Yeah, it was interesting how explicit Bravely Default was about the fact that the battles are actually about putting one's life on the line, and winning usually means outright killing your opponent. Wasn't something I was expecting going into the game, that's for sure. Would have appreciated some acknowledgement from the main party about how messed up that is, though, at least from Tiz.
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Morbid details in "normal" games *SPOILERS FOR MANY GAMES*
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Yeah, it was interesting how explicit Bravely Default was about the fact that the battles are actually about putting one's life on the line, and winning usually means outright killing your opponent. Wasn't something I was expecting going into the game, that's for sure. Would have appreciated some acknowledgement from the main party about how messed up that is, though, at least from Tiz.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
whiteninja
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Robotic Alchemic Drive is almost entirely a silly goofy game that is a massive homage to the super robot genre. Afterall, it is the EDF guys at the helm. Despite this, even when you've victoriously pushed off the alien invasion and have saved the day, if you've play your cards really badly and destroy too much of the city
your childhood friend/romantic interest flat out kills herself because her life is still terrible.
loaf of bread
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The Last of Us -
EDIT: missed the "normal" bit in the title. Oh well.
Ish and his story. Especially the room with all the kids that the guy killed and committed suicide so they wouldn't die by the clickers.
EDIT: missed the "normal" bit in the title. Oh well.
Didn't even have this part in mind, but yeah totally.
Ah yes, when I think normal/happy games I think The Last of Us.
thewhitehawk
Member
I guess you could interpret it as such but that's quite a stretch... if you get the good ending, you see two start constellations, one with Sonic and one with Tails after you just saw both of them running normally on a flowery field. They didn't both die.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
The Pearl entry which first mentioned this was actually kind of cute:
This entry was the first one to mention it stealing children, and the later ones removed the playful part.
akidnamededdy
Banned
I'm pretty sure later versions of the N64 cartridge censored, among other things, the bloodstains in the well. Not new to the 3DS version.
Weltall Zero
Member
You mean Xenogears, the normal, cheery, family friendly game where
living people are recycled into food in the subtly named Soylent facility, which you find out after eating such food
the almost entirety of humanity is turned into undead mutant monsters to be fed to an artificial god
you kill off most of your home village including the girl you love within the first half hour
I don't want to know what counts as a dark game for you.
I played the Gamecube version and the bloodstains etc were all intact. Weird if they censored it previously and then reverted for the port.
Yeah, Ringabel and maybe Edea I can understand, but Tiz and Agnes? There's no way those two would have kept shut about killing all those people. Felt really weird.
In Octodad, many people miss that his last two tentacles are for his mustache. As they are shorter than his arms and legs, this suggests that when his mustache limbs reach a certain length, he must "shave" by cutting them off and letting them regenerate.
I just realized this today.
I just realized this today.
Glitchesarecool
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Super Mario Galaxy 2's shadow people.
TheSpoiler
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Doomburrito7
Banned
....or they're just shorter.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Super Mario Galaxy 2's shadow people.
They're just friendly aliens, they can't help the way they look.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I dunno if Metroid Prime counts as normal but one of the Space Pirate data logs talks about a team of pirates who had one of their member's spines snapping while trying to reverse engineer and test a morph ball system.
Astral Dog
Member
This one always gets me.
"Oh yeah, this is some fucked up shit, but not enough. Let's add a bit about how they cry when they look at the mask. Yeah, that should do it. That'll blow their fucking minds."
shadyspace
Banned
To what extent was OOT 3DS censored? Just no blood stains? Makes me think back to when they changed Ganondorf's coughed up blood to green in version 1.02 or whatever and being happy I got a copy when it first came out so I got that bitchin' red-blood coughing up Ganondorf.
SoulUnison
Banned
As a kid I always saw this more as "The game is over, but Tails is still out there somewhere! / Aim for the best ending!"
But I guess I can see it that way, too.
MvmntInGrn
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This is pretty neat. I need to play through this again and read more.
Quadraphonic
Member
In Megaman Battle Network 1 it's revealed that Megaman.EXE is the digital resurrection of your dead-at-birth twin brother.
Astral Dog
Member
Wind Waker has Ganondorf killing most of the population as backstory, also he is mad.
It was most certainly a creepy invitation.
But Kolorado's father turned out to be alive and well. He was just stuck in Hooktail's stomach for a while.
chicagocubsfan
Member
Sea Mauville in Pokémon OR/AS.
...yeah, that got grim
Finding a porno mag under the bed is still the best part of Sea Mauville
Rabbi_Vole
Banned
The blood stains are still there in the 3DS version.
Storm Kyleis
Member
Gyroids in Animal Crossing.
There's also an anti-cheat protection in Animal Crossing GC that turns your face into a Gyroid if you reset while visiting another town. That means gaping mouth and empty eyes on your character.
There's also an anti-cheat protection in Animal Crossing GC that turns your face into a Gyroid if you reset while visiting another town. That means gaping mouth and empty eyes on your character.
