#HAPPY GAME RABBIT FULL#

Aside from the constant recurrence of blankly staring smiley-face creatures, there’s very little connecting the three segments they play, essentially, like themed levels.Īmanita understands the expectations players will have coming in and does its best to subvert them at every turn.

#HAPPY GAME RABBIT FULL#

In the first, the boy chases after his ball through a dark, largely monochromatic playroom full of demonic toys in the second, he tries to rescue his bunny from the jaws of a giant, cannibalistic rabbit-monster in a circular, deceptively sunshiny countryside in the third he travels with his dog through a monster-haunted forest. Your job is to guide him through his nightmares and regain what was lost, finding ways to overcome the horrific creatures and scenarios that his subconscious throws into his path.Įach nightmare takes place in its own distinct landscape, with unique imagery relating to the object and emotions that inspired it. His sleep is immediately disturbed by nightmares about traumatic losses he’s suffered: the theft of a soccer ball by a schoolyard bully, the accidental loss of his stuffed bunny while playing by a lake, and the disappearance of his dog during a game of fetch in the woods. Happy Game opens with an unnamed little boy laying down to bed in his darkened room. If it doesn’t, though, there’s almost no chance that this will turn out to be the game for you. If it does-and make no mistake, my answer was and continues to be “Yes”-then odds are you’ll find a lot to like in Happy Game. The question to ask, then, is whether that sounds like a good time to you. Happy Game may be the brainchild of developer Jaromír Plachý, who headed up such past Amanita projects as CHUCHEL and Botanicula, but don’t let its pedigree, simple gameplay and cartoony aesthetic fool you: this is so far removed from the bright, all-ages fun of those titles that it’s practically in another galaxy. About halfway through I thought I might need to get up and take a break for a bit, so unrelentingly bleak was its atmosphere, but as with all good horror stories I knew it wouldn’t help: it would still be sitting there, waiting patiently for me to come back. “Please note: Happy Game is not a happy game,” reads the introductory text to Amanita Design’s new horror puzzler, and boy howdy it is not kidding.

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