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* HeroicBSOD: David has one when [[spoiler: confronted by an image of his mother and recalling a particularly painful memory involving her.]] This leaves him vulnerable and [[spoiler: the Crooked Man takes control of him and tries to drive him to suicide.]] Luckily, Paul is able to save him.
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* AdultFear: David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer from Alzheimer's.
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* AdultFear: AdultFear:
** David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer fromAlzheimer's. Alzheimer's.
** Paul finds himself in the situation of [[spoiler: having to stop his best friend from killing himself.]]
** David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer from
** Paul finds himself in the situation of [[spoiler: having to stop his best friend from killing himself.]]
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* BottomlessMagazines: You pick up a gun late in the game, and have to use it in two fights against the Crooked Man. Your ammo never runs out.
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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: The Crooked Man briefly does this to David and tries to influence him to kill himself. Thankfully Paul snaps David out of it and drives the Crooked Man away.]]
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: When Paul finds David about to shoot himself, you can briefly see phantom-like arms, one around David's shoulders and the other one holding David's hand with the gun to his head, implying that David isn't acting fully out of his own free will.]]
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: When Paul finds David about to shoot himself, you can briefly see phantom-like he sees the Crooked Man's arms, one around David's shoulders and the other one holding David's hand with the gun to his head, implying that head. David isn't acting fully out of his own free will.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Sissi]]'s death in one of the bad endings; we just hear [[spoiler: Sissi]] screaming and then see blood spilling out the door. We don't see what the Crooked Man actually did to [[spoiler: her.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: At one point David makes an offhand remark about how Paul has an interest in the occult. [[spoiler: Paul sees dead people.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Turns out to be the entire motivator for the whole game. David is drawn to the previous tenant because the few things he knows about him are things David relates to. The former tenant is Duke MacGahan, and is the Crooked Man who keeps following David...partly because he hates David and wants him dead because he reminds him too much of himself, and partly because he doesn't want things to turn out for David the way they did for him.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Turns out to be the entire motivator for the whole game. David is drawn to the previous tenant because the few things he knows about him are things David relates to. The former tenant is Duke MacGahan, [=MacGahan=], and is the Crooked Man who keeps following David...partly because he hates David and wants him dead because he reminds him too much of himself, and partly because he doesn't want things to turn out for David the way they did for him.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Turns out to be the entire motivator for the whole game. David is drawn to the previous tenant because the few things he knows about him are things David relates to. The former tenant is Duke MacGahan, and is the Crooked Man who keeps following David...partly because he hates David and wants him dead because he reminds him too much of himself, and partly because he doesn't want things to turn out for David the way they did for him.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: David. Goes back into a basement where a monster tried to attack him. Insists on going to abandoned places and hanging around them even after scary encounters with the Crooked Man. Falls asleep in a place where he has already encountered the Crooked Man, even though the Crooked Man could come kill him any minute. Going right up to the Crooked Man to see what he's chewing on.
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* EatsBabies: A bit of an odd example. At one point you catch the Crooked Man eating a model of an embryo.
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* ViolationOfCommonSense: At a lot of points you have to do some [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption really unsafe things.]] At one point you have to fall asleep in a place that you know has a monster lurking around. It heals you thirty HP.
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* NonstandardGameOver: All of the bad endings. [[spoiler: Tell Sissi not to cry, the Crooked Man kills her and then you. Tell D to keep going for his dream, he'll stab you and then be killed by the Crooked Man. While playing as Paul and having to confront a suicidal David, either try to talk him down which will result in him shooting, or grab for the gun which will result in him accidentally killing Paul and then freaking out about it and shooting himself anyway.]]
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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: At certain points in the game, you'll actually have to fight the Crooked Man.
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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: At certain points in the game, you'll actually have to fight the Crooked Man.Man.
* WasOnceAMan: The Crooked Man himself [[spoiler: was the mystery tenant David had been trying to find.]]
* WasOnceAMan: The Crooked Man himself [[spoiler: was the mystery tenant David had been trying to find.]]
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: David's mother in the good ending.]]
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* IronicNurseryTune: There "There Was a Crooked ManMan".
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* PipePain: At various points David can pick up different weapons to use when he must fight the Crooked Man. One of these weapons is an iron pipe.
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: When Paul finds David about to shoot himself, you can briefly see phantom-like arms, one around David's shoulders and the other one holding David's hand with the gun to his head, implying that David isn't acting fully out of his own free will.]]
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* GunStruggle: [[spoiler: When Paul has to stop David from killing himself, you are given the option of trying to grab for the gun. This results in them fighting over it for a few seconds until it goes off...and kills Paul. Leaving David so distraught that he shoots himself like he was going to.]]
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* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Paul saves David from shooting himself...if you decided to punch David instead of trying to talk him out of it or grabbing for the gun.]]
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* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: When playing as Paul, you are given three options on what to do when you find David [[spoiler: about to shoot himself.]] This is one of the options. [[spoiler: In fact it's the only one that works.]]
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* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: When playing as Paul, you are given three options on what to do when you find David [[spoiler: about to shoot himself.]] This is one One of the options.options is punching him. [[spoiler: In fact it's the only one that works.]]
