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Second Sight (Video Game)
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Second Sight is a 2004 third person Action-Adventure game developed by Free Radical Design of TimeSplitters fame and published by Codemasters for PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. In this game, you take on the role of John Vattic, an amnesiac scientist who wakes up in a medical facility only to discover he has psychic powers.The game is a Third-Person Shooter with stealth gameplay and Psychic Powers thrown into the mix, with stealth being the preferred method of solving missions, especially in the early chapters. John unlocks his powers slowly, and even though they are progressively strengthened he is rarely ever a match for more than two well armed opponents. That said, once he gets his full complement of powers at full strength — Telekinesis, healing, projection, possession, energy blasts, and invisibility — let's just say that the Video Game Cruelty Potential and Difficulty Level both rise accordingly.The story itself is top notch, and has a creative Twist Ending, worth playing through for that alone. The main character awakens in a research facility with no memory and powerful psychic abilities. He has a flashback to his past, learning he is John Vattic, professional skeptic and psychic debunker. He was recruited on a mission to find out if the legendary Soviet parapsychologist Dr. Grienko is alive, and just what he's been up to. Something on that mission went horribly wrong, leading John to where he is now. Throughout the game, John progressively unlocks his missing memories, and in doing so learns more about his present. It seems a sinister Government Conspiracy is after Grienko's research to reliably create and empower psychics, and means to kill and discredit those who would oppose them.Not to be confused with Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, another game with a similar premise that came out in the same period. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Shockingly averted for a T-rated game. Blood not only sprays with every shot, but it splatters walls and leaves pools on the ground, which can be stepped in to create footprints. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Vattic suffers these in the "Enigma" endings. By the final ending, the knowledge of his failure and the psychological torture have reduced him to a sobbing wreck of a human being. | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Heroic RRoD: If you use up all of Vattic's psychic power, the screen goes all fuzzy and the sound is dulled. If you try to strain your powers (e.g. by trying to use Charm on someone who can already see you and is actively killing you or on a security camera), you get the same effect. | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change: An optional version. On some levels, you can take a break from your infiltrations and play minigames that amount to Space Invaders and Asteroids. | |
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Heal Thyself | |
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Heal Thyself: One of John's powers is healing his own wounds, though it requires he stand still to do so, so using it in a safe spot is recommended. Once he unlocks said power in the "past" levels, he can still ask Ballard for a quick heal anyway, which the medic lampshades. | |
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Shoehorned First Letter: In one level, two guards are playing "I Spy" and the letter is "E". The guesser tries "eeediot". | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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Only Six Faces: Combines hilariously with a self-made Take That. If you talk to them, you learn all the patients in the insane asylum were former video game developers. And they all look the same!. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: While seeming like a hardass at first, Starke quickly proves to be this, not only sticking his neck out for the people under his command, but consoling and encouraging a shaken John throughout the Dubrensk mission. Additionally, you'll be hearing him say "Good work!" every time John or any other WinterICE member completes their task, so he's definitely into positive reinforcement as well. | |
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Regenerating Health | |
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Regenerating Health: In a roundabout way: one of Vattic's psychic powers is Healing, which is powered by his psi energy. Vattic's health does not regenerate automatically, but his psi energy does, so he can always heal himself as long as he has enough psi energy. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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Then there's Hanson's death scene. It cuts to John's face as he looks on. Since one of the Zener kids bit Hanson on the leg, we can likely assume they made dinner out of him. | |
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Headache of Doom | |
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Headache of Doom: Throughout the game, each psychic power that protagonist John Vattic acquires commonly manifests with a headache so painful it leaves him collapsed on the floor. For better or for worse, the same headaches can result in him uncontrollably unleashing these new powers on anyone in range. Prior to every flashback sequence, John begins to suffer more headaches, usually after finding information revealing that a friend or ally was killed in the backstory. It's indicated that this is actually the result of him using some kind of Mental Time Travel power, as the flashbacks seemingly allow him to improve the present... but unfortunately, the flashback headaches leave John helpless — resulting in him apparently being shot dead during the second-last level. In the final level, John's headaches escalate to torturous levels and result in him flickering wildly between the past and present, all while experiencing bewildering visions. Over the course of the level, John finally realizes that he isn't time-travelling at all: he's unconsciously using psychic precognition and so overwhelmed by all the data that he's gotten lost in a possible future — meaning that the "flashback sequences" are actually his present. Once the final revelation has set in, John's headaches subside, apparently for good. | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: Grienko did all his experiments to ostensibly help mankind, and genuinely loves, and is loved by, the children he experimented on. Yet, for every non-mutated child psychic, there seemed to be two that were. Interestingly, his research does state that the results were replicable and had become fine-tuned. The Corrupt Corporate Executive even manages to further improve the results by giving the powers to adults. | |
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Karma Meter | |
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Karma Meter: The "Morality" statistic. It doesn't factor into the gameplay, however. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: John comes across as rather arrogant and superior in the earlier flashbacks, but after his experiences in Russia, he has become a desperate, terrified shell of a man. | |
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Stealth-Based Game | |
