History VideoGame / Darkseed

* OnlyIdiotsMayPass: In the sequel, the locked closet in Mike's bedroom [[spoiler:contains another portal to the Dark World. And isn't locked at all. [[LiesToChildren Years ago, his mother tricked him into thinking it was]]. Still, you can never open it until the deception is revealed]].

[[caption-width-right:320:[-Our hero, Mike Dawson, bravely fending off the evil forces of the Ancients. No, seriously, [[SincerityMode this is actually required to beat the (second) game]]. [[spoiler:[[MemeticMutation Unless he misses, pal.]]]]-] ]]

LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} did [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] on both games; later, he and fellow [[SomethingAwful goon]] Diabetus commented on video longplays of both games for their WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} account.

** [[spoiler: Mike's first nightmare in Darkseed 2 ends with him seeing a reflection of himself turning into the Shapeshifter. And then later you realize that, excluding Mike himself, everyone else in the game's regular world has a Dark World counterpart - except for Jack.]]

** LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} [[http://lparchive.org/Darkseed-2/Bonus/ has interviewed one of the writers and]] [[ShrugOfGod he admits that they intentionally left it ambiguous]]. [[spoiler:Either Mike stopped the Ancients from taking over the world and discovers that Jack is not only the Shapeshifter, but his own Dark World counterpart... or the Dark World was really made out of Mike's crazy imagination and Jack is his other identity, implying Mike has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Either way, [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory Mike is killed with a knife to the back and is framed for the murders]].]]

* FailureHero: Mike takes a massive dive into this between games. While he's fairly intelligent in the first game and handles the situation without much trouble (he even has enough sense to [[spoiler:get out of jail on his own recognizance]] if you play the game correctly), in the second game he can't do a single thing right.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Done poorly in Darkseed 2: Jack only appears every now and then to talk or help out and then leaves as abruptly as he showed up. [[spoiler: The only time he interacts with the other characters is when he punches out Jimmy, which only Slim and Mike witnessed and the former claims it was actually ''Mike'' who punched him. Later on this indicates him as the Shapeshifter as several characters tell Mike about the Shapeshifter's ability to temporarily come into the Regular world.]]

[[caption-width-right:320:[-Our hero, Mike Dawson, bravely fending off the evil forces of the Ancients. No, seriously, [[SincerityMode this is actually required to beat the game]]. [[spoiler:[[MemeticMutation Unless he misses, pal.]]]]-] ]]

LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} did [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] on both games; later, he and fellow [[SomethingAwful goon]] Diabetus commented on video longplays of both games for their WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} account. They didn't enjoy it.

** [[spoiler: Mike's first nightmare in Darkseed 2 ends with him seeing a reflection of himself turning into the Shapeshifter.]]

A PointAndClick AdventureGame created by Cyberdreams (the same people that brought you the MindScrew known as ''IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'') and released in 1992, ''DarkSeed'' is a game that is inspired by the artwork of HRGiger. The main plot is that of a man named Mike Dawson, [[SelfInsertFic a namesake and look-alike of the game's own lead designer]], who has moved into a fancy estate in a small town. He soon finds out that it's not all it's cracked up to be, and he ends up trying to save the world in three days from a race of evil aliens called the Ancients. Oh yeah, did we mention he has an alien embryo in his head?

* YourHeadASplode: Poor [[spoiler:Ms. Dawson]].

* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Mike keeps what happened to him at the mansion a secret in the second game because of how bizarre it would be to explain it all. He tells his therapist some details but keeps them in the form of nightmares.
** He's actually quite honest about it to his therapist, actually, going as far as insisting the Dark World is real.

LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} did [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] on both games; later, he and fellow [[SomethingAwful goon]] Diabetus commented on video longplays of both games for their {{Retsupurae}} account. They didn't enjoy it.

Both the games have been featured on {{Retsupurae}} and LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} has done Let's Plays on the two games before {{Retsupurae}} was founded. They didn't enjoy it.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda / UrbanLegend: Supposedly, the real Mike Dawson spent so much time working on these games he had a CreatorBreakdown. Actually; the truth is far different - he quit game development after the games were completed, yes, but he wrote for television, wrote two books on computer programming, and begun teaching game design classes at Stanford and UCLA.

The game also received a much more elaborate sequel three years later, where Mike Dawson moves back to his hometown to clear up a mystery surrounding the murder of a girl he once dated. In the absence of the real-life Mike Dawson, this project was helmed by Raymond Benson, who wrote the script and later went on to write JamesBond novels, as well as novelizations of ''SplinterCell'' and ''MetalGearSolid''.

* BalloonBelly[=/=]ForceFeeding: If Mike bugs the bartender in the Dark World for a drink, the bartender will ''kill'' him by pumping him full of whatever it is they serve in the Dark World. It's not quite as impressive as it may sound; Mike suffers from the aforementioned BalloonBelly, before exploding, and, ah... melting somehow. That must be some GargleBlaster.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: Somebody in the game actually has [[HPLovecraft The Necronomicon]] in his house.

* {{Your Head A Splode}}: Poor [[spoiler:Ms. Dawson]].

Both the games have been featured on {{Retsupurae}} and {{Slowbeef}} has done Let's Plays on the two games before {{Retsupurae}} was founded. They didn't enjoy it.

** {{Slowbeef}} [[http://lparchive.org/Darkseed-2/Bonus/ has interviewed one of the writers and]] [[ShrugOfGod he admits that they intentionally left it ambiguous]]. [[spoiler:Either Mike stopped the Ancients from taking over the world and discovers that Jack is not only the Shapeshifter, but his own Dark World counterpart... or the Dark World was really made out of Mike's crazy imagination and Jack is his other identity, implying Mike has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Either way, [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory Mike is killed with a knife to the back and is framed for the murders]].]]

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* AntiHero: In Darkseed 2, Mike Dawson becomes a whiny, annoying manchild.

A PointAndClick AdventureGame created by the same people that brought you the MindScrew known as ''IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' and released in 1992, ''DarkSeed'' is a game that is inspired by the artwork of HRGiger. The main plot is that of a man named Mike Dawson, [[SelfInsertFic a namesake and look-alike of the game's own lead designer]], who has moved into a fancy estate in a small town. He soon finds out that it's not all it's cracked up to be, and he ends up trying to save the world in three days from a race of evil aliens called the Ancients. Oh yeah, did we mention he has an alien embryo in his head?

Both the games have been featured on {{Retsupurae}}. They didn't enjoy it.

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