History VideoGame / BrambleTheMountainKing

* SceneryPorn[=/=]SceneryGorn: The game is visually stunning in its' detailed photorealistic environments, both bright and cheery or dark and sinister.

* DaylightHorror: The level where Olle encounters Näcken, and the later segment in the destroyed village crawling with the undead, both take place in the full light of day, but are no less terrifying because of it.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Fittingly enough for the game's title, [[spoiler:the battle against King Nils (the titular Mountain King) has a cover of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing in the background, the music getting faster with each phase of the battle.]] The song heard as Olle runs through the flock of sparrows is a 17th century Swedish summer hymn, ''Den Blomstertid nu kommer''.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Fittingly enough for the game's title, [[spoiler:the battle against King Nils (the titular Mountain King) has a cover of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing in the background, the music getting faster with each phase of the battle.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the final boss battle [[spoiler: with King Nils]], it is possible for Olle to cut in half if he fails to jump on time.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the final boss battle [[spoiler: with King Nils]], it is possible for Olle to cut in half if he fails to jump i time.

* DarkFantasy: The game is based upon Nordic fables and folktales. and revolves around two young siblings, Olle and Lillemor, who sneak out to explore an enchanted forest filled with magical creatures. It initially starts out as a whimsical adventure, but things take an increasingly dark and horrifying turn when Lillemor is kidnapped by a troll and Olle learns of a curse over the land. Olle has to avoid or fight numerous monsters and malevolent beings to save Lillemor. The backstory reveals that humans were the cause of much of the problems [[spoiler:and while it has an uplifting ending, Olle has to [[EarnYourHappyEnding go through hell to achieve it]]]].

* BigGood: Tuva, the witch who grants Olle's magical stone the ability to repel the Bramble and directs him to the mountain in the distance in order to find his sister. She's also colored LightIsGood in contrast to the marshland witch's DarkIsEvil.[[spoiler: Tuva additionally is heavily implied to be the last witch whom King Nils came to to find the Bramble for Ulrik then rose a mountain over the king to keep the Bramble from escaping according to the 2nd Mountain King storybook. She also revives Olle BackFromTheDead after he dies following the final battle with King Nils and saving Lillemor.]]

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Fittingly enough for the game's title , [[spoiler:the battle against King Nils (the titular Mountain King) has a cover of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing in the background, the music getting faster with each phase of the battle.]]

* TheFairFolk: The siblings enter a gnome village during the first section of the game and there's also a few fairies around. They're the nicest versions of the fair folk in the game. The trolls and [[spoiler: the Skogsrå]] are ''far'' more malevolent.

* LetsGetDangerous: Olle is a timid yet kind young boy whose primary means of defense against his adversaries is a magical light stone. [[spoiler: Hewever, when the Skogsrå attempts to decieve him with Lillemor's form a second time, Olle transforms the stone into a HardLight sword with which he uses to stun and ultimately kill her.]]

* LightEmUp: After receiving a power-up from Tuva, Olle's magic stone becomes capable of unleashing blasts of light that are particularly effective against monsters like the Kärrhäxan, Pesta, and the Bramble itself. [[spoiler: During the battle against the Skogsrå, Olle manages to create a [[HardLight sword of light]] with it.]]

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Näcken was originally an ordinary man from an unknown village who played his violin, and was greatly bullied and beaten by the village folk because of it (save for a girl whom he fell in love with). One day, he could no longer handle the relentless beatings, and played forbidden melodies that he used to forced the villagers to dance to death. However, his act of revenge also killed the girl he was in love with, and driven by despair, he now lives isolated in a lake where he continues to play his violin in order to lure any unfortunate victims to their deaths.

* DarkReprise: The vocal Swedish song that plays during the daytime forest/riding hedgehog scene early on in the game recieves a more slower, somber and haunting version that's heard while Olle is wandering through the burnt forest and during the cutscene where he discovers the destroyed village.
* DaylightHorror: The level where Olle encounters Näcken takes place in the full light of day, but is no less terrifying because of it.

* TheFairFolk: The siblings enter a gnome village during the first section of the game and there's also a few fairies around.

** The Narrator also mentions that the Gnomes are surprised by Olle and Lillemor as they are the first visiters to the village that didn't want to eat the Gnomes. Giving players a little hint as to the horrors seen later.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Olle and Lillemor shrink down to Lilputian size at the start of the game shortly before entering the gnome village. The effects apparently wear off not long after Olle enters the swamp area.

The game was released on April 27, 2023 for PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX|S, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: All that's left of the Fishing Village are corpses and Draugr, people who were afflicted with the plague by Pesta and came back as undead. They are portrayed as typical pop-culture zombies -- mindless hordes that eat human flesh -- with signs of survivors boarding themselves up in their homes to keep them at bay.

The game was released on April 27, 2023 for PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* DaylightHorror: The level where Olle encounters the Nacken takes place in the full light of day, but is no less terrifying because of it.

* BloodSpatteredInnocents: [[spoiler: After killing the Skogsra, Olle spends the remainder of the game soaked in her blood until he changes into Ulrik's clothes before the final battle.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The Skogsra]] has a gaping hole on her back through which one can see her beating heart.

* ChildrenForcedToKill: [[spoiler: Olle is forced to kill the Skogsra in order to leave the forest. Showing her mercy isn't an option, because if he tries to do so she kills him on the spot. This act horrifies Olle and causes him to StressVomit while he's trying to process what he's done.]]

** The Näcken's relentless pursuit of Olle causes both of them to fall from a high waterfall. [[spoiler:Olle fortunately survives, but it is shown that the Näcken fell directly into the rocks below, breaking his back and ultimately killing him.]]

* LetsGetDangerous: Olle is a timid yet kind young boy whose primary means of defense against his adversaries is a magical light stone. [[spoiler: Hewever, when the Skogsra attempts to decieve him with Lillemor's form a second time, Olle transforms the stone into a HardLight sword with which he uses to stun and ultimately kill her.]]

* OurTrollsAreDifferent: The trolls are designed not unlike John Bauer's illustrations; vaguely humanoid with large, pointed ears, tails and massive noses. They are massive compared to Olle (though it's vague if this is because they are normally massive or if Ollie was shrunken down) and they live to serve the Mountain King, gathering food for him as the bramble overtakes the land.
* OurWitchesAreDifferent: The Kärrhäxan is the boss of the Swamplands; at first confused for a scarecrow, it's a HumanoidAbomination dressed in women's clothes, wears an animal skull over its own flayed-looking face with piercing white eyes.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: The Näcken was originally an ordinary man from an unknown village who played his violin, and was greatly bullied and beaten by the village folk because of it (save for a girl whom he fell in love with). One day, he could no longer handle the relentless beatings, and played forbidden melodies that he used to forced the villagers to dance to death. However, his act of revenge also killed the girl he was in love with, and driven by despair, he now lives isolated in a lake where he continues to play his violin in order to lure any unfortunate victims to their deaths.
* ViolenceIsDisturbing: After Olle [[spoiler:brutally kills the Skogsra]], he's mortified by the [[BloodSpatteredInnocents bloody]] violence he's committed, and imagines Tuva asking him what he's done. Olle himself later expresses regret for this.

* WitchHunt: Olle finds a village where men began going missing after being lured into the woods by a mysterious, beautiful, dark-haired woman. Consequently, the villagers began rounding up, interrogating, torturing and executing the dark-haired women of the village, believing one of them responsible. However, the disappearances continued. [[spoiler:The men were actually lured and killed by a Skogsra, a shapeshifting being who can take the form of a beautiful woman]].