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Stealth-Based Game: The player is rarely forced to use stealth, but it soon becomes the most reliable strategy. The game's biggest innovation is probably its integration of stealth and Psychic Powers — the player can sneak past guards using Charm (allowing the player to turn effectively invisible to other people is practically a Game-Breaker in its own right), or create distractions, hide bodies, and disable security cameras with Telekinesis. There are also a handful of missions where the player is forced to run and gun. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Most of the Zener Children appear to be kids in the vicinity of eight to eleven years of age; however, it's mentioned that they were first recruited at some point after 1953 and haven't been replaced by any new test subjects since the project had its funding cut. According to the in-game files, the medication used to unlock their abilities has left them unable to age past puberty. Consequently, the Zener "children" are likely in their fifties and sixties by now, hence why they seem Wise Beyond Their Years. | |
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Government Agency of Fiction | |
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Government Agency of Fiction: The National Security Executive, which seems to be a combination of DARPA and the CIA. | |
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Only Flesh Is Safe | |
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Only Flesh Is Safe: The telekinesis power initially doesn't work on living opponents. The upgrade solves that problem. "Charm" will also only influence living beings. Cameras, being machines made of metal and plastics, are immune to it and will short out your psi meter. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Subverted; though the player is alerted to John's incarceration and the deaths of Jayne, Colonel Starke, and the rest of the WinterICE team well in advance, it turns out the "past" — and therefore the ending — can be changed. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: Sure, John's got cool powers, but an entire army's trying to kill him, he's lost his memory, his friends keep dying or going insane, and he gets crippling headaches when a power comes back… and then it turns out that all of these events are harmless precognitive visions, and his friends are fine. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: Franklin. Not quite as cold as many examples of this trope, but still rather standoffish. | |
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Climax Boss | |
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Climax Boss: The five psychic soldiers (who have all John's powers, plus barriers) that John fights just before confronting the Big Bad in the second-to-last level. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: John manages to prevent the bad future he saw from coming true, saves the lives of the WinterICE team and Jane, and rescues the psychic children. But it's clear the whole experience has traumatized him and it's possible the U.S. government will try to continue Hanson's research. | |
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Step One: Escape | |
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Step One: Escape: In the first mission, John Vattic wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed in an unfamiliar research facility, unable to remember much more beyond his own name. His first task is to use his newfound Psychic Powers to escape. | |
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It's a Wonderful Failure | |
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It's a Wonderful Failure: The "Enigmas" that occur if one of your allies in the flashbacks dies. The "Psycho" enigma also counts as a Video Game Cruelty Punishment: you get it if you yourself kill your own allies, which can be done as early as the tutorial provided you find a hidden assault rifle. | |
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Pamphlet Shelf | |
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Pamphlet Shelf: All over the place; Penfold Asylum, for example, has an article on Follie A Deux... | |
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Footprints of Muck | |
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Footprints of Muck: You do this if you step in blood or water, and the Mooks react accordingly, particularly if you're in their line of sight but invisible. There's even an in-game counter for it. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: In the Confrontation level's ending, once Vattic has a flashback migraine, it cuts to the floor of Hanson's office, a gunshot goes off, and Jayne screams (she had a gun pointed to her head), leaving it ambiguous as to whether John or Jayne got shot. Then there's Hanson's death scene. It cuts to John's face as he looks on. Since one of the Zener kids bit Hanson on the leg, we can likely assume they made dinner out of him. | |
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You Have Researched Breathing | |
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You Have Researched Breathing: John is able to use Telekinesis to move around unconscious or dead bodies from the beginning of the game, but only gains the ability to lift people that are still conscious a few missions later. Could arguably be justified by enemies struggling against his psychic powers, but it's still a bit of a Fridge Logic moment. | |
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Pretty Little Headshots | |
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Pretty Little Headshots: Not only are the headshots quite pretty indeed, but bullets don't seem to leave wounds of any kind anywhere on the body (though there are bloodstains). | |
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Personality Powers | |
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Personality Powers: Each of the Zener Children have a particular psychic specialty to match their personalities. Anna is noted to be talkative and shows strong leadership skills; in turn, she possesses telepathy, projection, and precognition, the better to communicate and guide others. Piotr has a short fuse and an explosive temper, and his telekinetic powers are equally volatile. Tanya and Ivan are twins and noted for their close emotional bond; when they're together, they demonstrate the full range of psychic abilities, but possess no powers at all when separated. Nadja is shy and withdrawn, preferring to sneak about the facility with Charm or Projection rather than interact with others. | |
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Mad Oracle | |
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Mad Oracle: It's revealed that John's final power is precognition. Everything he's experienced in the "present" has actually been his vision of a possible future; it's just that the visions were so debilitating that he got his past, present, and future muddled up. For good measure, the final level really pushes John's sanity to the limit as he struggles to come to terms with what's happening to him. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: In the final level, as John is cycling between flashbacks and flash-forwards, seeing visons and hearing voices of other characters, he finally pieces together what's going on. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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When you exhaust your psychic powers, there's first a heavy distortion, then a strong grain filter obfuscates the visual for a few instants (although this is perhaps more akin to Painting the Medium, as a way of visually representing John's mental state). | |
