History VideoGame / SecretFiles

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Nina and Max switch perspectives in both games, and sometimes, you can switch between them. In the second game, there are four characters: Nina, Max, Sam, and Bishop Chester Parrey. [[spoiler: Bishop Parrey dies once his chapter is over, sort of an introduction to how to play the game, and Sam is only usable to switch with Max in his first two chapters.]] The third game is almost always Nina, but a few other characters will be controlled, namely Menis-Ra, Max, Emre, and Jane.

* AllWomenAreLustful: Nina lusts after a few guys, but the real offender is Romanova, the female Russian guard at the train station. She has pictures of many different handsome men in her locker, and she's only allowed to take her cigarette breaks with [[StraightGay Yushin]], because she'll flirt shamlessly with anyone else.

* ButThouMust: If you choose not to get the deterrium in the third game, [[spoiler: Jane will punch you out and take it anyway.]]

* [[spoiler:DidNotDieThatWay]]: it is implied that the death of Nina's mother [[spoiler:was the result of her father's research]], while Nina thought she had died in a car accident.

* TheDeterminator: Nina treks halfway across the world (Germany, Russia, Cuba, and then China [[spoiler: then Antartica, but that's because she was kidnapped)]], and endures craploads of abuse just to find her father.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Nina has vivid dreams of the Guardians, and sees lots of fire and ruin. [[spoiler: They are actually warnings for Nina to prevent.]]

* KickTheDog: The guard watching Sam after she is kidnapped. When she asks for fruit, he cruelly eats one of them. [[spoiler: You cause him to trip out by hiding a psychotropic berry in one.]]

* LimitedWardrobe: Nina only changes her clothes twice in the first game, Max never changes them at all. He goes all the way from Germany to Ireland and doesn't change them. [[spoiler: At least in the second and third games, he gets kidnapped and has an excuse not to change them.]] In the second game, Nina and David change their clothes after [[spoiler: escaping the ship, and then are kidnapped or killed.]] She only changes her clothes once in the third game, and treks across the world.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Nina and Max. How else could you explain his willingness to [[spoiler: bust her out of a Russian hospital]] within one day of meeting her.

* MadeOfIron: Max survives a tent exploding right next to him [[spoiler: and being shot, although that was due to the stove door he hid in his chest pocket as a weapon.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Oleg and Sergei]] in the first game.

* ShoutOut: Makes reference to the names [[StarWars Biggs Darklighter and Wedge Antilles]], calling them "Red 2" and "Red 3" in the credits.

* VillainsNeverLie: Nina is all too willing to believe [[spoiler: Oleg.]] And later, she believes [[spoiler: Jane]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Sam mocks her dimwitted captor by talking first in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, and then the trope when the guard doesn't understand her.

''Secret Files'' is a series of AdventureGames created by Deep Silver, the video game department of the Koch Media group based in Germany. There are three games in the series.

'''Secret Files''' is a series of AdventureGames created by Deep Silver, the video game department of the Koch Media group based in Germany. There are three games in the series.

The first game, Secret Files: Tunguska ([[TheTunguskaEvent named after the explosion caused in 1908 in Siberia]]) follows Nina Kalkenkov, an average Russian woman, visiting her father, Vladimir, at his office in a Berlin museum only to find him missing and his office a wreck. The police being [[DefectiveDetective singularly unhelpful]], she tackles the problem herself, aided by one of her father's co-workers, and later boyfriend, [[AdventurerArchaeologist Max Gruber]]. The two uncover an investigation he undertook to Tunguska in the 1950's, as well as a world domination scheme that's also interested in the same investigation.

The second game, Puritas Cortis, taking place shortly after the first, begins with several members of the Catholic church, a vicar and then a bishop, being attacked and murdered over a strange parchment found while the vicar's church was undergoing renovation, referring to a prophet named Zandona, known for his gloom-and-doom prophecies. Meanwhile, Nina and Max have split up. Nina is taking a cruise to relax, while Max is headed to Indonesia to visit a former classmate, Sam Peters, at her dig site where she's uncovered an ancient temple. Both of them end up involved in thwarting an AncientConspiracy and their plan to create natural disasters to manipulate Zandona's prophecies.

The third game, simply title Secret Files 3, Nina and Max have gotten back together, and are planning to be married. However, before this happens, Max is taken by the police under charges of suspected terrorism. As it turns out, these men are not the actual police, and Nina finds herself embroiled in a plot to save him, and the world, yet again.

