History VideoGame / GeminiRue

* AnachronicOrder: At first, it seems that Delta-Six's story happens at the same time as Azriel's. Actually, the correct order of events is [[spoiler:all of Delta Six's story except the opening scene, then the opening scene, then all of Azriel's story]].

* {{Yakuza}}: "Boryokudan" roughly translates to gangster, mobster, or yakuza

-->--[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hKT075w6w&feature=related Azriel,]] talking about his brother.

* AnticlimaxBoss: The Director [[spoiler: is quickly and unceremoniously shot dead by Azriel. If you're quick, he'll be dead before he even turns to face you. At least you get his [[TheDragon pet psycho]] to face first.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia / LossOfIdentity: Mind-wiping. Removes personality and memories, retains skills... provided you do it correctly.

* 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.

* [[ManipulativeBastard ManipulativeBitch:]] Giselle.

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

For other Wadjet Eye products, see TheBlackwellSeries, {{Videogame/Resonance}}, and TheShivah.

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

* CareerKiller: Azriel's previous profession. He still has his old tools and instincts.

For other Wadjet Eye products, see TheBlackwellSeries and TheShivah.

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.

-->''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.''

The first is Azriel Odin, a former Boryokudan assassin who participated in the Gemini wars that led the system to their current state. He had a change of heart, and is now working for the police from the Taurus Galaxy, trying to undermine the Boryokudan. His mission is to find his brother, who he believes is stranded somewhere on the planet Barracus, a Boryokudan-controlled mining world.

The game takes a lot of cues from BladeRunner in terms of aesthetics, and is highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a serious adventure game.

* AmnesiacDissonance: Mind-wiping is... occasionally imperfect.

* CareerKiller: Azriel's previous profession. He still has his old tools and instincts.

* CrapsackWorld: As you might expect, a whole galaxy run by the mob isn't in the best of shape.

* 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]].

* 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.

* [[ManipulativeBastard ManipulativeBitch:]] Giselle.

* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture

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

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's a space-age society, with all the technological advances that entails, but... besides the odd spaceship and Carbon Ray Stabilizer, most of the technology looks like it must have come from the present day. This might have something to do with Boryokudan management hampering social progress.

* 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.

* NatureVersusNurture: The Director is initially on the side of nurture, and aims to prove it through implantation of FakeMemories. Towards the end of the game, he concludes that this doesn't work--someone who has memories of killing innocent people may still have a nature that prevents them from doing it--so he decides it's more efficient to change people's natures. (His plan is to force assassin trainees to kill so many other people that their natures warp and they become desensitized.)

* ForegoneConclusion: Once the AnachronicOrder is set firmly into place with the WhamLine, [[spoiler:it's certain that Sayuri will escape and Delta-Six will not. A player who's figured out the location of the opening scene in the timeline will also know that Giselle will die.]

** [[spoiler: Every time Delta-Six receives new training, Azriel has to do those actions.]]

* ActionSurvivor: Delta-Six.[[spoiler: Subverted, in that he's been trained as an assassin, and remembers his training despite memory wiping]].
* AffablyEvil: The Director. He's very polite, soft spoken and earnest. Also an evil prick.

* 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.]]
* BoomHeadshot: it can be done during the shootouts.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Director [[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 every went astray.]]

* TheDulcineaEffect: Sayuri gets this. [[spoiler: Played with; apparently she was someone special to Delta-Six/Azriel before, when he had a different personality]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While [[spoiler: no one gets their memory back, and Azriel/D6 has to deal with being freshly mind-wiped in a big dark cosmos, the free slate ahead of them means the characters end the game upbeat]].
* EasterEgg: When playing as Azriel at certain points in the game, you may encounter ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' characters at random locations. They actually talk. If you return to the same spot after walking away, they won't be there anymore.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: To Balder. He gets better though.]]

* TheFatalist: [[spoiler: The Director is staunch behaviorist. He's determined to prove that the actions of a person can be determined entirely by the personality he programs into them.]]
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Most of them.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Sayuri tells Azriel that she left a man she knew behind, then [[spoiler:as Delta-Six, Giselle gives Sayuri her name before they plan to escape. Doubles as a WhamLine, see below.]]

