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* MasterComputer: The Great Oracle acts as this for the Transai Council, remotely linked with the other Companions. [[spoiler: Played with later on, as the one the Council honors is a decoy, while the real one and an Ansala equivalent are hidden away elsewhere.]]
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* NatureVsTechnology: The driving force between the Transai and Amsala, having been locked into warfare for the past few centuries.
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* NatureVsTechnology: NatureVersusTechnology: The driving force between the Transai and Amsala, having been locked into warfare for the past few centuries.
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* NatureVsTechnology: The driving force between the Transai and Amsala, having been locked into warfare for the past few centuries.
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* ShiningCity: Touchstone, the Transai domain is a cliff-built technocracy led by the [[MachineWorship Great Oracle]]
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* ShiningCity: Touchstone, the Transai domain is a cliff-built technocracy led by the [[MachineWorship Great Oracle]] Oracle]]. The buildings and bridges also appear to hover as well.
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* CallBack: In one of the few references to the first game, you can see a bunch of living ships from planet Argilus when you first land on Saarpedon. You also visit one of them later in the gsme.
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* CallBack: In one of the few references to the first game, you can see a bunch of living ships from planet Argilus when you first land on Saarpedon. You also visit one of them later in the gsme.game.
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* CallBack: In one of the few references to the first game, you can see a bunch of living ships from planet Argilus when you first land on Saarpedon.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by ''Creator/{{Detalion}}'' in 2003 and published by ''Creator/TheAdventureCompany''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by ''Creator/{{Detalion}}'' in 2003 and published by ''Creator/TheAdventureCompany''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no story connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: Several obstacles that look passable but aren't come off this way, usually in the form of puzzles that can't be passed without being solved. One ridiculous example of this shows up in one of the bridges to the Transai domain, which Sen refuses to cross if it's just ''one foot off'' from the cable it's meant to be aligned with.
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* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: Several obstacles that look passable but aren't come off this way, usually in the form of puzzles that can't be passed without being solved. One ridiculous example of this shows up in one of the bridges to the Transai domain, which Sen refuses to cross if it's just ''one foot inch off'' from the cable it's meant to be aligned with.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The Ansala can create Amblates, ghostly beings resurrected from their dead.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The Ansala can create Amblates, ghostly beings resurrected from their dead. They can also "turn" technology to OrganicTechnology.
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* MrExposition: Most of Arko's and Carluen's scenes are dedicated solely to giving backstory.
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* HopeSpot: Sen finally gains control of an Ansala shuttle after striking out with the Transai, only to find himself brought back to Touchstone again.
* GhostCity: Done with both of the tribes' domains toward the endgame.
** When the Ansala can't find Sen, everyone evacuates to look for him.
** Sen's return visit to Touchstone is also devoid of life, save for the Oracle and a hidden Companion.
* GhostCity: Done with both of the tribes' domains toward the endgame.
** When the Ansala can't find Sen, everyone evacuates to look for him.
** Sen's return visit to Touchstone is also devoid of life, save for the Oracle and a hidden Companion.
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* ShiningCity: Touchstone, the Transai domain is a cliff-built technocracy led by the [[MachineWorship Great Oracle]]
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by ''Creator/{{Detalion}}'' in 2004 2003 and published by ''Creator/TheAdventureCompany''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion in 2004 and published by ''Creator/TheAdventureCompany''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion ''Creator/{{Detalion}}'' in 2004 and published by ''Creator/TheAdventureCompany''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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* BeepingComputers: In various flavors on the space station and the crashed ship, Lyra. The cryo-chamber Sen first wakes up in has an EKG-esque tone to it.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion in 2004 and published by ''The Adventure Company''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion in 2004 and published by ''The Adventure Company''.''Creator/TheAdventureCompany''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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* [[spoiler: BrokenMasquerade: Sen's disguise as Ansala member Triga falls apart when ''the real Triga'' shows up from the badlands, which results in the Ansala council locking Sen into a cell.]]
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* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: Several obstacles that look passable but aren't come off this way, usually in the form of puzzles that can't be passed without being solved. One ridiculous example of this shows up in one of the bridges to the Transai domain, which Sen refuses to cross if it's just ''one foot off'' from the cable it's meant to be aligned with.
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* AlternateNumberSystem: The Transai have a base-12 number system, and the Ansala use base-3.
* ArcNumber: The numbers of power, which Sen receives from multiple characters throughout the game. [[spoiler: They're used for the [[ChekhovsGun game's final puzzle]].]]
* ArcNumber: The numbers of power, which Sen receives from multiple characters throughout the game. [[spoiler: They're used for the [[ChekhovsGun game's final puzzle]].]]
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* AlternateNumberSystem: The Transai have a base-12 number system, and the Ansala use base-3.
base-3. At one point you even have to convert one to the other.
