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  • Heartwarming Moments: Rooms 114 and 113 are connected in a disturbing, yet nigh-heartwarming, way, as Paulina, the occupant of 113 is revealed to be a little girl suffering from Heller's Syndrome, who'd been abducted at the request of Corrupt Corporate Executive Pieta in order to transplant her consciousness into the now-vacant mind, as Pieta was terminally ill. She soon learns that the mind is not vacant, but she's now being treated as the Imaginary Friend of the girl she'd hoped to use, and they grew to genuinely care about each other, as Pieta's stabilizing presence in Paulina's mind seems to have successfully fought back against the condition. Their affection grows to the point that the Executive screwed over the contact that had arranged the abduction in order to keep the girl from being harmed, as she'd grown a conscience due to having that shared headspace. The final choice for their scenario is to either reinforce the connection, causing them to share the little girl's body and leaving the Executive's body to die, or to sever the connection and save the Executive's life - but at the cost of leaving the girl in a vegetative state.
  • Narm:
    • Rutger Hauer's voice acting is a bit inconsistent as he's sometimes acting very much of the Dull Surprise school of acting while other times his haggard smoker's voice and slurs fits perfectly in an understated performance.
    • While the game does have its genuinely unnerving moments, the use of stock screams throughout muddles some of the tension. An optional hallway that references Silent Hills and Layers of Fear has these all over the place intentionally.
    • The hide sequences involving the unnamed monster become this when you realize that the search light is the only part of the monster that can spot you, making it feel largely harmless.
  • Tearjerker: The backstory of several residents definitely qualifies.
    • Janus is considered dead to his family, having attempted to contact them so often that his son threatens to brutalize him if he does it again. It's hinted that his memories are muddled with someone else's though, which is both better and worse if true.
    • The occupant of Room 207 insists on being called Mrs. in memory of her wife who'd died from a previous nanophage outbreak that left the occupant scarred and her wife dead.
    • Both endings of the game. Even moreso with the death of Rutger Hauer.

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