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Ripper (Video Game)
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Ripper is a 1996 Interactive Movie Adventure Game developed by Take-Two Interactive.The game is set in New York City in the 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 Jack the Ripper. The player controls Jake Quinlan, a reporter investigating the killings who periodically receives messages from the Ripper himself. The case turns personal when Quinlan's girlfriend Catherine Powell is attacked by the Ripper for 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 Cowboy Cop Detective Vincent Magnotta.This game is mostly notable for the sheer number of Hollywood actors involved in this game. The list is a sight to behold: Christopher Walken, Scott Cohen, Burgess Meredith, Ossie Davis, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies, Jimmie Walker, David Patrick Kelly, and Paul Giamatti, and features licensed music from Blue Öyster Cult. | |
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Fat Slob | |
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Fat Slob: Farley isn't the most hygienic pathologist at the hospital. On top of eating and smoking around the bodies, but he's also so casual around blood and gore that he actually attempts to shake Quinlan's hand after handling a corpse's internal organs. | |
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Snowy Screen of Death | |
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Snowy Screen of Death: Played straight in the good endings, after Jake logs out of cyberspace just before the virtual Whitechapel is deleted. | |
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Adam Westing | |
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Adam Westing: Christopher Walken seems to be doing a Christopher Walken impression in this game. | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change: The several rail shooter sections. Yeah, in an adventure game. Also falls under Guide Dang It!: 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. | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain: Of all the possible characters who could be the Ripper, only Catherine has a motive- vengeance for her mother; Magnotta, Burton and Falconetti aren't given one. If any of them are the Ripper, Jake says that he "didn't feel up to pondering the motives of a madman/madwoman" when discussing them in his final narration. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Dirty Cop Vincent Magnotta versus the Ax-Crazy Joey Falconetti. 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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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: 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. This ending is also the one the official strategy guide, written in the form of a novel, goes with. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: A cripple is played by Jimmie Walker. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: It is never revealed who really killed Josie Dorsett during the original Ripper game. It's lightly implied it actually was Falconetti in most of the routes, and that Vince got him thrown in prison over it, but it is also implied it was a case of Accidental Murder. If Magnotta's the Ripper, it's equally-lightly implied that he's the one who did it, possibly to set Falconetti up. | |
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Milking the Giant Cow | |
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Milking the Giant Cow: Magnotta simply can't stand still when he's talken. | |
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Oral Fixation | |
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Oral Fixation: Walken's character is chomping on a cigar in almost every scene he's in. Literally. | |
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It Only Works Once | |
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It Only Works Once: Hamilton's energy shuriken can only be used once, because (being basically the Whitechapel virtual environment's self-destruct function with a twist) once it makes contact with its target, it deletes itself, the target (killing the human) and eventually everything around it. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Cyberpunk future New York City is a dump. It has an oppressive red sky, (maybe due to pollution?) the cops are mostly useless or corrupt, cyberspace is filled with shady characters, and the people live in fear of a depraved Serial Killer who can butcher you seemingly without leaving any trace. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: One of the most hilarious, if not twisted moments in the game stands out at the beginning of the second act, between Quinlan and Viv. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Early in the game, Jake finds a book on Jack the Ripper in the Library, but it serves no purpose for most of the game. At the end, the Ripper tells Jake to return there and open it, which turns out to lead him to Whitechapel. | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: Forget hacking into the human mind to give you an aneurysm or whatever: the Ripper can hack your brain in such a way your body's internal pressure builds until you explode from the inside. It is heavily implied this is why Josie Dorsett died in the original Ripper game, but the dynamics of it are never explored. In the novelization/strategy guide, it states that Josie’s death was a once in a lifetime glitch related to the early dangers of decking, but that’s only in the ending where Catherine is the killer. | |
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Beneath Suspicion | |
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Beneath Suspicion: It's hard to get more beneath suspicion than being in a coma. | |
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Atomic F-Bomb | |
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Atomic F-Bomb: Delivered by Jake when Catherine collapses in his arms. | |
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Mistaken for Murderer | |
