History NightmareFuel / DarkDeception

-->'''The patient, Tammy Houser, is a 12-year-old caucasian female, living with parents, with a mental history that dates back to 1988. Patient was admitted by her father. The father says the daughter is prone to [[AmbiguousDisorder random severe mood swings & panic attacks.]] He also states that she acts impulsively, [[DesperatelyCravesAffection exhibiting risky and dangerous behavior in order to gain his attention.]] He fears that she will continue to harm herself or, eventually, others. There is a history of mental illness on the mother's side as well. Patient's self-esteem appears low, anhedonia, sleep disturbance, [[TooUnhappyToBeHungry does not appear to be eating well, loss in body weight]], does not report change in energy, no reported changes in concentration or memory. Patient does exhibit [[BerserkButton signs of depression & anxiety when asked about her father.]] [[ParentalNeglect She is convinced that he is ignoring her and is obsessed with his legal career.]] [[TearJerker She believes that he wishes she didn't exist.]] Patient bears marks of past [[SelfHarm self harm]], with scars on her left arm. Sending recommendation that she is potentially suffering from early bipolar disorder. Advising further tests and observations. Medication will be prescribed for depression and anxiety. I'll start with Oxcarbazepine.'''

** The room she resides is has both the ring altar and the main entrances to the Therapy Center, which is already a red flag. The room itself appears to be a massive security office, with cameras overlaying the walls behind the Matron while she oversees the room, giving us a good look at her sheer size. In front of her counter is an absolute maze of hospital supplies and equipment, all of which crudely protect the ring altar while acting as guard outposts for the Reaper Nurses. The entire scene forces you to go on a stealth mission of sorts, with one wrong move spelling death if you don't do something.

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* Bierce mentioned the previous “guest” at the start of the game. She met her end due to not being a fast runner. For those who are aware that they are slow at running, this can really frighten you. What's worse? She pretty much implies that the people she summoned before you are among the [[AndIMustScream Soul Shards you find scattered throughout the place.]] And if you fail, ''you'll be one of them''.

[[folder:ElementaryEvil]]

--> '''Agatha: '''"Bierce! STAY OUT OF MY ROOM!"

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** You think that's bad? In the enhanced version, it's even worse. Just as you reach the courtyard, the aforementioned Titan Watcher rears its giant ugly head and starts chucking ''axes the size of cars'' at you. Also, the gate to the portal is now locked, [[PuzzleBoss requiring you to lure the Titan Watcher into throwing its axes into it.]] And don’t forget, you're still being chased by Malak AND regular Gold Watchers. So you’ll need to keep track of a horde of enemies that don’t move while being watched, a hyper-competent demon from hell who will chase you no matter what, and a Titan Watcher that chucks car-sized axes at you. Manage to beat this, and you’ve earned that damn ring piece!

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* The other secret? A newspaper giving us our protagonist's name, profession, and [[BreadMilkEggsSquick crimes]]...
-->'''[[GivenNameReveal Doug Houser]] turned himself in to the police in New York City this morning to face [[{{Squick}} sexual misconduct charges]], before being released with a $100,000 cash bail. The disgraced defense attorney was carrying an 8000X and a newspaper as he got out of a luxury black SUV and walked past a swarm of TV cameras and reporters and through the front of the New York Police Department's 1st Precinct in Manhattan this morning. He was subsequently arrested, processed, and charged with [[DomesticAbuse criminal sex act, sex abuse, and sexual miscondcut]] for alleged incidents involving five separate women, police said.'''

-->'''[[HeelRealization I thought I was so smart]]....so untouchable....but I was an easy target for them. It was my own fault. A result of my ego & desire. Just a fool playing the big shot. They loved what they could take from me, but they never loved me. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Not like you both did.]]'''

--> '''Malak: "Keep them laughing while you die, won't you?"'''

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--> '''"[[RedAlert Self-destruct sequence has been initiated.]] Repeat. [[TimedMission Self-destruct sequence has been initiated.]]"'''

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[[folder: Holiday Horror]]

''VideoGame/DarkDeception'' could probably be best described as "Creator/BandaiNamco hired the creators of ''Franchise/EvilDead'' to direct a ''VideoGame/PacMan'' spin-off that [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mixes the gameplay of the original game with]] everything about the survival horror genre". That comparison should let you know what you're in for...

