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Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel)
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Murder by Numbers is a 2020 Puzzle Game Visual Novel developed by Mediatonic and published by The Irregular Corporation. Heavily marketed as "Picross mixed with Ace Attorney", the game consists of solving murder mysteries while collecting evidence by way of solving nonograms.It's Los Angeles, 1996, and Honor Mizrahi is having a tumultuous summer. After leaving her abusive ex-husband Ryan, she finds she's been fired from the detective show she works on for no apparent reason—and worse, her friend Blake has been murdered. Honor finds herself playing detective for real as she begins to unravel the many mysteries she finds herself in with the help of her new companion—the flying Robot Buddy SCOUT, who's missing his memories.Honor vows to help SCOUT regain his memories and prove she can strike out on her own, but as the bodies pile up, it becomes clear that someone is invested in SCOUT, who may be more than he seems...The game was released in March 5th, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, and March 6th on PC online stores such as GOG, Epic Games Store, and Steam. A Google Stadia port was released on March 23rd, 2021.No relation to any movie with the same title. | |
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Plot-Triggering Death | |
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Plot-Triggering Death: Two, one for SCOUT's backstory and one for the proper plot of the game. In SCOUT's backstory, during a test of his weapons, a misfire caused him to kill the lead hardware engineer Tom, prompting SCOUT to realize he broke one of the laws of robotics and erase his own memories in guilt. He was halted from erasing everything, but believing the project was over, he was thrown in the trash. For Honor's own story, Blake's death prompted her to start investigating murders. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Seen in Case 2. When presenting the Starshine Awards, Dick Stanford boldly proclaims to his fans that even though he's retired, "Dick Stanford is not dead yet!" Shortly after, Dick was found dead in his dressing room. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The official artbook reveals the surnames for characters Bill Clubb and Jena al-Jazaria, which are otherwise not mentioned at all in the game. | |
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The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay | |
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The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay: In Case 2, Honor finds letters from Dick Stanford's lawyers at Saez & De Cyste LLP.note "Cease and desist." | |
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My Name Is ??? | |
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My Name Is ???: People who talk from off-screen and surprise the characters on-screen get called "???" until they appear on screen. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Dick's award on Case 2. It turns out to be the moment where he was poisoned. The flowers had toxins in it, and he inhaled it when he sniffed the flowers. The bullet casing on Case 4. It seems to just be an item Hyde keeps it to remember Vietnam. It's later revealed it was a missing piece of evidence from his trial when he was accused of murdering a superior officer. | |
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Answers to the Name of God | |
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Answers to the Name of God: When Honor shouts "JESUS!" after seeing Detective Cross following her escape from the break room, he responds that calling him Detective Cross would be enough. | |
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Ominous Visual Glitch | |
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Ominous Visual Glitch: When SCOUT's networking abilities are reactivated in Case 1, there's glitching before a flashback occurs. | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus: Despite being depicted prominently in the title sequence, Becky doesn't appear again after the second case, and K.C. never appears in the fourth case until the epilogue. | |
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Engineered Public Confession | |
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Engineered Public Confession: Honor tricks Ryan into admitting to blackmail by pretending to make up with him on the condition he tell her the truth. | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: This exchange between Honor and her mother, when talking about the latter's obsession with Dick Stanford: | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: According to Honor, apparently a couple of years ago the Gridmoore Studios offices were set on fire by a guy from accounting. There's also this exchange between Honor and Det. Cross while discussing Case 3 (a shoe-shaped float crashing into a drag bar and killing someone): | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: The Show Within a Show Murder Miss Terri. The "Rhyes and Shine" magazine discussed in Case 2 when explaining where SCOUT got his knowledge of spirits from. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Honor finds in every single case after the first one that her reputation as an amateur sleuth has preceded her. Far from impressing others, she's seen as impulsive and irresponsible, and one of her snap decisions results in her wrongfully accusing a suspect of murder, which ultimately ruins everything he's worked very hard to achieve. A depressing example of Truth in Television. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: In Case 4, Det. Cross decides to join Honor in infiltrating a yacht party by coming up with a fake identity of being an out-of-town actor. The problem is that Cross forgot to take off his police badge before attending. Although Honor excuses that the badge was a prop from a previous scene shooting, the yacht owners Eirin and Ray very quickly saw through the ruse. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison: When Honor asks Detective Cross about who may have been her dad's partner, she mentions a photo that was taken at his favorite restaurant. Cross mentions the restaurant by name, which Honor points out she did not. | |
