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Chilling.

Dreaming Mary...
It never ends...


You've got to appreciate a game that can throw so much horror and distress at you while still looking so damn pretty. Dreaming Mary is by and far the most disturbing game I've ever played, in no small part due to the triggering nature of the game. Though I've never personally experienced the horrors of being taken advantage of, I feel the game really hammers home how utterly fucking terrible the world becomes after such a thing occurs. Nothing is right here. All of your adorable stuffed animals have a darker nature to them, all of them wanting to take a pedal away from the flower of your innocence.

All of this culminates into one of three endings, none of which are particularly easy to digest. The one most are typically going to get their first time around ends at the tree. I'm not going to spoil anything, obviously, but every step once you get past the initial introduction to each character is downright chilling. This can't be understated enough, this is not a game for a fun time; this is the very deepest I believe a game can get without straight up locking you in a dark cellar with a swinging light over your head and a wild-eyed lunatic on the other end of the room pacing back and forth with a knife in his hand.

Once it comes time for your furry friends to depart, what's left in their wake is nothing short of nightmare fuel. From falling bodies to ones slumped over in chairs, everything is dead when your last remnants of childlike innocence is torn away from you.

The music is fair in the dream world but achingly hollow in the real world, where everything has become twisted and broken. Though even that being said, reality has started to creep into the dream with the music that can be heard on the radio in the bedroom. Even the musical notes (which spell out BAD DAD, by the way) leave a haunting echo in the corridor. I really can't say enough how this is not a game to be played or trifled with gently.

This is the essence of true horror; of the worst monstrosities the world can exert on a living being.

In all its disturbing imagery and not-at-all subtle subtext, it's truly a beast all its own and deserves some recognition for that at the very least.

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This is one of my favorite games made in RPG Maker of all time, along with Pocket Mirror, The Witch's House, Traumerei, Lavender, Oneshot, Lone Siren and Ib. Dreaming Mary, Pocket Mirror, and The Witch's House make up three of my favorite games of all time.
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