Another Code: Two Memories: Difference between revisions

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* [[Adaptation Name Change]]: Downplayed. {{spoiler|Ryan's surname goes from Gray to Fitzgerald in the remake.}}

* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Gray (now Ryan Fitzgerald)}} in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.

* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Two cases in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.

** While already a piece of work in the original, {{spoiler|Bill Edward}} is made even worse in the remake due to his main motivation being money (though {{spoiler|his unrequited love for Sayoko}} and {{spoiler|connections to the Edward family}} are briefly alluded) and {{spoiler|him murdering Sayoko on his own volition rather than being manipulated by [[Big Bad|Ryan]] (who didn't take it well).}}

** While still a [[Tragic Villain|tragic]] [[Anti-Villain]], {{spoiler|Judd Fitzgerald}} is made more unpleasant in the remake, as seen in flashbacks.

* [[Adult Fear]]: A lot of family ones. Secrets about your parents, abandonment issues, rejection by your family, loss of family members and something happening to them and either not knowing or being forced to sacrifice for it.

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Why else is the teenager girl the one running around and solving everyone's personal problems?

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* [[Already Undone for You]]: Despite Richard living on the island and knowing you were coming, you still have to solve all the puzzles to get to him.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: D has been stuck haunting Blood Edward Island for ''57 years'' by the time Ashley meets him. [[Fridge Horror|He apparently has had nothing better to do over the years than to count the days after he died]], which makes sense when you realize that he remembers ''nothing'' about his past and practically no one visits the island anymore (and even then most people can't see him anyway). {{spoiler|And if you fail to get the good ending, he will be stuck haunting the island ''forever''}}.

* [[Anti-Villain]]:

* ~~[[Anti-Villain]]:~~ {{spoiler|Ryan Gray/Fitzgerald}} in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' is this, [[Adaptational Heroism|a far cry from his original counterpart]].

** {{spoiler|Ryan Gray/Fitzgerald}} in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' is this, [[Adaptational Heroism|a far cry from his original counterpart]].

** The [[Bigger Bad|Greater-Scope Villain]], {{spoiler|Ryan's father Judd Fitzgerald}} is also this, as his morally bankrupt actions were all done for the sake of {{spoiler|his son}}.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Sayoko Robbins has a lot more relevance in the sequel and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', even though she's dead at that point.

* [[Back Tracking]]: CONSTANTLY.

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* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: An admittedly mild example, but the Edwards' mansion features things like [[Songs in the Key of Lock|hidden doorways that respond to certain sounds]] and a wall that opens up when the candles on it have been lit the right way. Rather impressive when you consider that these things were already there by the early 20th century.

* [[Brain Uploading]]: {{spoiler|A large chunk of Sayoko's memories are stored in Ashley's pendant}}.

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: While Ashley has shades of this, Elizabeth is a full-blown one. Both cases are [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]], as said behavior is due to genuine familial issues, and they get better with time.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Ashley is half-Japanese on her mother's side. Her other half is either American or British, depending on which version you're playing.

* [[But Thou Must!]]: During all the sequences where Ashley repeats the plot points so she can remember later, if you choose the wrong option, she chides herself for misremembering, then goes back to try again. Especially obvious in {{spoiler|the last conversation, where Bill asks you to remember the face of the killer}}.

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* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Two reasons, actually. {{spoiler|He wanted to finish Trace/Another in Sayoko's memory and also to use it to determine if he'd killed her or not}}.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Kelly for Matt, though he didn't know of her death until he met her ghost}}.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Elizabeth.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Jessica. Her role in the first game wasn't huge, but it did help advance the plot. In the second game, she's only seen in the beginning and in a single phone call. ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' has her showing up more often.

* [[Dialogue Tree]]: Revealed beforehand when the [[Rainbow Speak]] shows up.

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* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Grey, after Richard refuses to kill him. [[Save the Villain|Richard ends up saving his ass]]}}.

** {{spoiler|Henry after killing Thomas and indirectly causing Daniel's death}}.

** Speculated by Greg Davis in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' in regards to {{spoiler|Judd Fitzgerald}}.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Though they have their [[Bittersweet Ending|bitter]] parts, this is present in all the games, particularly in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.

* [[Easter Egg]]: Plenty. If you get [[100% Completion]] and restart on that same save, there are a lot of differences. Also, a book on one bookshelf is entitled "[[The Legend of Zelda]] Chronology".

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* [[Fake Memories]]: The titular device can implant these. {{spoiler|It's a set of these that cause Richard to think he might have killed his wife}}.

* [[Fifteen Puzzle]]: It's randomized each time too.

* [[First-Person Snapshooter]]: The DTS has a camera function, used for puzzle solving and sometimes unlocking extra conversation options.

* [[First-Person Snapshooter]]: The DTS/RAS/TAS has a camera function, used for puzzle solving and sometimes unlocking extra conversation options.

* [[Flashback Cut]]: You can expect to see at least one or two of these per chapter, usually in [[Monochrome Past]] style.

* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: Ashley recalls the night of her third birthday this way.

* [[For Science!]]: Several JC Valley members.

* [[For Science!]]: Several J.C. Valley members, though they're not as amoral as other examples (save for [[Gold Digger|Sofia]]).

* [[For the Money]]: Thomas' reason for {{spoiler|attempting to murder his brother was to get his hands on their grandfather's inheritance}}. It is actually a subversion, as he needed the money {{spoiler|to pay for his son's medical bills}}.