* The tone of this level is unlike every level before it, [[BleakLevel for just how dreary it is, despite being an amusement park.]] Yes, there's plenty of humor, mostly from the [[LaughablyEvil Joy Joy Gang]], but the drained colors, foggy atmosphere, and desolate landscape differ from the macabre areas you visited before. At least levels like Agatha's and the Reaper Nurses' had some lively elements or traps, but this park is so lifeless that it's almost a (admittedly very small) relief when the cackling, blood-thirsty animatronics show up. And even then, the area where you're first introduced to Lucky and Penny looks more like a room where they do PoliceLineup{{s}} than anything that should be in an amusement park. The lower levels, while more colorful, look more like a mesh of an shut down office building and a deep-space horror film than anything else. The whole place just looks unwelcoming and designed to make you feel like something horrible is going to happen. [[WhamEpisode And lo and behold, something]] '''[[WhamEpisode very]]''' [[WhamEpisode horrible]] '''[[WhamEpisode does.]]'''

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* When you finally get all the shards and get the ring, you're treated to the [[HellIsThatNoise lovely sounds]] of the Murder Monkeys going, for lack of a better term, [[IncrediblyLamePun ape-shit]], and then you reach the elevator. Before it closes, you see a [[TurnsRed Murder Monkey, now with red eyes]], '''rushing right for you.''' The elevator door shuts before it can reach you, but once you reach the lobby, you better start running, because the other elevators open to show ''hordes of frenzied Murder Monkeys rushing out after you!'' Your only hope is to run for the portal to finish the level...

** To clarify, some mannequins ''actually look like that.'' Namely to because it's [[IncrediblyLamePun pointless]] to make a head-mold for something that just shows off a dress. One can't help but wonder [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice what exactly the ones here will use those points for.]]

* The whole entirety of Bearly Buried is pretty much a huge dosage of NightmareFuel and a reminder of what kind of situation you're in: trapped in a nightmare filled with horrid things. Only this time with a lack of powers at you're disposal for the second time around.

** The way both parties move like limp dolls a lot of the time, making them not seem very fast for the most part. Let them see you at certain points, however, and they will run you down and end your life in mere seconds.

* Running from Mama and her babies is quite an ordeal! First off, Mama makes the screen start to glitch out with her mere presence and it's stated in-game it comes from her sheer bloodlust! As for the Trigger Teddies? Well, the reason they're called "Trigger Teddies" is that they're packing explosives and will detonate if they catch Doug! If these little kamikazes are so much as stunned with primal fear they go off and can take Doug with them.

** Because the monkeys, obviously enough, can't talk, Bierce instead speaks up during chases. And she isn't very encouraging...
--->"In case you're wondering, yes, ''those footsteps are getting '''louder!"'''''

* Zone 3's appearance is... [[TheUnderworld something to behold.]] To put it simply, it turns out that the foundation of the cave is a vast mass of souls clumped together to form the caves and walls. It's so big that the maze you walk through, which is already larger than it needs to be, is simply a small platform in the sky if one were to look at it from the outside. The only lighting you get is a reddish glow emitted by the souls, and the maze itself looks to be even older and broken compared to the rest of it. It doesn't help that this is the first time you see the Trigger Teddies' true faces, which often comes as a shock for unwary players.

* While your introduction to the Dread Duckies is pretty tame, as you just see some inanimate duckies floating in the light nearby, you get one hell of a scare from a surprise attack soon after, with [[TheDarknessGazesBack something glaring at you with red eyes from a dark hole]] in the wall! This is the introduction to the duck's stun mechanic, and the [[AnimalisticAbomination Doom Ducky.]]

** You think that's bad? In the enhanced version, it's even worse. Just as you reach the courtyard, the aforementioned Titan Watcher rears its giant ugly head and starts chucking ''[[AnAxeToGrind axes the size of cars]]'' at you. Also, the gate to the portal is now locked, [[PuzzleBoss requiring you to lure the Titan Watcher into throwing its axes into it.]] And don’t forget, you're still being chased by Malak AND regular Gold Watchers. So you’ll need to keep track of a horde of enemies that don’t move while being watched, a hyper-competent demon from hell who will chase you no matter what, and a Titan Watcher that chucks car-sized axes at you. Manage to beat this, and you’ve earned that damn ring piece!

* The part where you electrocute the Joy Joy Gang ends up exposing their metallic parts underneath, and the results are not pretty. Lucky's eyes have popped off to reveal [[RedEyesTakeWarning red, mechanical, glowing lights]] and his buckteeth have been altered to more humanoid chompers. Hangry lost only one eye with a similar effect, but what stands out is his mouth, which now has a huge exposed maw of eerily organic teeth on a robotic jaw. Penny loses both her eyes too, but one still stays attached by a few wires, dangling out of her eye-socket, and she has a huge gash in her head, with an exposed metal skull beneath. After zapping the three to hell and back, they just freeze there, and you're forced to walk around them. They don't wake back up and attack you thankfully, but you can't be blamed for thinking they would, especially since their eyes ''still'' follow you. And when they do start moving again, they catch up to you, and they are royally t'd off.

*** This also brings to mind Mama Bear's status as Malak's executioner, and going by the sheer amount of souls on the walls, she and her babies have been eating people for a really long time.

