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** Clarice Stoker appears to have a lot of personal problems as she heard from many people she wasn't cut out for physics. She's also thrust into an active conflict for which she has no training, and [[spoiler:is painfully being infected from her encounter with the vampires early in the game. And unfortunately, she gets no happy ending.]]

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** Clarice Stoker Stokes appears to have a lot of personal problems as she heard from many people she wasn't cut out for physics. She's also thrust into an active conflict for which she has no training, and [[spoiler:is painfully being infected from her encounter with the vampires early in the game. And unfortunately, she gets no happy ending.]]
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Salim haters do exist! We don't like how one-dimensional he is (two related tropes listed)


* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, and essentially the best protagonist in ''all'' of the anthology so far, you'd be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You'd have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.

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* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, and essentially the best protagonist in ''all'' of the anthology so far, you'd be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You'd have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.all''', except for those who take issue with him being written as a StaticCharacter and near-FlawlessToken.

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** Nick. He’s either a likable character because of his CowardlyLion and OnlySaneMan traits, as well as being visibly brave during the heat of combat, or a whiny {{Manchild}} who has insanely SkewedPriorities and believes he’s entitled to Rachel despite having only known her for 3 weeks.

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** Nick. He’s He's either a likable character because of his CowardlyLion and OnlySaneMan traits, as well as being visibly brave during the heat of combat, or a whiny {{Manchild}} who has insanely SkewedPriorities and believes he’s he's entitled to Rachel despite having only known her for 3 weeks.



** The [[spoiler:showdown in the sacrificial chamber, where the main cast faces several vampires at once. Even '''Dar''' gets in on the action, and has some pretty awesome moments with Salim. Several major events, such as Salim and Nick possibly being injured, Dar’s death, the reveal of The Ancient One, Rachel’s potential infection, and Eric’s determinant death, all take place here]].

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** The [[spoiler:showdown in the sacrificial chamber, where the main cast faces several vampires at once. Even '''Dar''' gets in on the action, and has some pretty awesome moments with Salim. Several major events, such as Salim and Nick possibly being injured, Dar’s Dar's death, the reveal of The Ancient One, Rachel’s Rachel's potential infection, and Eric’s Eric's determinant death, all take place here]].



* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} as it's not ''necessarily'' taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.[[note]]Notably though, the inversion of this doesn't usually extend to Clarice, whose light ShipTease with Jason was generally well received other than by [[DieForOurShip Jason/Salim shippers]].[[/note]]
* MemeticBadass: Salim became one to the fans because of how he's willing to go through these vampires with nothing but a steel beam to the heart, to the point that fans like to call him "Vampire Slayer".
* PlayerPunch: Two for the price of one! [[spoiler: Saving Merwin just delays the inevitable, as immediately after he fixes the radio, he is [[BoomHeadshot domed]] by Dar. Him fixing the radio also gets the rescue team to arrive right after fending off the vampires in the climax, so if Salim is still alive, he becomes a POW.]]

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* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} {{Downplayed|Trope}} as it's not ''necessarily'' taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.[[note]]Notably though, the inversion of this doesn't usually extend to Clarice, whose light ShipTease with Jason was generally well received other than by [[DieForOurShip Jason/Salim shippers]].[[/note]]
* MemeticBadass: Salim became one to the fans because of how he's willing to go through these vampires with nothing but a steel beam to the heart, to the point that fans like to call him "Vampire Slayer".
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* PlayerPunch: Two for the price of one! [[spoiler: Saving [[spoiler:Saving Merwin just delays the inevitable, as immediately after he fixes the radio, he is [[BoomHeadshot domed]] by Dar. Him fixing the radio also gets the rescue team to arrive right after fending off the vampires in the climax, so if Salim is still alive, he becomes a POW.]]



* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, and essentially the best protagonist in ''all'' of the anthology so far, you’d be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You’d have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.
* SalvagedStory: After the divisive twist to ''Man of Medan'' where [[spoiler:the supernatural threats were hallucinations]], and the reviled twist to ''Little Hope'' where [[spoiler:the ''entire game'' was in the bus driver's head]], this game prominently features dangerous monsters that [[spoiler:objectively exist]]; instead, the twist boils down to [[spoiler:what ''kind'' of monsters they are, namely that the "vampires" are actually infected with alien parasites]]. The fans were very pleased with this, especially after the notoriously panned ending of ''Little Hope''.
* StockFootageFailure: If Jason and Eric [[spoiler: are the only ones to make it to the surface for the fight scene in the hut, and The Ancient One is still alive, the fight scene itself is very glitchy. The most glaring glitch, however, is Salim coming BackFromTheDead with Jason ''changing to Salim'' if the player fails the QTE’s. Even more baffling, the animations in general seem to be pretty awkward if there are only two survivors and The Ancient One kills one off]].