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Three Laws-Compliant | |
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Three Laws-Compliant: The first of the three laws was briefly seen in SCOUT's ethical violation error message after he accidentally killed Tom. | |
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Treasure Chest Cavity | |
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Treasure Chest Cavity: At the start of the game, Honor and Becky were filming a scene where Miss Terri finds a murder weapon hidden inside the butler. Eirin Kino's method of smuggling diamonds is to hide them in hundreds of earth filled (fake) skulls. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first and last cases both end with everyone gathering at Honor's apartment to watch Casablanca. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: After being locked inside Gridmoore Studios' break room by Det. Cross while his team investigates the Blake's murder, Honor and SCOUT escape via an air vent into Blake's office. Obligatory comparisons to John McClane were made by Det. Cross once he finds out. | |
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Frustrated Overhead Scribble | |
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Frustrated Overhead Scribble: In the credits sequence after finishing the game, Becky is emitting a squiggle and looking annoyed while K.C does her hair. | |
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Turn Out Like His Father | |
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Turn Out Like His Father: Honor's mother goes out of her way to stop Honor from doing further sleuthing after her first case, as she recognizes that Honor shares a lot of traits with her late father - traits that directly contributed to her father's death in the line of duty. | |
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Dream Sequence | |
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Dream Sequence: In Case 4, Eirin's Sleeping with the Fishes script has at least four, since after that, Honor got really confused. | |
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Loony Fan | |
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One Loony Fan who sent hate mail and death threats to Gridmoore Studios uses the alias "ShowMaster66", which might be a reference to "NoobMaster69" from Avengers: Endgame, which came out one year before the game. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: The game ends with a SCOUT prototype disappearing from the lab, and Jack vowing revenge. | |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation | |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation: After leaving SCOUT on the Anemone in Case 4, it's possible to return directly to the Anemone's Deck and Investigate with SCOUT, leaving "the Honor retrieving SCOUT on the Deck" cutscene to a point after Honor used SCOUT, without somehow retrieving him. | |
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Permanently Missable Content | |
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Permanently Missable Content: It's possible for the player to finish case 3 without using any hints and still get only an A rank (B if you're playing Easy mode). That's because there is the missable Speaker puzzle in the bar that can only be done if the player goes into the bar and finds the puzzle before talking to everyone and advancing the plot. It's available right after you meet Crispin for the first time. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Made clear in the final chapter's name, "SCOUT's Honor", made by "Honor" + "SCOUT", a phrase said when you're telling the truth. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: The game has this in spades. Becky Call: Beck and call. There's also her titular character in the show Murder Miss Terri. The drag queens at Magellan's, Fran Tasia and Roz Mosis; justified since it's their drag names. The eccentric movie director Eirin Kino. "Kino" is slang for sophisticated cinema, which she specializes in; while "Eirin" sounds like "airing" — as in a film airing. A few names stand out for being puns related to nonograms (the type of puzzles featured in the game), such as Honor's workplace Gridmoore Studios and Detective Cross. In Case 2, there's also a quick mention of an actor named Graham Nonna — "nonogram". | |
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Sweat Drop | |
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In Case 4, Honor gives a Sweat Drop at SCOUT's Bee and Sting pun, when they're infiltrating the Lethe offices. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
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Honor riffs on Rick Blaine's line, "I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," referring to her and SCOUT. SCOUT does not get the reference, however, prompting Honor to promise him that they'll watch the movie together once they get back home. | |
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Point of No Return | |
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Point of No Return: Case 1: After finding her car key and returning to the break room, Honor says it's the last time she'll be in the room, as a hint to the player to finishing any Investigating they have left there, since it's near the end of the Case. | |
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Canine Companion | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_7b7f1657 | comment |
