History VisualNovel / HatePlus

* {{Seppuku}}: Using 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.

* 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}} [[CrowingMomentOfFunny hilariously]] by the characters.

–>'''*Mute:''' Like, no matter how you look at it… there's no way we should be both be able to be activated at the same time.\\

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 Intellegences in the ship, *Hyun-Ae and *Mute, you managed to uncover the mystery behind the demise of the entire crew of the ''Mugunghwa''.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The Harem route has been explicitly-described as impossible. Justified because it's gained through an OldSaveBonus that involves massive SequenceBreaking.

** 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".]]

* AuthorAppeal: Another game from Creator/ChristineLove with "[[GameplayToStoryRatio too many words]]" about "[[LesYay women]] and [[CastFullOfGay queerness]] and [[{{Transhuman}} technology]]," strongly infused with "[[{{Kawaii}} the power of cuteness]]."

* {{Continuity Nod}}: The first email you get is from Wong Robotics. Mr Wong gives you your first computer back in ''Visualnovel/{{Digital A Love Story}}''; evidently he went on to bigger and better things.

* {{Good Counterpart}}: So-yi and Nae-mun's marriage has many attributes in common with that of In-ho and the Pale Bride. In both cases, a spirited woman with dreams of being an engineer marries a significantly older man, arranged by the bride's grandparents. However, So-yi and Nae-mun's marriage is mutually loving, supportive, and respectful, and was entered freely.

* {{Translation Convention}}: It's mentioned that the hanja on Hyun-ae's stasis pod have been translated as 'Pale Bride' instead of 'Sick Daughter', because "the ship sailed on getting that right long ago".

''Hate Plus'' is the sequel to ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', the VisualNovel developed by Canadian author Creator/ChristineLove. It started as plans for a DownloadableContent package for the original game, but ultimately became something even bigger than the original novel, to the point of turning into a full game on its own right rather than an ExpansionPack, with features like [[OldSaveBonus being affected by variables in your saved game of the original]].

* AntiPoopSocking: It takes place over the course of three days. In real time. You can only decrypt so many of the logs per day, then you have to power down until time passes in the real world.

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a's "sister" Mi-seun is worried sick about the long periods of time Eun-a spends away from home and the time Eun-a is spending with Ryu. However, Eun-a's usage of big words and concepts that fly over Mi-seun's head, and Eun-a's [[NoExceptYes way of explaining, which implies that Mi-seun is useless]], intimidates Mi-seun, who writes long letters to her "big sister" that she never actually sends. Mi-seun eventually [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]], which causes Eun-a [[TalkingToTheDead to lose it.]]]]

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 LostForever...

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The ''Mugunghwa'' took an estimated 2500 years to get to where it did from Earth. And even taking into account that it probably veered off course, the Investigator's single-seat recovery/scout vessel only takes only ''3 days'' to get back to Earth from the ''Mugunghwa'', and it's damaged at the time!

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Minor example: the color of the background and the interface will be different depending on which route you're doing, much like in [[VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory Analogue]]. *Hyun-ae will have a blue interface, romanced *Mute will have red, [[[[MarryThemAll Harem Ending]] *Hyun-ae and *Mute together]] will have pink, etc.

* 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 Harem Ending]] *Hyun-ae and *Mute]] are ''both'' commenting on a document, and debating the cause-and-effect of depravity and morality.

** The game's name itself is a reference to LovePlus.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Minor example: the color of the background and the interface will be different depending on which route you're doing, much like in [[VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory Analogue]]. *Hyun-ae will have a blue interface, romanced *Mute will have red, [[HaremEnding *Hyun-ae and *Mute together]] will have pink, etc.

* 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 [[HaremEnding *Hyun-ae and *Mute]] are ''both'' commenting on a document, and debating the cause-and-effect of depravity and morality.

* 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]] was initially "just interested in his cock." This leads to a funny exchange with *Hyun-ae, who [[spoiler:slept with Ryu's descendent back when she was alive:]]
-->'''*Hyun-ae:''' [[spoiler:...well, if he's anything like his descendent, he's probably—]]\\
'''*Mute:''' [[spoiler:NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, DON'T TELL ME THIS. I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SAY, OKAY?]]

* BadBoss: A variant. The only scientist investigating the cause of the decline of birth rates aboard the ship is [[spoiler:fired by her boss, but only under pressure by ''his'' new boss: the scientist's former assistant, who molested her in the past.]] Her boss ''has'' been a jerk in the past, such as making her cleaning up the remains of a laboratory explosion instead of doing research.

--> '''Hyun-ae:''' [[spoiler:Are you not taking me seriously? Are you just pretending, as a joke at my expense? What do you think this is, some sort of tacky ero visual novel? Do you really think relationships are as easy as just clicking the right dialogue choices on a menu...? Are you trying to tell me that, after all the time we've spent together, I don't deserve just a little bit of effort? Well, here's a message to you... not as a cool space investigator, but as a player sitting at a computer screen talking to a sad girl. Stand up, get the ingredients, actually go into your kitchen, and bake a cake! A real, actual, IRL cake! Please, do this for me! You promised me you would! Let me enjoy it through you, please!]]

--> '''Kim So-yi:''' I have no intention of having children at 24.
--> '''*Mute:''' What? But ... that's the best age to have children at!

