• Complete Monster: Ryan Grey.
  • Ear Worm: The music, while quite good, repeats over and over and over and over...
  • Iron Woobie: Ashley. She goes through a lot of emotional trauma and just keeps at it.
  • Moe: Ashley, especially when she's feeling sad or happy.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Take your pick with Ryan. Was it manipulating Bill into killing Sayoko in the first place? Threatening to Mind Rape Richard if Ashley didn't cooperate with his plan, and then doing it anyway when he thought she was taking too long and making Ashley break down in tears? Trying to screw with her mind and make her choose between her own memories and her mom's to further his goals? Or how about when he decides to just shoot her when she doesn't play along after that?
  • Needs More Love: If it had gotten some more in the US, they might have gotten the sequel.
  • Player Punch: Non-lethal version in Another Code R: you're forced turn around manually for the first time in the game rather than just pressing a button and swiveling 90 degrees to see the ghost of Matt's sister, Kelly, after he tells you to look. And then you realize that Matt doesn't realize she's dead and thinks she's really standing there.
  • That One Puzzle: The puzzles aren't terribly difficult, but the 15 Puzzle is this by being the most annoying.
  • Toy Ship: Ashley is a day shy of 14, and D is somewhere near that. That doesn't stop them from being perfect for each other!