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What Measure Is a Mook? | |
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What Measure Is a Mook?: This game has an odd treatment of this trope. You still massacre your way through them with little visible remorse, but there's little touches that makes you think the developers are aware of this trope. In the very beginning there's a running IM conversation on the personal computer of a guard you've just killed from his wife, telling him how she misses him (And his death happens in a cutscene so you can't avoid it). While non-lethal options are scant, presumably a no-killing run is possible... but then again, most Mooks do genuinely want you dead, and KOs are near impossible even with a tranquilizer gun, not to mention one guard is allergic to tranquilizer solution and will die anyway. Much later in the game, when you infiltrate NSE's building, there's a cleaning woman engaged with one of the guards. Like the above example, you may not find this out... which may be better for your conscience. Additionally, in all versions of the game, once you complete a mission, you can look at various stats for how you completed the mission (distance travelled, ammunition expended etc.), one of which is "Morality", which tallies who you killed, who you knocked out, who you avoided entirely and so on, so you're at least somewhat encouraged not to kill everyone in sight. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_52b36340 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_588d6b3e | type |
Vasquez Always Dies | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_588d6b3e | comment |
Vasquez Always Dies: A curious example — in the initial version of the present, John and Jayne are the only surviving members of WinterICE, with all the others killed in action. This includes Franklin, a female Cold Sniper who is much less feminine than Jayne. However, by the end of the game, Franklin survives as well. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_588d6b3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_588d6b3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_588d6b3e | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bba0339 | type |
Telekinesis | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bba0339 | comment |
Telekinesis: Can lift or interact with any object. At first, you can only lift dead bodies in terms of enemy combatants, but an upgrade gives John the power to lift living combatants. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bba0339 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bba0339 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bba0339 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bdf025f | type |
Instant Sedation | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bdf025f | comment |
Instant Sedation: Tranquillizer darts work like this on enemies, provided the dart strikes the head or neck. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bdf025f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bdf025f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5bdf025f | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5c059fbd | type |
Twin Telepathy | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5c059fbd | comment |
Twin Telepathy: Two of the children that are being experimented on are twins and have psychic powers. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5c059fbd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5c059fbd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5c059fbd | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5e1de66e | type |
Trickster Game | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5e1de66e | comment |
Trickster Game: The game has the protagonist psychic, John Vattic, travelling back in time to prior incidents and able to change the events with the knowledge of the future. Except that he's not travelling into the past. He's in the past and is having precognitive visions of what will happen unless he acts. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5e1de66e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5e1de66e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5e1de66e | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5f4c3290 | type |
Skeptic No Longer | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5f4c3290 | comment |
Skeptic No Longer: Vattic begins the story (chronologically) as a scientist who has made something of a name for himself by debunking psychics. To his credit, he actually does seem to keep an open mind. When Colonel Starke tells him Jayne's premonitions allowed them to stop a terrorist plot, he does not try to argue about alternate explanations. Later when he has premonitions himself and sees ghostly apparitions no one else seems to notice, his first instinct is to investigate, and he quickly accepts them as real at a point where that is frankly the most reasonable explanation. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5f4c3290 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5f4c3290 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5fff364d | type |
Combat Medic | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5fff364d | comment |
Combat Medic: As Vattic is capable of healing himself and others while fighting off the enemy, he counts as this. Additionally, while he functions as WinterICE's medic, Ballard fights on the frontlines alongside the others with no issue. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5fff364d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5fff364d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_5fff364d | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61459062 | type |
Perception Filter | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61459062 | comment |
Charm: used on allies to calm them down, and on yourself to make people ignore you as a form of Invisibility. Using it on those who already know you're there and are actively attacking you is not recommended, and mechanical effects (lasers and cameras) are completely unaffected. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61459062 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61459062 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61459062 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61fea7c1 | type |
One Dose Fits All | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61fea7c1 | comment |
One Dose Fits All: Any enemy hit by a single tranquillizer dart will be out cold indefinitely, regardless of size or constitution. A body shot will take some time to take effect, whereas hitting them in the head or neck will knock them out instantly. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61fea7c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61fea7c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61fea7c1 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61ff365d | type |
Deflector Shields | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61ff365d | comment |
Deflector Shields: The Psychic-powered Barrier Warrior Super-Soldier crews you have to fight. They get shields. You don't. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61ff365d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61ff365d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_61ff365d | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58 | type |
