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* AffablyEvil: Alonso acts friendly and extremely polite, but his behavior and tone makes clear that he is dangerous.
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* AffablyEvil: Alonso acts friendly and extremely polite, but his behavior and tone makes make clear that he is dangerous.
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* CelShading: The game adopts such style following the leap to 3D, in order to preserve the comic book styled art direction.
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* CelShading: The game adopts such style following the leap to 3D, in order to preserve the comic book styled book-styled art direction.
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* MonochromeCasting: Averted, particularly people from the Gap. Given that the series is strongly suggested to be taking place in a post-apocalyptic Australia, it would make sense that there are many aborigines living outside the city.
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* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward Saviour Joey/Ken.
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* HolographicTerminal: The holographic MINOS terminals are everywhere, including private homes, and in public to the frequency that payphones used to be.
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* AdultFear: Robots that appear without warning and steal your children ranks high on the list. And then there's the fact that [[spoiler:the kids were brainwashed and used in experiments]].
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken, particularly as he went off the rails based upon a simple instruction. Contrast with the first game]].
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken, particularly as he went off AirVentPassageway: At the rails based upon Aspiration Gala, Foster has to crawl through [[spoiler: a simple instruction. Contrast with duct opening in the first game]].Control Room in order to follow some shady figures]].
* AnAesop: Luxury at any cost (particularly that of [[spoiler:free will]]) is not a trade worth making. LivingIsMoreThanSurviving.
* AnAesop: Luxury at any cost (particularly that of [[spoiler:free will]]) is not a trade worth making. LivingIsMoreThanSurviving.
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* BadAssLongcoat: Just as with the first game, Foster uses one of these to conceal items.
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* BadAssLongcoat: BadassLongcoat: Just as with the first game, Foster uses one of these to conceal items.items.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Joey. Also Foster while InsideAComputerSystem.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Joey. Also Foster while InsideAComputerSystem.
* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.
* BigDamnReunion: When Foster and Milo reunite.
* BigDamnReunion: When Foster and Milo reunite.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Both Raquel and Polly clearly have psychological problems after having been through some sort of mental conditioning.
* BreadAndCircuses: The citizens of Union City seemingly live in a utopia, but they are highly oppressed, and the government has some very dark secrets.
* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.
* BreadAndCircuses: The citizens of Union City seemingly live in a utopia, but they are highly oppressed, and the government has some very dark secrets.
* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Both Raquel and Polly clearly have psychological problems after having been through some sort of mental conditioning.
* BreadAndCircuses: The citizens of Union City seemingly live in a utopia, but they are highly oppressed, and the government has some very dark secrets.
* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.TheBlank: Saviour Joey/Ken, whose entire body lacks discrete features other than limbs.
* BreadAndCircuses: The citizens of Union City seemingly live in a utopia, but they are highly oppressed, and the government has some very dark secrets.
* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.
* BrainComputerInterface: Strangely, this seems to be less common now than the previous game. While it was possibly commonplace in the past to have implants, Foster is the only such human still around with a Schriebmann port. [[spoiler:Leet had one, but later got rid of it]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Both Raquel and Poppy clearly have psychological problems after having been through some sort of mental conditioning.
* BreadAndCircuses: The citizens of Union City seemingly live in a utopia, but they are highly oppressed, and the government has some very dark secrets.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Both Raquel and Poppy clearly have psychological problems after having been through some sort of mental conditioning.
* BreadAndCircuses: The citizens of Union City seemingly live in a utopia, but they are highly oppressed, and the government has some very dark secrets.
* ButNowIMustGo: Foster doesn't stay to rebuild the city but returns to the Gap with Milo. Same as he did in the first game.
* Catch22Dilemma: In order to get into the city, Foster needs an updated U-Chip. However, updates are only available in the city.
* Catch22Dilemma: In order to get into the city, Foster needs an updated U-Chip. However, updates are only available in the city.
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* CheerfulChild: Polly. Leet even comments that her happiness is [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap turned up to 11]], no doubt after her conditioning.
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* CheerfulChild: Polly. Poppy. Leet even comments that her happiness is [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap turned up to 11]], no doubt after her conditioning.conditioning.
