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* ObviouslyEvil: Falconetti first appears to Quinlan in a virtual burning hellscape filled with human corpses, wielding a dozen knives--that he throws at the tied-up Quinlan--and his head occasionally turns transparent to reveal his skull. No, he couldn't possibly be the Ripper.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Magnotta has this. Since he's also a RabidCop, it's arguable that he's parodying this trope.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]], [[VideoGame/Fallout a knife-sized chainsaw]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]].
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]], [[VideoGame/Fallout [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} a knife-sized chainsaw]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]].
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]], [[Franchise/Fallout a knife-sized chainsaw]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]].
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]], [[Franchise/Fallout [[VideoGame/Fallout a knife-sized chainsaw]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]].
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]].
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] Giles]], [[Franchise/Fallout a knife-sized chainsaw]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]].
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** [[spoiler: Possibly subverted if Catherine is the killer. Someone killed her mother, and most of the evidence points to Falconetti (again, only if Catherine is the Ripper).]]
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** [[spoiler: Possibly subverted if Catherine is the killer. Someone killed her mother, and most of the evidence points to Eddie (again, only if Catherine is the Ripper)]]
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** [[spoiler: Possibly subverted if Catherine is the killer. Someone killed her mother, and most of the evidence points to Eddie Falconetti (again, only if Catherine is the Ripper)]]Ripper).]]
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** [[spoiler: Possibly subverted if Catherine is the killer. Someone killed her mother, and most of the evidence points to Eddie (again, only if Catherine is the Ripper)]]
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The game is set in NewYorkCity in the [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk-ish]] future of 2040 and is centered around the investigation of a serial killer known as the "Ripper", due to him having a similar MO to the original JackTheRipper. The player controls Jake Quinlan, a reporter investigating the killings who periodically receives messages from the Ripper himself. The case turns [[ItsPersonal personal]] when Quinlan's girlfriend Catherine Powell is attacked by the Ripper for [[HeKnowsTooMuch getting too close]]. Unexpectedly, she survives but falls into a deep coma. It is up to Quinlan to discover the Ripper's identity, even if it means butting heads with CowboyCop Detective Vincent Magnotta.
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The game is set in NewYorkCity in the [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk-ish]] future of 2040 and is centered around the investigation of a serial killer known as the "Ripper", due to him having a similar MO to the original JackTheRipper.UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The player controls Jake Quinlan, a reporter investigating the killings who periodically receives messages from the Ripper himself. The case turns [[ItsPersonal personal]] when Quinlan's girlfriend Catherine Powell is attacked by the Ripper for [[HeKnowsTooMuch getting too close]]. Unexpectedly, she survives but falls into a deep coma. It is up to Quinlan to discover the Ripper's identity, even if it means butting heads with CowboyCop Detective Vincent Magnotta.
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* LargeHam: Magnotta.
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* LargeHam: Magnotta. Even by Creator/ChristopherWalken [[UpToEleven standards]].
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* EvilVersusEvil: DirtyCop Vincent Magnotta versus the AxCrazy Joey Falconetti
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* EvilVersusEvil: DirtyCop Vincent Magnotta versus the AxCrazy Joey FalconettiFalconetti. And depending on the ending, one or both of them is also part of the hunt for the new Jack the Ripper.
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* ActingForTwo: Oscar nominee Burgess Meredith pulls double duty playing twin brothers.
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* AllStarCast: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies all get top billing. Paul Giamatti is also in this, but this was back when he was an unknown NYC actor.
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* FakeBrit: The fake Cockney accents from Falconetti's recording of their last session in Whitechapel are particularly painful.
** Best shown in the mangled pronounciation of "Spitalfields" (Spit-al-fields) as ''Spy-del-fields''.
** Best shown in the mangled pronounciation of "Spitalfields" (Spit-al-fields) as ''Spy-del-fields''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Did you see the cast list above?
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* MoneyDearBoy: The most probable motivation behind the actors in this game. Particularly sad in Burgess Meredith's case, since this was his last role before he died.
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* AlienSkyAlienSky: The sky is red for some reason.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.sawblades]].
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Step 1: Collect monkey fear
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* GeniusSlob: Farley awful slob, excellent coroner.
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* GeniusSlob: Farley Farley, awful slob, excellent coroner.
* MissingStepsPlan: Dr. Burton's 'death resonance' business comes across as this.
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* NotSoBadassLongcoat: Quinlan, who's only journalistic credit seems to be printing the Ripper's letters even his comatosed assistant is a much better investigator than him.
