History LetsPlay / TheTerribleSecretOfAnimalCrossing

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Of course, as you may've guessed, the residents, who are actually friendly in the games, are almost brain-dead assistants to Penny, the latter being specially notorious with this trope.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Billy manages to put an end to Penny's tyranny once and for all, and save the rest of the children while escaping from the island via a rescue from the armed forces thanks to a disteress beacon that's been set from the mansion. However, he remained [[TroubledChild scarred for life since his childhood]] (and a lot more of those saved children may've suffered the same, if not worse because of being on that island longer than Billy), and was took into custody and taken years of therapy from all his trauma to the point of becoming an adult and never returning home, probably worrying his mother sick, and had to write an official statement about all that traumatizing experience. This is not mentioning the fact that a lot of children died and a small number of gyroids were disposed of at the bottom of the ocean, with a high possibility of threatening the lives of aquatic sea creatures that live under the sea.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Billy manages to put an end to Penny's tyranny once and for all, and save the rest of the children while escaping from the island via a rescue from the armed forces thanks to a disteress beacon that's been set from the mansion. However, he remained [[BrokenChild scarred for life since his childhood]] (and a lot more of those saved children may've suffered the same, if not worse because of being on that island longer than Billy), and was took into custody and taken years of therapy from all his trauma to the point of becoming an adult and never returning home, probably worrying his mother sick, and had to write an official statement about all that traumatizing experience. This is not mentioning the fact that a lot of children died and a small number of gyroids were disposed of at the bottom of the ocean, with a high possibility of threatening the lives of aquatic sea creatures that live under the sea.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Of course, as you may've guess, the residents, who are actually friendly in the games, are almost brain-dead assistants to Penny, the latter being specially notorious with this trope.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Penny doesn't have any regret in taking the parts out of human children who crossed into animals, or in the case of Billy, his human eye.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Tom Nook]] crosses this towards the end. It's eventually what [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide]]]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Tom Nook]] kills himself after reaching his DespairEventHorizon. In the anti-box ending, [[spoiler:Billy also makes an attempt on his life, but is saved]].

* AudioAdaptation: Only Chapters 1 and 12 were done. However, all 12 chapters have an audio adaptation in Spanish, including [[spoiler: both the box and anti-box endings.]] the playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpK4usn1zAk&list=PLpwgztNZ4430Qr06TKV9xEFVbKwfceBjy here.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In the anti-box ending, [[spoiler:Billy gives in to the gyroids and turns into a resident]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, about [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing the games]] themselves.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Animal Crossing is a lighthearted series, but this story is anything but light.
* DarkFic: It's darker than the average Animal Crossing story; featuring things like mutilation, manipulative lies, and horrifying transformations.

-->-- '''Billy''', ''The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing''

* {{Deconstruction}}: More or less showing just how disturbing finding oneself in a world full of [[AnthropomorphicAnimal Anthropomophic Animals]] and not being able to leave would be. To say nothing about how most of us would react to being confronted by such creatures in RealLife.

* SugarApocalypse

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: The gyroids are capable of turning humans in the half human half animal forms seen in the story]].

%%* {{Gamebooks}}: It works out [[HaveANiceDeath about as well]], too.

** And then later [[UpToEleven in the same conversation]]:

** Even [[spoiler:the Gyroids]] get looked at from a different point of view. In the games, [[spoiler:they're innocent if weird statues of unknown origin that move and make funny noises]]. Here, [[spoiler:they're not-so-innocent weird statues of unknown origin that mutate those exposed for them for too long (as well as driving them temporarily insane)... that move and make funny noises]].

* {{Gamebooks}}: It works out [[HaveANiceDeath about as well]], too.

* CuteAndPsycho: Billy wears a cute little bunny hood in the anti-box end, but becomes mentally insane.

%%* CuteAndPsycho: Billy in the anti-box end.
%%* DarkerAndEdgier
%%* DarkFic

%%* FisherKingdom

%% {{Metamorphosis}}

%%* OnlySaneMan: Billy.

%%* TownWithADarkSecret

* AudioAdaptation: Nearly every chapter has one, and a spanish version even exists, which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpK4usn1zAk&list=PLpwgztNZ4430Qr06TKV9xEFVbKwfceBjy here.]]

