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ObsCure / Videogame

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ObsCure / Videogame	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Essentially Resident Evil IN HIGH SCHOOL WITH CO-OP! ObsCure is a series of survival horror games by Hydravision Entertainment (later Mighty Rocket Studio) for the PlayStation 2, original Xbox, and PC. The presentation is similar to the PlayStation 2 era Silent Hill games (Silent Hill 2 through Silent Hill 4: The Room), played from a third-person perspective with a fixed, floating camera tracking the player from a distance within a fully 3D environment.One of its most notable features was its two-player cooperative mode. Instead of exploring the haunted halls alone, the teens were Genre Savvy enough to stick together in pairs, with the player selecting who to take along as a partner. Said partner was either controlled by the game's AI or a second player, and each character had had a unique skill to make parts of the game easier.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Another part of the game's charm was its campiness. Styled after the post-modern, "meta", Genre Savvy teen horror movies of the late '90s (such as Scream (1996) and especially The Faculty), the games were flush with corny, Totally Radical dialogue and characters written as broad caricatures of teen movie heroes and villains. The first game even featured the song "Still Waiting" by Sum 41 as its theme song, as a nod to such films' "hip" soundtracks.The first two games were rereleased on Steam in 2014.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })ObsCure (2004)Something strange is going on at Leafmore High. Students are disappearing, teachers are acting oddly... When Kenny Matthews, a varsity athlete, makes an horrific discovery under the school, four of his friends — his cheerleader girlfriend Ashley Thompson, school reporter Josh Carter, stoner friend Stanley "Stan" Jones, and little sister Shannon — join him in investigating what exactly the hell is happening. However, they quickly find themselves locked in the school overnight, and now there're things roaming the halls...Notably, none of the five characters were ever required to advance the plot... mainly because all of them could be easily Killed Off for Real at any time. Losing somebody didn't instantly equal a Game Over; you could continue without them so long as you had somebody left to play as. Having every character still alive was also necessary to achieve the Golden Ending. The game also had the player using light as a weapon in the form of flashlights that weakened enemies, flashbang grenades that acted as smart bombs, and even smashing open windows to let in sunlight, several years before Alan Wake employed a similar mechanic.ObsCure II (2006)The sequel, ObsCure II (known in America as ObsCure: The Aftermath), takes place two years after the events at Leafmore. Shannon and Kenny are attending the nearby Fallcreek University, while Stan dropped out and is working as a pizza delivery boy. Stan and Kenny have to take medication to stave off the aftereffects of what happened at Leafmore, while Shannon has managed to adapt on her own... something she frequently snipes at the boys about.Unfortunately, there's a new recreational drug that's become trendy among the students, one that's made from a strange-looking flower that keeps appearing all over the campus. Naturally, it isn't long before the survivors of Leafmore High, along with a small group of other students at Fallcreek, find themselves facing hordes of mutants and struggling to stop the contagion from spreading too far. What follows is a romp through the college dorms, a frat house, a hospital, and the dark woods outside of town, and a long parade of Cruel and Unusual Deaths as everything comes out of the woodwork to kill our intrepid heroes.Unlike the first game, the partners (and deaths) for each section of the game are decided as part of the plot, and each hero's skills are actually required to navigate past the various puzzles and obstacles. Characterization is beefed up from the first game; while the five protagonists in the original got nearly all of their characterization in the opening scenes, the structure of the plot here means that they get real Character Development over the course of the game, much of it provided through combat dialogue. However, the returning characters from the original get hit with a bad case of Not as You Know Them in the process.Final Exam (2013)A spinoff called Final Exam was released in late 2013 on PC, Play Station Network, and Xbox Live Arcade. Unlike the first two games, Final Exam is a side-scrolling 2½D Hack and Slash with a more exaggerated art style. It is about four former high school buddies — the football hero Brutal Joe, the nerd Nathan, the tough guy Sean, and the dancer Cassy — who get together for their school reunion, only to arrive and find the town overrun with monsters.It was originally conceived as ObsCure D, an interquel to the first two games, but that version was scrapped after Hydravision closed its doors. It was retooled into Final Exam, with an original story and characters, after former members of Hydravision founded Mighty Rocket Studio. While not officially part of the ObsCure series, it has enough Shout Outs to the games that fans consider it a sequel in all but name.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_11734fc0	type	Mission Control Is Off Its Meds
ObsCure / Videogame / int_11734fc0	comment	Likewise, the penultimate level of Final Exam has the protagonists get exposed to the black spores, causing a bad trip filled with nonsensical mission objectives and, at more than one point, the characters thinking that they are Crushers.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: No, really. No matter what combination of characters you have, it is possible for one or both of them to die. For unskilled or new players, its almost a certainty.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
ObsCure / Videogame / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Trailers? Try game covers. Mutant Kenny appears right there on the cover as an Evil Overlooker.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
ObsCure / Videogame / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Along with Bloodier and Gorier.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_15264ac9	type	Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay
ObsCure / Videogame / int_15264ac9	comment	Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay: Some locked doors are opened not by rooting around for a key three rooms away or figuring out some bizarre puzzle. They're opened by using a baseball bat to smash the window, then reaching through the broken glass to open it from the inside. And when the door to the second floor is chained up, what do you do? Go back across the entire map, to solve a puzzle that gives you the key? No, you go to the science lab to grab acid to dissolve the chains with. You find a safe that needs a code to be opened, and luckily, the numbers are written on a paper. The problem is that the code's been scribbled on with a marker to cover the numbers, and you need a source of light to see the numbers clearly. You can go to another classroom and use the projector, or walk to a window and examine the paper thanks to the sunlight coming through the glass panels.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
ObsCure / Videogame / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: The end of the game takes place at the ruins of Leafmore High School, which are in the process of being demolished. Then the real end of the game has the protagonists returning to the Delta Theta Gamma house, which was where the mortifilia outbreak started — in more ways than one.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1653843c	type	Dummied Out
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1653843c	comment	Dummied Out: One of the original trailers shows an extended version of the starting Nightmare Sequence. The Steam trailer, which re-creates this trailer, replaces it with some footage from later in the game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1659c054	type	Dialog During Gameplay
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1659c054	comment	Dialog During Gameplay: Unlike the first game, this one is flush with it.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
