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* YouWakeUpInARoom: Halfway through the fourth game, Kara tries to enter Karl Von Toten's house in Lisbon, only to suddenly pass out and wake up in a room with nothing in it save for a mysterious machine.
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* OffModel: Kara's arms seem a bit oddly drawn in the second game.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The code to the storage room in 2nd game is generated randomly. In the third game the same code is brought up again in one of the coded transmissions in the hotel room hideout ... and is also randomly generated. Thus it's no wonder it's different.
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* DroneOfDread: A milder example is the howling breeze which replaces the background music in the [[NothingIsScarier dim-lit and character-void]] Zurich library.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: In the finale Manfred is clever enough to have the city locked down by his troops and surround Karl's hideout but he still walks in [[TooDumbToLive all alone and unarmed]]. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown No holds barred crowbar-whacking ensues]].
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When in the finale Manfred boasts to Kara nad Karl [[TooDumbToLive all by himself and unarmed]], Kara is pretty much fed up with him at this point and crowbar-whacks him with extreme prejudice.
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* TooDumbToLive: Manfred in the 4th game is bold enough to, after having the place locked down by his troops, walk in on Karl and Kara all by himself and without bringing any weapon[[note]]or having it ready[[/note]]. He quickly learns his last lesson in life as [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Kara crowbar-whacks him with extreme prejudice]].
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* RedHerring: Karl Von Toten's mansion in the first game is ''littered'' with these, many of them viewable up close but not interactive or important. One of these even comes around as a BrickJoke in the fourth game.
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* AlwaysNight:
** The first two games play this straight.
** The third game plays with this, having an intro that passes through a day-long train ride before the game proper starts in nighttime, and the final chapter is set during early dawn.
** Averted in the fourth game, which opens with a cloudy day and stays so for the rest of the game.
** The first two games play this straight.
** The third game plays with this, having an intro that passes through a day-long train ride before the game proper starts in nighttime, and the final chapter is set during early dawn.
** Averted in the fourth game, which opens with a cloudy day and stays so for the rest of the game.
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* SpookySilentLibrary: The ''Hauptbibliothek'' in the 3rd game, where the music stops and is replaced with a cold breeze once Kara breaks in. [[spoiler: And then Manfred's goons kidnap her just as she finds a lead on Von Toten's location.]]
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* WhamShot: Throughout the series there are a lot of hints at a major twist, particularly when you get to [[spoiler:[[MindScrew the study]]]]. But confirmation doesn't arrive until the very end of the fourth (and currently final) episode, as Kara finally approaches Von Toten, and the camera cuts to [[TheReveal reveal]] that [[spoiler:[[CanonWelding he is currently]] [[WhereItAllBegan inventing the]] [[VideoGame/{{Submachine}} Coordinate Device]]]].
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* ImperialGermany: The main antagonists are from here.
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* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,67.html Covert Front Episode 3: Night In Zurich]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,97.html Covert Front Episode 4: The Spark of Life]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,47.html Covert Front Episode 2: Station On the Horizon]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,67.html Covert Front Episode 3: Night In Zurich]]
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* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,47.html mateuszskutnik.com/covert_front/index.php?id=cf_2 Covert Front Episode 2: Station On the Horizon]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,67.html mateuszskutnik.com/covert_front/index.php?id=cf_3 Covert Front Episode 3: Night In Zurich]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,97.html mateuszskutnik.com/covert_front/index.php?id=cf_4 Covert Front Episode 4: The Spark of Life]]
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The series takes place in an AlternateHistory 1904, where a technological revolution in the previous century has led to a premature UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne.UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In the midst of this conflict, a multitude of specialists from diverse fields are brought to a secretive Berlin conference called "Knowledge for Victory." 96 of those specialists disappeared after the conference ended.
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* SequelEscalation: Each game gets progressively larger amounts of plot and puzzles. Indeed, the third game has perhaps the most plot of any game at PastelGames to date.
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** Well, Isaac Newton ''did'' consider alchemy to be his real work, and one of the fundamental goals of the study of alchemy was formulating the Elixir of Life . . .
* AlwaysNight: Played straight in the first three games. On the train ride to Zurich in the third game, the sun's setting. Averted in the 4th game, though, as it's morning when Kara makes it to the [[spoiler: airport in Lisbon]].
* AlwaysNight: Played straight in the first three games. On the train ride to Zurich in the third game, the sun's setting. Averted in the 4th game, though, as it's morning when Kara makes it to the [[spoiler: airport in Lisbon]].
