Line #37 VisualNovel/HatePlus


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3	In the late 24th century (2390, to be precise), the ''Mugunghwa'', a [[GenerationShips generation ship]], was launched by the Korean government to found a colony in a planet far away from Earth. The ship never reached its destination, and was detected, adrift and lifeless in the immensity of space, more than two thousand years later. During the events of ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', you were sent to the ship to recover the message logs of its computer, in hopes of finding what made the ship go derelict. After examining the computer logs and getting testimony from the two {{Artificial Intelligence}}s in the ship's system, Hyun-ae and Mute, you managed to uncover the mystery behind the demise of the entire crew of the ''Mugunghwa''.
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5	But why did the ship go off-course and disappear without warning to begin with? It is evident, from the nature of the final message logs in the computer, that the ship's society somehow regressed to a pseudo-feudal period sometime during its travel, but all information before that period was conveniently deleted, so the causes of this societal degeneration have been lost forever...
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7	Until now.
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9	''Hate Plus'' is the sequel to ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', the VisualNovel developed in MediaNotes/RenPy by the Canadian author Creator/ChristineLove. It started as plans for a DownloadableContent package for the original game, but ultimately became something even bigger than the original novel, to the point of turning into a full game on its own right rather than an ExpansionPack, with features like [[OldSaveBonus being affected by variables in your saved game of the original]].
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11	The game was released on August 19th, 2013, after a bit of DevelopmentHell. (Her apartment ''[[http://loveconquersallgam.es/post/44883278007/ill-go-into-more-detail-about-it-when-things-are being destroyed in a fire]]'' did not help matters, either.)
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14	Not at all related to ''VideoGame/LovePlus''.
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17	!!This work provides examples of:
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19	* AddressingThePlayer: *Hyun-ae wants you to actually get up, go to the kitchen, and bake a cake, in RealLife. No, really, get up from your keyboard and start baking. There's an achievement for sending a picture to Christine Love, the developer.
20	** Overlaps with PlayerPunch and TheReasonYouSuckSpeech if *Hyun-ae "thinks" you're lying to her:
21	--->'''Hyun-ae:''' [[spoiler:Are you not taking me seriously? Are you just pretending, as a joke at my expense? What do you think this is, some sort of tacky ero visual novel? Do you really think relationships are as easy as just clicking the right dialogue choices on a menu...? Are you trying to tell me that, after all the time we've spent together, I don't deserve just a little bit of effort? Well, here's a message to you... not as a cool space investigator, but as a player sitting at a computer screen talking to a sad girl. Stand up, get the ingredients, actually go into your kitchen, and bake a cake! A real, actual, IRL cake! Please, do this for me! You promised me you would! Let me enjoy it through you, please!]]
22	* AmnesiacDissonance: Mute is often surprised, and dismayed, at how opinionated and outspoken Old Mute is.
23	* {{Animesque}}: In-universe: it's revealed why Mute looks so anime-looking is because her original creator was a huge ''otaku''. (Old Mute changed herself to be more realistic.) The android bodies you order for Hyun-ae (and Mute in the harem route) also have large eyes and are based on old cartoons.
24	* AntiFrustrationFeatures: An update in 2018 made it possible to unlock "Cooking by the Book" with a CheatCode instead of the usual method of sending Christine Love a picture of a homemade cake. Honor system is in place though, so you better bake that cake!
25	* AntiPoopSocking: It takes place over the course of three days. In real time. You can only decrypt so many of the logs per day, then you have to power down until time passes in the real world. Specifically, you have to wait 12 real-world hours to start the next day.
26	** You can skip to the next day by [[spoiler:selecting your save file and pressing "S"]], but [[NoFairCheating the author will call you a "jerkface".]] You can also do this by manipulating your system's date/time settings and save yourself the insult but doing it incorrectly will trip one of MediaNotes/RenPy's own game-stopping checks (eg. Accidentally loading a save file that's time stamped in the future will cause an engine crash).
27	* ApocalypticLog: Unlike the first game, which functioned mostly as an apocalyptic log for Hyun-ae, this game documents the decline of the entire ship as Ryu slowly amasses power and implements a feudal dystopia.
28	* AuthorAppeal: Another game from Creator/ChristineLove with "[[GameplayToStoryRatio too many words]]" about "women and [[CastFullOfGay queerness]] and [[{{Transhuman}} technology]]," strongly infused with "[[{{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}} the power of cuteness]]."
29	* BadBoss: A variant. Kim So-yi, the only scientist investigating the cause of the decline of birth rates aboard the ship is [[spoiler:fired by her boss, but only under pressure by ''his'' new boss, the new Councillor of Engineering and Science and a member of the Han family, who is making it hard for anyone in the Kim family to keep their old positions]]. Her previous boss ''has'' been a jerk in the past, such as making her cleaning up the remains of a laboratory explosion instead of doing research.
30	* BadassBoast: *Mute's "Just watch me," often accompanied by a [[SmokingIsCool cigarette]].
31	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:At one point, future empress Eun-a says, "I'll be happy when I'm out of a job and only have to worry about devoting myself to a husband." [[PyrrhicVictory She gets precisely that, except for the "happy" part.]]]]
32	* BittersweetEnding: Implied to be the fate of the two [[spoiler:gay couples]] followed in the story. [[spoiler:While Ae-Jeong coldly severs contact from Mae Jin-a by suddenly dumping her and claiming she never really loved her in the first place and that it was a mistake to continue their relationship, and Mae Jin-a gets married off after becoming ''very'' bitter towards Ae-Jeong, it's heavily implied Ae-Jeong managed to convince Ryu to shelter Jin-a with her by pretending that Jin-a is her little sister.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler:Heo and Mimi]] apparently still see each other after Year Zero, as *Mute states that [[spoiler:Heo]] kept sneaking off during guard duty to see a male.
33	* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] is homophobic and claims that it is everyone on the ship's "moral imperative" to reproduce--those who can't, especially homosexual couples, are hedonistic, over-emotional parasites. [[spoiler:Except that she's bisexual, and it's very heavily implied that her "little sister" is actually a completely unrelated lover who she used to dote on.]] This comes back to bite her in the ass later; [[spoiler:her "little sister" commits suicide partly because the world Eun-a is building will have no place for their love, making Eun-a's victory ring a little hollow as she spends her post-revolution days staring into space, depressed.]]