* ComputersSpeakBinary: Inside MINOS, there is a path you have to fix where zeroes and ones are floating around.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Leet is one. Some of his theories are far out but his guess about the Minister of Aspiration being a reverse vampire [[RoboticReveal is close to the truth]].
* ComputersSpeakBinary: Inside MINOS, there is a path you have to fix where zeroes and ones are floating around.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Leet is one. Some of his theories are far out but his guess about the Minister of Aspiration being a reverse vampire [[RoboticReveal is close to the truth]].
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Alonso is about to shoot Joey when Joey [[BigDamnHeroes comes attacking]] from behind with his stun gun.
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* {{Cyberpunk}}: As with the original, it draws significantly from Creator/WilliamGibson's ''{{Literature/Neuromancer}}''. The city is replete with holograms, neon glow from 80s Cyberpunk, biomechanical implants, and Cyberspace.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The game carries on the [[InsideAComputerSystem LINCspace vision from the previous game]], and layers a [=MINOS=] administration user interface on top for newer functions.
* {{Cyborg}}: Strangely, this seems to be less common now than the previous game. While it was possibly commonplace in the past to have implants, Foster is the only such human still around with a Schriebmann port. [[spoiler:Leet had one, but later got rid of it]].
* {{Cyberspace}}: The game carries on the [[InsideAComputerSystem LINCspace vision from the previous game]], and layers a [=MINOS=] administration user interface on top for newer functions.
* {{Cyborg}}: Strangely, this seems to be less common now than the previous game. While it was possibly commonplace in the past to have implants, Foster is the only such human still around with a Schriebmann port. [[spoiler:Leet had one, but later got rid of it]].
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Joey dies in Foster's]] arms inside the MINOS simulation.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Alonso]] falling to his death into a pile of soda cans.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Joey probing other devices at the museum is played like sexual intercourse. Joey even wants Foster to look away and concludes with LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Joey probing other devices at the museum is played like sexual intercourse. Joey even wants Foster to look away and concludes with LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain.
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* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes (aping ''Film/BladeRunner'' and ''Literature/Neuromancer'') with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' (being set in the outback) and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' (a safe and clean society built hiding dark secrets) and even ''Film/TheFifthElement'' (overcrowding)
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* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes (aping ''Film/BladeRunner'' and ''Literature/Neuromancer'') ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'') with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' (being set in the outback) and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' (a safe and clean society built hiding dark secrets) and even ''Film/TheFifthElement'' (overcrowding)(overcrowding)
* EekAMouse: People freak out at the museum when a rat shows up.
* EEqualsMCHammer: Leet has whiteboards filled with scientific formulas in his lair. Foster remarks that there is an error in one of the formulas which just shows how much of a genius he is himself.
* EekAMouse: People freak out at the museum when a rat shows up.
* EEqualsMCHammer: Leet has whiteboards filled with scientific formulas in his lair. Foster remarks that there is an error in one of the formulas which just shows how much of a genius he is himself.
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* [[EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture Everything is an iPod in the Future]]: In the public areas, which have the overly clean gleam of consumer electronics. The industrial areas still have the UsedFuture aesthetic from the first game.
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* [[EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture Everything is an iPod in ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Joey's computer voice goes wobbly when [[spoiler: he dies]] inside MINOS.
* ElevatorEscape: In theFuture]]: finale, Foster escapes Joey with the elevator.
* EnemyRisingBehind: A stalker vehicle is [[https://youtu.be/D6WFEu8qx6c?t=20030 rising behind Foster]] when he talks to Orana above the Aspiration Gala.
* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: In the public areas, which have the overly clean gleam of consumer electronics. The industrial areas still have the UsedFuture aesthetic from the first game.
* ElevatorEscape: In the
* EnemyRisingBehind: A stalker vehicle is [[https://youtu.be/D6WFEu8qx6c?t=20030 rising behind Foster]] when he talks to Orana above the Aspiration Gala.
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* EyelessFace: Saviour Joey/Ken, whose entire body lacks discrete features other than limbs.
