![]() ![]() A little bit before the toys disappear, an image flashes to show the Child getting impaled brutally on a spike while the Demon watches.Each one gains a Nightmare Face before disappearing in a blinding light. The very first puzzle encountered involves doing random things to three toys: pulling a teddy bear out of a box, pulling apart a clown doll, and playing with a nesting doll, respectively.If the Child happens to complete each puzzle they're in, the toys will become ghastly red beings with glowing eyes, all the while having red lights illuminate and violently flash the whole world. All the monsters in the first nightmare are demented Living Toys, presumably ones out of the Child's memories.The only thing the Child can do is walk forward and hope for the best. Literally nothing illuminates the room outside of spotlights, which often illuminate some Eldritch Abomination. The first nightmare forces the Child to walk through a massive, pitch black room, all in the sheer vain of getting back his soccer ball.This is also made more or less apparent in the nightmares as well, usually transforming into things ranging from the sun or air, certain creatures you encounter, or even pictures and drawings. This is made apparent whenever the Child's memories are shown, with the events unfolding allowing it to influence your nightmares. The Demon is always watching you, one way or another.The thing always keeps a constant smile on, and whatever it is, it makes it clear very quickly that it's here to make the boy suffer. The game's mysterious Big Bad, all we know about this thing is that it just visits a random kid one night and plagues him with terrible nightmares. You get to see families and children reacting happily and laughing at a cute boy and his misadventures in a mystical land, nothing out of the ordinar- wait, why are the families laughing at the boy suffering and seeing hellish creatures? ![]() At first, it seems that Happy Game really is a happy game. Needless to say, the image can invoke very lovecraftian vibes if you don't know the premise (which is pretty mysterious anyhow). The ending screen for the demo shows him falling down from a bright light alongside a horde of smiley faces and toys.and straight into the mouth of a ginormous smiley face with teeth.What is going on? What is exactly going on? What even led up to all of this? Due to the lack of dialogue and reliance on visuals, everything we don't know is often ambiguous. And that's just about what we do know.You play as a child experiencing ungodly nightmares and you have to make him 'happy' again. ![]()
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