You say witch like it's a bad thing.
Blacktail is a 2022 video game developed by The Parasight as their very first game. It is the tale of a young girl, Yaga, who goes on the search for her twin sister, Zora. However, as she explores the forest, she suddenly finds herself at the Hut, the domain of the infamous witch Baba, and hearing a strange voice in her head that seems to urge her towards a far more sinister route. Will Yaga be a good, kind person, or will she become the next Baba?
The game contains examples of:
- Affably Evil: The character Boruta is a charming, even-tempered devil who makes you offers that might be beneficial in the short term but will likely cause chaos in the long term.
- Baba Yaga: Her legend is explored in this game, with the main character, Yaga, being able to become "Baba Yaga" should she go down the path of "Evil". There's also a witch known as "Baba" who haunts the woods that everyone from Yaga's old village believes Yaga is connected to.
- Black-and-White Morality: Starts off with this at the beginning, but later subverted and becomes a sort of Grey-and-Grey Morality as some of the "Grand" characters will ask you to do things that turn out to be morally dubious and become angry if you don't while the "Curse" characters will do the opposite.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Roots cause this to happen to various characters over the course of the story, several of whom end up becoming bosses you have to fight like Peewee and later his brother Leewee.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Several instances of this occur during the game, depending on your choices:
- During the mission "Three Little Seeds", you are told to find a trio of mushrooms. However, one of the mushrooms, who had betrayed his own friends and planned to pick a flower that game numerous man eating plants sentience so he could make a wish, is found grievously wounded. If you refuse to heal him with the flower, he will die (though being a mushroom, he will eventually grow again). When you explain this to Borvy Borko and Slippery Jack, Borvy, the Grand of the two, will become shocked and angry at you having sacrificed a child when you could've used the flower to save his life, despite that meaning the deaths of numerous innocent creatures. He even berates you for this later on.
- Spy, who is generally associated with "Grand", once asks you to help save one of his informants, Hunky, after he's captured by Gnolls. When you reach him, however, he has been both tortured into pure agony and affected by the Root, resulting in him having a split personality of "Hunky" and "The Prince". His "Hunky" side begs you to end his suffering by killing him. If you do this, Spy becomes downright furious, explaining that he had plans laid out and, in a brief moment of weakness, seeming to nearly admit that he was Hunky's only friend. He then refuses to pay you and bitterly suggests you visit his opposite, "Whacko".