ObsCure / Videogame / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Noted In-Universe in Mr. Walden's files. The mortifilia plant's behavior is so unusual that he can't believe it's real — its stems are completely dry, implying that it doesn't need water to live, and it is not only not photosynthetic, but exposure to the light actually damages it.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: Two of them, with the deciding factor being whether all five characters survive to the end or not. If any of the player characters has died, then the survivors take the antidote and leave. Afterwards, the game cuts to a memorial to those who died at Leafmore High. A mysterious purple smoke comes out of one of the coffins that has been laid into the ground, implying that the deceased are still infected and will come back as mortifilia monsters. If Everybody Lives, then a special cutscene plays. In the ruined gym, Kenny and Ashley start making out, Shannon and Josh comfort each other, and Stan moves to grab the briefcase containing the antidote, only for something to come out of the hole in the gym floor and attack him. (Given that all five of the main characters show up in the sequel, it clearly didn't do much to hurt any of them.) This is the canon ending that the second game follows on from.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1ae27a74	type	FridgeHorror
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1ae27a74	comment	Overlaps with Fridge Horror. After she's rescued from Kenny, take a close look at Amy. She's no longer wearing her thong, and her face starts looking sicker and sicker as the game progresses.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1b0040c6	type	Not as You Know Them
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1b0040c6	comment	Not as You Know Them: Shannon, Stan, and Kenny all have darker personalities as a result of their experiences.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1b68ff00	type	The Chick
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1b68ff00	comment	Shannon, The Chick (as well as The Medic).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Take your pick. You've got: Getting torn apart by monsters. (Jun) Getting your head slowly crushed under a giant monster's foot while your boyfriend watches helplessly. (Mei) Getting chopped up with a chainsaw and hung on a meat hook. (Sven) Getting raped and impregnated by a monster and then giving birth to its murderous offspring. (Amy) Suffering a slow Trauma Conga Line over the course of the game, before finally being Driven to Suicide after getting infected by the Big Bad. (Corey) Getting mutated into a gigantic, murderous monster after running out of the medicine you need to keep your mortifilia infection at bay, then taking three grueling boss battles to finally go down. (Kenny)
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
ObsCure / Videogame / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: As performed by a creepy boy choir.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_22e5329e	type	Ordinary High-School Student
ObsCure / Videogame / int_22e5329e	comment	Ordinary High-School Student: The five protagonists didn't start out as monster hunters, things just happened that way.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
ObsCure / Videogame / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: The secret cutscene, unlocked by opening all of the lock boxes, is a video showing what happened to Josh and Ashley, the two heroes from the previous game that didn't reappear in the sequel. They went back to the abandoned ruins of the school with a handheld camera to investigate, and got attacked by Jedidiah. The footage cuts out before we see a confirmed kill, but it's pretty clear that things didn't turn out well for them.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
ObsCure / Videogame / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Mei spends the first half of the game trying to track down her twin sister Jun and save her. If you manage to track her down, the game lets you control Jun's escape attempts, only to have her brutally killed seconds after yanking that control away. Things go downhill from there.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
ObsCure / Videogame / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: A survival horror game where the five playable characters have their own unique skills, travel in small groups that you can swap around but not all together, and Anyone Can Die but you can still go on without them as long as at least one is still alive? It's a modernised update of Sweet Home.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: The revolver is one of the most powerful weapons in the first game, standing far ahead of the three semi-automatics available, and bested only by the double-barrel shotgun and the laser. Its description even refers to it as "a powerful revolver". The same is true in Final Exam, where the magnum revolver is not only far more powerful than the semi-auto handgun, but stuns enemies as well. Given that you find it in the second level, it's practically a Disc-One Nuke, especially if you're playing as Sean.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2af679a6	type	Sidequest
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2af679a6	comment	Sidequest: One of these is strung through the game, with a bunch of small keys scattered through the environment that open lock boxes. Each of them contains a unique, powerful weapon; in order, you get the stun gun, the crossbow, the flashball gun (a gun that fires mini-flashbangs), the flare gun, the mega-flashlight, and the mini SMG. Opening all of them unlocks a bonus video that reveals the ambiguous fate of Josh and Ashley from the first game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2b2a1700	type	Master of Unlocking
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2b2a1700	comment	By contrast, Josh, Stan, and Shannon fall into this category in the first game. Josh can easily find items, Stan can easily find locks and pick them faster than the others, and Shannon is skilled at first aid and offers puzzle tips. Using Josh and Stan primarily on one's first playthrough can make life a lot easier in terms of not missing anything.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Most of the weapons within the special boxes are powerful, but crippled by either a lack of ammo (the explosive crossbow, the flare gun, the mini SMG) or a tendency to quickly drain the battery (the high-powered flashlight). Outside of the stun gun and the flashball gun, you will be saving most of these weapons for the boss fights and relying on the good old-fashioned pistol, shotgun, and melee weapons.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2c18b9a3	type	Orphaned Series
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2c18b9a3	comment	Orphaned Series: Sadly, the cliffhanger at the end of the second game was never resolved, thanks to the third game becoming a Divorced Installment.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2c7f683b	type	Gas Leak Cover-Up
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2c7f683b	comment	Gas Leak Cover-Up: A newspaper found in the Leafmore Ruins reveals that the whole Leafmore Incident was covered up (probably by the ΔΘГ Brotherhood) with this as the excuse.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2d39663b	type	Fratbro
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2d39663b	comment	The actual fraternity hosting the party, Delta Theta Gamma, turns out to be a subversion. To the uninitiated, they're little more than a bunch of hard-partying fratbros. They're actually a secret society that's deeply involved in an Ancient Conspiracy, and their research into the mortifilia plant was responsible for the events of both games.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: Principal Friedman. Mr. Walden's behavior also grows increasingly erratic over the course of the game, the result of his infection with mortifilia spores.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2dba7575	type	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2dba7575	comment	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: One of the early levels has you sneaking into a frat house party, which is soon followed by you fighting your way out. The actual fraternity hosting the party, Delta Theta Gamma, turns out to be a subversion. To the uninitiated, they're little more than a bunch of hard-partying fratbros. They're actually a secret society that's deeply involved in an Ancient Conspiracy, and their research into the mortifilia plant was responsible for the events of both games.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
ObsCure / Videogame / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: In his last words, Kenny tells Shannon to take care of the child that he had with Amy — an Enfant Terrible that envelops the stadium with a cloud of spores not long after. Shannon vows to "take care of it" by destroying it.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_3011ef28	type	Co-Op Multiplayer
