History VideoGame / FearEffect

* BareYourMidriff: Hana, in about half her outfits.

** One of Hana's death scenes involves turning into a golden statue, much like one of ''VideoGame/TombRaider''[='=]s most famous death scene.

* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: All threee games have this as their good endings. Otherwise, one, maybe two named characters are still alive at the end.]]

* RapeAsDrama=/=RapeAsComedy: The pendulum swings back and forth between this in ''Fear Effect 2'', when Hana finds Rain strapped to the bug thing, she is genuinely horrified, and later asks Rain if she's alright. In the very next scene, both are cracking jokes about it.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: After losing his arm,]] Glas starts becoming increasingly unhinged.

** Glas encounters [[spoiler: the first emperor of China]] and they have a short dialogue that was clearly taken from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' and paraphrased a little bit. When Glas fights this fellow, said fellow uses an attack that was clearly lifted from a certain black-robed figure in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: In ''Fear Effect'', you get 3 endings. The first two depends on who you choose in the MexicanStandoff at the end. The third however, in which both Hana and Glas lower their guns, can only be gotten by playing on hard.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Wee Ming bounces back from having her throat slit remarkably fast.]]

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* WereStillRelevantDammit: On the far right side of the second floor of the Wing Chun Tower, is a group of people doing the Macarena. Keep in mind this game takes place about 50 years after it was released.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Hana's green party gown in ''Fear Effect 2''. As Rain said, "You're wearing ''that?!'' Why don't you just walk in there naked?!"

Due to the interest ''Sedna'' drew, a remake of the first game, titled ''Fear Effect Reinvented'', is in development. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxIJuzBH1Y teaser trailer]] was released on August 24th, 2022.

A third game titled ''Fear Effect: Inferno'' was planned to be released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. However, it was ultimately cancelled.

A French indie developer Sushee (with the blessing of the IP holder Square Enix) launched a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sushee/fear-effect-sedna campaign]] in 2016 for a new game titled ''Fear Effect Sedna'' and released it on March 6, 2018. ''Sedna'' takes place four years after the events of the first game. Due to the interest this game drew, a remake of the first game, titled ''Fear Effect Reinvented'', is in development.

* NiceHat: Deke, as typical of an Australian, wears a slouch hat.

* ImmuneToBullets: inverted, as supernatural monsters and products of perverted science alike can be taken down with sufficient firepower.

* InsistentTerminology: Deke is not fat, he's stocky.

* Backtracking: Hell in the first game, and the Wing Chune gardens and 86th floor in the second, are particularly egregious examples, but in general you can expect to see the same rooms over and over wherever you are.

* ChineseVampire: In The Temple of Xi'an in the second game.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Rain lost her memory of her past when she crossed from Penglai Shan into the real world, but conveniently retained her prodigious technical skills. (She apparently regained her memory of her family when she crossed back, but that doesn't explain why the same didn't happen to Deke, who was unknowingly another of Rachel's experiments.)

* DifficultySpike: The second disc is a ''lot'' harder than the first, at least until Rain gets the Arc Taser (and even then...), because unlike the predictable enemies in the aqueducts, the Wing Chune guards patrol randomly and can come running at you from multiple angles in groups of three or four. As for trying to fight the biohazard forces when you're armed only with the feeble Plasma Wrist...

* MexicanStandoff: Part of the first game's climax. [[spoiler:You choose who fires first, and it decides your ending. On Hard, however, [[TakeAThirdOption you don't have to choose]], and both characters make it out alive.]]

* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: Both games have this as their good endings. Otherwise, one, maybe two named characters are still alive at the end.]]

* BrickJoke: At the start of the game, when Hana asks Jin if the mission has an exit plan, he mockingly suggests that she and Rain just walk out of the front door. Two discs later, they do exactly that. "Ta-ta!"

** Her sister Mist, is an EvilTwin demi god with plans to take over the world.

* CasanovaWannabe: "Big" Tom tries a bunch of lame come ons towards Hana with zero effect. One gets the feeling if they weren't in a crowded room she would have shot him.

** Rain is an amnesiac demi god whose own family tries to bring about the end of the world.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: In the first game, during the brothel scene, [[spoiler: you can't save Deke, regardless which choice you make. He will be killed in an unskipable cutscene when Madam Chen corners him]].

* ButNotTooForeign: Hana is a mix of French and Chinese.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The games regularly switch between all available characters at such a rapid pace you can struggle to acclimate yourself to them.