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''Tales of the Neon Sea'' is an AdventureGame, funded via Kickstarter and available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games store. The game follows Rex Mist, ex-cop turned private investigator, and his unusually intelligent cat William (who does a lot of his own detective work) in Starlight City, a former shining example of progress, now figuratively and literally overshadowed by Sky City, a utopia for the rich to [[UrbanSegregation live away from the common rabble and the robots]]. Together they try to do what they can in a society where humans and robots live side-by-side.
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''Tales of the Neon Sea'' is an AdventureGame, a 2019 AdventureGame developed by Palm Pioneer and published by Zodiac Interactive. It was funded via Kickstarter and is available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games store. The game follows Rex Mist, ex-cop turned private investigator, and his unusually intelligent cat William (who does a lot of his own detective work) in Starlight City, a former shining example of progress, now figuratively and literally overshadowed by Sky City, a utopia for the rich to [[UrbanSegregation live away from the common rabble and the robots]]. Together they try to do what they can in a society where humans and robots live side-by-side.
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'''Warning Spoilers Below.'''
'''As this is a detective mystery story there is a need for spoiler text when discussing this game.'''
'''As this is a detective mystery story there is a need for spoiler text when discussing this game.'''
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'''As this is a detective mystery story there is a need for spoiler text when discussing this game.'''
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!! ''Tales of the Neon Sea'' contains examples of:
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!! ''Tales of the Neon Sea'' contains examples of:
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with Lola, Robin, and Nanco. While not criminals, they're a product of the environment they're growing up in, the heavily gang-controlled Underbridge district.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: ChildrenAreInnocent:
** Averted with Lola, Robin, and Nanco. While not criminals, they're a product of the environment they're growing up in, the heavily gang-controlled Underbridge district.
** Averted with Lola, Robin, and Nanco. While not criminals, they're a product of the environment they're growing up in, the heavily gang-controlled Underbridge district.
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* CyberPunk: Gritty future urban environments. Crime syndicates can grow large enough to claim near-sovereign status over parts of the city in all but name.
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* CyberPunk: {{Cyberpunk}}: Gritty future urban environments. Crime syndicates can grow large enough to claim near-sovereign status over parts of the city in all but name.
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* DisposingOfABody Happens ''twice'' to the ''same'' body. When you find [[spoiler: Mrs. Perry]]'s corpse, it's hidden among the trash. Only to later find out that [[spoiler: it was initially thrown out of a window by the killer and then dragged to the trash by an unrelated homeless guy.]]
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* DisposingOfABody DisposingOfABody: Happens ''twice'' to the ''same'' body. When you find [[spoiler: Mrs. Perry]]'s corpse, it's hidden among the trash. Only to later find out that [[spoiler: it was initially thrown out of a window by the killer and then dragged to the trash by an unrelated homeless guy.]]
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The King.
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* [[spoiler: GrandTheftMe]]: The entire reason for everything that happens in the game. All was set up so [[spoiler: Rex - the perfect merge between human and robot - would be vulnerable and obsessed with Bson, so Noa can delete Rex' conscience and implant himself into his body.]]
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* [[spoiler: GrandTheftMe]]: GrandTheftMe: The entire reason for everything that happens in the game. All was set up so [[spoiler: Rex - the perfect merge between human and robot - would be vulnerable and obsessed with Bson, so Noa can delete Rex' conscience and implant himself into his body.]]
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* HardBoiledDetective: Rex Mist has seen a lot in his time; excluding flashbacks to [[BigBad Noa]], there isn't anything that throws him off.
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* HardBoiledDetective: HardboiledDetective: Rex Mist has seen a lot in his time; excluding flashbacks to [[BigBad Noa]], there isn't anything that throws him off.
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* InsistentTerminology: It only comes up a few times, [[spoiler: but Rex is "half-robot" not a cyborg, the difference being that his prosthetics are emergency grafts taken from his former robot partner and include robotic source-code which humans aren't meant to have in their implants.]]
