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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The [[Show Within a Show|in-game novel]] adds snippets of dialogue {{spoiler|and features an extended ending which ties up loose ends.}}.

** This kinda leads to a [[Lost in Translation]] [[Mythology Gag]] since the Japanese subtitle is "Midnight Promise.".

* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: {{spoiler|"Do you still love your wife?"}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Kyle finds out the truth about his father's death, but his pain remains. Cape West is demolished and Marie, Rex and Dylan are on the run from Nile, which is all but brought down. However, as in the last game, the story still ends on a positive note as Hugh Speck loses the elections and is soon to be exposed for his crimes by Frank, Sidney's family is back together, Tony is headed towards success once more and Kyle sends the Scarlet Star to a museum, leaving his past behind him. The extended epilogue reveals he's happy with his life after all.}}.

* [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|[[Call Back|As in the first game,]], the player's first and final act is to open the door to Cape West Apartments.}}.

** Also, {{spoiler|just prior to the start of any actual game play, Kyle is seen falling asleep in his car. The extended epilogue ends with him falling asleep in his car, too.}}.

* [[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.}}.

** {{spoiler|Mila shows up in Chapter 7 and Kyle recalls her story.}}.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: {{spoiler|Almost everyone, with Mrs. Patrice and Marie taking the cake.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Bookcase Passage|Elevator Passage]]: [[Guide Dang It|A really elaborated one.]]}}.

* [[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 {{spoiler|(a necklace)}} in a conversation with its owner, but you can't identify the person in the pictures until you answer your pager (that beeps just as you finish that conversation), even though the conversation that takes place when you answer the pager has no relation to the jewelry nor the photos.

* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: {{spoiler|How Marie fell in love with her late husband.}}.

* [[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 {{spoiler|have to sell stuff to your neighbors}}, but the novel skips to the two people that are mandatory to advance the plot). There is also dialogue that never happens during the gameplay but is described in the novel (for example, Claire commenting on {{spoiler|your high score on the Pinkie Rabbit game on Christmas Eve}}).

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Quite a few puzzles, but most notably {{spoiler|getting the Condor Key and finding the secret room.}}.

** Some instant Game Overs are very difficult to avoid without knowing they're coming beforehand. Examples include {{spoiler|ignoring Tony in order to avoid giving him the money for the rent and stopping rewinding Frank's tape before it breaks. The latter is hinted at in a secret file, but the game itself discourages opening them, since it prevents [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].}}.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Toned down since ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'', but still present.

* [[The Messiah]]: Kyle, [[Up to Eleven|even moreso this time]] {{spoiler|where he actually saves at least one life.}}.

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Dylan Fitcher}}.

* [[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]].}}.

* [[One Last Job]]: {{spoiler|Chris Hyde was going to turn straight after one last diamond theft, but unfortunately, he was killed.}}.

* [[Ship Tease]] -: Exponentially increased between Kyle and Rachel. {{spoiler|Even worse [[Shipping|(better?)]] between him and Mila, since three characters (including his mother) mistake her for his girlfriend, she seems a little ''too'' fond of his Christmas present and when they're on the rooftop he gives her an heartfelt speech about how [[Knight in Shining Armor|he'll always come to her rescue]] should the darkness of life trouble her. In typical writing fashion, all the hints are turned [[Up to Eleven]] in the novel.}}.

** {{spoiler|A grand total of four characters, actually. Tony, Hyde's mother, Charles and Margaret (in this order) all have their own remarks to make to Kyle regarding him and his "pretty girlfriend".}}.

** 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 {{spoiler|later nets Kyle a thousand dollars.}}.