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'''''Binary Domain''''' is a squad-based third-person shooter for the Playstation3, Xbox360, and PC. It is the brain child of Toshihiro Nagoshi, also known as the creator of the love letter to violence and gangster drama (and [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Shenmue]]'') that is the ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'' series. It was developed under the newly formed Yakuza Studios, and published by [[Sega]].
The story takes place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the 2080s]]. In an era of advanced technology, robots are commonplace, so much so that a New Geneva Convention was signed regulating their creation and establishing limitations on the direction research and development towards their creation can take. However, after an incident involving a middle-aged man going berserk in a public area, it was discovered that a new type of robot had been released into society: "Hollow Children", androids that look like humans, act like humans, and most importantly, believe themselves to ''be'' human. Unfortunately, when they discover [[Tomato in
The gameplay is based around tactically directing your squad to overcome all obstacles that come your way. To this end the game sports what it calls the "Consequence System", in which anything you do and say to your squadmates will affect how much they trust you. On low levels of trust, they will act like a [[Commander Contrarian]] and just do whatever they want, but on high levels they will respond to your commands quickly and precisely, and grant you hints about enemy weakspots, hidden items, etc. The Consequence System will also affect the plot, as different squadmates will act differently during certain points of the story depending on their respective levels of trust. Commands can be issued either by pressing buttons or by using a headset.
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[[I Thought That Was|Not to be confused with]] the August Soft [[Visual Novel]] ''Binary Pot''.
The [[Binary Domain
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* [[Action Girl]]: Faye and especially Rachel. Faye does get kidnapped later, but there's a VERY good storyline explanation for it.
* [[After the End]]: By the 2080s, much of Earth has been victim to global flooding, which gave way to the development of robotic manual labor to rebuild the devastated cities.
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: {{spoiler|The Amada A.I. [[Hoist
* [[AKA-47]]: Most of the ingame weapons are expies of existing, present day weapons; as an example, Dan's assault rifle is modeled off the HK416 assault rifle.
* [[America Saves the Day]]: The main hero, Dan, is ''violently'' American. Surprising in that it's a Japanese-developed game, so you'd think the hero would have been Japanese... but Japan is pretty much the bad guy in the game. Go fig.
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{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Faye}}''': "This feels like life, Charlie. Who are you to say that it isn't?"}}
* [[Artificial Human]]: While Hollow Children are not [[Artificial Humans]] (being [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] instead), {{spoiler|their offspring, Hybrids, most certainly are. Their only difference to humanity is the accident of their conception}}.
* [[Asian Gal
{{quote| '''Dan''' ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}cLlqFQHeNyk&feature{{=}}channel_video_title when first seeing Faye]): ''File photo doesn't do her justice.''<br />
'''Bo''': ''She looks familiar, reminds me of an actress or someone.''<br />
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* [[City Noir]]: Lower Tokyo. Upper Tokyo, in contrast, is a [[Shining City]].
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Shinobi-Type robots have these to complement their more feminine look. They also happen to be ''both'' kinds of stilettos: high heels and sharp-as-hell blades.
* [[Consummate Professional]]: Charlie, Rachel and Faye start out as this, while Dan and Big Bo, in contrast, are [[Military Maverick|more laid back and contemptuous of authority]]. Rachel isn't a cold fish, though, she's just really good at [[Being Personal Isn't Professional|keeping her work and her feelings separate]], and Faye, well, she's the [[Love Interest
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Seriously, what are the odds that {{spoiler|out of only 108 individuals in the ENTIRE PLANET that are offspring of Hollow Children, one of them would join her country's military, rise up to special forces-level and be assigned to a multinational spec-ops team with the express purpose of arresting the creator of said Hollow Children}}? [[Discworld|A million to one?]]
** {{spoiler|Considering Hybrids are genetically superior to humans in every way, pretty good. Though the odds the team would consist of almost every race, gender, nationality and even a robot is pretty out there.}}
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* [[Cyberpunk]]: Surprisingly, an example of the classic flavor. Huge business conglomerates are crooked, shiny cities have been constructed on the crumbling remains of the previous ones after global climatic disasters, robots are at best treated as servants and at worse blown to bits without mercy, the lead characters are rebellious to authority, and the world's most advanced technology comes from a Japan that is isolated from the world at large. While [[Transhumanism]] isn't addressed (there are no cyborgs in the game), [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] most certainly is.
* [[Cyberpunk Is Techno]]: Oh yeah.
* [[Cyberpunk
* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Amada. He's actually [[Dead Person Impersonation|being impersonated]] by his "son", the Amada A.I.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: THE ENTIRE RUST CREW. Yes, even Cain. Apparently being a smartass is a requirement to be elite.