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* InsistentTerminology: It only comes up a few times, [[spoiler: but Rex is "half-robot" and not a cyborg, the difference being that his prosthetics are emergency grafts taken from his former robot partner and include robotic source-code which humans aren't meant to have in their implants.]]
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** [[spoiler: Edward]] who has done experiments on[[spoiler: nano-liquids, conscience transfer and cloning to revive his dead wife.]]
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** [[spoiler: Edward]] who has done experiments on[[spoiler: on [[spoiler: nano-liquids, conscience transfer and cloning to revive his dead wife.]]
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* TheMafia: Amusingly, the cats seem to have that sort of society.
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* NonHumanSidekick: William, Rex's cat is usually around to help save his skin.
* PostCyberPunk: Despite the grittiness things are looking up. Sentient Robots are granted their own rights and are viewed as responsible for their individual actions, interfering with the functioning of a sentient robot's mind is considered a serious offence. The crime syndicates play by a rather bureaucratic set of rules that ensures order is kept on their turf, and maintenance on publicly used facilities is conducted.
* PostCyberPunk: Despite the grittiness things are looking up. Sentient Robots are granted their own rights and are viewed as responsible for their individual actions, interfering with the functioning of a sentient robot's mind is considered a serious offence. The crime syndicates play by a rather bureaucratic set of rules that ensures order is kept on their turf, and maintenance on publicly used facilities is conducted.
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* NonHumanSidekick: William, Rex's cat cat, is usually around to help save his skin.
*PostCyberPunk: PeoplePuppets: In the last third, it is revealed that [[spoiler: the nano liquid allowed Noa and Edward to remotely control robots. And in the final lab, we find plans to extend this technology to human brainwaves, too.]]
* PostCyberpunk: Despite the grittiness things are looking up. Sentient Robots are granted their own rights and are viewed as responsible for their individual actions, interfering with the functioning of a sentient robot's mind is considered a serious offence. The crime syndicates play by a rather bureaucratic set of rules that ensures order is kept on their turf, and maintenance on publicly used facilities is conducted.
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* PostCyberpunk: Despite the grittiness things are looking up. Sentient Robots are granted their own rights and are viewed as responsible for their individual actions, interfering with the functioning of a sentient robot's mind is considered a serious offence. The crime syndicates play by a rather bureaucratic set of rules that ensures order is kept on their turf, and maintenance on publicly used facilities is conducted.
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* [[spoiler: PeoplePuppets]]: In the last third it is revealed that [[spoiler: the nano liquid allowed Noa and Edward to remotely control robots. And in the final lab, we find plans to extend this technology to human brainwaves, too.]]
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** The God of Destiny Lark: Has his own form of Tarot cards that seem depict the same figure with slight variations, seems to be the leader of the pantheon.
** The God of Oath Smoff.
** The God of Fusion and Communication Pussen: His followers are believed to have engaged in human-robot combination experiments.
** Goddess of Mystery Ailanio
** The God of Oath Smoff.
** The God of Fusion and Communication Pussen: His followers are believed to have engaged in human-robot combination experiments.
** Goddess of Mystery Ailanio
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** The God of Destiny Destiny, Lark: Has his own form of Tarot cards that seem depict the same figure with slight variations, seems to be the leader of the pantheon.
** The God ofOath Oath, Smoff.
** The God of Fusion andCommunication Communication, Pussen: His followers are believed to have engaged in human-robot combination experiments.
** Goddess ofMystery AilanioMystery, Ailanio.
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* RobotWar / TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Happened in the past between robots and humans. A peace treaty exists that expressly grants sentient robots citizenship, hardcodes into robots a restriction on violence against humans, and also forbids any human intervention or alteration to the code or brain of a robot recognised as sentient.
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* RobotWar / TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: RobotWar: Happened in the past between robots and humans. A peace treaty exists that expressly grants sentient robots citizenship, hardcodes hard-codes into robots a restriction on violence against humans, and also forbids any human intervention or alteration to the code or brain of a robot recognised as sentient.