Justified Tutorial | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58 | comment |
Justified Tutorial: John has no military training at the start of the game, and is urged to undergo a rudimentary training course prior to the Russian excursion. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: One of the best in gaming history, no less! John eventually figures out that his visions of the past are not "visions" at all — it's actually the present, and what John thought was the present is really a potential Bad Future. Indeed, John's first and most powerful ability is his ability to see the future, but his confusing and disorienting situation has caused him to blur the line between present and future and mix up which is which. You're actually playing as John seeing into the future. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: John Vattic: 'vatic' means 'prophet' (think 'Vatican', which used to be where the prophets of Rome would meet). The game's title as well: Second Sight is also another name for Precognition. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | type |
Ragdoll Physics | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | comment |
Ragdoll Physics: The enemies, once killed, can be made to flop around amusingly with telekinesis. After the Telekinesis gets upgraded, you can do the same while they are alive. The tougher ones may fall un-graciously, but will somehow manage to put all the limbs back in position and get up. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | type |
What the Hell, Player? | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | comment |
What the Hell, Player?: Go ahead. Attack any of the WinterICE team with live ammo when you get the chance. Or keep shooting at the other participants in the above-mentioned Paintball Episode. Hit the same guy enough times and he'll basically say "screw this" and hunt you down. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: In the first half or so of the game, "No one else can save us." | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7464705c | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | type |
Safely Secluded Science Center | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | comment |
Safely Secluded Science Center: The remote Siberian village of Dubrensk harbours an underground research facility. The heart of Project Zener, it was used to study and harness psychic powers for the benefit of the USSR, with potential Psychic Children being brought in from all over Russia to be experimented on. Unfortunately, though chief scientist Victor Grienko was successful in unlocking their powers, the Zener Children were not cooperative, having been left unable to age and often disfigured thanks to the medical procedures. The project was judged a failure by the Kremlin and shut down, but thanks to Dubrensk's isolation, Grienko was able to secretly continue his experiments independently until — following the collapse of the Soviet Union — he got the attention of the NSE and cut a deal with them, prompting the events of the game. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7913eb6f | type |
Healing Hands | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7913eb6f | comment |
Healing Hands: Via accelerated metabolism, which is why overdoing it will zonk you out. John can later use this power on others, including Ballard, funnily enough. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7913eb6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7913eb6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7913eb6f | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_79921fab | type |
Sounding It Out | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_79921fab | comment |
Sounding It Out: Standard implementation. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_79921fab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_79921fab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_79921fab | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7adf5414 | type |
TranquilizerDart | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7adf5414 | comment |
Tranquilizer Dart: People stagger around for a few moments after being hit with tranquilizer darts, then reacting like they have been punched in the chest and falling over. Hitting them in the head takes them down instantly. It's worth noting that on the few occasions where you're shot with one yourself, it slowly saps your health rather than knocking you out (although the game treats knocked out enemies more or less the same as dead ones and the cutscenes that play after you're defeated would indicate that you survive whatever takes you down). | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7adf5414 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7adf5414 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7adf5414 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: During an argument in the cutscene following "preparation", Jayne asks John how a man of science like him can justify calling Dr. Grienko a fraud without evidence. John has no answer. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | type |
Charm Person | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | comment |
Charm Person: The idea behind Vattic's "Charm" power is that he convinces enemies and other living beings that they simply don't see him. The game represents this as Vattic turning hazy and ghostly. That said though, trying to use it on decidedly non-living security cameras or hostiles actively attacking you or who can see you will cause a psychic brownout. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7cc7ff15 | type |
Mental Time Travel | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7cc7ff15 | comment |
Mental Time Travel: Subverted. We are led to believe that John had been projecting his current self into his past self's body in order to change events, but it turns out what we thought was the present was actually a Bad Future that John had been viewing with his precognition. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7cc7ff15 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7cc7ff15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7cc7ff15 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Justified on the cover, as the protagonist is mentally unstable, possibly even suicidal. Everyone also seems to have terrible trigger discipline. John's just a civilian, so it's somewhat forgivable for him. But the rest of WinterICE keep their fingers on the trigger even when they're not aiming. Additionally, they do not use eye/hearing protection during firearms training. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_7d34f23a | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_801c7e4a | type |
Quest for Identity | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_801c7e4a | comment |
Quest for Identity: Who is John Vattic? | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_801c7e4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_801c7e4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_801c7e4a | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_80580ffe | type |
Optional Stealth | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_80580ffe | comment |
