History VideoGame / TheBlackwellSeries

* ElectromagneticGhosts: All ghosts, including Joey, can interfere with radio-based devices simply by getting close to them. This is crucial to solving several puzzles throughout the games.

* WalkingTechbane: All ghosts interfere with wireless signals. Rosa notes that she had to install cable just so she could watch TV with Joey around.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Joey attempts this on [[spoiler:the Deacon]] in ''Legacy''. You can choose whether [[VideoGameCaringPotential Rosa should intervene]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential or have him go through with it.]]

* NoSocialSkills: Rosa, especially in the first game. She refuses to approach Nashanti while she's playing her flute in public, and her dialogue choices throughout often end up as a choice between "mean", "passive-aggressive", or "awkward/tell an awkward joke."

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Rosa.

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** Lauren in ''Unbound'' has a strand of hair over one part of her face that doesn't show up if she's turned the other way.
** Averted with Maggie Fielding in ''Epiphany''; her shoulder tattoo is always visible and changes orientation based on which side of her is visible.

** Rosa falling on her face every time she crosses the portal into Nodespace. Ended up becoming an OverUsedRunningGag, hence Dave Gilbert decided to phase it out come ''Epiphany''.

* AccidentalInnuendo / InnocentInnuendo: Lampshaded in Dave Gilbert's commentary for ''Legacy'' regarding Rosa and Joey's dialogue about his tie.
--> "I can touch it?"
--> "Yeah. The only part of me you CAN touch. Unfortunately."
--> "It... kinda tingles."

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* ScreenShake: the screen goes through some shaking twice in ''Convergence'' when you pick up the spirit from the oven.

* ContinuityCavalcade: Rosa's apartment gradually fills up with mementos, clippings, and pictures referring to past events. By ''Epiphany'' there's stuff referring back to every previous game.

** By the time of ''Epiphany'' Rosa's mental control allows her to keep her balance on moving to the gate to infinity rather than falling over as she and her aunt always did in the past. This later allows her to [[spoiler:withstand the effects of being linked to infinity much longer than her aunt or grandmother, letting her remain lucid and functional long enough to take down Madeline.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Turns out that the person that kills [[spoiler:Ostin]] in ''Epiphany'' is actually [[spoiler:a possessed Father Michael, Madeline's "host" at the time.]]

** [[HairpinLockpick Picking a locked door with [[spoiler:a paper clip]]]] in ''Convergence''.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Gavin, and possibly Benjiro]]. Madeline has been around for centuries, but being a ghost might disqualify her.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Plentiful. Whenever a spirit refuses to listen to reason or encouragement, the option to give one of these appears in the dialogue tree. [[spoiler:And it's usually the best course of action. Rosangela can use one on Alan to snap him out of his depression, and Joey uses multiple in a row to save Rosangela from her brainwashing.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A woman named Jocelyn Contis performed a single act of unthinking selfishness which not only destroyed her own life ([[spoiler:and death, for that matter]]), but the lives of around a dozen other people, [[spoiler:the main characters included.]]

* WhoYouGonnaCall: Rosangela decides to set up this sort of business at the end of ''Convergence'' and continues it in ''Deception'', complete with business cards and newspaper advertisement.

* PleaseWakeUp: Heartbreakingly done in ''Epiphany'', when [[spoiler: Joey tries to hand his tie to Rosa after she'd restored him to life]].

* UnfinishedBusiness: Ghosts who died in the middle of some activity may need to have that activity wrapped up before they'll notice how dead they are.

* ClipboardOfAuthority: In ''Legacy'', the crazy tenant ghost doesn't believe Joe to be an official of some sort, because he is not wearing a clipboard.

* MindRape: The Deacon is mentally tormenting the three girls Joann, Alli and Susan in ''Legacy''. [[HearingVoices Hear his voice]] non-stop [[DrivenToSuicide drives two of them to commit suicide]].