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* SerialKiller: Noa, an infamous murderer was the last case Rex was pursuing before his accident during the raid on Noa's hideout. Even several years later, Rex is haunted by the case.
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* SerialKiller: SerialKiller:
** Noa, an infamousmurderer murderer, was the last case Rex was pursuing before his accident during the raid on Noa's hideout. Even several years later, Rex is haunted by the case.
** Noa, an infamous
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* TheWorldIsNotReady: Charles explains at the end that while they were definitely useable for good purpose, ultimately TheWorldIsNotReady for [[spoiler: nano-liquid]]. It's implied that he has the research about it, but doesn't intend to use it.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Sentient Robots are required to have a form of these hardcoded as part of the peace treaty. Emphasis is on the "sentient" part, non-sentient robots are treated as just hardware by humans and their sentient counterparts. This has a secondary effect of bumping the majority of robots into blue-collar work and service jobs. Though it remains to be seen how much the robots working for the criminal syndicate follow that programming.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Sentient Robots are required to have a form of these hardcoded as part of the peace treaty. Emphasis is on the "sentient" part, non-sentient robots are treated as just hardware by humans and their sentient counterparts. This has a secondary effect of bumping the majority of robots into blue-collar work and service jobs. Though it remains to be seen how much the robots working for the criminal syndicate follow that programming.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since the special forces take over, we never find out [[spoiler: if Jenny got punished for having murdered Mrs. Sherry and what had happened to the servant robot for having disobeyed one of the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Thee Laws]].]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since the special forces take over, we never find out [[spoiler: if Jenny got punished for having murdered Mrs. Sherry and what had happened to the servant robot for having disobeyed one of the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Thee Three Laws]].]]
* TheWorldIsNotReady: Charles explains at the end that while they were definitely useable for good purpose, ultimately the world is not ready for [[spoiler: nano-liquid]]. It's implied that he has the research about it, but doesn't intend to use it.
* TheWorldIsNotReady: Charles explains at the end that while they were definitely useable for good purpose, ultimately the world is not ready for [[spoiler: nano-liquid]]. It's implied that he has the research about it, but doesn't intend to use it.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: Happens twice. Once in the first half when [[spoiler: you find a Bson ceremony room, only for it to get destroyed by an automated explosion]] and then again at the end when [[spoiler: Noa destroys himself and his lab complex when his plan fails]].
* DisposingOfABody Happens ''twice'' to the ''same'' body. When you find [[spoiler: Mrs. Perry]]'s corpse, it's hidden among the trash. Only to later find out that [[spoiler: it was initially thrown out of a window by the killer and then dragged to the trash by an unrelated homeless guy.]]
* DisposingOfABody Happens ''twice'' to the ''same'' body. When you find [[spoiler: Mrs. Perry]]'s corpse, it's hidden among the trash. Only to later find out that [[spoiler: it was initially thrown out of a window by the killer and then dragged to the trash by an unrelated homeless guy.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The King.
* [[spoiler: GrandTheftMe]]: The entire reason for everything that happens in the game. All was set up so [[spoiler: Rex - the perfect merge between human and robot - would be vulnerable and obsessed with Bson, so Noa can delete Rex' conscience and implant himself into his body.]]
* MadScientist: There are three introduced:
** [[spoiler: Edward]] who has done experiments on[[spoiler: nano-liquids, conscience transfer and cloning to revive his dead wife.]]
** [[spoiler: Noa]] who [[spoiler: not just inspired and helped Edward, but is additionally also a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who has murdered countless people before the game even started.]]
** Igor, the emergency scientist for the [[spoiler: electric torture/killing machine of the King.]]
* TheMafia: Amusingly, the cats seem to have that sort of society.
* MercyKill: You get the option to [[spoiler: end the real Lulu's suffering]].
