Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,385
edits
(Moved to Trivia) |
(added Category:Video Game) |
||
(3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 8:
{{tropelist}}
* [[Abandoned Area]]: The 4th floor.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The [[Show Within a Show|in-game novel]] adds snippets of dialogue
* [[Adventure Game]]
* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: {{spoiler|Do you still love your wife?}}▼
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The EU cover changes the time of day from dawn to midnight.
** This kinda leads to a [[Lost in Translation]] [[Mythology Gag]] since the Japanese subtitle is "Midnight Promise
** There's also the fact that while Kyle at one point goes for a walk outside early in the morning, he never does the same at night. What once depicted an actual scene from the game became just a bit of promotional art.
▲* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: {{spoiler|"Do you still love your wife?"}}
* [[The Bartender]]: Sidney Reagan, and a very friendly one at that.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:
* [[Book Ends]]:
** Also,
* [[Breather Episode]]: Chapter 7, in which {{spoiler|Kyle reunites with Mila, then later celebrates Christmas at Lucky's Cafe with fellow tenants
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Whenever making either a non-Game Over worthy choice or presenting evidence followed by a deduction.
* [[Call Back]]: Lots. Aside from the [[Book Ends]] example, there are also Kyle receiving an anonymous letter and having to find a stolen item,
▲* [[Breather Episode]]: Chapter 7, in which {{spoiler|Kyle reunites with Mila, then later celebrates Christmas at Lucky's Cafe with fellow tenants.}}
▲* [[Call Back]]: Lots. Aside from the [[Book Ends]] example, there are also Kyle receiving an anonymous letter and having to find a stolen item, {{spoiler|playing billiards (instead of bowling) with a friend, both of them getting attacked at the beginning of the last chapter and Kyle having to find a secret room. Some puzzles are also structured similarly to ones from ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'', like the one with the dual switches to cut the power off, which was done in reverse in the last game.}}
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Kyle again, as he can still comment on everyday items.
* [[Chiaroscuro]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]] : Kyle said this word to word to Sidney when he told what a real fans are.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Also a lot of them. Bradley is mentioned a lot in the in-game novel, for example.
**
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Kyle lives in the apartments in whic his father took [[One Last Job]].
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Defrosting Ice King]]: Kyle is still a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], but he has visibly softened up somewhat. This is probably because of what happened in ''Hotel Dusk'', and also the fact that the events of ''Last Window'' are much more personal for him.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]
* [[Dialogue Tree]]
*
* [[Event Flag]]: A particularly jarring one occurs when you have to identify someone on a set of pictures and to do that you must note a particular piece of jewelry on them. Your attention is brought to this piece of jewelry
* [[Expy]]: Tony has a lot in common with Louie from ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]''. Both are womanizing, long-haired slackers with [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|hearts of gold]] and {{spoiler|criminal records}}. Like Louie, Tony also looks up to Kyle.
* [[The Faceless]]: Ed again. Kyle's mother is also shown faceless during the scenes set in the present, but it's shown during flashbacks.
* [[Film Noir]]
* [[First-Person Smartass]]: Kyle.
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]:
* [[Foil]]: Will White is in many ways an antithesis of Kyle. Both are salesmen, but Will is much better at charming people (the official website describes him as a "gentlemanly smooth-talker"). Also, like Kyle, Will asks a lot of questions, he pries around in other people's private business and has {{spoiler|a dead parent}}.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: The [[Show Within a Show|in-game novel]] is basically an e-book that narrates the events that happened while you played the chapter, including your actions and the branches of the [[Dialogue Tree]] that you followed. However, there are points in the gameplay where you can choose two paths, and no matter which one you choose the novel only narrates one (you can, for example, bother Charles when you
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Quite a few puzzles, but most notably
** Some instant Game Overs are very difficult to avoid without knowing they're coming beforehand. Examples include
** The final puzzle is simply fiendish, even if you ''do'' cut open the relevant envelope.
* [[Have a Nice Death|Have A Nice Failure]]: Triggering a [[Game Over]] scene will set off [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSs5OBlw7V0 this music].
** [[Mood Whiplash]]/[[It's a Wonderful Failure]]: ...and as you move to the Game Over screen itself, you get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeM8ficD95E this music].
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Toned down since ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'', but still present.
* [[Lost Forever]]: The vending machine prize (but this time you have multiple occasions to get it and you're even required to try once) and the one you get by not opening the secret files in the novel (again, you're told you'll get something if you don't).
* [[The Messiah]]: Kyle, [[Up to Eleven|even moreso this time]]
* [[Mineral MacGuffin]]: The Scarlet Star.
* [[The Mole]]:
* [[Multiple Endings]]
** What? Unless you count game overs as endings...
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|Frank}} holds himself accountable for the death of {{spoiler|Kyle's dad}}.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Notably in Chapter 10. {{spoiler|If you go to Frank's room and accuse him of spraying you on the 4th floor in Chapter 9, no matter what you do after that point, you will eventually head back to Room 406 only to be sprayed again, resulting in a [[Game Over]]. You're actually supposed to go to Margaret's room and accuse her instead, but the game in the previous chapter leads you to [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|believe that it's Frank who's up to no good]]
* [[Show Within a Show|Novel Within A (Visual) Novel]]: The in-game ''Last Window'' novel, written by Martin Summer from ''Hotel Dusk''.
* [[One Last Job]]: {{spoiler|Chris Hyde was going to turn straight after one last diamond theft, but unfortunately, he was killed
* [[Ship Tease]]
**
* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[Pokémon|I like suits. They're comfy and easy to wear.]]"
** You can unlock a ''[[Game and Watch]]''-like minigame with [[Show Within a Show|Pinkie Rabbit]] as the main character. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]?
** To ''Another Code R'': next to Mrs. Patrice's apartment is a painting of Lake Juliet, Kyle likes (and can buy) Cool Pop and Betty's favorite clothes brand is the same as Elizabeth's.
* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: Subverted. Solving the Lucky's Café crosswords puzzle
* [[The Syndicate]]: Condor and Nile.
* [[Visual Novel]]
Line 70:
[[Category:Nintendo DS]]
[[Category:Nintendo]]
[[Category:Video Games of the 2010s]]
[[Category:Video Game]]
|