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* ThePenIsMightier: Haze's second victim can be killed with a pen, either by Haze himself or [[DrivenToSuicide his victim]].
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Clara. She was the only person in the family that Haze had a somewhat positive relation with and discovering that she was assaulted while the rest of the family weren't home one night is what causes him to start murdering predators.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: For someone who made it his mission to hunt down pedophiles and acts as if he's above everyone in general, it's odd that Haze is not racist and tries to talk down a hooker from her job and help deal with her boss when he doesn't approve of it.
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* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:Over the course of File 1, Haze kills three people, two being victims and one being a random person. The fourth person Haze attempts to kill, Gabriel Romero, doesn't go as planned and ends with Haze being left passing out from a knife wound while Gabriel escapes.]]
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Closest fitting trope I can find.
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* UnfortunateNames: A downplayed example. While Ben, Bridget, and Clara have normal names you'd see in real life, Haze is the unusual name out. This is lampshaded when you first meet Brian.
-->'''Brian:''' Haze? Odd name.\\
'''Haze:''' Yeah, my parents were stupid.
-->'''Brian:''' Haze? Odd name.\\
'''Haze:''' Yeah, my parents were stupid.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The fact that it takes five police officers to subdue an unarmed Haze says a lot about how competent they are. If you look beyond that, one officer asks Haze to find his wallet (which is a short walk away from him at a nearby park) and the police can't even tell if Haze's murder of someone was a suicide or murder despite all the blatant evidence towards the latter. Craig might be the most competent police officer in the town, and he believed Haze's word that the loud gunshot coming from his house was from Haze playing ''Call of Duty'' and easily lets Haze off the hook for having marijuana on him by forcing him have dinner with him and his wife.
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* BatterUp: One of the tools Haze uses for his victims is a baseball bat. While he does use it to incapacitate his victims, he'll usually resort to using something else to finish his victims off.
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* CaughtMonologuing: [[spoiler:One of the few reasons why Gabriel managed to turn the tables on Haze when he was holding him at gunpoint was because the latter wouldn't stop talking and shoot him.]]
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* CaughtMonologuing: [[spoiler:One of the few reasons why Gabriel managed to turn the tables on Haze when he was holding him at gunpoint was because because, unlike his previous two victims, the latter wouldn't stop talking and shoot ''before'' trying to incapacitate him.]]
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* CaughtMonologuing: [[spoiler:One of the few reasons why Gabriel managed to turn the tables on Haze when he was holding him at gunpoint was because the latter wouldn't stop talking and shoot him.]]
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* AllThereInTheScript: The developer [[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1081840/view/5520845108864008383 made the in-progress script and design document]] public around 2021 (and [[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1081840?emclan=103582791464547669&emgid=3395178347878298632 made a new one in 2022 after losing access to it thanks to a cyber attack]]) in order to show progress with the game, which is around 492 pages long and features spoilers up to the completed File #10 and the work-in-progress File #11.
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* AllThereInTheScript: The developer [[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1081840/view/5520845108864008383 made the in-progress script and design document]] public around 2021 (and [[https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1081840?emclan=103582791464547669&emgid=3395178347878298632 made a new one in 2022 after losing access to it thanks to a cyber attack]]) in order to show progress with the game, which is around 492 pages long and features spoilers up to the completed File #10 and the work-in-progress File #11. A couple examples include [[spoiler:the origins of Haze's name,[[note]]his parents [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistook him for a girl due to his long hair and named him Hazel,]] not realizing that he's a guy until weeks later, at which point they just lazily removed the L from his name.[[/note]] and Gabriel's fate.]]
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* MoralityPet: Clara is the only person in the family that Haze treats with any decency. When Haze discovers Clara got assaulted while he and his parents were away, he ''completely'' loses it.