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Mistaken for Murderer: Jake gets arrested by Magnotta at the start of Act 3, believed to be the killer because he was always the last person to see the Ripper's victim. He only gets released because Magnotta couldn't find any evidence to back it up. | |
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Everyone Went to School Together | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: The three prime suspects all used to be in the same hacker gang before growing up and going their separate ways. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: Falconetti collects knives and is obsessed with the Ripper. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Falconetti and Magnotta. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Vince Magnotta is an asshole and a Dirty Cop, but there is a scene where he displays a lot of awareness about the Ripper's psychology. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Powerup: (Don't Fear) The Reaper plays during the final puzzle. Select words from the lyrics tell you how to solve it. | |
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Missing Steps Plan | |
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Missing Steps Plan: Dr. Burton's 'death resonance' business comes across as this. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: When the time comes for the player to finger who they think the Ripper is, Magnotta seems genuinely shocked that Jake would suspect him of being the killer. Of course, if he is the Ripper, he's only faking it. | |
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Angsty Surviving Twin | |
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Angsty Surviving Twin: Covington Wofford's twin brother Hamilton was murdered by one his clients (later revealed to be the Ripper), and as a result, Covington has clearly been going to pieces for the last month - not helped by the fact that he's clearly afraid that the killer will eventually come after him as well. | |
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Scatterbrained Senior | |
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Scatterbrained Senior: The elderly cyber-architect Covington Wofford is disoriented, anxious, prone to rambling on about his dead brother's genius, and will occasionally threaten Jake out of sheer paranoia. It doesn't help that he's clearly been living alone and in fear of being murdered ever since Hamilton was killed. | |
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Recruiting the Criminal | |
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Recruiting the Criminal: Falconetti's skillz are highly sought after, even though he is batshit crazy. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: For some reason, Quinlan's virtual avatar does this after he defeats a giant robot rat in cyberspace. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Possibly unintentional, but when Magnotta says Quinlan is on thin ice and "when it cracks, ain't nobody gonna hear you scream", it's hard not to think of this moment from The Dead Zone. He also mentions "Pennies from Heaven". | |
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Mad Doctor | |
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Mad Doctor / Mad Scientist: Burton | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: One of the WebRunners tells Quinlan that Falconetti once decked with another gang called Error 33, in which he supposedly took out the credit record of everyone on the East Coast. Nowhere else in the game does this come up. | |
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Fortune Teller | |
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Fortune Teller: Implemented by Hamilton Woffard in his virtual mock-up of Whitechapel, to actually make his weapon work. And to do that, you must solve the game's final puzzle - see Moon Logic Puzzle below. | |
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Cowboy Cop | |
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Cowboy Cop: Magnotta and how. Somewhat justified in that it's revealed that policemen have become more like bounty hunters. He's cited as a 'typical New Breed cop,' but apparently one who has a bad reputation even among them. | |
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Genius Cripple | |
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Genius Cripple: Soap Beatty, played by Jimmie Walker. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: The sky is red for some reason. | |
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Only Smart People May Pass | |
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Only Smart People May Pass: The majority of the puzzles that make up the "hacking" minigames are either puzzles, or, bizarrely, first-person rail shooter segments. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Falconetti can come across this way in his best moments. He is willing to help Quinlan swift through Catherine's subconscious after Quinlan sufficiently impresses him with his own decking capabilities, and he does this without asking for anything in return even though he knows Claire isn't going to be thrilled to see him. (Not that he seems to care much on that score) Unless of course he is the Ripper... | |
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Hidden Villain | |
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Hidden Villain: The Ripper's identity is hidden until the final act, and just appears to Quinlan as a distorted green face with an artificial voice. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Quinlan's opening monologue for Act II almost perfectly sums up the game in one sentence. | |
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| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4abc2ca9 | type |
Virtual Ghost | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4abc2ca9 | comment |
Virtual Ghost: Hamilton Woffard's AI self, to the point that it even looks like a Force ghost. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4abc2ca9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4abc2ca9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_4abc2ca9 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b52ff08 | type |
