Line #5 YMMV/FearEffect


1	* AngstWhatAngst: Rain is pretty flippant about the fact that she gets raped, and being an amnesiac never bothers her.
2	* AntiClimaxBoss: Mist, against Rain, at least on normal. Her attacks are random, but all three have a pattern to them that lets you distinguish which ones she's using. Two of them take a long time for her to build up to, allowing Rain some very easy shots with a rocket launcher. This can cause the whole fight to be over in 2 seconds flat if you picked up a rocket launcher the last time you played as Rain, which was hours ago.
3	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Sexualising your female protagonists was hardly a novel thing in the early 2000s, but the marketing campaign for ''Fear Effect 2'' had a [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lot of fun with this]]. With [[https://i.imgur.com/pcwqkhK.jpeg ads like this]], you'd have been forgiven for thinking it earned its M rating solely for the sex appeal, and the many kids whose parents wouldn't let them buy it certainly came away with that impression.
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In ''Fear Effect 2'', Rain is strapped into a bizarre insect device. Its purpose isn't explained, she's freed from it in seconds, it makes little sense, and other than one crack from Hana, it's never mentioned again.
5	* BreatherLevel: In ''Fear Effect 2'', after the hell that is the Wing Chun Tower, the player then gets control of Deke, who faces a bunch of slow moving, weak hitting mutants. Meanwhile, Deke has his trademark shot pistols, an assault rifle, an actual shotgun, and a grenade and rocket launcher. It's rather easy to get through this portion without taking a single hit.
6	* BrokenBase: ''Fear Effect Sedna''. Some fans are happy that the game was released as it signaled the series' revival after 17 years. Others are disappointed because they feel that it's very lackluster overall.
7	* CompleteMonster:
8	** ''Fear Effect'': [[BigBad Yim Lau Wong]] is the Chinese King of Hell. Not wanting to judge every person who comes into his domain, Yin made a deal with [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] leader Mr. Lam to give him a daughter, Wee Ming Lam, in exchange for infinite wealth, with Yin planning to use Wee to kickstart the apocalypse. He grants her the ability to turn people into demons should her blood get on anyone, which she ends up doing to an entire village and a brothel. Posing as [[spoiler:Jin, Hana's informant]], he tricks Hana and company into delivering Wee to him, turning Lam into a demon when [[YouHaveFailedMe he fails to kill Glas.]]
9	** ''Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix'':
10	*** [[EvilTwin Mist]] is Rain's sister who was revealed to hire a mercenary known as Jacob "Deke" [=DeCourt=] in order to retrieve a canister filled with a virus known as EINDS. It's revealed that she intends to use said virus to decimate the good portion of the Earth's population in order to rule the world as [[AGodAmI a god]]. In addition, she also toys with the minds of three mercenaries by disguising herself as Rain, and has no issues backstabbing them when she reveals her true nature, such as pressing a button of a bridge which resulted in one of the mercenaries falling into the abyss. In addition, it's also revealed that she tries to prevent the reunion between her twin sister in order to merge herself with her mother to gain more power. In the bad ending where Hanna accidentally shoots the real Rain, Mist laughs at her suffering and, after merging herself with her mother, kills all of the heroes except Deke, who escaped from her clutches.
11	*** [[ImplacableMan The Foreman]]-- better known as [[RedEyesTakeWarning the Planner]]-- is a hideous Aqueduct worker who slaughters some of his co-workers by using a machine known as the Fixers. When Hana and Rain try to infiltrate the Wing Chung Tower in order to steal a package, the Planner knocks the latter unconscious when he's found out and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil straps her to a device that rapes her]]. After Hana tries to rescue Rain from the Planner's clutches, it was revealed that he planted some bombs in the Aqueducts in order to decimate the downtown district of Hong Kong. Seemingly defeated, the Planner then tries to kill Rain and Hana by activating a bomb in his torture device before he dies.
12	** ''Fear Effect Sedna'': [[BigBad Sedna]] herself is the Inuit [[GodIsEvil goddess of the sea]]. An incomplete being, Sedna plans to kidnap Glas in order to learn how to regenerate her fingers so that she can become whole again and join the ranks of the other gods, where she will recreate the world alongside them. Disguising herself as Iluak, she kidnaps numerous people to either convert them into monsters or [[FlayingAlive flay them]] to use their skinless corpses and skeletons to create a portal to her world. Viewing her own daughter Atiqtalik as her attack dog, she disowns her once she shows kindness to Glas. Once Rain is killed by Atiqtalik, Sedna haunts Hana with Rain's reanimated corpse for fun.
13	* DemonicSpiders: The teleporting demons that Hana encounters in the Juniper Gardens. Tough, hard hitting, appearing in numbers, and teleporting after being shot, they make the gardens the hardest part of ''Fear Effect 2''.
14	* DifficultySpike: The second disc of Retro Helix is a ''lot'' harder than the first, at least until Rain gets the Arc Taser (and even then...), because unlike the predictable enemies in the aqueducts, the Wing Chune guards patrol randomly and can come running at you from multiple angles in groups of three or four. As for trying to fight the biohazard forces when you're armed only with the feeble Plasma Wrist...
15	* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: Due to the TankControls, the only thing remarkable about the gameplay was how obnoxious and frustrating it was. However, thanks to the fully [=CGI=] backgrounds and cutscenes dripping with cyberpunk atmosphere, the gritty dialogue overflowing with NarmCharm, and the great storytelling, this made the punishing gameplay endurable.
16	* GoddamnedBats: The aqueduct workers in ''Fear Effect 2''. Despite never actually attacking the player unless provoked, they are incredibly annoying for several reasons, chief among them being that they raise Hana and Rain's fear meter, even though all of them are cowering at the very sight of Hana or Rain. Then, as if that wasn't enough, killing them leads to a very difficult late game boss fight, where Hana has to resort to melee combat against a guy who shoots electricity out of his hands. And finally, due to the automatic targeting system, it winds up being very easy to hit them by accident, forcing you to put them down as a result.
17	* {{Narm}}: In the ruined town section of ''Fear Effect 2'', there are mutants that shuffle towards you, muttering threatening phrases. One of these is the Cantonese phrase "pok gai". Thanks to the rather nuanced nature of Cantonese, among several other meanings, it can mean the rather threatening "drop dead", but is also commonly used to describe an annoying or disagreeable person. Thus, it sounds like a bunch of horrors shuffling towards you menacingly are calling you an asshole.
18	* ScrappyMechanic: The live inventory management. Especially since a few cutscenes drop the characters in the middle of a gunfight with their weapons holstered.

Context YMMV / FearEffect