History VideoGame / GeminiRue

* NPCAmnesia: Usually played straight, with one optional aversion--if you choose the wrong dialogue options when interrogating a clerk at the beginning, he'll refuse to speak to you for the rest of the game.

* GutturalGrowler: Azriel.

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hKT075w6w Azriel]]''', talking about his brother.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The game's intro features Delta-Six in a ControllableHelplessness situation, before switching to Azriel's story. After completing Azriel's first major objective, the story switches back to Delta-Six in his "rehabilitation" facility. [[spoiler: This gets subverted with TheReveal that Delta-Six's story took place a year earlier, and that Azriel ''is'' Delta-Six. A straight example occurs in the final act, where most of the game is played from the perspective of Sayuri]].

* BadBoss: The Director. [[spoiler: He starts by selling out to the mob, then goes on to to terribly unethical things with his patients, and eventually murders most of his staff.]]

* ControllableHelplessness: You cannot stop the mind-wipe. [[spoiler: Neither of them.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Matthius/Balder]], arguably.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Azriel to Sayuri, and Delta-Six to Epsilon-Five. [[spoiler: Apparently, the two had some manner of connection in the past.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While [[spoiler: no one gets their memory back, and Azriel/Delta-Six has to deal with being freshly mind-wiped in a big dark cosmos, the clean slate ahead of them means the characters end the game upbeat]].

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: Balder]] is blinded and badly scarred by a broken pipe. He's still pretty steamed (ho ho) about it once the Director gives his memories back.

** [[spoiler: When Sayuri first meets Azriel on Barracus, she doesn't believe he was formerly an assassin, as he "doesn't have death in [his] eyes"]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The Director is killed by the man he trained to be a desensitized killer. If he didn't erase his conscience, he would still live.]]

* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler: Matthius Howard, AKA Balder.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Azriel Odin]]

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Azriel and Sayuri are not surprised at all by the new dead bodies they walk past [[spoiler: when they revisit Center 7]]. Even examining them doesn't elicit any questions.

* TheUnreveal: You never do learn [[spoiler: who Delta-Six used to be.]]

* AffablyEvil: The Director is very polite, soft spoken and earnest.

''Gemini Rue'' is a {{Cyberpunk}} AdventureGame from 2013, developed by Joshua Nuernberger, and published by ''Creator/WadjetEyeGames''. The game takes a lot of cues from Film/BladeRunner in terms of aesthetics, and is highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a serious adventure game. As a sidenote, this is possibly the only point-and-click adventure game ever to include gunplay as a developed and re-used mechanic.

For other Wadjet Eye products, check out [[Creator/WadjetEyeGames their page]].

The game takes a lot of cues from Film/BladeRunner in terms of aesthetics, and is highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a serious adventure game. As a sidenote, this is possibly the only point-and-click adventure game ever to include gunplay as a developed and re-used mechanic.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The game's intro features Delta-Six in a ControllableHelplessness situation, before switching to Azrael's story. After completing Azrael's first major objective, the story switches back to Delta-Six in his "rehabilitation" falicity. [[spoiler: This gets subverted with TheReveal that Delta-Six's story took place a year earlier, and that Azrael ''is'' Delta-Six. A straight example occurs in the final act, where most of the game is played from the perspective of Sayuri]].

* BadAss: Azriel.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The director goes fifty-fifty on this. On the one hand, he [[spoiler: foresaw the possibility of a PhlebotinumRebel, and built fail-safes into all of his personality programs to make them return to him if they ever went astray.]] On the other hand, he's utterly devoted to proving that his techniques can reshape anyone's personality, and keeps at it long after he should have just given up and killed his more rebellious inmates.

->''He's trying to change who he is, something that I couldn't do. If I can help him do that... maybe, maybe I can live with myself.''

* PlotHole: [[spoiler: Why did the two goons bring the data packet to the weather station if they were just going to shoot Azriel?]]

* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: while there is quite a bit of blood in the game, gunshot wounds only occasionally bleed.

* RetroUniverse

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Azriel.]]

* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain

* FacialHoror: [[spoiler: Balder]] is blinded and badly scarred by a broken pipe. He's still pretty steamed (ho ho) about The Director gives his memories back.

* BigBadFriend: Inverted. [[spoiler:Matthius]] retains all of the memories from his past as [[spoiler:Balder]], but they are submerged pending activation by The Director. [[spoiler:Azriel]], who does remember their previous encounter in the lab, does not hide his disappointment at a "friend" turning on him.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Balder is blinded and badly scarred by hot steam.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: When Sayuri first meets Azriel on Barracus, she doesn't believe he was formerly an assassin, as he "doesn't have death in [his] eyes"]].
** [[spoiler: Look very carefully at the character portraits...]]

* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch:]] Giselle.
* MeaningfulName: Azriel Odin. [[spoiler:Azriel is the angel of death. He was trained as an assassin and kills a bunch of people in the game. Odin is the chief god of Scandinavians. Odin was referred to by about 200 names. In the mythology, he changes shapes. Azriel Odin has his personality changed quite a lot of times.]]

* ShoutOut: When you enter the Boryokudan building for the first time, Azriel has the option to tell the agent "I'm selling these fine dark trench coats", a variation on a RunningGag common in a lot of [=LucasArts=] adventure games.

-->''He's trying to change who he is, something that I couldn't do. If I can help him do that... maybe, maybe I can live with myself.''
-->--[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hKT075w6w Azriel,]] talking about his brother.

** Giselle asks Delta-Four to turn off a switch and prefaces her command with [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} "Would you kindly..."]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: If you've played any other Wadjet Eye games, you'll probably recognize a few voice actors. The most obvious is [[TheShivah Rabbi Stone]][=/=][[TheBlackwellSeries Joey Mallone]] providing the voice of Kane Harris.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Barracus is shown as a world with cities, rain, mines, and reasonably Earthlike gravity and atmosphere. It's also described in the terminals as a ''gas giant.''