Line #32 VideoGame/KneeDeep


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Get Knee Deep in a Florida mystery.]]
3	[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/371300/ Knee Deep]] is a "swamp noir" murder mystery by [[http://www.prologuegames.com Prologue Games]] set in modern-day Florida, in a rundown tourist trap town called Cypress Knee. It's presented as a stage play inside a computer game. Players take on the roles of three main protagonists - a young blogger, a private investigator, and a down-on-his-luck print newspaper reporter - following up on the apparent suicide of a Hollywood has-been at Chief Roadside's Wonderland.
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5	!!Noir character tropes associated with Knee Deep:
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7	* AntiHero: The three main protagonists of Knee Deep - Romana Teague, K.C. Gaddis, and Jack Bellet - all tend to fall into this trope, not quite fitting in with their respective careers and tending to be self-interested without much regard for the greater good.
8	* CorruptBureaucrat: Eula Dean, town planner for Cypress Knee, isn't afraid to violate a few laws to bring an economic boom to Cypress Knee.
9	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Donovan Miller and, to a certain extent, Church of Us representative Gordon Cordray represent corporate entities with dubious agendas.
10	* CorruptPolitician: Gary Buckingham, chairman of the Cypress Knee town council, is up to his ears in illegal land schemes meant to fatten the town coffers at the expense of the environment.
11	* TheCynic: Jack Bellet and K.C. Gaddis take turns with this trope.
12	* DeadpanSnarker: Romana Teague's got the edge on snarky dialogue in Knee Deep.
13	* FemmeFatale: Tina Gray, ex-girlfriend-in-mourning of Hollywood star Tag Kern, tends toward this trope.
14	* HardboiledDetective: K.C. Gaddis fits this mold.
15	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jack Bellet has a tendency to be a belligerent jackass, but he's definitely got a soft spot for his son and a sensitivity for the value of print journalism.
16	* KnightInSourArmor: Jefferson Dean Gallant, former mayor of Cypress Knee who turned swamp hermit after a gator named Merle ate his infant son and drove his wife to leave him, is now railing against the big Golden Cypress development - but often finding deaf ears.
17	* MysteriousWoman: Dani Gibbons, a worker in the town planning office, promises useful information to reporter Jack Bellet in Act 2.
18	* PrivateDetective: Each of the protagonists, especially toward the end of Act 2, settle into this mode.
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20	!!Noir setting tropes found in Knee Deep:
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22	* AbandonedWarehouse: The Church of Us basement in downtown Cypress Knee in Act 2 fits this bill.
23	* SunshineNoir: The action in Act 1 all takes place in the neon wreckage of a forgotten tourist trap called Chief Roadside's Wonderland. In Act 2, the story transitions to a quaint little Florida downtown with a dark secret.
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25	!!Theatrical tropes found in Knee Deep:
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27	* AudienceMonologue: From time to time, the main characters break the fourth wall for monologues. Sometimes, these are personal musings. At other times, it's safe to assume they're making comments to interrogators.
28	* CrowdSong: In Act 2's opening scene, and in a few other spots, we see examples of this.
29	* GreekChorus: Toward the end of Act 1 and in several points in later acts, we see secondary and tertiary characters commenting on the actions of the main characters.
30	%%* OnlySoManyEquityMembers: The same character models are used for the performances of Rutledge and Doyle Silloway, twin brothers in Cypress Knee.

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