The first game, Secret Files Tsugunska ([[ShownTheirWork named after the explosion caused in 1908 in Siberia]]) follows Nina Kalkenkov, an average Russian woman, visiting her father, Vladimir, at his office in a Berlin museum only to find him missing and his office a wreck. The police being [[DefectiveDetective singularly unhelpful]], she tackles the problem herself, aided by one of her father's co-workers, and later boyfriend, [[AdventurerArchaeologist Max Gruber]]. The two uncover an investigation he undertook to Tsugunska in the 1950's, as well as a world domination scheme that's also interested in the same investigation.

The first game, Secret Files Tsugunska ([[ShownTheirWork named after the explosion caused in 1908 in Siberia]]) follows [[GreenEyedRedhead Nina Kalkenkov]], an average Russian woman, visiting her father, Vladimir, at his office in a Berlin museum only to find him missing and his office a wreck. The police being [[DefectiveDetective singularly unhelpful]], she tackles the problem herself, aided by one of her father's co-workers, and later boyfriend, [[AdventurerArchaeologist Max Gruber]]. The two uncover an investigation he undertook to Tsugunska in the 1950's, as well as a world domination scheme that's also interested in the same investigation.

* GreenEyedRedhead: Nina has the look, and she gets very jealous about Max's relationship with Sam. [[spoiler: They're just friends.]]

* HairOfGold: Max

** The third game also includes blueprints for a machine that, when activated, [[spoiler: destroys the planet of the people activating it.]] Considering the finale, [[spoiler: where a small black hole is spawned and swallows up the two bad guys before it evaporates and destroys anything else.]] Theoretically, it's possible to create one, but we don't have the resources to make it happen. [[spoiler: Enter Unobtainium.]] Further, [[spoiler: micro black holes, if spawned, are said to evaporate quickly due to Hawking radiation.]]

* PunchClockVillain: It's quite clear that, with the exception of [[spoiler: Gartissmo, Charlesroi, Sergei, and Oleg]] in the first game, and [[spoiler: the actual sect members of Puritas Cortis]] the second, all of the "bad guys" are actually fairly decent people.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: How the BigBad typically meets his end. The first game uses a GiantWallOfWateryDoom in Antartica, so it [[HumanPopsicle puts the bad guys on ice]], the second has an [[StuffBlowingUp a self destruct sequence]] and the third has them get sucked into a black hole.

* BerserkButton: Nina doesn't take it well when people mess with her father, or fiancee. Likewise with Max.

* AncientConspiracy: Puritas Cortis. The Guardians appear to be this, [[spoiler: although it's actually positive, because they are protecting humanity from killing themselves.]]

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Sister Elise writes this in her letter that David translates.

* BlueEyes: Max sports them, along with HairOfGold. He's the good guy.

* TheAlcoholic: Foley the fisherman. Max comments that all he'd need to do is breathe over the water, and the fish would get so drunk they'd be easily caught. In the third game, Max comments that he drinks ten beers whenever he goes out to eat.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Max is one, Vladimir used to be one, or at least, an Adventure Geologist.

* AwesomeMccoolName: Nina names a robot she creates "Electric Death Bitch"

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Max]] pulls these off in both games. Once with a crane hook, and another with a helicopter. It's the CERN assistant who does this in the third game.

* InsufferableGenius: Cassandra's kind of a bitch, and boasts about her hacking power.

* LimitedWardrobe: Nina only changes her clothes twice in the first game, Max never changes them at all. He goes all the way from Germany to Ireland and doesn't change them. [[spoiler: At least in the second and third games, he gets kidnapped and has an excuse.]] In the second game, Nina and David change their clothes after [[spoiler: escaping the ship, and then are kidnapped or killed.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Oleg and Sergei]] in the first game. [[spoiler: Jane]] in the third.

* MouthfulOfPi: Cassandra in the third game, who, along with Archimedes in the first century, calculated pi out several million places.

* NiceHat: Max sports a safari hat in the second game.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Menis-Re subverts this doubly in the third game. He is only interested in the money and doesn't care that the [[spoiler: Guardians]] want him to torch [[spoiler: Archimedes's scroll]]. He is curious, and takes a peak just before he does so. When he doesn't understand it, he shrugs and burns them anyway.

