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''Amplitude'' (also stylized as AMPLITUDE: A Visual Novel) is an English-language UrbanFantasy VisualNovel developed by the indie studio Ceylon Entertainment using the UsefulNotes/RenPy engine. It is funded through an Website/{{Indiegogo}} campaign and was released on September 6, 2017, through Platform/{{Steam}} for Windows, Mac, Steam OS, and Linux.

''Amplitude'' (also stylized as AMPLITUDE: A Visual Novel) is an English-language UrbanFantasy VisualNovel developed by the indie studio Ceylon Entertainment using the UsefulNotes/RenPy engine. It is funded through an IndieGogo campaign and was released on September 6, 2017, through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} for Windows, Mac, Steam OS, and Linux.

* IllGirl: Downplayed with Michelle, who has a rather frail constitution.

''Amplitude'' (also stylized as AMPLITUDE: A Visual Novel) is an English-language UrbanFantasy VisualNovel developed by the indie studio Ceylon Entertainment using the UsefulNotes/RenPy engine. It is funded through an IndieGogo campaign and was released on September 6, 2017, through {{Steam}} for Windows, Mac, Steam OS, and Linux.

* AbusiveParents: Jon's mother is this to her children, at least mentally. Forceful and demanding, Lady White cannot accept anything but perfection. This has a more sinister twist on her treatment to Felix, [[spoiler: which is actually her husband's son with a mistress--Eve's sister-in-law.]]
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Felix seeks to kill his mother. He ends up killing Eve because Giselle convinces him she's the one. She's not. Felix's mother is Eve's sister-in-law.]]

* ShoutOut: It deserves its own page. The creators are having so much fun with this, they have references from NigaHiga to musicals to various oldtime EasternRPG's.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[spoiler:Cam was designed as a girl]]. During development, this character went through a lot of iterations as the story was deemed complex enough. Current canon still very vaguely implies [[spoiler: he was a girl and went through gender-change with his mutation]] after the [[spoiler: murder of his fiance.]]

* BilingualBonus: Hoo, boy. If you can read Indonesian, the game has this in spades. 'Pelet' is an Indonesian word for 'curse', and 'Abang-Abang' the idol group means a bunch of young adult men ('Abang' means an older brother, regularly used for any older male). The Electify storefront has the words 'Listrik' on it, meaning electricity. The cinema is called 'Layar Tancap', which is the term for a folk cinema of old using vintage projectors and screens, commonly held in celebrations by the wealthy. 'Balsem' is an ointment for muscle relief! 'Dodol' is a chewy Indonesian dessert. 'Belanja' Mall is literally 'Shopping' Mall. Fana means ethereal, and may also be a ShoutOut to the music group fhana.

* BilingualBonus: Hoo, boy. If you can read Indonesian, the game has this in spades. 'Pelet' is an Indonesian word for 'curse', and 'Abang-Abang' the idol group means a bunch of young adult men ('Abang' means an older brother, regularly used for any older male). The Electify storefront has the words 'Listrik' on it, meaning electricity. The cinema is called 'Layar Tancap', which is the term for a folk cinema of old using vintage projectors and screens, commonly held in celebrations by the wealthy. 'Balsem' is an ointment for muscle relief! 'Dodol' is a chewy Indonesian dessert.

* BilingualBonus: Hoo, boy. If you can read Indonesian, the game has this in spades. 'Pelet' is an Indonesian word for 'curse', and 'Abang-Abang' the idol group means a bunch of young adult men ('Abang' means an older brother, regularly used for any older male). The Electify storefront has the words 'Listrik' on it, meaning electricity. The cinema is called 'Layar Tancap', which is the term for a folk cinema of old using vintage projectors and screens, commonly held in celebrations by the wealthy.

* BlandNameProduct: [[spoiler: Theo likes the card game 'Wizardry'.]]

* ShoutOut: It deserves its own page. The creators are having so much fun with this, they have references from NigaHiga to musicals to various oldtime EasternRPGs.

* ShoutOut: It deserves its own page. The creators are having so much fun with this, they have references from NigaHiga to musicals to various oldtime JRPGs.

''Amplitude'' (also stylized as AMPLITUDE: A Visual Novel) is an English-language UrbanFantasy VisualNovel developed by the indie studio Ceylon Entertainment using the UsefulNotes/RenPy engine. It is funded through an IndieGogo campaign and will be released on September 6, 2017, through {{Steam}} for Windows, Mac, Steam OS, and Linux.

* Abusive Parents: Jon's mother is this to her children, at least mentally. Forceful and demanding, Lady White cannot accept anything but perfection. This has a more sinister twist on her treatment to Felix, [[spoiler: which is actually her husband's son with a mistress--Eve's sister-in-law.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[-The main characters; clockwise, from top: [[ProfessionalKiller Adam]], [[{{Tomboy}} Katy]], [[TheCracker Eve]], and [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex Jon]]-] ]]

The game's story begins in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2121]], in a world where the majority of human populace [[EveryoneIsASuper exhibit superpower-like]] abilities. Discrimination and outright bullying are facts of life for the unlucky minority born with no power whatsoever.

The player wakes up in an otherworldly building, feeling something is terribly off. There they meet a mysterious girl who explains the player's situation: they are but a [[DeadToBeginWith wandering soul, having died just moments before]].

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[spoiler:Cam was designed as a girl]]. During development, this character went through a lot of iterations as the story was deemed complex enough. Current canon still very vaguely implies [[spoiler: he was a girl and went through gender-change with his mutation]] after the [[spoiler: murder of his fiance.]]

* SequelSeries: Set about a century after Freak-Quency. Some characters make a return.
* LegendFadesToMyth: As quite an amount of time has passed, the events of the original Freak-Quency are written differently in the currently accepted history.

* DistantSequel: Set about a century after Freak-Quency. Some characters make a return.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Cam was designed as a girl. During development, this character went through a lot of iterations as the story was deemed complex enough. Current canon still very vaguely implies he was a girl and went through gender-change with his mutation after the [[spoiler: murder of his fiance.]]