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3011ef28	comment	Co-Op Multiplayer: One of the defining aspects of the series, being fairly unique for classic survival horror, although the AI will control the other character if you're going solo.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_3139c343	type	Hollywood Nerd
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3139c343	comment	Hollywood Nerd: Shannon and Josh in the first game, Mei and Jun in the second one.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
ObsCure / Videogame / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: A major example. The game waits until after the end credits for its big twist: Professor James was The Mole, working for the Delta Theta Gamma fraternity, which is part of a larger conspiracy that was secretly responsible for the events of both games. Then you face the True Final Boss.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
ObsCure / Videogame / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: Character inventory is generally shared, except for weapons. If a character dies in the first game or both of the characters you're playing as die you have to recollect items though. There's also a possible oversight at the beginning of the first game where giving Kenny both guns and unloading them before the prologue ends causes those extra bullets to appear in your inventory when the other characters get their first gun. Very handy for Hard mode though!
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_38869708	type	The Precarious Ledge
ObsCure / Videogame / int_38869708	comment	In the second game, the bruisers Kenny and Sven have the ability to move heavy objects and hit enemies harder, while Corey's skills are also derived from his physical ability (in his case, climbing narrow ledges and being able to take more damage).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3946634e	comment	Josh, The Smart Guy.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3946634e	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3946634e	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_3946634e
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3979d6da	type	Male Might, Female Finesse
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3979d6da	comment	Male Might, Female Finesse: As noted above under Unskilled, but Strong and Weak, but Skilled, most of the male characters save for Stan have special abilities derived from their physicality (Kenny and Sven's strength and Corey's daredevil acrobatics), while all of the female characters' special abilities are either intellectual (Mei and Amy) or supernatural (Shannon).
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3979d6da	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3979d6da	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_3979d6da
ObsCure / Videogame / int_398692d6	type	Kill 'Em All
ObsCure / Videogame / int_398692d6	comment	Kill 'Em All: Well, it is based on '90s teen horror movies. By the end, only Shannon and Stan are left alive.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_398692d6	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_398692d6	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_398692d6
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3babae20	type	Degraded Boss
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3babae20	comment	Degraded Boss: The Tank and the Crusher, after serving as end bosses early on, become this in the rest of the game.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3babae20	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3babae20	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_3babae20
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3fcfdefd	type	Hillbilly Horrors
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3fcfdefd	comment	Hillbilly Horrors: Around the midpoint, after the protagonists escape the university campus, they flee to a house in the forest that turns out to be the home of Jedidiah. This trope is in full effect as you explore the house and surrounding area.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3fcfdefd	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_3fcfdefd	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_3fcfdefd
ObsCure / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
ObsCure / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Depending on how you look at it. On one hand, all the new characters introduced in the game suffered terrible and brutal ends, and Corey, the sole one of the new ones to make it to the very end, gets infected by the same monster that kill the woman he loved. The infection would turn him into just another monster than would cooperate with Kenny, to avoid this he decides to shoot himself in the head. On the other, Shannon and Stan are still alive, and while they're in for a rough ride, they're more than ready to take it and kick ass.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_40cc0c7e
ObsCure / Videogame / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
ObsCure / Videogame / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The games' Totally Radical, "too-cool-for-school" attitude is part of their homage to late '90s horror movies.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_415b3315	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_415b3315	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_415b3315
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: A laser beam weapon can be found near the end of the game. It is powerful as all get out, but has limited juice and no extra batteries. A laser with unlimited battery life (albeit with a cooldown period like the flashlights) can be unlocked during a New Game+.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4536fd29	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4536fd29	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_4536fd29
ObsCure / Videogame / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
ObsCure / Videogame / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: And how! See Your Princess Is in Another Castle!.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_48081842	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_48081842	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_48081842
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: After surviving the events of the first game, Kenny gets killed in the sequel — in the most drawn-out, painful way possible, involving Body Horror and a Face–Heel Turn. Oh, and Josh and Ashley, the other two protagonists from the first game who don't return, are implied to have been horribly killed off-screen.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4cb7f0d8	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_4cb7f0d8	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_4cb7f0d8
ObsCure / Videogame / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
ObsCure / Videogame / int_500ecfb7	comment	Stan, The Big Guy.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_500ecfb7	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_500ecfb7	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_500ecfb7
ObsCure / Videogame / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
ObsCure / Videogame / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The games do not lack for messed-up monsters that had once been ordinary teenagers. The most grotesque example is probably the Breeder in the second game, which Amy dryly notes appears to have once been a pregnant woman.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_504a1991	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_504a1991	featureConfidence	1.0
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5313c266	comment	Book-Ends: The game begins and ends with you being at the school gym. Double points if you are playing Kenny during the final boss fight.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5313c266	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5313c266	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5313c266
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5560dbb5	type	Airborne Mook
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5560dbb5	comment	Airborne Mook: The Harpies, former college girls.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5560dbb5	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5560dbb5	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5560dbb5
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5561eef8	type	Suspicious Video-Game Generosity