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* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: {{spoiler|Amada tried to create a self-aware A.I. He succeeded. He came to regret it}}.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Subverted in the scene where Mifune's men capture and [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] a Hollow Child. We don't see the {{spoiler|the moment one of the thugs shove a [[Eye Scream|lit cigarette into his eye]] nor is either of the ''two'' shots to the head required to kill him but the consequences are shown very explicitly.}}
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: {{spoiler|The Amada A.I. has no actual malice towards humanity in his actions (the only human he actually hated was Amada himself, [[Hoist
* [[Gun Accessories]]: Modeled on the ingame weapons, but with the exception of the Shock Burst, are cosmetic only and have no ingame effect.
* [[The Heart]]: Surprisingly enough, ''the protagonist'' is The Heart. Dan may be something of a [[jerkass]] sometimes, but he's the one member of the Rust Crew who will not budge on doing the right thing. This is especially prominent when {{spoiler|Faye is revealed as a Hybrid. Dan is the one member of the crew who will NOT abandon her.}}
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* [[Interspecies Romance]]: A... ''strange'' and difficult example to define perhaps, but {{spoiler|Dan and Faye. The climax of the game reveals Faye's mother was a Hollow Child. The Amada A.I. had given female models the ability to reproduce offspring with humans, and Faye was one of 108 separate births. The resulting hybrids, are practically indistinguishable from humans in every way, including on a biological and physical level. The main differences are that hybrids are immune to all disease, and have perfect physical and mental health from the moment they are born. Outside of that, there's essentially nothing that sets them apart from humans. The story ends with both Dan and Faye as fugitives, but otherwise together as a couple}}.
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Subverted. Japan is an isolationist state disconnected from the world at large, and a minor player in the world stage (the USA is the leading superpower, at least more than it already is). However {{spoiler|a specific Japanese company IS attempting world domination}}.
* [[Jerk
* [[Just a Machine]]: The way the world at large (and especially Rust Crews, since it's their job to blow them up) sees any artificial being. Hollow Children really push people's buttons the wrong way because of this. It's not that people might think they're sentient, it's that people think that they're programmed to believe they are, as a mockery of humanity. How much of that is actually true is open to speculation. {{spoiler|Hollow Children offspring, however, are quite sentient and, to a degree, quite human...}}
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Bergen. While he doesn't manage to acquire the Amada A.I., he ''does'' get away scot-free with having stolen Amada's research}}.
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* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: From time to time, mooks carrying shields appear. The shields are completely bulletproof, which means that flanking, grenades, or the Shock Burst are required to take them out relatively easily, though there's a gap under the shield which can be exploited with an accurate weapon [[Agony of the Feet|to blow the enemy's feet out from under them]].
* [[Mad Scientist]]: {{spoiler|Amada certainly was one before his death. It's even mentioned by Charlie that, when they get the Hollow Children program's data, the analysis of his technology reveals he was ''50 years'' ahead of his time. The Amada A.I. takes it further still}}.
* [[Mecha
* [[Mechanical Monster]]: The step up from a [[Mecha Mook]], and they get QUITE monstrous.
* [[Mega Corp]]: Bergen and Amada (the latter is not a big company, but the most technologically advanced entity on the planet and deeply in control of the Japanese government). {{spoiler|In fact, the entire plot was set into motion by Amada's grudge against Bergen for stealing his technology}}.
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* [[Multinational Team]]: The Rust Crew the game revolves around has six members from four different nations - the player character and his best bud are American, followed by two Brits, one Chinese... and a French robot.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: In the Resistance base, you can find Assault mech heads... being used as desk lamps.
* [[Named
* [[Nightmare Face]]: The result of a Hollow Child's [[Robotic Reveal]]. The floating eyeballs is probably the most disturbing feature.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Dan looks near-identical to [[Adam Sandler]], only buff.
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* [[Robot Maid]]: Most robots seen interacting with humans in a non-murderous way are this type. Robots with industrial applications are not usually humanoid.
* [[Robotic Reveal]]: Par for the course with Hollow Children, since they're indistinguishable from humans unless they get deep-tissue damage. Their skin and superficial tissue is actually organic, too, making the reveal... kinda gory.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Averted. Big Bo is, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Scavenger World]]: Many of the denizens of Lower Tokyo earn a living scavenging, especially robot parts and weapons left after a firefight. The resistance's weapons are pretty much all scavenged this way, but they compensate their second-hand nature with good craftsmanship. At the beginning of the game {{spoiler|we even see a man leading a group of ''[[Child Soldiers|battle-hardened children]]'' to scavenge what's left of a bunch of bots after the heroes get done with them}}.