* [[For the Money]]: Thomas' reason for {{spoiler|attempting to murder his brother was to get his hands on their grandfather's inheritance}}. It is actually a subversion, as he needed the money {{spoiler|to pay for his son's medical bills}}. [[Big Bad|Bill]] and [[Gold Digger|Sofia]] play this straight.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Ryan's past childhood experience for his actions? {{spoiler|Having his childhood memories wiped clean due to his trauma of losing his mother, which affected his emotion growth and turned him into a [[The Sociopath|sociopath]].}}

** ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' ~~makes~~ him ~~have~~ a wildly different one: {{spoiler|Instead of becoming emotionless, Ryan died from his experience with the ANOTHER prototype after his father tried to get him to recover from his mother's death. The Ryan Ashley has been interacting with was a [[Living Memory]] born from the original Ryan's memories.}}

** ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' gives him a wildly different one: {{spoiler|Instead of becoming emotionless, Ryan died from his experience with the ANOTHER prototype after his father tried to get him to recover from his mother's death. The Ryan Ashley has been interacting with was a [[Living Memory]] born from the original Ryan's memories.}}

** Elizabeth's [[Rich Bitch|behavior]] at the start of the sequel stems from her mother abandoning her when she was twelve and her father keeping secrets from her, which only gets worse with his engagement with [[Gold Digger|Sofia]].

* [[Genetic Memory]]: {{spoiler|Ryan tries this on Ashley near the finale of the second game and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', though for different reasons}}.

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* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Gray/Fitzgerald}} in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', after learning {{spoiler|Sayoko refused to be brought back if that meant sacrificing her own daughter.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Sayoko Robbins. {{spoiler|Both her real and memory self in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.}}

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Played straight with Rex Alfred regarding Sofia, yet inverted by his daughter Elizabeth, as Ashley states in her and Sofia's confrontation.

* [[Hot Mom]]/[[Hot Dad]]

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Naturally. Usually justified in that the stuff she carries is of reasonable size, but it does make for an odd moment in the second game when she pulls Ryan's suitcase out of nowhere to return it to him.

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** D is pretty much the same way.

** Sayoko Robbins was similar to Ashley not just in appearance, but in personality as well. {{spoiler|Especially evident in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', as she was the only one who bothered to understand [[Living Memory|Ryan]] when no one else did.}}

** In contrast to his [[Faux Affably Evil|original counterpart]], Ryan Gray in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' is this, being polite and empathetic to Ashley. {{spoiler|While he's the [[Big Bad|main antagonist]], [[Affably Evil|his niceness wasn't an act]] (at least to Ashley), and [[Redemption Equals Death|reconciles with Ashley]] [[Heel Realization|after realizing the error of his ways]].}}

* [[Noble Top Enforcer]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''. Both the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Ryan Gray/Fitzgerald}} and the [[Bigger Bad|Greater-Scope Villain]] {{spoiler|Judd Fitzgerald}} are [[Anti-Villain|Anti-Villains]] with [[Tragic Villain|tragic motives for their questionable actions]], in contrast to the [[Big Bad]]'s [[The Dragon|minions]] {{spoiler|Bill Edward and Sofia Callaghan}}, who do despicable things just for [[For the Money|money]] and [[Hate Sink|have no redeeming qualities whatsoever]].

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: A downplayed, but incredibly tragic version. {{spoiler|After witnessing his father's death at his uncle's hands, Daniel saw Henry as an [[Evil Uncle]] who wanted to kill him as well and ran away from him. In reality, Henry only murdered Thomas in self-defense and wanted to explain himself to Daniel and calm him down. [[Tear Jerker|It didn't end well]].}}

* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Grey}} in the Wii version.

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* [[Pop Quiz]]: One per chapter. Justified in that Ashley is trying to keep track of what all is going on and remember it.

* [[Puzzle Reset]]: Just press the "back" button!

* [[Race Lift]]: Both Ranger Dan and Janet go from Caucasian to African-American in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.

* [[Rainbow Speak]]: Key descriptive terms and conversation choices are given colored text.

* [[Revision]]: In the second game, Ashley and her dad show particular concern over Ashley's pendant, which she got from her mom on the night of her third birthday, even showing her getting it in a flashback, and supposedly never goes without it as a memento. Said pendant was never seen or mentioned in the first game or its flashbacks despite covering everything else that happened on that night.

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* [[Together in Death]]: In ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', {{spoiler|D finally passing on has him reuniting with his father in the afterlife.}}

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Richard is a bit of a [[Everything's Better with Chocolate|chocoholic.]] One of his office drawers is loaded with chocolate bars.

* [[Tragic Villain]]: {{spoiler|Ryan, though the reasons vary between the Wii game and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.}}

* [[Tragic Villain]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Gray/Fitzgerald}} and {{spoiler|Judd Fitzgerald}}, though the reasons vary between the Wii game and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.

* [[Transferable Memory]]: Yup, the machine can do that too.

* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Ashley after witnessing the events of her third birthday. Also {{spoiler|Matthew forgetting his sister's death.}}

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* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Ashley has her mom's eyes, which Jessica says were quite beautiful.

* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Part of [[Parents as People|Richard]]'s problems between games.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Ryan Grey in ''Another Code R''.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Ryan Grey in ''Another Code R'' and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: The protagonist Ashley, of course.

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: {{spoiler|Bill, Sofia and Ryan from the Wii version}}.