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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sophie is killed by Adelaine on Arturo's orders, the Prince and Calihan get away with their crimes, plus the entire coup plan fails. Worse, you will remain ThePawn for the Elders above you with one drink toward becoming Blood Bound to Arturo. The only benefit you can say is that you have probably made some friends along the way who have your back.]] Verges on a DownerEnding [[spoiler: depending on whether you think your character can ever break free.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sophie is killed by Adelaine on Arturo's orders, the Prince and Calihan Callihan get away with their crimes, plus the entire coup plan fails. Worse, you will remain ThePawn for the Elders above you with one drink toward becoming Blood Bound to Arturo. The only benefit you can say is that you have probably made some friends along the way who have your back.]] Verges on a DownerEnding [[spoiler: depending on whether you think your character can ever break free.]]



** Adelaine serves as this for [[spoiler: Thomas Arturo.]]
** Victor serves as one for [[spoiler: Calihan]].

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** Adelaine Adelaide serves as this for [[spoiler: Thomas Arturo.]]
** Victor serves as one for [[spoiler: Calihan]].Callihan]].
* TheDreaded: The Scarred One is one of these, being the boogeyman of Gangrel in New York (and possibly beyond).
* DroppedABridgeOnThem: Jezebelle is a minor character from ''New York by Night'' that was killed by the Second Inquisition between it and the game.



* TheMasquerade: One of the major concerns about the setting (it's in the name). Any vampire who threatens to expose their kind to the world is killed.

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* TheMasquerade: One MonsterHunter: The threat of the major concerns about the setting (it's in the name). Any Second Inquisition is omnipresent with several chances to meet vampire who threatens to expose their kind to hunters throughout the world is killed. story.



* MonsterHunter: The threat of the Second Inquisition is omnipresent with several chances to meet vampire hunters throughout the story.



* TheMasquerade: One of the major concerns about the setting (it's in the name). Any vampire who threatens to expose their kind to the world is killed.



* NotSoDifferent: You can annoy [[spoiler: Sophie and Torque]] by pointing out they'd be this to Panhard and Calihan. [[spoiler: Their only defense is they wouldn't be sleeping together.]]
* OutGambitted: Considering the [[GambitPileup nature of vampire society]] it's inevitable that this is going to happen to someone. In game, it happens to [[spoiler: Cara courtesy of Hope and Sophie by way of Arturo]]

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* NotSoDifferent: You can annoy [[spoiler: Sophie and Torque]] by pointing out they'd be this to Panhard and Calihan.Callihan. [[spoiler: Their only defense is they wouldn't be sleeping together.]]
* OutGambitted: Considering the [[GambitPileup nature of vampire society]] it's inevitable that this is going to happen to someone.
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In game, it happens to [[spoiler: Cara courtesy of Hope and Sophie by way of Arturo]]Arturo]]
** [[spoiler: Sophie is utterly owned by Thomas Arturo and thus, by proxy, the character.]]
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* OutGambitted: Considering the [[GambitPileup nature of vampire society]] it's inevitable that this is going to happen to someone. In game, it happens to [[spoiler: Cara courtesy of Hope and Sophie by way of Arturo]]
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* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:The plan to confront Prince Panhard and Boss Callihan over their shady alliance is derailed by the appearance of Thomas Arturo, who reveals himself to have masterminded the entire plot. He espouses some of his philosophy, has his insane minion behead Sophie, and enslaves you with the blood bond. The prince and Callihan quietly take their leave, and neither Qadir nor your coterie is present to help you out or offer any resistance. [[DownerEnding The end]].]]

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* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:The plan to confront Prince Panhard and Boss Callihan over their shady alliance is derailed by the appearance of Thomas Arturo, who reveals himself to have masterminded the entire plot. He espouses some of his philosophy, has his insane minion behead Sophie, and enslaves you with the blood bond. The prince and Callihan quietly each take their leave, and neither Qadir nor your coterie is present to help you out or offer any resistance. [[DownerEnding The end]].]]

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* ContinuityNod: Hope mentions being acquainted with her fellow NYC-dwelling Malkavian Dev/Null from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeRedemption''.



* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:The plan to confront Prince Panhard and Boss Callihan over their shady alliance is derailed by the appearance of Thomas Arturo, who reveals himself to have masterminded the entire plot. He espouses some of his philosophy, has his insane minion behead Sophie, and enslaves you with the blood bond. The prince and Callihan quietly take their leave, and neither Qadir nor your coterie is present to help you out or offer any resistance. [[DownerEnding The end]].]]



** Qadir serves as this for Prince Panhard.

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** Qadir serves as this for Prince Panhard. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, he [[DragonTheirFeet isn't present during the climax]] and is thus in no position to help her out.]]
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* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler: Thomas Arturo has arranged this entire plot for the purposes of causing a little chaos in the city he already effectively controls. Your Embrace, Sophie's rebellion, and the attack on Ellis Island? All of it is because ItAmusedMe.]]

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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: The player character manages to assemble a coterie of friends, has probably made some political connections, and has set up an alliance between Sophie as well as Torque. Sophia is killed, the coterie isn't there during the climax, and the player character is very likely going to become the blood bound pawn of Thomas Arturo.]]



** Averted by Sophie and Benoit as Sophie barely thinks of him.

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** Averted by Sophie and Benoit as Benoit. Sophie barely thinks of him.him these days.


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* NoEnding: [[spoiler: The player character is now the pawn of another vampire but his or her position hasn't really changed all that much. They've just switched masters. Which, admittedly, is how Kindred politics works in the tabletop game.]]

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* IHateYouVampireDad: Hope has a serious case of this for [[spoiler: Cara]].
* ILoveYouVampireSon: [[spoiler: Cara]] has a serious case of this for Hope. [[spoiler: Right up until when she decides to diablerize her.]]

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Hope has a serious case of this for [[spoiler: Cara]].
** Averted with Agathon and his sire, who he genuinely admires.
** Tamika loved her sire and mourns her death at the hands of the Second Inquisition.
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[[spoiler: Cara]] has a serious case of this for Hope. [[spoiler: Right up until when she decides to diablerize her.]]]]
** Played straight with Agathon and Ailsing Sturbridge. They get along fine.
** Averted by Sophie and Benoit as Sophie barely thinks of him.


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* MoralityPet: A number of the vampires have these, called Touchstones.
** Agathon [[spoiler: has informed his grandmother of his status as a vampire. She treats it more as an amusing quirk rather than a horrifying curse.]]
** The PC will each have a Touchstone but be forced to break off all contact with them [[spoiler: except for the Ventrue PC who ''hates'' their Touchstone.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Benoit [[spoiler: after his encounter with the Priest and breaking the Masquerade?]]

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* InformedAttribute: D'Angelo as a Nosferatu. Unlike most of his clan, he can pass for an ugly human with a mild facial deformity. By Nosferatu standards, he's barely cursed at all. This is lampshaded in-game.



* UglyCute: D'Angelo is this in that he can pass for an ugly human with a mild facial deformity. By Nosferatu standards, he's barely cursed at all. He also dresses endearingly out of date (circa TheEighties).
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Arturo achieves all of his objectives and you are forced to become his agent.]]


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* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: What happened with D'Angelo. He was a former newspaper reporter and small-time novelist when he was Embraced. To cope, he literally became his fictional character by adopting all of his mannerisms.]]


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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sophie is killed by Adelaine on Arturo's orders, the Prince and Calihan get away with their crimes, plus the entire coup plan fails. Worse, you will remain ThePawn for the Elders above you with one drink toward becoming Blood Bound to Arturo. The only benefit you can say is that you have probably made some friends along the way who have your back.]] Verges on a DownerEnding [[spoiler: depending on whether you think your character can ever break free.]]


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* TheDragon: Being vampires, multiple ones have these.
** Qadir serves as this for Prince Panhard.
** Adelaine serves as this for [[spoiler: Thomas Arturo.]]
** Victor serves as one for [[spoiler: Calihan]].


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* FilmNoir: D'Angelo adopts a lot of HardBoiledDetective tropes from these. [[spoiler: Because he used to be a small time newspaper reporter and author who wrote those kind of books.]]
* FullCircleRevolution: [[spoiler: Overthrowing Panhard and Callihan would result in one of these with Sophie and Torque taking their respective faction leaders' places while maintaining their FriendlyEnemy status. Even they admit they would be NotSoDifferent with the sole exception of not sleeping together. Unfortunately, for them, the coup is thwarted before it can get off the ground.]]