34	* BrickJoke: The Investigator's mis-translated, garbled ship name gets referenced again in Mute's route on the third day. [[spoiler:New Mute finds being security AI to [INSERT UNREADABLE TEXT HERE] to be an exciting prospect.]]
35	* CallBack: During the SchrodingersGun opening questions, two of the three years you can select for the year you would rather live in are 1988 and 2027, which are the settings of ''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory'' and ''VisualNovel/DontTakeItPersonallyBabeItJustAintYourStory'', respectively.
36	** The Earth Tourist Board email reveals that Lake City (the setting for both [=VNs=]) suffered some kind of apocalypse and is now a Pompeii-style history museum.
37	* CanonDiscontinuity: The Harem route has been explicitly-described as impossible. Justified because it's gained through an OldSaveBonus that involves creative SequenceBreaking, which is of course {{Lampshaded}} [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilariously]] by the characters.
38	-->'''*Mute:''' Like, no matter how you look at it… there's no way we should be both be able to be activated at the same time.\
39	'''*Hyun-ae:''' I don't get it…\
40	'''*Mute:''' Well, like, it should be impossible.\
41	'''*Hyun-ae:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Wasn't it also impossible]] for [[[PlayerCharacter Investigator]]] to have [[spoiler:found that log file they showed to you]], in order to get us together, in the first place?\
42	'''*Mute:''' Uh. Yeah, actually.\
43	'''*Hyun-ae:''' ''[to Investigator]'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Just because our route isn't canon, doesn't mean our feelings aren't real!]]\
44	'''*Mute:''' [[HandWave …don't worry about it too much, okay?]]
45	* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Ryu Hyeon-su and Oh Eun-a.]] Over seven years, they have the other council members enact dozens of subtle changes to the ''Mugunghwa'''s legal policies that, eventually, give Ryu the ability to pass whatever legislation he wants, at whim. [[spoiler:By the time Old *Mute realizes what he's done (and that she was tricked into signing off on the whole mess), she's too late to stop it. Ryu also knew she'd attempt a coup in response, and stops it easily. He uses this as an excuse to crown himself Emperor Taejo and have the logs wiped clean, thus setting the stage for the events of ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''.]]
46	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Minor example: the color of the background and the interface will be different depending on which route you're doing, much like in [[VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory Analogue]]. Hyun-ae will have a blue interface, romanced Mute will have red, [[MarryThemAll Hyun-ae and Mute together]] will have pink, etc.
47	* ContinuityNod: The first email you get is from Wong Robotics. Mr Wong gives you your first computer back in ''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory''; evidently, he and his company went on to bigger and better things.
48	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: As with ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''. At some points, there's multiple layers of dissonance: Mute is horrified and disgusted at Old Mute's rude and unladylike behavior—but Old Mute is acting this way because she is, herself, horrified and disgusted at the retrograde and patriarchal notions she's hearing. It gets even more complicated when [[MarryThemAll Hyun-ae and *Mute]] are ''both'' commenting on a document, and debating the cause-and-effect of depravity and morality.
49	* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:University President/Queen Councillor Oh Eun-a]] is one of the two original conspirators. How did she meet the other? She was at a university party, hoping for a one-night stand with a male after getting tired of seducing women. [[spoiler:She later begins going psycho when she accidentally drives her "sister" to suicide by emotional neglect, staying long hours with Ryu plotting, and her maid testifies that Eun-a began treating ''her'' like her "sister," in-between spates of depressive episodes.]]
50	* DiscriminateAndSwitch: A variant: despite seemingly being a very loving husband, Kim So-yi's husband writes a log titled "Worthless as a wife". [[spoiler:It turns out that he's using ''her exact words'': she's just been fired and driven to a nervous breakdown by the new societal pressure to [[StayInTheKitchen stay at home and be subservient to your man]]. He's deeply worried about this and finds her new behavior disconcerting.]] *Hyun-ae lampshades this if you're on her route by getting outraged at the title, but later realizing it wasn't what it meant. In the harem route, her initial outrage is closer to shock.
51	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Eun-a's "sister" kills herself, believing she is useless to Eun-a, who is busy with her plot to overthrow the government (and before that, was openly sleeping around), and accidentally implied several times that Eun-a's sister was useless/stupid.]] Also, [[spoiler:Mute after reading the Death of Old Mute log. *Hyun-ae will stop her in harem route, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption in her own route ...]]]]
52	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: *Mute's reactions to some pre-Year Zero diary entries come off this way. In one log, Kim So-yi, a female scientist, is told that, despite her excellent work, she's receiving a pay cut. More women are quitting in order to have children, thanks to the new Motherhood Credit Act, and the department isn't bothering to spend money on someone who's likely to quit and have children. Naturally, So-yi sees this as insulting and dismissive of her work as a scientist.
53	-->'''Kim So-yi:''' I have no intention of having children at 24.\
54	'''*Mute:''' What? But ... that's the best age to have children at!
55	* EtTuBrute:
56	** [[spoiler:An odd but still meaningful example from *Hyun-ae. Initially she views Oh Eun-a as a kindred spirit, as a woman who was married to an Emperor Ryu ... and ''then'' she learns that not only was it willing, but Eun-a actually ''orchestrated'' the wonky society that drove her to homicidal mania out of a never-ending parade of misery in the first place! Needless to say, she isn't happy.]]
57	** A more direct example would be [[spoiler:Mute's reaction to the same log where we learn that Oh Eun-a and Ryu masterminded the log erasure, given how she actually believed Oh Eun-a and Ryu were trustworthy, noble people. Initially she even tries to convince herself that Old Mute is lying rather than believe her friend betrayed her and everyone else on the ship.]]
58	** [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a feels betrayed by her father when she discovers he knew about a plot against her and Ryu and did nothing, conveniently forgetting that she hung him out to dry first by giving his Councillorship for Education to one of Ryu's puppets.]]