May Contain Evil | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b52ff08 | comment |
May Contain Evil: Vigo Haman calls Quinlan out for once exposing an associate of his in the paper, a butcher named Schultz who smuggled drugs by packing them into the sausages he sold. At the end of the conversation, when Quinlan asked what happened to Schultz, Vigo reminds him to avoid the Cafe DuChamp's hot dogs. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b52ff08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b52ff08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b52ff08 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b9f810d | type |
Great Big Library of Everything | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b9f810d | comment |
Great Big Library of Everything: The Virtual Library in cyberspace. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b9f810d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b9f810d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_4b9f810d | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: In the ending where Catherine is the killer. Let's see; she wasn't sure which Web Runner killed her mother, so she just decides to kill them all. She also kills a cyber architect who built the virtual Whitechapel for her, tries to kill said architect's twin brother, brutally murders a coroner who had just figured out her murder method, and even murders her own friend in the bad ending. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50b05d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_50b05d30 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e | type |
Donut Mess with a Cop | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e | comment |
Donut Mess with a Cop: Lou Brandon, the desk sergeant has one on his desk, sometimes. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5400ad8 | type |
Never Bareheaded | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5400ad8 | comment |
Never Bareheaded: Magnotta. Even when he's cutting his own forehead. The only time he is seen without his hat is during a brief recording in cyberspace. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5400ad8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5400ad8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_5400ad8 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_558ae6f6 | type |
Moon Logic Puzzle | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_558ae6f6 | comment |
Moon Logic Puzzle: The final puzzle of the game has you input a sequence of Tarot cards to receive the anti-Ripper weapon with no apparent clue to the correct sequence. However, 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 Painting the Medium. Unless you pay close attention to the weird sound each card makes. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_558ae6f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_558ae6f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_558ae6f6 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d | type |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: 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, would anyone believe the truth? Also qualifies as an inverse of the Police Brutality Gambit. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: Falconetti, if innocent. Possibly subverted if Catherine is the killer. The reason she killed the victims is because one of them had killed her mother; Falconetti was on her hit list and most of the evidence points to him (again, only if Catherine is the Ripper). | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586589bc | type |
Journey to the Center of the Mind | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586589bc | comment |
Journey to the Center of the Mind: Whenever Jake hacks into Catherine's brain. Played straighter when Falconetti first helps Jake get in, as Jake has to shoot away "psychological ICE" in order to reach her. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586589bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586589bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_586589bc | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586949a8 | type |
Genius Slob | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586949a8 | comment |
Genius Slob: Farley, awful slob, excellent coroner. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586949a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_586949a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_586949a8 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_58bec5a6 | type |
Digitized Hacker | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_58bec5a6 | comment |
Digitized Hacker: Soap's friend, Maximum Cain. You meet him in the third act, where he gives you directions on where to find software to prevent being killed by the Ripper's murder weapon. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_58bec5a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_58bec5a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_58bec5a6 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: Apparently in her spare time, Dr. Burton records the mental "death resonances" of monkeys she's tortured to death in cyberspace and sends them to Vigo Haman, who sells them on the black market for a tidy sum... though nobody has any idea what the buyers do with them. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_60441d9 | type |
Future Slang | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_60441d9 | comment |
Future Slang: There are a lot of computer-related terms, many of them taking a page from Neuromancer ("decking" referring to going on-line with your brain, "ICE" to anti-hacker security measures); "smoke" being some kind of drug or tobacco product. "Data angel" refers to the avatars of people in cyberspace, "Grepping" replaces "searching" note referencing the grep utility on UNIX and UNIX-like systems, and "Cyberspace WELLnote The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link was quite the thing on the Internet in the 1990s, having been around since 1985" is a term for a programmer's self-designed little pocket dimension of cyberspace. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_60441d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_60441d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_60441d9 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6197e7cb | type |
