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* ObviousBeta: The sheer amount of dummied-out content indicates how unfinished this game was.
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* PetTheDog: Ransom is kind of a dick, but he also gives the schematics to his anti-Hopkins-Brie Syndrome implant to a man who is suffering from a serious case of Hopkins-Brie. (This is PetTheDog and not VideoGameCaringPotential because the man insists on paying, and the items he gives you are necessary to complete the game.)
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You must gather a party and find a way to free yourself of the curse before the chip is overwhelmed.
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** Nimrod 7 is one of the most powerful [=NPCs=] you can have join your party. He is also a prolific and well-known assassin with no scruples about who he works for, and as a result he is hated by about half of everyone you meet. Some refuse to join you with him in the party, others will attack you outright.
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** Nimrod 7 is one of the most powerful [=NPCs=] you can have join your party. He is also a prolific and well-known assassin with no scruples about who he works for, and as a result he is hated by about half of everyone you meet. Some Several potential party members will refuse to join you with him in be on the party, others same team as him, and some characters will attack on sight when you outright.have him along.
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* FictionalDisability: Hopkins-Brie Ontology Syndrome (usually just called Hopkins-Brie Syndrome) is a mental illness caused by overexposure to virtual reality, in which the sufferer becomes increasingly unable to distinguish between the real world and the virtual world. The mental implant Ransom has that prevents him from becoming a vampire was originally installed to treat his Hopkins-Brie Syndrome, and an NPC in Central Park is suffering from a severe case that he keeps at bay with a set of special glasses (though they don't work all that well).
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* AerithAndBob: Hanging out on scenic 175th Street are Phracktle K. Oss, Auntie Matter, Phree Thaught, Nai Hillistick and Chuck.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Ransom Stark and streetgangs frequently argue about whether cybernetic implants destroy or enhance the user's humanity. A number of characters have had their brains fried by a combination of designer drugs and cybernetic implants -it is set in the futuristic New York ghettos and the modifications are typically illegal and unmoderated - but a cybernetic implant is helping to prevent the main character becoming a vampire and others are being used to cure a variety of mental illnesses. So, it's a combination of this trope and AIIsACrapshoot.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Ransom Stark and streetgangs frequently argue about whether cybernetic implants destroy or enhance the user's humanity. A number of characters have had their brains fried by a combination of designer drugs and cybernetic implants -it is set in the futuristic New York ghettos and the modifications are typically illegal and unmoderated - but a cybernetic implant is helping to prevent the main character becoming a vampire and others are being used to cure a variety of mental illnesses. So, it's a combination of this trope and AIIsACrapshoot.
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* AerithAndBob: Hanging out on scenic 175th Street are Phracktle K. Oss, Auntie Matter, Phree Thaught, Nai Hillistick Hillistick... and Chuck.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Zig-zagged. On one hand, Ransom Stark andstreetgangs street gangers frequently argue about whether cybernetic implants destroy or enhance the user's humanity. A humanity, and a number of characters have had their brains fried by a combination of cybernetics (albeit in some cases with help from designer drugs and cybernetic implants -it is set in drugs). On the futuristic New York ghettos and the modifications are typically illegal and unmoderated - but a cybernetic implant other hand, Stark is helping able to prevent the main character becoming retain his humanity as a vampire ''only'' because of a neural implant, and others are being used to cure even before that, the same implant was helping him function despite a variety of severe mental illnesses. So, it's a combination illness. There are other examples of this trope and AIIsACrapshoot.characters using implants to help with their mental illnesses, as well.
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* SycophanticServant: Renfield. He really loves serving vampires, even when they dislike other vampires and just want a cure, he'll still kiss up while following orders.
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* SycophanticServant: Renfield. He really loves serving vampires, even vampires. Even when they dislike other vampires hate being a vampire and just want a cure, he'll still kiss up while following orders.
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** Jerry-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then the flamethrower.
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** Jerry-rigging Jury-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then the flamethrower.
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Gerry Soo gives you a note written in French, German, and Spanish. You're expected to acquire [[TranslatorMicrobes a translation program called the Babel Code]] to read it. It's probably the best option, as the note was clearly written using a ''very'' early and half-baked machine translator.
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* {{Cyberpunk}}
* DummiedOut: Several items and skills mentioned in the manual are either no where to be seen (such as higher levels of Cyberlegs), or just not implemented properly such as lock-picking and medicinal.
