History VideoGame / HungryLamu

* FictionalDocument: Lamu's favorite book, "The Llama is Hungry", is based aroud a Llama who spends his day eating food. Within the book, there is red writing from Lamu that reveals his backstory and a newspaper clipping about [[spoiler:Eric Bronze, a quack doctor whose animal-human genetic modifications are proven to be false, and on the back of the clipping reveals that Lamu was Bronze's son who he experimented on]].

* WhamLine: Even though Lamu has eaten all three of the "fruit friends", Lamu's hunger is still not satiated.
-->'''Narrator:''' Oh? What's that, Lamu? You're still hungry?

The developer also released a sequel called [[Videogames/SeaMongrel Sea Mongrel]].

The developer also released a sequel called [[Videogames/SeaMongrel]].

* WhamLine: Even though Lamu has eaten all three of the "fruit friends," Lamu's hunger is still not satiated.

->'''Narrator''': Oh? What's that, Lamu? You're still hungry?

The game was created by Kulu and is available for free on it's [[https://kulurc.itch.io/hungry-lamu itch.io]] page.

* AmbiguousInnocence: Lamu's part of the game suggests he genuinely can't tell that he's doing bad things and just believes his "friends" are fully on board with being eaten. Then again, he uses some pretty sadistic methods to get his victims out of hiding and can go out of his way to destroy their car so the last remaining camper can't escape him, suggesting that part of him ''is'' aware of what he's really doing and enjoying every second. [[spoiler: On the other hand, Lamu's writings in their lair paint a different picture of them, as someone who's desperately trying to convince themselves that they're not doing anything wrong.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: The newspaper from the Roadkill ending states that Lamu has human-like teeth. Whether Lamu is a llama abomination or a human killer hallucinating victims as fruit is unclear. [[spoiler: The Old Stories ending reveals that it's ''both''.]]
* AnimalisticAbomination: Lamu vaguely resembles the animal he is attributed to while possessing a disturbing human-like face. [[spoiler: A result of genetic experimentation.]]
* AxCrazy: Lamu sees his world as sunshine and rainbows when he is actually gruesomely maiming and killing everything in his path. In the children's book found in his cave, it gives insight on his mental instability such as [[spoiler:the [[MadnessMantra phrase "they are fruit" written all over a page]] which indicts that he's trying to cope and reassure himself that he isn't doing anything wrong.]]

* EarnYourBadEnding: Most players will get the good ending first (running Lamu over) rather than the bad ending (getting eaten by Lamu) since you have to go out of your way to smash the player's car to get the bad one. You can get the good ending just by playing regularly. An update added an ending with a poor outcome if you [[spoiler: seek out Lamu's cave instead]], but while it's easier to find than the broken car route, it's still harder to find than the good ending.
* EvilDetectingDog: Mochi tried to protect the campers from Lamu, who is a human-faced llama serial killer, and acts hostile towards his presence which he interpreted as her refusing to be eaten and being "rude". Sadly, the emphasis on ''[[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tried]]'' as Lamu kills her with a rock.

** If you go down to the bottom of the map, you'll notice a "fruit friend" hidden behind a tree, but you will be unable to interact with them. Sure enough, once the gameplay shifts you take control of this lone survivor.

* FictionalDocument: Lamu's favorite book, "The Llama is Hungry", is based aroud a Llama who spends his day eating food. Within the book, there is red writing from Lamu that reveals his backstory and a newspaper clipping about [[spoiler:Eric Bronze, a quack doctor whose animal-human genetic modifications are proven to be false, and on the back of the clipping reveals that Lamu was Bronze's son who he experimented on.]]
* KarmicDeath: The one who died is [[spoiler: Doctor Bronze]] who was killed by [[spoiler: his own son, who he turned into a monster]].
* LightIsNotGood: Lamu is a brightly colored friendly-looking llama - and a SerialKiller who hunts down and eats anyone he finds in Lamu Park.
* MadnessMantra: In one of the pages of the fictional children's book, "The Llama is Hungry", found in Lamu's cave, [[spoiler:the sentence "they are fruits" is repeated over and over in red writing belonging to Lamu. This indicts that Lamu is trying to believe that he's only eating fruits, which are actually living beings outside of his perspective.]]
* MeatOVision: Or rather "[=Fruit-O-Vision=]". Lamu perceives the world around him as bright, sunny and cheery ([[CrapsaccharineWorld even when it's clearly not]]) and all the inhabitants are friendly fruit people playfully teasing to be consumed. [[spoiler: Lamu sees the world this way in an attempt to sate his endless hunger without guilt.]]

