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Classical Anti Hero. (was previously "type 1")
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* AntiHero: Ryan himself is an Everyman Loser kind of guy, and even admits that he's a loser and that it's his own fault if his life kind of sucks. %% Example said Type-1. Is this KnightInSourArmor / Disney Anti hero?
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* ClassicalAntiHero: Ryan himself is an Everyman Loser kind of guy, and even admits that he's a loser and that it's his own fault if his life kind of sucks.
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* AntiHero: Ryan himself is a Type 1 Everyman Loser kind of guy, and even admits that he's a loser and that it's his own fault if his life kind of sucks.
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* AntiHero: Ryan himself is a Type 1 an Everyman Loser kind of guy, and even admits that he's a loser and that it's his own fault if his life kind of sucks.sucks. %% Example said Type-1. Is this KnightInSourArmor / Disney Anti hero?
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* PixelHunt: The game window is rather small, with a secondary window which shows a magnification of whatever's below the cursor. Giving the trope a whole new level.
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* PixelHunt: The game window first pixel hunt is retrieving Ryan's wallet, found on the desk with no special attention drawn to it: even examining the desk just says it's occupied by Eden's computer and mousepage. Objects are identified if the cursor hovers over them. Otherwise, the game's viewport is rather small, with a secondary window which shows showing a magnification of whatever's below the cursor. Giving cursor, giving the trope a whole new level.
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Not sure if the last line was needed, but it's probably harmless and I feel it brings up a somewhat valid point.
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* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: The solution for [[spoiler:getting past Diane Underwood's automatic turret is to pour water on the junction box, which promptly causes the turret (NOT the junction box, it just shorts out) to spectacularly explode. [[IdiotBall Despite said junction box being located on a beachside only several feet away from the water.]] To be fair, it is a junction box (high-powered circuits), but that further calls its placement into question.]]
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* TopDownView: Unusually for an adventure game, making it look closer to contemporary [=CRPGs=]. According to WordOfGod this was done to help make the player feel detached from Ryan's actions, like the player is some puppeteer looking down on tiny people.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Zigzagged, though arguably in a way that makes their ineffectiveness even worse. News reports show the police do figure out Ryan is the killer over the course of the game. Despite this, at no point are the police an active impediment to his actions. There is no indication they searched his apartment or spoke to his employer or friends, or that they are keeping an eye on any of the aforementioned in case Ryan visits them. Then the police [[spoiler:suddenly show up in the end to gun him down]].
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* CharacterPortrait: Ryan's portrait takes up a quarter of the screen on the left and remains there the entire time. It only changes once when you pick up and put sunglasses on him.
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* SunglassesAtNight: The smog in the city and rainy weather make it unnecessary for Ryan to wear black sunglasses, but he still wears them because it makes him feel better.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: One of the first things Ryan has to do is finding shoes for himself because a robber electrocuted him and ran away with his trainers. Also, he's fired from his job. Seeing that he still has friends who worry about him, it's clear he used to live a normal life before the [=DreamWeb=] thing reduced him into a wreck.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never been clear if the whole adventure was real, or if Ryan is just frikkin' crazy. Except for the scene after the credits, which cannot be Ryan's hallucination, [[spoiler:since he's dead]]; but the subtitle casts doubt on its canonicity.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never been clear if the whole adventure was real, or if Ryan is just frikkin' crazy. Except for the scene after the credits, which cannot be Ryan's hallucination, [[spoiler:since he's dead]]; but the subtitle preceding text casts doubt on its canonicity.
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Credits run over blurry Ryan's dead body. Then the camera focuses on it and a familiar shimmering blue orb rises from the body and flies away, leaving a note.]] This kind of proves that the events were quite real and not Ryan's imagination, and it meshes very well with what the last enemy said.
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* TheUnfought: The priest is said to have progressed further than the rest. Does that mean he'd be the hardest? [[spoiler:Actually, he turned into some weird-looking sessile EldritchAbomination, leaving nothing for Ryan to kill. But alone, he's no threat to Dreamweb.]]
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The credits say the diary was handwritten.
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* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: The game plays this straight, what's with poorly lit, often dirty looking streets and raining during most of the course.
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* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: The game plays this straight, what's with poorly lit, often dirty looking streets and raining during most of permanent drizzle with occasional showers and lightnings. Ryan [[StoicWoobie doesn't seem to mind.]] In-game weather report:
-->'''General'''\\
As thecourse.rainy season continues there will be increased humidity and constant rainfall, although mostly restricted to a light drizzle. Constant cloud cover is expected and temperatures will reach a moderate 20 degrees.\\
'''Pollution'''\\
Due to the rain and cloud cover there will be a serious increase of trapped pollution in the air and it is recommended that masks are worn at all times for those in pollution risk category A. The risk should clear in 2 or 3 weeks.\\
'''Today's Outlook'''\\
Generally poor, uncomfortable humidity, low levels of sunlight and poor visibility.
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As the
'''Pollution'''\\
Due to the rain and cloud cover there will be a serious increase of trapped pollution in the air and it is recommended that masks are worn at all times for those in pollution risk category A. The risk should clear in 2 or 3 weeks.\\
'''Today's Outlook'''\\
Generally poor, uncomfortable humidity, low levels of sunlight and poor visibility.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never been clear if the whole adventure was real, or if Ryan is just frikkin' crazy.
* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: Home computers have no graphics at all. The user is stuck with a clumsy DOS-like interface to access everything from his e-mails to fetching the latest news broadcast (which consists of text, too, of course).
* PaintingTheMedium: The "Diary of a (Mad?) Man" is printed to make it look like it was handwritten. At one point Ryan goes for several days without sleep to avoid the visions he sees in his dreams, and his handwriting gets progressively worse over this period.
* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: Home computers have no graphics at all. The user is stuck with a clumsy DOS-like interface to access everything from his e-mails to fetching the latest news broadcast (which consists of text, too, of course).
* PaintingTheMedium: The "Diary of a (Mad?) Man" is printed to make it look like it was handwritten. At one point Ryan goes for several days without sleep to avoid the visions he sees in his dreams, and his handwriting gets progressively worse over this period.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never been clear if the whole adventure was real, or if Ryan is just frikkin' crazy.
crazy. Except for the scene after the credits, which cannot be Ryan's hallucination, [[spoiler:since he's dead]]; but the subtitle casts doubt on its canonicity.
* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: Homecomputers "terminals" have no graphics at all. The user is stuck with a clumsy DOS-like interface to access everything from his e-mails to fetching the latest news broadcast (which consists of text, too, of course).
* PaintingTheMedium: The "Diary of a (Mad?) Man" isprinted to make it look like it was handwritten. handwritten in a way that reflects Ryan's mental state on corresponding days. At one point Ryan he goes for several days without sleep to avoid the visions he sees in his dreams, and his handwriting gets progressively worse over this period.
* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: Home
* PaintingTheMedium: The "Diary of a (Mad?) Man" is
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* [[AntiHero Anti-hero]]: Ryan himself is a Type 1 Everyman Loser kind of guy, and even admits that he's a loser and that it's his own fault if his life kind of sucks.
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* [[AntiHero Anti-hero]]: AntiHero: Ryan himself is a Type 1 Everyman Loser kind of guy, and even admits that he's a loser and that it's his own fault if his life kind of sucks.
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* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: In the end, the cops come along and shoot you for all the killing people that you did. So, you just saved the world and they gunned you down as you came out of a blackout? What a bunch of ungrateful-]]
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: In the end, the cops come along and shoot you for all the killing people that you did. So, you just saved the world and they gunned you down as you came out of a blackout? What a bunch of ungrateful-]]
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* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain
CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: The game plays this straight, what's with poorly lit, often dirty looking streets and raining during most of the course.
*[[spoiler:TheHeroDies: In TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:In the end, the cops come along and shoot you for all the killing people that you did. So, you just saved the world and they gunned you down as you came out of a blackout? What a bunch of ungrateful-]]ungrateful-]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Even when believing Ryan's dream is a real deal, it becomes harder and harder to excuse his questionable actions. On his way to approach the second target, Ryan is blocked by an armless guard who won't let him in. Instead of distracting him as a morally sound adventure game protagonist would, Ryan pulls out a gun, shoots him to death, and carries on.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Even when believing Ryan's dream is a real deal, it becomes harder and harder to excuse his questionable actions. On his way to approach the second target, Ryan is blocked by an armless guard who won't let him in. Instead of distracting him as a morally sound adventure game protagonist would, Ryan pulls out a gun, shoots him to death, and carries on.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: There's no hero's welcome and or living happily ever after after Ryan kills seven people. [[spoiler:The police have labeled him as a serial killer, and in the final sequence of the game, a police ambush waits for Ryan, shooting him dead the second he moves.]]
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Merged per TRS
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* UnwinnableByMistake: The game allows you to go back to retrieve any items you missed, but there're still a couple incidents where you can't:
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* UnwinnableByMistake: UnintentionallyUnwinnable: The game allows you to go back to retrieve any items you missed, but there're still a couple incidents where you can't:
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:What do you expect, the police do not understand, or even know, about the threat they pose to the world. In the eyes of the police, you are just some spree killer, who just murdered a series of people. In the end, they will assume that Ryan is actually the dealer, and not Dr. Beckett.]]
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:What do you expect, the police do not understand, or even know, about the threat they pose to the world. In the eyes of the police, you are just some spree killer, who just murdered a series of people. In the end, they will assume that Ryan is actually the dealer, and not Dr. Beckett.]]
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Whether what you're seeing on screen is real, or Ryan's delusions is an intentionally unanswered question.
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* CoitusInterruptus: Crane is having sex when Ryan breaks in to kill him. The woman screams and hides under the bed while Crane lies there staring at Ryan's gun. This brought controversy, because the scene is completely uncensored, including Crane's "equipment."
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: At some point, Ryan just foregoes subtlety and starts shooting most of his problems with his plasma pistol. In fairness, that tends to solve the problem, but it obviously leaves a big mess behind that ends up drawing lots of unwanted attention.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: At some point, Ryan just foregoes subtlety and starts shooting most of his problems with his plasma pistol. In fairness, that tends to solve the problem, but it obviously leaves a big mess behind that ends up drawing lots of unwanted attention.attention.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ryan succeeds in his quest, but gets shot by the police.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ryan succeeds in his quest, but gets shot by the police. Can be DownerEnding if you think the whole thing was just a mad man's imagination.]]
* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:What do you expect, the police do not understand, or even know, about the threat they pose to the world. In the eyes of the police, you are just some spree killer, who just murdered a series of people. In the end, they will assume that Ryan is actually the dealer, and not Dr. Beckett.]]
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:What do you expect, the police do not understand, or even know, about the threat they pose to the world. In the eyes of the police, you are just some spree killer, who just murdered a series of people. In the end, they will assume that Ryan is actually the dealer, and not Dr. Beckett.]]
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* RealityEnsures: [[spoiler:What do you expect, the police do not understand, or even know, about the threat they pose to the world. In the eyes of the police, you are just some spree killer, who just murdered a series of people. In the end, they will assume that Ryan is actually the dealer, and not Dr. Beckett.]]
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* RealityEnsures: RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:What do you expect, the police do not understand, or even know, about the threat they pose to the world. In the eyes of the police, you are just some spree killer, who just murdered a series of people. In the end, they will assume that Ryan is actually the dealer, and not Dr. Beckett.]]
