Buzz Saw Blood House is a Survival Horror game by Puppet Combo. Like most of the creators works it combines PS1 era Retraux lowpolygon graphics with a Slasher Movie aesthetics.
The player is placed in the role of a schoolgirl kidnapped by The Deep Web Snuff Film producers and has to navigate a complex filled with death traps and an insane killer.
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Buzz Saw Blood House contains examples of the following tropes:
- Aerith and Bob: Most of the girls have normal names, like Amanda, Emily, or Samantha, but some of them have names that look made-up or misspelled, like Lorinda, Jesenia, or Reginia.
- An Arm and a Leg: In some versions your character can continue going after having one or both arms severed. Losing a leg, however, is always fatal.
- The Bechdel Test: The game fail it, because all the schoolgirls talk about is cute boys before they're kidnapped.
- Ax-Crazy: The chainsaw wielding maniac, though there's speculation from the protagonist that he's also a prisoner.
- Chainsaw Good: Or rather very bad in this case. The killer wields one, and there are also chainsaws mounted on swinging arms in the ceiling.
- Corridor Cubbyhole Run: Some versions force you to navigate hallways where, periodically, a crossbow bolt is shot down them. Sometimes you can duck, but other times the arrow is at the wrong height, requiring you to slip into alcoves on one side or the other of the hall to survive.
- Creepy Dollhouse: Some parts of Room 7 are done up to look like girly, saccharine dollhouses, which only makes the morbid death traps stand out even more.
- Deliberate VHS Quality: The game is mostly presented through grainy security cam footage.
- Event-Obscuring Camera: Because the game is supposedly a livestream, the player has no control over the camera, seeing each room only from a series of fixed camera angles. This is occasionally used against the player.
- Expy: The killer is a Hockey mask wearing killer who wields a chainsaw.
- Gorn: The main character will constantly get dismembered by death traps and the killer.
- Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: The killer is a classic example; aside from the hockey mask and chainsaw, his only other distinguishing feature is a bright orange prison jumpsuit.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Most versions of the game have a final showdown with the killer where you have to lure him into death traps.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The game depicts Room 7's "Halloween special" stream.
- Justified Extra Lives: Given that dying changes the character's name at the bottom (or, depending on the version, the top) of the screen, it's implied that every "life" is in fact a different person put into the death traps.
- murder.com: The central premise. There's even a live chat filled with demented commentators. In some versions, the killer can be summoned at random when one of the commentators donates to the channel.
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Nintendo Hard: On top of the standard avoid the killer mechanics common in the genre the player must evade in navigate through elaborate death traps. - One-Hit-Point Wonder: While approaching some traps the wrong way in some versions "just" costs you an arm, any other contact with the traps or the killer is instant death.
- Platform Hell: Some versions have elaborate jumping puzzles where you must navigate ever-changing platforms. The urgency of these puzzles is significantly increased by having them over coils of barbed razor wire.
- Sailor Fuku: For some reason, the Ashland High School uniform is Japanese-style, even though it's likely set in America.
- Sickening Slaughterhouse: Room 7 seems to be set in some sort of meat processing plant, judging by all the strung-up skinned animal carcasses and conveyor belts.
- Snuff Film: VHS tapes even serve as lives in some versions of the game.
- Spikes of Doom: A recurring trap is floor panels that extend spikes every few seconds.
- White Mask of Doom: The killer, who wears a copy of Jason Voorhees' hockey mask.
