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[[Guide Dang It|Oh, and did we mention there's no way to know which ending you'll get till you get it?]]
 
The game was followed in 2009 by a sequel, ''[[Oddly -Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Another Code R: A Journey Into Lost Memories]]'' for the Wii. The sequel takes place 2 years later, as Ashley is called to the Lake Juliet campsite for a camping trip with her dad, only to find there are still a few issues to be dealt with with regards to her past, including a new device that looks like the controller to a [[Wii|hit video game console]]. Sadly, it turned out to be a [[No Export for You]] moment for Americans, as the game didn't perform particularly well in Japan or Europe and received only moderately positive reviews.
 
The ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'' series takes place in the same universe, twenty-five years before, but is not connected otherwise.
 
=== Provides examples of: ===
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* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Bill in the first game, Ryan Grey in the sequel.}}
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Rex saves Ashley and Richard from being shot by Ryan.}}
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: An admittedly mild example, but the Edwards' mansion features things like [[Songs in Thethe 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 pendent.}}
* [[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.}}
* [[By the Eyes of Thethe Blind]]: Being able to see ghosts apparently requires a certain level of mental clarity and perception.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]
* [[Call Back]]: Near the end of the sequel, the game starts using music from the first game. The final showdown with the villain is extremely reminiscent of the first game's climax as well, albeit with a happier ending.
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** But Matt's dad doesn't appear.
* [[Chest Insignia]]: Though not a superhero, D has a marking on his chest that ties in to how he died.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In ''Another Code R'', Ashley's bag has [[Hotel Dusk: Room 215|Pinkie Rabbit]] on it, and a series of photos on the wall of a house show various ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'' characters, as well as the captain from the first game.
** Ashley's bag also contains the shirt she wore and her teddy bear from the first game.
* [[Cute Ghost Girl|Cute Ghost Gir...Boy]]: D. A rare male example; he couldn't possibly be scary.
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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.}}
* [[Easter Egg]]: Plenty. If you get [[Hundred-Percent 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 (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]] Chronology".
* [[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.
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* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: One of the original intentions of the Trace/Another machine, as a means to remove traumatic memories.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: [[Double Subverted]]. The sequel dances around the first game's revelation of Sayoko's killer's identity for most of the game, only for it to be rather bluntly brought up again near the end.
* [[Late to Thethe Party]]
* [[Lock and Key Puzzle]]
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Elizabeth.
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** Elizabeth's mom in the second game.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Jessica, Ashley's aunt whom she stayed with. Ashley even says she's like a mom to her.
* [[Parents Asas People]]: Despite the heartwarming scenes at the end of the first game, Richard wasn't a good parent after he came back. Justified in that he didn't have much contact with people for ten years, was only a parent for three and still had a ton of issues left to sort out. Deep down, though, it's clear that Ashley is still the most important thing to him.
* [[Parents in Distress]]: Jessica and Richard in the first game, just Richard in the second.
* [[Parrot Exposition]]
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* [[Ship Tease]]: You can ''taste'' the tension. Especially {{spoiler|the conversation after Ashley's mom is revealed dead.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: In ''Another Code R'', Ashley can examine a stepladder in the boathouse. She then thinks to herself, [[Ace Attorney|"It's a ladder. No, wait, that's called a stepladder. What's the difference anyway?"]]
** A rather easy-to-miss example in ''Another Code R'': [[The Legend of Zelda (Videovideo Gamegame)|"It's dangerous to go alone."]]
* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: One particularly baffling case is when Ashley can't open a bottle with a message in it. You have to retrieve a hammer from another room and then use it to break the bottle. Can't she really smash a bottle any other way? How about throwing it against a wall or something?
* [[Songs in Thethe Key of Lock]]: One early area has you play the piano to open a secret passage, and later using a music box to open a fireplace passage.
* [[Sound Test]]: You can pick up a music player in the second game to use. Of course, you can only unlock all the tunes in a [[New Game+]].
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''Another Code R'' at times has more in common with ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'' than the first game.
* [[Story Breadcrumbs]]: You can find several hints about the history behind the Edwards family and Richard's life alone on the island.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Matthew for D in the second game. Just, you know, not a ghost.
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Grey.}}
* [[Time Skip]]: Two years pass between the first and second games.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Richard is a bit of a [[Everything's Better Withwith Chocolate|chocoholic.]] One of his office drawers is loaded with chocolate bars.
* [[Transferable Memory]]: Yup, the machine can do that too.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: Chapter 4 of the first game. You find out what happened to Ashley's mom, meet the last person on the island and find out what happened to Jessica all in short order.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Ashley has her mom's eyes, which Jessica says were quite beautiful.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Game designer Rika Suzuki once commented she would liked to have seen Ashley and Kyle Hyde from ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'' meet up, presumably in a crossover game. Sadly, with the company of both games having gone under, it will never be.
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Part of Richard's [[Parents Asas People]] problems between games.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Ryan Grey in Another Code R.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: The protagonist Ashley, of course.