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5561eef8	comment	Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: In the first game, before the final boss fight you are able to take a large amount of ammo and multiple first aid kits from Mr. Walden's bag. In the second game, after the No-Gear Level, you recover all of your weapons — all of them stocked with plenty of extra ammo — just before the True Final Boss.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5561eef8	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5561eef8	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5561eef8
ObsCure / Videogame / int_56d95b5b	type	High School
ObsCure / Videogame / int_56d95b5b	comment	High School: Set in what seems to be an exclusive private school, with the player exploring the classrooms, the administrative buildings, the gym, the theater, the cafeteria, and the dorms, along with certain other features that normal high schools (even lavish ones) don't have.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_56d95b5b	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_56d95b5b	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_56d95b5b
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5a1819b7	type	PantyShot
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5a1819b7	comment	Also, if Shannon is boosted up to the air vent in the girls bathroom in the Administration Building, the camera shows what would be a Panty Shot if not for Shannon's Magic Skirt.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5a1819b7	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5a1819b7	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5a1819b7
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Early on, the characters use this to travel from the girls restroom to the teachers' showers, so as to access the teacher's lounge (which is locked from the outside). Played a little more realistically than most examples, as the vent requires a screwdriver to open and a boost from another character to reach.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b19cc1b	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b19cc1b	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b19cc1b
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b81ca8d	type	Disc-One Nuke
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b81ca8d	comment	The same is true in Final Exam, where the magnum revolver is not only far more powerful than the semi-auto handgun, but stuns enemies as well. Given that you find it in the second level, it's practically a Disc-One Nuke, especially if you're playing as Sean.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b81ca8d	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b81ca8d	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5b81ca8d
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5caef4ca	type	Chainsaw Good
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5caef4ca	comment	Chainsaw Good: Subverted. The chainsaw is not used as a weapon, but only for cutting through obstacles and severing Leonard's Combat Tentacles during the boss fight, and it requires battery power to run. That said, Jedidiah does use a chainsaw as his Weapon of Choice, and the final battle between Corey and Jedediah is a chainsaw duel straight out of Gears of War (or it would be, if this game hadn't come first).
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5caef4ca	featureApplicability	-0.3
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5caef4ca	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5caef4ca
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5d9ce92c	type	Save-Game Limits
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5d9ce92c	comment	Save-Game Limits: Both the first and second game do this in their own way. The first game gives you a limited number of CDs that you can use to save the game in any room provided it's clear of enemies. In the second game, there are fixed save points (represented by mortifilia flowers on the wall) that can only be used once, though given the second game's more linear progression, you'll rarely revisit old save points.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5d9ce92c	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5d9ce92c	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5d9ce92c
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5ee49b0f	type	WeAllLiveInAmerica
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5ee49b0f	comment	We All Live in America: While the games are set in the United States, they were made by a French developer, and it appears that they were basing their impressions of Anglophone society more on the UK than the US. Metric measurements are frequently used in place of American Customary Measurements, dates are rendered in the form of "DD/MM" rather than the "MM/DD" format used in the US, British spellings are employed frequently, and a notice makes reference to the "Ministry of Health" (the US' equivalent is the Department of Health and Human Services). On top of that, one of the calendars still has the French names for the months of the year (octobre, janvier, avril). If it weren't for the American flag in the gymnasium in the first game and the brief reference to Friedman being born in Iowa, one might guess that the games took place in Quebec rather than the US. Likewise, with the exception of the Friedmans (whose last name implies a German background), every single character who's not explicitly specified as being non-white (Mei and Jun) or otherwise foreign (Sven) has an English last name like Matthews, Thompson, Jones, Carter, Brookes, or Wilde. No corner of the US was exclusively settled by the English; even those parts of the country with substantial levels of English heritage (like New England, Utah, and the Southeast) tend to have Scottish, Irish, German, and Scandinavian ancestry mixed in as well. To English ears it probably wouldn't be out of the ordinary, but it certainly stands out to Americans. One of the weapons available in the second game is a flashball gun, a less-lethal riot control weapon (though for the games' light-intolerant enemies, it is far deadlier) that is widely used by law enforcement and gendarmes in France and the rest of Europe, but is virtually unheard of with American law enforcement.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5ee49b0f	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_5ee49b0f	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_5ee49b0f
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60b21fa3	comment	Ashley, The Lancer.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60b21fa3	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60b21fa3	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_60b21fa3
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60e49895	comment	Kenny, The Leader.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60e49895	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_60e49895	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_60e49895
ObsCure / Videogame / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
ObsCure / Videogame / int_637ef67	comment	New Game+: Special Mode, which gives the characters alternate costumes and puts two new weapons into the game: the Morgenstern bat (a spiked club that does as much damage as the revolver) replacing the baseball bat, and a pistol with a laser beam weapon attached replacing the flashlight-equipped pistol found in Friedman's safe.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_637ef67	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_637ef67	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_637ef67
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63a865c9	type	Universal Ammunition
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63a865c9	comment	Universal Ammunition: The first game has only three types of ammunition: pistol bullets, shotgun shells, and the laser's batteries. It makes sense for the shotguns (which are all presumably 12 gauge) and the laser (for which there is no extra ammo available), but the same pistol bullets are fired out of everything from an old pocket pistol to a Hand Cannon revolver. Final Exam goes further and has its ammo apply across all weapons, from pistols to shotguns to machine guns.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63a865c9	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63a865c9	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_63a865c9