* [[Scenery Porn]]/[[Scenery Gorn]]/[[Technology Porn]]: Upper Tokyo is truly a beautiful place... [[Destructive Saviour|until it starts getting wrecked to shit by the Rust Crew]]. As for technology, all the robots in this game are wonderfully detailed, lovingly animated and impressive to see in action... [[Running Gag|until they start getting wrecked to shit by the Rust Crew]].
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* [[Shooting It Out of Their Hands]]: You can do this by blowing an enemy's arm clean off (and they'll comically quickly scramble to grab the gun with their other arm). {{spoiler|You also do it to Faye when she holds a teammate at gunpoint.}}
* [[The Singularity]]: {{spoiler|Amada managed to create ''sentient, self-replicating, pseudo-organic life'' that can '''''become one with humanity'''''. When the heroes realize the extent of his success in doing this, they're flabbergasted.}}
* [[Skele
* [[Skyscraper City]]/[[Wretched Hive]]: The difference between Upper Tokyo and Lower Tokyo, respectively.
* [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: Upper Tokyo: very shiny. Lower Tokyo: very gritty.
* [[Spider Tank]]: The [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Not meant to be, since they're made by completely different companies with no story links at all, but many people have commented that the game's the closest thing to a contemporary ''[[Snatcher]]''.
* [[Starfish Robots]]: The more monstrous bosses in the game don't look like anything remotely humanoid.
* [[Subsystem Damage]]: All mooks in the game have targetable limbs, a la ''[[Dead Space (
* [[Surveillance Drone]]: The enemy uses quite a lot of them as security measures and to actively hunt down the protagonists.
* [[Telescoping Robot]]: Gloriously averted. Every single robot in the game has gadgets that fit into their external chassis logically or are obviously in view. The only possible exception is Cain's grappling hook, and that could be explained as some sort of compressed material or one that expands when in contact with air.
* [[Ten
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Towards the end of the first chase sequence, Kurosawa orders a roadblock to trap Rust Crew. Said roadblock consists of standard soldier robots, APCs... and a ''mobile artillery walker''.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: The game succeeds in evoking this feeling with most bosses the player ends up facing.
* [[Tomato in
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Following the usual convention of [[Two Girls to
** {{spoiler|In a sense, its justified, as Faye is [[The Reveal|a hybrid]], who are [[Fridge Brilliance|supposedly superior to normal humans]]. However, it doesn't justify [[Ms. Fanservice|her outfit]].}}
** The difference in uniform itself is easily justified: the Rust Crew is composed of soldiers from America, Great Britain, China, and France, and each nation issues a different uniform. Charlie and Rebecca have the same basic gear, as do Dan and Bo, while Faye is the only shown example for the Chinese uniform.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Averted; Japanese characters speak Japanese to themselves (i.e. Kurosawa & his partner), while the Japanese that interact with Rust Crew speak English in-universe.
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: {{spoiler|The Amada A.I.}} certainly did turn, but the Hollow Children don't even ''know'' humans are supposed to be their masters, on account of them believing themselves human as well, and they almost universally lash out at humans out of fear and confusion over their robotic nature, not out of rebellion.
* [[Unnecessarily Creepy Robot]]: Yes, the combat robots should look intimidating, but some of them are borderline [[Nightmare Fuel
* [[Urban Segregation]]: Quite the dramatic example in Tokyo. Upper Tokyo is a borderline utopic city: clean, efficient, economically powerful and technologically advanced. LOWER Tokyo is a shithole (literally: Upper Tokyo ''throws its sewage there'') of urban decay were people do anything in their power to survive, to the point there's an actual [[La Résistance|resistance movement]] dedicated to fighting the government for the right to lead a decent life.
* [[Vice City]]: Lower Tokyo. If it can get you arrested or killed, it's getting done there.
* [[What Happened to
* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: {{spoiler|In the stinger, Dan simply scares off the Rust Crew sent to kill Faye, after having easily dispatched their robots with a gatling gun. In fact, the only time the Rust Crew actually kills human foes is in the final confrontation with the Major. They might not think that Hybrids or Hollow Children are 'people,' but they certainly don't hold orders against the soldiers dispatched to carry them out.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Played with in myriad ways. The main characters gleefully cut a swath of destruction through thousands of robots, yet they have a robot in their team (Cain) and through the game come to trust him as a valued teammate. Also, Hollow Children truly believe themselves human, which makes some people hesitate to destroy them. {{spoiler|Hollow Children's offspring are an even more complicated matter entirely.}}
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