Here's something from Dragon Age: Origins. All credit to this thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2ybbot/i_think_i_just_found_my_least_favourite_character/
So I was playing Origins and decided to hit up Bodahn and have him tell me any rumours he's heard. First its the usual stuff, but then I get this line:
http://i.imgur.com/kTQIgOV.jpg
I didn't like it, so I looked the Lady up, and promptly recognized her from the horrifying and utterly creepy and awful Fennec codex.
http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Habren_Bryland
http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Fennec
disgusted noise
Time to load up Darkspawn Chronicles and murderstabkill her.
To summarize, Habren Bryland (pictured above) was killing/torturing puppies, one puppy a week. Before that, when she was presumably a child, she convinced her father to get her a Fennec, and dropped it down a well, where is most likely drowned. Basically a twisted animal abuser.
But is it okay if I kill a couple hundred of them to make a sweet Fennec coat?
Dice//
Banned
I love the letter you find in the neighbourhood, and since you exit the place where Ish started off Joel remarks "Well that wasn't too good an idea, was it?"
Oh sweet fuck...that.
WHY DOES THE IRIS TEAR AWAY FROM THE EYE WHITE?!?! AUUUGGGHHH
Breath of Fire IV: pretty much a good chunk of Fou Lu's plot.
The chick here, his lover, literally getting vaporized in a magical attack against him.
Chrono Cross's "glimpses" on a few CT characters sucks for them...
Resonance of Fate; the kid on the right shot up his entire Seminary (no survivors) and killed his sister after going insane... it stills weighs on his conscious a lot (trying to kill himself twice, sort of), and one type of enemy dresses similarly to him because they glorified the tragedy (in that kind of "fuck the world" rebellion way).
Twilight Princess --- these fucking guys (fun fact: I turned the "wolf sense" on when one of these guys was position RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA --- I nearly shat myself)
Bravely Default:
X, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x H-heeey, stooop.
X, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x Stop it, you don't have to keep going!!!
X, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x .....STOP.
*title change*
SoraanTribal
Member
You mean Xenogears, the normal, cheery, family friendly game where? The one whereliving people are recycled into food in the subtly named Soylent facility, which you find out after eating such food? The one werethe almost entirety of humanity is turned into undead mutant monsters to be fed to an artificial god?you kill off most of your home village including the girl you love within the first half hour
I don't want to know what counts as a dark game for you.
I still think it's fucked up that Citan knew
about the food and still let Fei and Elly eat it...
Seven Force
Banned
Breath of fire 3 looks like a standard fun times JRPG on the surface but your party end up doing a bunch of morally ambiguous shit along the way.
Like (spoilers)Having to kill a wild beast that's been killing livestock. Only to find out all it was trying to do was feed its children. Oh and you find out that they've been dead for a long time. It's really sad
Yeah, BoF3 is pretty much Moral Ambiguity: The JRPG.
That aside, one part of the game that unsettled me a bit was a line you get from Momo after Balio and Sunder take her hostage:
Like, what the fuck.
TheRedSnifit
Member
There's a part in Super Paper Mario where a character basically outright says that he's going to torture another character to death. In a Mario game.
This is to say nothing of the level that takes place in the Marioverse version of Hades. Or the character who twists her neck around entirely, The Exorcist style (complete with the sounds of her spine snapping), before transforming into a giant spider. In a Mario game.
This is to say nothing of the level that takes place in the Marioverse version of Hades. Or the character who twists her neck around entirely, The Exorcist style (complete with the sounds of her spine snapping), before transforming into a giant spider. In a Mario game.
Holygriever
Banned
FUCK.
WHAT THE FUCK.
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK.
I played that game dozens of times as a child. How the fuck did I never... WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK.
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
From the English version of Puyo Puyo
Just the thought of it...
Dice//
Banned
Breath of Fire games are absolutely LEGENDARY for going from quaint RPG to....i dunno, getting your eyeball torn out by someone you trusted the next. The game really fits completely fucked up besides sweet and sunny.
Breath of Fire II in particular is great for this as well: Literal hell is sitting below you (the bad ending basically stating that they'll COME AFTER YOU ONE DAY while you live obliviously), the religion is a lie, Rand's mother dies a gruesome death
SQUISH
DragonGirl
Banned
Actually, if you replay the boss fights in the repeating portion of the game you learn all is not as it seems.
Hmm. What? This has my interest piqued. I got what I imagine to be about halfway through the game and put it down.
Portugeezer
Member
came to post this.
Crying human ghosts, now enslaved in a Pokeball for eternity or until/if you release it, and to be forcefully used in Pokemon battles for your amusement.
I found it unsettling in Uncharted 3 when
Marlowe is reviewing Drake's history and says, "Mother commits suicide and father surrends son to the state." I just never figured Drake's childhood to be quite so dark considering how light the series is most of the time. (When you're not killing dudes)
You're thinking of the wrong koopa.
Kolorado is a character from the first Paper Mario. In TTYD you find a letter his father wrote to him next to his dead body.