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* EyelessFace: Saviour Joey/Ken, whose entire EyeAmWatchingYou: The guard at the museum's old history area makes this gesture towards Foster who he deems a troublemaker. And rightly so.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs]], who both acts friend and pretends to be Leet, in order to steal Foster's bodylacks discrete features other than limbs.parts.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs]], who both acts friend and pretends to be Leet, in order to steal Foster's body
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* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs]], who both acts friend and pretends to be Leet, in order to steal Foster's body parts.
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* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs]], who both acts friend and pretends to be Leet, FetchQuest: Jimmy promises information in order to steal Foster's body parts.return for you fetching his moonshine.
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* GargleBlaster: Leet's ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']]) moonshine is described as an intense, practically undrinkable, conccotion.
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* FutureImperfect: The museum exhibition about the gaplands. Goats are assumed to be vicious predators.
* GargleBlaster: Leet's ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']]) moonshine is described as an intense, practically undrinkable,conccotion.concoction.
* GargleBlaster: Leet's ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']]) moonshine is described as an intense, practically undrinkable,
* GrievousBottleyHarm: You take care of Jimmy by [[spoiler: hitting him over his head with an empty bottle]].
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* HappinessInMindControl: Unhappy (or uncooperative) people are forced into more positive outlooks after being taken to [[spoiler:the spa]].
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* HappinessInMindControl: Unhappy (or uncooperative) people are forced into more positive outlooks after being taken to [[spoiler:the spa]].Reflection Center]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Joey board]] sacrifices himself to allow Foster and Orana to re-enter the city.
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* HelloInsertNameHere: If you listen [[https://youtu.be/D6WFEu8qx6c?t=4423 carefully]] to Greta when she addresses Foster as Graham Grundy, there is a small pause before she utters first and last name which seems like an homage to this trope by the creators.
* HeroicSacrifice:[[spoiler:The Joey board]] [[spoiler:Joey]] sacrifices himself to allow Foster and Orana Wendel's truck to re-enter safely exit the city.
* HeroicSacrifice:
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken, particularly as he went off the rails based upon a simple instruction. Contrast with the first game]].
* InsideAComputerSystem: The game carries on the [=LINCspace=] vision from the previous game, and layers a [=MINOS=] administration user interface on top for newer functions.
* InternalRetcon: Citizens get their problematic memories "fixed" at the Reflection Center.
* InternalRetcon: Citizens get their problematic memories "fixed" at the Reflection Center.
* MeaningfulRename: Spoofed. After being transferred into the stun robot, Joey wants to be called "Joey Prime". Foster is having nothing of this idea.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Cleaning-bot Joey remarks at one point that "spotless" is his middle name.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Cleaning-bot Joey remarks at one point that "spotless" is his middle name.
* MotiveRant: Before attempting to shoot Foster, [[spoiler:Alonso]] delivers a spiel about how the city successfully provides for its citizen. Foster reminds him at what costs this achievement comes.
* NeverGiveTheCaptainAStraightAnswer: Robot Joey doesn't straight up tell Foster that he found Milo in the Reflection Center room 5. Rather he commands Foster to follow him because there is "something he has to see".
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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime: Union City is unrecognizably transformed in just one decade.
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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime: Union City TheNotLoveInterest: Orana and Foster work well together but there is unrecognizably transformed in no romance developing.
* OhCrap: Several, but chiefly when Foster realizes that the council is justone decade.[[spoiler:a front for his old friend, Saviour Joey/Ken]].
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* OhCrap: Several, but chiefly when Foster realizes that the council is just [[spoiler:a front for his old friend, Saviour Joey/Ken]].
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* OhCrap: Several, but chiefly when Foster realizes that PanUpToTheSkyEnding: The game ends with a pan up to the council is just [[spoiler:a front for his old friend, Saviour Joey/Ken]].sky over the gapland.
* PlugNPlayTechnology: Power cells for industrial robots and trucks are interchangeable. Also, Foster can easily swap code snippets between devices to change their functionality.
* PointThatSomewhereElse: After Foster transfers Joey into the stun robot, he asks him to wield his new weapon carefully.
* PostCyberpunk: Subverted. While the original game was heavily based on {{Cyberpunk}}, Joey's restructuring since then has led to a more positive outlook of technology's impact on society. [[CrapsaccharineWorld On the surface anyway]].
