History VideoGame / AmberJourneysBeyond

* FlashbackEffects: Edwin's sequence (1910's-1920's) looks like sepia and blue toned photographs with talking toys and moving by a toy car on a roller coaster. Margaret (1943) looks like World War 2 era photographs, and you move between rooms by changing the radio station. Brice's sequence (1959) has the Cinemascope wide-screen and oversaturated color of the era's B-movies of which he was fond.

* FlashbackEffects: Edwin's sequence (1910's-1920's) looks like sepia and blue toned photographs with talking toys and moving by a toy car on a roller coaster. Margaret (1943) looks like World War 2 era photographs, and you move between rooms by changing the radio station. Brice's sequence (early 1960's) has the Cinemascope wide-screen and oversaturated color of the era's B-movies of which he was fond.

---> '''Brice''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She has the prettiest handwriting.]]

* HedgeMaze: Brice's scenario is boxed in by giant walls of weeds, to the point that they obscure where the house would be in his time period. He's also [[BeserkButton really irritated by them]], being a gardener.

* BrickJoke: In the intro sequence, [[spoiler: Edwin]] causes you to crash your car into the lake on your way to the house. In his scenario, you have to control a toy car that Edwin drove into the lake some time ago.

* BrickJoke: In the intro sequence, [[spoiler: Edwin]] causes you to crash your car into the lake on your way to the house. At the end, when Roxy is back to normal, she asks you where you parked the car.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Played straight with Edwin. Being only a young kid, his overactive imagination allows him to believe his toys are alive, and not even notice his own death, compared to the other two ghosts.

* BeeAfraid: The bees in the house's garden, if you disturb their hives while controlling Brice. They don't sting you, but you can hear distorted voices taunting you while on-screen.

* HearingVoices: Aside from what you hear from the hauntings around you, Brice suffered from this himself.
--> '''Brice:''' Watch out for the bees, (whispering) they know stuff!

* FifteenPuzzle: Using pieces of a telegram ripped up by Margaret [[spoiler: which reveals that Ted never made it back from the war, after all.]]

* ArcSymbol: Each time you return to reality after one of the ghost passes on, your PEEK shows an image of Roxy's face and a ball of light, signifying that one of her astral fragments is recovered. This image is also shown on the box cover.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Apart from driving a car, you're never described or named in any way during the introduction.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Brice was obsessed with thinking [=UFO=]s were going to find him, and had been planning to take Mandy with her when they did. His hideout has articles he'd put up as evidence, and you have to raise a signal flag that would supposedly call said aliens.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Brice was obsessed with thinking UFOs were going to find him, and had been planning to take Mandy with her when they did. His hideout has articles he'd put up as evidence, and you have to raise a signal flag that would supposedly call said aliens.

** [[spoiler: Brice screams this as his soul is presumably taken to hell.]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Edwin has quite an overactive imagination, and saw no danger in going into a frozen lake.

** Brice's has to be the weirdest transition of all, [[{{Symbolism}} by ascending through the roof of a gazebo he built, up into the clouds, then sharply back down and ''through the floor of the gazebo into a pool of red liquid''.]]

** Brice's has to be the weirdest transition of all, by ascending through the roof a gazebo he built, up into the clouds, then sharply back down and ''through the floor of the gazebo into a pool of red liquid''.

* StalkerWithACrush: Brice would stop at nothing to make Mandy his. And he has a [[StalkerShrine shrine]] of her in his underground hideout, for good measure. [[Spoiler: To drive the point home, there's a letter from her in the shrine where she tells him she doesn't like him and how her father will fire him if he doesn't leave her alone; When the player reads it, Brice's only comment on the letter is this-]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Brice would stop at nothing to make Mandy his. And he has a [[StalkerShrine shrine]] of her in his underground hideout, for good measure.

* HauntedHouse: Where the game is set. Unlike most examples, it looks clean and lived in, partly justified with the renovations she had to do to hook up all her equipment.

** Roxy got her degree from the [[Creator/HpLovecraft Miskatonic University]].

* FunWithAcronyms: Roxy, being the CEO of Bio-Psi labs, adores giving their devices acronyms. From the BAR, (Bulbic Activity Reader), that detects electromagnetic anomalies - i.e., ghosts, to the titular AMBER ([[AstralProjection Astral Mobility]] By Electromagnetic Resonance} headset, which provides the means to literally enter the minds of said ghosts.