History VideoGame / CriminalCasePacificBay

"Criminal Case: Pacific Bay" is the second game of the VideoGame/CriminalCase series, released in 2014. It moves the action into a new territory.
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The player character moves to the Pacific Bay Police Department, where they work 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. Pacific Bay has ten districts, all based on a mixture of US states - Ocean Shore (Florida, primarily Miami), Bayou Bleu (Louisiana), Inner City (New York), Jazz Town (Louisiana, primarily New Orleans), White Peaks (Colorado), Ivywood (Los Angeles, California), Rhine Canyon (Arizona), Innovation Valley (Silicon Valley), Paradise City (Las Vegas, Nevada), and The Wastes.

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The player character moves to the Pacific Bay Police Department, where they work 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. Pacific Bay has ten districts, all based on a mixture of US states - Ocean Shore (Florida, primarily Miami), Bayou Bleu (Louisiana), Inner City (New York), Jazz Town (Louisiana, primarily New Orleans), White Peaks (Colorado), Ivywood (Hollywood, California), Rhine Canyon (Arizona), Innovation Valley (Silicon Valley), Paradise City (Las Vegas, Nevada), and The Wastes.

The player character moves to the Pacific Bay Police Department, where they work 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. Pacific Bay has ten districts, all based on a mixture of US states - Ocean Shore (Florida, primarily Miami), Bayou Bleu (Louisiana), Inner City (New York), Jazz Town (Louisiana, primarily New Orleans), White Peaks (Colorado), Ivywood (Los Angeles, California), Rhine Canyon (Arizona), Innovation Valley (Silicon Valley), Paradise City (Las Vegas, Nevada), and The Wastes.

* RealityEnsues: In ''The Root of All Evil'', Hannah hacked the computers of a nearby military base and was subsequently detained by Colonel Spangler. Fortunately, she was released because of Chief Marquez's intervention.

* FiveManBand: The members of the heist on the Mennagio Casino in Paradise City:
** TheLeader: Louis de Rico, the leader of the heist.
** TheDragon: Danny Moto, Louis's second-in-command and the one whose plans ensured the heist's success.
** EvilGenius: Shared between Danny Moto and Freddy Gomez; the former's plans ensured the heist's success while the latter used glass eyes to bypass the casino's biometric security system.
** TheBrute: Papa Quansah, who blew up the casino's vault with dynamite.
** DarkChick: Jezebel Lopez, who distracted the casino's guards.
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:Frank Knight, who killed Danny to prevent the revelation of the heist's [[GreaterScopeVillain "sixth man"]] A.K.A Karen Knight]].

** Bayou Blue is quite obviously one to traditional voodoo magic in the bayous of Louisiana.

** Both [[spoiler:Alden Greene and Bobby Prince]] invert this then play it straight. [[spoiler:The former]] returns as an UnexpectedCharacter after being put away (supposedly for good), and was discovered to be the case's killer right after his return. Before the player could arrest him though, [[spoiler:Frank]] shot him dead. [[spoiler:The latter]] killed [[spoiler:Frank]] in the next case and was shot dead by [[spoiler:Amy]] after he was revealed to be the killer.

* DecompositeCharacter: Both of the players' new partners seem to reflect many from their predecessor, Jones. Jones's more "innocent" side is projected in Amy, the naive idealist who is always praising everything the player character does. His "wild" side manifests in Frank, a bumbling, skirt-chasing BigEater who constantly gets into trouble with the Chief.

* DreamTellsYouToWakeUp: At the end of ''The Final Countdown'', [[spoiler:Tesla, an evil A.I., is plotting to install everyone's mind inside a virtual reality and destroy all Pacific Bay in the real world. Frank has been the last victim, and Karen died in an earlier episode, but their minds (and their late children) had been uploaded to the virtual reality. The Agent and Amy have the means to destroy Tesla and his virtual world, but that would mean "killing" Frank a second time. What does Frank say? Do it. Kill Tesla, end all this. The Knight family accepts that they are all dead, and that their existence within a virtual reality is meaningless.]]

* HiddenHeartOfGold: The aggressive roller derby skater, Mona Middlefinger, is secretly a NiceGirl who volunteers in hospitals to entertain sick kids, and donates money to charities. When confronted by the player about this, she makes them promise not to tell anyone about this fact, because she needs to keep her reputation as a strong, ruthless derby girl.

"Criminal Case: Pacific Bay" is a game of the VideoGame/CriminalCase series, released in 2014. It moves the action into a new territory.

* ThemeSerialKiller: The victim of the Pupetter, a retired serial killer that returned, was cut in several pieces and those pieces were assembled back with metal bars... as if it was an actual puppet.

* TheUnapologetic: One being discovered and forced to drop the facade, The Pupetter was really ''proud'' of his murders, and even when seen behind bars it's with a broad smile in the face.

* ImAHumanitarian: The killer in ''The Hunger Planes'' roasted the victim alive over a pit of lava and then cannibalized him.