Canine Companion: Discussed. After Blake fires Honor, the latter asks about what would become of the show if it loses one of its main characters. Blake mentions that the network had suggested having a talking poodle as a main character, which he says he might try out because animal companions are trending at the moment. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By letting Musselmann off the boat, Cross accidentally let the real killer get away. This leads to Musselmann murdering Cruz in the hospital to keep him silent. | |
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"Open!" Says Me | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_80491c2f | comment |
"Open!" Says Me: Case 3: Fran's office is accessed for the final confrontation, by Roz Mosis kicking the door down. | |
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Sympathetic Murderer | |
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Sympathetic Murderer: Kathleen was abused by Dick for decades, while Fran wanted to pay her mortgage and wasn't intending to kill anyone. | |
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Pun | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_83445b04 | comment |
Pun: Case 2's Bow Tie Flavor Text: Case 3: When K.C and SCOUT meet again at the giant shoe, and getting a Dude, Not Funny! due to it being a murder scene by giant shoe: | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_868409c | comment |
Broken Pedestal: Part of why Honor found it hard to cut ties with Ryan was because she loved him and didn't think him capable of hurting her, which K.C. had to help her with. K.C. himself falls into this trope when his drag mother Fran, who helped mentor him and get him a job in fashion, turns out to be a murderer. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: For years of mental abuse to his ex and blackmailing the Starshines just to get back at her, Honor tricks Ryan into confessing the latter charge, landing him in jail. | |
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Grid Puzzle | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_9108b2c9 | comment |
Grid Puzzle: The player collects evidence to crack murder mysteries by solving nonogram puzzles, hence the game's title. | |
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Magic Feather | |
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Magic Feather: Jena spends most of the fourth case working on a patch for SCOUT to prevent him from activating Assault Mode again, and appears to install it near the end of the story. Except it's revealed minutes later that she never installed it, instead choosing to allow SCOUT to make the decision himself. | |
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Sexual Euphemism | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_9597a894 | comment |
Sexual Euphemism: The final piece of evidence in Case 1's described in the Evidence section as: | |
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Basement-Dweller | |
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Basement-Dweller: Case 1: When meeting K.C in the Parking Lot, he calls John this, saying that a jail cell will remind him of his basement. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The question of SCOUT's autonomy and sentience is raised repeatedly throughout the story. | |
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Anaphora | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_9ebee577 | comment |
Anaphora: When Honor's mother Sharon praises Rick Stanford, she starts her sentences with "He's got": | |
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Cute Machines | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_a31c7ef4 | comment |
Cute Machines: SCOUT is an adorable robot who loves movies and books, and is especially cute when happy or excited. His Assault Mode form, not so much. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The account SCOUT finds in Case 4 has a really simple password, and Honor seems to have a similar password: | |
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The Butler Did It | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_a431b0e6 | comment |
The Butler Did It: Played with. The game opens with Honor and Becky filming a scene for Murder Miss Terri, where it was revealed that the murder weapon thought to be missing was actually hidden inside the butler. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: No matter how serious the scene that preceded it, solving puzzles usually have a bouncy, upbeat theme. But some, like the Cargo Hold of Case 4, bearing "A Dark Turn", use other themes. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Coming of Age Story: Honor starts the game reeling from her abusive ex and overbearing mother, and learning to trust herself no matter what anyone says is a big part of her development. | |
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Moral Myopia | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_b42b7e7b | comment |
Moral Myopia: Jack insists that his military-level modifications to SCOUT are purely in the interest of helping save lives. He is completely indifferent to the lives that he had a hand in ending (Tom's, Jena's, Frank's, Lori's, and very nearly Honor's) to achieve this goal. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_b5b3599d | comment |
Amoral Attorney: Ray Kino is a defense attorney by trade and knows every trick in the book to ensure the police can't investigate his eccentric sister Eirin. Lampshaded by Cross after he does realize a loophole, saying attorneys usually find those only when it helps them, as this clears his current murder accusation. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_b77808f2 | comment |
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The credits show pictures of what the characters are doing after the events, including the culprits in prison. | |
