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''You may be looking for the mobile game series ''VideoGame/{{Lifeline}}'' instead. Or the Series/StarTrekVoyager episode, Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E24LifeLine''

''Operator's Side'', released as ''Lifeline'' in North America by Creator/{{Konami}}, was a 2004 UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game by Sony Computer Entertainment (now known today as Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment) that attempted a new spin on the SurvivalHorror genre by making the player MissionControl. Set in the year 2029, it casts the player as a young man visiting a newly opened, state-of-the-art hotel inside an orbiting SpaceStation. After monsters crash the party, the player awakens inside the station's main control center, with no clue as to how he arrived there or where his girlfriend is.

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''You may be looking for the mobile game series ''VideoGame/{{Lifeline}}'' instead. Or the Series/StarTrekVoyager episode, Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E24LifeLine''

''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E24LifeLine "Life Line"]].''

''Operator's Side'', released as ''Lifeline'' in North America by Creator/{{Konami}}, was is a 2004 UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 Platform/PlayStation2 game by Sony Computer Entertainment (now known today as Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment) that attempted a new spin on the SurvivalHorror genre by making the player MissionControl. Set in the year 2029, it casts the player as a young man visiting a newly opened, state-of-the-art hotel inside an orbiting SpaceStation. After monsters crash the party, the player awakens inside the station's main control center, with no clue as to how he arrived there or where his girlfriend is.



Instead of controlling Rio directly via a gamepad, the user gives her commands over a USB headset, with scripted voice commands such as 'shoot [the] [[AttackItsWeakPoint head (or other weak point)]], 'dodge left/right/back', 'turn left/right', 'stop', 'run' and so on. The player can also direct Rio during cutscenes, make small talk, and even restore her health by playing {{tongue twister}}s with her.

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Instead of controlling Rio directly via a gamepad, the user gives her commands over a USB headset, with scripted voice commands such as 'shoot "shoot [the] [[AttackItsWeakPoint head (or other weak point)]], 'dodge left/right/back', 'turn left/right', 'stop', 'run' point)]]", "dodge left/right/back", "turn left/right", "stop", "run", and so on. The player can also direct Rio during cutscenes, make small talk, and even restore her health by playing {{tongue twister}}s with her.



* ActionGirl: When everything works right, Rio is a small OneManArmy against the monsters in her path and mows them down with extreme accuracy. [[FakeDifficulty When everything doesn't work right]] or the player doesn't cooperate with her, Rio turns into a FauxActionGirl by either refusing to do anything to protect herself properly or flatout botching orders and missing shots.

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* ActionGirl: When everything works right, Rio is a small OneManArmy against the monsters in her path and mows them down with extreme accuracy. [[FakeDifficulty When everything doesn't work right]] or the player doesn't cooperate with her, Rio turns into a FauxActionGirl by either refusing to do anything to protect herself properly or flatout flat-out botching orders and missing shots.



* ButNotTooForeign: Rio Hoeinheim is half-Japanese, half-German. [[spoiler:Turns out this is somewhat plot relevant.]]

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* ButNotTooForeign: Rio Hoeinheim is half-Japanese, half-German. [[spoiler:Turns out this is somewhat plot relevant.plot-relevant.]]



* CollectionSidequest: The sixteen chips.

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* CollectionSidequest: CollectionSidequest:
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The sixteen chips.



* DamnYouMuscleMemory: In this game, Square is Select, not X. This has thrown many people off already.

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* DamnYouMuscleMemory: In this game, Square is Select, not X. This has thrown X, which tends to throw off many people off already.first-time players.



* EasterEgg: Very early on, when Rio forgets the name of your girlfriend, if you answer with the name of Rio's voice actress instead of "Naomi", she'll remark about how that name sounds familiar, but isn't the name of the girlfriend. Likewise, if you answer with Rio's own name, she wonders how you could possibly know it.

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Very early on, when Rio forgets the name of your girlfriend, if you answer with the name of Rio's voice actress instead of "Naomi", she'll remark about how that name sounds familiar, but isn't the name of the girlfriend. Likewise, if you answer with Rio's own name, she wonders how you could possibly know it.



* FissionMailed: Throughout the game and even shortly beforehand, the operator is usually required to give a command to Rio or at least say something or another to keep her alive in tense cutscenes. But right before the end, [[spoiler:the BigBad just shoots her outright in a cutscene.]] A GenreSavvy player is probably quick to assume LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt, and it's confirmed not even twenty seconds later. [[spoiler:After she lights him up with her machinegun.]]

