History VideoGame / CoralIsland

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler: Ling. [[AmbiguouslyRelated Keen-eyed players can find a photo in Princess Miranjani's room of a mermaid that looks eerily similar to Ling holding the infant princess in her arms.]] [[AmbiguousSituation Whether Ling and Miranjani's missing aunt are the same person is anyone's guess]] but there are several heavy implications Ling (or perhaps, "Aunt Liang") is more than she lets on. One line of dialogue from Ling at the Tree Planting Festival even hints at this possible connection.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler: Ling. [[AmbiguouslyRelated Keen-eyed players can find a photo in Princess Miranjani's room of a mermaid that looks eerily similar to Ling holding the infant princess in her arms.]] [[AmbiguousSituation Whether Ling and Miranjani's missing aunt are the same person is anyone's guess]] but there are several heavy implications Ling (or perhaps, "Aunt Liang") is more than she lets on.]]

* PressXToDie: The Black Honey made from Titan Arum or Rafflesia flowers is technically edible and the game description [[SchmuckBait even describes it as "delectable"]], but it has an energy restoration of 0 and health restoration of -300. If the player doesn't notice those numbers before eating it, they might be in for an emergency trip for the clinic.

** Minor one, but another common complaint of Videogame/StardewValley is that once you fully upgraded your barn or coop there's no way to take out feed, since the auto-feeder takes away your ability, and all hay you obtain with your scythe gets added automatically to the silo, so if the silo is already full the hay is lost. Coral Island makes the autofeed a craftable item, so you can decide when to add it or not add it at all, and the feed hop does not get replaced, you can still take out feed if you want to for any reason.

* ForeignCultureFetish: Charles is Caucasian, but his house, and particularly his bedroom is covered in Japanese decor, down to having a low table and japanese floor chairs and cushions, a shoji screen hiding his ([[MenCantKeepHouse pretty messy]]) wardrobe area and a ManekiNeko by the door. Not to mention that he wears a Buddhist mala as a bracelet (visible in some of his character portraits).

* TheFaceless: All five of the Giants you meet wear full masks without even a face drawn on them, just eye holes and multicolored swirls for decorarions. Furthering this, there are no eyes behind the eyeholes either, just the same slate grey color as their bodies, so it's currently unknown [[EyelessFace if they even have eyes]].

* NonIndicativeName: The Giants aren't really that giant. Except for the chieftain they're all shorter than the player's avatar, and he might only be so because of the large headdress he wears. When they decide to go to town and observe humans, they have to have two of them do the TotemPoleTrench gag to be tall enough to pass for an adult human!

* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Sunny and Eleanor appear to be middle aged or even older, yet they have a son of the same age as Valentina, Archie and Zoe. You'd be forgiven for thinking Oliver was their grandson. [[note]]For contrast: Bree and Walter appear to be younger than Eleanor and Sunny, and yet they have a fully grown son, old enough to be Oliver's father.[[/note]]

** The settings menu gives you the chance to slow down up speed up the passage of time in-game. So if you want a more relaxed experience or you need those processing machines to be done already, you can change it to suit your needs without having to use third party mods.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: After they've been pushed against the ropes due to the farmer improving the town's rating, Pufferfish decides to [[spoiler: go ahead with a hostile takeover of the town by forcing a recall vote on Major Connor and having Karen run for Major]]. It's an inelegant plan but a plan nonetheless. The problem comes in that they [[spoiler: need to get a majority of the town to sign to force the recall vote. After the whole town has been trying to get them to leave, why would anyone help them? Much less now that the town ranking has been improved.]] Their empty promises are so out of touch that it's clear they have no clue on what goes on in town, such as promising Sam a discount on importing goods, when the farmer already supplies Sam with plenty of goods of better quality and exempt of import tax altogether, something Sam himself points out.

* BehindEveryGreatMan: Connor might have the title of Mayor, but it is Millie who runs the city government and all related city departments like the museum; Scott (the museum curator) reports directly to her and she writes the annual reviews of other city employees.

* RapePillageAndBurn: According to Scott, the original inhabitants of the island were attacked by Pirates who decided to turn the island into their base of operation, oppressing the locals. Eventually the populace fought back and managed to reclaim their island.

* NoIndoorVoice: Sunny. Compared to the other townsfolk, his dialogue is written in CapsLock, giving the impression that he is shouting or speaking loudly. A scene showing a parent-teacher conference indicates it's because he's hard of hearing.

* ThickerThanWater: Pablo considers Suki and Alice his cousins, despite the fact that Antonio and Suki are divorced. [[note]]TruthInTelevision, Latin families consider in-laws as part of the family, and a divorce (specially an amicable one like that of Antonio and Suki) does not mean the family link has been dissolved, and will remain in close contact specially when there are kids, like Valentina in this case.[[/note]]

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: You don't have to worry about running out of air while diving, even if you stay down there practically all day (though your character will automatically surface when it gets too late in the evening).