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* MortonsFork: There's no good solution to the Red Hooker Killer case [[spoiler: as you either let a insane serial killer go or frame a (mostly) innocent man. Even then, the former just results in them being killed anyway.]]
* NotSoDifferent: You can annoy [[spoiler: Sophie and Torque]] by pointing out they'd be this to Panhard and Calihan. [[spoiler: Their only defense is they wouldn't be sleeping together.]]


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* UglyCute: D'Angelo is this in that he can pass for an ugly human with a mild facial deformity. By Nosferatu standards, he's barely cursed at all. He also dresses endearingly out of date (circa TheEighties).

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* HateSink: Callihan belittles you, engages in racism (or sexism), and then has you beaten up even if you are completely respectful.

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Callihan belittles you, engages in racism (or sexism), and then has you beaten up even if you are completely respectful.respectful.
** Your boss as the Ventrue PC is a sexist asshole who belittled you, stole your work, tried to pimp you out to clients, [[spoiler: and framed you for embezzlement after your disappearance.]]


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* {{Revenge}}: A common motivation among Kindred in the game.
** You can get this on your boss by {{Blackmail}} and turning him into a ghoul.
** Hope wants this on her [[spoiler: sire]] Cara.

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* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Duskborn Primogen, Larson, is considered a convenience by the Prince at best and a potentially dangerous Masquerade breach at worst and is mostly ignored.

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* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Duskborn Primogen, Robert Larson, is considered a convenience by the Prince at best and a potentially dangerous Masquerade breach at worst and is mostly ignored.



* HateSink: Callihan belittles you, engages in racism (or sexism), and then has you beaten up even if you are completely respectful.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: If you play the Toreador PC (A gay black man), Callihan says that in his day you wouldn't have been considered a "real American."

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If you play the Toreador PC (A gay black man), Callihan says that in his day you wouldn't have been considered a "real American."" He insults the Brujah PC for being Asian and the Female Ventrue for being a woman as well.



* SerialKiller: The Red Hook killer is someone that D'Angelo is trying to track down. [[spoiler: It turns out she's a Thin Blood gone insane with visions of Caine.]]

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* SerialKiller: The Red Hook killer killer, Sana, is someone that D'Angelo is trying to track down. [[spoiler: It turns out she's a Thin Blood gone insane with visions of Caine.]]
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* SerialKiller: The Red Hook killer is someone that D'Angelo is trying to track down. [[spoiler: It turns out she's a Thin Blood gone insane with visions of Caine.]]
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''Coteries of New York'' is a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed universe of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' (specifically [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition Fifth Edition]]) and set in the TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness by Creator/WhiteWolf. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple.

After a traumatic transformation into the undead, your character finds themselves alone and friendless in the hostile territory of New York City. Directed to a nearby park, you encounter a vampire who advises you to do the one thing that might keep you alive: make a coterie of fellow vampires. Stronger together, you and several friends might just be able to survive your unlife a bit longer than separately. Each vampire you meet will want something and has different motivations, though, which might bring you closer to Final Death than away from it.

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''Coteries of New York'' is a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed universe of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' (specifically [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition Fifth Edition]]) and set in the TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness by Creator/WhiteWolf. It was developed by Polish game designer Draw Distance.

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presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple.

Apple. After a traumatic transformation into the undead, your character finds themselves alone and friendless in the hostile territory of New York City. Directed to a nearby park, you encounter a vampire who advises you to do the one thing that might keep you alive: make a coterie of fellow vampires. Stronger together, you and several friends might just be able to survive your unlife a bit longer than separately. Each vampire you meet will want something and has different motivations, though, which might bring you closer to Final Death than away from it.

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* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Duskborn Primogen, Larson, is considered a convenience by the Prince at best, a potentially dangerous Masquerade breach at worst and is mostly ignored.

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* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Duskborn Primogen, Larson, is considered a convenience by the Prince at best, best and a potentially dangerous Masquerade breach at worst and is mostly ignored.


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* BigBad: It's set up that Callihan or Prince Panhard is this. [[spoiler: In actuality, it's Thomas Arturo who is playing all of them for suckers.]]


