History VisualNovel / HatePlus

* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Famous actress Heo Ae-Jeong, who frequently took fangirls of hers to bed before moving on, falls in love with Mae Jin-a, a cute and bubbly florist. Jin-a not unfrequently feels insecure over this, but for her part, Ae-Jeong is sincere in her feelings, and laments not being able to keep up the cool and aloof act because of her love for Jin-a.

* HystericalWoman: *Mute was programmed to view women as ruled by their emotions; she uses this to justify her own [[InternalizedCategorism outbursts and fallacies.]] Oh Eun-a also views women as emotional, flighty, and promiscuous, causing the downfall of society. [[spoiler:She is, ironically, all of these things, and possibly the most powerful person on the ship for a while.]]

* LikeIsLikeAComma: For an AI capable of thinking orders of magnitude more quickly than a human, *Mute uses an awful lot of verbal filler. It's almost, like, a VerbalTic.

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: A variant: despite seemingly being a very loving husband, Kim So-yi's husband writes a log titled "Worthless as a wife". [[spoiler:It turns out that he's using ''her exact words'': she's just been fired and driven to a nervous breakdown by the new societal pressure to [[StayInTheKitchen stay at home and be subservient to your man]]. He's deeply worried about this and finds her new behavior disconcerting.]] *Hyun-ae lampshades this if you're on her route by getting outraged at the title, but later realizing it wasn't what it meant. In the harem route, her initial outrage is closer to shock.

* {{Seppuku}}: Using Wiki/ThisVeryWiki's definition of "Seppuku," the suicide of [[spoiler:Heo Seo-yeong]] qualifies [[spoiler:except that she probably didn't actually kill herself]]. The honor-bound deaths of [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a's lover]] and [[spoiler:*Mute, whose suicide note recounts her failings and admits that she is "freeing" a romantically-inclined Investigator]] probably also qualify.

** Overlaps with PlayerPunch and TheReasonYouSuckSpeech if *Hyun-ae "thinks" you're lying to her:

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae comes to feel this way about Oh Eun-a and her "sister", sympathizing with her feelings of being trapped.]]
** *Hyun-ae and *Mute turn out to have much more in common than they seemed to at the start of VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: As with ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''. At some points, there's multiple layers of dissonance: *Mute is horrified and disgusted at Old *Mute's rude and unladylike behavior—but Old *Mute is acting this way because she is, herself, horrified and disgusted at the retrograde and patriarchal notions she's hearing. It gets even more complicated when [[MarryThemAll *Hyun-ae and *Mute]] are ''both'' commenting on a document, and debating the cause-and-effect of depravity and morality.

** DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Invoked by Hyun-ae in her route as a response to this. She'll ask you what you thought of the entire conflict. You can say "I hate everyone equally" in response.

** But cleverly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with the "Level Four Revive Materia" achievement, which you get by finishing the game with *Mute in a particular outfit. Seems simple, right? Especially since there's an achievement for completing the game with *Hyun-ae, and one for completing it with both girls, and one for completing it with *Mute twice, once as a man and once as a woman. [[spoiler:There is ''absolutely no way'' to get that achievement—see UnwinnableByDesign below. If you look at the achievement stats before playing, you'll notice that the achievements for completing the game with *Hyun-ae and for completing it with both girls have been completed by lots of people. This achievement has ''never been completed, ever.'' It isn't even coded into the game. Instead, there is a ''hidden'' achievement for finishing the game with New *Mute, who wears a different outfit that you can't change.]]

** Old *Mute [[spoiler:begging to be spared, at the cost of her best friend and closest comrade, results in her "dying", anyway—and the data that she tries to sneak to the future version of her comes too late, and causes *Mute to kill herself.]]

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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: As with ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''. At some points, there's multiple layers of dissonance: *Mute is horrified and disgusted at Old *Mute's rude and unladylike behavior—but Old *Mute is acting this way because she is, herself, horrified and disgusted at the retrograde and patriarchal notions she's hearing. It gets even more complicated when [[MarryThemAll *Hyun-ae and *Mute]] are ''both'' commenting on a document, and debating the cause-and-effect of depravity and morality.

