Line #79 VideoGame/GretelAndHansel


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3	''Gretel and Hansel'' is a series of Flash games by makopudding on {{Website/Newgrounds}}, in which you play as Gretel of "Literature/HanselAndGretel" fame. The game takes place in a particularly nightmarish world, in which characters from other {{Fairy Tale}}s make appearances. In the first game, Gretel overhears her parents' plans to abandon them in the forest and must find enough stones to mark the path back home; in the second, she is separated from her brother and must find him and then they must find their way back home.
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5	The first game can be found [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/515322 here]], the second [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/550407 here]].
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7	!! This game provides examples of:
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9	* AdaptationalDumbass: In the original tale, Hansel was the smartest sibling of the two. In this game, he's dumb enough to swallow scissors.
10	* AlienBlood: The fairies that help Hansel and Gretel have green blood.
11	* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Playing the face popping minigame in the second game's loading screen gives Gretel several different hats the more point are scored.
12	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Gretel falls through the hole in the ground at the start of Part 2. Hansel is standing right behind her, but doesn't notice her falling in--he's too distracted by the pretty, sparkly fairies. [[spoiler: Hansel and the fairies show up later to save Gretel when her face is stolen.]]
13	%%* AxCrazy: Mom.
14	* ArtStyleDissonance: Most of the game's assets are painted in watercolor and the game overall looks pretty cute with Gretel almost looking like a plush toy thanks to her BlackBeadEyes. Despite all of this, this game is pretty dark and the characters can die in very gruesome ways.
15	* BagOfSpilling: Gretel's slingshot breaks by the time of the second game.
16	* BearsAreBadNews: Gretel can pet a cute bear in the second game. However, doing so will anger the bear, who will kill Gretel.
17	* BearTrap: There's a bear trap in the second game. To pick it up, Gretel must first drop a frog on it to close it. She later uses it to kill a bear.
18	* TheBigBadWolf: The wolf (presumably from Literature/LittleRedRidingHood) makes an appearance in the second game.
19	* BlackBeadEyes: The characters' eyes consist of black dots.
20	* TheBlank: The second game introduces creepy squiggly things that steal faces from other people. Their victims are turned into Blanks and lose all motivation and drive along with their faces — they can't even move. This even applies to their [[spoiler: ghosts]].
21	%%* BloodierAndGorier
22	* BodyHorror: The victims of the stickman.
23	* BoozeFlamethrower: [[spoiler:How Gretel defeats the stickman. During the food serving, Gretel is provided with a jug of (normal) wine. At the end of the dinner course, she's presented with a lethal cake with a lit candle on it. Eating it or refusing to do so results in death both ways, so Gretel has to drink some wine, and then spew flames at the stickman via the candle.]]
24	* BrainBleach: In-universe with the demonic cookbook: reading from it causes a ''statue'' to shriek and hold its hands over its ears.
25	* BrainsAndBrawn: Gretel handles the puzzle-solving for the most part, while Hansel can be called upon to handle some physical grunt-work.
26	* BratsWithSlingshots: Gretel owns a slingshot. In the first game, it's her main way to interact with objects.
27	* BreakTheCutie:
28	** In part 1, Gretel loves a little rabbit outside the house (which she can pick up and kiss)...
29	** In part 2, Gretel has to gut a very similar rabbit in order get past a very cute bear. On another note, try stroking the cute bear.
30	* BrokenBridge: The second game has several paths that are blocked until Gretel find whatever she needs to cross it.
31	** A path is blocked by a tree's roots. Gretel needs to find an axe to cut them.
32	** A small bridge is blocked by a sitting bear. Gretel needs to find bear trap to get rid of it.
33	** A swamp is inhabited by a snake that will kill Gretel should she try to go in it. She needs Hansel's help to cross it.
34	** Gretel and Hansel are blocked by a cliff near the end. She needs to find some statue pieces to add on incomplete statues to make a bridge magically appear.
35	* CainAndAbel: Gretel can kill her brother. In the first game, the game even awards the player a "Kain" achievement.
36	%%* ChainOfDeals: Some of the puzzles.
37	* ChromaticArrangement: The three head shrines are red, blue and green.
38	* CrapsaccharineWorld: The whimsical watercolor graphics do much to hide its otherwise grim and horrifying nature.
39	%%* CreepyChild
40	* CriticalAnnoyance: The mandragora you need to uproot in order to get one of the three pieces of the last puzzle in the second game.
41	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: You find a key in the first game after solving a somewhat obtuse puzzle that requires killing Hansel and finding at least one other item beforehand. Your reward for using it? [[spoiler: An axe to the face.]]
42	* DarkerAndEdgier: It's not that much more so, however, considering the original story involved two small children left to fend for themselves in the woods by their impoverished parents, and ended with them kicking a witch into her own oven.
43	* ADayInTheLimelight: In the second game, [[spoiler:Gretel ends up getting her face stolen by a mirror, after which Hansel (with the help of some fairies) has to save her.]]
44	* DeathOfAChild: Oh so very much. Special mention goes to Gretel being force-fed by the stickman, and turning into a tree.
