Welcome to dead house...
Being a true-to-form Goosebumps game, you're bound to get spooks, chills, and frights that will surely give you goosebumps...Pun intended.
Spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned...
- The intro shows that two movers are moving "Mr. Shivers" contents into the back of their moving van from his old home. After the job's done, they drive off to deliver Shivers' items. They chat for a while about how surreal the stuff the original homeowner's stuff is and the several scary stories they've heard when suddenly a loud thud is heard in the back of the van. When the two movers open the trunk to find the source of such a frightening noise, they find Slappy; hunched over in a corner with his eyes closed. One of the movers tells the other one that it's just a ventriloquist dummy and is relieved. Until...[Slappy suddenly bolts up; eyes widened in terrifying anger] "Who you calling dummy, Dummy?"
- Fifi barking and growling ferociously at you while up very close to the screen is sure to shock you on the first playthrough.
- The Dead House from Welcome to Dead House replaces the protagonist's home when they first arrive. And it's spot-on to how it looks on the book cover. It towers over you with blueish-gray worn-down walls, dead trees, broken windows, cracks, moss growing around the eerie house, and two gargoyles peering at you from the balcony.
- The inside is even worse; dust particles flying everywhere, an eerie aura that fits this haunted abode, and disturbingly twisted rooms such as the Hallway of Infinity. Everything looks broken down, worn out, or old, and the atmosphere is almost completely dark.
- When you go into the dining room of the house, you meet face to face with a wrinkly old crone who claims to be your "Aunt Dahlia". She tries to lure you into a false sense of security and offers you a strange, purple liquid in a glass. If you do accept the drink, your vision becomes blurry and you start to age so fast that you turn into dust; thankfully in a Gory Discretion Shot with the screen turning black, but still rather horrifying. And during all of this, "Aunt Dahlia" is laughing.
- However, there is a chance to fool Dahlia into drinking her own liquid by making her fall asleep and pouring the drink into her glass that you found in the kitchen's refrigerator. She will then wake up and take a sip of her drink, and then suddenly her body starts dissolving. She rapidly ages and then dies; with her body dissolving into dust. Unlike our death, this one is completely shown.
- While the deaths of the game aren't shown - with the screen turning black before anything happens, the said deaths are still rather vividly and disturbingly explained:
- Dr. Brewer's Clone lunges at you and uses his vine arms to strangle you to the point of withering away.
- The Anihilator 3000 shoots at you, implicitly disintegrating your eyeballs.
- The Beast From The East slices your arms off.
- The Mannequins that are alive wrap their entire body around your own and squeeze every inch of life out of you.
- The Monster Blood pulls you down and engulfs you. Implicitly leeching your body.
- Officer Murphy beats the everlasting crap out of you and you lose the ability to feel anything.
- The "taffy" pulls your face to the bin and sucks out every ounce of blood in your body.