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The entire plot of the first two games revolves around one of the Friedman brothers trying to save the life of the other. Even their children get involved, human and plant alike. The second game reveals that the ΔΘГ brotherhood had supported their research, but this was because the scientific community had repeatedly rejected them, with ΔΘГ being the only ones willing to fund them.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63d861f8	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_63d861f8	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_63d861f8
ObsCure / Videogame / int_68d326ff	type	Express Delivery
ObsCure / Videogame / int_68d326ff	comment	Express Delivery: It only takes one night for the mutant spawn of Kenny and Amy to go from a zygote to a helicopter-destroying, black-spore-releasing monstrosity.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_68d326ff	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_68d326ff	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_68d326ff
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ac6a56a	type	And Your Reward Is Clothes
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ac6a56a	comment	And Your Reward Is Clothes: Beating the game unlocks alternate outfits in New Game+ mode for each character still left alive at the end. Ashley's gray shirt is switched out for the top half of her cheerleading uniform (though keeping her jeans), Stan's shirt is recolored in Jamaican/Rasta colors, Josh gets a Hawaiian shirt, Kenny's muscle shirt and track pants are recolored green and orange respectively, and Shannon gets the most dramatic makeover — a punk/goth ensemble that includes fishnet stockings and blue streaks in her hair. (Her appearance in the second game makes this Hilarious in Hindsight.)
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ac6a56a	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ac6a56a	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ac6a56a
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6b7a6c55	type	Face–Monster Turn
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6b7a6c55	comment	In the second game, most of the main characters save for Shannon (who's immune to the plant's effects anyway) and Stan use a drug made from the mortifilia plant in the opening, and wind up infected. It's mentioned that other students at the school have been using the drug for a month by that point, and it can be inferred that these were the students who turned into monsters at the frat party. While Jun, Mei, Sven, and Amy all get killed or otherwise incapacitated too early for the plant's effects to take hold, Kenny, who still had the infection from the first game in his system, undergoes a Face–Monster Turn as a result. Corey is also Driven to Suicide over it, his infection being the start of his Trauma Conga Line over the course of the game.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6b7a6c55	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6b7a6c55	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_6b7a6c55
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Leonard/Jedidiah.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6de71c57	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6de71c57	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_6de71c57
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ec03ba1	type	Mook Maker
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ec03ba1	comment	Mook Maker: The Breeder produces swarms of tiny spider biters, as well as having some really annoying attacks of its own. It's implied that they had once been pregnant women infected with the mortifilia spores.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ec03ba1	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ec03ba1	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_6ec03ba1
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6edb0066	type	Zero-Effort Boss
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6edb0066	comment	Zero-Effort Boss: After defeating the final boss (implied to be Leonard the giant tree from the first game), you fight Principal Friedman. He's just an ordinary human being and, other than having a lot of health and a decent dodge roll, fights more or less like a basic Mook. The fight is pretty much just a chance to beat him up for causing the whole mess.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6edb0066	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_6edb0066	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_6edb0066
ObsCure / Videogame / int_707ee167	type	Secret Circle of Secrets
ObsCure / Videogame / int_707ee167	comment	Secret Circle of Secrets: Delta Theta Gamma is strongly implied to have a lot more in common with Skull & Bones than the drunken, hard-partying Delta House wannabes they appear to be at first glance. The Stinger confirms this.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_707ee167	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_707ee167	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_707ee167
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71bd555a	type	Plotline Death
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71bd555a	comment	Plotline Death: Played straight, unlike in the first game. Zig-zagged with Jun, whose death can be delayed (but not avoided) if you try to save her, which also gets you one of the best melee weapons in the game.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71bd555a	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71bd555a	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_71bd555a
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Suffering a slow Trauma Conga Line over the course of the game, before finally being Driven to Suicide after getting infected by the Big Bad. (Corey)
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71e8a5c5	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_71e8a5c5	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_71e8a5c5
ObsCure / Videogame / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
ObsCure / Videogame / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Monster Kenny, Leonard Friedman, and Jedidiah.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_72cdfc33	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_72cdfc33	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_72cdfc33
ObsCure / Videogame / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
ObsCure / Videogame / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: Kenny's stint trying to fight off monsters before the Title Drop.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_77414bc2	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_77414bc2	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_77414bc2
ObsCure / Videogame / int_792e11ec	type	Dance Battler
ObsCure / Videogame / int_792e11ec	comment	Dance Battler: Cassy. Two of her special moves involve dancing as a means of attack, kicking and twirling enemies out of her way.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_792e11ec	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_792e11ec	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_792e11ec
ObsCure / Videogame / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
ObsCure / Videogame / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: In the end, only Shannon and Stan are left alive, and they're facing down a massive cloud of black spores, with the implication that they're about to do battle with Kenny's monstrous spawn.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_79a0e313	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_79a0e313	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_79a0e313
ObsCure / Videogame / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
ObsCure / Videogame / int_86f4f393	comment	You find a safe that needs a code to be opened, and luckily, the numbers are written on a paper. The problem is that the code's been scribbled on with a marker to cover the numbers, and you need a source of light to see the numbers clearly. You can go to another classroom and use the projector, or walk to a window and examine the paper thanks to the sunlight coming through the glass panels.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_86f4f393	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_86f4f393	featureConfidence	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame	hasFeature	ObsCure / Videogame / int_86f4f393
ObsCure / Videogame / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
ObsCure / Videogame / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew/Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They all fit neatly into every cliched teen movie category you can think of and still manage to be friends on some level. Then they find melee weapons and firearms. Cue the drug-induced, one-liner filled chaos.
