History VideoGame / OperatorsSide

* TooDumbToLive: Rio wants to be an ActionGirl real bad, but without your orders she'll die horribly. This also is exemplified when the commander of the rescue team ([[spoiler: really a mercenary squad sent to cover up the events]]) is attacked by a psychic alien that stops all of his bullets. Despite pleading for him to run, if the operator doesn't have Rio book it herself, she'll stay behind and both promptly die. Despite her knowing ''full well'' that she can't beat it and having been running away just beforehand!

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rio, the cute cocktail waitress you have to guide and help throughout the game, [[spoiler: was wounded fatally and lost her family in the past due to an associate to her father's research betraying them all.]] Turns out she's followed leads involving this and ended up at the hotel as a result.

* FreezeFrameBonus: During the above scene, [[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.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Jim Powers gets offed by Rio in a [[CutsceneBoss cutscene,]] but shortly thereafter he pulls out one last trick up his sleeve by mutating himself with his fake Philosopher's Stone to become a gargantuan beast. [[UnexpectedGameplayChange And then gets an entirely different boss fight from the normal play mechanics.]]]]

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[spoiler: The story acts like the Philosopher's Stone, both real and fake, can cause a sort of mix of scientific and magical cursing that deteriorates a living being without killing it, which is what created the "alien" monsters in the first place. And yet Rio seems to have absolutely no benefits or detriments from having the real stone as her ''heart'' despite it reviving her in her backstory, and easily dies horribly in failed quick time events; by the time TheReveal is made, the only fight left is the FinalBoss in an abnormal situation that endangers the operator just as equally.]]

* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: The BigBad gets Rio at gunpoint and, after much EvilGloating and JustBetweenYouAndMe, shoots her in the heart with a shotgun as an attempt to replicate how he thought he killed her as a child. And then he gets proliferated from behind a minute later. Turns out the real Philosopher's Stone he'd been seeking was put into Rio's chest wound by her mortally-wounded father, which not only revived her then but stops the bullet now.]]

* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: The BigBad gets Rio at gun point and, after much EvilGloating and JustBetweenYouAndMe, shoots her in the heart with a shotgun as an attempt to replicate how he thought he killed her as a child. And then he gets proliferated from behind a minute later. Turns out the real Philosopher's Stone he'd been seeking was put into Rio's chest wound by her mortally-wounded father, which not only revived her then but stops the bullet now.]]

* TomTheDarkLord: [[spoiler: While the BigBad is seemingly a man named Kraft, it turns out he'd changed his name long ago to an English equivalent you keep hearing throughout your adventure as a supposedly dead guest: Jim Powers. The twist that Kraft and Jim are the same is supposed to be played for ''drama.'']]

* TomTheDarkLord: [[spoiler: While the BigBad is seemingly a man named Kraft, it turns out he'd changed his name long ago to an english equivalent you keep hearing throughout your adventure as a supposedly dead guest: Jim Powers.]]

* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: The BigBad gets Rio at gun point and, after much EvilGloating and JustBetweenYouAndMe, shoots her in the heart with a shotgun as an attempt to replicate how he thought he killed her as a child. And then he gets proliferated from behind a minute later. Turns out the real Philospher's Stone he'd been seeking was put into Rio's chest wound by her mortally-wounded father, which not only revived her then but stops the bullet now.]]

* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: The BigBad gets Rio at gun point and, after much EvilGloating and JustBetweenYouAndMe, shoots her in the heart with a shotgun as an attempt to replicate how he thought he killed her as a child. And then gets proliferated a minute later. Turns out the real Philospher's Stone he'd been seeking was put into Rio's chest wound by her mortally-wounded father, which not only revived her then but stops the bullet here judging by the lack of blood or a bullet wound.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: 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.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After giving her father's BrainInAJar a MercyKill without him even realizing it was her, and having Naomi die in her arms only minutes later after all the effort in trying to find and rescue her, Rio suffers a brief but severe breakdown. The operator ends up snapping her out of it, [[ButThouMust not that there are any other options.]]]]

* ShootTheShaggyDog: One of your side objectives is to find Naomi, your player character's girlfriend. [[spoiler: She was personally turned into a creature by the BigBad and experimented on behind the scenes to become a powerful psychic monstrosity, and ultimately kills herself once she realizes you're safe but her powers have been unintentionally hurting others.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Rio not only was searching for information as to who killed her father and shot her as a child, but has the true, original Philosopher's Stone in her chest the entire time.]]

* [[spoiler:PhilosophersStone: Invented by a distant ancestor 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 once they were both shot by [[BigBad Jim Powers.]] Imperfect copies of the Stone are responsible for transforming the humans aboard the hotel into alien monstrosities.]]

* [[spoiler:PhilosophersStone: Invented by Rio's father, and currently inside of Rio herself as a replacement for her heart. Imperfect copies of the Stone are responsible for transforming the humans aboard the hotel into alien monstrosities.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Besides Rio, the player, and a small handful of survivors, every other named character dies either by the creatures, or by Rio's hand after they were converted into a monster.]]

''If you are looking for the mobile game series'' Lifeline'', see [[InteractiveFiction/{{Lifeline}} this]] page.''

!!Provides examples of:

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] [[ForMassiveDamage 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 twisters with her.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Surprisingly, quite a few commands/questions avoid [[NoFourthWall breaking the fourth wall.]] The first such example is asking Rio how to open the door to the room she's stuck in, which she will give (completely useless to the player) instructions on how to activate the door.

* NonstandardGameOver: 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.

* PuzzleBoss: One early boss involves watching a near-invincible monster's movement pattern and having Rio throw a homemade Molotov Cocktail at ''just'' the right moment. Get the timing wrong, or wait too long, and [[NonstandardGameOver what follows]] [[TheManyDeathsOfYou isn't pleasant]]. [[note]]The time limit factor is particularly annoying, given that she lights it ''before'' a fairly long cutscene where she reviews your plan yet ''again''.[[/note]]

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] - you're the one talking here.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: Rio gets pissed off if you swear at her. [[GuessTheVerb And you will.]]

''Operator's Side'', also known as ''Lifeline'', was a PlayStation2 game by Creator/{{Konami}} 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.