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| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_bb48f8ba | type |
Timed Mission | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_bb48f8ba | comment |
Timed Mission: When getting the fingerprint database in Case 1, 3 puzzles must be solved before time runs out. | |
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Bad Mood Retreat | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_bc7146b0 | comment |
Bad Mood Retreat: Case 2: When Becky is angry and distraught from not getting the Starshine Award, she locks herself in the women's restroom, making this overlap with Bathroom Stall of Angst. | |
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| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_c2393191 | comment |
The Show Within a Show Murder Miss Terri. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The film Casablanca is repeatedly mentioned throughout the game: Honor riffs on Rick Blaine's line, "I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," referring to her and SCOUT. SCOUT does not get the reference, however, prompting Honor to promise him that they'll watch the movie together once they get back home. SCOUT mentions that Casablanca ended up becoming his favorite movie out of all the ones he and Honor watched. At the end of the game, Honor, SCOUT and their friends watch Casablanca together at Honor's place. The game's director and co-writer Ed Fear confirms that Honor's surname of Mizrahi is a reference to Juli Mizrahi from Xenosaga. Honor warns SCOUT that she'll leave him if he goes "all HAL 9000" on her. Detective Cross makes a lot of them in Case 1 after Honor leaves the break room: When he finds out that Honor and SCOUT escaped from the break room via the air vent, he berates her and asks, "Who do you think you are, John McClane?" After SCOUT introduces himself to Det. Cross, he mentions that the former looks like something out of Buck Rogers. He calls Honor Miss Marple when talking to Bill: Nancy Drew: After the CCTV tape is shown: WrestleMania: After he lets those in the break room out, to the studio lot: One Loony Fan who sent hate mail and death threats to Gridmoore Studios uses the alias "ShowMaster66", which might be a reference to "NoobMaster69" from Avengers: Endgame, which came out one year before the game. MC Hammer: Tully fails to make the reference when talking to him in the office about what he does at the studio: From Case 1: Peter Pan: Lost Boys and Neverland. When talking to K.C in the parking lot about John's innocence: From Case 1: Justice League of America: Showing the Car Key to K.C while in the Parking Lot: In Case 1, when Honor mentions how ironic it is that Blake was killed by the award granted for the show he ran, K.C. ranted for a bit about people "ganging up on poor Alanis" regarding her depictions of irony in her song, "Ironic". Case 2: A speech from Becky about hate has K.C making a reference to Sally Field's speech commonly misquoted as "You like me! You really like me!�, with K.C replacing "like" with "hate". Case 2: Dressing Room: When Honor and SCOUT discover liquor spills, SCOUT relates it to Philip Marlowe and his obsession with alcohol. The item description for the crowbar in Case 2 reads that it's very popular with construction workers, burglars, and theoretical physicists. At one point in Case 2, SCOUT compares Honor and himself to Holmes and Watson, Cagney & Lacey, and Shaggy and Scooby. Case 3: When Fran appears, after making a hypothesis for Detective Cross, a Barbra Streisand reference is made: Case 3: When talking to Roz about the Plane Ticket, Whitney Houston. She says "The power of Whitney compelled me!" to accidentally break a table. Case 3: Sesame Street: After hacking open a safe, Scout mixes up "Open Sesame" and the show: Case 3: K.C getting Fran to come out, using Luke Perry and his role on Beverly Hills, 90210: The item description for the pocket watch in Case 4 reads, "An elegant timepiece for a more civilized age." Post-credits, K.C says that Mannequin is better than Casablanca: | |
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Lame Pun Reaction | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_cb0743c0 | comment |
Lame Pun Reaction: In the first memory unlocked by the SCOUT's Memories section, "Hypotheticals", Jena and Tom are talking about SCOUT's ability to detect humor and Tom drops in with a joke about the fiery hypothetical, which doesn't land, and Jena criticizes it. In Case 4, Honor gives a Sweat Drop at SCOUT's Bee and Sting pun, when they're infiltrating the Lethe offices. | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_cd83fa5b | comment |
Spoiler Opening: A pivotal moment in the third case, in which SCOUT is shot during a standoff and suffers a literal Heroic BSoD, is depicted in full in the opening sequence. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_cdd835ce | comment |
Case 3: When K.C and SCOUT meet again at the giant shoe, and getting a Dude, Not Funny! due to it being a murder scene by giant shoe: | |
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Take Your Time | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_cfd569ac | comment |
Take Your Time: Multiple characters note when there's some sense of urgency and yet Honor is talking to them: Case 1: When taking the time to talk to K.C after unlocking the Precinct on the City Map: When selecting him as a conversation target the first time, he references the strangeness of taking the time, saying something like "I thought you were running off to free John.". When showing him the important Polaroid evidence: When showing evidence he doesn't have specific dialogue for: Case 4: Jena at the Apartment says: | |
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One-Word Title | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title: Case 4: The Clapperboard is for a production called "Radio," directed by Eirin Kino, which is actually a hint that the Scene and Take numbers written on it are the decryption key for the radio message. | |