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* DummiedOut: Several items and skills mentioned in the manual are either no where to be seen (such as higher levels of Cyberlegs), or just not implemented properly such as lock-picking and medicinal.{{Cyberpunk}}
* DummiedOut: Several items and skills mentioned in the manual are either no where to be seen (such as higher levels of Cyberlegs), or just not implemented properly such as lock-picking and medicinal.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Nimrod 7 has angered many of the gangs in the city through his choice of employers. Recruiting him means several characters will go hostile on sight if you forget to dismiss him beforehand, which makes the game impossible to finish as you must peacefully talk to them in order to gain access to key locations.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Nimrod 7 has angered many of the gangs in the city through his choice of employers. Recruiting him means several characters will go hostile on sight if you forget to dismiss him beforehand, which makes the game impossible to finish as you must peacefully talk to them in order to gain access to key locations.locations, even leaving combat without killing the NPC and returning without Nimrod 7 won't work as they stay hostile forever.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Nimrod 7 has angered many of the gangs in the city through his choice of employers. Recruiting him means several characters will go hostile on sight, which makes the game impossible to finish as you must peacefully talk to them in order to gain access to key locations.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Nimrod 7 has angered many of the gangs in the city through his choice of employers. Recruiting him means several characters will go hostile on sight, sight if you forget to dismiss him beforehand, which makes the game impossible to finish as you must peacefully talk to them in order to gain access to key locations.
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A gothic, cyberpunk graphical adventure with RPG elements. Blends vampires and William Gibson surprisingly well.
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A gothic, cyberpunk {{cyberpunk}} graphical adventure with RPG elements. [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] elements from 1993. Blends vampires and William Gibson Creator/WilliamGibson surprisingly well.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Numerous references to Creator/FranzKafka and Creator/FriedrichNietzsche throughout the story.
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* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Vampiric party members can only rest in a coffin (actually a sarcophagus you steal from the museum) lined with dirt from their home.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Numerous references to Creator/FranzKafka and Creator/FriedrichNietzsche throughout thestory.story.
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* SoulJar: To kill a vampire, its heart must be destroyed. The BigBad of the game has discovered that with advanced medical technology, it is possible to remove a vampire's heart and hook it up to support machinery to keep both it and the vampire functioning...
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** Nimrod 7 is one of the most powerful NPCs you can have join your party. He is also a prolific and well-known assassin with no scruples about who he works for, and as a result he is hated by about half of everyone you meet. Some refuse to join you with him in the party, others will attack you outright.
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** Nimrod 7 is one of the most powerful NPCs [=NPCs=] you can have join your party. He is also a prolific and well-known assassin with no scruples about who he works for, and as a result he is hated by about half of everyone you meet. Some refuse to join you with him in the party, others will attack you outright.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Jerry-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then the flamethrower.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: AwesomeButImpractical:
** Jerry-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then theflamethrower.flamethrower.
** Nimrod 7 is one of the most powerful NPCs you can have join your party. He is also a prolific and well-known assassin with no scruples about who he works for, and as a result he is hated by about half of everyone you meet. Some refuse to join you with him in the party, others will attack you outright.
** Jerry-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then the
** Nimrod 7 is one of the most powerful NPCs you can have join your party. He is also a prolific and well-known assassin with no scruples about who he works for, and as a result he is hated by about half of everyone you meet. Some refuse to join you with him in the party, others will attack you outright.
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** There's also the fact that despite needing to sate your Bloodlust, you can use the instant-kill bite on any NPC. Including plot important ones. [[TrialAndErrorGameplay And there's absolutely no indication of who's plot important,]] making it all too easy to drain someone and screw your game without knowing until it's too late.
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[[caption-width-right:350:A tale of fangs and neural interfaces...]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A tale of fangs and neural interfaces...]]
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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: ''Many'' of the characters in the game have odd manners of speaking. One's a ThirdPersonPerson, one speaks in crossword clues, one supplies synonyms for every verb he says...
* TimedMission: You have only a few in-game days to find a cure to your vampirism or the implant will burn out, leaving you as a monster.
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* VampireRefugee: Ransom's Stark choice is to find a cure or lose himself to the thirst.
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* VampireRefugee: Ransom's Stark Ransom Stark's choice is to find a cure or lose himself to the thirst.
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"Elvis" is just a name he uses. I'm pretty sure it's not the real one.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Elvis Presley is an optional team member.GainaxEnding: The ending feels cobbled together from fragments of plot that were meant to be larger things.
