History VideoGame / GretelAndHansel

* RealityEnsues: 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. [[spoiler:If the bear notices Gretel, it just attacks her.]]

* BreakTheCutie: In part 1, Gretel loves a little rabbit outside the house (which she can pick up and kiss)...
** 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.

* CrapsaccharineWorld[=/=]ArtStyleDissonance: The whimsical watercolor graphics do much to hide its otherwise grim and horrifying nature.

* [[spoiler: 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.]]

* RedHerring: The key from a puzzle in the first game. [[spoiler: Using it just gets you killed.]]

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The stickman allows you to choose what you want to be served... Acorns or an amputated leg? Pie or an amputated arm? Salmon or an apple on a human skull's jaws? [[ButThouMust Cake?]] You must choose, in each question, the most disgusting answer; the one that most would probably think was the worst idea. Turns out, eating the safer-looking food rises the in-game counter faster than the disgusting-looking food. If you remember the info one of the dining guests told you, [[FridgeBrilliance eating the food that looked more plant-like would equal death. The arm, leg and fish still look very much natural]].

* WhatTheHellPlayer: 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.)

* ExtremeOmnivore: Hansel.

* WickedStepmother

* 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 toward the end of the game to save Gretel when her face is stolen.]]

* TheBlank: ''Gretel And Hansel 2'' 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]].

* BrainsAndBrawn: Gretel handles the puzzle-solving for the most part while Hansel can be called upon to handle some physical grunt-work.

** The entire scene with the Wood Waiter.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The whimsical watercolor graphics do much to hide its otherwise grim and horrifying nature.

** The stick man 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]].''

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How the stick man 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...

* InfantImmortality: Averted oh so very much. Special mention goes to the poor kids being force fed by a wood-waiter and turning into trees.

* KillItWithFire: The stickman.

** EyeScream: Pecked out by a raven. Also dying by the stick man's food.

** The scissors in the second game. It just gets you killed. [[spoiler: Twice.]]

* 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.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The tome you obtain in the Stick Man's "kitchen", which is accompanied by satanic-sounding whispers and incantations. His "cookbooks" must be something like it, given his "food"...
* 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.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: In episode 2, you have the choice of ''saving'' the people that were captured by the tree. Just... Good luck eating the arm and leg.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The stick man allows you to choose what you want to be served... Acorns or an amputated leg? Pie or an amputated arm? Salmon or an apple on a human skull's jaws? [[ButThouMust Cake?]] You must choose, in each question, the most disgusting answer; the one that most would probably think was the worst idea. Turns out, eating the safer-looking food rises the in-game counter faster than the disgusting-looking food. If you remember the info one of the dining guests told you, [[FridgeBrilliance eating the food that looked more plant-like would equal death. The arm, leg and fish still look very much natural]].
** Consider also that your host is basically a tree - the acorn, pie, and in fact the apple in the skull's mouth are all ''made from him''. The arm, leg, and fish are not.

** On a humorous note, [[spoiler: Knocking off the heads of the robot creators in the Easter Egg room]].

* GoodIsDumb: Hansel appears to be mentally retarded.
** Gretel, however, is a GenreSavvy ChildProdigy.
*** Although, [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption she does get her face stolen despite seeing how Emma got hers stolen]].

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The stick man allows you to choose what you want to be served... Acorns or an ampuated leg? Pie or an amputated arm? Salmon or an apple on a human skull's jaws? [[ButThouMust Cake?]] You must to choose, in each question, the most disgusting answer; the one that most would probably think was the worst idea. Turns out, eating the safer-looking food rises the in-game counter faster than the disgusting-looking food. If you remember the info one of the dining guests told you, [[FridgeBrilliance eating the food that looked more plant-like would equal death. The arm, leg and fish still look very much natural]].

** On a humorous note, [[spoiler: Knocking of the heads of the robot creators in the Easter Egg room]].

''Gretel and Hansel'' is a series of Flash games by makopudding on {{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 FairyTales 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.

* DoingItForTheArt

* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Wife]]: The mother is scary, so, this is pretty much a given.

* ScheduleSlip: The second game took about a year to get off the ground, and they even lampshaded it in an Easter Egg, apologizing for it. The third game looks to be going through this as well.

''Gretel and Hansel'' is a series of Flash games by makopudding on {{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 FairyTales make appearances. In the first game, Gretel overhears her parent's 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.

* 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.]]

** Initially a HumanoidAbomination, apparently. Then it grows [[MultiArmedAndDangerous extra arms...]]
** The stick man 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.]]''
** 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...]]
* EvilStepmother

* 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 TakingAThirdOption, of course.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: The mother is scary, so, this is pretty much a given.

** CainAndAbel: If you kill Hansel, you will get a NonstandardGameOver.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The NonstandardGameOver for killing Hansel.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The stick man allows you to choose what you want to be served... Acorns or an ampuated leg? Pie or an amputated arm? Salmon or an apple on a human skull's jaws? [[ButThouMust Cake?]] You must to choose, in each question, the most disgusting answer; the one that most would probably think was the worst idea. Turns out, eating the safer-looking food rises the in-game counter faster than the disgusting-looking food. If you remember the info one of the dining guests told you, [[FridgeBrilliance eating the food that looked more plant-like would equal death. The arm, leg and fish still look very much natural.]]

* WhatTheHellPlayer: 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)

* TheBigBadWolf: The wolf (presumably from LittleRedRidingHood) makes an appearance in the second game.

* BigBadassWolf: The wolf (presumably from LittleRedRidingHood) makes an appearance in the second game.

* DevelopmentHell: Nothing has been heard of the game's creator in over a year now...

''Gretel and Hansel'' is a series of Flash games on {{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 FairyTales make appearances. In the first game, Gretel overhears her parent's 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.

* BodyHorror: The victims of the stickman.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Gretel handles the puzzle-solving for the most part while Hansel can be called upon to handle some physical grunt-work.
* BreakTheCutie: In part 1, Gretel loves a little rabbit outside the house (which she can pick up and kiss)

* TooDumbToLive: Hansel, despite being Mentally Challenged he is just too DUMB! There are too many examples to show, but some very prominent ones are that he could literelly swallow a pair of scissors, stand TIP-TOE on a cliff edge, not react to seeing his sister die HORRIBLY and more...

** The stick man 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.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: the kids' mother reacts to [[spoiler: Gretel unlocking their bedroom door]] by hacking her to death with an axe.

* BodyHorror: the victims of the stickman.

** EverythingsWorseWithBears: The bear sitting on the log looks pretty cute....until you start stroking its fur.

* ShoutOut: An obvious one to TheShining, among others.

* AxCrazy: Mom. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Literally.]]

* TheFairFolk: Averted. With how much NightmareFuel this world is loaded with, it is somewhat surprising this one was averted; actually, the fairies are playful and helpful, [[spoiler: especially after Hansel saves their queen from a face stealer.]]

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The tome you obtain in the Stick Man's "kitchen", which is accompanied by satanic-sounding whispers and incantations. His "cookbooks" must be something like it, given his [[NightmareFuel "food"...]]

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The bear in the second game is not your cuddly friend.