** [[spoiler: Oh Eun-a feels betrayed by her father when she discovers he knew about a plot against her and Ryu and did nothing, conveniently forgetting that she hung him out to dry first by giving his Councillorship for Education to one of Ryu's puppets.]]

* EveryoneIsBi: Subverted by (non-harem) *Mute, who never fully comes around to accepting or returning a female main character's love in any meaningful way, and thinks the whole relationship is absurd. She still, however, refers to herself as a wife, and is not unhappy with the predicament. [[spoiler: New *Mute feels even more strongly that the relationship should stay platonic, though mostly because she barely knows you yet.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Eun-a:''']] "Me? Oh no! I think people get distracted by them too easily instead of focusing on the things that really matter!" I said, summarizing my thesis about the myopic social destruction caused by the increasing discourse of democratization.

* FutureImperfect: Along with society's understanding of the past aboard the ''Mugunghwa'' being flawed, the new government gets several things wrong about the Joseon dynasty, such as the fact that [[spoiler: they were the first to stop using Chinese characters.]]
* 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]] was initially "just interested in his cock." This leads to a funny exchange with *Hyun-ae, who [[spoiler:slept with Ryu's descendent back when she was alive:]]
--> '''*Hyun-ae:''' [[spoiler:...well, if he's anything like his descendent, he's probably—]]
--> '''*Mute:''' [[spoiler:NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, DON'T TELL ME THIS. I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SAY, OKAY?]]

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: Addressed by a log in Block 13, where it is revealed that it was caused by [[spoiler: a rebellion that damaged the stability of the pre-Year Zero political system and caused a total hard drive wipe of the ship's computer, resetting *Mute and deleting her memories.]]
** A deliberate example of UnreliableNarrator. [[spoiler: The 'rebellion' was the dying throes of the legitimate political system trying to reassert control over a totalitarian despotism/functional autocracy. Chief Councillor "Emperor" Ryu wiped the computers, and *Mute, himself.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Old *Mute:''' I wished with every byte of my being that I could've picked that second option. But I knew I couldn't. I knew, as my very core directive, that safety was more important than freedom.]]

-->'''*Mute:''' Just so we're clear, "little sister" means "lesbian lover," right?

* InternalizedCategorism: *Mute, who views her programmed female gender as coming with a great deal of baggage. [[spoiler: If she's talked into considering a relationship with a female Investigator, her homophobia comes into play, too.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Eun-a:''' I want to make a society that would've given you something better than me.]]

--> '''Hyun-ae:''' "...Even if I don't understand how you could buy a cake in the middle of deep space..."

* ManipulativeBastard: Old *Mute can show shades of this. Surprisingly, [[spoiler: Oh Eun-a]] turns out to be this for the '''entire story'''.

** Possibly a part of [[spoiler: Oh Eun-a]]'s motivation. [[spoiler: She feels her "sister" deserves better but blames society rather than herself for it, and her eventual suicide. She appears convinced, perhaps due to low-self-esteem, that a Confucian society would have protected her better than she could.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: *Hyun-ae comes to feel this way about Oh Eun-a and her "sister", sympathizing with her feelings of being trapped.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Eun-a:''']] "Uh, maybe this is a dumb question," I said, leadingly ...

--> '''*Mute:''' [[spoiler:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]

** Also the subject of an amusing conversation in the harem route where *Mute and *Hyun-ae argue over who is more qualified to be "older sister". [[spoiler: *Hyun-ae wins as *Mute can't remember her past incarnations and wasn't awake for the long period between the ship's downfall and the player's arrival.]]

* {{Seppuku}}: Using 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.

*** [[{{Website/Facebook}} Relationship Status: It's complicated]].

* ThemeAndVariations: Old *Mute gets a slowed down remix version of one of *Mute songs from Analogue. [[spoiler: It matches Old *Mute's tired state for being active for 1600 years, 600 more than she was designed to be. Even as an immortal AI, all the memories she accumulated left her bogged down from having to cross-reference so much data when thinking.]]

* LipstickLesbian: Heo Ae-Jeong seems to lament her inability to fulfill this trope, due to acting lovestruck and awkward in the presence of her girlfriend.

* 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.

* LipstickLesbian:
** [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a,]] to the extreme, ultra-feminine (to the point of wanting ''other women to return to their feminine ways''). It's probably part {{gayngst}} (and part LoveMakesYouEvil, [[JerkassWoobie surprisingly]]) that makes her [[spoiler:want society to return to the ultra-patriarchal Neo-Confucian ideal where women are dominated by men and "know their place".]]
** Heo Ae-Jeong seems to lament her inability to fulfill this trope, due to acting lovestruck and awkward in the presence of her girlfriend.

** Made extremely obvious in *Mute's route, in regards to the events that lead up to VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory. Mute will note that everything that Kim So-Yi worked for would be wiped out in the system reboot ([[spoiler:she was literally ''days'' away from presenting her report to the science department when the Mugunghwa's computers were wiped by Ryu Hyeon-su's coup d'etat, taking her data with it]]), that the Neo-Joseon Dynasty's numbers will decline, due to the loss of research, and that [[spoiler:their descendants will be killed by the Pale Bride.]]

* TakeThatUs:
** 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''.