Police Brutality Gambit | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6197e7cb | comment |
Also qualifies as an inverse of the Police Brutality Gambit. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6197e7cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6197e7cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_6197e7cb | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_61b8f9e2 | type |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Farley is a Fat Slob whose autopsy methods are...questionable, at best. He also comes up with a viable lead on how the Ripper kills from afar. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_61b8f9e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_61b8f9e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_61b8f9e2 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_67a70f33 | type |
Creepy Circus Music | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_67a70f33 | comment |
Creepy Circus Music: Falconetti's rail shooter segment has an industrial circus theme in the background. Bonus points that the Cyberspace WELL it's in is called "Circus Maximus". | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_67a70f33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_67a70f33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_67a70f33 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6c8ce33c | type |
Lower Half Reveal | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6c8ce33c | comment |
Lower Half Reveal: During Quinlan's first meeting with Soap Beattie, the latter is sitting behind the front counter of his ship, lower half out of view. During the conversation, Quinlan asks why Catherine was seeing him, hinting that he suspects that Catherine was up to something... whereupon Soap emerges from behind the desk, revealing that he's in a wheelchair. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6c8ce33c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6c8ce33c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_6c8ce33c | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6dc502d1 | type |
Big Brother Worship | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6dc502d1 | comment |
Big Brother Worship: Though there's only a few minutes of age difference between the two of them, Covington idolizes his twin brother Hamilton long after his death, praising him as a genius on par with Leonardo Da Vinci. For good measure, an encounter with the AI replica of Hamilton makes it clear that he was the more confident of the two and would often serve as a Living Emotional Crutch for Covington - hence why he broke down so badly after Hamilton's murder. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6dc502d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6dc502d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_6dc502d1 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Also falls under Guide Dang It!: 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. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_7203552b | type |
Not Disabled In VR | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_7203552b | comment |
Not Disabled In VR: Soap Beatty mentions that when decked into Cyberspace, his crippled legs aren't crippled anymore. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_7203552b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_7203552b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_7203552b | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_744e3311 | type |
Police Brutality | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_744e3311 | comment |
Police Brutality: Detective Vincent Magnotta has been known to beat confessions out of people. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_744e3311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_744e3311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_744e3311 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Magnotta. Even by Christopher Walken standards. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: "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." | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_86b21114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_86b21114 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_86b21114 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ae7eb89 | type |
Real Song Theme Tune | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ae7eb89 | comment |
Real Song Theme Tune: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult. The song's lyrics are the key to the final puzzle. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ae7eb89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ae7eb89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ae7eb89 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8c55e307 | type |
Ultimate Job Security | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8c55e307 | comment |
Ultimate Job Security: Magnotta has this. Since he's also both a Rabid and Dirty Cop, it's arguable that he's parodying this trope. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8c55e307 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8c55e307 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_8c55e307 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ee823b6 | type |
Knife-Throwing Act | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ee823b6 | comment |
Knife-Throwing Act: Joey Falconetti makes his debut scene doing this to interrogate Quinlan in cyberspace. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ee823b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ee823b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_8ee823b6 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8f99ee85 | type |
