History Headscratchers / LANoire

** Two theories: The first is that they chose the feminine "Noire" because they are referring to L.A. as a female. The other theory is that they did it JustForPun where "L.A. Noire" becomes "La noire" (The black).

* In "A Walk Through the Elysian Fields" when being chased by the bulldozer, the insurance investigator kills a man with his concealed weapon. How does he immediately goes back to work without a word from law enforcement?

** Uh, no. Rewatch the cutscene - there's no way in hell those people could have been saved. They were burning to death - and the only way to help them was to [[MercyKill end their suffering]] - which Cole did. [[/folder]]

** Honestly, it is a mystery why they would take a game that was pretty much a homage to those old-style adventure games like VideoGame/PoliceQuest and suddenly give it an action finale when the shooting controls were clunky and made it impossible for the plot we actually cared about to be wrapped up. The reason we don't find out about what happened with the stuff Cole cared about was because they had switched the reins to Kelso, and yes, he didn't care. The problem with that is we, the player cared, and it left us hanging on everything that had suspense built up for it until that point. It was a big misstep, and honestly felt like they said "it's Noir right? That means it has to have a needlessly sad ending that doesn't wrap up anything that was established just because!" on top of trying to one up the whole [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption John Marston]] [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready dies]] thing by having us switch protagonists 2 hours before the plot proper is finished up.

** Also, [[CoolHat they were spiffing hats]].

*** Again I must point out that we never see a single second of Cole's marriage life. Ever. We see his wife kissing him goodbye in the opening cutscene, and that is '''all'''. Everything else that we think we know comes from Cole talking to his partners. Taking that into account, Cole has more screen time with Elsa than he does his wife, and it seems obvious why he wouldn't talk to anyone about that little aspect of his life. This complaint just comes off as needlessly nitpicky, and CompletelyMissingThePoint. This isn't a life simulator, it's FilmNoir. If you want to complain about this, you might as well complain about not getting to see [[NobodyPoops Cole or anyone else ever take a dump.]]

*** What does "actively" mean? He was having it in secret. Wait, how do you 'passively' have an affair? And what's with the fanwank explanation? [[VoodooShark You can't go filling what you think are plot holes with bullshit]]. They didn't "portray it poorly" because that's not what they were portraying! You've gone from defying logic in an effort to delude yourself into thinking the romance doesn't make sense into putting physical effort into coming up with a completely baseless explanation to delude yourself into thinking Cole could only ever cheat on his wife because he has PTSD. CompletelyMissingThePoint doesn't even begin to describe it at this point. I wouldn't be making such a fuss about it anymore since your complaints fall neatly under the old title of what this page was here for: the romance plot just bugs you. But it's not about that anymore. It's not a headscratcher, the game portrayed it well enough considering it's priorities were focused on the cases and not Cole's personal life, and there have been heaps upon heaps of factual and logical explanations that you have seen fit to uselessly swat away with the barest of poor excuses. If you don't like the romance plot, fine, but at least don't act like it's the games fault.

** It was just so that the player could see that he's written [[spoiler:disturbing descriptions about young males]] so they could be made aware that he's[[spoiler: "fucking young boys", as Cole bluntly drops during the guy's interrogation.