* PointThatSomewhereElse: After Foster transfers Joey into the stun robot, he asks him to wield his new weapon carefully.
* PostCyberpunk: Subverted. While the original game was heavily based on {{Cyberpunk}}, Joey's restructuring since then has led to a more positive outlook of technology's impact on society. [[CrapsaccharineWorld On the surface anyway]].
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* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]], lives a life of servitude.
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* ShoutOut: The [[spoiler:stun robot at the recycling center]] is a reference to the Black Knight from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', quoting the movie almost verbatim.
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* ShoutOut: SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime: Union City is unrecognizably transformed in just one decade.
* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]], lives a life of servitude.
* ShoutOut:
** The [[spoiler:stun robot at the recycling center]] is a reference to the Black Knight from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', quoting the movie almostverbatim.verbatim.
** The Ministry of Plenty is one of the ministries in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]], lives a life of servitude.
* ShoutOut:
** The [[spoiler:stun robot at the recycling center]] is a reference to the Black Knight from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', quoting the movie almost
** The Ministry of Plenty is one of the ministries in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler:Joey]] falls over backward in slow motion when he dies in front of the Obermann chair.
* TowersOfHanoi: One puzzle inside MINOS consists of you having to move program blocks of different sizes from one place to another. You can only place a smaller block on top of a larger one.
* TrackingDevice: Songbird's toys have them [[spoiler:which helps you to locate Leet.]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Grundy (the real one), who was very out of shape, and Songbird.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Grundy (the real one), who was very out of shape, and Songbird.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Grundy (the real one), who was very out of shape, and Songbird.UnusualEuphemism: The "Reflection Center" where your memories get "fixed".
* VideoWills: After [[spoiler:Leet]]'s death, Foster finds a recorded message of his avatar inside MINOS.
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* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] reveals that the reason for the city's current state is [[spoiler:a directive from Foster himself]].
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* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] reveals that the reason for the city's current state is [[spoiler:a directive from [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Foster himself]].himself]]]].
* WhatYearIsThis: Robot Joey's first words after Foster revived him at the museum.
* WhatYearIsThis: Robot Joey's first words after Foster revived him at the museum.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: For a short time you play as the [[spoiler:Joey board when Foster is kidnapped]].
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* BondJamesBond: Used often during introductions all over the game.
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* FingerlessGloves: Foster wears these, as well as Voxel and Pixel.
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* GroinAttack: Leet's security robot has its taser arm at groin level.
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* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:Foster destroys the council members by pointing out the contradictions in what they do.]]
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* NostalgiaLevel:
** The Old History Exhibit in the museum contains props from the first game, along with original screenshots shown by the guide robot.
** The first part of [=LINCspace=] looks exactly the same as in the first game, with the same objects and similar gameplay. Even the music is recycled from the old game.
** The Old History Exhibit in the museum contains props from the first game, along with original screenshots shown by the guide robot.
** The first part of [=LINCspace=] looks exactly the same as in the first game, with the same objects and similar gameplay. Even the music is recycled from the old game.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Orana is this, especially compared to the AffablyEvil Alonso. [[spoiler:It turns out that she is [[GoodAllAlong working with Grundy to undermine the system]].]]
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* TheDragon: At first, Alonso looks like TheBigBad, but [[spoiler:he reports somewhere in the hierarchy to Saviour Joey/Ken]].
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* TheDragon: At first, Alonso looks like TheBigBad, but [[spoiler:he Alonso, who reports somewhere in the hierarchy to [[spoiler: Saviour Joey/Ken]].
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* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] justifies his actions in creating the five ministries. The ministries commit many horrors (killing, brainwashing, kidnapping, removal of free will) to create the perfect society.
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* EyelessFace: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]], whose entire body lacks discrete features other than limbs.
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* EyelessFace: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]], Saviour Joey/Ken, whose entire body lacks discrete features other than limbs.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Joey board]] sacrifices himself to allow Foster and Orana to re-enter the city.
* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward[[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]].Saviour Joey/Ken.
* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward
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* LeetLingo: One of the human characters is actually named "Leet," which though derived from his real name, is also a reference to his profession.
