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{{quote|''When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.''|'''Thomas Hobbes''', summing up the setting of the game}}
'''''Critical Point''''' is one of the older visual novels to be translated by Peach Princess, having been first released [[The Nineties|
The year is 2037. Thanks to overpopulation and a chain of sudden food and energy crises, humanity was plunged into [[World War III]] and, being the [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves|violent bastards]] that we are, the population of Earth is reduced to about 15% of what it was. The situation stabilized, eventually, but the war was never officially declared over and each of the four major power blocs has settled into a new [[Cold War]], content to stare each other down. In addition to their sovereign holdings on Earth, the great powers have divvied up the Moon and each one maintains a base there to keep tabs on the others.
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Hint: [[Captain Obvious|sex ensues]].
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▲* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted by Elise {{spoiler|except when it's not. Bad. End.}} The trope was discussed very briefly during Ending No. 25. {{spoiler|Elise claims that it's the nature of the EL series to want to control humans, though it doesn't get any farther than that.}}
* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: The oh-so-cold Lai Wong.
* [[Berserk Button]]: For Leiji, any mention of androids triggers traumatic memories from his past. Normally he doesn't act on this but...
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* [[H-Game POV Character]]: Leiji is a Type II A/B (he has aspects of both).
* [[Hot Scoop]]: Monica.
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** Note that the main character says that it still rather stupid having only three guys in one base with a hundred women.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: It is somewhat rare for all the main characters to still be alive at the end of any given route.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Elise Triad, also known as EL-03.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The ending when {{spoiler|it turns out that Lai Wong is behind everything. Turns out all the crap that was happening? It has just her sneaking in aphrodisiacs into the food to use. This results in a comedy ending in an otherwise very serious game.}}
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Oh boy, are there ever! There are 3 basic plot lines (ie: who's the badguy), which are selected based on certain key choices you make in-game. The game has a total of 25 endings, including the bad ones. Some endings give different motives to the villain, some have the player just never finding out. And some get the player killed off in gruesome, spectacular ways.
* [[Porn with Plot]]: In this case, the porn is actually worked into the plot in a very sensible matter. In fact, without spoiling anything, the disproportionate female to men ratio is actually a plot point (and it is discussed by the protagonist and a few other characters in a serious context), the intense desire for sex felt by many of the soldiers on the base is also a plot point (played for drama, not porn, though the motivation for why this is so differs depending on ending), and the actual core of the plot is not for the sake of porn at all. {{spoiler|the actual plot involves trying to find out who is sabotaging the lunar base and why, then stopping them before they turn a period of detente into a war again in some of the endings.}}
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