Follow TV Tropes

Following

History VideoGame / TheSilentAge

Go To

OR

Added: 238

Changed: 15

Removed: 238

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Trope was cut/disambiguated due to cleanup


Comprising 10 chapters, ''The Silent Age'' is available on the App Store, Google Play, UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Windows Store and Kindle Fire.

to:

Comprising 10 chapters, ''The Silent Age'' is available on the App Store, Google Play, UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Platform/{{Steam}}, Windows Store and Kindle Fire.



* AnAlienNamedBob: Discussed by Joe. Not that Lambert is an alien, but a time-traveller should qualify.
-->'''Joe:''' For a guy from the future he has a disappointing name. I would have imagined "[[AVillainNamedZrg Zorg]]" or maybe "Spax".



* LawOfAlienNames: Discussed by Joe. Not that Lambert is an alien, but a time-traveller should qualify.
-->'''Joe:''' For a guy from the future he has a disappointing name. I would have imagined "[[AVillainNamedZrg Zorg]]" or maybe "Spax".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Trope was cut/disambiguated due to cleanup


* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The notes on the wall in the clinic.
-->'''Joe:''' It's full of medical mumbo jumbo and words like [[TechnoBabble "Hematology", "Growth rate", "Pandemic"]] and a note that says "I took your stapler. Now we're even, asshole! - [[DrJerk Doctor Phelps]]".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


''[[http://thesilentage.com "The Silent Age"]]'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] [[IndieGame indie]] [[PuzzleGame puzzle game]] created by a Danish game studio House On Fire. There are two episodes to it, released in 2012 and 2014, respectively.

to:

''[[http://thesilentage.com "The Silent Age"]]'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] [[IndieGame indie]] [[PuzzleGame puzzle game]] created by a Danish indie game studio House On Fire. There are two episodes to it, released in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


** Doctor Lambert talks about needing [[Film/BackToTheFuture 1.21 jigowatts]] for his time machine.

to:

** Doctor Lambert talks about needing [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture 1.21 jigowatts]] for his time machine.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AccentRelapse: [[spoiler:After Frank has revealed his true identity as Yuri Baryshev, a DeepCoverAgent for the Soviet Union, a slight trace of a Russian accent creeps into his voice.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Joe finds the skeleton of Cedric, the bartender, with a revolver in his hands. Upon closer inspection, Joe notices that the revolver is lacking one bullet and the skull of the corpse has a prominent hole in its temple. Joe doesn't the implications of what Cedric was facing, seeing how he came to the conclusion that punching his own ticket was the better alternative.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* TheBartender: Cedric is a JiveTurkey-talking version, who works at the obscure nightclub next to Joe's workplace. He can tell that something is troubling Joe, noting that he looks like a man who carries the weight of the world on his shoulder, Joe wryly comments that [[NotHyperbole it is a pretty apt description]]. Hilariously, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Cedric just thinks he is having lady trouble]], and gives him advice on that instead.



-->'''Joe:''' Sweet mercy… It's like riding sidecar with a unicorn down a mountain of cashmere sweaters.

to:

-->'''Joe:''' Sweet mercy… mercy... It's like riding sidecar with a unicorn down a mountain of cashmere sweaters.sweaters.
* IdiotHero: Downplayed. Joe is not exactly stupid, but he isn't quite the brightest bulb in the box either. He takes a long time to grasp the full implications of time travel, and Dr. Lambert is openly annoyed with how slow he is on the uptake, referring to him as an "imbecile" in his notes.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TemporalMutability: [[spoiler:It turns to be an interesting version of Enforced Immutability. Lambert explains that the laws of causality means that it is impossible to go any further back into the past that moment he and his team cracked the secret of time travel.]]

Top