* TheMole: The cats suspect that there is a mole among them that is a biocat. You hear of three suspects and test them. You do find the mole: [[spoiler: its none of the suspects, the leader of the cats himself is one.]]
** [[spoiler: Edward]] who has done experiments on[[spoiler: nano-liquids, conscience transfer and cloning to revive his dead wife.]]
** [[spoiler: Noa]] who [[spoiler: not just inspired and helped Edward, but is additionally also a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who has murdered countless people before the game even started.]]
** Igor, the emergency scientist for the [[spoiler: electric torture/killing machine of the King.]]
* TheMafia: Amusingly, the cats seem to have that sort of society.
* MercyKill: You get the option to [[spoiler: end the real Lulu's suffering]].
* TheMole: The cats suspect that there is a mole among them that is a biocat. You hear of three suspects and test them. You do find the mole: [[spoiler: its none of the suspects, the leader of the cats himself is one.]]
* [[spoiler: PeoplePuppets]]: In the last third it is revealed that [[spoiler: the nano liquid allowed Noa and Edward to remotely control robots. And in the final lab, we find plans to extend this technology to human brainwaves, too.]]
* ReturningToTheScene: Rex considers for a moment to go back to where he found [[spoiler: Mrs. Perry's body]], only to realize that the police would assume he is the killer because of it.
* SecretlyDying: The daughter in the Hotel case was suffering from a severe hereditary disease and only had a few months left to live. Her parents kept this from her and even organized staying at a dolphin aquarium to ensure she is happy in her final days.
* TheWorldIsNotReady: Charles explains at the end that while they were definitely useable for good purpose, ultimately TheWorldIsNotReady for [[spoiler: nano-liquid]]. It's implied that he has the research about it, but doesn't intend to use it.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Rex [[spoiler: when he suffers from Noa's hallucinations.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since the special forces take over, we never find out [[spoiler: if Jenny got punished for having murdered Mrs. Sherry and what had happened to the servant robot for having disobeyed one of the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Thee Laws]].]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since the special forces take over, we never find out [[spoiler: if Jenny got punished for having murdered Mrs. Sherry and what had happened to the servant robot for having disobeyed one of the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Thee Laws]].]]
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* HideousHangoverCure: Rex has a recipe that immediately removes all effects of a hangover. It's made with assorted solvents and powders of unspecified composition, [[FantasticDrug worry-free herb]] and salt.
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* BenevolentAI: Most of the sentient robots, remembering the tragedy of the RobotWar that wracked the planet years before, just want to get along with humanity - so much so that they'll willfully accept [[[[ThreeLawCompliant a first-rule-like restriction]] that makes them unable to harm a human. Emphasis on "most"...
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* BenevolentAI: Most of the sentient robots, remembering the tragedy of the RobotWar that wracked the planet years before, just want to get along with humanity - so much so that they'll willfully accept [[[[ThreeLawCompliant [[ThreeLawsCompliant a first-rule-like restriction]] that makes them unable to harm a human. Emphasis on "most"...
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* BenevolentAI: Most of the sentient robots, remembering the tragedy of the RobotWar that wracked the planet years before, just want to get along with humanity - so much so that they'll willfully accept [[[[ThreeLawCompliant a first-rule-like restriction]] that makes them unable to harm a human. Emphasis on "most"...
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* SequelHook: The adventure ends with Rex [spoiler:receiving a message from his old partner, who everybody believed to have died up until then], and embarking on a new quest.
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* SequelHook: The adventure ends with Rex [spoiler:receiving [[spoiler:receiving a message from his old partner, who everybody believed to have died up until then], then]], and embarking on a new quest.
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* SequelHook: The adventure ends with Rex [spoiler:receiving a message from his old partner, who everybody believed to have died up until then], and embarking on a new quest.
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* BodyHorror: And how! It starts with sculptures made out of human and robotic body parts sewn together after their original owners have been brutally murdered, and only goes downhill from there.
