History VideoGame / AnimalWell

* DevelopersForesight: The game generally allows you to progress through the map in whatever path you desire. However, any room where being able to use the Bubble Wand would allow you to easily skip a huge portion of the intended puzzle will have a hummingbird placed in it, ready to pop any bubbles as soon as they're created.

* ShoutOut: The Ghost's appearance is very clearly modeled after Blache/Shiro from ''Film/{{Hausu}}''.

** Almost every tool in your arsenal serves as this in some way. Most items will be introduced as having one specific functionality, but will turn out to have another that only becomes apparent upon closer experimentation. For example, the Animal Whistle is initially introduced as being solely used to wake up sleeping creatures, but [[spoiler:it turns out to also function as a WarpWhistle, and as a way to input musical codes which unlock certain collectibles]].

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: The game overall is a bit nebulous about this, consisting of puzzles in a variety of difficulty. It doesn't explicitly track progress, but the community has been gradually fleshing out what is entailed in each layer:

** "Layer 2" consists of puzzles which most players will likely realize exist but may not have a clear concept of how to solve. Completing this layer requires finding all 64 eggs, [[spoiler:finding all the extra tools not required for the Normal Ending, lighting all candles with the nine hidden matches, and collecting a variety of figurines by such means as speedrunning the game and getting through the entire game without dying]].
** "Layer 3" includes the most obscure puzzles in the base game, to the point that some players may not realize the puzzles even exist to begin with. The main goal of this is [[spoiler:to locate the 16 Secret Bunnies hidden throughout the map]], although it could be argued that the [[spoiler:Egg Room song puzzle]] belongs here as well.

** The rocky area in the top left has the Ghost. It initially appears when you attempt to take the Disk from the statue near the entrance and will stalk you between rooms until you either put the Disk back or replace it with the Mock Disk. [[spoiler:It reappears when you end up having to take the Mock Disk out again, forcing you to outrun it through the entire level until you place the Mock Disk on the altar at the end of the region, seemingly destroying the Ghost and unlocking the door to the flame.]]
** The jungle-like area in the top right has the Chameleon. It initially appears seemingly asleep when you pass through the early area of the region, but after you progress far enough you properly confront it, at which point it attacks using its sticky tongue and globs of poison.

** The machine-themed area in the bottom right has the Ostrich. Though you only confront it at the very end of the region, its presence is felt earlier, as the rooms leading up to it have the machinery powered by the Ostrich running on a giant treadmill.

** One of the puzzles in the jungle area consists of a very narrow hallway with a sleeping chinchilla and a button behind some glass. The button unlocks a nearby door, behind which is a chest containing an egg, but the glass wall prevents you or any of your tools from reaching it. You ''can'' use the Animal Flute to wake up the chinchilla, but that will cause it to move ''towards'' you, and you'd need it to move ''away'' from you in order to step on the button. The solution? [[spoiler:Throw a firecracker in order to scare the chinchilla, causing it to run away from the light and onto the button. It's not ''too'' challenging, and you might end up figuring it out simply by trying every tool in your inventory, but it stands out because it's ''the only time in the entire game'' where scaring the chinchillas is required in order to solve a puzzle.]]

** [[spoiler:The secret island unlocked by getting the True Ending has 20 rabbit statues, but only 16 Secret Bunnies are known to be legitimately obtainable in the game. Given that those 16 Bunnies are all that's needed to complete the BDTP puzzle, it's doubtful that there are any more that can be legitimately found... but it's also unclear why four of the statues have no rabbits present. (Notably, a seventeenth Bunny has been determined to exist within a secret room on the same screen where you obtain the E. Medal, but as of right now there is no known way to obtain it other than by exploiting glitches to teleport into the room, and some players have reported that getting the seventeenth Bunny can corrupt your save file.)]]