ObsCure / Videogame / int_8879db82	featureApplicability	1.0
ObsCure / Videogame / int_8879db82	featureConfidence	1.0
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
ObsCure / Videogame / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Probably one of the most disturbing aspects of the game. It's hard to tell how much of an impact it's supposed to have on the game, though, considering that Amy groans and cries occasionally, but shows no other signs of having gone through a traumatic experience, due to not remembering the act at all. (That said, it doesn't tell us if Kenny did something to make her forget or if she just blocked out the horrible experience.) Also, depending on your interpretation of the ending, Amy's pregnancy either literally spawns a possible sequel or hands out justice to the final antagonist.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
ObsCure / Videogame / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: They are created through exposure to the mortifilia plant, and they are killed by the light.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_90d60f4a	type	And Some Other Stuff
ObsCure / Videogame / int_90d60f4a	comment	And Some Other Stuff: Incredibly guilty of this trope during Chapters 9 and 10, where the students need to make dynamite in order to blow up a weak wall blocking their path. Apparently, all you need to do to make a working stick of dynamite is mix bleach, ascorbic acid, ice, glycerine, and soda, in that order, into a beaker.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
ObsCure / Videogame / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift and Genre Shift: Even when it was still known as ObsCure D, it was far more cartoonish and action-packed than either of the other two games were.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
ObsCure / Videogame / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: Kenny, The Leader. Ashley, The Lancer. Josh, The Smart Guy. Stan, The Big Guy. Shannon, The Chick (as well as The Medic).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9578e935	type	Bare Your Midriff
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9578e935	comment	Bare Your Midriff: Ashley in the first game, and Cassy in Final Exam.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
ObsCure / Videogame / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: The most powerful shotgun in the first game appears to be some kind of hybrid of a double-barrel and pump-action shotgun that, in real life, could not exist as a functional weapon. Likewise, you attach flashlights to guns by simply duct-taping them together; if the recoil alone didn't cause the flashlight to go flying (unless the teens used the entire roll of duct tape), the operation of a semi-auto pistol's slide would do it instead. The only gun that should've been able to hold onto its flashlight was the pistol found in Friedman's safe, which had a light built in.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Matt, an African-American student you meet in the dorm at the start of the game. When things go to hell you find the Professor dissecting a monster, who Corey identifies as Matt by his tattoo. Also, Mei and Jun, the only non-white members of the main cast, are the first among them to die.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9a1f23bf	type	Controllable Helplessness
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9a1f23bf	comment	Controllable Helplessness: Kenny during the Action Prologue, which is one big Fission Mailed, but moreso Dan during co-op, since he's killed barely a minute after the second player takes over.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Stinger reveals that the events of both games were orchestrated by the Delta Theta Gamma (ΔΘГ) fraternity, which turns out to be a Skull & Bones-esque secret society that views the mortifilia plant as the key to immortality. Both Professor James and the Friedman brothers were members (the latter out of necessity to secure funding), and the group used its deep connections to the federal government to cover up the Friedman brothers' experiments at Leafmore, so they could achieve immortality.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Stan and especially Shannon have taken several of them since the first game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9cde2df1	comment	The first game has only three types of ammunition: pistol bullets, shotgun shells, and the laser's batteries. It makes sense for the shotguns (which are all presumably 12 gauge) and the laser (for which there is no extra ammo available), but the same pistol bullets are fired out of everything from an old pocket pistol to a Hand Cannon revolver.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9d09bf1a	type	American Kirby Is Hardcore
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9d09bf1a	comment	American Kirby Is Hardcore: Compare these assorted◊ covers from the PAL versionnote The first is a floating-head cover featuring the various protagonists, the second is a hand reaching out at the player, and the third, taken from the Mushroom Samba scene in the opening, is gory but artsy. with the snarling monster◊ on the American cover. The worst part is that the American cover doubles as a case of Trailers Always Spoil, giving away Kenny's Face–Monster Turn about halfway through the game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9d12bbc1	comment	The opening of the second game has Corey and Mei consume the mortifilia plant, triggering one of these (with some foreshadowing for later events).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Josh. Complete with an Apocalyptic Log by the second game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: By contrast, Josh, Stan, and Shannon fall into this category in the first game. Josh can easily find items, Stan can easily find locks and pick them faster than the others, and Shannon is skilled at first aid and offers puzzle tips. Using Josh and Stan primarily on one's first playthrough can make life a lot easier in terms of not missing anything. In the second game, Mei can hack computers, Amy can solve puzzles that others can't, Shannon can suck dangerous dark auras out of the environment, and Stan once more has his lock-picking ability (this time being the only character able to do so, instead of just doing it faster than the others).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
ObsCure / Videogame / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Sean's combat specialty is in firearms, and his special attacks all revolve around them in one way or another.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
ObsCure / Videogame / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: The Fallcreek University Hospital has gone through a very hard night thanks to mortifilia infectees being taken there. You get to see a poor guy in a bed bleed out from his wound, unable to move, as well as pregnant women in the maternity ward who have been mutated into Mook Makers.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
ObsCure / Videogame / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: A deliberate choice. Most of the cast are grown-up students of the '90s, after all.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
ObsCure / Videogame / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Dan. He accompanies Kenny during the Action Prologue, and is promptly killed for good in an effort to show that Anyone Can Die — which is actually true (see above).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