59	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
60	** Some characters (for example, Kim So-Yi's boss, the Research Chief) are never referred to with a proper name. More or less [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the format: presumably they all have real names, but they're simply not used in the handful of text logs that we have access to, so they can only be referred to by what you know about them.
61	** Additionally, the player him/herself, as you have no way of telling Hyun-ae and/or Mute your "real" name. They just refer to you as Investigator, or variations thereof depending on your chosen gender and marital status ("Miss Investigator," "Mr. Investigator," etc).
62	* EveryoneIsBi: Subverted by (non-harem) Mute, who never fully comes around to accepting or returning a female main character's love in any meaningful way, and thinks the whole relationship is absurd. She still, however, refers to herself as a wife, and is not unhappy with the predicament. [[spoiler:New Mute feels even more strongly that the relationship should stay platonic, though mostly because she barely knows you yet.]]
63	* EvilVersusEvil: Old *Mute and her council's monarchic, anti-democratic, elitist rule that sought to quash any attempts at democracy by any means necessary as a way of maintaining status quo, but otherwise [[BreadAndCircuses permissible of anything that didn't cause non-nobles to riot]], and [[spoiler:Ryu and Eun-a's]] nationalist, neo-Confucian, totalitarian, Luddite rule that strictly enforced outdated, misogynistic, archaic laws, social stations and castes, and customs that eventually turned the ship into a [[TheDungAges copy of the Joseon period, except even dumber]].
64	** GrayAndGreyMorality: What both sides saw themselves as. Old *Mute's society was seen as corrupt, materialistic, consumeristic, greedy, sexually depraved, and hedonistic. The conspirators' plans were seen as archaic, horrendously oppressive, anti-intellectual, bigoted, and a perversion of Confucian ideals. It's essentially modern-day Korea versus the Joseon Dynasty, but both thought they had the ship and its society's continued survival at heart.
65	** TooBleakStoppedCaring: Invoked by Hyun-ae in her route as a response to this. She'll ask you what you thought of the entire conflict. You can say "I hate everyone equally" in response.
66	* ExactWords:
67	** The harem ending. It's a Harem alright... It just the player isn't the center of it. *Hyun-ae is.
68	** The achievement "The Death of Old Mute", whose description reads "LOL SPOILERS [[spoiler:MUTE DIES]]. [[spoiler:Which simultaneously [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] the current *Mute's death.]]
69	* ExpospeakGag: In one of [[spoiler:Eun-a]]'s letters, she talks about meeting [[spoiler:Ryu]], who complains that too many people these days are "needlessly bitch[ing] about politics," and that he's glad she's not one of them.
70	-->[[spoiler:'''Eun-a:''']] "Me? Oh no! I think people get distracted by them too easily instead of focusing on the things that really matter!" I said, summarizing my thesis about the myopic social destruction caused by the increasing discourse of democratization.
71	* FasterThanLightTravel: The ''Mugunghwa'' was about 550 light years away when you discovered it. How fast does it take to get back to Earth in your ship, the ''White Princess''? Three days.
72	** However the status screen shows your ship on the other end of the galaxy. WordOfGod is that the White Princess is TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot
73	* FirstNameBasis: "Mimi" is only known by that.
74	* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: A variation: [[spoiler:Mute embeds a handful of log files into her base code before she is forcefully mindwiped, so that the "next" Mute can read them and understand what happened to her and the ship. The version of *Mute present in [[VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory Analogue]] never knew, as she never performed a diagnostic which would have revealed the files. Needless to say, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she doesn't]] [[DrivenToSuicide take it well.]]]]
75	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
76	** *Mute talks about a similar rebellion that happened two centuries into the ship's launch, and ended just as bad. In it, [[spoiler:a critical portion of the ship was permanently damaged (both an AI and the ship itself), and there was major social upheaval. Guess what happens at the end of the story.]]
77	** In the harem route, *Mute says she's seen crazy shit, like [[spoiler:a queen who manipulated the emperor. It's more or less how Eun-a managed to hatch the conspiracy in the first place.]]
78	** In the file "The New Council", while Old *Mute is complaining about almost every member of the council being replaced, Heo Seo-yeong comments that she's shocked that even the Councillor for Education was replaced after failing the exams since he controlled the contents of it. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the old council members were intentionally sabotaged to get them out of the way by the co-conspirator of the one remaining council member.]]
79	** At the end of Mute Day 2, after asking you to power off for the day, [[spoiler:Mute signs off with a "Farewell" rather than a "goodbye". [[DrivenToSuicide Because she's not planning on being there tomorrow]].]]
80	** One of the background information you can read is from a very old AI about how after a couple hundred years, even AIs can't really learn anything new. An example is how an aritst after 300 years would be better than they were after 200 years. But the improvements wouldn't have warranted another 100 years of labor. They also talk about how after too long an AI gets bogged down in far too many memories and protocols and subroutines when it comes to their job. [[spoiler: This hints at why Old *Mute wasn't' able to stop the Coup. She was too old and doing the job for far too long to react fast enough.]]
81	* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Eun-a manipulated the regression of her entire society, and ordered the death of at least one person who opposed her, in addition to planning for the deaths of many more if necessary, but when you read her logs and understand [[LoveMakesYouEvil she did it all for love]] ... well, she's still a monster, but at least you know ''why''.]]
82	* FutureImperfect: Along with society's understanding of the past aboard the ''Mugunghwa'' being flawed, the new government gets several things wrong about the Joseon dynasty, such as the fact that [[spoiler:they were the first to stop using Chinese characters.]]
83	* GagPenis: Minor example in Harem route. When [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] first meets [[spoiler:her future husband Ryu]], Mute is scandalized to discover that [[spoiler:the future Empress]] initially was just looking for a one-night stand. This leads to a funny exchange with Hyun-ae, who [[spoiler:was the royal concubine of Ryu's descendent back when she was alive:]]
84	-->'''*Mute:''' [[BigWhat WHAT]]. At first, she just wanted the [[spoiler:great Emperor Ryu]]... for his ''cock''?!\
85	'''*Hyun-ae:''' [[spoiler:...well, if he's anything like his descendent, he's probably--]]\
86	'''*Mute:''' [[NoJustNoReaction NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, DON'T TELL ME THIS.]] [[BrainBleach I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SAY, OKAY?]]