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* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: When playing as Paul, you are given three options on what to do when you find David [[spoiler: about to shoot himself.]] This is one of the options. [[spoiler: In fact it's the only one that works.]]
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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler: While playing as Paul, you are given the option to try to persuade David to put down the gun. It doesn't work and David shoots himself.]]
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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler: Implied with Sissi, D, and Fluffy.]]
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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler: Implied with Sissi, D, and Fluffy.Fluffy, as they all turn out to be "facets" of Duke...]]
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* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]: [[spoiler: Implied with Sissi, D, and Fluffy.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Sissi
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David Hoover has just finished moving into a new apartment during a rough part of his life, but some incredibly odd happenings within the unit leave him shaken. When he tries asking about the former tenant, there's little information on the man in question. Curiosity piqued, David sets out to find the man in question.
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David Hoover has just finished moving into a new apartment during a rough part of his life, but some incredibly odd happenings within the unit leave him shaken. When he tries asking about the former tenant, there's little information on the man in question. Curiosity piqued, David sets out to find the man in question.
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* TheAdjectivalMan: Right in the title.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: For one short chapter later in the game, you play as David's friend Paul.
* HellHotel: Hotel Ruenheim.
* ImplacableMan: No matter what David does to the Crooked Man, it persists in following him place after place. [[spoiler:But then we get to the end...]]
* ImplacableMan: No matter what David does to the Crooked Man, it persists in following him place after place. [[spoiler:But then we get to the end...]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: D and Fluffy. Justified, as those are the only names they give.
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* MultipleEndings
KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:In one NonStandardGameOver, D stabs David out of fury when the latter says the wrong thing to try cheer him up. So when D goes to leave the room, he runs right into the Crooked Man and is swifly killed. Karmic, because if D ''hadn't'' stabbed David, David would have held off the Crooked Man and given D the chance to run for it.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: D and Fluffy. Justified, as those are the only names theygive.give.
* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: [[spoiler:David's childhood dream was to become a pilot, but being color blind (at least to certain colors, because he sure can see red just fine) disqualified him from that.]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: At certain points in the game, you'll actually have to fight the Crooked Man.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: D and Fluffy. Justified, as those are the only names they
* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: [[spoiler:David's childhood dream was to become a pilot, but being color blind (at least to certain colors, because he sure can see red just fine) disqualified him from that.]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: At certain points in the game, you'll actually have to fight the Crooked Man.
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(Spoilers below, so seriously, play the game first.)
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* AdultFear: David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer from Alzheimer's.
* DrivenToSuicide: A possible fate for [[spoiler:David]] and the definite fate of [[spoiler:Mark, AKA the previous tenant]].
* JumpScare: Scattered throughout the game. There is a good reason why the beginning of the game has a warning for the weak of heart.
* DrivenToSuicide: A possible fate for [[spoiler:David]] and the definite fate of [[spoiler:Mark, AKA the previous tenant]].
* JumpScare: Scattered throughout the game. There is a good reason why the beginning of the game has a warning for the weak of heart.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Fluffy.
* AdultFear: David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer fromAlzheimer's.
Alzheimer's.
* DrivenToSuicide: A possible fate for [[spoiler:David]] and the definite fate of[[spoiler:Mark, [[spoiler:Duke, AKA the previous tenant]].
* JumpScare: Scattered throughout the game. There is a good reason why the beginning of the game has a warning for the weak ofheart.heart.
* MultipleEndings
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: D and Fluffy. Justified, as those are the only names they give.
* AdultFear: David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer from
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: D and Fluffy. Justified, as those are the only names they give.
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''The Crooked Man'' is a Japanese freeware horror adventure game by [[http://2style.in/uri/thecrookedman/top.html Uri]], made in WOLF RPG Editor.
David Hoover has just finished moving into a new apartment during a rough part of his life, but some incredibly odd happenings within the unit leave him shaken. When he tries asking about the former tenant, there's little information on the man in question. Curiosity piqued, David sets out to find the man in question.
An English translation can be found [[http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/crookedman.htm here]].
!!''The Crooked Man'' contains examples of:
*AbandonedHospital
*AdultFear: David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer from Alzheimer's.
*DrivenToSuicide: A possible fate for [[spoiler:David]] and the definite fate of [[spoiler:Mark, AKA the previous tenant]].
*JumpScare: Scattered throughout the game. There is a good reason why the beginning of the game has a warning for the weak of heart.
David Hoover has just finished moving into a new apartment during a rough part of his life, but some incredibly odd happenings within the unit leave him shaken. When he tries asking about the former tenant, there's little information on the man in question. Curiosity piqued, David sets out to find the man in question.
An English translation can be found [[http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/crookedman.htm here]].
!!''The Crooked Man'' contains examples of:
*AbandonedHospital
*AdultFear: David getting screamed at by his usually kind mother, who doesn't recognize him at all, will feel like an emotional punch for ''anyone'' who's ever had a loved one suffer from Alzheimer's.
*DrivenToSuicide: A possible fate for [[spoiler:David]] and the definite fate of [[spoiler:Mark, AKA the previous tenant]].
*JumpScare: Scattered throughout the game. There is a good reason why the beginning of the game has a warning for the weak of heart.