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The series takes place in an AlternateHistory 1904, where a technological revolution in the previous century has led to a premature WorldWarOne.UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. In the midst of this conflict, a multitude of specialists from diverse fields are brought to a secretive Berlin conference called "Knowledge for Victory." 96 of those specialists disappeared after the conference ended.
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* CallBack: As Kara prepares to enter the building that Von Toten's study is in, she notices how similar it is to his mansion.
** Also, as an easter egg, if you type in some certain words, you can create other objects with the machine that are replicas of some items found in the mansion.
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A point and click adventure game series created by Mateusz Skutnik of Creator/PastelGames. Skutnik considers the third episode to be his best work so far.
The series takes place in an AlternateHistory 1904, where a technological revolution in the previous century has led to a premature WorldWarOne. In the midst of this conflict, a multitude of specialists from diverse fields are brought to a secretive Berlin conference called "Knowledge for Victory." 96 of those specialists disappeared after the conference ended.
Onto the scene comes secret agent M-24-7-69, aka Kara. Her fellow agents from the Intelligence Agency General Headquarters (IAGH) have disappeared in the course of their own investigations into the whereabouts of those specialists. She is assigned to look into the disappearance of one of the scientists who attended the conference, Karl von Toten. Kara begins by investigating von Toten's now deserted mansion, where there are hints of both a grisly crime and some peculiar scientific experiment in which von Toten was involved.
Kara's investigation of the property and other areas soon turns up clues pointing to something that could have a major impact not only on the outcome of the war, but on the future of technological development. And it appears she is not the only one looking into these strange happenings....
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!!The games released so far are:
[[index]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,46.html Covert Front Episode 1: All Quiet On The Covert Front]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,47.html Covert Front Episode 2: Station On the Horizon]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,67.html Covert Front Episode 3: Night In Zurich]]
* [[http://jayisgames.com/games/covert-front-4/ Covert Front Episode 4: The Spark of Life]]
[[/index]]
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!!These games provide examples of:
* AlternateHistory: [[SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility Type III]].
* AnachronismStew: Aside from all the highly advanced tech thanks to AlternateHistory, there's also the fact that the secretive conference [[spoiler:was organized by Isaac Newton according to the newspaper in the library]]. No real mystique surrounds the latter, meaning that the people of this time apparently don't think that it's too unusual; a full explanation is pending.
* BilingualBonus: There are quite a few German words and phrases sprinkled about the world. [[spoiler:One puzzle solution actually hinges on you figuring out that "Wien" means Vienna]].
* TheButlerDidIt: The first game hints at the butler, Manfred, having been responsible for von Toten's disappearance. [[spoiler:It's true; Manfred was an Imperial agent sent to get the machine from his "master" the scientist]].
* ClarkesThirdLaw: A note written by one of the scientists in the bunker to his wife notes how the [[spoiler:machine that produces objects from a person's thoughts]] is more like magic than technology.
* CoolHelmet: [[spoiler:Manfred Nikolai]]'s Pickelhaube.
* CrowbarCombatant: Kara is handy with a crowbar [[spoiler: as Manfred finds out]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Manfred, both in relation to his master von Toten and to the Empire]].
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Kara dresses in German officer's clothing to drive out of an airfield.
* FakeoutEscape: In the third episode, Kara pulls this trope off by leaving her coat on the ground and hiding in a high corner of her jail cell, out of sight. The warden passes by and notices the "empty" cell, and when he goes inside and picks up Kara's coat, she gets the jump on him.
* ImperialGermany: The main antagonists are from here.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The waltz-like music in the intro turns out to be coming from Kara's radio.
* NothingIsScarier: The games take a page from Mateusz's [[SubMachine other big series]] in terms of quiet background effects and minimal character interaction.
* OffModel: Kara's arms seem a bit oddly drawn in the second game.
* OvertOperative: Kara has a bit of this, what with the greatcoat and the tendency to execute huge jumps and flips while trying to be stealthy.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Borderline. A painting of a young Albert Einstein is on the wall of the hotel room in Zurich. While Einstein did much of his famous work in Zurich, it wouldn't be for decades and in 1904 he was working at the Swiss patent office.
* SceneryPorn: The luscious detail put into every screen really defines the experience.
* SequelEscalation: Each game gets progressively larger amounts of plot and puzzles. Indeed, the third game has perhaps the most plot of any game at PastelGames to date.
* ShoutOut: The first game's subtitle, [[Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront "All Quiet on the Covert Front"]].
** The chair that appears [[spoiler:in Karl von Toten's reality-bending study]] is the same one that recurs throughout ''SubMachine''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Soothing waltz-like music plays as scenes from the carnage of war are shown in the intro.
