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  • Awesome Art: H. R. Giger does not disappoint with the characters and landscapes he designs.
  • Cult Classic: The first game is one among fans of lesser known Adventure Games.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: A lot of people play the game just to see H. R. Giger's artwork.
  • Memetic Loser: Mike's already portrayed as something of a loser in the second game, but the Retsupurae fandom take it to another level. The man fails to locate a portal to the Dark World behind an unlocked closet door in his house, apparently because he had never once in his entire life opened that particular door, how much more comedically incompetent can you get?
  • Memetic Mutation: "My head feels like it's going to explode."
  • Narm: The first game's hand-drawn graphics and creepy soundtrack are quite effective, but marred by cheesy and silly writing, most of which is Mike talking to himself and making a non-subtle observation to his surroundings. The CD port further exacerbates the issues by adding Dull Surprise voice acting. Take Mike's thought in front of his house, for example:
    Mike: It's a calm neighborhood out here. My house seems somehow out of time, a relic of a dark past or perhaps a dark future.
  • Nausea Fuel: The descriptions Mike Dawson uses in the Dark World.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The artwork alone contributes around 90% of this for the first game. Courtesy of H. R. Giger.
    • Strangely, the bad compression that goes on sometimes when people are talking ends up being this.
  • Older Than They Think: Most of the H. R. Giger artwork was not newly created for the games, and precede their creation by several years- in some cases, even decades. The Keeper of the Scrolls, for instance, is portrayed by his Li series of paintings, which date back to the early 1970s.

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