87	* {{Gayngst}}: Apparently not present in the Investigator's time, the game offers the player a chance to watch the start of discrimination against homosexual, "non-productive" (i.e., non-child-bearing) relationships aboard the ''Mugungwha''. Specifically, it comes about when married couples get a big stipend to counteract the declining birth rates: homosexual and/or non-married couples, thanks to the increasingly terrible and noble-oriented economy, get stiffed, and are forced to marry out of their orientation to stay afloat.
88	* GoldenEnding: The only way to get it in this game is to also get the Golden Ending in the prequel. If you don't, [[spoiler:Mute commits suicide if you don't have Hyun-ae to stop her.]]
89	* GoodCounterpart: So-yi and Nae-mun's marriage has many attributes in common with that of In-ho and the Pale Bride. In both cases, a spirited woman with dreams of being an engineer marries a significantly older man, arranged by the bride's grandparents. However, So-yi and Nae-mun's marriage is mutually loving, supportive, and respectful, and was entered freely.
90	* HatesEveryoneEqually: It's actually a response you can give to *Hyun-ae when she asks you what you think of the entire mess on Day Three, though it's more out of pity than outright hate.
91	* HeteronormativeCrusader: Mute, but she was [[JustifiedTrope programmed to feel that way]], [[YaoiFangirl although she seems to enjoy Heo and Mimi's logs.]] [[spoiler:New Mute doesn't seem to have any hangups when it comes to same-sex relationships, but she also doesn't have [[YaoiFangirl *Mute's secret weakness for cute boy-boy romances]], nor her [[GossipyHens love of gossip]].]]
92	* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: Addressed by a log in Block 13, where it is revealed that it was caused by [[spoiler:a rebellion that damaged the stability of the pre-Year Zero political system and caused a total hard drive wipe of the ship's computer, resetting *Mute and deleting her memories.]]
93	** A deliberate example of UnreliableNarrator. [[spoiler:The 'rebellion' was the dying throes of the legitimate political system trying to reassert control over a totalitarian despotism/functional autocracy. Chief Councillor "Emperor" Ryu wiped the computers, and *Mute, himself.]]
94	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Kim So-yi was just days away from presenting decisive evidence of the ''Mugunghwa''[='=]s declining birth rates being the result of abnormal levels of radiation. Then President Ryu, or rather, Emperor Taejo, destroyed all of the ship's data, including her evidence.]]
95	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Mute trusts Oh Eun-a implicitly after her reactivation in an amnesiac state. If you've read anything about Oh Eun-a at all under the spoilers, you know how bad an idea this was (this turns into one of the many reasons Mute commits suicide). Justified, as *Mute was more or less a newborn at that stage, and didn't know any better.]]
96	* HypocriticalHumor: *Mute is, once again, in full form here. She calls the logs of the affair between the actress and flower girl as "melodramatic", but her own descriptions of the two in their logged pictures are ''very'' melodramatic.
97	** Professor Kim, a history teacher, "doesn't give a crap about Confucius" and would prefer that they kept things modern.
98	* HystericalWoman: *Mute was programmed to view women as ruled by their emotions; she uses this to justify her own [[InternalizedCategorism outbursts and fallacies.]] Oh Eun-a also views women as emotional, flighty, and promiscuous, causing the downfall of society. [[spoiler:She is, ironically, all of these things, and possibly the most powerful person on the ship for a while.]]
99	* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, I Cannot Allow Myself To Die Even If It Is The Better Outcome. When Old Mute and Heo Seo-yeong try to take down Ryu once and for all, Ryu reveals that he's planted a bomb in the ship's computer core, which only he can disarm. Old Mute explicitly wishes that she could allow herself to be "killed" if it meant that Ryu would lose his power (and his life), but as the security AI, she is hard-coded to take the option that ensures the security of the ship, and thus she's forced to surrender.]]
100	-->[[spoiler:'''Old *Mute:''' I wished with every byte of my being that I could've picked that second option. But I knew I couldn't. I knew, as my very core directive, that safety was more important than freedom.]]
101	** [[spoiler:Just to twist the knife, she finds out too late that it's not even a real bomb.]]
102	* IfItsYouItsOkay: Said almost word-for-word by *Mute if you're romancing her, as a woman, though she quickly deletes it. However, her attitude about being in love with a woman is complicated, to say the least. See IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy below.
103	* IHatePastMe: "Hate" might be a little strong (even if it is in the title), but *Mute very vocally disagrees with many of the decisions of her "predecessor".
104	* InterfaceSpoiler: Several examples.
105	** First, in-universe: of the 50-something text files that your AI finds embedded in her code, the very last one is titled "The Death of *Mute." Your AI(s) will almost immediately mention this, and note that it's obviously important but also makes them uneasy. Unfortunately, it's encrypted, so you have to wait until the end of Day Two to actually access it.
106	** ''Deliberately'' in the achievements, the description of one being "LOL SPOILERS [[spoiler:MUTE DIES]]". This might not seem like a spoiler at first, as you might assume [[spoiler:it's referring to Old Mute, who "died" nine hundred years ago and is thus DoomedByCanon. It's not. This makes the suicide of the *Mute you've been talking to all the more shocking.]]
107	*** [[spoiler:"Level Four Revive Materia"'s icon being largely the same as "The Death of Old Mute", merely flipped and showing Mute rather than Old Mute, gives this away. "Deep Space Therapist" also subtly hints at New Mute's existence, as it depicts Mute in a suit but lacking Old Mute's eyepatch.]]
108	** But cleverly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with the "Level Four Revive Materia" achievement, which you get by finishing the game with Mute in a particular outfit. Seems simple, right? Especially since there's an achievement for completing the game with Hyun-ae, and one for completing it with both girls, and one for completing it with Mute twice, once as a man and once as a woman. [[spoiler:There is ''absolutely no way'' to get that achievement—see UnwinnableByDesign below. If you look at the achievement stats before playing, you'll notice that the achievements for completing the game with Hyun-ae and for completing it with both girls have been completed by lots of people. This achievement has ''never been completed, ever.'' It isn't even coded into the game. Instead, there is a ''hidden'' achievement for finishing the game with New *Mute, who wears a different outfit that you can't change.]]