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* NotSoBadassLongcoat: Quinlan, who's only journalistic credit seems to be printing the Ripper's letters letters, even his comatosed assistant is a much better investigator than him.
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* ActingForTwo: Oscar nominee Burgess Meredith pulls double duty playing twin brothers.
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* DonutMessWithACop: The desk sergeant has one on his desk, sometimes.
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* RecruitingTheCriminal: Falconetti's skillz are highly sought after, even though he is batshit crazy
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* BadassBoast: "The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they're movin', they're movin'. You get yourself caught in those wheels, Quinlan, you're in for a lotta ''pain''."
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* BadassBoast: "The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they're movin', they're movin'. You get yourself caught in those wheels, Quinlan, you're in for a lotta ''pain''."
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* BadassBoast: "The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they're movin', they're movin'. You get yourself caught in those wheels, Quinlan, you're in for a lotta ''pain''."BodyHorror: The Ripper makes his/her victims explode from the inside.
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* OralFixationFixation: Walken's character is chomping on a cigar in almost every scene he's in. Literally. Spoony explicitly points out "oral fixation" and adds a "NOM!" every time Walken chomps away at the cigar.
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* OralFixationFixation: OralFixation: Walken's character is chomping on a cigar in almost every scene he's in. Literally. Spoony explicitly points out "oral fixation" and adds a "NOM!" every time Walken chomps away at the cigar.
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A 1996 {{FMV}} AdventureGame developed by Creator/{{Take-Two Interactive}}.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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* ForTheEvulz: In three of the four endings, you're left with no real idea of the killer's motivation, and Quinlan says he has no interest in trying to put it together.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[BubbaHoTep [[Film/BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[DoTheRightThing Ossie]] [[BubbaHoTep Davis]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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[[caption-width-right:316:"[[ChristopherWalken Dis gai]]... is un-''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]''-believable."]]
A 1996 FMV adventure game developed by Take-Two Interactive.
The game is set in NewYorkCity in the [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk-ish]] future of 2040 and is centered around the investigation of a serial killer known as the "Ripper", due to him having a similar MO to the original JackTheRipper. The player controls Jake Quinlan, a reporter investigating the killings who periodically receives messages from the Ripper himself. The case turns [[ItsPersonal personal]] when Quinlan's girlfriend Catherine Powell is attacked by the Ripper for [[HeKnowsTooMuch getting too close]]. Unexpectedly, she survives but falls into a deep coma. It is up to Quinlan to discover the Ripper's identity, even if it means butting heads with CowboyCop Detective Vincent Magnotta.
This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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!!'''This game contains examples of:'''
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: This is what most people assume happened to the victims, even though it turns out they all ''exploded'' from the inside and an exploded person should not look the same as someone gutted like the catch of the day.
* AllStarCast: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies all get top billing. Paul Giamatti is also in this, but this was back when he was an unknown NYC actor.
* AxCrazy: Falconetti and Magnotta
* BeneathSuspicion: It's hard to get more beneath suspicion than [[spoiler: being in a coma! (A coma with brain activity that spikes whenever the Ripper kills, hmmm...)]]
* BadassBoast: "The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they're movin', they're movin'. You get yourself caught in those wheels, Quinlan, you're in for a lotta ''pain''."
* BrownNote: Apparently in her spare time, Dr. Burton records the mental "death resonances" of monkeys she's tortured to death in cyberspace and sells them on the black market, for who knows what purpose.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Farley is a FatSlob whose autopsy methods are...questionable, at best. He also comes up with a viable lead on how the Ripper kills from afar.
* CigarChomper: Magnotta. However, he never seems to smoke them.
* CowboyCop: Magnotta and ''how''. Somewhat justified in that it's revealed that policemen have become more like [[BountyHunter bounty hunters]].
** He's cited as a 'typical New Breed cop,' but apparently one who has a bad reputation even among them.
* CyberPunk
* DarkIsNotEvil: Falconetti, if innocent.
* DigitalAvatar: Quinlan's is a simple-looking green putty CGI man that absorbs software into its rubbery head.
* DirtyCop: Magnotta. He's not explicitly on the take, per se, but he's about as unethical as you can possibly get, seems more interested in covering up the Ripper case than actually solving it, and is one of the possible suspects.
* DrJerk: Claire Burton
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The three prime suspects all used to be in the same hacker gang before growing up and going their separate ways.
* EvilVersusEvil: DirtyCop Vincent Magnotta versus the AxCrazy Joey Falconetti
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation
-->Spoony: In the future, you won't just enter in a text web address, you'll be forced to wander around the hellish virtual landscape of MORDOR!
