History VideoGame / VampireTheMasqueradeShadowsOfNewYork

** The Bad End [[spoiler:has Julia become a tool in the coverup of the murder and then flee the city to not be killed by Kaiser or the other parties she's angered on the way. She's failed as a representative of the Lasombra and with COVID on the rise, it's uncertain whether she'll survive the trip to the West Coast. But she has retained her humanity and her relationship with Dakota is not destroyed beyond repair.]]

* MultipleEndings: There's a Good End and a Bad End. [[spoiler:Which is which is very debateable. In the ''official'' Good End, Julia exhibits all the classic traits of Clan Lasombra to ruthlessly blackmail the entire court into granting her actual Primogen status while sacrificing her girlfriend for it. The Bad End has her and Dakota flee the city from the fallout of her unsubtle investigation, trying to make it through to the Anarch Free States to a place where someone is trying to erect New Carthage, though it's not exactly certain they'll actually make it there.]]

* TakeThat: Julia runs into a Kindred looking for "the lowest kind of art." One of the things you can get her is some anime. It's implied to be hentai. An alternative is a fantasy novel with what looks suspiciously like KudzuPlot. PlayedWith in that the recipient praises them for being a pure expression of what the author obviously wanted to get off their chest.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Apparently Dakota's ex-girlfriend had this opinion about her.

* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: The victim was very much an assholeVictim, and it turns out [[spoiler:EverybodyDidIt]].

* {{Blackmail}}: How Julia can [[spoiler: become Lasombra Primogen despite being only a year old. She blackmails the Prince and Primogen to obey her and eliminates the Malkavian one.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: In the Good Ending, [[spoiler:Thomas Arturo attempts to prevent Julia's appointment as Lasombra Primogen by "suggesting" that a Primogen should set a good example vis the Masquerade, meaning that Dakota has to be dealt with. Unfortunately for him, this comes on the heels of a truly vicious falling out between Julia and Dakota, and he can only be shocked as Julia agrees to the stipulation without blinking. Her narration even gleefully notes that he clearly expected the move to be a checkmate.]]

* ISeeDeadPeople: As a Lasombra, Julia has an innate connection to Oblivion that allows her to see [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion wraiths]]. She notes that they're rarely actively malevolent, but they tend to run the gamut from vaguely helpful to menacing and creepy.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Julia encounters a short-haired blonde in a sweater and long skirt that is presumably an ancient and powerful Kindred with the ability to trap her enemies in a pocket dimension that she controls. Who is assuredly not from {{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}.

* ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech: Benoit gives a spectacular one to Julia near the end, and every jab he gives hits her where it hurts.
--> '''Benoit''': Ever since World War Two, I've been watching every person and ever ideal I cared about wither and disappear. That's the source of my pain. That's the reason I am what I am. The source of your pain? A thing that defines you? People have been ''mean to you''.

* StalkerWithACrush: There's a hint early on, but close to the end it gets revealed that [[spoiler:Dakota has an unhealthy obsession for Julia, putting on her clothes and jewelry and trying to live through her[[labelnote:Note]]Though according to her, it was the first and only time she ever did so, and in a spur of the moment decision.[[/labelnote]]. Julia draws the parallel to Film/SingleWhiteFemale and it's telling that in the title screen, Dakota may have the vampire bites, but it's her who is in the classic vampire-about-to-bite-a-neck pose. Whether the relationship can or should be salvaged is ambiguous.]] And of course, there are a few cases of StalkerWithoutACrush as well.

* TakeThat: Julia runs into a Kindred looking for "the lowest kind of art." One of the things you can get her is some anime. It's implied to be hentai. An alternative is a fantasy novel with what looks suspiciously like KudzuPlot. PlayedWith in that the recipient praises them for being a pure expression of what the author obviously wanted to get off their chest.

Set during the first wave of the COVID pandemic, less than a year after ''Coteries'', you play Julia, a second-generation Polish immigrant in New York who was Embraced by a Lasombra named Caren. Soon after, Caren all but abandons her childe and makes her the drastically underqualified representative of the Lasombra in the New York Camarilla court.

Set during the first wave of the COVID pandemic, less than a year after ''Coteries'', you play Julia, a second-generation Polish immigrant to New York who was Embraced by a Lasombra named Caren. Soon after, Caren all but abandons her childe and makes her the drastically underqualified representative of the Lasombra in the New York Camarilla court.

Set during the first wave of the COVID pandemic, less than a year after ''Coteries'', you play Julia, a Polish immigrant to New York who was Embraced by a Lasombra named Caren. Soon after, Caren all but abandons her childe and makes her the drastically underqualified representative of the Lasombra in the New York Camarilla court.

''Shadows of New York'' is an expansion and sequel to ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeCoteriesOfNewYork''. It was released on the PC on the 10th September, 2020.

* EvilFeelsGood: In the "Good Ending", [[spoiler:Julia claims she feels the same high as right after her Embrace when she thought she was on top of the world. It comes from having lied, swindled and possibly tortured to gather enough shreds of a story in order to blackmail the entire Camarilla court into granting her a real Primogen position at the cost of her mortal friend's life.]] Clan Lasombra is SoProudOfYou.

* MultipleEndings: There's a Good End and a Bad End. [[spoiler:Which is which is very debateable. In the ''official'' Good End, Julia exhibits all the classic traits of Clan Lasombra to ruthlessly blackmail the entire court into granting her actual Primogen status while sacrificing her best friend for it. The Bad End has her and Dakota flee the city from the fallout of her unsubtle investigation, trying to make it through to the Anarch Free States to a place where someone is trying to erect New Carthage, though it's not exactly certain they'll actually make it there.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: There's a hint early on, but close to the end it gets revealed that [[spoiler:Dakota has an unhealthy obsession for Julia, putting on her clothes and jewelry and trying to live through her[[labelnote:Note]]Though according to her, this only happened once and was a split of the moment decision.[[/labelnote]]. Julia draws the parallel to Film/SingleWhiteFemale and it's telling that in the title screen, Dakota may have the vampire bites, but it's her who is in the classic vampire-about-to-bite-a-neck pose. Whether the relationship can or should be salvaged is ambiguous.]] And of course, there are a few cases of StalkerWithoutACrush as well.

* StalkerWithACrush: There's a hint early on, but close to the end it gets revealed that [[spoiler:Dakota has an unhealthy obsession for Julia, putting on her clothes and jewelry and trying to live through her. Julia draws the parallel to Film/SingleWhiteFemale and it's telling that in the title screen, Dakota may have the vampire bites, but it's her who is in the classic vampire-about-to-bite-a-neck pose. Whether the relationship can or should be salvaged is ambiguous.]] And of course, there are a few cases of StalkerWithoutACrush as well.