109	* IncestSubtext: Sort of: it's implied that lesbian lovers on the Mugunghwa sometimes claimed to be sisters as a way to stay close to each other and not attract attention. Commented on by *Mute in day 3 of her route if you go through some of the logs related to Ae-jeong and Jin-a again.
110	-->'''*Mute:''' Um, just to be perfectly clear... "little sister" means "lesbian lover", right?
111	** This is a plot point with [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]]. She and her "sister" were extremely close, to the point *Hyun-ae doubts they're actually sisters. [[spoiler:Eun-a's sister committing suicide slides Eun-a into a ''deep'' depression, to the point where she even treats a maid exactly as if she were her dead sister.]]
112	* InternalizedCategorism: *Mute, who views her programmed female gender as coming with a great deal of baggage. [[spoiler:If she's talked into considering a relationship with a female Investigator, her homophobia comes into play, too.]]
113	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
114	** *Mute sometimes expresses this opinion if you romance her as a woman. She believes that a woman cannot be happy unless she is married to a man, so while she appreciates (and even reciprocates) your feelings, she sees herself as a poor substitute for a husband, and wants you to find true fulfillment.
115	** [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a has shades of this in her letters to her now-deceased lover Mi-seun:]]
116	--->[[spoiler:'''Eun-a:''' I want to make a society that would've given you something better than me.]]
117	* {{Jerkass}}: ''Every council member.'' *Mute openly talked back and more or less would loudly not care about anything that didn't affect the ship security. Kim was [[HardOnSoftScience a classic case of an elitist scientist]] who [[InsufferableGenius thought he was smarter than anyone (and wasn't afraid to show it off in sessions)]], and that anything not hard science was worthless. Lee and Yang were blowhards. Smith was apathetic. And all of them were more concerned with maintaining their wealth than ensuring the "peasants" were actually free.
118	* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Holy shit, Oh Eun-a]]. Is the society you live in debased, greedy, and cynical? Yes. Would it be nicer if people cared more about society in general rather than themselves? Yes. Does that mean you should [[spoiler:''erase all the scientific progress you've made towards solving the birthrate problem, shackle the lower classes in a life of slavery to the nobles, and institute a despotic regime that has no idea what it is doing?'']] '''Hell no, you utter lunatic.'''
119	* LadykillerInLove: Ae-jeong, famous actress on the Mugunghwa, would take her fangirls to bed, dominating them as they adored her for her amusement. However, her latest target, seemingly a {{moeblob}}, catches her after screwing up a play, and manages to impress her with a witty comeback to her co-star. By "impress", we mean "make her fall madly in love with".
120	* LadyMacbeth: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] fills the role almost as well as the wife from [[TheScottishTrope that Scottish play]]... [[spoiler:and similarly goes just as mad with guilt.]]
121	* LastLousyPoint: Subverted with "Level Four Revive Materia", because [[spoiler:[[UnwinnableByDesign you can't get it in the first place.]] It's not even coded into the game. The only person who has gotten it is [[TrollingCreator Love herself.]]]]
122	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples. In *Hyun-ae's route, she gets frustrated by her inability to actually speak to you, and accuses you of treating her like just another girl in a dating sim. Which, of course, she ''is''. At one point, she'll even ask you to bake a cake for her. In real life. No, actually ''get up from your chair and bake one.'' If you can't do that, at least ''buy'' one.
123	-->'''Hyun-ae:''' "...Even if I don't understand how you could buy a cake in the middle of deep space..."
124	* LegacyCharacter: Mute to Old Mute. {{Inverted}} with [[spoiler:New Mute, who was created from a data rollback on Mute]].
125	* LikeIsLikeAComma: For an AI capable of thinking orders of magnitude more quickly than a human, *Mute uses an awful lot of verbal filler. It's almost, like, a VerbalTic.
126	* LipstickLesbian:
127	** [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a was (if her torch-carrying for her dead lover, and the logs from said dead lover say anything) this before falling in love with the captain]], ultra-feminine (to the point of wanting ''other women to return to their feminine ways''). It's probably part {{gayngst}} (and part LoveMakesYouEvil, [[JerkassWoobie surprisingly]]) that makes her [[spoiler:want society to return to the ultra-patriarchal Neo-Confucian ideal where women are dominated by men and "know their place".]]
128	** Heo Ae-Jeong seems to lament her inability to fulfill this trope, due to acting lovestruck and awkward in the presence of her girlfriend. Said girlfriend is a sweet, bubbly florist who ''loves'' flowers and cute things.
129	* LovableRogue: Mimi, Heo Seung-bok's gay lover. He's a shameless gambler and manipulator ... who's also quite the gentleman, hustling cards and marks to pay for college classes, and he fully reciprocates Seung-bok's feelings. But he's also shown to have HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:after Mimi is forced to marry a woman due to societal and familial pressure, he writes a deeply apologetic and heartfelt letter to Seung-bok, and it's obvious his love was sincere.]]
130	* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Read through most of the logs, and you'll come to understand just how deviously Ryu manipulated Old *Mute and the council. Read through the logs in Block M3, most of them written by his wife Eun-a, and you'll come to understand just how deviously ''she'' manipulated ''him''.]]
131	* ManipulativeBastard: Old *Mute can show shades of this. Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] turns out to be this for the '''entire story'''.
132	* MeaningfulRename: In "Respectful of family", Ex-councillor Oh Jeong-woo writes to Mi-seun, addressing her as "Pyeon Mi-seun". She writes back a pointed letter telling him he got her name wrong, signing it as Oh Mi-seun. [[spoiler:When she later writes a suicide note to Oh Eun-a, although the interface still identifies her as Oh Mi-seun, she deliberately signs it as Pyeon Mi-seun.]]
133	%% * MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Famous actress Heo Ae-Jeong, who frequently took fangirls of hers to bed before moving on, falls in love with Mae Jin-a, a cute and bubbly florist. Jin-a not unfrequently feels insecure over this, but for her part, Ae-Jeong is sincere in her feelings, and laments not being able to keep up the cool and aloof act because of her love for Jin-a.