** You could say that it's even [[spoiler:right there in the title: Gemini is the constellation of twins, which suggests some sort of duality.]]

* GenerationXerox: A variation on the trope, since it's technically the same person with a new life/personality. [[spoiler: Azriel/Delta-Six keeps following the same behavior patterns despite getting his brain wiped over and over again, always trying to do what's right at his own expense, and always going to help Sayuri despite not consciously remembering her.]]
* GutturalGrowler: Azriel Odin
* HeyItsThatVoice: If you've played any other Wadjet Eye games, you'll probably recognize a few voice actors. Most obvious is [[TheShivah Rabbi Stone]]/[[TheBlackwellSeries Joey Mallone]] providing the voice of Kane Harris.

* MysteriousWaif: Sayuri.

* NoodleIncident: In an unusually serious take, it's uncertain just what [[spoiler:Balder was going to do to Epsilon-Five, or how Delta-Six humiliated him.]]
* NPCAmnesia: Averted; at one point, you have to ask a fellow at the front desk of an apartment building the room number of Matthius Howard. But he won't give it to you without (what he thinks is) a legitimate reason and there is in fact a correct solution. If you fail to provide one, he'll refuse to speak with you for the rest of the game. At which point, you can call your partner, Kane to call the guy and ask for the number, which he'll relay to you. Played straight later, though. In which you have to convince a smuggler to meet up with you, and no matter how many times you botch the conversation, he's willing to give you another chance to convince him despite his apprehensions.
* OneManArmy: Azriel. His bodycount isn't as high as most people of that trope, but most people think his fighting skills are amazing anyway. [[spoiler: Total kills made during the game comes to ten people, if you count Delta Six's among them.]]

* PercussiveMaintenance: One of the data terminals needs to be kicked.

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

* ScrewDestiny: Sayuri's beliefs [[spoiler: about personality programming]].

** [[Film/BladeRunner Azriel, a detective-type wearing a trenchcoat whose portrait shows him looking a bit down and to the side, deals with a perpetually dark and rainy place. Electronic saxophone music plays during tender scenes. There's also a part where he has to enhance a photo.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Unusual case. It's a space-age society, with all the technological advances that entails, but... besides the odd spaceship and Carbon Ray Stabilizer, most of the technology looks like it must have come from the present day. This might have something to do with Boryokudan management hampering social progress.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Azriel is Delta Six, there is no brother, and a third of the characters you've gotten to know over the course of the game technically don't exist, at least in the sense that their memories aren't real.]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: ...but very nicely executed. There are a few moments in the game where you will get into gunfights with enemies. Instead of the typical "Use Gun On > Enemy", you're required to reload, pop in and out of cover and take aimed shots.
* UsedFuture:...in every possible way. The Center 7 facility is the shiniest place you'll ever see, and even it is falling apart.
* TheUnreveal: You never do learn [[spoiler: who Delta-Six used to be...]]
* WhamLine: All it takes is one word. [[spoiler:When Giselle gives Sayuri her name, not only does it reveal her identity but it destroys earlier implicit assumptions about Delta-Six's identity.]]
* WhenItRainsItPours: On Barracus, weather control towers are used to make it rain constantly on "mining" days. Something about the "mining" process makes this necessary, but it is not clear why it needs to rain or what is being mined, except that it is needed for space travel. During the game, it is always raining heavily. Despite this, no one wears a raincoat besides Sayuri, and she just needs a hood to conceal her face.

* {{Zeerust}}: go figure.

* MeaningfulName: Azriel Odin. [[spoiler:Azriel is the angel of death. He used to do assassinations for the Boryokudan 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.]]

* EasterEgg: When playing as Azriel at certain points in the game, you may encounter CowboyBebop characters at random locations. They actually talk. If you return to the same spot after walking away, they won't be there anymore.

** You can meet some of the characters of CowboyBebop if you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5yA1NI4q4 can find them ]]