* ObviousBeta: The sheer amount of dummied-out content indicates how unfinished this game was.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Nimrod 7 has angered many of the gangs in the city through his choice of employers. Recruiting him means several characters will go hostile on sight, which makes the game impossible to finish as you must peacefully talk to them in order to gain access to key locations.
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* TheRenfield: The aptly named Renfield's purpose in life is to serve vampires.
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* SycophanticServant: Renfield. He really loves serving vampires, even when they dislike other vampires and just want a cure.cure, he'll still kiss up while following orders.
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Long-term netrunners gradually lose the ability to take the virtual out of virtual reality. You are one such runner, implanted with an A.I. chip that helps you keep reality real. It also, rather fortuitously, helps resist other mental influences, such as being bitten by a vampire. But only for a while...
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Long-term netrunners gradually lose the ability to take the virtual out of virtual reality. You are one such runner, Ransom Stark, implanted with an A.I. chip that helps you keep reality real. It also, rather fortuitously, helps resist other mental influences, such as being bitten by a vampire. But only for a while...
*CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Ransom Stark and streetgangs frequently argue about whether cybernetic implants destroy or enhance the user's humanity. A number of characters have had their brains fried by a combination of designer drugs and cybernetic implants -it is set in the futuristic New York ghettos and the modifications are typically illegal and unmoderated - but a cybernetic implant is helping to prevent the main character becoming a vampire and others are being used to cure a variety of mental illnesses. So, it's a combination of this trope and AIIsACrapshoot.
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* PointAndClickMap: It has a map of New York with several markers on it, with more appearing as the game progresses; clicking on a marker brings up a list of all the locations in that area.
* PunnyName: Sis Konfigg, Holograham and on, and on...
* SycophanticServant: Renfield. He really loves vampires, even when they dislike other vampires and just want a cure.
* TheCorruption: Ransom Stark has an instant-kill bite attack, but each use of it decreases his humanity a little and brings him closer to the NonstandardGameOver (in addition to the [[InUniverseGameClock normal decrease of his humanity with time]]).
* VampireRefugee: Ransom's Stark choice is to find a cure or lose himself to the thirst.
* PunnyName: Sis Konfigg, Holograham and on, and on...
* SycophanticServant: Renfield. He really loves vampires, even when they dislike other vampires and just want a cure.
* TheCorruption: Ransom Stark has an instant-kill bite attack, but each use of it decreases his humanity a little and brings him closer to the NonstandardGameOver (in addition to the [[InUniverseGameClock normal decrease of his humanity with time]]).
* VampireRefugee: Ransom's Stark choice is to find a cure or lose himself to the thirst.
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* AerithAndBob: Hanging out on scenic 175th Street are Phracktle K. Oss, Auntie Matter, Phree Thaught, Nai Hillistick and Chuck.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Numerous references to FranzKafka and Creator/FriedrichNietzsche throughout the story.
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A gothic, cyberpunk graphical adventure with RPG elements. Blends vampires and William Gibson surprisingly well.
Long-term netrunners gradually lose the ability to take the virtual out of virtual reality. You are one such runner, implanted with an A.I. chip that helps you keep reality real. It also, rather fortuitously, helps resist other mental influences, such as being bitten by a vampire. But only for a while...
You must gather a party and find a way to free yourself of the curse before the chip is overwhelmed.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Jerry-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then the flamethrower.
* Cyberpunk
* DummiedOut: Several items and skills mentioned in the manual are either no where to be seen (such as higher levels of Cyberlegs), or just not implemented properly such as lock-picking and medicinal.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Elvis Presley is an optional team member.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Numerous references to FranzKafka and FriedrichNietzsche throughout the story.
Long-term netrunners gradually lose the ability to take the virtual out of virtual reality. You are one such runner, implanted with an A.I. chip that helps you keep reality real. It also, rather fortuitously, helps resist other mental influences, such as being bitten by a vampire. But only for a while...
You must gather a party and find a way to free yourself of the curse before the chip is overwhelmed.
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!!Examples:
* AwesomeButImpractical: Jerry-rigging flamethrowers or Bio-Tech sounds great in theory, but the tendency for jury-rig weapons to explode makes them extremely dangerous (and disarms the user!) that the player is better off with a Shotgun - which does more damage then the flamethrower.
* Cyberpunk
* DummiedOut: Several items and skills mentioned in the manual are either no where to be seen (such as higher levels of Cyberlegs), or just not implemented properly such as lock-picking and medicinal.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Elvis Presley is an optional team member.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Numerous references to FranzKafka and FriedrichNietzsche throughout the story.