* ArcNumber: Thenumbers Numbers of power, Power, which Sen receives from multiple characters throughout the game. [[spoiler: They're used for the [[ChekhovsGun game's final puzzle]].]]
* ArcSymbol: Sen finds a strange circular glyph in four separate locations around the environment, and cannot discern what it means. [[spoiler: It's actually an upside-down diagram for the final puzzle of the game.]]
* ArcNumber: The
* ArcSymbol: Sen finds a strange circular glyph in four separate locations around the environment, and cannot discern what it means. [[spoiler: It's actually an upside-down diagram for the final puzzle of the game.]]
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* ForceFieldDoor: Both tribes use these in various flavors to protect their inner sanctums. The main gate in and out of the Transai domain even talks.
--> '''Force gate:''' "Identify or withdraw."
--> '''Force gate:''' "Identify or withdraw."
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* ArcNumber: The numbers of power, which Sen receives from multiple characters throughout the game. [[spoiler: They're used for the [[ChekovsGun game's final puzzle]].]]
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* ArcNumber: The numbers of power, which Sen receives from multiple characters throughout the game. [[spoiler: They're used for the [[ChekovsGun [[ChekhovsGun game's final puzzle]].]]
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* DroneOfDread: Most of the soundtrack consists of droning ambient music, generally creating an unsettling atmosphere throughout the game.
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* BeforeTheDarkTimes: Old stories fed to most of the population, told to Sen by Arko and a Transai member named Carluen, describe Saarpedon as a much better place 300 years ago. [[spoiler: But one day, an alien starship entered the system, and the people divided themselves over whether to make contact or not. The two groups quarreled until the conflict escalated into a war that downed the ship, and the alien machines that survived the crash tried to help. From there on, the conflict had been continuing to the present, which is how the Transai and Ansala formed.]]
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* RobotBuddy: Talen, the first companion you meet in-game. He was left on the station, and you have to fix him to find out what's going on. [[spoiler: At the end, you even get to bring him down to the planet just before the station falls.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The minute Sen wakes up, he claims to have no memories of his crimes or even his name. He just rolls with what Tensa says he is from there on. [[spoiler: It turns out that Talen took Sen's memories so he could be more prepared upon coming back to the station near the end.]]
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The game opens on a space station orbiting the planet Saarpedon, where a man named Sen Geder awakens from [[HumanPopsicle cryonic sleep]]. Soon after, a prerecorded [[Hologram hologram]] of another person called Tensa activates, and he explains that Sen had been preserved for 214 years as punishment for reducing Saarpedon to a single valley, and that the station will fall from orbit in 16 days, taking Sen with it. From there on, it's up to Sen to get down to the planet and [[ClearMyName clear his name]] before that happens.
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The game opens on a space station orbiting the planet Saarpedon, where a man named Sen Geder awakens from [[HumanPopsicle cryonic sleep]]. Soon after, a prerecorded [[Hologram [[{{Hologram}} hologram]] of another person called Tensa activates, and he explains that Sen had been preserved for 214 years as punishment for reducing Saarpedon to a single valley, and that the station will fall from orbit in 16 days, taking Sen with it. From there on, it's up to Sen to get down to the planet and [[ClearMyName clear his name]] before that happens.
* BrokenBridge: Sen has to cross four of these to reach the tribes' inner sanctums, two for each tribe, with a force field gate between them.
* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: The way to open the space station's hangar doors involves directing lasers around a grid of strange alien pods so that they converge at one point to form a larger beam that unlocks the door.
* TheMaze: An infamous example shows up in the Transai domain's airport. A grid of tiles shrouded by a cloud of fog serves as this, which can only be mapped out from underneath. Lights on the edges serve as gridpoints, and stepping on each tile produces a sound. A single misstep makes the maze scramble into a new layout, but crossing the finish line kills the fog, so players don't have to solve it again.
* TheMaze: An infamous example shows up in the Transai domain's airport. A grid of tiles shrouded by a cloud of fog serves as this, which can only be mapped out from underneath. Lights on the edges serve as gridpoints, and stepping on each tile produces a sound. A single misstep makes the maze scramble into a new layout, but crossing the finish line kills the fog, so players don't have to solve it again.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Arko, who refused to side with either of the tribes, and instead hides out in a cave in the planet's neutral zone.
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* SpaceStation: You start [[spoiler: and end]] the game on one, which looks like a hollowed-out asteroid on the outside. During your cryonic stasis, most of the place was locked down, and all non-essential machinery was destroyed, the rest hidden behind "scramble locks".
* TakeAThirdOption: Arko, who refused to side with either of the tribes, and instead hides out in a cave in the planet's neutral zone. He's also close friends with the companions, especially Wookash, who hides his cave.
* TakeAThirdOption: Arko, who refused to side with either of the tribes, and instead hides out in a cave in the planet's neutral zone. He's also close friends with the companions, especially Wookash, who hides his cave.