* FakeBrit: The fake Cockney accents from Falconetti's recording of their last session in Whitechapel are particularly painful.
** Best shown in the mangled pronounciation of "Spitalfields" (Spit-al-fields) as ''Spy-del-fields''.
* FakeDifficulty: Some of the puzzles aren't that difficult, but other factors make them much harder to solve, such as limited controls or a lack of a frame of reference
* FatSlob: Farley
* GameOverMan: Losing the final shoot-out sequence switches the game's perspective to Ripper. We don't see his/her face, only a monitor showing Quinlan's dead body.
* GeniusCripple: Soap Beatty, [[WTHCastingAgency played by]] [[Series/GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]]
* GuideDangIt: Some of the more difficult puzzles
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: As Spoony highlights, the Internet in this game seems to consist only of a dozen websites.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Did you see the cast list above?
* JackTheRipoff
* KarmaHoudini: It's implied that in what's thought to be the true ending, [[spoiler: [[DirtyCop Magnotta]], [[AxCrazy Falconetti]], and [[DrJerk Burton]] ]] all get away with their various misdeeds
* KnifeNut: Falconetti loves his knives, and regularly practices throwing them.
* LargeHam: Magnotta.
* MadDoctor / MadScientist: [[spoiler: Burton]]
* MoneyDearBoy: The most probable motivation behind the actors in this game. Particularly sad in Burgess Meredith's case, since this was his last role before he died.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: The final puzzle of the game has you input a sequence of Tarot cards to [[spoiler:receive the anti-Ripper weapon]] with no apparent clue to the correct sequence. However, [[spoiler:during the puzzle "Don't Fear The Reaper" starts playing. You're inclined to ignore it since it's the game's theme song and this is the endgame...until you realize that the key to the sequence is the song's lyrics ("''''Seasons''' don't '''fear''' the '''Reaper'''/Nor do the '''wind''', the '''Sun''' and the '''Rain'''..."). While it's simple in retrospect, you're likely to get stuck since you're not expecting the sudden use of PaintingTheMedium.]]
* MultipleEndings: Curiously enough, the identity of the Ripper is actually randomized at some point of the game, with some elements changing accordingly. Disappointingly however, the endings are mostly the same regardless of the culprit. It can be inferred that only one of them is the "true" ending, due to the way it's differently handled than the rest (and that that one person was the only one with a specific grudge against all the victims) but, again, unlocking that ending is randomized. It's likely the others were just thrown in at the last moment.
* NiceHat: Magnotta can rock a porkpie like no other
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The majority of the puzzles that make up the "hacking" minigames are either puzzles, or, bizarrely, first-person rail shooter segments.
* OralFixationFixation: Walken's character is chomping on a cigar in almost every scene he's in. Literally. Spoony explicitly points out "oral fixation" and adds a "NOM!" every time Walken chomps away at the cigar.
* PoliceBrutality: Detective Vincent Magnotta has been known to beat confessions out of people
* RabidCop: Magnotta
* RetiredMonster: Falconetti
* SolveTheSoupCans: Many, but one of the worst must be the set up in Catherine's apartment which involves crystals that must be put in a certain order in a grid that ''fires a laser'' at a book. You're only given a very vague idea of where to put crystals on a very specific grid to create a constellation, and the payoff is ultimately something Catherine could have just left you in a note: her password. Just to make it worse, the puzzle centers around [[spoiler:the constellations of the horoscope]], and the password is [[spoiler:Horoscope]], meaning that solving the puzzle means you have to already figure out that [[spoiler:Catherine was interested in horoscopes, despite that information alone being enough to make a reasonable guess at the password]].
** Another infamously terrifying puzzle, one whose mere screenshot is used as a reference to how tough the puzzles in an adventure game could be, is the circuit board rewiring puzzle. It looks about as complex as learning how to solder chips in yourself without getting anything wrong would be in real life; fortunately, abstracting out some of the codes and what-not can make it easier.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. [[spoiler:The song's lyrics are the key to the final puzzle.]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: [[UnexpectedShmupLevel The several rail shooter sections]]. Yeah, in ''an adventure game.''
** And Spoony learns the hard way that they too fall under GuideDangIt; in one of them, it's not enough to shoot the pop-up targets once, but to shoot them as many times as possible in order to get the qualifying score, even though the game fails to tell you that little detail.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Magnotta gets away with beating up Quinlan while interrogating him by ''slicing his forehead with a huge knife'' so he can claim self defense if Quinlan reports this. I mean, [[RefugeInAudacity would anyone believe the truth]]?