* FisherKingdom

* TownWithADarkSecret

* AudioAdaptation: Only Chapters 1 and 12 were done. However, all 12 chapters have an audio adaptation in Spanish, including [[spoiler: both the box and anti-box endings.]] the playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpK4usn1zAk&list=PLpwgztNZ4430Qr06TKV9xEFVbKwfceBjy here.]]

%%* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: See WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Billy mentally gives one [[spoiler: before he kills Penny]].
--> [[spoiler: "But Penny had made a mistake. She was used to ruling with fear and it had served her well for a long time. Penny never knew fear, herself. She didn't know it the way I did. She didn't understand that she was a virus and that every shot she injected me with built up my tolerance. This was her last shot and it was a big one, but it couldn't kill me. ''[[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore I was the vaccine.]]'']]

** Even [[spoiler:the Gyroids]] get looked at from a different point of view. In the games, [[spoiler:they're innocent if weird statues of unknown origin that move and make funny noises]]. Here, [[spoiler:they're not so innocent weird statues of unknown origin that mutate those exposed for them for too long (as well as driving them temporarily insane)... that move and make funny noises]].
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: in the anti-box ending.]]
* ApocalypticLog: Nook's diary.

* AudioAdaptation: Only Chapters 1 and 12 were done.
** However, all 12 chapters have an audio adaptation in Spanish, including [[spoiler: both the box and anti-box endings.]] the playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpK4usn1zAk&list=PLpwgztNZ4430Qr06TKV9xEFVbKwfceBjy here.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Penny]] who [[spoiler: rips off a boy's arm and digs through a different boy's chest for organs. Why? Because she thought one of them had [[DisproportionateRetribution stolen from her.]]]]

* BigBad: Tom Nook, [[spoiler:or so he appears to be at first. In reality: [[AxCrazy Penny]], and arguably [[ArtifactOfDoom Gyroids]] as [[TheManBehindTheMan The Statues Behind The Mouse]].]]

* BookEnds: Anti-box ending only.

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler: Billy, of a sort, in the anti-box ending. Notice how the tone becomes a ''lot'' more childlike after the Resetti segment.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Billy in the anti-box end.
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarkFic

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Tom Nook crosses this towards the end. It is eventually what [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide.]]]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Tom Nook kills himself after reaching his DespairEventHorizon. Billy in the anti-box ending also makes an attempt on his life but is saved.]]

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: See WorldOfCardboardSpeech.
* OnlySaneMan: Billy.
* PrecisionFStrike: Invoked ''many'' times, despite the fact that [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour the narrator is only eight years old.]][[spoiler: Though he's thirty years old when he's writing all this down.]]

** [[WhamEpisode Chapter 10]] is called [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} "Weighted Companion Box."]]
** Chapter 8 is called "Literature/HeartOfDarkness." While this seems to be a coincidence at first, in this chapter, [[spoiler:Tom Nook]] acts very similarly to Kurtz from the novella.

-->'''Billy''': [[spoiler:"Then... there's no Penny? She was never real?]]
-->'''Tom''': [[spoiler:"Oh, she's real alright. She's the one running this freakshow.]]

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Billy mentally gives one [[spoiler: before he kills Penny.]]

%% AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Penny. And Billy in the anti-box ending. All he wanted to do was introduce Tom Nook to his pretty friend Mr. Axe...]]

%% DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Poor Tom Nook. Also, Billy in the anti-box ending. It didn't take, though.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Penny]]
** [[spoiler: And Billy in the anti-box ending. All he wanted to do was introduce Tom Nook to his pretty friend Mr. Axe...]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Poor Tom Nook.]]
** [[spoiler:Also, Billy in the anti-box ending. It didn't take, though.]]

* LetsPlay

* [[spoiler:{{Metamorphosis}}]]

* [[spoiler:ShutUpHannibal: Billy kills Penny while she's going into detail about how she'll kill him.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler:Most of the animals started out as children just like Billy, and numerous other children are imprisoned and going through the transformation themselves. Billy notices a few children with missing limbs in the crowd near the end. And in the very same scene, Penny asks the crowd who it is that's trying to betray her. When no one answers, she takes a random little boy, ''rips him apart, and waves at the crowd with his severed arm.'']]

A LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: Wild World'' by Chewbot, a DarkerAndEdgier version of the [[SugarBowl cute little game you know and love]].

* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: It works out [[HaveANiceDeath about as well]], too.