the freely-distributed codes were still found to be hoarded (through spambots and IP blockers) for resale, forcing WEG to abort the giveaway and have Valve delete all still-unused Steam keys, possibly including several that were gained legitimately.
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: On Halloween 2013, Wadjet Eye Games did a special free giveaway of one of the Blackwell games to encourage people to buy their games. Even though several goofs on behalf of their download fulfillment partner BMT Micro were rectified for the most part, a large amount of the freely-distributed codes were found to be hoarded (through spambots and IP blockers) for resale, forcing WEG to abort the giveaway and have Valve delete all still-unused Steam keys, possibly including several that were gained legitimately.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Joey [[TheShivah used to be a rabbi.]] Or maybe he dropped out of [[VideoGame/GeminiRue spaceship pilot school.]]
** Gavin is an [[VideoGame/GeminiRue ex-Boryokudan assassin turned detective]]

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