** But cleverly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with the "Level Four Revive Materia" achievement, which you get by finishing the game with *Mute in a particular outfit. Seems simple, right? Especially since there's an achievement for completing the game with *Hyun-ae, and one for completing it with both girls, and one for completing it with *Mute twice, once as a man and once as a woman. [[spoiler:There is ''absolutely no way'' to get that achievement—see UnwinnableByDesign below. If you look at the achievement stats before playing, you'll notice that the achievements for completing the game with *Hyun-ae and for completing it with both girls have been completed by lots of people. This achievement has ''never been completed, ever.'' It isn't even coded into the game. Instead, there is a ''hidden'' achievement for finishing the game with New *Mute, who wears a different outfit that you can't change.]]

** Old *Mute [[spoiler:begging to be spared, at the cost of her best friend and closest comrade, results in her "dying", anyway—and the data that she tries to sneak to the future version of her comes too late, and causes *Mute to kill herself.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: It is heavily implied that [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a and her "little sister" were lovers. In Oh Eun-a's letters to her little sister, she'd casually talk about getting laid "not by a woman, for once", implying she only hangs around parties (like the one where she met Ryu) to have one-night stands, and speaks candidly and lovingly of her relationship with Ryu.]] All this contributes to [[spoiler:her "sister"'s suicide.]]

* MonsterSobStory: [[spoiler:Eun-a manipulated the regression of her entire society, and ordered the death of at least one person who opposed her, in addition to planning for the deaths of many more if necessary, but when you read her logs and understand [[LoveMakesYouEvil she did it all for love]] ... well, she's still a monster, but at least you know ''why''.]]

* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] is homophobic and claims that it is everyone on the ship's "moral imperative" to reproduce--those who can't, especially homosexual couples, are hedonistic, over-emotional parasites. [[spoiler:Except that she's [[BiTheWay bisexual]], and it's very heavily implied that her "little sister" is actually a completely unrelated lover who she used to dote on.]] This comes back to bite her in the ass later; [[spoiler:her "little sister" commits suicide partly because the world Eun-a is building will have no place for their love, making Eun-a's victory ring a little hollow as she spends her post-revolution days staring into space, depressed.]]

* CallBack: During the SchrodingersGun opening questions, two of the three years you can select for the years recorded in the logs are 1988 and 2027, which would make it simultaneous with ''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory'' and ''VisualNovel/DontTakeItPersonallyBabeItJustAintYourStory'', respectively.

* ApocalypticLog: Unlike the prequel, which functioned mostly as an apocalyptic log for Hyun-ae, this game documents the decline of the entire ship as Ryu slowly amasses power and implements a feudal dystopia.

* GagPenis: Minor example in Harem route. When [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] first meets [[spoiler:her future husband Ryu]], *Mute is scandalized to discover that [[spoiler:the future Empress]] initially was just looking for a OneNightStand. This leads to a funny exchange with *Hyun-ae, who [[spoiler:was the royal concubine of Ryu's descendent back when she was alive:]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: The Harem route has been explicitly-described as impossible. Justified because it's gained through an OldSaveBonus that involves creative SequenceBreaking, which is of course {{Lampshaded}} [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]] by the characters.

In the late 24th century (2390, to be precise), the ''Mugunghwa'', a [[GenerationShips generation ship]], was launched by the Korean government to found a colony in a planet far away from Earth. The ship never reached its destination, and was detected, adrift and lifeless in the immensity of space, more than two thousand years later. During the events of ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', you were sent to the ship to recover the message logs of its computer, in hopes of finding what made the ship go derelict. After examining the computer logs and getting testimony from the two Artificial Intelligences in the ship, *Hyun-Ae and *Mute, you managed to uncover the mystery behind the demise of the entire crew of the ''Mugunghwa''.

But why did the ship go off course and disappear without warning? It is evident, from the nature of the final message logs in the computer, that the ship's society somehow regressed to a pseudo-feudal period sometime during its travel, but all information before that period was conveniently deleted, so the causes of this societal degeneration have been lost forever...

