BILLHILLY'S PROFILE

author=Max McGee

Can anyone explain me how does this story connect with itself?

Sure can!

I won't put any spoilers here but I frankly think it could have been better.

Sure couldn't! Well actually, I'd probably take off one star for the excessive and unavoidable animal cruelty. That's bullshit and very triggering to some people. (One of my pets was murdered IRL like, no BS.)

Anyway buddy, I can explain the story to you if you want. You should change the story score to like 5 Stars, though because honestly while it's subtle, it's not overly subtle and you should have gotten it. This is on you, not the game.

So here goes, I'll explain the connection. Obviously...SPOILERS.

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The first 95% of the game happens only in Alfred's imagination. He is completely disconnected from reality. He has had a psychotic break. You get a lot of the reasoning for the psychotic break, the family's bleak, joyless existence, their severe economic woes, the loveless marriage, his feeling that he's failed as a husband and father. For what it's worth my dad was an awesome and loving father and also was a postal worker and we were poor so I was a little offended by this part. Anyway, what you DON'T see is any of the "action" of his psychotic break.

Every action he takes in his family murder suicide is camouflaged as something else in Alfred's shattered mind and to the player.

* Remember when you gingerly plucked the hair ribbon from your wife's head and then put it back in the back of her head? Well that was you putting a bullet in the back of her skull.
* Remember when you gently and lovingly tucked your young son in under the comforters? That's probably when you smothered him to death, you sick fuck.
* Remember when you used a shard of glass to slash open the orange "pillow" that you conspicuously "never liked" for the white fluffy cotton inside? Well that was the moment you disemboweled the orange CAT that you "never wanted".
* And then lastly and most obviously, the entire attic sequence represents your suicide by hanging, the cherry on top of this deliciously cheerful Christmas confection.

There are some not so subtle hints that shit is going wrong along the way. The scene with the spilled nail polish is pretty heavy foreshadowing, for one thing. First you spill blood-colored liquid on the floor after vomiting for no reason, then you cut yourself mixing your blood with the nail polish which is described as 'hemic', then in a Shakespearian nod all your efforts to clean up the nail polish ("blood") fail, and those failed attempts to clean it are all necessary to progress the game.

The point where an astute player should realize that things have gone horribly, horribly wrong is when you exit the boy's room after lighting the candle and placing the repaired figurine. For starters, the Christmas tree is now bedecked with lights--all RED lights. Instantaneously. Your wife is wearing a blood red dress--the exact color of fresh blood--but when you right clicked and examined the package before, you should have noticed that the dress you got your wife as a present was WHITE, not red. White dress = reality, Red Dress = Fantasy.

So yeah, now that I've connected the dots for ya with some basic Psychological Horror 101 wisdom, change your score, bro!

author=Addit
Yeah, I originally wasn’t gonna put that screenshot even in there (because it's the best part), but, you know, ‘tis the season. :D

author=Link_2112
The type of game would be a Point and Click Adventure, not Platformer.

Well, billhilly here has got it under “Platformer” on his game page, so I had to go with authenticity here and list under that when, of course, it’s clearly not a platformer.

The author of Pocket Mirror had the same problem when they listed their game as an RPG when it’s clearly not one at all. :/

author=JosephSeraph
lovinh these angles

author=Addit
Yeah, it’s missing a download there, bud.

author=beakmanthegreat
I suppose I'll be the first to dive into this lunacy. May God have mercy on my soul.
Definitely looking forward to... Whatever this is. Reminds me of Maniac Mansion.