** Also qualifies as an inverse of the PoliceBrutalityGambit
** And, as Spoony points out, ''it wouldn't have worked anyway.''
--> '''Magnotta''': Self defence, man. I mean, why'd you hit me, Quinlan? What are you, stupid? Hitting a cop?!
--> '''Spoony''': With a knife, while handcuffed.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Forget hacking into the human mind to give you an aneurism or whatever: the Ripper can hack your brain in such a way your body's internal pressure builds until you explode from the inside.
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[[caption-width-right:316:"[[ChristopherWalken Dis gai]]... is un-''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]''-believable."]]
A 1996 FMV adventure game developed by Take-Two Interactive.
The game is set in NewYorkCity in the [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk-ish]] future of 2040 and is centered around the investigation of a serial killer known as the "Ripper", due to him having a similar MO to the original JackTheRipper. The player controls Jake Quinlan, a reporter investigating the killings who periodically receives messages from the Ripper himself. The case turns [[ItsPersonal personal]] when Quinlan's girlfriend Catherine Powell is attacked by the Ripper for [[HeKnowsTooMuch getting too close]]. Unexpectedly, she survives but falls into a deep coma. It is up to Quinlan to discover the Ripper's identity, even if it means butting heads with CowboyCop Detective Vincent Magnotta.
This game is mostly notable for two things: first, the sheer amount of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: ChristopherWalken, [[TheTenthKingdom Scott]] [[GilmoreGirls Cohen]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} Burgess]] [[{{Series/Batman}} Meredith]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Karen Allen]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones John]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Rhys-Davies]], [[GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]], [[Film/{{Commando}} David Patrick]] [[Film/TheWarriors Kelly]], and [[{{Sideways}} Paul]] [[CinderellaMan Giamatti]]. Second, the LetsPlay / MSTing of the game done by WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment found [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/lets-play/ripper/ here]]. Other than that, it's mostly yet another mediocre '90s FMV adventure game posing itself as an "interactive movie". Sadly, it has nothing to do with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Rupert Giles]] or [[Franchise/DeadSpace a gun]] [[UnrealTournament that shoots sawblades]], or it might have been good.
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!!'''This game contains examples of:'''
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: This is what most people assume happened to the victims, even though it turns out they all ''exploded'' from the inside and an exploded person should not look the same as someone gutted like the catch of the day.
* AllStarCast: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, and John Rhys-Davies all get top billing. Paul Giamatti is also in this, but this was back when he was an unknown NYC actor.
* AxCrazy: Falconetti and Magnotta
* BeneathSuspicion: It's hard to get more beneath suspicion than [[spoiler: being in a coma! (A coma with brain activity that spikes whenever the Ripper kills, hmmm...)]]
* BadassBoast: "The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they're movin', they're movin'. You get yourself caught in those wheels, Quinlan, you're in for a lotta ''pain''."
* BrownNote: Apparently in her spare time, Dr. Burton records the mental "death resonances" of monkeys she's tortured to death in cyberspace and sells them on the black market, for who knows what purpose.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Farley is a FatSlob whose autopsy methods are...questionable, at best. He also comes up with a viable lead on how the Ripper kills from afar.
* CigarChomper: Magnotta. However, he never seems to smoke them.
* CowboyCop: Magnotta and ''how''. Somewhat justified in that it's revealed that policemen have become more like [[BountyHunter bounty hunters]].
** He's cited as a 'typical New Breed cop,' but apparently one who has a bad reputation even among them.
* CyberPunk
* DarkIsNotEvil: Falconetti, if innocent.
* DigitalAvatar: Quinlan's is a simple-looking green putty CGI man that absorbs software into its rubbery head.
* DirtyCop: Magnotta. He's not explicitly on the take, per se, but he's about as unethical as you can possibly get, seems more interested in covering up the Ripper case than actually solving it, and is one of the possible suspects.
* DrJerk: Claire Burton
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The three prime suspects all used to be in the same hacker gang before growing up and going their separate ways.
* EvilVersusEvil: DirtyCop Vincent Magnotta versus the AxCrazy Joey Falconetti
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation
-->Spoony: In the future, you won't just enter in a text web address, you'll be forced to wander around the hellish virtual landscape of MORDOR!
* FakeBrit: The fake Cockney accents from Falconetti's recording of their last session in Whitechapel are particularly painful.
** Best shown in the mangled pronounciation of "Spitalfields" (Spit-al-fields) as ''Spy-del-fields''.
* FakeDifficulty: Some of the puzzles aren't that difficult, but other factors make them much harder to solve, such as limited controls or a lack of a frame of reference
* FatSlob: Farley
* GameOverMan: Losing the final shoot-out sequence switches the game's perspective to Ripper. We don't see his/her face, only a monitor showing Quinlan's dead body.
