Culpa Innata

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It's the year 2047 and some fifteen years following the Great Economic War. Most of the countries of Western Europe and North America have joined to form the World Union and society is at its most perfect. Sex is entertainment, children are viewed as investments raised in institutions (called Child Development Centres) by teachers, disease and crime have been eliminated and greed is good.

You play Phoenix Wallis, a Peace Officer (read cop) in Adrianopolis, a city on the bordering Russia in the World Union. Captain Dagmar Morrison has assigned Phoenix and another Peace Officer named Julio Roderigez to investigate the murder Vassyly Bogdanov, a crime that has not occured for fifteen years. While investgating this Phoeniz comes across some rather strange clues involving butterflies that leads to an Elaborate Underground Base where a supposed La Résistance known as the renovators is run by an Omniscient Council of Vagueness.

The political and economic system of the World Union is based on Objectivism and Brave New World.

Culpa Innata was made by the Turkish company Momentum AS in 2007 and is more like a Visual Novel than an Adventure Game. A sequel has been made, and was supposed to be released in 2008, but the financial crisis meant that the publisher didn't pay Momentum AS for the game. In 2013, the developer cancelled the sequel, changing it for a book concept.

Tropes used in Culpa Innata include:

• All Men Are Perverts - One of the few aversions. Bogdanov's willingness to have sex with Anything That Moves is actually seen as strange by most of the characters.
• All There in the Manual - The website.
• All Women Are Lustful - Morrisen says at one point that it is women who sexually harass men.
• All Women Love Shoes
• Anti-Villain - Is Supreme Commander Mr. Hamilton one of these?
• As You Know - There are a lot of these to explain the history of the world the game is set in and the social philosophies.
• Bare Your Midriff - Phoenix's Peace Officer uniform.
• Broken Bird
• Butterfly of Transformation: The revolutionary group loves this trope and its symbolism.
• Casanova Wannabe - Pierre DeVille, Bogdanov could be seen as this as well.
• Catapult Nightmare - Three times. First time when Phoenix was remembering her time on the streets, second was after she discovers the Renovators control room in the tunnels and the third time was when she escaped from the crashing elevator in the mining camp that she was transported to by the Renovators.
• Comm Links - The Personal Assistant or PA, which is a video phone, a diary, a scanner and a map, there's also the hint that Big Brother Is Watching. The PA is also where you save the game.
• Cutscene - So many!
• Da Chief - Dagmar Morrisen
• Dark and Troubled Past - Phoenix's parents were killed in riots during the Great Economic War, she has to survive on the streets until after the Union Army arrived to save the city from rebels when she was found by Amnesty International.
• Death by Sex
• Dirty Old Man - Bogdanov is said to be this, Michalov is this to Phoenix
• The Ditz - Alicia/Aleethia from The Thing Store
• Doesn't Like Guns - Not just Phoenix but (with the exception of the armed forces) the World Union in general. No Peace Officers carry a gun and Phoenix is disgusted with Pierre DeVille's gun collection.
• The End of the World as We Know It - Shown in the Fake-Out Opening.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism
• Erotic Dream
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex - Women in the World Union are expected to have multiple partners and (at least according to Sandra) it's fashionable to be promiscuous. Phoenix is seen to be rather prudish and old-fashioned as she says she wants to be with the right man.
• Everybody Remembers the Stripper - Close cross between Phoenix's clubbing outfit and Mata Hari.
• Fake-Out Opening - The game begins with children listening to a lecture in a starry room, it's not until later you find out that these people are actually the Renovators and are in hiding.
• Free-Love Future
• Gossipy Hens - Phoenix and Sandra, it's pretty much all Sandra does.
• Kiss Me I Am Virtual - What Bogdanov's device can do.
• Hannibal Lecture - Dr Patel gives one of these if you follow the right dialogue options to fail his security interview, and Phoenix follows this up with a great Shut UP, Hannibal.
• Hairpin Lockpick - Phoenix saw it once in an old age 2D movie.
• Linked-List Clue Methodology
• MacGyvering - A lot of the puzzles Phoenix solves are done by this, there's even a Shout-Out.
• The Mafiya
• Meaningful Name - Subverted. Phoenix is aware that her name is a city in the US and a mythical bird but doesn't know what they mean. She is also told later about the constellation that shares her name.
• NGO Superpower - NGOs were responsible for getting rid of the UN and all Union citizens have to belong to one.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness
• Or Was It a Dream?
• Parental Abandonment - This is implied to happen to all children as while children are concieved in the normal way
• Perp Sweating - Phoenix does this when she interviews the novices before they can become World Union citizens. The trick is, unless you are calm in the interrogation room you are unlikely to pass due to the whole Union stoicism thing.
• Power Tattoo - The forehead tattoo of the Arrivee.
• Professional Butt-Kisser - Julio Roderigez
• Pyramid Power
• Red Herring - Pierre DeVille
• Sequel Hook
• Stripperiffic - Phoenix's nightclub outfit.
• Twenty Minutes Into the Future
• Vaporware - As of 2010 there has been no word of a release yet.
• You Need to Get Laid - This is Sandra's constant advice to Phoenix.