Crapsack World, Escapist Sanctuary | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8f99ee85 | comment |
Crapsack World, Escapist Sanctuary: The setting is a gloomy cyberpunk nightmare where everything seems miserable: the cityscape is grim and likely polluted; corporations fund shady research and own law enforcement agencies; crime is rampant, with high-ranking gangsters operating freely via blackmail and corruption; the police are not only in the pay of the aforementioned corporations, but are so focused on collecting bonuses that they're prepared to brutalize just about anyone and fake all manner of evidence if it means getting a conviction. With so much misery in the real world, Cyberspace is flourishing - to the point that the entertainment in this world seems almost exclusively virtual in nature, from the library that Quinlan regularly visits, to the VR games played by the Web Runners. Even the hackers treat Cyberspace as a form of escapism as much as a source of business, with Soap Beattie rhapsodizing about being about to walk while decked in and Joey Falconetti amusing himself in a circus-like private playground - while his drug-fueled body is left neglected dangling from a harness in his decrepit apartment. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8f99ee85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_8f99ee85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_8f99ee85 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_902f19e | type |
Hacked by a Pirate | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_902f19e | comment |
Hacked by a Pirate: Inverted. The well in cyberspace represented by a skull and crossbones is explicitly for antivirus software. Although the game itself has quite a number of skull motifs, for no explained reason. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_902f19e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_902f19e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_902f19e | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_967856d8 | type |
Hired to Hunt Yourself | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_967856d8 | comment |
Hired to Hunt Yourself: If the ending reveals Magnotta to be the Ripper all along, then he's been carrying out the official investigation into his own murders throughout the entire game. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_967856d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_967856d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_967856d8 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9ae85487 | type |
Dr. Jerk | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9ae85487 | comment |
Dr. Jerk: Claire Burton is notorious for being cold, unsympathetic, and curt to the point of being insulting. Plus, she spends most of her time on screen denying Catherine treatment, to the point that her crazed hacker ex-husband turns out to be more helpful than her. Even the receptionist tells Jake not to stand to close to her as she's "a little chilly." | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9ae85487 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9ae85487 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_9ae85487 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9b853e85 | type |
Paper Destruction of Anger | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9b853e85 | comment |
Paper Destruction of Anger: Magnotta does this if Quinlan proves his picture of Falconetti as the Ripper is fake. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9b853e85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9b853e85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_9b853e85 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Quinlan finds Magnotta's personnel file at the police department at one point, which notes his decker abilities are of the highest skill. This is before Quinlan finds out about the Webrunners and the fact that Burton, Falconetti, and Magnotta were all a part of it together. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d70c212 | type |
Sassy Secretary | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d70c212 | comment |
Sassy Secretary: Viv, the MetaCog hospital's receptionist. The first thing she even says to Jake is, "Can I help you off or something?" | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d70c212 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d70c212 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_9d70c212 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9e0c3153 | type |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Falconetti does this in his first scene, while throwing knives at a giant wheel with Jake Quinlan strapped to it. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9e0c3153 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_9e0c3153 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_9e0c3153 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a0ef8636 | type |
Recorded Spliced Conversation | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a0ef8636 | comment |
Recorded Spliced Conversation: Jake has to record Dr. Burton's voice to open a voice-locked door in the Metacog's basement. Made slightly more difficult as Jake has to download an audio editor from cyberspace first. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a0ef8636 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a0ef8636 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_a0ef8636 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2 | type |
Revealing Cover-Up | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2 | comment |
Revealing Cover-Up: In the prologue, Magnotta "accidentally" breaks Renee Stein's coffee cup. As it later turns out, the cup is actually a memento of Stein's time with the Webrunners with her old C-Space handle ("Salisbury") written on it; Magnotta presumably broke it to keep anyone from learning about the Ripper's connection to the Webrunners and the fact that Magnotta used to be a Webrunner himself... but Quinlan wouldn't have found out about any of this if Magnotta hadn't broken the cup in front of him, setting up a puzzle in which Quinlan digitally rebuilds the cup and unearths a clue. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b27125 | type |
