History VideoGame / LamplightCity

* TheCoroner: New Bretique police force's local medical examiner, Dr. Edwards, is still on friendly terms with Miles, despite him having quit the force, so he is quite willing to unofficially help him out with some of the technical medical questions he might stumbles on in the course of his investigations. He also likes to crack very dry jokes about his work with bodies all the while.

* CrazyCatLady: Margaret Andrews from case 3 is this to a tee.

* AlasPoorYorick: Examining the burned skull of Desiree Lathan causes Bill to do an obligatory riff on the trope namer:

* AlasPoorYorick: Examining the burned skull of Desiree Lathan causes Bill to do an obligatory riff on the trope:

* AlasPoorYorick: Examined the burned skull of Desiree Lathan causes Bill to do an obligatory riff on the trope:

-->'''Bill:''' Alas, poor Desiree. A woman of infinite riches, of tastes most fancy. Well, where is all your money now? ...Come to think of it, that question might be worth answering.

* TheBeard: [[spoiler:Jean [=DuPrée=]]] never outright says that he is gay, but when pressed about it he eventually does admit that he is only married to [[spoiler:Madam [=DuPrée=]]], because it makes him appear like "a normal man" in the eyes of society.

* CityNoir: Lamplight City isn't a particularly good place to live in. Between the rampant crime and death rates (especially in Cholmondeley), the racism among both the wealthy elite and the police force, a terrorist group blowing factories, dangerous working equipment, and the unsanitary streets, almost no one in the city doesn't some sort of issues.

* TheCityNarrows: The Cholmondeley district is the worst part of Lamplight City. Fist-fights, muggings, vandalism, and homelessness are a common daily sight in the Chum. It is so crime ridden that the police don't go out of their way to respond to much of it. In addition, since Bill grew up in Cholmondeley, he'll repeatedly mention how horrible it was growing up there and how happy he is that he and his sister left it.

Following Miles over five different cases, the game is quite open ended. Each case requires the player to gather clues from crime scenes, interrogating suspects, and make deductions based on the evidence available to them. But amongst the clues are also several false leads, some more subtle, than others, and the player can freely pursue these too, which can potentially lead Miles to accuse the wrong people or otherwise render the case unsolvable. But a case ending up in failure doesn't result in a GameOver though; the plot advances, whether Miles finds the right answers or not, and the outcomes instead influences the overarching story in different ways.

-->'''Miles:''' You're quite a piece of work Roland.\\

* SmallNameBigEgo: The small-pianist Roland Devereux thinks he is God's gift to music, and is quite full of himself in general, something immediately telegraphed to the player by [[SmugSmiler the haughty smirk he wears in his conversation portrait]]. According to Addy, who worked with him a couple of times as a singer, he isn't even all that good at playing piano and even missed a few nodes on the occasions they performed together.

* SmallNameBigEgo: The small-pianist Roland Devereux thinks he is God's gift to music, and is quite full of himself in general, something immediately telegraphed to the player by [[SmugSmiler the haughty smirk he wears in his conversation portrait. According to Addy, who worked with him a couple of times as a singer, he isn't even all that good at playing piano and even missed a few nodes on the occasions they performed together.

* ArrangedMarriage: When pressed about it [[spoiler:Miriam Harris]] will admit that her marriage with [[spoiler:Malcolm]] was done as a deal between their fathers, both powerful business magnates who both thought it would be mutually beneficial for their corporations. She adds that it is [[AwfullyWeddedLife by no means a happy marriage]], and confesses that she regularly cheats on her husband by seeing [[spoiler:a guy named Roland, a local piano-player]] behind his back as an outlet.

* ArrangedMarriage: When pressed about it [[spoiler:Miriam Harris]] will admit that her marriage with [[spoiler:Malcolm]] is such an arrangement, and it was done as a deal between their fathers, both powerful business magnates who both thought it would be mutually beneficial. She adds that it is no by no means a happy marriage, and confesses that she regularly cheats on her husband by seeing [[spoiler:a guy named Roland, a local piano-player]] behind his back as an outlet.

* CityNoir: Lamplight City isn't a particularly good place to live in. Between the rampant crime and death rates (especially in Cholmondeley), the racism among both the wealthy elite and the police force, a terrorist group blowing factories, dangerous working equipment, and the unsanitary streets, almost no one in the city doesn't some sort of issues.

* WretchedHive: The Cholmondeley district is the worst part of Lamplight City. Fist-fights, muggings, vandalism, and homelessness are a common daily sight in the Chum. It is so crime ridden that the police don't go out of their way to respond to much of it. In addition, since Bill grew up in Cholmondeley, he'll repeatedly mention how horrible it was growing up there and how happy he is that he and his sister left it.

* TheBeard: [[spoiler:Jean [=DuPrée=]]] never outright says he is gay, but he does admit that he is only married to [[spoiler:Madam [=DuPrée=]]], because it makes him appear like "a normal man" in the eyes of society.