ObsCure / Videogame / int_ac9f78d9	comment	Jane of All Stats: Cassy. She can upgrade all four of her skills (health, strength, precision, and explosives) quite nicely, making her the most versatile fighter, but can't upgrade any one of them as much as other characters who specialize in one skill or another.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ad22dd72	type	Elaborate University High
ObsCure / Videogame / int_ad22dd72	comment	Elaborate University High: Friedman absolutely splurged when he built Leafmore High. Not only does it have, among other things, a botanical garden, a theater, and a maze of secret underground tunnels, but the buildings on the school grounds are all built in an Art Nouveau style, most visible in the school's vast central courtyard and creepy statues. This fan-made map of the school showcases its various buildings and secrets.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
ObsCure / Videogame / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The bonus video you find after obtaining all of the secret weapons shows a small video of Josh and Ashley in the Leafmore Ruins until they are found by Jedidiah, leaving their fate ambiguous.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
ObsCure / Videogame / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Shannon, along with her boyfriend Stan.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
ObsCure / Videogame / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: The nightmarish drug trip sequence at the beginning is ripe with foreshadowing.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
ObsCure / Videogame / int_b983a56b	comment	If any of the player characters has died, then the survivors take the antidote and leave. Afterwards, the game cuts to a memorial to those who died at Leafmore High. A mysterious purple smoke comes out of one of the coffins that has been laid into the ground, implying that the deceased are still infected and will come back as mortifilia monsters.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_b9abf327	type	How Much More Can He Take?
ObsCure / Videogame / int_b9abf327	comment	How Much More Can He Take?: Seriously, Kenny, just stay down. There are only so many things that can be dropped on you.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
ObsCure / Videogame / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: The game's title in Europe is ObsCure II, but it was sold in the US as ObsCure: The Aftermath.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
ObsCure / Videogame / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Downplayed. Every new protagonist is dead by the end of the game, but their deaths are spread out enough that you don't notice too much, from first entering the hospital (Jun) to the Final Boss (Corey).
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c14ca4e0	type	Zombie Infectee
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c14ca4e0	comment	Zombie Infectee: In the first game, all of the main characters get infected by Friedman about halfway in. The rest of the game has them looking for the antidote before the sun rises and triggers mutations. In the second game, it's revealed that the antidote only treated the symptoms rather than curing them, and while Shannon learned how to control the mortifilia and developed a symbiotic relationship with her infection, the other characters all have to take pills to control it. Mr. Walden was also infected earlier on, and by the end of the game is too far gone to safely use the antidote. In the second game, most of the main characters save for Shannon (who's immune to the plant's effects anyway) and Stan use a drug made from the mortifilia plant in the opening, and wind up infected. It's mentioned that other students at the school have been using the drug for a month by that point, and it can be inferred that these were the students who turned into monsters at the frat party. While Jun, Mei, Sven, and Amy all get killed or otherwise incapacitated too early for the plant's effects to take hold, Kenny, who still had the infection from the first game in his system, undergoes a Face–Monster Turn as a result. Corey is also Driven to Suicide over it, his infection being the start of his Trauma Conga Line over the course of the game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The ending seems to imply that the events of the game are actually part of a comic book within the original ObsCure continuity.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Nathan, whose combat specialty is in explosives, and whose special moves involve various gadgets, including an electro-shield, a monster trap straight out of Ghostbusters, and a high-powered flashlight.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c45beb12	type	Academy of Adventure
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c45beb12	comment	Academy of Adventure: Leafmore High in the first game and Final Exam, Fallcreek University in the second.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c564ef1	type	Solve the Soup Cans
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c564ef1	comment	Some locked doors are opened not by rooting around for a key three rooms away or figuring out some bizarre puzzle. They're opened by using a baseball bat to smash the window, then reaching through the broken glass to open it from the inside.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c75df49a	comment	Getting chopped up with a chainsaw and hung on a meat hook. (Sven)
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_c9869c78	type	I Know Madden Kombat
ObsCure / Videogame / int_c9869c78	comment	I Know Madden Kombat: Two of Brutal Joe's special moves involve his background as a football player. One has him charging like a bull, as though he were running at another team on the field, and another has him putting on football armor to give him temporary invulnerability. All of the characters can also learn a tackle move to take down enemies.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
ObsCure / Videogame / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Whereas the original games were unabashedly campy but otherwise played things fairly straight and tried to be genuinely scary, Final Exam is far more overtly comedic and over-the-top.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
ObsCure / Videogame / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: Mortifilia, which turns those exposed to it into darkness monsters. Principal Friedman, his sister-in-law Nurse Wickson, and (in the second game) Shannon seem to be the only ones immune to it, but they can't be under sunlight too much, and Friedman spent years researching the plant to harness its properties in a less corruptive manner. Everybody else must take daily medication to avoid turning.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
ObsCure / Videogame / int_d1affec1	comment	None of them seem to struggle with guns or chainsaws though. Gun Slinging 101 must be a requirement in high school and college.note Hey, why are you looking at me like that... This was at least semi-justified with Ashley in the first game, as her file states she went through self-defense training prior to the events of the game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
ObsCure / Videogame / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	If Everybody Lives, then a special cutscene plays. In the ruined gym, Kenny and Ashley start making out, Shannon and Josh comfort each other, and Stan moves to grab the briefcase containing the antidote, only for something to come out of the hole in the gym floor and attack him. (Given that all five of the main characters show up in the sequel, it clearly didn't do much to hurt any of them.) This is the canon ending that the second game follows on from.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
