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* HasTwoMommies: Gabriel's parents are two female Preventers. It's intentionally left vague whether his conception was magical or mundane.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: A rare case in the Athlete's story - drug-using cheaters ''win'', but are subsequently caught and stripped of their titles.

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* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The puzzles often reflect the plot. For example, one character's futile attempts to save her son are illustrated by an unwinnable puzzle.
* HasTwoMommies: Gabriel's parents are two female Preventers. It's intentionally left vague whether his conception was magical or mundane.



* SadisticChoice: The player must decide which one of the five characters will get their chance of redemption. To do this, you are required to pick between two of the characters at a time to take one step closer to the mirror. Whoever takes three steps is the chosen one, and you play three of their puzzles to redeem them. Meanwhile, during each choosing both characters are begging for a chance to fix their mess (with one possible exception of the Athlete, who stoically accepts her fate). in the developer's commentary, the developer explains the reasoning behind this: it would be easy, he says, to choose one out of five - but how about choosing four out of five who ''don't'' get their chance?

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* SadisticChoice: The player must decide which one of the five characters will get their chance of redemption. To do this, you are required to pick between two of the characters at a time to take one step closer to the mirror. Whoever takes three steps is the chosen one, and you play three of their puzzles to redeem them. Meanwhile, during each choosing both characters are begging for a chance to fix their mess (with one possible exception of the Athlete, who stoically accepts her fate). in In the developer's commentary, the developer explains the reasoning behind this: it would be easy, he says, to choose one out of five - but how about choosing four out of five who ''don't'' get their chance?

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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: The Jailer and The Journalist are the only two of the five main characters to be explicitly killed in their stories.]] As for minor characters, [[spoiler: Cleo, Melaine, the woman Atami was implied to be sleeping with, James, and the drunk driver that would have killed Gabriel]] are all killed throughout the game

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* BittersweetEnding: Only two endings are unambiguously happy. The other three are all different flavors of bittersweet.



* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: The player must decide which of the five characters will get their redemption. To do this, you are required to pick between two of the characters at a time to take one step closer to the mirror. Whoever takes three steps is the chosen one, and you play three of their puzzles to redeem them.]]

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* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: The player must decide which one of the five characters will get their chance of redemption. To do this, you are required to pick between two of the characters at a time to take one step closer to the mirror. Whoever takes three steps is the chosen one, and you play three of their puzzles to redeem them.]] Meanwhile, during each choosing both characters are begging for a chance to fix their mess (with one possible exception of the Athlete, who stoically accepts her fate). in the developer's commentary, the developer explains the reasoning behind this: it would be easy, he says, to choose one out of five - but how about choosing four out of five who ''don't'' get their chance?
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->''Five souls seek my aid''
->''Five vistas to unfold''
->''Five stories their proving ground''
->''Five choices, one reclaimed.''

''Photographs'' is a hybrid HiddenObjectGame with various degrees of other [[PuzzleGame puzzle games]] thrown in. It was released on mobile devices and Steam in 2019 by Eighty Eight Games, the same developers behind ''VideoGame/TenMillion'' and ''VideoGame/YouMustBuildABoat'', but it has no connection to either of those titles.

Described as a "narrative puzzle game", ''Photographs'' focuses on the lives of five individuals coming to terms with events they've come to regret. Each character has a different style of puzzle to complete for their levels. In between clearing each puzzle, the landscape changes along with the story. To find each new puzzle, the player must zoom in and take a photograph of an object, with a clue on the top of the screen to guide you where to look.

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* {{Anthology}}: Each of the five stories remain mostly unconnected, but are all united by the theme of erasing one's failures.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: The Jailer and The Journalist are the only two of the five main characters to be explicitly killed in their stories.]] As for minor characters, [[spoiler: Cleo, Melaine, the woman Atami was implied to be sleeping with, James, and the drunk driver that would have killed Gabriel]] are all killed throughout the game
* TheAtoner: Each of the five main characters wants to make amends for an action or actions that had led to them seeking out the mirror.
* MagicMirror: The main feature in the cave the five characters find themselves in, which can apparently SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. [[spoiler: If the game is allowed access to your phone's or computer's camera, your face can be displayed within it during the lead-in to the finale.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Each of the five characters has one that they want to absolve themselves of:
** The Alchemist [[spoiler: regrets giving Cleo the cure that [[DrivenToSuicide made her go insane and kill herself.]]]]
** The Athlete [[spoiler: regrets taking the drugs that led to her being banned from the diving team.]]
** The Jailer [[spoiler: regrets not killing the settlers sooner, which led to his people being enslaved.]]
** The Journalist [[spoiler: regrets radically changing his family's newspaper from providing wholesome news to clickbaity hate pieces.]]
** The Preventer [[spoiler: getting Annie and Gabriel involved in covering up her indirectly killing the man that would have killed her son.]]
* NoNameGiven: The Athlete and The Jailer are the only main characters that are given names: The Athlete is named Jane, and The Jailer is named Atami.
* ThePlague: The Heartstop / "Red Death" virus in the Alchemist's story. We don't know much about it, but once you're infected, your skin becomes red, and then you just die at some point.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: The player must decide which of the five characters will get their redemption. To do this, you are required to pick between two of the characters at a time to take one step closer to the mirror. Whoever takes three steps is the chosen one, and you play three of their puzzles to redeem them.]]
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