Nervous Wreck | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b27125 | comment |
Nervous Wreck: Covington Wofford has been left jumping at shadows in the wake of his twin brother's murder and is convinced that the Ripper might very well be coming after him next. As such, he spends a lot of his first conversation brandishing a broom and issuing terrified threats. Early in act three, someone really does try to kill him, prompting Covington to pack his bags and leave the city altogether. Farley's replacement Bob Epples is one twitchy dude, coming across as constantly flustered to the point that he can barely get through a conversation without descending into an anxious stutter. It doesn't help that the poor guy's convinced that he's going to get fired for the slightest infraction. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b27125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b27125 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b27125 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: It's implied that in what's thought to be the true ending, Magnotta, Falconetti, and Burton all get away with their various misdeeds | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a70223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a70223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ripper (Video Game) / int_a70223 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a76d6304 | type |
Data Pad | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a76d6304 | comment |
Data Pad / Video Phone: Jake's WAC (Wireless Access Console), complete with Blue Swirly Thing in the corner. | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a76d6304 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_a76d6304 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Ripper (Video Game) / int_a76d6304 | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
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MegaCorp | |
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MegaCorp: Pan-Financial, who fund Dr. Burton's shady research, and, according to her, own the entire police force. This explains the Cowboy Cop entry shown above. | |
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Jack the Ripoff | |
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Jack the Ripoff | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: In three of the four endings, you're left with no real idea of the killer's motivation apart from "killing is fun!" and Quinlan says he has no interest in trying to put it together. | |
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Verbal Salt in the Wound | |
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Verbal Salt in the Wound: Early in Act 3, reporter Quinlan is brought in for interrogation, giving Magnotta an opportunity to assault him at length in an attempt to get information out of him, finishing up by just slugging him in the face. When they meet again, Magnotta sneers at Quinlan for not publishing the incident in the Herald and mockingly asks, "how's your face, asshole?" | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Between Falconetti, Burton and Magnotta. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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By contrast, Catherine, if she is the Ripper, has a far flimsier excuse. The reason behind the killings is she thinks one of the Webrunners accidentally murdered her mother and she doesn't know which one specifically, so she's just killing them all off one by one. The murders are all revenge killings by a depraved Ax-Crazy psychopath who doesn't care who they have to use or kill to get petty vengeance. It's also implied that, more than anything, Catherine is just a Sadist who simply gets off on the lurid murders she is dishing out. To cap it off, in the strategy guide/novelization, it is revealed that her mother died to a completely random programming glitch rather than being murdered. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: Claire Burton is supposedly the top specialist in her field of medicine, but we never see her treating anyone - to the point that she spends most of her time on the treadmill at the gym. More damningly, Burton has to seek help from Joey Falconetti on the really difficult cases. Joey Falconetti is supposedly the greatest hacker in the setting and a legend in the criminal underworld, but he's never actually seen doing any actual hacking in the criminal sense, his expertise seems limited to making VR games and environments in cyberspace, and the only real scene in which he gets to use his skills in real time is when he helps Quinlan access Catherine's mind - and even then, he needs Quinlan's help to make it through the mental defences. | |
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Digital Avatar | |
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Digital Avatar: Quinlan's is a simple-looking green putty CGI man that absorbs software into its rubbery head. If other people are around, though, he appears as his real self, except with a plastic-looking effect on top. | |
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Solve the Soup Cans | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_c564ef1 | comment |
