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* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: The Eleven Foundation were never interested in Resonance as a power source. Instead, they wanted a weapon of mass destruction that could be blamed on terrorists and used to create global fear to justify the use of Antevorta, their Big Brother supercomputer capable of tracking every electronic activity of every person on Earth.]]
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* PrivateEyeMonologue: Bennet introduces himself with one of these. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen That's the only time he does it, though.]]
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In the aftermath of a tragedy, Ed, Dr. Morales' research assistant, Anna, a doctor, Ray, a [[IntrepidReporter journalist]] and Bennet, [[CowboyCop a detective]], are brought together to uncover the secret of Resonance before the more "explosively minded" do first.
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In the aftermath of a Resonance-related tragedy, Ed, Dr. Morales' research assistant, Anna, a doctor, Ray, a [[IntrepidReporter journalist]] and Bennet, [[CowboyCop a detective]], are brought together to uncover the secret of Resonance before the more "explosively minded" do first.
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]][[note]] Left to right: Ray, Anna, Ed, and Bennet.[[spoiler: Not all of them will make it.]][[/note]]]]
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* [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything The Dev Team Is Unusually Flexible]]: While your options as a player are by no means unlimited, there are many puzzles in the game that have more than one possible solution, using different combinations of the four characters you control. Unlocking all the achievements requires finding several of these alternative solutions.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Sanguine - Ray, a sometimes flirty, always outspoken writer.
** Choleric - Bennet, a no-nonsense, driven detective.
** Melancholic - Ed, a socially awkward mathematician.
** Phlegmatic - Anna, a compassionate but secretly-insecure doctor.
** Sanguine - Ray, a sometimes flirty, always outspoken writer.
** Choleric - Bennet, a no-nonsense, driven detective.
** Melancholic - Ed, a socially awkward mathematician.
** Phlegmatic - Anna, a compassionate but secretly-insecure doctor.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The basic concept of Resonance as a matter-destroying, energy producing reaction is entirely made up. That said, most everything else is fairly realistic, so keep repeating that MST3KMantra.
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* GuideDangIt: The aptly-named "Insane" achievements fall under this trope. One requires you to go through a TimeTrial without taking steps to increase the amount of time you have, and the other requires you to solve a four-part block-puzzle without being able to see the blocks. It may be that the developers meant they cannot be unlocked unless you know exactly what you're doing, either because you've played the game before or because you're looking at a walkthrough.
* HeyItsThatVoice:As a To those familiar with other Wadjet Eye Games production, productions, many voices are recognizable.
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* RepressedMemories: [[spoiler: Anna's nightmares are caused by the recollection of how her "father" really died: her "uncle" Javi (really her father) knocked him down a flight of stairs and then fled.]]
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* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist: Cleverly done. The first scene is played from Ed's perspective, and then during the four individual scenes, Ed feels like the one whose personality we get most inside. Thus he feels like the "real" protagonist of the four PCs... until two-thirds of the way through the game when he gives TheReveal.]]
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* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist: Cleverly done. The first scene is played from Ed's perspective, and then during the four individual scenes, Ed feels like the one whose personality we get most inside. Thus he feels like the "real" protagonist of the four PCs...{{Player Character}}s... until two-thirds of the way through the game when he gives TheReveal.]]
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** One of the game's selling points was that [[VideoGame/{{Bastion}} Logan Cunningham]] voiced Detective Bennett.
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** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, the organisation is ultimately exposed but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]
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** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, the organisation initially succeeds in getting the US government to adopt Antevorta, but their victory is short-lived as they are ultimately exposed exposed, but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Ed and Anna form a pretty immediate connection. She even asks him to accompany her to her Uncle's grave for moral support. [[spoiler: Then, near the end of the story, he shoots her in the head.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Ed and Anna form a pretty immediate connection. She even asks him to accompany her to her Uncle's grave for moral support. [[spoiler: Then, near the end of the story, he shoots her in the head.]]]]
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** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, they're ultimately exposed but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]
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** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, they're the organisation is ultimately exposed but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]
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* Gratuitous Spanish: Happens once or twice with Dr. Morales talking to his niece, most notably [[spoiler:with the password to the Resonance vault - Te Prometo, or 'I promise'.]]
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* Gratuitous Spanish: GratuitousSpanish: Happens once or twice with Dr. Morales talking to his niece, most notably [[spoiler:with the password to the Resonance vault - Te Prometo, or 'I promise'.]]
