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- Alternative Character Interpretation: Are Bunnilda and Foxanne genuinely trying to protect Mary from the predatory Boaris as well as the dangers of going too deep into her dreams? Are they possessive jerks who just want Mary to themselves? Or are they somewhere in between?
- The fact that Boaris can't "play" with Mary if she doesn't get the seed from them hints towards the protection.
- Awesome Art: The sprite work is incredibly detailed and fluid, and looks just plain gorgeous.
- Awesome Music: The soundtrack is undeniably beautiful. It never fails to set the atmosphere.
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, the first use of the main leitmotif of the game, sets the whimsical and dreamy mood quite nicely. - Those Who Dream is a quaint little theme that fits the gentle area it plays in.
- Nightmarish provides some positively jarring Soundtrack Dissonance in one of the downer endings.
- BADDAD, on the more overt end of the creepiness, is more suitable for the chase that occurs later on.
- Waking from the Dream is a triumphant song that plays when Mari wakes up from her dreams and is close to earning her happy ending.
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- Hilarious in Hindsight: A Disguised Horror Story game made in RPG Maker, featuring a Dream Land and a major character named Mari? Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
- It Was His Sled: Just looking at the title screen gives not so subtle hints that Boaris is up to no good and his default pose when you first meet him only amplifies the suspicion. Thus learning that Boaris is a stand-in for Mary's abusive father doesn't turn out that surprising.
- Narm: The musical score, which plays whenever the Chaser is going after Mary, is supposed to sound scary, but the cacophonic piano play accompanied by hysteric female whispering has the exactly opposite effect.
- Nightmare Fuel: The ending where Elegy for the Dream plays, which plays a horribly distorted audio play of a poem where a man and a woman are creepily detailing Mari's ordeal as the credits rolls:Poem: She is your sweetheart. She is the one who sweetens the stirry-blurry shade of your he-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-heart
- Realism-Induced Horror: The horror in this dream-and-nightmare themed games come from the subtle and horrifying implications of what Mari's home-life is like in the waking world; specifically, the numerous hints about her being a victim of Parental Incest at the hands of her abusive father. The game has a lot of creepy moments, but it's the realistic portrayal of her father that makes the game as horrifying as it actually is.