* While the rest of the Sewer looks pretty much like an abandoned sewer, Doom Ducky's lair is a great exception to this. When getting close to the door leading to it, a faint red light emanates from it. Entering the room reveals a room illuminated almost entirely by the red lights, with large pipes and a giant door surveying the room. Most disturbing, however, is the copious of fake duckies lining many parts of the room in piles, looking almost as if they're watching you. The entire room looks almost like a sewer version of hell.

** Speaking of the eyes, they appear to be appear to be so bloodshot that the Doom Ducky has to regularly blink and keep its eyes closed just to keep them moist (something no other enemy does outside of cutscenes). Oh, and during its charge attack, said eyes will briefly pop out of its sockets if it misses you.

* The [[DarkActionGirl Reaper]] [[CandyStriper Nurses]]. They're perhaps the [[CuteMonsterGirl most humanoid]] of all the monsters shown, resembling [[HospitalHottie cute nurses]] that, outside their [[NaughtyNurseOutfit somewhat revealing clothes]] and the [[FacelessMooks bags on their heads]], otherwise look like normal humans, This is in stark contrast to their behavior, being insane psychos that [[DoesNotLikeMen utterly dislike any man they meet]] that isn't Malak, the latter of whom they treat like a personal god. This bleeds right into they're hospitality methods, which they treat like actual methods of healing when in reality they're [[BlatantLies nothing but excuses]] to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture and kill]] men and anyone else they view as a threat.

* The [[DarkActionGirl Reaper]] [[CandyStriper Nurses]]. They're perhaps the [[CuteMonsterGirl most humanoid]] of all the monsters shown, resembling [[HospitalHottie cute nurses]] that, outside their somewhat revealing clothes and the bags on their heads, otherwise look like normal humans, This is in stark contrast to their behavior, being insane psychos that [[DoesNotLikeMen utterly dislike any man they meet]] that isn't Malak, the latter of whom they treat like a personal god. This bleeds right into they're hospitality methods, which they treat like actual methods of healing when in reality they're [[BlatantLies nothing but excuses]] to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture and kill]] men and anyone else they view as a threat.
** It's heavily implied that the nurses are also something else entirely. Aside from the fact that they can somehow "see" out of their bags, they also have the ability to turn [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]], something no human can do without powers. Even then, the nurses are also capable of moving much faster than vehicles moving at top speed through sheer will alone, and they're capable of conjuring different weapons very quickly to dispatch enemies despite the lack of space for them anyway.
* Then there's their boss, [[FatBitch the Matron]]. She was actually shown in the teaser for Chapter 4 back then. Something neither the teaser, nor the development logs indicate is that she's ''[[EvilIsBigger massive]]'', towering over an ambulance, and if you don't believe that comparison, don't worry, [[TheChase you'll see for yourself late into the level.]]

** This also brings to mind both the Reaper Nurses' sole jumpscare (which involves stabbing Doug) and a comment made by one of them about bringing Doug there anyway. While the former does show him dropping on the floor afterwards, it's likely that he just passes out from the wound, which is very much possible considering that humans can survive getting stabbed (or at least for a few minutes depending on the wound). If this were the case, then it's also possible that the nurses would have inevitably brought him to the Therapy Center and [[CruelAndUnusalDeath torture him to death at their leisure.]]

* As if the entire level wasn’t bad enough, we get to the boss of the stage, Joy Kill. A [[FusionDance horrific amalgamation]] created from the crushed up remnants of the Joy Joy Gang that’s easily the freakiest boss in the game, and unlike said bosses, Joy Kill ''cannot be stopped or escaped''. [[KillItWithFire Threw it in lava?]] [[NoSell Nope!]] [[TimedMission Survived the lockdown and reached the elevator?]] [[OhCrap It’s still coming for you!]] Escaped the clone horde and are about to reach the portal? [[HopeSpot SURPRISE!]] Combine the fact that it has Penny’s stunning ability, Hangry's brutal strength, Lucky's quick reflexes, and ''FrickinLaserBeams'', it easily makes for the most horrifying boss monster in the game.

* Mama Bear's transformation! In the first boss battle, Doug comes to an arena riddled with pools of acid and out pops Mama's stretched-out-claw while her oversized head pops out of another! And then comes the third act boss where we see her transformation in all its glory. [[SarcasmMode Oh happy day...]] Imagine her main torso bloating up to giant size, her arms stretching into segments out with one claw getting bigger, her left hand becoming a fleshy mouth full of fangs, and her exposed innards are now a mass of Trigger Teddies! And on top of all that? She can transform into a giant ball of spikes to steamroll over her prey!