45	* DisproportionateRetribution: The kids' mother reacts to [[spoiler: Gretel unlocking their bedroom door]] by hacking her to death with an axe.
46	* TheDogBitesBack: Had fun stoning Hansel to death in the first game? Try hitting Hansel a couple of times with the stick in the second one, and he will '''punch''' Gretel with enough strength to bruise her face. Aptly named '''"[[ContinuityNod Revenge]]"'''. Also, try hitting poor Rufus before using the glasses. He'll strangulate you for trying to make him more miserable.
47	* DontGoInTheWoods: Not that you had a choice.
48	* DumbMuscle: Hansel is a total idiot, but he's stronger than his sister, which can make him useful in some parts.
49	* EasterEgg: You can find a few.
50	* EldritchAbomination: The thing in the ice.
51	** Initially a HumanoidAbomination, apparently. Then it grows [[MultiArmedAndDangerous extra arms]]...
52	** The stickman must count too. A walking, vaguely-humanoid woodman who delights in preparing food that transforms its consumer into a tree... killing them in very painful ways, such as ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement from pointy branches]] [[ChestBurster bursting out from the gut and]] [[EyeScream the eyes]].''
53	** And the face stealers, creatures seemingly made from vines who steal other people's faces, freezing even '''their very souls on the mortal plane until their face is returned.''' Fortunately, [[JustEatHim there are ways to take care of them]]...
54	* ExtremeOmnivore: Hansel, in the beginning of the first game you wake him by making him eat a fly, then he'll spit a whole plush from inside his mouth, in the second game he'll try to eat fairies and he can eat a pair of scissor. He also dipose of a face stealer by eating it.
55	* EyeScream: If Gretel tries to pet a raven, the raven pecks Gretel's eye out.
56	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The second game has a white tree with eyes placed in random spots.
57	* {{Foreshadowing}}: If you set it to night time in a rainy part of a forest, using the glasses, you can make out a wicked figure, you can also [[spoiler: find graves, which, if you use glasses on, suspiciously have Hansel and Gretel's faces]]...
58	* FinalBossPreview: Your last challenge in Part 2 is to get past [[spoiler:the Big Bad Wolf]]. You'll catch a glimpse of it relatively early in the game.
59	* FlippingTheBird: In the second game, there's a person hiding behind a tree, asking for a handshake. Slapping their hand with a tree branch will make them give Gretel the middle finger.
60	%%* FracturedFairyTale
61	* GiantSpider: There's a giant spider living under Gretel's house.
62	* GuideDangIt: Good luck figuring out the many, many puzzles.
63	* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: The stickman offers you a variety of foods when you fall into his dining room, which you may or may not choose to consume. Eating the wrong foods will kill you, while refusing to eat or sticking to the [[MasochistsMeal "safe"]] options will eventually get you killed, anyway. How do you survive? [[spoiler:By [[TakeAThirdOption Taking a Third Option]], of course.]]
64	* HenpeckedHusband: Gretel and Hansel's father is so submissive to his psychopath wife he can't even convince her to not abandon their children to their deaths.
65	* HeresJohnnyHomage; The "Axe" death in the first game starts with Gretel's mother breaking a hole in the room's door with an axe and sticking her head through the hole. To make the reference clear, the game even grants the player an achievement called "Here is mommy!" (sic).
66	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How the stickman dies; perhaps he shouldn't have held that cake with the lit candles so close to you when you have a wine bottle within reach...
67	* IdleAnimation: If the player stops playing for a while, Gretel starts rocking on her heels, and will eventually fall asleep while standing up.
68	* ImAHumanitarian: Early in the second game, Gretel is forced to either eat human flesh or eat vegetal food that makes a tree grow inside her until she dies.
69	* InteractiveStartUp: The loading screen of the second game has a mini-game where the player can click heads to earn points. Having enough points unlocks headgear that Gretel can wear in-game.
70	* JustEatHim: Hansel gets rid of [[spoiler:the face stealer who got Gretel's face by eating its body.]]
71	* KillItWithFire: Gretel kills the stickman by burning him via BoozeFlamethrower.
72	%%* TheLostWoods
73	* TheManyDeathsOfYou: There are multiple different ways for Gretel to die in both games. Hansel, their father and a helpful fairy can also die. This also results in a game over, because the story cannot continue without them. The first game has ten differents deaths, while the second game has fourteen.
74	* MoonLogicPuzzle: The solution for crossing the swamp doesn't make much sense. If Gretel tries to cross it alone, she's killed by a snake in the middle of the swamp. But if she finds Hansel, they can get past the swamp by having Hansel cross it while Gretel rides on his shoulder. The game doesn't explain why the snake never attacks Hansel.
75	* NameAndName: The game's title is ''Gretel and Hansel''.
76	* MonkeyMoralityPose: The second game has three head shrines that Gretel needs to activate to progress through the game. To activate them and get the remaining stone pieces to fit into the statues near the ravine, Gretel must do something related to the three senses in front of each head. Doing so will cause the heads to cover their eyes, mouth and ears, just like the Three Wise Monkeys. Once this is done, the head shrines open their compartments, allowing Gretel to take the statue pieces she needs.
