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Nightmare Fuel / Pocket Mirror

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Oh dear.

  • An early puzzle involves pushing a table to obtain an item. Players who played the demo would know what to do, but then blood appears after you pushed the table...
  • The puzzle involving the eyeballs. But especially the painting gallery where you had to take an eyeball from a painting just to get the pocket mirror back. What happens after is not pretty.
  • You helped a pair of dancers to stitch their bodies back. Happy ending? Oh no, when you're done watching the theater, you find that the pair killed the other dancers in the hall as a revenge for what they had done to them.
  • When you meet Fleta for the first time, she appears to be a Nice Girl and leads you to her dollhouse so you can play. However, if you separate once you reach the garden, once you get Fleta back, the first support conversations get really unsettling.
  • The sudden premonition that appears while you're happily sipping tea with Fleta...
  • The start of the chase scene in Harpae's first area. It's a Mirror Scare involving Lisette popping out of the mirror looking like a psycho and complete with Glowing Eyes of Doom. If you get a game over, laughter will be haunting the audio of the game until you load your previous data and start all over again. Enjoy the nightmares!
  • Excluding the protagonist, all of the girls employ Nightmare Fuel in some way. Fleta and Harpae appear to be decent people at first, albeit flawed individuals, entertaining Goldia and allowing her to stay with them. But as time passes, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic, until they show their true colors and try to prevent her from leaving. Lisette is the most terrifying of the three, actively hunting down Goldia in a world that is full of disturbing imagery. She makes no secret of wanting to kill her and seems to know more about her than the others do, even referencing how the pocket mirror works at one point.
    • The side characters also get this. The Strange Boy is a demon with one eye who laughs at people’s suffering and has complete control over everyone. Enjel will stop at nothing to trade places with Goldia, even if it means destroying the world. And Egliette rules with an iron fist, executing anyone who opposes her.
  • Some of the bad endings are pretty terrifying:

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