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* GuideDangIt: Most of the puzzles can go on for a while, but they are at least ''somewhat'' logical - however, a couple of them really go too far. Notably, the most complete guide available for the game ''outright tells you'' that one of the levels is really confusing, and assures you there's no shame in having looked up the solution.
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''Tales of the Neon Sea'' is a Kickstarter AdventureGame in Early Access for Steam. As of the present Chapters 1 and 2 are playable while the third and final chapter is currently in the final stages of development and QA. The game follows Rex Mist, ex-cop turned private investigator, and his unusually intelligent cat William (who does a lot of his own detective work) in Starlight City, a former shining example of progress, now figuratively and literally overshadowed by Sky City, a Utopia for the rich to live away from the common rabble and the robots. Together they try to do what they can in a society where humans and robots live side-by-side.
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''Tales of the Neon Sea'' is a an AdventureGame, funded via Kickstarter AdventureGame in Early Access for Steam. As of and available on PC via Steam and the present Chapters 1 and 2 are playable while the third and final chapter is currently in the final stages of development and QA. Epic Games store. The game follows Rex Mist, ex-cop turned private investigator, and his unusually intelligent cat William (who does a lot of his own detective work) in Starlight City, a former shining example of progress, now figuratively and literally overshadowed by Sky City, a Utopia utopia for the rich to [[UrbanSegregation live away from the common rabble and the robots.robots]]. Together they try to do what they can in a society where humans and robots live side-by-side.
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Unrelated to [[VideoGame/TalesSeries The Tales Series]].
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Unrelated to [[VideoGame/TalesSeries The Tales Series]].
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* PrivateDetective: Rex currently works as a private detective after burning-out on the Noa case. Prior to resigning from the the police department he was considered TheAce.
* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two things, its Miracle Street red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
* RobotReligion: Roverism is popular amongst robots and the working class, its a polytheistic pantheon with its own tarot for interpreting events.
* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two things, its Miracle Street red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
* RobotReligion: Roverism is popular amongst robots and the working class, its a polytheistic pantheon with its own tarot for interpreting events.
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* PrivateDetective: Rex currently works as a private detective after burning-out on the Noa case. Prior to resigning from the the police department he was considered TheAce.
* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for twothings, things: its Miracle Street red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
* RobotReligion: Roverism is popular amongst robots and the working class,its it's a polytheistic pantheon with its own tarot for interpreting events.
* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two
* RobotReligion: Roverism is popular amongst robots and the working class,
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Sentient Robots are required to have a form of these hardcoded as part of the peace treaty. Emphasis is on the "sentient" part, non-sentient robots are treated as just hardware by humans and their sentient counterparts. This has a secondary effect of bumping the majority of robots into blue collar work and service jobs. Though it remains to be seen how much the robots working for the criminal syndicate follow that programming.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Sentient Robots are required to have a form of these hardcoded as part of the peace treaty. Emphasis is on the "sentient" part, non-sentient robots are treated as just hardware by humans and their sentient counterparts. This has a secondary effect of bumping the majority of robots into blue collar blue-collar work and service jobs. Though it remains to be seen how much the robots working for the criminal syndicate follow that programming.
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* DonutMessWithACop: The highest award for squad performance is the Donut Trophy, awarded to the best performing detective squad. Rex and his former squadmates lost the contest for one, but were awarded it when they proved the detectives who won the award were corrupt; [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking taking bribes for letting criminals go free, padding their stats, and stealing donuts]].
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* NonHumanSidekick: William, Rex's cat is usually around to help save his skin.
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** unnamed God of Sleep: Is never named, seems to not be one spoken of.
** Bson: Possibly a new addition to the pantheon, Bson isn't officially recognised by most mainstream Roverites and is heavily associated with the infamous serial killer Noa.
** Bson: Possibly a new addition to the pantheon, Bson isn't officially recognised by most mainstream Roverites and is heavily associated with the infamous serial killer Noa.
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** unnamed God of Sleep: Is never named, seems to not be one not spoken of.
of lightly.