134	* MST3KMantra: Invoked by Mute in the harem route, after it's pointed out that the extensive restrictions on AI replication should prevent Mute and *Hyun-ae from being active at the same time since they share the same underlying code.
135	* MultipleEndings: As with [[VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory Analogue]]. It depends partly on which AI you start the game with, and partly on how you answer their questions on Day 3.
136	* NeverMyFault:
137	** Possibly a part of [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]]'s motivation. [[spoiler:She feels her "sister" deserves better but blames society rather than herself for it, and her eventual suicide. She appears convinced, perhaps due to low-self-esteem, that a Confucian society would have protected her better than she could.]]
138	** In the Harem route (which is generally more comedic than the "standard" routes), Mute blames the translation problem entirely on Hyun-ae.
139	* NoodleIncident: Something resulted in Ae-jeong getting disowned. It's never discussed.
140	* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae comes to feel this way about Oh Eun-a and her "sister", sympathizing with her feelings of being trapped.]]
141	* ObfuscatingStupidity:
142	** A minor example with Mae Jin-a, who not only recognizes when she's being subtly mocked, but manages to very cleverly burn her mocker with a single question.
143	** [[spoiler:Eun-a]] doesn't act ''stupid'', exactly, but she likes to ask leading questions and subtly influence people to do what she wants, rather than say anything outright.
144	--->[[spoiler:'''Eun-a:''']] "Uh, maybe this is a dumb question," I said, leadingly ...
145	* OldSaveBonus: If you have completed at least one of the routes from [[VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory Analogue]] ([[MultipleEndings besides Ending 3]]), you can select Continue in Hate Plus to carry over the AI(s) you ended the game with. The game also recognizes whether you told Mute if you were a [[SchrodingersGun man or a woman]], and Hyun-ae will be in the same costume that she was wearing at game's end.
146	* OneSteveLimit:
147	** Averted, annoyingly. The various councillors on the ship are only known by their title and family name (and occasionally their department, such as "Justice" or "Culture"). After the Meritocracy Act passes, several councillors are replaced, but often by members of the same family, who thus have the same family name. So there are two Councillor Ohs, two Councillor Yangs, two Councillor Jos ... it can be a bit confusing, and since most of the councillors don't have portraits, sometimes the only way to tell is whether the date of the log is pre- or post-Meritocracy.
148	** A deliberate, comedic, in-universe example: Heo Seung-bok visits his lover Mimi, who's spending time with ... Heo Seung-bok. Who looks ''exactly'' like ''the other'' Heo Seung-bok. And who ''also'' loves Mimi, and is ''also'' a security officer (but higher-ranking), and even ''orders the same things off the menu at a restaurant''. [[spoiler:Turns out Mimi's just messing with Seung-bok's head. The whole incident was a set-up by Mimi, and a deliberate reference to the classic Chinese novel ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'', which also features a character meeting his "mirror".]]
149	* OverlyLongGag:
150	** All tracks on the OST are no longer than four minutes...except for "Cake!", the track that plays when eating cake with *Hyun-ae. For some reason, it's ''21 minutes and 5 seconds'' long. As in, twenty-one minutes of actual music, not just a few minutes followed by a long period of silence.
151	** In harem route, you can convince [[spoiler:Hyun-ae to confess her love to Mute. At first Mute thinks Hyun-ae is joking; when she realizes that *Hyun-ae is serious, her shocked scream spans at least ''three text boxes at max-width''.]]
152	--->'''*Mute:''' [[spoiler:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]
153	* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Many of the laws passed by the Mugunghwa Council have pleasant-sounding names that pave the way for sinister policies. The most representative is probably the last bill passed by the Council, that [[spoiler:allows Ryu to concurrently be President and Chief Councilor, and therefore]] turns the ship into a dictatorship. It is euphemistically named the Unity Act and is justified by giving people more equality and political rights.
154	* PermanentElectedOfficial: The rest of the Council members come and go, but Mute will always be the Councillor for Security. It is implied several times that her position as security chief is hardcoded both in her AI personality and in the Mugunghwa core systems, which means that she ''can't'' resign until the ship arrives. It was supposed to be only a few centuries, but since the ship has damaged navigation systems and will likely never arrive anywhere [[AndIMustScream she has been holding the position for ''sixteen hundred years'' instead. You can understand why Old Mute is really, really tired.]]
155	** It is speculated that [[spoiler:when she was alive, the navigation AI *Star]] had a similar permanent position as [[spoiler:Councillor for Captaincy]].
156	* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a's "sister" Mi-seun is worried sick about the long periods of time Eun-a spends away from home and the time Eun-a is spending with Ryu. However, Eun-a's usage of big words and concepts that fly over Mi-seun's head, and Eun-a's way of explaining, which implies that Mi-seun is useless, intimidates Mi-seun, who writes long letters to her "big sister" that she never actually sends. Mi-seun eventually [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]], which causes Eun-a [[TalkingToTheDead to lose it.]]]]
157	* PosthumousCharacter: Everyone who appears in the log files has been dead for at least 600 years (except for the Pale Bride, on a [[HumanPopsicle technicality]]). Within the logs themselves, the very briefly mentioned *Star, the navigation AI who was killed in a rebellion only two hundred years after the launch of the ''Mugunghwa'', thus explaining why the ship never got where it was supposed to go in the first place.
158	* PrecisionFStrike: As in ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', *Mute doesn't swear too badly unless the situation ''really'' calls for it, like when reading [[spoiler:Oh Mi-seun's SuicideNote]].
159	-->'''*Hyun-ae:''' No!\
160	'''*Mute:''' Fuck...
161	* PuppetKing:
162	** What both President Park, the "populist" agitator for democracy, and Chief Councillor Ryu (an apparently unambitious man) were supposed to be, to the rest of the Council. [[spoiler:Park eventually takes the fall, while Ryu seizes power, gets rid of everyone else and declares himself Emperor. Towards the end, the councillors are clearly ''his'' puppets.]]
163	** [[spoiler:*Mute, after her security wipe, is still technically Chief of Security, but she's really there to ensure Smith gets patrols to areas he wants patrolled.]]
