History VideoGame / CriminalCase

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The Demon Queen and her followers in 'Supernatural Investigations' are the weakest of the endgame villains so far, lacking any real personality or motivation besides 'evil'.

** '''City of Romance''': Antoine Macaron, the notorious leader of the Parisian mob.

* DepravedBisexual: Melodie Laurence has always been unable to get a successful date with any man or woman she meets. As a result, she forms a disdain towards attractive people, causing a serious SanitySlippage and desire to make their lives as miserable as possible by generating a dating app that matches people with someone incompatible with them.

* ''Travel in Time'' (2019): The player is taken to the year 2029 by a future version of Jack Archer, where they join the Temporal Crimes Division, who protect history from disturbances caused by time travel. The season features seven time periods - Ancient Times (set from 47 BCE to 37 BCE), The 1960s, the Renaissance, the Altered Present, the Age of Sail, Medieval Asia, and The End.

** Several other suspects from Season 5, including Harper Stone, Tamu Wanjiku and Charity and Mercy return as suspects in cases.

** David Jones makes a retun in case 13 as a suspect.
** Jean Connerie from Season 3 reappears in flashback footage in cast 15.

* DepravedBisexual: Melodie Laurence has always been unable to get a successful date with any man or woman she meets. As a result, she forms a diske towards Attractive People, causing a serious SanitySlippage and desire to make their lives as miserable as possible (by generating a dating app that matches people with someone incompatible with them).

** '''Supernatural Hunters''': The Demon Queen, who wants to destroy all of.
** '''City of Romance''': Antoine Macaron, a notorious member of the Parisian mob.

** '''Supernatural Hunters''': The Demon Queen.
** '''City of Romance''': Antoine Macaron.

*** At the '''Airport''', the police find out about the imposed control and crimes committed by the Crimson Order across the city.

*** Ocean Shores encompasses the first five cases of Pacific Bay, and has no centralized plot and mostly deals with an introduction to the new team members, and briefly establishes their personalities.
*** Bayou Blue, a swamp district which covers Cases 6 to 10, deals with a voodoo craze that turns out to be a ruse created by a SerialKiller to consolidate power over the citizens.
*** Inner City, the home town of tech expert Hannah Choi, covers Cases 11 to 17, and the story focuses on the conflict between the Russian and Chinese communities, with an anarchist group called the Inner Chaos seeking to add fuel to the flame.
*** Jazz Town covers Cases 18 to 24, and deals with two distinct plot -- one involving a man-made hurricane which has destroyed a large portion of the district and threatens to strike a second time and completely annihilate the town, and another involving the renewed activities of a SerialKiller called the Puppeteer -- who had, in the past, murdered Yann Touissant's parents.
*** White Peaks, which covers Cases 25 to 30, is the home town of Amy Young and focuses on her family, her past and her CharacterDevelopment as she and the player character tries to uncover the mysterious UrbanLegend of the Night Walker.
*** Ivywood Hills covers Cases 31 to 38 and mainly focuses on a malevolent cult called The Utopians and their plans to control the district through brainwashing.
*** Rhine Canyon, covering Cases 39 through 45, focuses on a government plot and crazy alien landing conspiracies.
*** Innovation Valley, covering Cases 46 to 50, deals with human-like robots, their quest for rights, and the tension between them and humanity.
*** Paradise City, covering Cases 51 to 56, deals with a heist at the luxury Mennagio casino and the six heist members.
*** The Wastes, covering Cases 57 to 59, sees Amy and the player in pursuit of the fugitives from Paradise City, only to uncover a plot to destroy the whole of Pacific Bay.

*** As the player examines the circumstances of Zoe's disappearance and Marconi's related business in '''The Greens''', [=DreamLife=] launches a new virtual reality program that obsesses over ...

*** The team travels back to New York City in 2029, only to realize that things are vastly different due to several alterations in the timeline, and are now in an '''Altered Present'''. The team aligns with the local resistance against the current regime to get their time machine back and set things right. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, Orlando must deal with his emotions after finding his deceased husband alive and well in this timeline, but with no knowledge of who he is.]]

** ''City of Romance'': Antoine Macaron.

* BittersweetEnding: All seasons end as such.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:1 Noemie Leprince is full of genuine regret when she learns that she murdered Celeste, only thinking the pill ahe slipped would make her sick. Despite her not guilty pleas that it was Antonie who blackmailed her into doing it, it doesn't aave her from going to jail and her career ending anyway.

