Foreign Creature is a flash game series by Belugerin Games. As it is heavily inspired by Zeebarf's The Visitor series, the two share a number of similarities: both are point-and-click Adventure Games starring an Orifice Invading Assimilator extraterrestrial going on a murder spree. However, Foreign Creature places a greater emphasis on its underlying story.
There are three "main" games in the series:
While the first and third games focus mostly on loosely-connected scenes with very brutal executions, the second game presents more story: The eponymous Foreign Creature is a member of a race of technologically advanced aliens from a nameless planet. There, under a relentless siege by King Smargudel, their own king clones the creature from his finger, then sends the resulting embryo to Earth. The clone's objective is to learn, multiply, and eventually return with a well-trained Clone Army.
A Compilation Re-release titled Foreign Creature Saga
is also available - though as it seems the last entry was in 2014, it may be an Orphaned Series.
Foreign Creature contains examples of:
- Art Evolution: Proportions in The Invasion are generally less cartoonish and more accurate to real life. Compare the generic dog in the first game to the singer's three dogs in the second.
- Big Ball of Violence:
- In the first game, the dog and possessed cat fight like this - until it's broken up, that is.
- The first bonus stage of the second game features three when the singer's infected dogs in the park attack other unifected ones.
- Body Surf: The creature is often required to swap hosts to proceed towards their goals.
- Capcom Sequel Stagnation: Following the release of Foreign Creature Scene were a number of spin-offs, rereleases, and a spot-the-difference game that had little to do with the established story. It seems unlikely that a third entry will ever be released (likely due to a perceived negative reception of the second.)
- Cephalothorax: The first incarnation of the Creature is a small, fluffy disc-shaped... thing with no arms or legs, just floating feet. The second game's evolution chart explains this as the first stage of its life cycle.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Beings under the Creature's control have their hair/fur turn a vivid orange in the first game. Downplayed in the second game, where a flash of orange or red in their eyes signifies control.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Zig-zagged. Stylistically, the first game shares more similarities with its inspiration The Visitor in that many of the scenes are one-offs with the sole objective to kill all enemies, with Ludicrous Gibs and cheesy sound effects galore. The second game does away with most of the comical elements and opts to tell a more typical Alien Invasion story. The third game, however, bucks the story angle altogether and returns to the Bloody Hilarious nature of the first.
- For the Evulz: While most of the Creature's body count comes from humans and animals that pose a direct threat, there are occasions where it stages a murder for no apparent reason, such as the park scene in the first game.
- Fusion Dance: What seems to happen when the Creature takes over an animal or person in the first game, even if only temporarily.
- Heartbeat Soundtrack: Many of the cutscenes are scored with nothing more than an ominous heartbeat.
- Made of Iron: Whoever is the current host of the creature, can withstand extensive damage. It is shown in the first stage of the second game when the infected guy barely flinches from a multiple firearms gunfire. Said firearms include two handguns and a shotgun. They hit him multiple times and only manage to knock him out cold but not kill him.
- Then again maybe the telekinetic abilites played some role in it too.
- Mind over Matter: The Creature has the ability to levitate objects, drive cars, and manipulate electronics using only its mind.
- Multipurpose Tongue: The Creature's tongue can be lashed out with enough force to instantly kill humans, reach doorknobs, or grapple up to a victim.
- Orifice Invasion: Just like the Visitor, the Creature can launch itself into the mouths or ears of its target to take control.
- Puppeteer Parasite: The Creature can travel through bodies and use their abilities for itself, though leaving will kill its host.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Creature itself has vivid red eyes that often flash when it uses its telekinetic abilities.
- The Masquerade: Humans infected by the Creature gain pointed teeth and red eyes, often hidden under heavy clothes and surgical masks.