164	* PyrrhicVictory: Only for [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a.]] She ''does'' manage to [[spoiler:overthrow the ship with her husband, but at the cost of her little sister's life, which haunts her even after year zero. Mute would note that she'd spend hours staring at a wall.]]
165	* {{Railroading}}: Used more than once, and lampshaded during *Mute's route. When she asks you to go through the logs together, the choices are "Okay!", "Only if you insist", and "Fine, do whatever." Picking the first one has her apologize for the railroading.
166	* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Kim So-yi is molested by Han, her research assistant. Later, when So-yi and her husband get intimate, she guides her husband to do the same things that Han did to her. (He doesn't realize the implications, because she never told him about the original incident, but her behavior does strike him as odd.) It's clear that Han's actions led to some deep emotional scars for So-yi, even if she never realizes or admits it.]]
167	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
168	** When you start reading the old logs, Mute discovers that Old Mute was over ''1600'' years old, which seems unimaginably ancient to her. Kind of amusing, considering that current *Mute is no spring chicken either, since she's 900-something and looks around 14.
169	** Also [[DefiedTrope defied]] by Hyun-ae. As part of the Lunar New Year celebrations, you're supposed to eat a bowl of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tteokguk tteokguk]] in order to properly "gain" a year of life. Hyun-ae hasn't had any in 622 years, and the (computer-generated) bowl she has on Day Two is only the 17th time she's ''ever'' had it, so she decides she's Really 17 Years Old!
170	** Also the subject of an amusing conversation in the harem route where Mute and Hyun-ae argue over who is more qualified to be "older sister". [[spoiler:Hyun-ae wins as Mute can't remember her past incarnations and wasn't awake for the long period between the ship's downfall and the player's arrival.]]
171	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: On either *Hyun-ae or the Harem route, you'll order android shells for them. They've got most human body functions, right down to ''artificial tear ducts''.
172	* {{Robosexual}}: You, possibly, if you're in a romance with any of the characters and get them an artificial body. Also, Seo-yeong, who obviously has feelings for Old *Mute.
173	* RunningGag: In Harem route, expect Hyun-ae to comment every time someone mentions [[{{Meido}} maids]], and expect Mute to call her out on it.
174	* SanitySlippage: While it doesn't quite go up into [[InsaneEqualsViolent murderous levels]], [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] begins believing her maid is [[spoiler:her dead "little sister", who committed suicide]] and spent much of her time as Empress [[ThousandYardStare staring into space.]]
175	* SelfDeprecation:
176	** Mixed in with TakeThat is if you complete the Harem route and ask *Hyun-ae to talk about what's happened so far. One of the choices makes her break the fourth wall and note that the harem route and the player's cheating nullified everything that's happened, with no real consequences!
177	** Asking her to talk about hate talks about how the game is far superior to ''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory''.
178	* {{Seppuku}}: Using Website/ThisVeryWiki's definition of "Seppuku," the suicide of [[spoiler:Heo Seo-yeong]] qualifies [[spoiler:except that she probably didn't actually kill herself]]. The honor-bound deaths of [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a's lover]] and [[spoiler:*Mute, whose suicide note recounts her failings and admits that she is "freeing" a romantically-inclined Investigator]] probably also qualify.
179	* ShaggyDogStory:
180	** Made extremely obvious in *Mute's route, in regards to the events that lead up to ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''. Mute will note that everything that Kim So-Yi worked for would be wiped out in the system reboot ([[spoiler:she was literally ''days'' away from presenting her report to the science department when the Mugunghwa's computers were wiped by Ryu Hyeon-su's coup d'etat, taking her data with it]]), that the Neo-Joseon Dynasty's numbers will decline, due to the loss of research, and that [[spoiler:their descendants will be killed by the Pale Bride.]]
181	** Old Mute [[spoiler:begging to be spared, at the cost of her best friend and closest comrade, results in her "dying", anyway—and the data that she tries to sneak to the future version of her comes too late, and causes Mute to kill herself.]]
182	** Oh Mi-seun's comments about her period pains essentially makes the reason Hyun-ae was brought out of cryosleep a particularly tragic one: The sole reason that she was unfrozen was so that she could be gifted to the Emperor in order for him to have a son. *Hyun-ae, canonically 17 years old, expresses confusion when Mi-seun mentions "that time of the month" which strongly suggests that Hyun-ae never experienced any periods, period. Likely as a result of her illness, Hyun-ae would never have been able to bear any children.
183	* ShoutOut:
184	** Many of the achievements.
185	*** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask --48 HOURS REMAIN--]], complete with Old *Mute's face as the moon.
186	*** "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Level Four Revive Materia]]". [[spoiler:Appropriately, this achievement named after an UrbanLegendOfZelda is [[UnwinnableByDesign impossible to get.]]]]
187	*** "[[Anime/CowboyBebop See you, Space Investigator.]]"
188	*** "Don't create a [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater TIME PARADOX!]]", with *Hyun-ae posing as the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Colonel]].
189	*** [[Website/{{Facebook}} Relationship Status: It's complicated]].
190	** *Hyun-Ae: "In the end...[[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the future refused to improve...]]"
191	** The current expert in AI psychology (formerly robopsychology) in an email you get teaches at the [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Susan Calvin Institute]].
192	** *Mute's defiant "just watch me" echoes a line famously spoken by former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau during a time of political strife.
193	** The game's name itself is a reference to ''VideoGame/LovePlus''.
194	** Old *Mute has a definite inspiration from Old Snake from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', also a badass elderly sequel version of a character who is cynical and associated with smoking.
195	* SirSwearsALot: Old Mute ([[HypocriticalHumor which annoys Mute]]) and Heo, which oddly belies the latter's sweet nature.
196	* SmokingIsCool: Old *Mute can't actually smoke, what with being a computer program and all, but she knows it makes her look ''badass''.
197	* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:Emperor Ryu and Oh Eun-a]] upon initiating Year Zero. They ''will not stop'' insulting and gloating over their victory - which is in total opposition to how they were in private.
198	* TakeThat: Hyun-ae's ImageSong, "It's Not Ero!", starts by asserting that the game is "no [[{{Eroge}} ero story]]" with no "smutty [=CGs=]".
