The player can choose to oppose or team up with Ned Buntline and his ally Captain Rynders.

Their mother Adeline Miller also appears.

One of the possible Love Interests is Louisa Missouri Miller (or, if the player so chooses, Nathaniel Miller) who, just as in real life, works for Hamblin at the start of the game.

The protagonist's chief rival is Thomas Hamblin of the Bowery Theatre, with Louisa Medina as his wife and writer.

Historical Domain Character: This game contains many, some of them even main characters.

Foreshadowing: Buntline mentions early on that he has 'explosive' plans for the city.

Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Miller's mother is not happy with her child's decision to get into acting, to the point of hiring thugs to physically drag them away from the protagonist's theatre so they can get a more respectable job in business.

Big Damn Heroes: Whomever the player picked to come with them arrives with reinforcements just in time to save the protagonist from Buntline in Chapter 9.

However, the player can choose to make friendly with them and even call in Buntline for assistance against Hamblin. The protagonist even has their final confrontation with the two right after each other.

Big Bad Ensemble: Hamblin and Buntline take turns inconveniencing the protagonist, with Hamblin being more prominent for most of the game before Buntline takes the spotlight in the climax.

Benevolent Boss: The protagonist, at least if they want a high Cast Loyalty.

He tries to pressure them into renewing their apparently very demanding contract with him against their will by threatening to withhold pay otherwise, uses them to spy on the protagonist, and forbids them from attending social events due to his own distaste for them. Instead of a criminal, she's a cheeky newsgirl the player can befriend by protecting from the authorities and get extra information from, and who eventually dabbles in actual journalism.

The Artful Dodger: Nell Niblo is a female version, albeit one is mistaken for a male at first by the protagonist.

The climax is even in the second-to-last chapter, leaving the last one devoted more to determining exactly how the adventure continues.

And the Adventure Continues: The game covers only the first year of the protagonist's presumably long and illustrious career.

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