* SpinningPaper: Done at the beginning of the first game to set up the whole war backstory.
* SteamPunk
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[[caption-width-right:287:Kara on assignment.]]
A point and click adventure game series created by Mateusz Skutnik of Creator/PastelGames. Skutnik considers the third episode to be his best work so far.
The series takes place in an AlternateHistory 1904, where a technological revolution in the previous century has led to a premature WorldWarOne. In the midst of this conflict, a multitude of specialists from diverse fields are brought to a secretive Berlin conference called "Knowledge for Victory." 96 of those specialists disappeared after the conference ended.
Onto the scene comes secret agent M-24-7-69, aka Kara. Her fellow agents from the Intelligence Agency General Headquarters (IAGH) have disappeared in the course of their own investigations into the whereabouts of those specialists. She is assigned to look into the disappearance of one of the scientists who attended the conference, Karl von Toten. Kara begins by investigating von Toten's now deserted mansion, where there are hints of both a grisly crime and some peculiar scientific experiment in which von Toten was involved.
Kara's investigation of the property and other areas soon turns up clues pointing to something that could have a major impact not only on the outcome of the war, but on the future of technological development. And it appears she is not the only one looking into these strange happenings....
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!!The games released so far are:
[[index]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,46.html Covert Front Episode 1: All Quiet On The Covert Front]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,47.html Covert Front Episode 2: Station On the Horizon]]
* [[http://www.pastelgames.com/index,games,flash_game,67.html Covert Front Episode 3: Night In Zurich]]
* [[http://jayisgames.com/games/covert-front-4/ Covert Front Episode 4: The Spark of Life]]
[[/index]]
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!!These games provide examples of:
* AlternateHistory: [[SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility Type III]].
* AnachronismStew: Aside from all the highly advanced tech thanks to AlternateHistory, there's also the fact that the secretive conference [[spoiler:was organized by Isaac Newton according to the newspaper in the library]]. No real mystique surrounds the latter, meaning that the people of this time apparently don't think that it's too unusual; a full explanation is pending.
* BilingualBonus: There are quite a few German words and phrases sprinkled about the world. [[spoiler:One puzzle solution actually hinges on you figuring out that "Wien" means Vienna]].
* TheButlerDidIt: The first game hints at the butler, Manfred, having been responsible for von Toten's disappearance. [[spoiler:It's true; Manfred was an Imperial agent sent to get the machine from his "master" the scientist]].
* ClarkesThirdLaw: A note written by one of the scientists in the bunker to his wife notes how the [[spoiler:machine that produces objects from a person's thoughts]] is more like magic than technology.
* CoolHelmet: [[spoiler:Manfred Nikolai]]'s Pickelhaube.
* CrowbarCombatant: Kara is handy with a crowbar [[spoiler: as Manfred finds out]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Manfred, both in relation to his master von Toten and to the Empire]].
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Kara dresses in German officer's clothing to drive out of an airfield.
* FakeoutEscape: In the third episode, Kara pulls this trope off by leaving her coat on the ground and hiding in a high corner of her jail cell, out of sight. The warden passes by and notices the "empty" cell, and when he goes inside and picks up Kara's coat, she gets the jump on him.
* ImperialGermany: The main antagonists are from here.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The waltz-like music in the intro turns out to be coming from Kara's radio.
* NothingIsScarier: The games take a page from Mateusz's [[SubMachine other big series]] in terms of quiet background effects and minimal character interaction.
* OffModel: Kara's arms seem a bit oddly drawn in the second game.
* OvertOperative: Kara has a bit of this, what with the greatcoat and the tendency to execute huge jumps and flips while trying to be stealthy.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Borderline. A painting of a young Albert Einstein is on the wall of the hotel room in Zurich. While Einstein did much of his famous work in Zurich, it wouldn't be for decades and in 1904 he was working at the Swiss patent office.
* SceneryPorn: The luscious detail put into every screen really defines the experience.
* SequelEscalation: Each game gets progressively larger amounts of plot and puzzles. Indeed, the third game has perhaps the most plot of any game at PastelGames to date.
* ShoutOut: The first game's subtitle, [[Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront "All Quiet on the Covert Front"]].
** The chair that appears [[spoiler:in Karl von Toten's reality-bending study]] is the same one that recurs throughout ''SubMachine''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Soothing waltz-like music plays as scenes from the carnage of war are shown in the intro.
* SpinningPaper: Done at the beginning of the first game to set up the whole war backstory.
* SteamPunk
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