** Roadkill - The protagonist reaches the car and drives away, Lamu hot on their trail. The protagonist collides into Lamu as they escape, leaving the police take the unconscious Lamu into custody, refusing to disclose details of the nature of the killer while assuring the public his murderous spree is over.
** Old Stories - This ending was added in an update after the game's initial release, found by interacting with a book in Lamu's lair after the perspective change. After reading the book, the camper finds Lamu standing behind him. Lamu almost lets the camper go, but attacks at the cave's entrance. [[spoiler: The writings in the book, as well as the newspaper clipping shown afterwards, all but outright state that Lamu WasOnceAMan before he was experimented on by his father, who Lamu killed (along with his mother) before running away to the forest.]]
* NarratorAllAlong: Its heavily implied the mysterious narrator in the first part of the game, is actually Lamu, talking to himself in the [[ThirdPersonPerson third-person]].

* NoNameGiven: The final camper's name unlike the rest of the group, is never revealed. Even the newspaper story in the Roadkill ending has their name redacted.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Lamu's lair, from the final camper's point of view. Children's books are all strewn about the place [[spoiler: filled with ramblings about how his victims are "only fruits".]]

* TooHungryToBePolite: Inverted. Hungry Lamu always asks for "permission" before eating anyone, those that refuse he deems "rude" and they get eaten anyway.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Lamu sees the dog and the player's friends as being sentient fruit he assumes wants to be eaten. [[spoiler: The scribblings of "They Are Fruit" in Lamu's favourite book suggest this to be a self-defense mechanism for what's left of his sanity.]]

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The first half of he game you play as Lamu from a top-down perspective, with everything being drawn in a cartoon-y style and a narrator giving you instructions. The second half switches to a straight-up first person SurvivalHorror and you play from the perspective of the lone surviving camper whose friends and dog you just murdered and ate as Lamu.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Doctor Eric Bronze, a quack doctor whose studies into genetic modification resulted in the creation of Lamu, who killed him and his wife and went onto to become a serial killer feasting on campers.]]

Your objective in the game is helping to fill the stomach of the eponymous llama named Lamu. Despite the friendly-sounding premise, the game is actually a horror game following the trend of games that seem to new child-friendly but turn out to be scary as you follow the protagonist trying to find their friends and escape the park while being followed by a starving llama.

->'''Narrator''': Oh? What's that, Lamu? [[red: You're still hungry?]]

Your objective in the game is helping to fill the stomach of the eponymous llama named Lamu. Despite the friendly-sounding premise, the game is actually a horror game following the trend of child-friendly games turning out to be scary as you follow the protagonist trying to find their friends and escape the park while being followed by a starving llama.

* SurpriseCreepy: What starts as a cartoony game simply about feeding an anthropomorphic llama drastically changes to a 3D SurvivalHorror setting where you have to escape the park before Lamu gets you.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Doctor Bronze was killed by his own son, who he turned into a monster.]]

->'''Narrator''': Oh? What's that, Lamu? You're still hungry?

* EvilDetectingDog: Mochi tried to protect the campers from Lamu, who is a human-faced llama serial killer, and acts hostile towards his presence which he interpreted as her refusing to be eaten and being "rude". Sadly, the emphasis on ''[[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tried]]'' as [[spoiler:Lamu kills her with a rock]].

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Lamu's lair, from the final camper's point of view. Children's books are all strewn about the place [[spoiler: filled with ramblings about how his victims are "only fruits"]]

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Lamu's lair, from the final camper's point of view

* TheBadGuyWins: Lamu kills the player if the option of wrecking the car was taken.

* AxCrazy: Lamu sees his world as sunshine and rainbows when he is actually gruesomely maiming and killing everything in his path.

''Hungry Lamu'' is a short indie game where your objective is helping to fill the stomach of the eponymous llama named Lamu. Despite the friendly-sounding premise, the game is actually a horror game following the trend of child-friendly games turning out to be scary as you follow the protagonist trying to find his friends and escape the park while being followed by a starving llama.

* BalloonBelly: Lamu gets one in the "Full Course" ending once he devours the player character. Albeit he leaves a hand behind.

* EvilDetectingDog: Mochi tried to protect the campers from Lamu, who is a human-faced llama serial killer, and acts hostile towards his presence which he interpreted as her refusing to be eaten and being "rude". Sadly, the emphasis on ''[[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals tried]]''.

* MadnessMantra: In one of the pages of the fictional children's book, "The Llama is Hungry" found in Lamu's cave, [[spoiler:the sentence "they are fruits" is repeated over and over in red writing belonging to Lamu. This indicts that Lamu is trying to believe that he's only eating fruits, which are actually living beings outside of his perspective.]]