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* ButThouMust: When Bennet asks what's going on at the hospital, trying to let him in on it will lead to Anna interrupting Ed before he can speak (at this point they're not sure if they can trust the police).
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* FirstNameBasis: [[spoiler:During the prelude to the final confrontation with Ed, Bennet refrains from addressing Ray as "Jimmy", much to the latter's pleasant surprise]]. surprise]].
* Gratuitous Spanish: Happens once or twice with Dr. Morales talking to his niece, most notably [[spoiler:with the password to the Resonance vault - Te Prometo, or 'I promise'.]]
* Gratuitous Spanish: Happens once or twice with Dr. Morales talking to his niece, most notably [[spoiler:with the password to the Resonance vault - Te Prometo, or 'I promise'.]]
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* MultipleEndingsMultipleEndings: Three, with two closely related.
** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, they're ultimately exposed but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]
** Lesser of Two Evils ending: Alternatively, [[spoiler:Ray can be sympathetic to Ed's cause and agree to help him destroy Antevorta - but Detective Bennet and several hospital patients die, and it's not clear how much damage has actually been done to the Eleven Foundation.]]
** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, they're ultimately exposed but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]
** Lesser of Two Evils ending: Alternatively, [[spoiler:Ray can be sympathetic to Ed's cause and agree to help him destroy Antevorta - but Detective Bennet and several hospital patients die, and it's not clear how much damage has actually been done to the Eleven Foundation.]]
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* BigApplesauce: As is often typical of a Wadjet Eye Games production, the fictional city has a strong flavor of New York, complete with a secretary who has the accent, complex subways full of graffiti, nobody responding to a call for help, [[spoiler: the specter of terrorism blowing holes in buildings...]]
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* ShoutOut: One of the things you find is [[{{Neuromancer}} a television, tuned to a dead channel.]]
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* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist: Cleverly done. The first scene is played from Ed's perspective, and then during the four individual scenes, Ed feels like the one whose personality we get most inside. Thus he feels like the "real" protagonist of the four PCs... until two-thirds of the way through the game when he gives TheReveal.]]
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* WesternTerrorists: The opening FlashForward shows scenes of terror from around the globe. Naturally the perpetrators are revealed through the course of the plot.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Dr. Morales has figured out the final calculations to unlock a brand new form of energy - ''Resonance''. By separating and storing the two halves subparticles of a molecule of energy, an electron, then releasing them, the resulting collision of particles releases an explosion of clean, reusable energy. The further the separation, the more power.
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* WildCard: [[spoiler:Ray. He can either choose support Bennet or Ed in the final confrontation, and if he chooses the former Bennet leaves it up to him if he want publish the truth about the The Eleven Foundation and potentially bring both of them in trouble, or just delete the article and walk away]].
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Ed's real name is ''Tolstoy'' Eddings. So he understandably sticks with "Ed".
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Ed's real name is ''Tolstoy'' Eddings. So he understandably sticks with "Ed"."Ed".
* FirstNameBasis: [[spoiler:During the prelude to the final confrontation with Ed, Bennet refrains from addressing Ray as "Jimmy", much to the latter's pleasant surprise]].
* FirstNameBasis: [[spoiler:During the prelude to the final confrontation with Ed, Bennet refrains from addressing Ray as "Jimmy", much to the latter's pleasant surprise]].
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* SphereOfDestruction: How Resonance-explosions operate. Anything sitting inside the sphere...''isn't'', afterwards.
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* SphereOfDestruction: How Resonance-explosions operate. Anything sitting inside the sphere...''isn't'', afterwards.
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* [[spoiler:BlackAndGreyMorality: The Eleven Foudation is the Black, Ed is the Grey.]]
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* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Ed honestly hates himself for his actions, but he has a point when he says [[SinisterSurveillance Antevorta]] would be a thousand times worse then a couple deaths and possible collateral damage to delay the project.]]
* NiceGuy: Ed's kind of dorky, shy and nervous. [[spoiler: [[AffablyEvil None of this changes after he's revealed to be the villain.]]]]]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Tolstoy "Ed" Eddings. He is perfectly right when he says that the Eleven Foundation needs to be stopped by any means necessary, and he's obviously torn up about his actions. On the other hand, he's a multiple murderer who betrayed everyone close to him.]]