** The third game also includes blueprints for a machine that, when activated, [[spoiler: destroys the planet of the people activating it.]] Considering the finale, [[spoiler: where a small black hole is spawned and swallows up the two bad guys before evaporating.]] Theoretically, it's possible, but we don't have the resources to make it happen. [[spoiler: Enter Unobtainium.]]
* StayInTheKitchen: Mocked by Nina in internal monologue in both games when the player has her clean something.
* StraightGay: Comrade Yushin in the first game. Strong, manly, [[SmokingIsCool loves to smoke.]] Wouldn't know that he's gay until Romanova comments that she enjoys Yushin's company, as they both agree men make better lovers.
* SupremeChef: Nina cooks in both games, and her food is raved about. [[spoiler: Of course, the first one was laxative jam to get a guy out of the room...]]

* BottleFairy: Nina likes her vodka, especially in the first game.

* AncientConspiracy: Puritas Cortis. The Guardians in the third game, [[spoiler: although this is more of a subversion, as they are actually trying to protect the world.]] The Guardians appear to be this, [[spoiler: although it's actually positive, because they are protecting humanity from killing themselves.]]

* LargeHam: Practically everyone on the cruise ship, but the bartender especially qualifies. [[spoiler: After all, EvilIsHammy.]]

* AncientConspiracy: Puritas Cortis. The Guardians in the third game, [[spoiler: although this is more of a subversion, as they are actually trying to protect the world.]]

* BatmanGambit: While Nina tends to solve her problems with MacGyvering, Max tends to rely on these, playing on the fears of the people he outwits.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Max]] pulls these off in both games. Once with a crane hook, and another with a helicopter.

* ButtMonkey: The guard in the Siberian hospital, Spivak. In both games, Max makes a fool of him.

* {{Cult}}: There is a cult in both games, both have the hooded robes standard of cults. [[spoiler: In the first game, they are good guys, who keep Vladimir and Max safe. In the second, it's your standard evil cult.]]

* TheGhost: Vladimir Kalenkov, while especially important to the first game, is only ever seen in the credits in either game.

* MacGyvering: The primary way the game, when controlling Nina, solves puzzles. Nina expertly builds a boat motor out of an alternator, a damaged motorcycle, and some life vests, to name an example.

* SadisticChoice: Nina is offered one by [[spoiler: Jay Shelton: Tell him about the Church Intelligence Services conspiracy or he kills Max. Nina, having stumbled onto the plan, knows nothing. Cue Jay shooting Max.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Nina can potentially abandon both [[spoiler: Cassandra and Max]] to their deaths.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Michael Anderson, a painting restorer from San Fransisco in the third game, is in [[spoiler: suspended animation on the CERN ship.]] He's...sorta just left there. Also, the ancient civilization Max was researching in the third game. It's mentioned that nuclear fallout wiped them out, but it's left ambiguous what actually happened.

* VillainsNeverLie: Nina is all too willing to believe [[spoiler: Oleg.]] Max is all too willing to believe [[spoiler: Jane]].

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Nina and Max switch perspectives in both games, and sometimes, you can switch between them. In the second game, there are four characters: Nina, Max, Sam, and Bishop Chester Parrey. [[spoiler: Bishop Parrey dies once his chapter is over, sort of an introduction to how to play the game, and Sam is only usable to switch with Max in his first two chapters.]] The third game is almost always Nina, but a few other characters will be controlled, namely Horus-Re, Max, Emre, and Jane.

* DeadpanSnarker: Max and especially Nina are. For the supporting cast, there is Fleming, the tour guide when Nina turns in her model of the Atomium, as well as O'Brien, the bartender Max meets in Ireland.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The game was made in 2007, and mentions, as part of the natural disasters that happened, was an earthquake in Japan. This was before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Horus-Re subverts this doubly in the third game. He is only interested in the money and doesn't care that the [[spoiler: Guardians]] want him to torch [[spoiler: Archimedes's scroll]]. He is curious, and takes a peak just before he does so. When he doesn't understand it, he shrugs and burns them anyway.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Nina and Max switch perspectives in both games, and sometimes, you can switch between them. In the second game, there are four characters: Nina, Max, Sam, and Bishop Chester Parrey. [[spoiler: Bishop Parrey dies once his chapter is over, sort of an introduction to how to play the game, and Sam is only usable to switch with Max in his first two chapters.]] The third game is almost always Nina, but a few other characters will be controlled, namely Am-Shir, Max, Emre, and Jane.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: How the BigBad typically meets his end. The first game uses a GiantWallOfWateryDoom in Antartica for HumanPopsicles, the second has an [[StuffBlowingUp a self destruct sequence]] and the third has them get sucked into a black hole.