** Bson: Possibly a new addition to the pantheon, possibly its Satan figure. Bson isn't officially recognised by most mainstream Roverites and is heavily associated with the infamous serial killer Noa.
** Bson: Possibly a new addition to the pantheon, possibly its Satan figure. Bson isn't officially recognised by most mainstream Roverites and is heavily associated with the infamous serial killer Noa.
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** The God of Destiny Lark: Has his own form of Tarot cards that seem depict the same figure with slight variations, seems to be the leader of the pantheon.
** The God of Oath Smoff.
** The God of Fusion and Communication Pussen: His followers are believed to have engaged in human-robot combination experiments.
** Goddess of Mystery Ailanio
** unnamed God of Sleep: Is never named, seems to not be one spoken of.
** Bson: Possibly a new addition to the pantheon, Bson isn't officially recognised by most mainstream Roverites and is heavily associated with the infamous serial killer Noa.
** The God of Oath Smoff.
** The God of Fusion and Communication Pussen: His followers are believed to have engaged in human-robot combination experiments.
** Goddess of Mystery Ailanio
** unnamed God of Sleep: Is never named, seems to not be one spoken of.
** Bson: Possibly a new addition to the pantheon, Bson isn't officially recognised by most mainstream Roverites and is heavily associated with the infamous serial killer Noa.
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* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two things, Miracle Street its red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
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* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two things, its Miracle Street its red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
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** [[spoiler: Edward; unknown how many he's killed for Noa, but he was responsible at least for the corpse sculpture in Underbridge and the abductions of Underbridge robot citizens]].
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** [[spoiler: Edward; unknown how many he's killed for Noa, but he was responsible at least for the corpse sculpture in Underbridge and the abductions of Underbridge robot citizens]].citizens]].
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''Tales of the Neon Sea'' is a Kickstarter AdventureGame in Early Access for Steam. As of the present Chapters 1 and 2 are playable while the third and final chapter is currently in the final stages of development and QA. The game follows Rex Mist, ex-cop turned private investigator, and his unusually intelligent cat William (who does a lot of his own detective work) in Starlight City, a former shining example of progress, now figuratively and literally overshadowed by Sky City, a Utopia for the rich to live away from the common rabble and the robots. Together they try to do what they can in a society where humans and robots live side-by-side.
The city is a dark place, lit only by holograms, and neon signs.
Unrelated to [[VideoGame/TalesSeries The Tales Series]].
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!! ''Tales of the Neon Sea'' contains examples of:
* BrokenAce: Rex's skills, and past work as a police detective, are still respected by some members of the police force. But he's clearly not the man he used to be, though he can still solve a murder he stumbled on in an alley.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with Lola, Robin, and Nanco. While not criminals, they're a product of the environment they're growing up in, the heavily gang-controlled Underbridge district.
** [[spoiler: Subverted with Jenny, she murdered Mrs Perry in seeming cold blood, the real question is why did her robot butler dump the body out the window?]]
* CyberPunk: Gritty future urban environments. Crime syndicates can grow large enough to claim near-sovereign status over parts of the city in all but name.
* TheFutureIsNoir: You're a burnt-out, half-robot, ex-cop with an infamous drinking problem, a nose for trouble, and a (cybernetic) eye for the smallest detail.
* HardBoiledDetective: Rex Mist has seen a lot in his time; excluding flashbacks to [[BigBad Noa]], there isn't anything that throws him off.
* InsistentTerminology: It only comes up a few times, [[spoiler: but Rex is "half-robot" not a cyborg, the difference being that his prosthetics are emergency grafts taken from his former robot partner and include robotic source-code which humans aren't meant to have in their implants.]]
* NeonCity: Most of the outdoor backdrops are breathtaking pixel art examples of this. Exceptions being the industrial side of Underbridge.
* PostCyberPunk: Despite the grittiness things are looking up. Sentient Robots are granted their own rights and are viewed as responsible for their individual actions, interfering with the functioning of a sentient robot's mind is considered a serious offence. The crime syndicates play by a rather bureaucratic set of rules that ensures order is kept on their turf, and maintenance on publicly used facilities is conducted.