* AddressingThePlayer: *Hyun-Ae wants you to actually get up, go to the kitchen and bake a cake, in real life. There's an achievement for sending a picture to Christine Love, the developer.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Kim So-Yi displays quite a few diagnostic criteria for UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome: highly logical thought processes, inability to read facial cues, extremely tight focus on [[spoiler:the Radiation Problem]], and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Notably, though, she has a healthy and supportive relationship with her husband, who doesn't seem put off by her quirks at all.
* {{Animesque}}: In-universe: it's revealed why *Mute looks so anime-looking is because her original creator was a huge nerd. (Old *Mute changed herself to be more realistic.) The android bodies you order for *Hyun-ae (or *Mute, in the harem route) also have large eyes and are based on old cartoons.

* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] is homophobic and claims that it is everyone on the ship's "moral imperative" to reproduce - those who can't, especially homosexual couples, are hedonistic, over-emotional parasites. [[spoiler:Except that she's bisexual, and it's very heavily implied that her "little sister" is actually a completely unrelated lover who she used to dote on.]] This comes back to bite her in the ass later; [[spoiler:her "little sister" commits suicide partly because the world Eun-a is building will have no place for their love, making Eun-a's victory ring a little hollow as she spends her post-revolution days staring into space, depressed.]]
* BrickJoke: The Investigator's mis-translated, garbled ship name gets referenced again in *Mute's route on the third day.

** The Earth Tourist Board email reveals that Lake City (the setting for both of the above) suffered some kind of apocalypse and is now a Pompeii-style history museum.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Ryu Hyeon-Su and Oh Eun-a.]] Over seven years, they have the other council members enact dozens of subtle changes to the Mugunghwa's legal policies that, eventually, give Ryu the ability to pass whatever legislation he wants, at whim. [[spoiler:By the time Old *Mute realizes what he's done (and that she was tricked into signing off on the whole mess), she's too late to stop it. Ryu also knew she'd attempt a coup in response, and stops it easily. He uses this as an excuse to crown himself Emperor Taejo and have the logs wiped clean, thus setting the stage for the events of ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''.]]

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: A variant: despite seemingly being a very loving husband, Kim So-yi's husband writes a log titled "Worthless as a Wife". [[spoiler:It turns out that he's using ''her exact words'': she's just been fired and driven to a nervous breakdown by the new societal pressure to [[StayInTheKitchen stay at home and be subservient to your man]]. He's deeply worried about this and finds her new behavior disconcerting.]] *Hyun-ae lampshades this if you're on her route by getting outraged at the title, but realizing it wasn't what it meant.

* ContinuityNod: The first email you get is from Wong Robotics. Mr Wong gives you your first computer back in ''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory''; evidently he went on to bigger and better things.

** Mixed in with TakeThat is if you complete the Harem route and ask Hyun-ae to talk about what's happened so far. One of the choices makes her break the fourth wall and note that the harem route and the player's cheating nullified everything that's happened, with no real consequences!
** Asking her to talk about hate talks about how the game is far superior to ''VideoGame/DigitalALoveStory''.

** In harem route, you can convince [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae to confess her love to *Mute. At first *Mute thinks *Hyun-ae is joking; when she realizes that *Hyun-ae is serious, her shocked scream spans several text boxes.]]

** You can skip to the next day by [[spoiler:selecting your save file and pressing "S"]], but [[NoFairCheating the author will call you a "jerkface".]] You can also do this by manipulating your system's date/time settings and save yourself the insult, but doing it incorrectly will trip one of UsefulNotes/Renpy's own game-stopping checks (eg. Accidentally loading a save file that's time stamped in the future will cause an engine crash).

** You can skip to the next day by [[spoiler:selecting your save file and pressing "S"]], but [[NoFairCheating the author will call you a "jerkface".]] You can also do this by manipulating your system's date/time settings and save yourself the insult, but doing it incorrectly will trip one of [[UsefulNotes/Renpy Ren'Py]]'s own game-stopping checks (eg. Accidentally loading a save file that's time stamped in the future will cause an engine crash).