Video ga🌳me titles have one main job: to tell you a little bit about the game, while still maintaining an air of mystery, so you’re intrigued enough to find out more. Lots of titles do this fantastically; others shoot too far and end up just 🎶being exactly what it says on the tin. Looking at you, Triangle Strategy.
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Some titles, however, go in the opposite direction, and completely undersell the experience you’re about to have. They’re good at the mystery and providing intrigue part, but they’re not preparing you for what you’re really in for.
Some spoilers below.
10 Little Nightmares 𝓀
Little Nightmares
- Released
- April 28, 2017
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Blood, Violence 🍬
- Developer(s)
- 🐻 Tarsier Studios
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Engine
- ♋ Unreal Engine 4 ꧃
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Little Nightmares
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- How Long To Beat
- 4 Hours
In some ways, ‘Little Nightmares’ is a great representation of what the game is about. You’re 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:playing as a little child, going through some nightmares. However, those nightmares are not little. Not in the slightest. I꧒n fact, I’d go so far as to say they’re very big, humongous nightmares that I’d never want to experience ever in my life.
Being grabbed by a creature with long, spindly arms is horrific. Being chased by brainwashed humans who only want to consume, consume, consume is even worse.
Little Nightmares 2 is slightly more accurate. There certainly are twice as man♔y nig💫htmares.
9 ﷺ ⭕ Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Sky
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
- Released
- October 12, 2009
- ESRB
- 🦋 E For Everyone ✤
- Developer(s)
- 🅰 𓂃 Spike Chunsoft
- Publisher(s)
- The Pokemon Company, Nintendo
- Engine
- unity
- Franchise
- Pokemon
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo DS
- How Long To Beat
- 24 Hours
- Metascore
- 54
Sure, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky has dungeons. And every time you enter them, their layout and floors will be a mystery. We’re even doing a lot of exploring. But you know what’s not mentioned anywhere in this unassuming title? How much 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a spin-off Pokemon game aimed at children will break your heart.
When you start playing a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, you don’t expect the characters to 🦄tug at your heartstrings, or to really have any kind of depth at all, whic🧸h is why this game is so undersold by its title. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Heartbreakingly Sad Character Stories would be much more accurate.
8 Spiritfarer ✃
- ESRB
- T For Teen due to Language, Use of Tobacco, Violent Referen🍰ces
- Developer(s)
- 🔴 Thunder Lotus Games, Kowloon Nights, Canada Media Fund
- Publisher(s)
- 🔯 Thunder Lotus Games
- Engine
- Unity
- Multiplayer
- ♏ Online Multiplayer
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
- How Long To Beat
- 30 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- No
- File Size Xbox Series
- 💧 6 GB (November 2023) 🧜
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
Spiritfarer is a game about ferrying spirits to the afterlife. You can glean that from its simple title, but you know what you can’t glean? The absolute emotional turmoil it will put you through. Seriously, tꦡhis game needs a warning. I wasn’t prepared for my heart to be put through the ringer like that based on the title.
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Not only do you ferry these spirits to the afterlife, but you also care for them in their final days and give them all the home comforts they could ever need. You bond. You grow attached to ♒them. And then leave you. Where was that in the title?!
7 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 🎉ꦦ
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
- Released
- May 30, 2009
- ESRB
- e
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix, h.a.n.d.
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- ꦡ The Infernal Engine
- Multiplayer
- 🍰 Local Multiplayer
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Hearts
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo DS
- How Long To Beat
- 27 hours
Th𝔍e Kingdom Hearts series gets a lot of flack for its naming conventions, and I’m not about to pile on (I am, in fact, Kingdom Hearts’ biggest defender), but 358/2 Days does not p❀repare you for the ordeal you’re about to go through.
358/2 Days refers to how you play through 358 days, experienced by two people (Roxas and Xion). What it does not refer to is how harrowing those 358 days end up being. If you’ve played, you know what 🥂I’m talking💃 about. If you haven’t played, change that ASAP.
6 Mother 3
- Engine
- ♏ M4A sound/music engine
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Game Boy Advance
- How Long To Beat
- 25 Hours
- Developer
- Brownie Brown, HAL Lab♎oratory ꦍ
Mother 3 is an innocent video game title. Follꦡowing in the footsteps of Mother (EarthBound Beginnings) and Mother 2 (EarthB🐈ound), it refers to the planet and how it’s the third game in the series. After the prologue of Mother 3, however, there are no more mothers in this game for Lucas, let alone three of them.
Sorry to everyon𒀰e I just severely hurt with that sentence.
What follows is a lovely RPG journey with a motley crew. 🐽And then, oh yeah, an absolutely soul-crushing ending. ‘Mother 3’ really isn’t capturing all that.
5 🌳 Papers, Please
‘Papers, Ple𒆙as🎀e’ is an unassuming title. You’re just inspecting documents and doing your day job, right? …Right? On paper (pun fully intended), that’s true. But your day job isn’t as innocent as it seems.
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Papers, Please quickly devolves into tough decisions. You know what you have to do, but do you feel good about it? No, not at all. Suddenly, you’re a pawn for t🍰he state and there’s not a thing you can do about it.
4 🤡 Lif🍌e Is Strange
Yep, life is strange. Anyone could have told you that. But what does that tell me about the game, Life is Strange? Uh, not a lot, really. Strange eve♛nts happen, that’s for sure, but there’s not even a slight hint about the protagonist having the power to rewind time, and that’s what the game’s entire premise hi𝄹nges on.
How about a hint about the life-altering ♌choices Max has to make? Or the disappearance of a student she and Chloe are investigating? It’s a very non-chalant title for a game with such dramatic events.
3 Professor Layton And The Curious V🐎illage
One of the best parts of the Prof🐼essor Layton games is slowly unveiling what kind of wacky reason is behind the game’s main mystery. As the fir🦩st game in the series, none of us had any expectations going into The Curious Village. And yet again, the title doesn’t prepare you for just how ‘curious’ this little village is.
If you still haven’t played Professor Layton and the Curious Village all these years later, then warning: I’m about t♈o spoil the whole thing.
All the people you meet while wandering around the villag💞e? Not real. All robots. Every single one of them. I thought Professor Layton was about puzzles, not solvin❀g the wildest missing persons case ever!
2 Detention
Detention conjures up memories of secondary school (high school for you Americans). Maybe you were causing trouble and landed in it yourself. Maybe it was whole-class detention. You sat there and thought about what you did. Detention in Detention, the game? Nowhere near as si♛mple and innocent.
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In fact, it's set in 1960s Taiwan, when the 🍃country was under martial law. Playing as a high school student, you explore a nightmare version of your school that’s become overrun with monsters as you uncover more about your lost memories. Doesn’t sound like any kind of detention I’ve ever had.
1 Silent Hill ꧙
Do you remember walking up hills in Silent Hill? No, me neither. Sure, you walk around Silent Hill. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Check, that’s the title. But is Silent Hill an actual hill? No. It’s a weird town with weird cul💞ty people. Not exactly silent with all the strange ambience and creepy monster noises, either.
It also ends up being about more than just Silent Hill. Think summoning a god in the most horrific way posඣsible, and you’re much closer to what the game’s actually about.
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