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This short game was created using RPG Maker 2003, and centers around a boy named Philip, who leaves home to save his world from a mysterious corruption. It's notable for its parodies of the horror and RPG game genres, its crude art style, and frequent use of blood in dialogue, graphics, and thematics. Players control Philip (and during sections following the game's first major area, Leg Horse) as he departs from his home in Scum Vullage to search for the City of Forms, a city described as the origin of everything within the game's world. Throughout the game, players repeatedly encounter twisted, and often bloody creatures which take the place of NPCs in the game's world. The game plays like a typical 2D turn-based RPG, although a "Mystery" function that can only be used once per battle has effects unique to each enemy variety the function is utilized on. This ability closely resembles "praying" in Earthbound but with a narrative focus. Certain enemies have absurd weaknesses; such as silent films making some of them sentimental. The game also has quirky status effects, such as "buff" and "sad" along with more typical ones, such as "poisoned." |