* MachineWorship: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "[[spoiler:Joey]]" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.
* MachineWorship: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "[[spoiler:Joey]]" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.
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* LeetLingo: One of the human characters is actually named "Leet," "Leet", which though derived from his real name, name Elliot, is also a reference to his profession.
* MachineWorship:[[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] Saviour Joey/Ken is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "[[spoiler:Joey]]" [[OhMyGods "Joey" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.phrases]].
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* PercussiveMaintenance: How Foster fixes [[spoiler:the bridge, as well as using when opening the truck]].
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* PercussiveMaintenance: How Foster fixes [[spoiler:the the bridge, as well as using when opening the truck]].truck.
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* RareGuns: Distance weapons can only be found on rare occasions. Even most enforcement robots use batons or a form of taser.
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* RobbingTheDead: Foster gets access to Union City by [[spoiler:stealing the identity of a dead man]].
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* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Tarquin takes care of all domestic activities in the Grundy household.
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* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Tarquin Chipworth takes care of all domestic activities in the Grundy household.
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* [[SacrificialLion/VideoGames Sacrificial Lion]]: [[spoiler:The Joey board]] sacrifices himself to allow Foster and Orana to re-enter the city.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Chipsworth innocently suggests what Alonso is doing with Songbird. Also, when Joey reprograms the barrel robot.
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%%* ALessonLearnedTooWell: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] implements the directive.
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* ExactWords: The overriding theme of the game is explored in how [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] interpreted his instructions ([[spoiler:make the people happy]], to mean that this directive should be executed at any cost.
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* ExactWords: The overriding theme of the game is explored in how [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] interpreted his instructions ([[spoiler:make the people happy]], happy]]), to mean that this directive should be executed at any cost.
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* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward Saviour Joey/Ken.[[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]].
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* MachineWorship: Saviour Joey/Ken is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "Joey" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.
* MeaningfulName: Almost all of the droids have names with some sort of meaning. For example, a butler droid is named "Chipsworth" (similar to [[Film/Clue Wadsworth]]) and a security droid is named 2CU (ie. "to see you.")
* MeaningfulName: Almost all of the droids have names with some sort of meaning. For example, a butler droid is named "Chipsworth" (similar to [[Film/Clue Wadsworth]]) and a security droid is named 2CU (ie. "to see you.")
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* MachineWorship: Saviour Joey/Ken [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]] is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "Joey" "[[spoiler:Joey]]" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.
* MeaningfulName: Almost all of the droids have names with some sort of meaning. For example, a butler droid is named "Chipsworth" (similar to[[Film/Clue [[Film/{{Clue}} Wadsworth]]) and a security droid is named 2CU (ie. "to see you.")
* MeaningfulName: Almost all of the droids have names with some sort of meaning. For example, a butler droid is named "Chipsworth" (similar to
* RacialFaceBlindness: Played with, when the droid 1CU expresses indignation at being mistaken for identical-looking robot 2CU.
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* {{Retcon}}: The crucial [[spoiler:last directive to Joey/Ken]] never actually happened onscreen in the first game.
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* {{Retcon}}: The crucial [[spoiler:last directive to Joey/Ken]] never actually happened onscreen in the original version of the first game.game, though its Remastered version for [=iOS=] was given an extended ending.
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* RobotBuddy: The Joey board, which Foster built as a child as his companion. They were separated for ten years, and the story reunites them [[spoiler:for a day]].
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* RobotBuddy: The Joey board, which Foster built as a child as his companion.companion, and provided frequent help in [[VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky the first game]]. They were separated for ten years, and the story reunites them [[spoiler:for a day]].
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''Beyond a Steel Sky'' is an AdventureGame developed by Creator/RevolutionSoftware and the sequel to 1994's ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky''. It was released on June 26, 2020 on the Apple Arcade, with a Steam release set for on July 16, 2020.
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%%* {{Hologram}}: The Greta AI, MINOS terminals, advertisements, the [[spoiler:fireworks]], and [[spoiler:the council]].
%%* [[HolographicTerminal Holographic Terminals]]: These are everywhere.