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* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, and essentially the best protagonist in ''all'' of the anthology so far, you’d be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You’d You'd have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.
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* SalvagedStory: After the divisive twist to ''Man of Medan'' where [[spoiler:the supernatural threats were hallucinations]], and the reviled twist to ''Little Hope'' where [[spoiler:the ''entire game'' was in the bus driver's head]], this game prominently features dangerous monsters that [[spoiler:objectively exist]]; instead, the twist boils down to [[spoiler:what ''kind'' of monsters they are, namely that the "vampires" are actually infected with alien parasites]]. The fans were very pleased with this, especially after the notoriously panned ending of ''Little Hope''.
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* StockFootageFailure: If Jason and Eric [[spoiler: are [[spoiler:are the only ones to make it to the surface for the fight scene in the hut, and The Ancient One is still alive, the fight scene itself is very glitchy. The most glaring glitch, however, is Salim coming BackFromTheDead with Jason ''changing to Salim'' if the player fails the QTE’s. Even more baffling, the animations in general seem to be pretty awkward if there are only two survivors and The Ancient One kills one off]].



** Clarice Stoker appears to have a lot of personal problems as she heard from many people she wasn't cut out for physics. She's also thrust into an active conflict for which she has no training, and [[spoiler:is painfully being infected from her encounter with the vampires early in the game. And unfortunately, she gets no happy ending.]]

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** Clarice Stoker appears to have a lot of personal problems as she heard from many people she wasn't cut out for physics. She's also thrust into an active conflict for which she has no training, and [[spoiler:is painfully being infected from her encounter with the vampires early in the game. And unfortunately, she gets no happy ending.]]]]
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* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, you’d be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You’d have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.

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* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, and essentially the best protagonist in ''all'' of the anthology so far, you’d be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You’d have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.
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* PlayerPunch: Two for the price of one! [[spoiler: Saving Merwin just delays the inevitable, as immediately after he fixes the radio, he is [[BoomHeadshot domed]] by Dar. Him fixing the radio also get the rescue team to arrive right after fending off the vampires in the climax, so if Salim is still alive, he becomes a POW.]]

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* PlayerPunch: Two for the price of one! [[spoiler: Saving Merwin just delays the inevitable, as immediately after he fixes the radio, he is [[BoomHeadshot domed]] by Dar. Him fixing the radio also get gets the rescue team to arrive right after fending off the vampires in the climax, so if Salim is still alive, he becomes a POW.]]
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* PlayerPunch: Two for the price of one! [[spoiler: Saving Merwin just delays the inevitable, as immediately after he fixes the radio, he is [[BoomHeadshot domed]] by Dar. Him fixing the radio also get the rescue team to arrive right after fending off the vampires in the climax, so if Salim is still alive, he becomes a POW.]]

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** Rescuing Salim from the vampires: Serving as the culmination of Jason's CharacterDevelopment, and plenty of action against the creatures and The Ancient One.

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** Rescuing The level immediately prior to that sees Rachel [[spoiler:going OneManArmy on a swarm of vampires with an M1917, a crew operated machine gun, to buy everyone else time to retreat to the sacrificial chamber.]]
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Salim from the vampires: Serving as the culmination of Jason's CharacterDevelopment, and plenty of action against the creatures and The Ancient One.]]

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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Jalim for Jason and Salim.



* SalvagedStory: After the divisive twist to ''Man of Medan'' where [[spoiler:the supernatural threats were hallucinations]], and the reviled twist to ''Little Hope'' where [[spoiler:the ''entire game'' was in the bus driver's head]], this game prominently features dangerous monsters that [[spoiler:objectively exist]]; instead, the twist boils down to [[spoiler:what ''kind'' of monsters they are, namely that the "vampires" are actually infected with alien parasites]]. The fans were very pleased with this, especially after the notoriously panned ending of ''Little Hope''.



* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The game got a noticeably better reception from both critics and general audiences compared to the last two games in the series, likely due to the AuthorsSavingThrow mentioned in the trivia section.

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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The game got a noticeably better reception from both critics and general audiences compared to the last two games in the series, likely due to the AuthorsSavingThrow mentioned in the trivia section.series.
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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The game got a noticeably better reception from both critics and general audiences compared to the last two games in the series, likely due to the AuthorsSavingThrow mentioned above.

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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The game got a noticeably better reception from both critics and general audiences compared to the last two games in the series, likely due to the AuthorsSavingThrow mentioned above.in the trivia section.
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Authors Saving Throw is now trivia.


* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After the divisive twist to ''Man of Medan'' where [[spoiler:the supernatural threats were hallucinations]], and the reviled twist to ''Little Hope'' where [[spoiler:the ''entire game'' was in the bus driver's head]], this game prominently features dangerous monsters that [[spoiler:objectively exist]]; instead, the twist boils down to [[spoiler:what ''kind'' of monsters they are, namely that the "vampires" are actually infected with alien parasites]]. The fans were very pleased with this, especially after the notoriously panned ending of ''Little Hope''.
** The QTE’s in ''Medan'' were chastised by some for being too punishing, showing up quickly with zero warning. On the other hand, ''Hope''’s warned QTE’s -- while also being an AuthorsSavingThrow for some players -- were chastised by some for being too easy. This entry has a difficulty setting to satisfy players of both camps, with the option to either warn some types of QTE’s and not others, warn all types of QTE’s, or turn off warnings altogether.
** After ''Little Hope'' didn't manage to deliver on either the faster walking speeds or the end to fixed camera angles that were meant to be implemented based on feedback to both ''Until Dawn'' and ''Man of Medan'', both highly-anticipated improvements finally make their appearance here.
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* FanNickname: Salim the Vampire Slayer, due to Salim's well-noticeable kills with a large steel-beam and his sheer badassery overall.
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* MemeticBadass: Salim became one to the fans because of how he's willing to go through these vampires with nothing but a steel beam to the heart.

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* MemeticBadass: Salim became one to the fans because of how he's willing to go through these vampires with nothing but a steel beam to the heart.heart, to the point that fans like to call him "Vampire Slayer".
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YMMV tropes can't be played with, and Ho Yay is not for deliberate Ship Tease or Homoerotic Subtext.


** {{Invoked}} by Merwin and Joey, whose constant back-and-forth banter (particularly from Merwin's side) tends to lean heavily into deliberately homoerotic badinage when it's not just a stream of YourMom jokes.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Jason. Many fans find him to be a likable character, due to his rough, hardass personality, prowess in combat, and eventual CharacterDevelopment that allows him to form a friendship with Salim. Others see him as an obnoxious racist who CantTakeCriticism, is too HotBlooded to focus on survival, and believe his character arc wasn’t earned and came too little, too late.
** Nick. He’s either a likable character because of his CowardlyLion and OnlySaneMan traits, as well as being visibly brave during the heat of combat, or a whiny {{Manchild}} who has insanely SkewedPriorities and believes he’s entitled to Rachel despite having only known her for 3 weeks.
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** {{Invoked}} by Merwin and Joey, whose constant back-and-forth banter (particularly from Merwin's side) tends to lean heavily into deliberately homoerotic badinage when it's not just a stream of YourMom jokes.
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* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} as it's not ''necessarily'' taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.

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* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} as it's not ''necessarily'' taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.[[note]]Notably though, the inversion of this doesn't usually extend to Clarice, whose light ShipTease with Jason was generally well received other than by [[DieForOurShip Jason/Salim shippers]].[[/note]]
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* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} as it's not necessarily taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.

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* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} as it's not necessarily ''necessarily'' taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.
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* LesYay: {{Downplayed}} as it's not necessarily taken to be romantic in nature, but some players have commented that they at the very least thought there was more natural chemistry between Rachel and Clarice than between Rachel and either of her canonical male love interests.
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%%EDITOR'S NOTE: A Fan-Preferred Couple requires at least one of the characters in said ship to be in a canon relationship. So please do not re-add Jason or Salim without mentioning a canon one for either of them or visit the Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14860997890A40152400&page=1

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%%EDITOR'S NOTE: A Fan-Preferred Couple requires at least one of the characters in said ship to be in a canon relationship. So please do not re-add Jason or Salim Jason/Salim without mentioning a canon one for either of them or visit the Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14860997890A40152400&page=1
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%%EDITOR'S NOTE: A Fan-Preferred Couple requires at least one of the characters in said ship to be in a canon relationship. So do not readd Jason or Salim with out mentioning a canon one for either of them or visit the Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14860997890A40152400&page=1

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%%EDITOR'S NOTE: A Fan-Preferred Couple requires at least one of the characters in said ship to be in a canon relationship. So please do not readd re-add Jason or Salim with out without mentioning a canon one for either of them or visit the Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14860997890A40152400&page=1
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That is not what a Fan Preferred Couple is. It's for non-canon ships which are more popular than a character's canon ship not being more popular than a ship involving complete unrelated characters.


* FanPreferredCouple: Fair to say that a ''lot'' more fans have taken and run with the HoYay between Jason and Salim than have expressed any interest in how the Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle gets resolved, to the point that it's the most popular ship on [=AO3=].

