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4	''Double Cross'' is a 2D adventure platformer developed by 13AM Games, the studio behind the award-winning VideoGame/{{Runbow}}. It was released for Switch and PC in early 2019.
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6	Zahra Sinclair is an agent of RIFT, an organization that keeps peace throughout the multiverse. A recent attack on headquarters thrusts players into a thrilling new case where they must use their RIFT developed gear to sling, swing, fight and investigate across distinct dimensions, gathering clues to bring themselves one step closer to finding the identity of the attacker and save every variation of the universe.
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10	* AfterTheEnd: Reptarria. It was a version of Earth where the dinosaurs were never wiped out by an asteroid, and subsequently evolved into a dino dominated version of modern day Earth. And then it wound up getting annihilated by an asteroid anyway some 200 years prior to the events of the game, turning it into the Mad Max-esque wasteland you see it as when visiting, complete with a massive crater in the background.
11	* AIIsACrapshoot: The Funderdome's backstory; robots overthrew the humans & turned their Earth into an interdimensional tourist trap.
12	* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Due to a risk of instability, RIFT does not allow interactions with Earths too similar to their own.
13	** [[spoiler: Deconstructed over the course of the game. The fact that preventing interference with [[CrapsackWorld the less lucky parts of the multiverse]] has allowed a huge amount of preventable suffering to continue is repeatedly mentioned, and revenge for being left to suffer when RIFT could have easily helped is Suspect X's primary motivation. In the end, this rule is loosened if not removed, with RIFT reformed to allow humanitarian intervention in the worst parts of the multiverse.]]
14	* AllThereInTheManual: A handful of secondary facts about the backstory are give on the official website like details about the planets the various RIFT members came from.
15	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Ripjaw. He's the most powerful warlord on Reptarria, and quite capable in a fight.
16	* BigBad: Suspect X. [[spoiler: Actually winds up being a [[BigBadDuumvirate duumvirate]] job, with Suspect X being an alternate universe Dash Sterling working with RIFT's Dash Sterling as the inside man. Their goal is to destroy RIFT in revenge for refusing to save their wife and son's lives from an illness they could have easily cured.]]
17	* BossRush: You have to fight the three major villains again during the final level. They have less health and fewer phases than before.
18	* BubblegloopSwamp: Gootopia.
19	* BurnTheWitch: Director Sorgina Delabourde very narrowly escaped this fate in her backstory. She accidentally entered a portal to a backwards Earth (think the Salem Witch Trials) that thought she was a witch (she resembles a vampire/demon) and tried to burn her at the stake, and was saved by a RIFT agent. This is why she's a massive stickler for the rules.
20	* DrivingQuestion: Who is Suspect X, the masked mastermind that bypassed RIFT's security and stole dangerous material? [[spoiler:It's Dash Sterling, working with a doppelganger that suffered similar loss.]]
21	* EcoTerrorist: Basically what [[spoiler: Dr. Freya Gronnalva]] is. They hate the fact that RIFT messes around with the environments and lifeforms of various worlds, and joined up with Suspect X as a result.
22	* EvilTwin: A doppelganger of Zahra from another dimension repeatedly pops up to antagonize her, though she claims to be unconnected to Suspect X. [[spoiler:It turns out her world was destroyed by Suspect X as a test of their RIFT-destroying superweapon, and while escaping she got a brief glimpse of Suspect X's RIFT ally giving orders, leading her to hate both the agency and Suspect X.]]
23	* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are plenty of hints about Suspect X's identity and other things to come. [[spoiler:Rouge Zahra's plan to infiltrate RIFT is also hinted at during the third meeting with her]] just like the events of the Stinger if you listen to what the BigBad is saying during his rant in the final battle.
24	* FunWithAcronyms: Both RIFT, which stands for "Regulators of Interdimensional Frontiers and Technology" and SPHERE, which stands for "Science, Physics and Engineering Research division".
25	* GrapplingHookPistol: Zahra is using her Proton Slinger (basically an energy grappling hook) to traverse various obstacles and reach otherwise impossible spots.
26	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Turns out there's an entire council of at least four Dash Sterlings out there pissed off at RIFT. Dash ''does'' mention in the final battle that he visited more than one world trying and failing to find a version of his son that was still alive...]]
27	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:"Rogue" Zahra teams up with Zahra in the final fight to defeat Suspect X & his own Rogue self.]]
28	* HubWorld: RIFT HQ, from which Zahra can search for clues in parallel worlds Gootopia, the Funderdome, and Reptarria.
29	* InterspeciesRomance: Between Ms. Ham, a human, and [[spoiler:Agent Pineapple, a sentient fruit]].
30	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After their refights, Ripjaw and [[spoiler: Dr. Freya]] willingly admit defeat. Hancho isn't quite as noble about it.
31	* LadyOfWar: Helena Lycastia, RIFT's prison warden. Decked to the gills with various weapons, and always calls Zahra "Lady Zahra"
32	* LargeAndInCharge: Ripjaw again. He's very buff and extremely tall. [[spoiler: It's hilarious when you see him sitting on the floor in his (undersized for him) cell after you arrest him.]]
33	* LizardFolk: Reptarria is a dimension where the dinosaurs never went extinct, though a recent cataclysm has devastated the lands.
34	* OneHitPointWonder: While you have a health bar, you can turn it off with the Glass Canon upgrade. Defeating the final boss with it is even an archievement. [[spoiler: You can still use the upgrade that gives you a regenerating shield on top of that to take at least one or two hits.]]
35	* OutrunTheFireball: The SPHERE Base on Gootopia has you outrunning a massive wave of deadly slime, three separate times.
36	* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Dash Sterling's wife & son both died from an illness that could have been cured with medicine from a very similar dimension, [[AlienNonInterferenceClause had RIFT allowed it]].]]
37	* TheMole: It's suspected that Suspect X is this, as RIFT's security is top-notch. [[spoiler:Dr. Freya Gronnalva is not Suspect X, but is working with them. There is also another mole.]]
38	* RedHerring: Initially, all the evidence points to [[spoiler:Skip]], but they turn out to be innocent. Quite a few other characters are suspiscious as well but evidence and/or circumstances clear them.
39	* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Turns out there are a ''lot'' more than two Dash Sterlings working to take down RIFT...]]
40	* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Zahra admits that, while Suspect X's revenge is taking it too far, RIFT's AlienNonInterferenceClause has caused more danger than prevented. Even the administration admits it.]]
41	** Ripjaw submits a request to RIFT to transfer the remaining Reptarrians to other habitable yet uninhabited worlds, as while he's a violent warlord and weapons dealer he does seem to want the best for Reptarria. Director Delabourde turns his request down, to his anger.
42	* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Skip Hollister, Zahra's handler.
43	* WalkTheEarth: More like "Walk the Earths," but [[spoiler: Rogue Zahra states that she plans to do this during the ending, after politely declining Zahra's offer to become a RIFT agent. She also says that she and Zahra will definitely be running into each other again in the future.]]

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