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* [[HolographicTerminal Holographic Terminals]]:
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* IronicName: The names of the five ministries, an allusion to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
%%* LeetLingo: The names of many of the robots. One of the human characters is actually named "Leet," which though derived from his real name, is also a reference to his profession.
%%* LeetLingo: The names of many of the robots. One of the human characters is actually named "Leet," which though derived from his real name, is also a reference to his profession.
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* IronicName: The names of the five ministries, such as the Ministry of Wellbeing, an allusion to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
%%*''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. On the surface, Wellbeing is concerned with just that, but it's actually a security agency.
* LeetLingo:The names of many of the robots. One of the human characters is actually named "Leet," which though derived from his real name, is also a reference to his profession.
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%%* RobbingTheDead: This is how Foster gets access to Union City.
%%* RobotBuddy: The Joey board.
%%* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Tarquin.
%%* RobotBuddy: The Joey board.
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%%* [[SacrificialLion/VideoGames Sacrificial Lion]]: [[spoiler:The Joey board]]
%%* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]].
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%%* TerminallyDependentSociety: This society seems to be somewhere between [[VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky the first game]] and ''WesternAnimation/WallE''.
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%%* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The children from the Gap]].
%%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Alonso and the council use this argument.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Alonso and [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken under the guise of]] the council use this
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%%* EyelessFace: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey/Ken]].
%%* FantasticNoir: Foster uses this to describe events, his intentions, or even communicating things that he should or shouldn't do.
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* FantasticNoir: Foster uses
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%%* GargleBlaster: Leet's ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']]) moonshine.
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%%* AffablyEvil: Alonso. Averted with other civil servants, who are merely PunchClockVillains.
%%* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey, particularly since the first game]].
%%* ALessonLearnedTooWell: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] implements the directive.
%%* AnArmAndALeg: Thanks to [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs.]]
%%* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey, particularly since the first game]].
%%* ALessonLearnedTooWell: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] implements the directive.
%%* AnArmAndALeg: Thanks to [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour
%%* ALessonLearnedTooWell: How [[spoiler:Saviour
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%%* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey's directive]], taken from the last thing Foster said to him in ''Beneath a Steel Sky''.
* BittersweetEnding: The citizens of Union City are free, and the [[spoiler:kidnapped children are rescued]], but [[spoiler:Leet]], [[spoiler:the Joey board]], and [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] are dead, and the [[TerminallyDependentSociety citizens of Union City]] now have to support themselves after having been dependent upon machines..
%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Raquel and Polly.
* BittersweetEnding: The citizens of Union City are free, and the [[spoiler:kidnapped children are rescued]], but [[spoiler:Leet]], [[spoiler:the Joey board]], and [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] are dead, and the [[TerminallyDependentSociety citizens of Union City]] now have to support themselves after having been dependent upon machines..
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* BittersweetEnding: The citizens of Union City are free, and the [[spoiler:kidnapped children are rescued]], but [[spoiler:Leet]], [[spoiler:the Joey board]], and [[spoiler:Saviour
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* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.
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* BigBad: The council, though it's ultimately averted, as [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] Joey/Ken]] turns out to be TheManBehindTheMan.
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%%* CrapsaccharineWorld: At first glance, Union City ''appears'' to be a [[FalseUtopia citizen's utopia]].
%%* {{Cyberpunk}}: As with the original, it draws significantly from Creator/WilliamGibson's ''{{Literature/Neuromancer}}''.
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* {{Cyberpunk}}: As with the original, it draws significantly from Creator/WilliamGibson's
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%%* TheDragon: On screen, Alonso, though it's not clear where exactly he sits in the hierarchy.
%%* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' and even ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
%%* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] justifies his actions in creating the five ministries.
%%* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' and even ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
%%* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] justifies his actions in creating the five ministries.
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* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes (aping ''Film/BladeRunner'' and ''Literature/Neuromancer'') with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' (being set in the outback) and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' (a safe and clean society built hiding dark secrets) and even
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%%* [[EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture Everything is an iPod in the Future]]: In the public areas. The industrial areas still have the UsedFuture aesthetic from the first game.
%%* ExactWords: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] interpreted his instructions.