Solve the Soup Cans: 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 the constellations of the horoscope, and the password is Horoscope, meaning that solving the puzzle means you have to already figure out that 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. One of the oddest ones is digitally assembling a broken mug from a scan. The puzzle isn't hard other than the detection of when it's solved being really touchy, but the whole point is to read what was written on the side facing away from you when you solve it. This was one word spread over two pieces; it could have been solved instantly in-universe by just looking at it without the forced perspective. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: A big part of the reason Falconetti turned out the way he has is that Magnotta forged evidence to get him convicted of Josie Dorsett's murder even though the death was most likely an unintentional case of Your Mind Makes It Real, just because Magnotta was in love with Burton, who was with Falconetti. He eventually walked after the evidence against him apparently fell apart. It's completely understandable that he is maladjusted and bitter, especially given the fact that his marriage fell apart, his reputation in the legitimate world would have been destroyed, and that's not even getting into the whole We Used to Be Friends angle. By contrast, Catherine, if she is the Ripper, has a far flimsier excuse. The reason behind the killings is she thinks one of the Webrunners accidentally murdered her mother and she doesn't know which one specifically, so she's just killing them all off one by one. The murders are all revenge killings by a depraved Ax-Crazy psychopath who doesn't care who they have to use or kill to get petty vengeance. It's also implied that, more than anything, Catherine is just a Sadist who simply gets off on the lurid murders she is dishing out. To cap it off, in the strategy guide/novelization, it is revealed that her mother died to a completely random programming glitch rather than being murdered. | |
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Cigar Chomper | |
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Cigar Chomper: Magnotta. However, he never seems to actually smoke them. | |
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Ambiguous Criminal History | |
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Ambiguous Criminal History: Falconetti claims that he's an outlaw at one point, one of the Webrunners claims that he once committed a prank that ruined the credit ratings of numerous people, Gambit Nelson claims that he once embezzled his business into bankruptcy, and Falconetti himself offhandedly remarks needing to collect from some bookies... but it's never specified if he's actually done anything illegal. The one confirmed crime was the murder of Josie Dorsett's, which he served two years in jail for but was let go later because Magnotta faked the evidence. | |
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Hacker Cave | |
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Hacker Cave: Several locations look like this, being a Cyberpunk game, but Falconetti's safehouse is the most prominent. Even extends to cyberspace, with Maximum Cain's well being filled with tons of monitors all showing random computer data. | |
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Rabid Cop | |
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Rabid Cop: Magnotta has killed six people under questionable circumstances and brutalizes several people in the interrogation room on very flimsy grounds. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Magnotta tells Quinlan he doesn’t care if he and his girlfriend “played tiddly winks in your birthday suits.� | |
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Brain/Computer Interface | |
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Brain/Computer Interface: Catherine is hooked into a machine that outputs her memory in visual form, and the main goal of the game is to help her recall who attacked her so that the image clears up. Later on, you are also able to use the machine to hack into her brain and directly assist through it. | |
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Game-Over Man | |
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Game-Over Man: 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. | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: 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. | |
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Fake Difficulty | |
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Fake Difficulty: 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 | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Magnotta. He's not explicitly on the take, per se, but he's in the habit of securing convictions by destroying evidence that might exonerate criminals, seems more interested in covering up the Ripper case than actually solving it, and is one of the possible suspects. It's also stated that he gets away with his more questionable actions by giving a piece of his bounties to the police chief. | |
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Autopsy Snack Time | |
| Ripper (Video Game) / int_ee296d19 | comment |
Autopsy Snack Time: Farley is always eating or smoking in the MetaCog morgue. He gets fired later in the game because of it. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Dr Burton seems more interested in getting a workout than actually doing her job as a cybersurgeon, and her time at the hospital seems to be spent arguing with people and denying Catherine treatment... and those bizarre experiments on monkeys, of course. Joey Falconetti, the supposedly infamous criminal hacker, is never seen doing anything involving computer crime apart from virtually assaulting Quinlan in his intro. This is only averted if he turns out to be the Ripper. Quinlan is seen actually writing articles for the Herald twice in the entire game. The rest of the time, he's somehow being a much better detective/hacker/cybersurgeon than the three main suspects. | |
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It's A Small Net After All | |
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It's A Small Net After All: The Internet in this game seems to consist only of a dozen websites. | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: Magnotta hates Falconetti enough to have a photo of him used as a dart board. And all of the thrown darts landed at his head instead of the obvious printed bullseye in his torso. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: At one point Jake can steal Magnotta's ID card and use it to rifle through his personnel files. If you talk to him enough later on, Magnotta opens an envelope with a new ID card inside, while complaining that the desk sergeant was too lazy to keep his stuff safe. | |
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