** One of the many teasers for this chapter was a grainy shot of a bridge blocked off by police cars. Given what the game revealed about Doug before this chapter, it didn't take a genius to guess what this was supposed to mean. Many people guessed it would be part of the intro to the hospital level or something, but no, it's at the end of this level, but it's not a part of Joy Joy Land, ''it's in Doug's head.'' And we get to see what fell off that bridge, or rather, '''[[AccidentalMurder who]]''' fell off...

** This also brings to mind both the Reaper Nurses' sole jumpscare (which involves stabbing Doug) and a comment made by one of them about bringing Doug there anyway. While the former does show him dropping on the floor afterwards, it's likely that he just passes out from the wound, which is very much possible considering that humans can survive getting stabbed (or at least for a few minutes depending on the wound). If this were the case, then it's also possible that the nurses would have inevitably brought him to the Therapy Center and torture him to death at their leisure.

* As if the entire level wasn’t bad enough, we get to the boss of the stage, Joy Kill. A horrific amalgamation created from the crushed up remnants of the Joy Joy Gang that’s easily the largest monster in the game barring maybe the Matron, and unlike said Matron, Joy Kill ''cannot be stopped or escaped''. [[KillItWithFire Threw it in lava?]] [[NoSell Nope!]] [[TimedMission Survived the lockdown and reached the elevator?]] [[OhCrap It’s still coming for you!]] Escaped the clone horde and are about to reach the portal? [[HopeSpot SURPRISE!]] Combine the fact that it has Penny’s stunning ability and ''FrickinLaserBeams'', it easily makes for the most horrifying boss monster in the game.

* Then there's the boss, the Matron. She was actually shown in the teaser for Chapter 4 back then. Something neither the teaser, nor the development logs indicate is that she's ''[[EvilIsBigger massive]]'', towering over an ambulance, and if you don't believe that comparison, don't worry, [[TheChase you'll see for yourself late into the level.]]

* The [[DarkActionGirl Reaper]] [[CandyStripper Nurses]]. They're perhaps the [[CuteMonsterGirl most humanoid]] of all the monsters shown, resembling [[HospitalHottie cute nurses]] that, outside their somewhat revealing clothes and the bags on their heads, otherwise look like normal humans, This is in stark contrast to their behavior, being insane psychos that [[DoesNotLikeMen utterly dislike any man they meet]] that isn't Malak, the latter of whom they treat like a personal god. This bleeds right into they're hospitality methods, which they treat like actual methods of healing when in reality they're [[BlatantLies nothing but excuses]] to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture and kill]] men and anyone else they view as a threat.

* The Reaper Nurses. They're perhaps the most humanoid of all the monsters shown, resembling cute nurses that, outside their somewhat revealing clothes and the bags on their heads, otherwise look like normal humans, This is in stark contrast to their behavior, being insane psychos that utterly dislike any man they meet that isn't Malak, the latter of whom they treat like a personal god. This bleeds right into they're hospitality methods, which they treat like actual methods of healing when in reality they're nothing but excuses to torture and kill men and anyone else they view as a threat.
** It's heavily implied that the nurses are also something else entirely. Aside from the fact that they can somehow "see" out of their bags, they also have the ability to turn invisible, something no human can do without powers. Even then, the nurses are also capable of moving much faster than vehicles moving at top speed through sheer will alone, and they're capable of conjuring different weapons very quickly to dispatch enemies despite the lack of space for them anyway.

* The [[MonsterClown Clown]] [[HumanoidAbomination Gremlins]], like your usual MonsterClown, walk a fine line between creepily hilarious and just creepy. Unlike Agatha, their proportions don't resemble a human at all, and [[SlasherSmile they've got huge rows of teeth curled into a permanent grin]]. They've also got rather small eyes surrounded by black, making them look even more demented. There's quite a lot of them running around the place, and only one of you. [[RunOrDie Better start running.]]

* Doom Ducky itself. To put it simply, it looks utterly ''nothing'' like the Dread Duckies, instead resembling an obese, plastic mass with a head, wings, and multiple arms sticking out of holes in its back. The arms themselves, despite having cartoonish gloves, are nonetheless long and shriveled up. As for the head itself, it has an extremely large bill full of human teeth, multiple nails sticking into its forehead, and red, bloodshot eyes staring at you. To make it worse, this head is also attached to an extremely long arm, allowing it to attack from afar if it really has to.

** You might think that, being a boss, the Doom Ducky wouldn't show up again after being defeated, but you're not as much fighting it as you are shutting the door on it (and pissing it the ''heck off'' if the roar afterwards is anything to go by). As you make your way through the sewers to the portal, the alarms blare and Dread Duckies block off all other exits near your path, while the Doom Ducky chases you down through the waters, and [[HopeSpot even when you manage to escape its range]], [[{{Jumpscare}} it breaks through the wall near the portal for a last-ditch effort to kill you.]]