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This game was notable for being released in three different forms. The first release, ''Infinity'', was released for the [=PS1=], and only contained the first five routes. The second release, ''Infinity CURE'', was released for the NeoGeoPocket, and contained two routes: the Cure Route, the sixth and final route, and the story "Yuka Cure" (Yuka's Route from Yuka's own point of view, added into later versions of the game). The third and final release was ''Never7: The End of Infinity'' for the Dreamcast, and contained all six routes.

* AllJustADream- [[spoiler:The Cure B Ending turns the Cure Route into one... maybe.]]

* DespairEventHorizon- [[spoiler:This actually turns about to be the reason for the time travel: whenever one of the girls die, Makoto's despair activates his Cure Syndrome, creating a delusionary world where the girl is still alive.]]

** Getting Izumi's normal Route can also be difficult, as it requires taking only one very slightly different action to get the Cure Route, and one that will seem like the opposite of what is needed at the time.

* ManlyTears- [[spoiler:Makoto in Haruka's Route, where he weeps bitterly as she's dying and after she dies, and also cries when Izumi dies in the Cure Route.]]

* MrExposition- [[spoiler:Izumi during the Cure Route.]]
* MultipleChoicePast- Makoto's past can differ depending on the player's choices (such as whether he's kissed someone before, when his first love was, etc). [[spoiler:This is FridgeBrilliance when you realize that all of those choices are potentially correct due to Makoto's Cure Syndrome.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity- [[spoiler:Okuhiko]] specifically mentions using this trope- in reality, [[spoiler:he's very dilligent]], but doesn't want others to know that. [[spoiler:This goes even further in the Cure Route, where it's revealed he's one of the masterminds behind the setup for the Seminar Camp.]]

** [[spoiler:Repeated again in the Cure Route, where Makoto gets hit by a car in order to save Haruka and Izumi. He survives, and stands up long enough to confirm everyone's okay before collapsing.]]

* [[spoiler:RealityWarper]]- [[spoiler: This is essentially what Cure Syndrome does- it replaces the real world with the delusion inside the afflicted's head.]]
* RedHerring- [[spoiler:Yuka's Route turns out to be one big one, as all the theories about what's going on in that route are {{Jossed}} in the Cure Route.]]

* SchrodingersCat: [[spoiler:Used as a metaphor to describe how Cure Syndrome works.]]

* [[spoiler:ShrugOfGod- Does Cure Syndrome really exist or not? The director won't say, but this is the point: the reader is supposed to decide for themselves what is true and what isn't.]]

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator: While it's not obvious at first, Makoto's narration leaves out a few key events- particularly anything related to him wishing for his delusional time travel. Justified, as Makoto made himself forget he was having delusions through his Cure Syndrome.]]

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready - Due to {{Ever17}}, the [[spoiler:existence of Cure, which is carefully hidden until the last route of the game, is basically the only thing most know about the game.]]

A FanTranslation is currently [[http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Never_7 in progress]], the translation complete and the editing over 90% complete.

* {{Pettanko}}- Kurumi. Haruka as well, as Makoto notes.
** Haruka's case is often teased about in {{Fandom}}, and is made fun of in several Append Stories.

* WhamLine: The final line of the [[spoiler:Cure A Ending]], just before the credits start, [[spoiler:implying that perhaps everything is a delusion after all.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''The cards scattered on the floor... They're... completely blank...''']]

* PostDramaticStressDisorder- [[spoiler:Makoto in Haruka's Route, where, after running and biking around the entire island several times for ''five hours'' in a heavy rainstorm to search for Kurumi, finally faints after he gets Kurumi to the clinic to save Haruka's life.]]

A FanTranslation is currently [[http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Never_7 in progress]], the translation complete and the editing over 75% complete.

A FanTranslation is currently [[http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Never_7 in progress]], the translation complete and the editing over 50% complete.

A FanTranslation is currently [[http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Never_7 in progress]].

** The address of the lodge the characters stay in is 3-8-7.

* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop- Albeit a bit more orthodox than most of them.]]

* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]

* SecondLove- [[spoiler:Makoto becomes this to Yuka in her route.]]

* {{Expy}}- Haruka seems to be one for [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]].

** Izumi's alma mater is Sumisora Academy, the high school from the game.

* [[spoiler:{{Gaslighting}}- Subverted- while Izumi and Okuhiko had ''intended'' to do this to Makoto (by convincing him he was having premonitions), they never actually do it as Izumi realizes that Makoto is actually having real premonitions.
** However, if Izumi's theory is correct, then this was played straight in the first loop ever, where they did actually convince Makoto he was having premonitions. However, in a slight subversion, he believed something completely different than they had intended- rather than believing he had precognition, he believed he had time traveled once before.]]

* ABNegative - [[spoiler:When Haruka is hit by a car in her route, she needs a transfusion of B+. As it turns out, the only person with the same blood type is Kurumi, Haruka's original.]]

* PostDramaticStressDisorder- [[spoiler:Makoto in Haruka's Route, where, after running and biking around the entire island several times for ''five hours'' in searching for Kurumi, finally faints after he gets Kurumi to the clinic to save Haruka's life.]]