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* BenevolentAI: The companions, who help Sen in his quest along the way.
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* ArcNumber: The numbers of power, which Sen receives from multiple characters throughout the game. [[spoiler: They're used for the [[ChekovsGun game's final puzzle]].]]
* BenevolentAI: The companions, large alien machines who help Sen in his quest along the way.
* BenevolentAI: The companions, large alien machines who help Sen in his quest along the way.
* LateToTheTragedy: By the time Sen reaches Saarpedon, the place is barely inhabited, with the people there divided into two tribes: The technology-oriented Transai and [[NatureLover nature-loving]] Ansala.
* LieToTheBeholder: Sen's Chameleon tech allows him to blend in with the Transai and Ansala, with some of the later Companions adding profiles of missing members for him to use. [[spoiler: At one point midway into the game, another companion even gives him an InvisibilityCloak feature.]] Sen never changes appearance to the player, however.
* MutualDisadvantage: In one cutscene shortly after Sen meets both tribes, they fight each other using laser beams and force fields while trying to commandeer Sen's crashed shuttle. After finding that neither can defeat the other, they blow the ship up instead.
* LieToTheBeholder: Sen's Chameleon tech allows him to blend in with the Transai and Ansala, with some of the later Companions adding profiles of missing members for him to use. [[spoiler: At one point midway into the game, another companion even gives him an InvisibilityCloak feature.]] Sen never changes appearance to the player, however.
* MutualDisadvantage: In one cutscene shortly after Sen meets both tribes, they fight each other using laser beams and force fields while trying to commandeer Sen's crashed shuttle. After finding that neither can defeat the other, they blow the ship up instead.
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* SolveTheSoupCans: A majority of the puzzles in this game, most of them having no justification for being there.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Arko, who refused to side with either of the tribes, and instead hides out in a cave in the planet's neutral zone.
* TakeAThirdOption: Arko, who refused to side with either of the tribes, and instead hides out in a cave in the planet's neutral zone.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion in 2004. Unlike ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion in 2004. Unlike 2004 and published by ''The Adventure Company''. It was marketed as a sequel to ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', but [[NonLinearSequel shares no connections to it]] whatsoever. Unlike Detalion's previous titles, this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
The game opens on a space station orbiting the planet Saarpedon, where a man named Sen Geder awakens from [[HumanPopsicle cryonic sleep]]. Soon after, a prerecorded [[Hologram hologram]] of another person called Tensa activates, and he explains that Sen had been preserved for 214 years as punishment for reducing Saarpedon to a single valley, and that the station will fall from orbit in 16 days, taking Sen with it. From there on, it's up to Sen to get down to the planet and [[ClearMyName clear his name]] before that happens.
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* AlternateNumberSystem: The Transai have a base-12 number system, and the Ansala use base-3.
* BenevolentAI: The companions, who help Sen in his quest along the way.
* CatchPhrase: Sen says, "Hello! Can you hear me?" every time he first speaks to one of the Companions.
* HisNameIs: A laser blast destroys Tensa's hologram before he can explain the last part of Sen's punishment. Talen later admits that he tried to feed off its power source but overloaded the device as a result.
* PowersAsPrograms: Talen uploads flight skills and Chameleon tech into Sen's brain simply by firing a laser into his forehead.
* SolveTheSoupCans: A majority of the puzzles in this game, most of them having no justification for being there.
The game opens on a space station orbiting the planet Saarpedon, where a man named Sen Geder awakens from [[HumanPopsicle cryonic sleep]]. Soon after, a prerecorded [[Hologram hologram]] of another person called Tensa activates, and he explains that Sen had been preserved for 214 years as punishment for reducing Saarpedon to a single valley, and that the station will fall from orbit in 16 days, taking Sen with it. From there on, it's up to Sen to get down to the planet and [[ClearMyName clear his name]] before that happens.
!!Mysterious Journey II contains examples of
* AlternateNumberSystem: The Transai have a base-12 number system, and the Ansala use base-3.
* BenevolentAI: The companions, who help Sen in his quest along the way.
* CatchPhrase: Sen says, "Hello! Can you hear me?" every time he first speaks to one of the Companions.
* HisNameIs: A laser blast destroys Tensa's hologram before he can explain the last part of Sen's punishment. Talen later admits that he tried to feed off its power source but overloaded the device as a result.
* PowersAsPrograms: Talen uploads flight skills and Chameleon tech into Sen's brain simply by firing a laser into his forehead.
* SolveTheSoupCans: A majority of the puzzles in this game, most of them having no justification for being there.
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''Mysterious Journey II'' is a first-person puzzle adventure game developed by Detalion in 2004. Unlike ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney'', this game uses CGI characters and a FirstPersonShooter interface for navigation, using a modified version of Monolith's Jupiter engine used in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' and ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''.