Optional Stealth: The very broad selection of Psychic Powers available to the main character means you always have the option of sneaking through a level vs. running through with guns blazing, though there are points where only one or the other is feasible. The game keeps a "morality" statistic and humanises some of the mooks in order to encourage stealth via Videogame Caring Potential. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_80580ffe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_80580ffe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_80580ffe | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Often appearing at convenient times, but usually hazardous to anyone standing near. Telekinesis: Can lift or interact with any object. At first, you can only lift dead bodies in terms of enemy combatants, but an upgrade gives John the power to lift living combatants. Psi Blast: Either in the form of a concentrated mind shot, or a wide range psi-explosion to repel enemies and get some breathing room. Psychic Projection: John can pass through certain obstacles and interract with certain switches from long range. A later upgrade gives him: Possession: Control enemies briefly, either to attack their fellow men or open up access for John. Hilariously, you can possess your allies as well. Charm: used on allies to calm them down, and on yourself to make people ignore you as a form of Invisibility. Using it on those who already know you're there and are actively attacking you is not recommended, and mechanical effects (lasers and cameras) are completely unaffected. Healing Hands: Via accelerated metabolism, which is why overdoing it will zonk you out. John can later use this power on others, including Ballard, funnily enough. Precognition: Jayne's power and later revealed to be John's as well. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_874176be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_874176be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_874176be | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_87b8f581 | type |
Refusal of the Call | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_87b8f581 | comment |
Refusal of the Call: John initially has no desire to accompany WinterICE to Siberia, though Jayne wins him over. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_87b8f581 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_87b8f581 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_87b8f581 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8b6e8d7 | type |
Anachronic Order | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8b6e8d7 | comment |
Anachronic Order: As the amnesiac John Vattic recovers memories of his own past, we flashback to those events. As a result, the game will have several scenes in the present, then several scenes set in the past, and continue to shift between the two time periods as Vattic regains his memories. Subverted as it turns out John was never having flashbacks in the first place. What we were led to believe was the present was actually a possible Bad Future John had unknowingly been viewing with his precognition. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8b6e8d7 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8b6e8d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8b6e8d7 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2 | type |
Flawed Prototype | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2 | comment |
Flawed Prototype: The Zener Children were intended to be the first generation of psychic operatives for use in the Cold War; unfortunately, the experimental procedures used to activate their powers had too many negative side effects — disfiguring many and leaving the rest unable to age past puberty. Because of this, the project was shut down until Grienko got the attention of Director Hanson with the intent of beginning a new project. It's for this reason and many others that Hanson isn't bothering to keep them around, instead harvesting them for tissue samples for use in the perfected next generation of psychic super-soldier. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | type |
Timey-Wimey Ball | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | comment |
Timey-Wimey Ball: Every time Vattic uncovers about something important from his forgotten past, he has a vision of the event where he can interfere with the outcome, which somehow allows him to alter the present. This is actually a subversion and the big final reveal of the game: Vattic is not changing the past. What he thinks is the present is in fact a potential Bad Future as seen through his precognitive powers and the "past" is what is actually taking place in the real world. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | type |
Non-Standard Game Over | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | comment |
Non-Standard Game Over: The aforementioned "Enigma" endings that occur when you go postal and kill your teammates. From "Teamwork" onward, dying in any of the past levels will play one of the Enigma endings. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8f70bc54 | type |
Self-Defeating Prophecy | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8f70bc54 | comment |
Self-Defeating Prophecy: What is actually happening whenever you're in the "future" levels. Suffice to say that predestination does not exist in this universe. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8f70bc54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8f70bc54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_8f70bc54 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_970c790a | comment |
In the present well, possible future, Vattic goes from a scared amnesic trying to figure out what's going on to a serious and collected man who walks right into the Big Bad's office, calmly tells the guard his name, and when the receptionist realizes who he is, knocks him out with a pistol and steals his key card in order to start his one-man assault to save Jane and stop Hanson. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_970c790a | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef | type |
"Not So Different" Remark | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: Hanson's speech to John about "the bodies you've stepped over to get here." Through the game, you're likely to use your psychic powers in increasingly inventive ways, so Hanson has more of a point than one'd realize. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: As the mission to Dubrensk carries on, Vattic stops being a reluctant tagalong and starts taking levels: first, he proves himself a capable member of the team; then he and Jayne manage to hold off an entire unit of soldiers by themselves. In the next flashback, he covertly tranquilizes an entire building full of soldiers without any of them noticing. Then he gains psychic powers... In the present well, possible future, Vattic goes from a scared amnesic trying to figure out what's going on to a serious and collected man who walks right into the Big Bad's office, calmly tells the guard his name, and when the receptionist realizes who he is, knocks him out with a pistol and steals his key card in order to start his one-man assault to save Jane and stop Hanson. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bd92eef | type |
Astral Projection | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bd92eef | comment |
Psychic Projection: John can pass through certain obstacles and interract with certain switches from long range. A later upgrade gives him: | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bd92eef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bd92eef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9bd92eef | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | type |