* PrivateDetective: Rex currently works as a private detective after burning-out on the Noa case. Prior to resigning from the the police department he was considered TheAce.
* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two things, Miracle Street its red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
* RobotReligion: Roverism is popular amongst robots and the working class, its a polytheistic pantheon with its own tarot for interpreting events.
* RobotWar / TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Happened in the past between robots and humans. A peace treaty exists that expressly grants sentient robots citizenship, hardcodes into robots a restriction on violence against humans, and also forbids any human intervention or alteration to the code or brain of a robot recognised as sentient.
* SerialKiller: Noa, an infamous murderer was the last case Rex was pursuing before his accident during the raid on Noa's hideout. Even several years later, Rex is haunted by the case.
** [[spoiler: Edward; unknown how many he's killed for Noa, but he was responsible at least for the corpse sculpture in Underbridge and the abductions of Underbridge robot citizens]].
The city is a dark place, lit only by holograms, and neon signs.
Unrelated to [[VideoGame/TalesSeries The Tales Series]].
Possible marked spoilers below.
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!! ''Tales of the Neon Sea'' contains examples of:
* BrokenAce: Rex's skills, and past work as a police detective, are still respected by some members of the police force. But he's clearly not the man he used to be, though he can still solve a murder he stumbled on in an alley.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with Lola, Robin, and Nanco. While not criminals, they're a product of the environment they're growing up in, the heavily gang-controlled Underbridge district.
** [[spoiler: Subverted with Jenny, she murdered Mrs Perry in seeming cold blood, the real question is why did her robot butler dump the body out the window?]]
* CyberPunk: Gritty future urban environments. Crime syndicates can grow large enough to claim near-sovereign status over parts of the city in all but name.
* TheFutureIsNoir: You're a burnt-out, half-robot, ex-cop with an infamous drinking problem, a nose for trouble, and a (cybernetic) eye for the smallest detail.
* HardBoiledDetective: Rex Mist has seen a lot in his time; excluding flashbacks to [[BigBad Noa]], there isn't anything that throws him off.
* InsistentTerminology: It only comes up a few times, [[spoiler: but Rex is "half-robot" not a cyborg, the difference being that his prosthetics are emergency grafts taken from his former robot partner and include robotic source-code which humans aren't meant to have in their implants.]]
* NeonCity: Most of the outdoor backdrops are breathtaking pixel art examples of this. Exceptions being the industrial side of Underbridge.
* PostCyberPunk: Despite the grittiness things are looking up. Sentient Robots are granted their own rights and are viewed as responsible for their individual actions, interfering with the functioning of a sentient robot's mind is considered a serious offence. The crime syndicates play by a rather bureaucratic set of rules that ensures order is kept on their turf, and maintenance on publicly used facilities is conducted.
* PrivateDetective: Rex currently works as a private detective after burning-out on the Noa case. Prior to resigning from the the police department he was considered TheAce.
* RedLightDistrict: Underbridge is known internationally for two things, Miracle Street its red-light district that outshines anywhere else, and being an almost independent sovereign district ruled by gangsters under "The King" with more power than the police.
* RobotReligion: Roverism is popular amongst robots and the working class, its a polytheistic pantheon with its own tarot for interpreting events.
* RobotWar / TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Happened in the past between robots and humans. A peace treaty exists that expressly grants sentient robots citizenship, hardcodes into robots a restriction on violence against humans, and also forbids any human intervention or alteration to the code or brain of a robot recognised as sentient.
* SerialKiller: Noa, an infamous murderer was the last case Rex was pursuing before his accident during the raid on Noa's hideout. Even several years later, Rex is haunted by the case.
** [[spoiler: Edward; unknown how many he's killed for Noa, but he was responsible at least for the corpse sculpture in Underbridge and the abductions of Underbridge robot citizens]].