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* FatBastard: Haze's father, Ben, is extremely overweight, which annoys his wife. He also represents one half of Haze's AbusiveParents.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: How the Stratos household managed to remain stable for so long is a mystery in itself. Ben and Bridget are AbusiveParents who barely care about their relationship and their children, Haze is a TroubledTeen who thinks he's above everyone else and is generally unpleasant to be around, and Clara might be the only normal person in the family if not for the fact that she wanted to start swearing to feel older and that her actions online led to her getting assaulted.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The fact that it takes five police officers to subdue an unarmed Haze is telling about how competent they are. If you look beyond that, one officer asks Haze to find his wallet (which is a short walk away from him at a nearby park) and the police can't even tell if Haze's murder of someone was a suicide or murder despite all the blatant evidence towards the latter. Craig might be the most competent police officer in the town, and he believed Haze's word that the loud gunshot coming from his house was from Haze playing ''Call of Duty'' and easily lets Haze off the hook for having marijuana on him by forcing him have dinner with him and his wife.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The fact that it takes five police officers to even subdue Haze is telling about how competent they are. If you look beyond that, one officer asks Haze to find his wallet (which is a short walk away from him at a nearby park) and the police can't even tell if Haze's murder of someone was a suicide or murder despite all the blatant evidence towards the former. Craig might be the most competent police officer in the town, and he believed Haze's word that the loud gunshot coming from his house was from Haze playing ''Call of Duty'' and easily lets Haze off the hook for having marijuana on him by forcing him have dinner with him and his wife.
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The prologue, File 0, was released on June 15, 2014. File 1: Contamination was released almost five years later on June 12, 2019. It can be downloaded from Steam [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1081840/ANONYMOUS__AGONY/ here]].
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The prologue, File 0, was released on June 15, 2014. File 1: Contamination was released almost five years later on June 12, 2019. 2019, with File #2 still being in development as of December 2022. It can be downloaded from Steam for free [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1081840/ANONYMOUS__AGONY/ here]].
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* AbusiveParents: Haze and Clara's parents are scummy and verbally abusive people who treat their kids like crap, hate each other, and only seem to stay together because its easier than splitting. Haze hates them immensely because of this, almost choking his father after Clara is assaulted.
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* AbusiveParents: Haze and Clara's parents are scummy and verbally abusive people who treat their kids like crap, hate each other, and only seem to stay together because its it's easier than splitting. Haze hates them immensely because of this, almost choking his father after Clara is assaulted.
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* TroubledTeen: Haze was already like this prior to the game starting, no thanks to his [[AbusiveParents parents]] and demeanor in general. Discovering that Clara was raped while he was away made this aspect of him much worse.
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* TroubledTeen: Haze was already like this prior to the game starting, no thanks to his [[AbusiveParents parents]] and demeanor in general. Discovering that Clara was raped assaulted while he was away made this aspect of him much worse.worse.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Haze's parents never appear in File 1 outside of {{flashback}}s and Haze (understandably) rarely mentions them in the present day while still living in their house. A dream sequence implies that Haze killed them, but whether this is true or not has yet to be determined.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Haze's parents never appear in File 1 outside of {{flashback}}s and Haze (understandably) rarely mentions them in the present day while still living in their house. A dream sequence implies that Haze killed them, but whether this is true or not has yet to be determined.
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* TroubledTeen: Haze was already like this prior to the game starting, no thanks to his [[AbusiveParents parents]] and demeanor in general. Discovering that Clara was raped while he was away made this aspect of him much worse.
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* SirSwearsalot: A lot of the sentences that come out of Haze's mouth have at least one swear word in them.
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* MoodWhiplash: The game is rife with it. The earliest example of this is when Dr. Edwen brings up the topic of Clara being raped, [[TraumaButton Haze hears ringing in his ears and violently responds by throwing him out the window of his office]]. Cue happy, chipper music playing not even one sentence later.
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* MoodWhiplash: The game is rife with it. The earliest example of this is when Dr. Edwen brings up the topic of Clara being raped, [[TraumaButton Haze hears ringing in his ears and violently responds by throwing him out the window of his office]]. [[SoundtrackDissonance Cue happy, chipper music playing playing]] not even one sentence later.
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* IdiosyncraticMenuLabels: You get "New User", "Log In", and "Log Out" as menu options in place of the "New Game", "Continue" and "Exit" buttons.
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* MoodWhiplash: When Dr. Edwen brings up the topic of Clara being raped, [[TraumaButton Haze hears ringing in his ears and violently responds by throwing him out the window]]. Cue happy, chipper music playing not even one sentence later.
* ObviousBeta: The game is littered with these. If you don't delete at least some messages from your phone, you'll suddenly find yourself softlocked after a certain point. During the first night, the game falls apart if you take a wrong turn, with the time of day, sprites, and tiles changing at random.