Hyperspace Arsenal | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | comment |
Hyperspace Arsenal: Vattic's eighth psychic power is evidently his ability to pull massive assault rifles literally out of nowhere. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In "Fieldwork", John instantly realizes that he and Jayne have blundered into a room full of explosives, despite only having been in there for a few seconds, and is able to find an escape route for both of them despite not knowing the base layout. Not only is this an early hint that John has always had psychic potential, but it's also a hint that he's unconsciously using precognition to change the future. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c | type |
Camera Abuse | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c | comment |
Camera Abuse: Snow sometimes lands and melts on the screen in the Russian missions. When you exhaust your psychic powers, there's first a heavy distortion, then a strong grain filter obfuscates the visual for a few instants (although this is perhaps more akin to Painting the Medium, as a way of visually representing John's mental state). | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9edbda07 | type |
Elite Mooks | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9edbda07 | comment |
Elite Mooks: The Big Bad's elite gas mask-wearing Shock Troopers, who are equipped with submachineguns and psychic energy shields. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9edbda07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9edbda07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_9edbda07 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | type |
Respawning Enemies | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | comment |
Respawning Enemies: In certain levels, there is no end of guards that can turn up; these levels take place in a possible future, so they aren't actually happening, or the siege in Russia with an endless wave of mercenaries. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86 | type |
Enemy Chatter | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86 | comment |
Enemy Chatter: The game features enemy chatter at several points if you're stealthy enough. A few examples include one instance where two security guards play a game of "I spy", another features a Russian soldier bragging about his high score in an arcade game, with his friend questioning how he can play the game when there's no electricity in the building. The game also features a non-enemy version of this trope in the Teamwork mission where you can hide just outside a building and listen to Cortelli and J.C. talk/complain about you. If they spot you in the middle of their conversation, they quickly change the subject and pretend they're talking about something else. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a1f82f86 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | type |
Save Point | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | comment |
Save Point: Irritating for PC players, as it was designed for the console market. Even a console gamer would have liked to load at least from a checkpoint, instead of being forced to play a mission from the beginning if he didn't have enough time during the previous session! | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a24989ce | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a3509d95 | type |
The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a3509d95 | comment |
The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Used and subverted: One computer password early on is SNOW which Jayne gleans from the mind of a recently dead guard nearby. Otherwise, John rarely figures out the password on his own, instead usually relying on finding it out elsewhere or from someone. If he doesn't, he usually has a stab at what the password is, trying random words that never works. And for those wondering, "PASSWORD" is never the password. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a3509d95 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a3509d95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a3509d95 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a5237a54 | type |
Action-Based Mission | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a5237a54 | comment |
Action-Based Mission: Stealth is encouraged for the most part, but several of the missions effectively force the player to run and gun (especially the earlier Russian missions, before John has acquired any psychic powers). | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a5237a54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a5237a54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a5237a54 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a53b0ee7 | type |
Superpowered Mooks | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a53b0ee7 | comment |
Superpowered Mooks: The mass produced psychic soldiers. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a53b0ee7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a53b0ee7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a53b0ee7 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a6653039 | type |
Subsystem Damage | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a6653039 | comment |
Subsystem Damage: The most basic sort — when you get hurt, you limp. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a6653039 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a6653039 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_a6653039 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_abcb9af1 | type |
Eaten Alive | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_abcb9af1 | comment |
Eaten Alive: Hanson's fate at the hands of the Zener Children. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_abcb9af1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_abcb9af1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_abcb9af1 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Cortelli, particularly in the mission "Teamwork". | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_af5edbff | type |
Myopic Architecture | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_af5edbff | comment |
Myopic Architecture: Hanson assumes he's safe in the final level because he's behind glass that is both bulletproof and psi-proof. But the metal linking the glass panels together is not, so the Zener Children are able to get at him by telekinetically moving it in a way that shatters the glass. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_af5edbff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_af5edbff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_af5edbff | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776 | type |
Bottomless Magazines | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776 | comment |
Bottomless Magazines: On the tranquilizer pistol, a blessing for people who want to play Technical Pacifist. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b5fb096b | type |
People Puppets | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b5fb096b | comment |
Possession: Control enemies briefly, either to attack their fellow men or open up access for John. Hilariously, you can possess your allies as well. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b5fb096b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b5fb096b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b5fb096b | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b6e75430 | type |
Bald of Authority | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b6e75430 | comment |
