History VideoGame / PlunderedHearts

* AllMenAreRapists: A little downplayed, as there are only two of the pirates: Andy Crulley, who's trying to have his way with you at the very beginning, and Jean Lafond, who often admires your beauty while thinking up ways to get... dirty with you.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This will be Nick's fate if you don't save him from Lafond and his rapier.

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* AltumVidetur: Examining both rings (the TragicKeepsake memento of Nicholas' brother, whose corpse Lafond stole it from, and its cheap replica that Nick is wearing) gives you the same inscription that says "Sal sapit omnia." Doubles as a BilingualBonus when these Latin words mean "Salt seasons everything."

* AltumVidetur: Examining both rings (the TragicKeepsake memento of Nicholas' brother, whose corpse Lafond stole it from and its cheap replica that Nick is wearing) gives you an inscription that says "Sal sapit omnia." Doubles as a BilingualBonus when these Latin words mean "Salt seasons everything."

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: This game has a scene in which you run the risk of being raped by Lafond. Doing nothing results in a FateWorseThanDeath and a NonstandardGameOver. Thwarting this attempt and escaping with your virtue still intact the goal of that scene — and when Nick hears about the AttemptedRape, he's more determined to kill Lafond than ever. (Lafond had previously killed Captain Jamison's brother — but ''this'' clearly pushes Lafond over into monster territory.)

* ShoutOut: Listening to the orchestra next to the ballroom has the musicians play "I Want to Kiss Your Hand", by J.S. Beatle (a parody reference to "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by Music/TheBeatles).

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: A non-fatal example: As you pour laudanum into one of the wine goblets while Lafond's back is turned, when he turns back to you, he thinks that you have drugged his green wine goblet, then switches goblets and forces you to drink from the green goblet while he hands the blue one for the butler to drink. But if you play the cards right, then what the {{villain|Ball}} doesn't know is that the green goblet is actually clean when you drink the wine from it (thus keeping you awake to fight him off), and that the drugged blue goblet is actually intended for [[TooDumbToLive the butler]]. This may also count as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* TakingTheBullet: Toward the end, [[spoiler:when Lafond prepares to finish off Nick with a gunshot blast, Cookie jumps out in front of the captain as the shot fires straight into Cookie, fatally wounding him. May also count as a HeroicSacrifice.]]

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: A non-fatal example: As you pour laudanum into one of the wine goblets while Lafond's back is turned, when he turns back to you, he thinks that you have drugged his green wine goblet, then switches goblets and forces you to drink from the green goblet while he hands the blue one for the butler to drink. But if you play the cards right, then what the {{villain|Ball}} doesn't know is that the green goblet is actually clean when you drink the wine from it (thus keeping you awake to fight him off), and that the drugged blue goblet is actually intended for [[TooDumbToLive the butler]]. This may also count as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}

* ICallItVera: The ship that you are safe in after Nick has rescued you is called the ''Helena-Louise'', which is named after your late mother, Helena-Louise Dimsford.

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: A non-fatal example: As you pour laudanum into one of the wine goblets while Lafond's back is turned, when he turns back to you, he thinks that you have drugged his green wine goblet, then switches goblets and forces you to drink from the green goblet while he hands the blue one for the butler to drink. But if you play the cards right, then what the {{villain|Ball}} doesn't know that the green goblet is actually clean when you drink the wine from it (thus keeping you awake to fight him off), and that the drugged blue goblet is actually intended for [[TooDumbToLive the butler]]. This may also count as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}
* PowderTrail: While Nicholas is keeping company with you aboard the ''Helena-Louise'', Crulley has connected the gunpowder to its explosive keg and used it as a fuse by lighting it up, and you have a limited amount of time to douse the fuse before the ship gets blown to smithereens.

* AllMenAreRapists: A little downplayed, as there are only two of the pirates: Aaron Crulley, who's trying to have his way with you at the very beginning, and Jean Lafond, who often admires your beauty while thinking up ways to get... dirty with you.

* {{Bookends}}: ''Plundered Hearts'' starts with a daydream in which the female protagonist shoots a pirate with a pistol and drops it before he caresses and kisses her. The GoldenEnding [[spoiler:repeats this scenario: the same protagonist shoots Aaron Crulley dead with the same pistol and drops it before Nicholas Jamison gratefully embraces and kisses her tenderly]].

* WhatTheHellHero:
** If you make it to the gallery atop the ballroom, but take too long to save Nick from getting skewered by Lafond, you get this:
--->[[CoupDeGrace The sword plunges down into Jamison's heart]], a red stain flowing up to meet it on his breast. Nicholas draws his last breath, his tortured gaze drawn heavenwards, to your face. He reaches for you, his hand dripping his own blood, and breathes your name...\\
Nicholas's hand falls limply to the swelling pool of wine red blood and silence pounds on your ears.
*** When you do save Nick, [[spoiler:he gets this scolding from your dad when he tries to [[CoupDeGrace send the unconscious Lafond "to a 'better' world"]] despite being in no condition to fight whatsoever.]]
** [[spoiler:If you take too long to save Nick from getting shot by Crulley near the end]]:
--->[[spoiler:The pistol fires with a deafening roar, spraying shot into Nicholas. Time stops as he falls, reaching for you, your name his last breath.\\
The battle afterwards is short and bloody. Spurred by grief, you fight hard, yet greet benumbing death thankfully.]]
** [[spoiler:If you choose to enter the skiff and row for the ship]]:
---->[[spoiler:You hear distant shots and screams, and gaze back across the restless waves to the massacre on the beach. The sight blurs with your tears of shame, tears for the father and the lover you left behind.]]

This is the only interactive fiction game to be categorized in the {{Romance|Arc}} genre, to date. The game has 54 locations that you can explore. It is also the last game for the UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers. By 1987, Infocom no longer rated its games on difficulty level. Some fans consider the game to be equivalent to the company's "Standard" level. To make matters worse, the game sold only 15,500 copies (a bit lower than ''VideoGame/{{Infidel}}''[='=]s 16,000 copies in the last weeks of 1983 and barely 20,000 in all of 1984). More info on the game can be found in [[http://www.filfre.net/2015/10/plundered-hearts/ this link]].

''Plundered Hearts'' is an InteractiveFiction game published by Creator/{{Infocom}} in 1987. It draws inspiration from [[RomanceNovel historical romance novels]] and [[{{Swashbuckler}} swashbuckling adventure movies]].

The player takes the role of Lady Dimsford, who is traveling to join her father in the Caribbean when her ship is attacked by pirates. All is not as it first appears, and she is obliged to become a DamselOutOfDistress and thwart the schemes of Jean Lafond, the conniving governor of St. Sinistra. The romantic interest is provided by Nicholas Jamison, who rescues the protagonist near the beginning and goes on to need rescuing himself on multiple occasions.

* {{Bookends}}: ''Plundered Hearts'' starts with a daydream in which the female protagonist shoots a pirate with a pistol and drops it before he caresses and kisses her. The GoldenEnding [[spoiler:repeats this scenario: the same protagonist shoots Crulley dead with the same pistol and drops it before Nicholas Jamison gratefully embraces and kisses her tenderly]].

%%* MultipleEndings: A very rare early example.