* GeniusCripple: Soap Beatty, [[WTHCastingAgency played by]] [[Series/GoodTimes Jimmie Walker]]
* GuideDangIt: Some of the more difficult puzzles
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: As Spoony highlights, the Internet in this game seems to consist only of a dozen websites.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Did you see the cast list above?
* JackTheRipoff
* KarmaHoudini: It's implied that in what's thought to be the true ending, [[spoiler: [[DirtyCop Magnotta]], [[AxCrazy Falconetti]], and [[DrJerk Burton]] ]] all get away with their various misdeeds
* KnifeNut: Falconetti loves his knives, and regularly practices throwing them.
* LargeHam: Magnotta.
* MadDoctor / MadScientist: [[spoiler: Burton]]
* MoneyDearBoy: The most probable motivation behind the actors in this game. Particularly sad in Burgess Meredith's case, since this was his last role before he died.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: The final puzzle of the game has you input a sequence of Tarot cards to [[spoiler:receive the anti-Ripper weapon]] with no apparent clue to the correct sequence. However, [[spoiler:during the puzzle "Don't Fear The Reaper" starts playing. You're inclined to ignore it since it's the game's theme song and this is the endgame...until you realize that the key to the sequence is the song's lyrics ("''''Seasons''' don't '''fear''' the '''Reaper'''/Nor do the '''wind''', the '''Sun''' and the '''Rain'''..."). While it's simple in retrospect, you're likely to get stuck since you're not expecting the sudden use of PaintingTheMedium.]]
* MultipleEndings: Curiously enough, the identity of the Ripper is actually randomized at some point of the game, with some elements changing accordingly. Disappointingly however, the endings are mostly the same regardless of the culprit. It can be inferred that only one of them is the "true" ending, due to the way it's differently handled than the rest (and that that one person was the only one with a specific grudge against all the victims) but, again, unlocking that ending is randomized. It's likely the others were just thrown in at the last moment.
* NiceHat: Magnotta can rock a porkpie like no other
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The majority of the puzzles that make up the "hacking" minigames are either puzzles, or, bizarrely, first-person rail shooter segments.
* OralFixationFixation: Walken's character is chomping on a cigar in almost every scene he's in. Literally. Spoony explicitly points out "oral fixation" and adds a "NOM!" every time Walken chomps away at the cigar.
* PoliceBrutality: Detective Vincent Magnotta has been known to beat confessions out of people
* RabidCop: Magnotta
* RetiredMonster: Falconetti
* SolveTheSoupCans: Many, but one of the worst must be the set up in Catherine's apartment which involves crystals that must be put in a certain order in a grid that ''fires a laser'' at a book. You're only given a very vague idea of where to put crystals on a very specific grid to create a constellation, and the payoff is ultimately something Catherine could have just left you in a note: her password. Just to make it worse, the puzzle centers around [[spoiler:the constellations of the horoscope]], and the password is [[spoiler:Horoscope]], meaning that solving the puzzle means you have to already figure out that [[spoiler:Catherine was interested in horoscopes, despite that information alone being enough to make a reasonable guess at the password]].
** Another infamously terrifying puzzle, one whose mere screenshot is used as a reference to how tough the puzzles in an adventure game could be, is the circuit board rewiring puzzle. It looks about as complex as learning how to solder chips in yourself without getting anything wrong would be in real life; fortunately, abstracting out some of the codes and what-not can make it easier.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. [[spoiler:The song's lyrics are the key to the final puzzle.]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: [[UnexpectedShmupLevel The several rail shooter sections]]. Yeah, in ''an adventure game.''
** And Spoony learns the hard way that they too fall under GuideDangIt; in one of them, it's not enough to shoot the pop-up targets once, but to shoot them as many times as possible in order to get the qualifying score, even though the game fails to tell you that little detail.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Magnotta gets away with beating up Quinlan while interrogating him by ''slicing his forehead with a huge knife'' so he can claim self defense if Quinlan reports this. I mean, [[RefugeInAudacity would anyone believe the truth]]?
** Also qualifies as an inverse of the PoliceBrutalityGambit
** And, as Spoony points out, ''it wouldn't have worked anyway.''
--> '''Magnotta''': Self defence, man. I mean, why'd you hit me, Quinlan? What are you, stupid? Hitting a cop?!
--> '''Spoony''': With a knife, while handcuffed.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Forget hacking into the human mind to give you an aneurism or whatever: the Ripper can hack your brain in such a way your body's internal pressure builds until you explode from the inside.
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