** [[spoiler:Margaret Littlewood]] holds the distinction of being the only murderer who killed more than 1 victim in a single case. The first victims were Molly Robinson and her dog, then followed by the murder of James Savage's husky, Gertude Picadilly's pug, and the attempted murder of [[spoiler:Jones]], though he didn't die.

* EatenAlive: A couple of the murder victims died due to being fed to wildlife by their murderers. Aaliyah Banks from Case 39 was half eaten by piranhas, Roland Vane from Case 50 was crushed to death then almost eaten by a giant boa, Jimmy "Ice P" Lewis from the first Pacific Bay case was fed to a shark, while Nora Lewis of Case 64 (or Case 8 Pacific Bay) died after being ingested by a giant man-eating ''plant''.

** [[spoiler:The death of Lily Arrow]] 25 years prior to the series. That happened at around the same time as [[spoiler:the Demon Queen and her supporters being defeated, and Rathimael sealing the Queen away. As it turns out, the Queen is none other than Lily herself.]]

** Several other suspects from Season 5 including, Harper Stone Tamu Wanjiku and Charity and Mercy make returns as suspects in cases.

* DepravedBisexual: Melodie Laurence has always been unable to get a successful date with any man or woman she meets. As a result, she forms a diske towards Attractive People, causing a serious SanitySlippage and desire to make their lives as miserable as possible (by generating a dating app that matches people with someone incompetitive with them).

The game has eight seasons: the player begins the game as rookie police officer in the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Grimsborough]] Police Department, partnered with a detective named Jones to solve all sorts of gruesome murders in the city. Along the way, you and Jones have to contend with various quirky, shady, and outright bizarre characters, including the bumbling beat cop Ramirez, the prostitute Ginger, the mob boss Tony Marconi, and the business mogul Alden Greene. After 56 Cases, the setting then moves on to Pacific Bay, where the player works with two different partners -- Detective Frank Knight and Officer Amy Young -- to assist the Pacific Bay Police Department in managing the rising crime rate in the city. 59 cases later, the player is invited by Jack Archer to join The Bureau, an International Law Enforcement agency that deals with various crimes from all over the world. After putting an end to the NebulousEvilOrganisation that was SOMBRA, Dupont gives his Bureau colleagues a journal detailing the adventures his grandfather had in Concordia as a member of the Flying Squad with a detective that looks just like the player. After finishing [[NestedStory Dupont's journal]], the player character returns to Grimsborough and its police department and reunites with friends old and new.

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The game currently has eight seasons: the player begins the game as rookie police officer in the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Grimsborough]] Police Department, partnered with a detective named Jones to solve all sorts of gruesome murders in the city. Along the way, you and Jones have to contend with various quirky, shady, and outright bizarre characters, including the bumbling beat cop Ramirez, the prostitute Ginger, the mob boss Tony Marconi, and the business mogul Alden Greene. After 56 Cases, the setting then moves on to Pacific Bay, where the player works with two different partners -- Detective Frank Knight and Officer Amy Young -- to assist the Pacific Bay Police Department in managing the rising crime rate in the city. 59 cases later, the player is invited by Jack Archer to join The Bureau, an International Law Enforcement agency that deals with various crimes from all over the world. After putting an end to the NebulousEvilOrganisation that was SOMBRA, Dupont gives his Bureau colleagues a journal detailing the adventures his grandfather had in Concordia as a member of the Flying Squad with a detective that looks just like the player. After finishing [[NestedStory Dupont's journal]], the player character returns to Grimsborough and its police department and reunites with friends old and new.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Case 48's victim was shot through the ribs with a hair-removal laser.

* ViceCity: Grimsborough. Aside from the constancy of [[AlwaysMurder murders always being the main mysteries of each case]], there are several instances of gang violence and frequent conflict among said gangs, mob activity, prostitution, mentally-disturbed residents, drug-dealing, ''a whole community'' of homeless people with their own unofficial mayor, at least one case of [[DirtyCop police corruption]], rampant instances of [[YourCheatingHeart infidelity]], and basic lack of compassion from the richer residents.

* YourCheatingHeart: Some of the victims got killed due to an affair they were involved in. Examples include Cases 3, 5 and 10; and in all the three aforementioned cases, the killers' lover was having an affair with the victim.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In [[spoiler:the final case of the Altered Present]], a hologram shows [[spoiler: Ramses XLIII]] sweet-talking [[TheMole Ravi]], who claims he'd do anything to prove his loyalty to him. Later on, [[spoiler:Shabaka claims that Ramses would send her and Nefertiti out to do errands [[YourCheatingHeart so he could have flings with the slaves]].]] One has to wonder [[spoiler:[[SleepingWithTheBoss how Ravi got Ramses off his back]].]]