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Noire general discussion. Forum:Cole Phelps dead or alive? Even games with fairly large animated and voice acted casts, like the recent The Last of Us Part 2 , look humble compared to the horde of character actors you come into contact with in L.
You come into contact with them through your own character, though. But where L. Confidential sets these two characters into action against each other, knowing that the dream of detective work and the reality of it are incompatible, L. Noire wants to have one guy be both of those things from the beginning. This is to say that L. Noire is hooked into the circulatory system of noir in a lot of ways, and sometimes it shortcuts the work that noir films do to set their tone in order to get to the meat of the thing.
When Phelps enters an investigation site, a dull chiming, clanging soundtrack always plays. It dings and dongs as he finds the corpses of serial killer victims, burned houses, and hit-and-run crime scenes. The music, and the tone it sets, is ripped right out of a scene in Chinatown where private investigator Jake Gittes slowly works his way through an apartment with a murdered woman in it.
He looks for clues and checks his corners. In their clamour for noir bonafides, the L. Noire creative team decided that I needed to hear this style of music constantly through the game, robbing it almost immediately of any kind of thrill or resonance. Conceptually, then, L. Noire is a kind of vibe supercut that is meant to evoke all of these different resonances of noir while also delivering its own particular story.
The Black Dahlia, the excesses of early Hollywood, underground jazz culture, and a blindingly white civil society that occasionally comes down from on high to prey on black and brown working and middle class people all appear as central recurrent parts of detective life in this semi-fictional noir landscape. All of that said, when L. Noire is confident enough to tell its own story, it is brilliant.
Sometimes the bad guy wins. Phelps swiftly rose through the ranks and became a Detective. Phelps was born in San Francisco in , where both his father and grandfather ran a shipping company. He attended Stanford University. Before the war, he married a woman named Marie and had two daughters with her. He befriended Hank Merrill and developed an intense rivalry with Jack Kelso.
In the days following his recruitment, he was given top honors for his bravery. Some of his men greatly respected Phelps, claiming tales of his almost supernatural stealth, killing Japanese soldiers without ever being seen. In his time with the Corps, many of his troops disapproved of his actions during combat. He was part of a scout team in the Okinawa campaign before being moved to the infantry division when a high-ranking officer at the time needed to push through the enemy line into enemy territory.
During the battle for Sugar Loaf Hill, when it was time to push through enemy lines, his battalion and C. As a result, Cole wanted to fall back despite the protest of his close friend, Hank Merrill.
Shortly afterwards, he witnessed Hank get blown to pieces by an explosion after they had taken cover in a foxhole, after which went into shock. The next morning, he was found by other USMC servicemen, covered in soot, lying next to Merrill's remains, largely uninjured. As the sole survivor, he was promoted to First Lieutenant and received the Silver Star, the third highest commendation he could achieve.
Cole would forever be haunted by his experience and guilt-ridden for being honored for his "lack of courage. Near the end of his service, he was dispatched along with many other troops to clear out settlements and caves for any signs of enemy forces during the battle of Sugar Loaf.
Cole, being under strict orders, wanted to clear out every sign of the enemy in the caves and villages, though this caused them to fall behind other squads. Cole's meticulous attention to detail and insistence on clearing out each and every cave eventually caught up with him; his squad fell far behind other units, and Cole eventually rushed his men into an ambush. This is contrasted with Kelso's approach, where he ordered Cole's squad to carefully approach a cave complex and simply seal the entrance, trapping any and all Japanese, whether civilian or soldiers, within.
Ira Hogeboom , armed with a flamethrower and following Cole's orders, surged forward past the ambush and set the cave ablaze; only afterward do Cole and his unit realize the cave was filled with civilians, specifically women and children, who while badly burned, many remain alive and in agonizing pain.
Cole's unit, terrified and distraught about what had just happened, looked to Phelps for an answer as the badly injured women and children writhed in agony around them. Panicking, Cole ordered his men to end the victims' suffering and execute the burned women and children. Protesting loudly, and finally pushed to the breaking point by Cole's orders, Courtney Sheldon shot Cole in the back, taking out his frustration and anger at Cole's hypocrisy.
Kelso arrived, taking command of the situation and ordering the Marines out of the cave, ordering them to never speak of the incident again. After receiving treatment for his wound at an army hospital, Phelps was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps. Starting out as a patrol officer, Phelps demonstrated high potential as an officer, from solving the murder of Scooter Peyton to foiling an armed bank robbery and arresting Wendell Bowers. Phelps was soon after promoted to Detective in the Traffic department and partnered with Stefan Bekowsky.
Together the two solved a string of intriguing cases, such as uncovering acts of conspiracies, fraud and even murder, while generating good press for the department. For his hard work and dedication he is transferred to the burglary division.
Six months later, Phelps was promoted to Homicide and partnered with Rusty Galloway. Phelps and Galloway were assigned to a series of gruesome and brutal murders. However, despite closing the cases and arresting suspects with strong evidence, Phelps began to see that all the murders were connected to each other and to the unresolved Black Dahlia murder. After receiving anonymous letters taunting the Homicide Department, Phelps realized that the true killer - the Black Dahlia murderer - was still at large.
Using the letters, Phelps and Galloway followed clues leading them to several landmarks across the city. At each location, Phelps was able to solve puzzles and elude traps, as he was being set up and tested by the killer. The final clue led to the Christ Crown of Thorns , where they found the killer, revealing himself to be Garrett Mason.
Phelps chased after Mason through the church catacombs, finally killing Mason in a shootout in the graveyard. However, Donnelly arrived and revealed that Mason was the half brother of a powerful and undisclosed politician. Phelps was later reassigned to the Vice squad by the request of Roy Earle. Their first case together involved solving the stolen morphine distribution from the SS Coolridge robbery, during which they arrested several dealers and killed Lenny Finkelstein in a shootout.
He later tailed her to her apartment.
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