History VideoGame / ANewBeginning

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Invoked in numerous ways. [[spoiler:Intentionally by Fay to make Bent believe that a series of Nuclear Disasters would cause the world to become uninhabitable by 2050. Unintentionally by the game developer when the Nuclear Reactor is actually shown in-game and uses a design that not only doesn't exist in real life, but makes no sense at all]].
** Nuclear power in general is this. Nuclear power is the cleanest and safest energy producer humanity currently has. While radiation and meltdowns can devastate whole ares for centuries, regular pollution from fossil fuels cause more deaths from poisonous gas and killing large swaths of food producing areas like the ocean. 1/6th of the planet's population die from issues related to regular pollution. The idea of trying to eliminate nuclear power first is counterproductive. Modern day politics target nuclear power because it can render major urbanized areas inhabitable if maintenance standards aren't upheld (which is sadly true for a lot of major infrastructure like dams and power plants) as well as nuclear disasters being much more spectacular than the slow burn of chemical inhalation and environmental devastation that regular pollution causes.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Fay claims in her {{Flashback}}s, among other things, she used a red filter to increase power to her plasma drill to break through a wall. Bent [[LampshadeHanging points out]] the red filter should've actually ''decreased'' the power of the drill. [[spoiler: This in fact {{Foreshadowing}} for Fae's story being fabricated.]]

* CluelessAesop: General issue with the game's environmental message seems to be convoluted as plot twists occur. [[spoiler: A major one being whether the attempt to sabotage nuclear energy, and later stopping it, was an acutal critique nuclear energy or a random plot point]]. Furthermore, the actual issues--such as fossil fuel industries and corporate corruption--took a backseat as the story progresses despite being shown in the game.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Inoz Indez all the way. From sabotaging Sven Svensson's demonstration of his father's blue-gree algae to buying out any clean-energy competitors, Indez will do whatever it takes to ensure his fossil fuel-based energy company, Indez Industries, remains on top. [[spoiler: However, he is willing to host an international energy committee, which is concerned with the pollution output of his facilities, without attempting to influence or interfere with their judgement. As his Amazonian nuclear power plant/HQ shows, he also isn't one to skimp on either construction or maintenance costs of his company's facilities.]]

* EverybodysDeadDave: The results of the first time-travel attempt resulted in this.
** [[spoiler: All, except Fay's and Salvador's teams, suffered an ill-fate when their time-capsule landed in 2050 (actually 2500). Josep's team in Paris were caught in the Tornado with himself KilledInMidSentence by debris from the Eifel Tower. The second and third were implied to have died in crashlanding in desertified New Delhi and dried Sydney respectively. The fourth team was caught in a volcanic blast in Tibet. Hardy perished in frozen Moscow before announcing the mission failure. Dina's pod was adrift in flooded London with no means to escape. Sadi's last transmission in South America was her report on an irradiated area in the Amazon basin before the intense radiation caused it to shut off and possibly killing her in the process.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Fay says that a nuclear plant exploding caused widespread climate collapse, Bent immediately points out that climate change can't be narrowed down to a single point like that, and is a gradual process taking decades. [[spoiler: He's completely correct - Fay lied about the plant exploding to get him on her side, when really the process ''did'' take decades because of humanity's apathy towards long-term problems. Her mission was to ''cause'' the accident to convince Humanity that nuclear power wouldn't work and to look for alternate energy solutions.]]

* KidnappedByTheCall: Fay's fantastic time-travel tale - and she continued insistence that [[TheOnlyOne only his blue-green algae can save the future]] - causes [[RefusalOfTheCall Bent to show her the door]]. Bent's head is then shown a quick blow to the head by Fay's ally Ozzy, and Sven's now-unconscious body is dragged into their waiting helicopter.

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: Fay is revealed by Salvador to be this - the first time jump to '2050' was really the 26th century, Indez' power plants are completely safe and the Phoenix Plan's true goal is to cause a nuclear disaster in the Amazon to force the world to look to alternative energy sources.]] The whole story ends up being this. [[spoiler:Made worse by the fact that all the characters from the future die or can no longer be communicated with. This means that the player is unaware of what parts of Fay's story was true and which parts were misdirection.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Fay receives one from Bent mid-game, pointing out [[spoiler: how much force she has had to use to progress, like inciting a peaceful protest to violence in order to crash an energy conference (and wrecking someone's car to get them away from an important console) to make it listen to her.]]
** Arguably the Phoenix Plan in general, considering [[spoiler:an actual nuclear disaster would occur in the Ukraine in 1986 and aside from curtailing Nuclear Power (which doesn't give off Greenhouse Emissions that contribute to climate change) a bit,]] doesn't seem to have done much getting the Human Race to care much about the enviroment. Instead, they might have [[spoiler:Irradiated large parts of the Amazon Basin [[AllForNothing for nothing]].]]

Meanwhile, in 1982 Finland, Bent Svensson, a despressed, reclusive retired bio-engineer recovering from [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Chronic Hero Syndrome]], is trying to fix his fogging machine as part of his preparations to cut down an old tree for firewood, only to be interrupted by a mysterious young woman who just arrived on his front lawn in a helicopter and is asking him to come out of hiding...

''A New Beginning'' is a point-and-click adventure game published and released by Daedalic Entertainment in 2010 for Windows and 2012 for Mac OSX. It has an [[http://www.daedalic.de/en/game/A_New_Beginning?PHPSESSID=84kov7fj8kuhop4o6a7onpu3o4?lang_new=en official listing]] on the Daedalic Entertainment website, and is available for purchase direct from the developer and on various digital download services such as [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/105000/ Steam]], [[http://www.gog.com/gamecard/a_new_beginning GOG.com]], and [[http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-ANB/a-new-beginning-final-cut GamersGate]].

!!'''A New Beginning'' has examples of the following tropes:

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Invoked in numerous ways. [[spoiler:Intentionally by Fay to make Bent believe that a series of Nuclear Disasters would cause the world to become uninhabitable by 2050. Unintentionally by the game developer when the Nuclear Reactor is actually shown in-game and uses a design that not only doesn't exist in real life, but makes no sense at all]]

** Arguably the Phoenix Plan in general, considering [[spoiler:an actual nuclear disaster would occur in the Ukraine in 1986 and aside from curtailing Nuclear Power(which doesn't give off Greenhouse Emissions that contribute to climate change) a bit,]] doesn't seem to have done much getting the Human Race to care much about the enviroment. Instead, they might have [[spoiler:Irradiated large parts of the Amazon Basin [[AllForNothing for nothing]].]]

** [[spoiler: All, except Fay's and Salvador's teams, suffered an ill-fate when their time-capsule landed in 2050. Josep's team in Paris were caught in the Tornado with himself KilledInMidSentence by debris from the Eifel Tower. The second and third were implied to have died in crashlanding in desertified New Delhi and dried Sydney respectively. The fourth team was caught in a volcanic blast in Tibet. Hardy perished in frozen Moscow before announcing the mission failure. Dina's pod was adrift in flooded London with no means to escape. Sadi's last transmission in South America was her report on an irradiated area in the Amazon basin before the intense radiation caused it to shut off and possibly killing her in the process.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: Fay is revealed by Salvador to be this - the first time jump to '2050' was really the 26th century, Indez' power plants are completely safe and the Phoenix Plan's true goal is to cause a nuclear disaster in the Amazon to force the world to look to alternative energy sources.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Fay receives one from Sadi mid-game, pointing out [[spoiler: how much force she has had to use to progress, like inciting a peaceful protest to violence in order to crash an energy conference (and wrecking someone's car to get them away from an important console) to make it listen to her.]]