* ObviousBeta: The game is littered with these. If you don't delete at least some messages from your phone, you'll suddenly find yourself softlocked after a certain point. During the first night, the game falls apart if you take a wrong turn, with the time of day, sprites, and tiles changing at random.
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* MoodWhiplash: When The game is rife with it. The earliest example of this is when Dr. Edwen brings up the topic of Clara being raped, [[TraumaButton Haze hears ringing in his ears and violently responds by throwing him out the window]]. window of his office]]. Cue happy, chipper music playing not even one sentence later.
* ObviousBeta: The game is littered with these. If you don't delete at least some messages from your phone, you'll suddenly find yourself softlocked after a certain point. During the first night, the game falls apart if you take a wrong turn, with the time of day, sprites, and tiles changing at random.later.
* ObviousBeta: The game is littered with these. If you don't delete at least some messages from your phone, you'll suddenly find yourself softlocked after a certain point. During the first night, the game falls apart if you take a wrong turn, with the time of day, sprites, and tiles changing at random.
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Surprised there isn't a page for this trainwreck yet. Yes, I watched Mandalore Gaming.
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''Anonymous Agony'' is an episodic game for RPG Maker VX Ace, created by Coded Emotion.
It follows the parallel stories of Haze Stratos and Dr. James Samson, a teenage serial killer and child psychologist respectively. One day, Haze returns home to find that Clara had been raped and she is sent to a mental hospital to recover under Dr. Samson's care. As she follows the road to recovery, Haze decides to take a different approach and uses her online name to lure other predators to his home to murder them.
The prologue, File 0, was released on June 15, 2014. File 1: Contamination was released almost five years later on June 12, 2019. It can be downloaded from Steam [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1081840/ANONYMOUS__AGONY/ here]].
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!!Tropes found in ''Anonymous Agony'':
* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: When moving to a new area, you'll have to sit through a loading screen every time. What makes this egregious is that they're ''fake'' loading screens as the game can sometimes be seen fully loaded in, often in the span of a second or two at most, ''before'' the screen suddenly pops up.
* MoodWhiplash: When Dr. Edwen brings up the topic of Clara being raped, [[TraumaButton Haze hears ringing in his ears and violently responds by throwing him out the window]]. Cue happy, chipper music playing not even one sentence later.
* ObviousBeta: The game is littered with these. If you don't delete at least some messages from your phone, you'll suddenly find yourself softlocked after a certain point. During the first night, the game falls apart if you take a wrong turn, with the time of day, sprites, and tiles changing at random.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The premise of the game revolves around this topic, with Haze firmly believing so to the point of actively searching them out in order to kill them.
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''Anonymous Agony'' is an episodic game for RPG Maker VX Ace, created by Coded Emotion.
It follows the parallel stories of Haze Stratos and Dr. James Samson, a teenage serial killer and child psychologist respectively. One day, Haze returns home to find that Clara had been raped and she is sent to a mental hospital to recover under Dr. Samson's care. As she follows the road to recovery, Haze decides to take a different approach and uses her online name to lure other predators to his home to murder them.
The prologue, File 0, was released on June 15, 2014. File 1: Contamination was released almost five years later on June 12, 2019. It can be downloaded from Steam [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1081840/ANONYMOUS__AGONY/ here]].
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!!Tropes found in ''Anonymous Agony'':
* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: When moving to a new area, you'll have to sit through a loading screen every time. What makes this egregious is that they're ''fake'' loading screens as the game can sometimes be seen fully loaded in, often in the span of a second or two at most, ''before'' the screen suddenly pops up.
* MoodWhiplash: When Dr. Edwen brings up the topic of Clara being raped, [[TraumaButton Haze hears ringing in his ears and violently responds by throwing him out the window]]. Cue happy, chipper music playing not even one sentence later.
* ObviousBeta: The game is littered with these. If you don't delete at least some messages from your phone, you'll suddenly find yourself softlocked after a certain point. During the first night, the game falls apart if you take a wrong turn, with the time of day, sprites, and tiles changing at random.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The premise of the game revolves around this topic, with Haze firmly believing so to the point of actively searching them out in order to kill them.
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