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* [[Adventure Game]]

* [[The Bartender]]: Louis in ''Hotel Dusk'', Sidney in ''Last Window''.

* [[Book Ends]]: Both games begin and end with you opening the door to the building.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Bound to happen with the ability to observe any everyday item, in the words of Kyle, "It's tall, a lamp, and I'm king of the obvious."

* [[Chiaroscuro]]

* [[The Confidant]]: Kyle Hyde.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Almost all the characters in both games.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Compared to ''[[Another Code]]'' which this series is the [[Spiritual Successor]] to.

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]

* [[Film Noir]]: Though it's set in the late '70s/early '80s, so this would kind of be... neo-Noir?

* [[Game Over Man]]: Dunning and Margaret.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Both games have their moments, but especially in ''Hotel Dusk'' where it's easy to forget what you were doing and get stuck.

* [[It's a Wonderful Failure]]: Whenever you get a game over in either game, Kyle will flash back to the exact moment he screwed up, bar one or two exceptions, namely {{spoiler|dying in the basement}} in ''Hotel Dusk'' and {{spoiler|getting knocked out again on the fourth floor}} in ''Last Window''.

* [[Multiple Endings]]

* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: If you get even ''one'' question wrong in an interrogation segment (save for {{spoiler|one question involving Martin's signature}}), you're pretty much dead in the water. And the game doesn't tell you until you've asked every question. It's like ''[[Ace Attorney]]'''s Psyche-Lock sequences, only with no [[Life Meter]].

* [[Painting the Medium]]: Most puzzles do this.

* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Kyle goes into something like this during the recaps at the end of a chapter.

* [[Shout-Out]]: A lot of them to ''[[Another Code]]'', since they take place in the same universe.

** [[Pokémon|"I like suits. They're comfy and easy to wear."]]

** [[Scooby Doo|"Aw man! This is like that cartoon with the dog and the guy what's always hungry!"]]

** Could be a coincidence, but the plot has a lot of similarities to ''[[The Lost Room]]'', except without the [[Science Fiction]].

* [[Story to Gameplay Ratio]]: Being a [[Visual Novel]], this series leans heavily on the "story" side.

* [[The Syndicate]]: Nile and Condor.

* [[The Verse]]: The [[Continuity Nod]] with Rosa and her husband, who looks like the captain in ''[[Another Code]]'', led many to believe that the game took place in the same universe as ''[[Another Code]]''. [[Word of God]] later confirmed this.

* [[Visual Novel]]

 

=== ''Hotel Dusk'' contains examples of: ===

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Well, there's a lot of debate on Rosa's ethnicity.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Bradley's sister was murdered by Mila's father, who has been killed by Bradley in return. Bradley is being chased by Nile. Grace is still missing, and nobody has any idea how to find her. Alan is still missing, and nobody has any idea where he is. While at first this seems like a full-on [[Downer Ending]], the game still ends on a positive note with Kyle and Mila leaving to restart their lives, Jenny being returned to Dunning, and, quite simply, all the characters being ready to take on whatever else the world throws at them}}.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Louis - the poor guy just kind of gets bitchslapped by life, again and again.

* {{spoiler|[[Creepy Basement]]}}: The hotel has one.

* [[Cute Mute]]: Mila, {{spoiler|until the end}}.

* [[The Faceless]]: Ed's eyes are never shown.

* [[Glasses Pull]]: Martin does this {{spoiler|when his facade starts crumbling}}.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Good luck getting that secret item from the vending machine without using one.

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Each room in Hotel Dusk has a nickname. By extreme coincidence, each guest on the day that Kyle stays at the hotel is in the room with a name that describes the particular virtue he or she is lacking.

** Even the empty rooms have appropriately ironic names:

* [[I Should Write a Book About This]]: Martin decides to write a book based on Kyle at the end of the game. Kyle is less than enthusiastic about it.

* [[Jerkass]]: Kyle Hyde. Though he softens up a bit as he goes through the game. He's especially kind when talking to Helen Parker (because even he's not gonna be a jerk to an elderly woman) and Melissa (the poor kid has enough to deal with from her [[Jerkass]] father). Even when he's laying down some tough love on Jeff or shaking the truth out of Louie, it's ultimately for their own good (and obviously, his), and he knows it. He's not an asshole just for the sake of being one, he's more of a 'take your medicine dammit, you'll feel better, now stop whining!' guy.

** He's also kind to Mila, [[The Woobie|for obvious reasons]].

* [[Lost Forever]]: The vending machine's bonus gift. Particularly annoying because you only get one chance to get it and [[Guide Dang It|the game doesn't tell you when that chance is]].

* [[Metaphor Is My Middle Name]]: At one point in the game, Kyle claims that "moderation" is his middle name.

* [[Mukokuseki]]: Oddly inverted. Most of the younger female characters have distinctly Japanese-looking facial features despite the game taking place in America and there being nothing to indicate any of them have any Asian heritage.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Mila.

* [[New Game+]]: With some slightly different dialogue, a different prize in the vending machine and the chance to find a bonus item near the end that adds a scene to the ending.

** There are also several non-confrontation points in each chapter where if you lie to someone, pester them, perform the wrong action, or act like a general jerk/creep, Dunning will give you heat and boot you out of the hotel or Kyle will spend the rest of the night brooding in his room. Thankfully, each one can be side-stepped by picking a neutral or apologetic conversation branch or just doing what the NPCs tell you to do.

* [[Present Day Past]]: It's 1979, and Hyde has a digital pager. While early pagers were around in the late '70s, they were bulky, lacked digital displays, were very short-ranged, and generally weren't in use outside of hospitals and fire departments.

* [[Private Detective]]: Kyle Hyde, who even speaks like a hard-boiled 1940s private eye despite the fact that the game is set during the late '70s.

** Lampshaded by a few characters at different points in the story, who all call out Hyde on his out of date cop lingo ("Who talks like that anymore?"), generally as he gets ready to interrogate them.

* [[Running Gag]]: "Nice name, isn't it?"

* [[Set Piece Puzzle]]: The game is full of these.

* [[Sitting on the Roof]]: Iris and Mila, at different points.

* [[Sound Test]]: The jukebox in the bar.

** Or the bottle of bourbon.

*** Later, Louis invites you to a quick bowling match and if you lose or give up, you have to keep trying again until you win. It makes a little more sense since it leads to you finding an item.

* [[The Stinger]]: Finish the game without getting anyone angry on a [[New Game+]], and you get an extra ending scene providing closure for two of the characters.

* [[Wasted Song]]: A few songs get played only once or twice, and the ending songs can't be heard on the jukebox unless you start a [[New Game+]].

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: After eating dinner, Kyle makes a dramatic face that makes it clear that that was the ''best steak ever''. And then he does it ''again'' after dessert.

** And [[Rule of Three|once more]], when he sips a bourbon at the bar.

** Done ''[[Running Gag|again]]'' in ''Last Window'' whenever he dines at Lucky's Cafè. The way he sits and his expression make him look like he's reached nirvana.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Mila, possibly. At moments when coloring is added to the portraits, her hair has a light brown cast. The rest of the time, however, it appears white.

* [[Woman in White]]: Mila.

* [[You ALL Share My Story]]: Everyone in the hotel is related to Kyle's past in some way.

{{quote|'''Kyle:''' It was the other Kyle Hyde. Wasn't it?

'''Dunning:''' Hey! Who told ya that?

 

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