* DreamTellsYouToWakeUp: Ata the end of the last episode. [[spoiler:Tesla, an evil A.I., is plotting to install everyone's mind inside a virtual reality and destroy all Pacific Bay in the real world. Frank has been the last victim, and Karen died in an earlier episode, but their minds (and their late children) had been uploaded to the virtual reality. The Agent and Amy have the means to destroy Tesla and his virtual world, but that would mean "killing" Frank a second time. What does Frank say? Do it. Kill Tesla, end all this. The Knight family accepts that they are all dead, and that their existence within a virtual reality is meaningless.]]

The player moves to the Pacific Bay Police Department, where they work 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. Pacific Bay has ten districts, all based on a mixture of US states - Ocean Shore (Florida, primarily Miami), Bayou Bleu (Louisiana), Inner City (New York), Jazz Town (Louisiana, primarily New Orleans), White Peaks (Colorado), Ivywood (Los Angeles, California), Rhine Canyon (Arizona), Innovation Valley (Silicon Valley), Paradise City (Las Vegas, Nevada), and The Wastes.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Between [[spoiler:Russell and Amy]], in Case 56's finale. With animation and everything.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: After solving Case 22, Frank will say that he's going to either get a beer or go to bed... or perhaps he'll have a beer in bed.

* ConjoinedTwins: One (Two?) of the suspects in Case 52 are a pair of conjoined twins.

* CureYourGays: Case 22's victim attempted to do this to his own son by sending him to military camp.

* DistinguishingMark: Luz Lucha, a suspect in Case 33, is revealed to have a skull-shaped birthmark on her forehead, which is why she wears a mask throughout most of her entire appearances in the case.

** In Case 7, Frank drops a line that foreshadows [[spoiler:his betrayal of the Pacific Bay PD and eventual death at the end of the season]]:

* GotVolunteered: When the Pacific Bay police station was attacked by looters in Case 22, Chief Marquez asked for a volunteer to assess the station's damage. Roxie and Hannah immediately nominates Frank for the task without his consent.

* HouseHusband: One of the suspects in Case 36 (who happens to be the victim's husband) had to leave his job to raise his child by himself because his wife is a very busy movie director.

* ImAHumanitarian: The killer in Case 28 roasted the victim alive over a pit of lava and then cannibalized him.

* ItsAllMyFault: Tiffany Dunn, a drug addict from Case 42, was a teen prodigy who blamed herself for her parents' deaths in a car accident when she stayed after school one day and they came to pick her up.

* RealityEnsues: In Case 8, Hannah hacked the computers of a nearby military base and was subsequently detained by Colonel Spangler. Fortunately, she was released because of Chief Marquez's intervention.
* RecycledInSpace: An InUniverse example. A film producer in Case 31 wanted to make a TV show featuring the player character's investigations called "Criminal Space", where the investigations will be set in space.

* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Played in Case 37, where the murder victim is a poor artist trying to pursue romance with an actress, who is already engaged to a wealthy but possessive movie producer. Unlike most examples, however, the actress decided that she loves her glamorous lifestyle (and, by extension, her rich fiance) more than she does the poor suitor [[spoiler:and she killed him to cut off her ties with him]].

* ShaggyDogStory: The murderer in Case 7 of Pacific Bay killed a bank representative to stop her from demolishing the local theme park [[spoiler:only to have the owner of the theme park sell it to the bank anyway, after his arrest]].
* SkipToTheEnd: In Case 8, Frank asked Honorable Dante to sentence the killer after the latter rambled about his fondness for plants.

* SuddenlyShouting: In case 8 of Pacific Bay, the player character is implied to lose their patience and yell at Frank when he's reluctant to help with a clue.

* {{Unishment}}: Case 47's killer was overjoyed to receive a job in prison even though it was the worst job there was, so his sentence was increased to 40 years.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Amy and Russell quite obviously have feelings towards one another: they constantly praise each other's works, and get exceedingly worried whenever the other is in trouble (in Case 36 Amy freaks out when Russell went missing, while Russell gets uncharacteristically infuriated when [[spoiler:the Utopians brainwashed Amy]] in case 38). However, aside from their occasional flirtings, nothing explicit ever happens between the two. [[spoiler:Until Chapter 56, that is]].
* {{Yandere}}: By the time Case 59 rolls around, [[spoiler:Bobby Prince]] has degenerated into one of these. He was willing to commit murder so that he could be with Amy, and when she tells him that she already has a boyfriend, he [[IfICantHaveYou threatened to shoot her]].

The player moves to the Pacific Bay Police Department, where they work 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. Pacific Bay has ten districts, all based on a mixture of US states - Ocean Shore (Florida, primarily Miami), Bayou Bleu (Louisiana), Inner City (New Work), Jazz Town (Louisiana, primarily New Orleans), White Peaks (Colorado), Ivywood (Los Angeles, California), Rhine Canyon (Arizona), Innovation Valley (Silicon Valley), Paradise City (Las Vegas, Nevada), and The Wastes.

* UnexpectedCharacter: After being sentenced with a life imprisonment without a possibility of parole, you'd think that [[spoiler:Alden Greene]] would finally disappear for good, [[spoiler:especially since this is not the first time he managed to bail out from prison]]. But no, he had to come all the way from [[spoiler:Grimsborough]] to once again disrupt the player character's life.