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* FissionMailed: Throughout the game and even shortly beforehand, the operator is usually required to give a command to Rio or at least say something or another to keep her alive in tense cutscenes. But right before the end, [[spoiler:the BigBad just shoots her outright in a cutscene.]] cutscene]]. A GenreSavvy player is probably quick to assume LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt, it's a fakeout, and it's confirmed not even twenty seconds later. [[spoiler:After she lights him up with her machinegun.]]



* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:After the BigBad is filled with lead courtesy of Rio,]] pay attention and you'll notice [[spoiler:he's still moving his head and thus barely survived long enough to go OneWingedAngel]].

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* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:After the After [[spoiler:the BigBad is filled with lead courtesy of Rio,]] Rio]], pay attention and you'll notice [[spoiler:he's still moving his head and thus barely survived long enough to go OneWingedAngel]].



* GenreShift: For most of the game, it plays itself up as a sort of sci-fi survival horror. Towards the endgame, however, [[spoiler:seemingly-magical Philosopher's Stones start popping up, there's a conspiracy involving the research on them, and the BigBad's plans reach ludicrous levels amidst revelations about Rio's past]] as the story transforms into a fast-and-loose thriller with light fantasy elements.

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* GenreShift: For most of the game, it plays itself up as a sort of sci-fi survival horror. Towards the endgame, however, [[spoiler:seemingly-magical [[spoiler:seemingly magical Philosopher's Stones start popping up, there's a conspiracy involving the research on them, and the BigBad's plans reach ludicrous levels amidst revelations about Rio's past]] as the story transforms into a fast-and-loose thriller with light fantasy elements.



** When Rio very politely asks you to help her, saying no [[RuleOfThree 3 times]] will result in Rio shooting the camera, walking out of the room, and dying off-screen. This can also happen later on with a similar result.
** Failing to tell Rio the right command during certain scenes can result in her dying horribly and a send back to your last save.

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** When Rio very politely asks you to help her, saying no [[RuleOfThree 3 three times]] will result in Rio shooting the camera, walking out of the room, and dying off-screen. This can also happen later on with a similar result.
** Failing to tell Rio the right command during certain scenes can result in her dying horribly and a send horribly, sending back to your last save.save in the process.



* TheScream: [[spoiler:As Rio takes her machine gun to several canisters of copied Philosopher's stones.]]

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* TheScream: [[spoiler:As Rio takes her machine gun to several canisters of copied Philosopher's stones.Stones.]]



* ShipTease: Rio with the operator (aka: [[PlayerCharacter you]]), as the game has multiple bonding moments over the course of the story that almost seem to exist solely to do this. You can be quite blunt about turning her down, not that it seems to change Rio's mind much despite the operator having a girlfriend they're trying to rescue. [[spoiler:Considering you two escape the exploding space station together and Naomi entrusts your protection to Rio before she dies, it's pretty obvious what angle the developers were going for.]]

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* ShipTease: Rio with the operator (aka: (aka [[PlayerCharacter you]]), as the game has multiple bonding moments over the course of the story that almost seem to exist solely to do this. You can be quite blunt about turning her down, not that it seems to change Rio's mind much despite the operator having a girlfriend they're trying to rescue. [[spoiler:Considering you two escape the exploding space station together and Naomi entrusts your protection to Rio before she dies, it's pretty obvious what angle the developers were going for.]]



* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: {{Inverted|Trope}} - you're the one talking here.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: Rio gets pissed off if you swear at her. [[YouCantGetYeFlask And you will.]]

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: {{Inverted|Trope}} - -- you're the one talking here.
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Rio gets pissed off if you swear at her. [[YouCantGetYeFlask And you will.]]
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* MsFanservice: Rio.
* NewGamePlus

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* ShipTease: Rio with the operator (aka: [[PlayerCharacter you]]), as the game has multiple bonding moments over the course of the story that almost seem to exist solely to do this. You can be quite blunt about turning her down, not that it seems to change Rio's mind much despite the operator having a girlfriend they're trying to rescue. [[spoiler: Considering you two escape the exploding space station together and Naomi entrusts your protection to Rio before she dies, it's pretty obvious what angle the developers were going for.]]

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* ShipTease: Rio with the operator (aka: [[PlayerCharacter you]]), as the game has multiple bonding moments over the course of the story that almost seem to exist solely to do this. You can be quite blunt about turning her down, not that it seems to change Rio's mind much despite the operator having a girlfriend they're trying to rescue. [[spoiler: Considering [[spoiler:Considering you two escape the exploding space station together and Naomi entrusts your protection to Rio before she dies, it's pretty obvious what angle the developers were going for.]]