Bald of Authority: Starke is the leader of WinterICE, although he only has his head shaved in the levels set in the present: in the Russian levels, he wears a crew cut. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b6e75430 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b6e75430 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b6e75430 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77 | type |
Five-Token Band | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77 | comment |
Five-Token Band: WinterICE includes a black man, a woman, a black woman, and a Hispanic man, in addition to four white American men, one of whom is of Italian descent. It's done in an agreeably non-patronising manner, however. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_b7e74b77 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38 | type |
Tomato Surprise | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38 | comment |
Tomato Surprise: A surprisingly original one: what John believes to be the present is in fact a hypothetical future he is experiencing due to his precognitive abilities, the "flashbacks" are actually in the present. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | type |
Cutting the Knot | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | comment |
Cutting the Knot: The Big Bad hides behind bullet/psi proof glass at the end of the game, too bad the frame isn't... | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1 | type |
New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1 | comment |
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Vattic's psychic powers always seem to manifest when the need arises. Surrounded by Mooks? No problem, he gets an upgraded Psychic Burst attack allowing him to exude a shockwave, blowing them away. Justified with a side helping of medical accuracy. He's not spontaneously developing these new powers so much as he's instinctively accessing them when he needs them, in spite of having no recollection of acquiring them. It's not so different to when he finally finds a car and makes his getaway at the end of the first mission; he didn't recall taking his driving test, but he still knew how to drive. This is actually a somewhat common presentation of amnesia in Real Life. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Dr. John Vattic, a man who made a name for himself debunking claims of the paranormal, ends up having Psychic Powers. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: John himself. As Cortelli puts it: "You may be a pen-pusher, but it looks like you keep yourself in good shape." | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a | type |
Boom, Headshot! | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a | comment |
Boom, Headshot!: Well, it's hardly "boom" in a T-rated game, but it's always a One-Hit Kill (or knockout with tranquillizers). | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: Kind of inverted. Whenever things look at their worst in the present, John has another flashback, and something's changed for the better when he comes back. When faced with a no-win situation at the end, he discovers that the present isn't, and his "flashbacks" are actually the present; he's been experiencing precognition, and the future isn't set in stone. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c3c18143 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2 | type |
Pretentious Latin Motto | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2 | comment |
Pretentious Latin Motto: The National Security Executive's motto is the fairly well known phrase "inter arma enim silent leges" or "In times of war the law falls silent". | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ca198bc3 | type |
Paintball Episode | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ca198bc3 | comment |
Or keep shooting at the other participants in the above-mentioned Paintball Episode. Hit the same guy enough times and he'll basically say "screw this" and hunt you down. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ca198bc3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ca198bc3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ca198bc3 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6 | type |
It's Up to You | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6 | comment |
It's Up to You: John was told his role in WinterICE was "strictly advisory", has no combat experience aside from an hour's basic military training, and is not even a member of the armed forces. And yet he is ordered to carry out virtually every mission-critical objective in the Russian missions. It's even lampshaded by the game's Arc Words: when Vattic initially attempts to refuse the call, Jayne replies "A pity, because no one else can save us." | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cc374ba6 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb | type |
Escort Mission | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb | comment |
Escort Mission: Two missions involve escorting an unarmed and easily frightened Jayne out of a mental asylum. In the later Russian missions, the player will fail if any of WinterICE die, though in this case they are at least capable of defending themselves. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef | type |
Everybody Lives | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef | comment |
Everybody Lives: An interesting example. Just about every member of WinterICE is dead at the beginning of the game, except Vattic himself, but by the end, they've all survived. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d1b4f0ef | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | type |
Developer's Foresight | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | comment |
Developer's Foresight: If you decide to lure the two first guards back into the room you were trapped in, and close them in, they have a frustrated discussion that will soon escalate and end up with one of them killing the other. Upon getting the Viper tattoo in "Streetlife", the gang members blocking the alley will react differently depending on whether you tried to bypass them earlier. At the end of "Confrontation", an NSE agent asks you to follow him to Hanson's office. If you use Projection to send the agent into the office rather than going in yourself, a group of Shock Troopers will appear and open fire on your possessee, followed by Hanson saying he expected you to try and trick him like that. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | type |
Mirror Boss | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | comment |
Mirror Boss: Near the end of the game, Vattic encounters several enemies who have the same Psychic Powers as him, except these ones can block bullets too. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d8963315 | type |
Invisible Introvert | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d8963315 | comment |
Invisible Introvert: One of the Zener Children encountered in the level "Childcare" is Nadja, the least confrontational of all the psychics in the game. Noted to be extremely quiet and shy, she's reportedly in the habit of using her powers to avoid human interaction, either through Astral Projection or invisibility by way of Perception Filter. Even once you've found her and coaxed her into leading you to your next objective, Nadja will automatically disappear the moment enemy troops attack you, refusing to regain visibility until the fighting's over. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d8963315 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d8963315 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_d8963315 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ddcb019c | type |