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* HeelRealization: After Foster carefully shows [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] how the five well-intentioned ministries restrict freedom and equality.
* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward Saviour Joey.
* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward Saviour Joey.
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* HeelRealization: After Foster carefully shows [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] Joey/Ken]] how the five well-intentioned ministries restrict freedom and equality.
* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward SaviourJoey.Joey/Ken.
* HeroWorshipper: The entire society's attitude toward Saviour
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* MachineWorship: Saviour Joey is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "Joey" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.
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* MachineWorship: Saviour Joey Joey/Ken is regarded almost as a god, to the point of "Joey" being used in place of "God" in some phrases.
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* OhCrap: Several, but chiefly when Foster realizes that the council is just [[spoiler:a front for his old friend, Saviour Joey]].
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* OhCrap: Several, but chiefly when Foster realizes that the council is just [[spoiler:a front for his old friend, Saviour Joey]].Joey/Ken]].
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* PutOnABus: Everyone says this is what happened to Joey in that he walked into the desert five years ago. [[spoiler:Saviour Joey simply chose to create a fictional city council to increase human acceptance.]]
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* PutOnABus: Everyone says this is what happened to Joey in that he walked into the desert five years ago. [[spoiler:Saviour Joey Joey/Ken simply chose to create a fictional city council to increase human acceptance.]]
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%%* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]].
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%%* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]].Joey/Ken]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] was just doing what he was told, just like any computer would do.
%%* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] reveals the source of the directive.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] Joey/Ken]] was just doing what he was told, just like any computer would do.
%%* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:SaviourJoey]] Joey/Ken]] reveals the source of the directive.
%%* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:Saviour
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* AffablyEvil: Alonso. Averted with other civil servants, who are merely PunchClockVillains.
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey, particularly since the first game]].
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] implements the directive.
* AnArmAndALeg: Thanks to [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey, particularly since the first game]].
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] implements the directive.
* AnArmAndALeg: Thanks to [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs.]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey's directive]], taken from the last thing Foster said to him in ''Beneath a Steel Sky''.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Raquel and Polly.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: At first glance, Union City ''appears'' to be a [[FalseUtopia citizen's utopia]].
* {{Cyberpunk}}: As with the original, it draws significantly from Creator/WilliamGibson's ''{{Literature/Neuromancer}}''.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: As with the original, it draws significantly from Creator/WilliamGibson's ''{{Literature/Neuromancer}}''.
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* DeadSidekick: What happens to both [[spoiler:the Joey board and Saviour Joey]].
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* TheDragon: On screen, Alonso, though it's not clear where exactly he sits in the hierarchy.
* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' and even ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] justifies his actions in creating the five ministries.
* {{Dystopia}}: The dystopian setting combines traditional {{Cyberpunk}} themes with elements from Australian movies such as ''Film/MadMax'' and other movies such as ''Film/DemolitionMan'' and even ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] justifies his actions in creating the five ministries.
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* [[EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture Everything is an iPod in the Future]]: In the public areas. The industrial areas still have the UsedFuture aesthetic from the first game.
* ExactWords: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] interpreted his instructions.
* ExactWords: How [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] interpreted his instructions.
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* EyelessFace: [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]].
* FantasticNoir: Foster uses this to describe events, his intentions, or even communicating things that he should or shouldn't do.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs]].
* GargleBlaster: Leet's ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']]) moonshine.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: What Chipsworth innocently suggests Alonso is doing with Songbird. Also, when Joey reprograms the barrel robot.
* FantasticNoir: Foster uses this to describe events, his intentions, or even communicating things that he should or shouldn't do.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jimmy the Thumbs]].
* GargleBlaster: Leet's ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']]) moonshine.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: What Chipsworth innocently suggests Alonso is doing with Songbird. Also, when Joey reprograms the barrel robot.
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* HappinessInMindControl: Unhappy (or uncooperative) people are taken to [[spoiler:the spa]].
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* {{Hologram}}: The Greta AI, MINOS terminals, advertisements, the [[spoiler:fireworks]], and [[spoiler:the council]].
* [[HolographicTerminal Holographic Terminals]]: These are everywhere.
