History VisualNovel / ExitCorners

* WhamShot: The end of Chapter 18 reveals [[spoiler: two unconscious or deceased strangers in a room, where Ink recognizes one of them as his Contact, Sean. The identity of the other stranger may be Tiana, Rae's Contact, but this has yet to be confirmed]].

The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with the first arc constisting of 17 "chapters" completely playable. The second arc started June 24 with at least 5 new episodes scheduled for release.

The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 17 "chapters" currently playing and is scheduled to resume with at least 5 new episodes starting June 24th.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Referenced. One of the puzzles involves a man who needs to have his limbs weighed a certain way to walk, [[spoiler: leaving him without one of his arms.]] Rae jokes that he's still capable of masturbating. [[spoiler: This crude joke eventually takes a dark turn when Rae becomes trapped in his 'Corner' puzzle, resulting in a potential LifeOrLimbDecision, much like the John Doe character from a previous puzzle]].

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Sent attempts to do this with Rae, by trapping his arm and putting him in excruciating pain every twelve minutes.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: Liza. Throughout the course of the game, she goes from abrasive and openly hostile to (currently) sympathetic but still standoffish. Becomes more evident when [[spoiler: Rae's arm is stuck in a torture device that is set to go off every twelve minutes, prompting a horrified Liza to try and reassure Rae to the best of her abilities while begging Sent to let him go]].

The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 17 "chapters" currently playing and is on hiatus.

Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[DesignatedLoveInterest Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]

* ShoutOut: Sent's appearance on the monitors when he communicates with the Contestants bears a more than passing resemblance to [[StarFox1 the original Andross.]]
** A number of people are kidnapped, put in a deathtrap-filled building, and told to play a game if they want to survive. Did we just describe this game or ''{{Franchise/SAW}}''? Taken even further when [[spoiler: Rae's corner trap forces him into an actual LifeOrLimbDecision!]] Or maybe ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''? [[spoiler:There is even an elevator scene in that, some paranoid "the mastermind might be one of us", and exact time to die... for a thing that doesn't match ''9 hours'' is actually non-linear while as far we can tell now ''Exit/Corners'' is.]]

** A number of people are kidnapped, put in a deathtrap-filled building, and told to play a game if they want to survive. Did we just describe this game or ''{{Franchise/SAW}}''? Taken even further when [[spoiler: Rae's corner trap forces him into an actual LifeOrLimbDecision!]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade A for Liza.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Chapter 17's puzzle is a coding puzzle that only Rae can solve, so all you need to do is stand around and talk to your companions for a bit.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade A for Liza.

Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the Zero Escape series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[DesignatedLoveInterest Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]

* [[AerithAndBob Aether and Bob:]] Aether and Ink as opposed to Rae, Liza, Beth and the known names of the Contacts. No, seriously, [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude who names their kid Ink? Or Aether?]] The fact that they both have such odd names is even the first thing that gets them bonding with each other.

** Early on, Ink asks Sean for something he would know to prove it's really him on the other end of the Gemini. Sean mentions that Ink hates the name "Kim," though he doesn't know why. Come Chapter 16, we learn why: Kim is [[spoiler: Ink's birth name.]]

* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler: Ink's real name is Kim]].

** SixthRanger / TheLoad: Liza. Acts consistently unhelpful for a while after she's first introduced, and most of her attempts to help get them rescued via calling for help through her Gemini are basically useless. It doesn't help either that she has such a bad attitude that virtually every time she opens her mouth, it becomes harder to keep the group working together--especially when she makes the accusation that one of the Contestants is Sent. However, every so often she manages to gain some keen insight into a puzzle that stumped even Rae, and it's indicated that her problems stem from having [[SpoiledBrat a previously sheltered life,]] being more freaked out than the others because she's the youngest and not as mature as the others to begin with, and some pretty serious confidence issues. She starts to get better after Ink [[spoiler: proves that it's impossible for Sent to be among the five of them,]] and she becomes more co-operative and more willing to help solve puzzles shortly afterwards.

* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler: Rae is faced with this decision once his 'Corner' puzzle ends with him right arm trapped within the device, which is set to give Rae a nasty shock every twelve minutes. Sent then offers him a deal: Rae will either continue to feel horrific pain every twelve minutes, or he gives in and take a bottle full of potassium cyanide pills to escape by taking his own life. Beth has none of it and decides to take a sword from another room and prepares to cut off Rae's arm to save his life]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Sent's showing more and more signs of this, and Ink even lampshades it in regards to how close he came to [[spoiler: driving Beth to suicide.]]
** Ink provides a heroic variant, [[spoiler: managing to outfox ''Sent'' and get him to reveal the live-feed nature of his "recordings".]]

* [[TenLittleMurderVictims Five Little Kidnap Victims:]] Since the messages from Sent are pre-recorded, most of the Contestants suspect one of them is Sent in disguise. Ink isn't convinced, but the only way the others will believe him if he comes up with hard proof to the contrary. [[spoiler: He later gets such proof when he uses a BatmanGambit to get Sent--who's been talking to them live ''the whole time''--to go completely off script and react directly to something he couldn't possibly have predicted well enough to pre-record a reaction to.]]

** [[spoiler: Later subverted. Sent outright states that he's not a woman, either, and a couple chapters later claims to be a <i>sent</i>ient AI.]]

** [[spoiler: Later subverted. Sent outright states that he's not a woman, either.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: Liza. Throughout the course of the game, she goes from abrasive and openly hostile to (currently) sympathetic but still standoffish. Becomes more evident when [[spoiler: Rae's arm is stuck in a torture device that is set to go off every twelve minutes, prompting a horrified Liza to try and reassure Rae to the best of her abilities]].

* AerithAndBob: The main characters, as contrasted with the other three and the known names of the Contacts. No, seriously, [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude who names their kid Ink? Or Aether?]] The fact that they both have such odd names is even the first thing that gets them bonding with each other.
** [[spoiler: And then it turns out Ink's actual name is Kim, making Aether the sole example of this trope.]]

** A number of people are kidnapped, put in a deathtrap-filled building, and told to play a game if they want to survive. Did we just describe this game or ''{{Franchise/SAW}}''?

The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 16 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 17 scheduled to release on September 17th, with a hiatus planned for after that.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Referenced. One of the puzzles involves a man who needs to have his limbs weighed a certain way to walk, [[spoiler: leaving him without one of his arms.]] Rae jokes that he's still capable of masturbating.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Liza. Throughout the course of the game, she goes from abrasive and openly hostile to (currently) sympathetic but still standoffish.

* DrivenToSuicide: Narrowly averted with one of the contestants [[spoiler: namely, Beth]] in the first Corner. Time (and further chapters) will tell if the remaining Corners were designed with the same aim.

* DiproportionateRetribution: Tell anyone who Rae's contact is, or even ''seem'' to tell them? Rae will punch you in the stomach to get even. Liza even lampshades it.

The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 15 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 16 scheduled to release on September 10th.