* ThirdPersonSeductress: Rio.

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* GemHeart: [[spoiler:Rio has the]] PhilosophersStone as this.

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* GemHeart: [[spoiler:Rio has the]] PhilosophersStone as this.one.



* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler:After getting Rio at gunpoint, the BigBad [[LargeHam openly lists]] pretty much every single atrocity he's committed to Rio's face as well as his overall plans just to be a {{Jerkass}} because he's ''evil''. Though partially {{subverted|Trope}} in that he doesn't fall for WhyDontYouJustShootHim and promptly blasts Rio immediately after.]]

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* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler:After getting Rio at gunpoint, the BigBad [[LargeHam openly lists]] pretty much every single atrocity he's committed to Rio's face as well as his overall plans just to be a {{Jerkass}} because he's ''evil''. Though partially {{subverted|Trope}} in that However, he doesn't fall for WhyDontYouJustShootHim and promptly blasts Rio immediately after.]]



* PhilosophersStone: Invented by a distant ancestor [[spoiler:of Rio, protected by her family and currently inside of Rio herself as a replacement for her heart as a last-ditch effort from her dying father to save her life as a child once they were both shot. Imperfect copies of the Stone are responsible for transforming the humans aboard the hotel into alien monstrosities in the BigBad's pursuit of perfecting a recreation of it.]]

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* PhilosophersStone: Invented by a distant ancestor [[spoiler:of Rio, protected by her family and currently inside of Rio herself serving as a replacement for her heart as a last-ditch effort from her dying father to save her life as a child once they were both shot. for Rio. Imperfect copies of the Stone are responsible for transforming the humans aboard the hotel into alien monstrosities in the BigBad's pursuit of perfecting a recreation of it.monstrosities.]]
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* MarketBasedTitle: Known as Lifeline in North America. Operator's Side was used in Asia.
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* GameplayProtagonistStoryProtagonist: YOU are the voice on the other end, trapped in the control center of a monster-infested space station, helping the heroine through the puzzles and combat in the game.

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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Tying into [[{{Fanservice}} Rio's real role]].

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* BoobsAndButtPose: Rio has her back turned in the game's cover art, with her head turned towards the viewer and her breasts and butt in display.
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* ShipTease: Rio with the operator (aka: [[PlayerCharacter you]]), as the game has multiple bonding moments over the course of the story that almost seem to exist solely to do this. You can be quite blunt about turning her down, not that it seems to change Rio's mind much despite the operator having a girlfriend they're trying to rescue. [[spoiler: Considering you two escape the exploding space station together and Naomi entrusts your protection to Rio before she dies, it's pretty obvious what angle the developers were going for.]]
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:Besides Rio, the player, and a small handful of survivors that get rescued shortly after meeting them and disappear from the plot, every other named character dies either by the creatures, or by Rio's hand after they were converted into a monster (excluding Naomi by [[HeroicSacrifice technicality]]).]]



* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Besides Rio, the player, and a small handful of survivors that get rescued shortly after meeting them and disappear from the plot, every other named character dies either by the creatures, or by Rio's hand after they were converted into a monster (excluding Naomi by [[HeroicSacrifice technicality]]).]]
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Unfortunately, the voice recognition system wasn't very well polished; Rio frequently misunderstood commands or acted inaccurately, and the player had to speak very calmly and clearly to be understood. Conversations were limited to simple nouns and verbs, [[YouCantGetYeFlask which became very frustrating]] during the game's many puzzles.

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Unfortunately, the voice recognition system wasn't very well polished; Rio frequently misunderstood commands or acted inaccurately, and the player had to speak very calmly and clearly to be understood. Conversations were limited to simple nouns and verbs, [[YouCantGetYeFlask which became very frustrating]] during the game's many puzzles.
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* HollywoodNerd: Alan Young is the {{Jerkass}} and DirtyCoward variant, completely with awkwardly coming on to Rio after insulting and belittling her several times.
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** When Rio very politely asks you to help her, [[WhatAnIdiot saying no]] [[RuleOfThree 3 times]] will result in Rio shooting the camera, walking out of the room, and dying off-screen. This can also happen later on with a similar result.

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** When Rio very politely asks you to help her, [[WhatAnIdiot saying no]] no [[RuleOfThree 3 times]] will result in Rio shooting the camera, walking out of the room, and dying off-screen. This can also happen later on with a similar result.

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