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Flavor Text | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_d0f5cc90 | comment |
Case 2's Bow Tie Flavor Text: | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_d6f284a3 | comment |
Anti-Frustration Features: For those less puzzle-inclined, Easy Mode lets you complete most puzzles easily and without penalty, though you can't unlock all of SCOUT's memories that way. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Most characters seem relatively unphased by the fact that SCOUT is literally a flying robot. While Honor seems pretty shocked when she first meets him, most other characters do little more than ask what he is, assuming they even acknowledge him at all. | |
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History Repeats | |
| Murder by Numbers (2020) (Visual Novel) / int_e003c829 | comment |
History Repeats: Both Honor's mother Sharon and Detective Cross are terrified that Honor will suffer the same fate as her father if she takes up a career in solving crime. Their immense disapproval of her involvement in the early cases is them trying to avert this trope by any means necessary. By the end of the game it's not the first time that Cross is partnered with a hot-headed Mizrahi. | |
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World of Jerkass | |
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World of Jerkass: At the start of the game no one except K.C. and SCOUT are on Honor's side, and a big part of the first three cases revolves around Honor either proving herself or cutting toxic people out of her life. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: In Case 1, Honor and SCOUT plan to get out from the room they're locked in through the air vent, but Becky notices and threatens to tell Detective Scout if they try to escape; thus, Honor mentions that they need to distract Becky. The player can find a Murder Miss Terri figurine on the floor and present it to Becky, prompting her to rant about having to work on the show, which causes Loony Fan John to argue with her, creating the distraction needed. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Ryan has no redeeming qualities at all and is a textbook abuser, complete with emotional manipulation and false apologies. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: After Honor escaped the break room and entered Blake's office via the air vent, Detective Cross berates Bill for not guarding the crime scene properly. Bill reasons that technically, Cross only told him to guard the door, but not the air vent. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: When Tully talks about his job: | |
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Never a Self-Made Woman | |
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Never a Self-Made Woman: Though Honor passed her audition for Murder Miss Terri on her own merit, Ryan's connections were what landed her the audition in the first place. Becky is quick to point this out whenever she wants to take a jab at Honor. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: Nobody bothers to tell John that someone has just been killed when he meets the rest of the cast in case one. He proceeds to be very confused when accusations of murder are flung around just seconds later. In case 4, Honor, Cross and Jena keep SCOUT in the dark regarding the plan to disable his Assault Mode functions. Though SCOUT does manage to piece things together eventually. | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: In case 1, Honor very nearly manages to talk her and SCOUT out of trouble after the two were caught at an off limits crime scene...only for SCOUT to cheerfully blurt out that they were also messing around with the evidence at said crime scene. Cue a major tongue lashing from Detective Cross. | |
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Anger Born of Worry | |
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Anger Born of Worry: Detective Cross is initially frosty towards Honor, but it's because she reminds him of her father, who died in the line of duty while working with Cross. | |
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Bob from Accounting | |
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According to Honor, apparently a couple of years ago the Gridmoore Studios offices were set on fire by a guy from accounting. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: While SCOUT's still around to provide laughs, his dramatic storyline crosses over with the investigation in the final chapter. KC does not participate in it either. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: The motivation for the murder in case 2. The murderer kills the victim after suffering years of abuse by their hands, and only after the victim had removed all other means that the murderer had to get back at them. | |
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You Shouldn't Know This Already | |
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You Shouldn't Know This Already: In the first case, attempting to accuse Tully of murdering Blake, with the hair dye and ID as your proof, will cause Detective Cross to tell you that the evidence isn't enough. Tully/Frank Pritchell does turn out to be the true murderer by the end of the case; he used the hair dye to disguise himself, and the ID is either fake or stolen. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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Titled After the Song: The game takes its name from a song by The Police. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Tully/Frank was only out to blackmail Blake, and killed him in a panic. Fran wanted to collect insurance to avoid going broke, but in her attempt to stage a crash ended up running someone over. | |
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