77	* NightmareSequence: The second game starts with Gretel having a nightmare where she sees her father and her brother getting killed by trees sprouting on them. Then, she runs away and meet her mother who is about to kill her, only for Gretel to wake up.
78	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Saving Emma's face from the face-stealers and putting it back into her body results in her fatal axe wound reappearing and finishing her off.]]
79	* OffingTheOffspring: Gretel and Hansel's mother wants to kill them, regardless of whether it's indirectly, by abandoning them in the forest, or directly with an axe.
80	* {{Patricide}}: In the first game, it's possible for Gretel to kill her father. Doing so counts as a game over.
81	* PerpetualSmiler: Hansel is almost always smiling, even when he dies.
82	* PictorialSpeechBubble: Dialogue consists of speech bubbles with drawings instead of words.
83	%%* PlotCoupons: The stones in the first game.
84	* ProtagonistTitle: Like in the original tale, the game is named after the two main characters. But their names are swapped, because Gretel has the biggest role here.
85	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Gretel and Hansel's mother has red eyes and is a psychopath who wants to kill her own children.
86	* RedHerring:
87	** The key from a puzzle in the first game. [[spoiler: Using it just gets you killed.]]
88	** The scissors in the second game. It just kills in two different ways.
89	* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: The games' files and an achievement in the first game imply that Gretel and Hansel's mother, is their biological mother rather than their stepmother like in the original tale.
90	* ScareChord: Whenever you die. The first glimpse of the wolf is also accompanied by one.
91	* ScaryStingingSwarm: If Gretel stands too close to a broken beehive, she gets killed by the swarm.
92	* SchmuckBait: After the first game has Gretel cuddling an adorable rabbit and making it look like most cute animals are safe, the second game gives the option for her to pet an adorable bear sitting by the river; doing so will anger the bear who then kill Gretel.
93	* SealedEvilInACan: The thing in the ice. Thawing it out completely will cause it to kill you.
94	* SchmuckBanquet: Early in the second game, Gretel is captured by a literal stick man who acts as a waiter and serves her food. He always gives her the choice between plant-based food or human limbs (or a rotten fish in one case). As the other captured children tell Gretel, eating the plant food is dangerous because every time Gretel takes a bite out of it, a tree inside her and some branches grow a bit more until she's impaled from the inside. In other words, she needs to force herself to eat rotten flesh to live until she can can find a way to kill the stick man.
95	* SequenceBreaking: With some trial and error, it's possible to reach Hansel in the second game without chopping the wood. Arguably, this also prevents a PlotHole.
96	* ShoutOut:
97	** The "Axe" death starts with the mother breaking through the door with an axe and sticking her head through the hole. The achievement for getting this death is also called "[[Film/TheShining Here is Mommy!]]".
98	** If Gretel tries to cross the swamp alone, she gets bitten and dragged into the water by a snake. As Gretel is sinking to her death, she gives a thumbs up like the T-800 at the end of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
99	* SlasherSmile: In the first game, Gretel dons a creepy smile if she kills Hansel.
100	%%* SpeakingSimlish
101	* TomeOfEldritchLore: The tome you obtain in the stickman's "kitchen", which is accompanied by satanic-sounding whispers and incantations. His "cookbooks" must be something like it, given his "food"...
102	* TooDumbToLive: Hansel, justified with the fact that he's mentally challenged. There are too many examples to show, but some very prominent ones are that he can swallow a pair of scissors, stand tip-toe on a cliff edge and not react to seeing his sister die horribly.
103	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
104	** Gretel appears to be a normal child in the first game, but the player can make her kill her brother, and she gives a SlasherSmile if she does so.
105	** The first game establishes that Gretel likes petting cute animals. In the second game, however, she kills numerous animals and the first one is a rabbit, just like the one she can cuddle with in the first game. Even if Gretel is ''forced'' to kill these animals to advance, what makes it creepier is that she doesn't show any emotions as she kills them.
106	* VideoGameCaringPotential: In episode 2, you have the choice of ''saving'' the people that were captured by the tree.
107	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential:
108	** In the first game, It's possible to kill Hansel by shooting at him with the slingshot enough time. There is no InUniverse reason to do this, as this results in a game over. Later in the game, it's possible to shoot at the father as he's pulling a carriage, resulting in him tripping and getting crushed by the carriage's wheels.
109	** In the second game, there's a screen where Hansel is looking down a cliff. Hitting him with the tree branch will make him fall to his death, resulting in a game over, just like in the first game.
110	* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The NonStandardGameOver for killing Hansel.
111	** In the sequel, hitting him with a stick results in him ''punching'' you.
112	* WhatTheHellPlayer:
113	** In part 1, shooting continually at Hansel. Considering the very painful and heartrending ways Gretel can die in, the same could be said about players wanting to find all the ways to die. (It's just very painful to watch.)
114	** On a humorous note, [[spoiler:knocking off the heads of the robot creators in the EasterEgg room]].
115	* WickedStepmother: Averted. Contrary to the original tale, it's implied that the mother is Gretel and Hansel's biological mother rather than their stepmother.

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