ObsCure / Videogame / int_d24ed873	comment	Developers' Foresight: Overlaps with Fridge Horror. After she's rescued from Kenny, take a close look at Amy. She's no longer wearing her thong, and her face starts looking sicker and sicker as the game progresses. During boss fights, the respawning item boxes will drop supplies if you run out to prevent the fight becoming impossible, though the first boss fight with Kenny lacks these.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
ObsCure / Videogame / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Ashley is the most adept at combat out of the five characters in the first game, with her special ability being a "rapid-fire" attack that allows her to get off two shots or swings in rapid succession. Shannon can also hold her own if one is desperate (i.e. if she's one of the last characters left), though her abilities make her more of a support character best left at the gathering site. In the second game, Shannon has become this. Sven also compares Amy to a valkyrie after watching her kick some monsters' asses. Cassy in Final Exam.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: Played for Drama during the Mushroom Samba in the opening when Corey and Mei read the epitaphs on their tombstones. At this point, Corey still believes that Sven pulled a prank on them while they were knocked out by the drug, and find the macabre imagery around them to be very mean-spirited.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Especially when they release spores that turn you into mutated monsters.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: It's a good thing the girls can't tell where Josh points his camera. Also, if Shannon is boosted up to the air vent in the girls bathroom in the Administration Building, the camera shows what would be a Panty Shot if not for Shannon's Magic Skirt.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Each of the main characters is this to one of the protagonists from the first game. Brutal Joe is Kenny, Nathan is Josh, Cassy is Ashley, and Sean is Stan. Only Shannon doesn't have an analogue, and that's because she herself shows up in the game as an NPC.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: You attach guns to flashlights using duct tape.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Out of the entire cast, Shannon and Stan are the only ones standing at the end.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Cassy's unique passive ability, Charm, has this occasionally happen to enemies, with them too busy ogling her to fight.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f25b1ae6	type	Unskilled, but Strong
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f25b1ae6	comment	Unskilled, but Strong: In the first game, Ashley and Kenny fall into this category, with their special abilities (a rapid-fire attack and a quick sprint, respectively) being derived from their physical ability. In the second game, the bruisers Kenny and Sven have the ability to move heavy objects and hit enemies harder, while Corey's skills are also derived from his physical ability (in his case, climbing narrow ledges and being able to take more damage). None of them seem to struggle with guns or chainsaws though. Gun Slinging 101 must be a requirement in high school and college.note Hey, why are you looking at me like that... This was at least semi-justified with Ashley in the first game, as her file states she went through self-defense training prior to the events of the game.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f3f391f6	type	Fission Mailed
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f3f391f6	comment	Fission Mailed: Dan has to die, and Kenny can't escape the school basement during the Action Prologue, even though the game makes it look like you're supposed to fight off the enemies and escape.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f62cc38a	type	Stone Wall
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f62cc38a	comment	Stone Wall: Nathan can upgrade his health further than any of the other characters, but he can't upgrade his melee or firearm skills that much. (Explosives, on the other hand...) This is stated to be the result of him getting toughened up by years of bullying.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: The opening of the second game has Corey and Mei consume the mortifilia plant, triggering one of these (with some foreshadowing for later events). Likewise, the penultimate level of Final Exam has the protagonists get exposed to the black spores, causing a bad trip filled with nonsensical mission objectives and, at more than one point, the characters thinking that they are Crushers.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f7d66b6f	type	No-Gear Level
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f7d66b6f	comment	No-Gear Level: The ending sees you stripped of your weapons and health items by the ΔΘГ Brotherhood.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f821e963	type	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f821e963	comment	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Lincoln Stadium. The moment you look at the vast arena beyond the gate, with the sun about to rise just over the horizon, you know something big is about to go down. If the Suspicious Video-Game Generosity that occurs moments before wasn't enough of a clue...
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_f91985b2	type	School for Scheming
ObsCure / Videogame / int_f91985b2	comment	School for Scheming: Leafmore was founded as a way to gain test subjects for Principal Friedman's experiments.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_fab3c1e1	comment	Weakened by the Light: Zig-zagged. Light causes those infected with the mortifilia spores to start to mutate. A small amount of light triggers enough mutations to turn them into monsters, while a greater amount kills them, the mutations working like a fast-acting cancer. In gameplay terms, this means that direct sunlight and other high-intensity light sources (such as flashbangs, flare guns, and the lights in the cafeteria in the first game) kill the monsters almost instantly, and flashlights and, in the second game, the flashball gun help weaken them.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_fb4e0f18	type	Asian and Nerdy
ObsCure / Videogame / int_fb4e0f18	comment	Asian and Nerdy: Twin sisters Mei and Jun are both gamers, and Mei is also a skilled hacker who can break electronic locks with her PDA.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_fc15d243	comment	Final Death: You get five lives in the form of the five characters you play as. When one of them dies, they're dead for good. In fact, keeping the entire party alive is necessary for the (canonical) good ending.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_fdad625e	type	Was Once a Man
ObsCure / Videogame / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: Every monster you see obviously qualifies, but the most grotesque example is Kenny, who, after refusing to take his meds, turns into a mutated freak the size of a Land Rover with an enormous arm/tentacle on his back that he uses to spit balls of spores.
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ObsCure / Videogame / int_ffa0483f	comment	Cut Short: The second game ends on a cliffhanger following some major story revelations, but by the time the sequel finally came out, it was a Divorced Installment. As a result, the ending of the second game becomes a Bolivian Army Ending, even with the hopeful note it goes out on.
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