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kjorteoSaw this one in a queue dive, it's ten minutes long and a free download, so I was curious enough to bite.
3 Blind Mice: A Remediation Game for Improper Children is a short little creepypasta-looking barely-interactive quiz game with a heavy dystopian undercurrent. The hidden cameras have judged you to be lacking in intelligence and proper obedient behavior, and so you must go through this short ten-minute remediation game. Failure to do so may result in being removed from society.
The game is just a progression of listening to the mice give a speech that eventually leads up to kindergarten-level quiz questions with a creepy flavor to them ("What is the shape of an eyeball?" "What color is this severed finger?") like an edgy haunted episode of Sesame Street. The voice quality is what I would consider deliberately poor; the microphone pops, the acting is incredibly wooden and stilted, there are unnaturally long "no person would ever talk like this" pauses, but all of this feels like it's for effect, like it's trying to convey that the mice themselves are just badly reading a very forced script. It gives the whole thing an unsettling vibe even when nothing overtly menacing is happening, like a Salad Fingers video for much the same reason. Minor jumpscares (they screech at you) if you get anything wrong, otherwise you just go through ten minutes of this and then they congratulate you and the game closes.
It's... there's not a whole lot there, but it's kind of neat. Very atmospheric. If you're intrigued then you may as well check it out. If you're not then you're probably not missing a whole lot.
3 Blind Mice: A Remediation Game for Improper Children is a short little creepypasta-looking barely-interactive quiz game with a heavy dystopian undercurrent. The hidden cameras have judged you to be lacking in intelligence and proper obedient behavior, and so you must go through this short ten-minute remediation game. Failure to do so may result in being removed from society.
The game is just a progression of listening to the mice give a speech that eventually leads up to kindergarten-level quiz questions with a creepy flavor to them ("What is the shape of an eyeball?" "What color is this severed finger?") like an edgy haunted episode of Sesame Street. The voice quality is what I would consider deliberately poor; the microphone pops, the acting is incredibly wooden and stilted, there are unnaturally long "no person would ever talk like this" pauses, but all of this feels like it's for effect, like it's trying to convey that the mice themselves are just badly reading a very forced script. It gives the whole thing an unsettling vibe even when nothing overtly menacing is happening, like a Salad Fingers video for much the same reason. Minor jumpscares (they screech at you) if you get anything wrong, otherwise you just go through ten minutes of this and then they congratulate you and the game closes.
It's... there's not a whole lot there, but it's kind of neat. Very atmospheric. If you're intrigued then you may as well check it out. If you're not then you're probably not missing a whole lot.
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Date: 2019-12-03 06:04 pm (UTC)I had to explain that scene in Uninvited to people when we were all playing House of Danger and something similar happened, so I'm glad to see it here!
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Date: 2019-12-03 06:38 pm (UTC)Glad you approve! Thank you!