199	* TakeThatAudience: If you refuse to make a cake for *Hyun-ae, she levies one against {{eroge}} fans who only like characters from a sexual point of view, and [[YouBastard includes the player]].
200	* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:In the Harem route, you need to help guide Hyun-ae on convincing Mute not to wipe herself of her memories, which is essentially AI suicide.]]
201	* TalkingToTheDead: Oh Eun-a's sister often sent letters to her dead mother, on her maid's advice that it'd relieve some stress.
202	** MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Oh Eun-a later takes it to an extreme when [[spoiler:she acts like her maid is her dead sister, combining it with the above.]]
203	* TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse. The ''Mugunghwa'' took an estimated 2500 years to get to where it did from Earth. And even taking into account that it probably veered off course, the Investigator's single-seat recovery/scout vessel only takes only ''3 days'' to get back to Earth from the ''Mugunghwa'', and it's damaged at the time!
204	* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:In the opening of her route, Mute talks a good game of being able to deal with the knowledge of her past self and not worrying overmuch about her emotions, which is why Captain Emperor Ryu banned her from finding out. By the end of it, [[DrivenToSuicide you're not playing with the same Mute]], primarily because of her having a nervous crackup when she realizes just how much of a pawn she was of Ryu and his wife.]]
205	* ThemeAndVariations: Old Mute gets a slowed down remix version of one of Mute songs from Analogue. [[spoiler:It matches Old *Mute's tired state for being active for 1600 years, 600 more than she was designed to be. Even as an immortal AI, all the memories she accumulated left her bogged down from having to cross-reference so much data when thinking.]]
206	* ThousandYardStare: According to *Mute post-Year Zero, [[spoiler:Empress Oh Eun-a]] spent large chunks of time just staring at a wall. [[spoiler:Her "little sister" killing herself just as her social-engineering project was coming to fruition might have had something to do with that.]]
207	* AThreesomeIsHot: [[spoiler:The end of harem route can become this.]]
208	* TranslationConvention: It's mentioned that the hanja on Hyun-ae's stasis pod have been translated as 'Pale Bride' instead of 'Sick Daughter', because "the ship sailed on getting that right long ago".
209	* [[TranslatorMicrobes Translation Software]]: Used straight in the sense that all the documents were "originally" written in Korean (either Hangul or Hanmun) but are "displayed" in English, but also amusingly subverted in a larger sense: when your AI(s) attempt to install a more up-to-date Korean-English language pack, it somehow breaks their software and makes them incapable of understanding your input. So the whole reason you ''can't'' talk to them directly is ''because of'' the Translation Software.
210	* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Heo Seo-yeong loves an AI that may or may not reciprocate, but doesn't ever acknowledge it, her husband's murdered when he becomes too much of a nuisance to Oh Eun-a, and her whole society is getting whittled back to an oppressive, patriarchal dystopia. When she and Old Mute finally attempt a coup, Old Mute is essentially forced to back them down; when Seo-yeong hesitates, Old Mute has to resort to emotional blackmail to stop her from killing President/Chief Councillor Ryu. Seo-yeong has to watch as Old Mute gets her memories wiped, setting the stage for a complete reworking of all society. Seo-yeong is made into the scapegoat for a "failed rebellion," and worst of all, she's blamed for wiping Old *Mute; she is utterly despised by the new version of the AI she once loved. She's imprisoned for ten years before finally committing suicide, and it's unclear whether she actually took her own life or was simply eliminated by the government. She's remembered as a monster.]]
211	* [[TroubledSympatheticBigot Troubled Sympathetic Chauvinistic Bitch]]: *Mute finally graduates to a fully sympathetic POV in this game.
212	* {{Tsundere}}: As with ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', Mute and Hyun-ae will both accuse each other of acting like this in the harem route.
213	* UnwinnableByDesign: The achievement "Level Four Revive Materia", as it appears by all accounts to be completely impossible to [[spoiler:save *Mute from killing herself, unless you're in harem route.]] This has been so far supported by, among other things, brute-forcing every possible log-reading combo, question-answer combo, and even, to an extent, ''messing around with the game files themselves''. Even achievement-unlocking cheat programs don't work. See [[http://steamcommunity.com/app/239700/discussions/0/864976115782047791/#p1 this thread]] for the majority of the debate.
214	** The name of the achievment is a reference to an UrbanLegendOfZelda that the eponymous item could be used to save [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith]].
215	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: There are plenty of dialog choices scattered about that let you be a {{Jerkass}} to the AI. But the worst example is likely the Caged Bird Ending, where [[spoiler:the Investigator refuses to get Hyun-ae a new body and keeps her imprisoned on the White Princess. Seeing her end up in yet another abusive relationship is heart-wrenching. [[SarcasmMode But it's okay, because making Hyun-ae feel trapped always works out well for everybody.]]]]
216	* WaitingPuzzle: Of a sort. When *Hyun-ae asks you to bake her a cake, she asks you to get up and check whether you've got the right ingredients. If you answer too quickly (regardless of what your answer is), she accuses you of just trying to skip actually doing what she asks. Then, when you're supposed to be baking the cake, you need to wait an appropriate amount of time for it to finish, too, or else she'll do the same. See AddressingThePlayer, above.
217	* YaoiFangirl: [[MoralGuardians Of all people]], [[HypocriticalHumor Mute shows]] a [[GossipyHens greater-than-her-usual]] nosiness in the lives of the male lovers profiled in the game's storyline. [[spoiler:New Mute doesn't seem to care much either way: she doesn't have anything against gay couples, but she also doesn't have *Mute's gossipy eagerness.]]
218	* YouBastard:
219	** If you try to power through the cake sequence on Hyun-ae's route on Day 3, you will get a fourth-wall breaking lecture that Hyun-ae isn't to be treated like a flat eroge girl there for sex and easy-to-get-into love. See AddressingThePlayer.
220	** If you get really harsh on Mute in day three of the Harem route, where [[spoiler:Mute is about to kill herself]], such as bringing up her failure in the last game to save anyone and calling her out on her sexism, *Hyun-ae will say she needs support, not a tongue-lashing.

Context VisualNovel / HatePlus