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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: If you play the Toreador PC (A gay black man), Callihan says that in his day you wouldn't have been considered a "real American."
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A lot of vampires have things called "Touchstones" that are the humans they care about in their lives.


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* ReligiousVampire: Benoit is a Noddist fascinated by God, a priest with true faith, and damnation.


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* TrueCompanions: A coterie is something that has the potential to be this but usually just amounts to vampires watching each other's backs for their own purposes.
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: The Duskborn Primogen is considered a convenience by the Prince at best, a potentially dangerous Masquerade breach at worst and is mostly ignored.

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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Thomas Arturo arranged the entire plot of the game, just for fun.]]


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* UnwittingPawn: The Fledgling, of course, is someone used by everyone around them. [[spoiler: It turns out it's Sophie instead as she was manipulated into this entire game by Thomas Arturo.]]
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* IHateYouVampireDad: Hope has a serious case of this for [[spoiler: Cara]].
* ILoveYouVampireSon: [[spoiler: Cara]] has a serious case of this for Hope. [[spoiler: Right up until when she decides to diablerize her.]]


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* MonsterHunter: The threat of the Second Inquisition is omnipresent with several chances to meet vampire hunters throughout the story.


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* VisionaryVillain: Cara has a plan to create tens of thousands of fake identities on the internet that live completely fictitious lives in order to create a buffer for Kindred against the Second Inquisition. [[spoiler: Hope wrecks this plan out of spite.]]
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* GamerGirl: Hope invokes this along with RiotGrrl as her attitude.

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* GamerGirl: Hope invokes this along with RiotGrrl RiotGrrrl as her attitude.
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* GamerGrrl: Hope invokes this along with RiotGirl as her attitude.

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* GamerGrrl: GamerGirl: Hope invokes this along with RiotGirl RiotGrrl as her attitude.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Camarilla is very fond of this.
** You can be killed for your sire creating you without permission.
** A vampire in Central Park can be killed for threatening you, claiming territory without permission, and being an Anarch.
* GamerGrrl: Hope invokes this along with RiotGirl as her attitude.
* TheMasquerade: One of the major concerns about the setting (it's in the name). Any vampire who threatens to expose their kind to the world is killed.

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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Camarilla is this with all the backstabbing, murder, and treachery expected.



* ReluctantMonster: Qadir turns out to be one of these.




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* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: Feeding actually plays a fairly central role in the storyline.

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* TheBeautifulElite: The Camarilla present themselves as such. {{Averted}} with Prince Panhard who is notably described as plain.
* RealityEnsues: If you're disrespectful and turn down attempts to rescue you, the Camarilla kills you.



* TheSheriff: Qadir is the Sheriff of New York for the Camarilla.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: The Camarilla vs. the Anarchs in a nutshell.




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* VoluntaryVampireVictim: Sophie introduces you to one of these on your first night out.
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It was released for computers on December 11th, 2019.
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''Coteries of New York'' is a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed universe of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition''. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple.

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''Coteries of New York'' is a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed universe of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition''.''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' (specifically [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition Fifth Edition]]) and set in the TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness by Creator/WhiteWolf. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Taste the Big Apple]]


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After a traumatic transformation into the undead, your character finds themselves alone and friendless in the hostile territory of New York City. Directed to a nearby park, you encounter a vampire who advises you to do the one thing that might keep you alive: make a coterie of fellow vampires. Stronger together, you and several friends might just be able to survive your unlife a bit longer than separately. Each vampire you meet will want something and has different motivations, though, which might bring you closer to Final Death than away from it.

The game notably incorporates elements from the ''New York by Night'' supplement that was published for the tabletop RPG.


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* RelationshipValues: The game is based around building a relationship with multiple vampires in order to protect yourself.


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* VampireMonarch: Hellene Panhard is the Prince of New York City.
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''Coteries of New York'' is a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed universe of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition''. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple.

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The game contains the following tropes:

* TheVerse: Is a a canonical game set in the World of Darkness, updating New York City to 5th Edition.
* VisualNovel: Explicitly stated to be one of these. Jason Carl of White Wolf says that it is an attempt to export these to the West.

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