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* FanPreferredCouple: Fair to say that a ''lot'' more fans have taken and run with %%EDITOR'S NOTE: A Fan-Preferred Couple requires at least one of the HoYay between characters in said ship to be in a canon relationship. So do not readd Jason and or Salim than have expressed any interest in how with out mentioning a canon one for either of them or visit the Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle gets resolved, to the point that it's the most popular ship on [=AO3=].Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14860997890A40152400&page=1
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went to ao3 to confirmt his.


* FanPreferredCouple: Fair to say a ''lot'' more fans have taken and run with the HoYay between Jason and Salim than have expressed any interest in how the Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle gets resolved.

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* FanPreferredCouple: Fair to say that a ''lot'' more fans have taken and run with the HoYay between Jason and Salim than have expressed any interest in how the Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle gets resolved.resolved, to the point that it's the most popular ship on [=AO3=].
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* StockFootageFailure: If Jason and Eric [[spoiler: are the only ones to make it to the surface for the fight scene in the hut, and The Ancient One is still alive, the fight scene itself is very glitchy. The most glaring glitch, however, is Salim coming BackFromTheDead with Jason ''changing to Salim'' if the player fails the QTE’s. Even more baffling, the animations in general seem to be pretty awkward if there are only two survivors and The Ancient One kills one off]].
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* RomanticPlotTumor: The Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle. It has an annoying habit of cropping up frequently, in piss poor times and tends to drag a tense game about escaping monsters to a grinding halt so the three can have arguments you'd expect in a bad LifetimeMovieoftheWeek.

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* RomanticPlotTumor: The Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle. It has an annoying habit of cropping up frequently, in piss poor times and tends to drag a tense game about escaping monsters to a grinding halt so the three can have arguments you'd expect in a bad LifetimeMovieoftheWeek.LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek.

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** The [[spoiler:showdown in the sacrificial chamber, where the main cast faces several vampires at once. Even '''Dar''' gets in on the action, and has some pretty awesome moments with Salim. Several major events, such as Salim and Nick possibly being injured, Dar’s death, the reveal of The Ancient One, Rachel’s potential infection, and Eric’s determinant death, all take place here]].



** The last level, where everyone alive gets a pitched frantic battle wielding knives and flares [[spoiler:as they wait out the eclipse once they make it to the surface]].
** The [[spoiler:showdown in the sacrificial chamber, where the main cast faces several vampires at once. Even '''Dar''' gets in on the action, and has some pretty awesome moments with Salim. Several major events, such as Salim and Nick possibly being injured, Dar’s death, the reveal of The Ancient One, Rachel’s potential infection, and Eric’s determinant death, all take place here]].

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** The last level, where everyone alive gets a pitched frantic battle wielding knives and flares [[spoiler:as they wait out the eclipse once they make it to the surface]].
** The [[spoiler:showdown in the sacrificial chamber, where the main cast faces several vampires at once. Even '''Dar''' gets in on the action, and has some pretty awesome moments
surface, including a possible battle with Salim. Several major events, such as Salim and Nick possibly being injured, Dar’s death, the reveal of The Ancient One, Rachel’s potential infection, and Eric’s determinant death, all take place here]].One]].



* RomanticPlotTumor: The Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle. It has an annoying habit of cropping up frequently, in piss poor times and tends to drag a tense game about escaping monsters to a grinding halt so the three can have arguments you'd expect in a bad Lifetime movie.

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* RomanticPlotTumor: The Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle. It has an annoying habit of cropping up frequently, in piss poor times and tends to drag a tense game about escaping monsters to a grinding halt so the three can have arguments you'd expect in a bad Lifetime movie.LifetimeMovieoftheWeek.
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* SacredCow: Salim, to an extreme extent. Due to his status as a MemeticBadass and being the most sympathetic of the protagonists in general, you’d be hard-pressed to find any fans who outright dislike him and get away with it. You’d have an even harder time trying to find anyone who dislikes him '''at all'''.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Fair to say a ''lot'' more fans have taken and run with the HoYay between Jason and Salim than have expressed any interest in how the Nick/Rachel/Eric LoveTriangle gets resolved.
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** Clarice Stoker appears to have a lot of personal problems as she heard from many people she wasn't cut out for physics. She's also thrust into an active conflict for which she has no training, and [[spoiler: is painfully being infected from her encounter with the creatures early in the game. And unfortunately, she gets no happy ending.]]

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** Clarice Stoker appears to have a lot of personal problems as she heard from many people she wasn't cut out for physics. She's also thrust into an active conflict for which she has no training, and [[spoiler: is [[spoiler:is painfully being infected from her encounter with the creatures vampires early in the game. And unfortunately, she gets no happy ending.]]

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