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* BoringButPractical: In the opening sections of the game, there is a puzzle involving rewiring a security panel to open a side-door, described [[WordOfGod by the developers]] as the hardest part of the game. [[spoiler: Or you could just climb back out the window and go through the open front doors]].
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: J.P. Tortoise, who, while being very obsessed with puzzle boxes, seems to have cornered the security market of the city.
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* CowboyCop: Bennet, which is made obvious during his introduction, where he violates orders to track a suspicious person down.
* HowWeGotHere: The game opens with the news report showing over a dozen cities world wide having suffered some sort of an attack, before jumping back 60 hours earlier.
* InsistentTerminology: Ray is ''not'' a "blogger.
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*[[spoiler: BoomHeadshot: Poor Anna.]]
*ChekovsGun: The [[spoiler: database "Antevorta"]] pops up at the beginning, before being mostly forgotten in all the Resonance-related shenanigans. Turns out they're pretty closely linked...
*CowboyCop: Bennet, which is made obvious during his introduction, where he violates orders to track a suspicious person down.
*EmbarrassingFirstName: Ed's real name is ''Tolstoy'' Eddings. So he understandably sticks with "Ed".
*HoistByHisOwnPetard: With a dash of Karmic death. In one of the endings, [[spoiler: Eddings]] is taken out by one of the Resonance devices [[spoiler: he]] had stolen from Morales.
*HowWeGotHere: The game opens with the news report showing over a dozen cities world wide having suffered some sort of an attack, before jumping back 60 hours earlier.
*MeetCute: Ed and Anna are riding the subway together. Anna drops her lucky coin which rolls to Ed's feet...
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*NiceGuy: Ed's kind of dorky, shy and nervous. [[spoiler: None of this changes after he's revealed to be the villain.]]
*TheNicknamer: Not to the typical degree, but Bennet relies on these from time to time, such as "Sugar" for Anna, and "Jimmy" for Ray[[hottip:*:As in, "{{Superman}}'s Pal Jimmy Olsen"]].
*RedHerring: [[spoiler: Detective Bennet is not the bad guy]].
*TheReveal: Approximately two-thirds through the game, after you locate [[spoiler: Dr. Morales' hidden vault]], Anna is given the choice whether to save or destroy the research, [[spoiler: only for Ed to shoot her in the head, reveal himself to behind the murder of Dr Morales, and try to kill Ray and Bennet]].
*WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Tolstoy "Ed" Eddings.]]
*WillTheyOrWontThey: Ed and Anna form a pretty immediate connection. She even asks him to accompany her to her Uncle's grave for moral support. [[spoiler: Then, near the end of the story, he shoots her in the head.]]
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Dr. Morales has figured out the final calculations to unlock a brand new form of energy - ''Resonance''. By separating and storing the two halves of a molecule of energy, then releasing them, the resulting collision of particles releases an explosion of clean, reusable energy. The further the separation, the more power.
However, "explosion" is the operative word, and like all new discoveries, more than a few unsavoury characters are interested in the new way to make things go "boom".
In the aftermath of a tragedy, Ed, Dr. Morales' research assistant, Anna, a doctor, Ray, a [[IntrepidReporter journalist]] and Bennet, [[CowboyCop a detective]], are brought together to uncover the secret of Resonance before the more "explosively minded" do first.
Developed by xii games and published by Wadjet Eye Games (of ''TheBlackwellSeries'' and ''GeminiRue'' fame).
!!Resonance uses the following tropes
*HowWeGotHere: The game opens with the news report showing over a dozen cities world wide having suffered some sort of an attack, before jumping back 60 hours earlier.
*InsistentTerminology: Ray is ''not'' a "blogger.
However, "explosion" is the operative word, and like all new discoveries, more than a few unsavoury characters are interested in the new way to make things go "boom".
In the aftermath of a tragedy, Ed, Dr. Morales' research assistant, Anna, a doctor, Ray, a [[IntrepidReporter journalist]] and Bennet, [[CowboyCop a detective]], are brought together to uncover the secret of Resonance before the more "explosively minded" do first.
Developed by xii games and published by Wadjet Eye Games (of ''TheBlackwellSeries'' and ''GeminiRue'' fame).
!!Resonance uses the following tropes
*HowWeGotHere: The game opens with the news report showing over a dozen cities world wide having suffered some sort of an attack, before jumping back 60 hours earlier.
*InsistentTerminology: Ray is ''not'' a "blogger.