Non-Linear Character | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ddcb019c | comment |
Non-Linear Character: It's revealed at the end that John is (or perhaps was) one of these; what he perceives to be the present is a hypothetical future, and what he perceives to be the past is the present. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ddcb019c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ddcb019c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ddcb019c | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7 | type |
Short-Range Long-Range Weapon | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7 | comment |
Short-Range Long-Range Weapon: In the tutorial, when Franklin is giving Vattic sniper training, she explicitly refers to sniping at a distance of 15-30m as "long range". Most gunfights happen at very short range, and the player rarely has the opportunity to snipe someone more than 100m away. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e0dc6390 | type |
Go Among Mad People | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e0dc6390 | comment |
Go Among Mad People: Jayne ends up committed to a mental hospital following the mission to Dubrensk. Given that it's Penfold Asylum, the results aren't too pretty. Oddly, she starts to make a bit more sense after escaping the asylum; maybe the stress of being shot at cleared the drugs from her system. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e0dc6390 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e0dc6390 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e0dc6390 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5066b68 | type |
11th-Hour Superpower | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5066b68 | comment |
11th-Hour Superpower: Played with. The last psychic power Vattic becomes aware of is one he's been using throughout the entire game. | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5066b68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5066b68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5066b68 | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d | type |
Unexplained Recovery | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: Seems to be this at first, but near the end it is played with in an interesting way: WinterICE didn't get better because they never died in the first place. Anyone who's played the game will know what's going on. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: Poor John can't even remember his name to start with. It's eventually revealed that this is due to a combination of torture inflicted on him by Director Hanson and his own precognitive abilities. | |
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The Plan | |
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The Plan: Turns out your escape and struggle for survival falls into this for Hanson in the possible future, as a large scale test of psychic supersoldier effectiveness in the field. | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Using charm power on enemies can result in psychic burnout if they already see you and want to kill you. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: On very rare occasions, the killing shot may land between the legs of an enemy, who will bring his hands there, stay there trembling for several seconds, and finally collapse. | |
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Psychic Children | |
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Psychic Children: Project Zener was set up to study psychic phenomena in children, and as such, their nursery of subjects all possess impressive psychic abilities despite their youth. However, it's indicated that while they might look like children, the Zener Children are all adults, having been left unable to grow up as a result of the treatments used to activate their powers. | |
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Take Cover! | |
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Take Cover!: Interestingly, you are better off not using the cover system as intended, because John must pop his entire body out to attack. You are better off just crouching behind it and taking a few steps back, or at least just standing behind it. | |
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Spider-Sense | |
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Precognition: Jayne's power and later revealed to be John's as well. | |
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Mind over Matter | |
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Psi Blast: Either in the form of a concentrated mind shot, or a wide range psi-explosion to repel enemies and get some breathing room. | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_f2877d9e | comment |
Incredibly Lame Pun: The network password at the asylum is "mad2behere". Vattic and the doctor share a forced-sounding snicker. | |
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No-Gear Level | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_f7d66b6f | comment |
No-Gear Level: The earlier Flash Backs to Russia... kind of. You have to do without your Psychic Powers, but you get access to more and better guns instead, not to mention AI allies. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: It's possible to slaughter unarmed NPCs without consequence, though most are affiliated with unscrupulous groups and will call in hostile guards if they see you. In particular, Grienko's assistant in the final level is the hardest to justify harming, as not only does he do nothing to antagonize the player, this level takes place in the past, which is established to actually be the present at this point, so you can't even use "it's a hypothetical future that isn't really happening" as an excuse. | |
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Talking to Themself | |
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Talking to Themself: In the "Enigma" obtained if an ally dies during the Teamwork level, Hanson taunts Vattic from behind a one-way mirror. Clever camera angles make it look at first like Vattic's own reflection is mocking him. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: One of the most notable indications that Grienko isn't the real villain of the game is that he and his staff genuinely care about the Zener Children; Grienko in particular is horrified to learn that Hanson plans to kill the Children for tissue samples. At some point in the Teamwork mission, Ballard stays in the front line of fire and takes a lot of damage. Very responsible from the one who should care about the health of the others, uh? | |
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Shown Their Work | |
| Second Sight (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Justified with a side helping of medical accuracy. He's not spontaneously developing these new powers so much as he's instinctively accessing them when he needs them, in spite of having no recollection of acquiring them. It's not so different to when he finally finds a car and makes his getaway at the end of the first mission; he didn't recall taking his driving test, but he still knew how to drive. This is actually a somewhat common presentation of amnesia in Real Life. | |
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