* LimitedWardrobe: Nina only changes her clothes twice in the first game, Max never changes them at all. He goes all the way from Germany to Ireland and doesn't change them. [[spoiler: At least in the second game, he gets kidnapped and has an excuse.]] In the second game, Nina and David change their clothes after [[spoiler: escaping the ship, and then are kidnapped or killed.]]

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Nina and Max switch perspectives in both games, and sometimes, you can switch between them. In the second game, there are four characters: Nina, Max, Sam, and Bishop Chester Parrey. [[spoiler: Bishop Parrey dies once his chapter is over, sort of an introduction to how to play the game, and Sam is only usable to switch with Max in his first two chapters.]] The third game is almost always Nina, but a few other characters will be controlled, namely Am-Shir, Max, Egan, and Jane.

The third game, simply title Secret Files 3, Nina and Max have gotten back together, and are planning to be married. However, before this happens, Max is taken by the police under charges of suspected terrorism.

* TheAlcoholic: Foley the fisherman. Max comments that all he'd need to do is breathe over the water, and the fish would get so drunk they'd be easily caught.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Nina and Max switch perspectives in both games, and sometimes, you can switch between them. In the second game, there are four characters: Nina, Max, Sam, and Bishop Chester Parrey. [[spoiler: Bishop Parrey dies once his chapter is over, sort of an introduction to how to play the game, and Sam is only usable to switch with Max in his first two chapters.]]

* AncientConspiracy: Puritas Cortis.

* BadassInDistress: In both game, Nina and Max end up kidnapped at some point.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Oleg and Sergei.]]

* VillainsNeverLie: Nina is all too willing to believe [[spoiler: Oleg.]]

'''Secret Files''' is a series of AdventureGames created by Deep Silver, the video game department of the Koch Media group based in Germany. There are two games in the series, with a third in development.

* BabyGotBack: According to Sergei, Nina's got a sweet ass. [[spoiler: He's upset when he tries to kill you, since freezing her to death would ruin it.]]

* RegionalStereotypes: Nina and Feng Li discuss this on the cruise ship in the second game. She questions why he doesn't [[JapaneseRanguage mispronounce his R's]]. He turns that he always thoughts [[VodkaDrunkenski Russians did nothing but drink vodka]]. They have a laugh.

* AllWomenAreLustful: The female guard in the Russian train station has pictures of many handsome men, Nina drools over a few good-looking guys, as does Katharina Jordan.

* DeadpanSnarker: Max and especially Nina are. For the supporting cast, there is Fleming, the tour guide when Nina turns in her model of the Atomium, as well as the bartender Max meets in Ireland.

* LimitedWardrobe: Nina only changes her clothes once in the first game, Max never changes them at all. He goes all the way from Germany to Ireland and doesn't change them. [[spoiler: At least in the second game, he gets kidnapped and has an excuse.]] In the second game, Nina and David change their clothes after [[spoiler: escaping the ship, and then are kidnapped or killed.]]

* MacGyvering: The primary way the game solves puzzles. Nina expertly builds a boat motor out of an alternator, a damaged motorcycle, and some life vests, to name an example.

* RedShirt: Mocked at the end of the second game with all the people who died in it wearing red Starfleet uniforms. [[spoiler: David is more of a MauveShirt though.]]

* SinisterShades: The two men in black in the Russian train station. They torture Solotov, your contact.

* StraightGay: Comrade Yushin in the first game. Strong, manly, [[SmokingIsCool loves to smoke.]] Wouldn't know that he's gay until a female officer comments that she enjoys Yushin's company, as they both agree men make better lovers.

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* RedShirt: Mocked at the end of the second game with all the people who died in it wearing red Starfleet uniforms.

* UnlikelyChildhoodFriend: Sam. In the credits she tried to get Max to go on adventures with her, but Nina protested heavily.

* VillainsNeverLie: Nina is all too willing to believe [[spoiler: Oleg.]]