* [[IdenticalLookingAsians Identical Looking Robots]]: The droid 1CU expresses indignation at being mistaken for 2CU.
* [[HolographicTerminal Holographic Terminals]]: These are everywhere.
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* RobbingTheDead: This is how Foster gets access to Union City.
* RobotBuddy: The Joey board.
* [[RobotMaid Robot Butler]]: Tarquin.
* RobotBuddy: The Joey board.
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* [[SacrificialLion/VideoGames Sacrificial Lion]]: [[spoiler:The Joey board]]
* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]].
* ServantRace: Every robot in the game, save potentially [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]].
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* TerminallyDependentSociety: This society seems to be somewhere between [[VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky the first game]] and ''WesternAnimation/WallE''.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:The children from the Gap]].
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* WhamLine: When [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] reveals the source of the directive.
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* FakeAustralian: The game is almost certainly set in post-apocalyptic Australia, but only a small number of characters (mainly those outside the city) actually have anything approaching an Australian accent. The remainder of the characters have a variety of regional British accents (probably due to the game's creators being British), a generic Midwestern American accent (for Foster), or even New York City accents (in the case of 1CU and 2CU.)
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''Beyond a Steel Sky'' is an AdventureGame developed by Creator/RevolutionSoftware and the sequel to 1994's ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky''. It was released on June 26, 2020 on the Apple Arcade, with a Steam release set for July 16, 2020.
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* FakeAustralian: The game is almost certainly set in post-apocalyptic Australia, but only a small number of characters (mainly those outside the city) actually have anything approaching an Australian accent. The remainder of the characters have a variety of regional British accents (probably due to the game's creators being British), a generic Midwestern American accent (for Foster), or even New York City accents (in the case of 1CU and 2CU.)
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* NightmareFuel: Given what Officer Orana says about her history, [[spoiler:Saviour Joey is implied to have been abducting children for a long time]]. Also, the fate of Asio City.
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''Beyond a Steel Sky'' is an AdventureGame and the 2020 sequel to 1994's ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky''. It was released on June 26, 2020 on the Apple Arcade, with a Steam release set for July 16, 2020.
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''Beyond a Steel Sky'' is the 2020 sequel to 1994's ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky''. It was released on 26 June 26, 2020 on the Apple Arcade, with a Steam release set for a later date.
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* CelShading: The game adopts such style following the lepa to 3D, in order to preserve the comic book styled art direction.
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* CelShading: The game adopts such style following the lepa leap to 3D, in order to preserve the comic book styled art direction.
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* BittersweetEnding: The citizens of Union City are free, and the [[spoiler:kidnapped children are rescued]], but Leet, [[spoiler:the Joey board]], and [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] are dead, and the [[TerminallyDependentSociety citizens of Union City]] now have to support themselves.
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* BittersweetEnding: The citizens of Union City are free, and the [[spoiler:kidnapped children are rescued]], but Leet, [[spoiler:Leet]], [[spoiler:the Joey board]], and [[spoiler:Saviour Joey]] are dead, and the [[TerminallyDependentSociety citizens of Union City]] now have to support themselves.themselves after having been dependent upon machines..
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Foster's quest takes him to a museum where he stumbles upon an old friend ([[spoiler:Joey]].)
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Foster's quest takes him to a museum where he stumbles upon an old friend ([[spoiler:Joey]].)([[spoiler:The Joey board]].)
* CheerfulChild: Polly.
* CheerfulChild: Polly.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Strangely, this seems to be less common now than the previous game. While it was possibly commonplace in the past to have implants, Foster is the only such human still around with a Schriebmann port. Leet had one, but later got rid of it.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Strangely, this seems to be less common now than the previous game. While it was possibly commonplace in the past to have implants, Foster is the only such human still around with a Schriebmann port. Leet [[spoiler:Leet had one, but later got rid of it.it]].
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* GargleBlaster: Leet's [[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']] moonshine.
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* GargleBlaster: Leet's [[spoiler:actually, ([[spoiler:actually, Jimmy the Thumbs']] Thumbs']]) moonshine.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: The children from the Gap.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: The [[spoiler:The children from the Gap.Gap]].