** "Layer 3" includes the most obscure puzzles in the base game, to the point that some players may not realize the puzzles even exist to begin with. The main goal of this is [[spoiler:to locate the 16 secret rabbits hidden throughout the map]], although it could be argued that the [[spoiler:Egg Room song puzzle]] belongs here as well.
** "Layer 4" is the game's ultimate layer of secrets, consisting of puzzles meant to go unnoticed by the entire community for months or even years after the game's release. Currently the only known aspects of this are [[spoiler:the BDTP puzzle (which requires both solving the Egg Room song puzzle and collecting all the rabbits) and reaching the Time Capsule island (which requires tracking down several Unicode messages hidden in obscure parts of the game)]], but it's suspected there are others waiting to be found.

** [[spoiler:The secret island unlocked by getting the True Ending has 20 rabbit statues, but only 16 Secret Bunnies are known to exist in the game. Given that those 16 rabbits are all that's needed to complete the BDTP puzzle, it's doubtful that there are any more legitimately obtainable... but it's also unclear why four of the statues have no rabbits present. (Notably, a seventeenth Bunny has been determined to exist within a secret room on the same screen where you obtain the E. Medal, but as of right now there is no known way to obtain it other than by exploiting glitches to teleport into the room, and some players have reported that getting the seventeenth Bunny can corrupt your save file.)]]

* SequenceBreaking: Some puzzles can be circumvented by getting certain items early and using them cleverly to jump to places that should not be accesible yet.

* ShoutOut: The Ghost's appearance is very clearly modeled after Blache/Shiro from Film/{{Hausu}}.

** [[spoiler:The secret island unlocked by getting the True Ending has 20 rabbit statues, but only 16 rabbits are known to exist in the game. Given that those 16 rabbits are all that's needed to complete the BDTP puzzle, it's doubtful that there are any more... but it's also unclear why four of the statues have no rabbits present.]]

** The rocky area in the top left has the Ghost. It initially appears when you attempt to take the Disk from the statue near the entrance and will stalk you between rooms until you either put the Disk back or replace it with the Model Disk. [[spoiler:It reappears when you end up having to take the Model Disk out again, forcing you to outrun it through the entire level until you place the Model Disk on the altar at the end of the region, seemingly destroying the Ghost and unlocking the door to the flame.]]

* OneHundredPercentCompletion / EasterEgg: The game overall is a strange case where these two concepts seem to overlap. The game consists of puzzles in a variety of difficulty, and while the game doesn't explicitly track progress, the community has been gradually fleshing out what is entailed in each layer:

* GuideDangIt: While part of the fun is discovering the game some things, mainly the PostEndGameContent can be harder to figure out.
** A good example is the kangaroo who appears in random screens. [[spoiler: you need to throw fire crackers to scare it off so it drops an item 3 times to access another item.]]

* GuideDangIt: While part of the fun is discovering the game some things, mainly the PostFinalBossContent can be harder to figure out.

** When you first enter the [[spoiler:fast travel hub room]], going down will reveal a seemingly empty room containing a small lake. As you approach the water, a large fish will repeatedly breach the surface, but nothing will seem to happen as a result of this, and aside from triggering the animation in the first place you can't interact with the fish in any way. However, astute players will notice that [[spoiler:the fish will always pop out of the water in the exact same orientations: twice facing right, twice facing left, twice facing downward, and twice facing upward. It's actually teaching you the exact sequences of button inputs necessary to use the Animal Whistle to teleport back to the hub room directly above.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During the lead-up to the Ostrich boss fight, you pass by a couple of rooms with cats trapped in cages, meowing plaintively at their confinement. At first it's easy to shrug this off as an environmental detail to emphasize the Ostrich's control over the area, but after you defeat the Ostrich, the cages don't automatically open and the cats can still be heard meowing sadly. [[spoiler:This is a clue that you can free them yourself, and indeed that you ''have'' to do so in order to unlock the Wheel, which is required for unlocking certain collectibles.]]

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Some of the second layer puzzles, and pretty much ''all'' of the third layer ones, rely upon this.

* DevelopersForesight: The game generally allows you to progress through the map in whatever path you desire. However, any room where being able to use the B. Wand would allow you to easily skip a huge portion of the intended puzzle will have a hummingbird placed in it, ready to pop any bubbles as soon as they're created.