History VideoGame / ForbiddenForest

''Forbidden Forest'' is an old third-person shooter game. You play as a BountyHunter who must venture forth into the titular forest and kill all the evil creatures that lurk within it. The game was quite a technical achievement for its time, as it included things such as [[MotionParallax parallax scrolling]], a [[EternalEquinox day/night cycle]], and context-sensitive music.

The game had a sequel (''Beyond the Forbidden Forest'') and another one in 3D with a different graphics and plot.

* BackgroundBoss: The Ghost, the Snakes, and Demogorgon in the first game. The giant Dragon in the sequel.

* BossGame: You jump from one boss fight to the other across the forest.
* DemBones: The third-to-last boss in the original game. A bunch of spear-wielding ghouls led by a large ghost in the background

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yes, you can slay Demogorgon with your arrows.
* EyeBeams: Demogorgon's main form of attack in the sequel.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Spiders, bees, frogs, snakes and monsters.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: In the sequel, if you die to the Demogoron, he then turns and shoots his eye beams directly at ''you'', the player.]]

%%* GrimReaper: The spirit that commands the skeletons looks like this.%%Like what?
* HappyDance: The archer's VictoryPose after each level in the first and third games.

* LightningReveal: In the first game, Demogorgon is only visible when lightning flashes. So you'll need to quickly aim arrows at the place you last saw him.
* LimitedLoadout: If you run out of arrows, it's effectively game over because the monsters can kill you but you can't kill them. In Innocent and Trooper difficulties they replenish after every stage, but in Daredevil difficulty they only replenish twice during the whole game, and in Crazy only once. This is made even worse by the fact that the harder difficulty levels have more enemies.
%%* TheLostWoods
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Each boss can give you a different death animation. Including being stabbed to death, eaten alive, beaten to a pulp, crushed, burned to death, melted with acid, and sucked alive of bodily fluids.

* OneHitPointWonder: You and just about every monster. [[spoiler: Including Demogorgon in the sequel.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The first one you meet is a flying serpent who spits fire. The one in the sequel is a large, fat monster who can breathe fire from his many heads.
%%* ThePlace
%%* SandWorm: The second boss in the sequel.
* ScareChord: Plays when the Demogorgon kills in the first game, and when any enemy kills you in the second.

Forbidden Forest is an old third person shooter game. You play as a BountyHunter who must venture forth in the titular Forbidden Forest and kill all the evil creatures that lures in it. The game was quite a technical achievement for its time, as it included things such as [[MotionParallax parallax scrolling]], a day/night cycle, and context-sensitive music.

The game had a sequel (''Beyond the Forbidden Forest'') and another one in 3D with a different graphic and plot.

* BackgroundBoss: The Ghost, the Snakes and Demogorgon in the first game. The giant Dragon in the sequel.

* DemBones: The third-to last boss in the original game. A bunch of spear-wielding ghouls led by a large ghost in the background

* LimitedLoadout: If you run out of arrows, it's effectively game over because the monsters can kill you but you can't kill them. In Innocent and Trooper difficulties they replenish after every stage, but in Daredevil difficulty they only replenish twice during the whole game and in Crazy only once. This is made even worse with the fact that the harder difficulty levels have more enemies.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Each boss can give you a different death animation. Including being stabbed to death, eaten alive, beaten to a pulp, crushed, burned to death, melted with acid and sucked alive of bodily fluids.

* NothingIsScarier: What makes the Demogorgon so creepy in the first game. Up to this point, it's been a pretty standard arcade shooter. Enemies arrive, you avoid their attacks, and you kill them, and move on to the next stage. Finally, you arrive at the final stage and the music abruptly stops while the sky goes pitch black. You wait for the Demogorgon to make his appearance...and he never does. No attacks thrown your way at all. All you get are brief glimpses of him as the lightning flashes. As time passes, you see him getting closer and closer to you with each flash of lightning, and a sense of urgency hits as you know something ''bad'' is going to happen if you don't kill him quickly enough. Fail, and you're greeted by [[ScareChord Scare Chords]] as the Demogorgon's head descends upon you, and then you get a one way trip to the Game Over screen.

* AWinnerIsYou: Beating the Demogorgon just rewards you with the same dance as all the other stages, and then the game abruptly ends.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Each boss can give you a different death animation. Including being stabbed to death, eaten alive, beaten to a pulp, crushed, burned to death, melted with acid and sucked alive of bodily fluids.

* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: Demogorgon.

* GrimReaper: The spirit that commands the skeletons looks like this.

* TheLostWoods

* ThePlace
* SandWorm: The second boss in the sequel.

* AWinnerIsYou

* LimitedLoadout: If you run out of arrows, it's effectively game over because the monsters can kill you but you can't kill them.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Each boss can give you a different death animation. Including being stab to death, eaten alive, beaten to a pulp, crushed, burned to death, melt with acid and sucked alive.

* HappyDance: The archer's VictoryPose after each level in the original game.

* OneHitPointWonder: You. [[spoiler: Also Demogorgon in the sequel.]]

* TheArcher: The main character.

Forbidden Forest is an old third person shooter/rail shooter game. You play as a BountyHunter who must venture forth in the titular Forbidden Forest and kill all the evil creatures that lures in it.