.Fiona Frightening and the Wicked Wardrobe was a Halloween-themed 3D Platform Game being developed by Alexander Tansley and Azurous Studios.
Ten-year-old Fiona Frightening is a girl who loves all things creepy and spooky, especially when it comes to her favorite bedtime story. The storybook tells the tales of the Creeps, a group of quirky and friendly monsters, and their exploits in Wickedopolis against the evil Boogeyman. However, the Boogeyman has become sick of always being thwarted by the end of the story, and has ripped the pages from their binding to rewrite the plot for his own ending... Now, Fiona must enter the world of Wickedopolis and take up the mantle of the Legendary Witch in order to recover the torn Golden Pages, defeat the King of Nightmares himself, and restore everyone's Happily Ever After.
This is where the Wicked Wardrobe comes into play. The Wardrobe is a mysterious item that has the power to not only safely house the rescued Creeps, but transform them into magical outfits called Monsdresses, allowing her take on their abilities, enhanced by her own witch magic.
The voice cast is notable for having several big Internet personalities on the team as the main characters, including (but not limited to) Anthony "Antfish" Sardinha, Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs, Curtis "Takahata" Arnott, and Corinne "Megami33" Sudberg of Team Four Star fame, as well as Alex "The Autarch" Rochon and Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug.
The teaser trailer can be viewed here. For more information and official artwork, view the creator's DeviantArt subpages here. Also, Dr. Crafty - a webshow also by Tansley - covers the most recent designs of the characters and showcases (most of) their voice actors in episodes 9 through 12, the first of which can be viewed here.
Unfortunately on September 19, 2018, Tansley announced that due to multiple problems, development is halted for the indefinite future, with episode 62 of Dr Crafty outright referring to the game as cancelled.
Tropes held within the pages include:
- Alliterative Name:
- Fiona Frightening.
- Los Lobones.
- Alliterative Title: Fiona Frightening and the Wicked Wardrobe
- All of the Other Reindeer:
- Fiona is bullied by other kids for liking creepy things.
- Golemmy resides in a land of beautiful, marble-made Living Statue creatures, and is shunned for being a crude-looking construct of rocks.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Or at least, Laguna's unabashed crush on Mumma is.
- An Ice Person: Isen the Yeti utilizes ice powers.
- Animal Jingoism: Being raised by cats, Whiskers hates dogs. Ironically.
- Animal Motifs: Mumma wears coiling snake-shaped bracelets note , in addition to her cobra headdress. Even the pupils of her eyes are narrow and snake-like.
- Animated Armor: Waxworth appears as this, being a ghostly light possessing a suit of armor as a body.
- Bandaged Face: Mumma's face is covered from nose to chin.
- Battle Couple: Lobones the Swordsman and Carmen the Singing Sword.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Isen is the latter.
- Bigger on the Inside: The inside of the titular Wardrobe is big enough to act as a Hub World.
- Cartoon Bomb: Jack's primary form of attack.
- Cat Folk: Whiskers (or so she thinks).
- Character Name and the Noun Phrase
- Compelling Voice: Carmen the Sword is an operatic singer whose voice can be used to control enemies.
- Cool Crown: Mumma has a gold and azure, cobra-shaped headdress with an emotive face.
- *Crack!* "Ow, My Back!": Isen isn't quite the warrior he used to be, and too much heavy exertion typically throws his back out.
- Cute Witch: The titular protagonist becomes one on entering the storybook.
- Dem Bones: Los Lobones, the skeleton matador, and Carmen, his tiny skeletal wife.
- The Ditz: Golemmy, most notably; although Waxworth could qualify as well.
- Dashing Hispanic: Los Lobones.
- Dumb Is Good: Golemmy is both the most dimwitted of the cast and The Heart of the team.
- Exploiting the Fourth Wall: The entire plot of the game is kicked off by the book's villain usurping the status quo by ripping out pages of the Creeps stories, which Fiona needs to recover to help her monster friends and overthrow his newfound tyranny.
- Expressive Accessory:
- Fiona's witch hat has a stitched mouth and button eyes that seem quite emotive, if commission art is anything to go by.
- Because the lower half of Mumma's face is covered, the snake on her headpiece reflects her emotions.
- And most notably, the Creeps themselves become Fiona's sentient "Monsdresses" with their eyes still visible in the headwear.
- Face Your Fears: A natural theme for a story about having to face down the Boogeyman himself.
- Fish Person: Laguna
- Frankenstein's Monster: Francis is one of the "intelligent and cultured" variety.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Draphael is about as harmless as they come.
- Fun Personified: The Jovial Jokester Jack-O-Laugh, of course!
- Gentleman and a Scholar: Francis
- Grumpy Old Man: Isen is the oldest of the Creeps, and most certainly the grouchiest. Not to say he's incapable of still kicking ass and taking names.
- Halloween Town: Wickedopolis
- Horny Vikings: Isen has the look and temperament of one, helmet included.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: Lobones wears the same matador attire he wore when a bull did him in, including the bull's broken horn still sticking out of his ribcage.
- Living Clothes: The biggest gimmick of the gameplay is that the Wicked Wardrobe can transform any one of the Creeps into a sentient outfit on Fiona and grant her their abilities.
- Living Weapon: Carmen is a tiny skeletal doll whose skirt acts as the hilt for Lobones' sword.
- Lord Error-Prone: Sir Waxworth strives to be a classic noble Knight in Shining Armor, but is the worst knight in the Candle Knight Order.
- Meta Fiction: In-universe, the fact that those in the storybook are, in fact, book characters is a big part of the plot.
- Mighty Glacier: Golemmy is easily both the most defensively tough and the slowest.
- Monster Mash: The entire cast is made up of different monsters.
- Mr. Fanservice: Laguna is a well-toned and flamboyant Pretty Boy who, due to Barbie Doll Anatomy, can prance around nude.
- Ms. Fanservice: Mumma is Seductive Mummy with a Buxom Beauty Standard figure and Hartman Hips and with little covering her beyond her ridiculously form-fitting mummy wrappings.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Fiona loves spooky, creepy things.
- Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Laguna doesn't have to bother with pants for this reason.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Draphael has large bat ears, a cape that turns into bat wings, and, oh yeah, an ironic fear of the dark.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Whiskers is a little wolf-girl who grows up thinking she's a cat. The short-haired parts of her coat are even orange with brown tabby stripes.
- Perky Goth: Fiona is a bubbly little girl with long, dark hair, dark clothes, and a love of all things spooky.
- Plant Person: In addition to his jack-o-lantern head, Jack's body is a construct of gourds and vegetation.
- Portal Book: Fiona gets transported into her favorite storybook to help the fictional residents defeat its villain.
- Pumpkin Person: Jack-O-Laugh
- Punny Name: A good majority of the cast has one.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Creeps each have something about themselves that makes them an outcast, or otherwise lonely, in one way or another, and all have to come together to save their world.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Carmen the sword is the level-headed Blue Oni to Los Lobones' hot-headed Red Oni.
- Retired Badass: Isen is more than eager to be brought out of retirement, however.
- Rock Monster: Golemmy is an especially gentle and kindhearted example.
- Royal Brat: Princess Mumma
- Royal Rapier: Lobones' main means of attack is his sword, Carmen.
- Snipe Hunt: The Candle Knight Order send Waxworth on an alleged "noble quest" just to get rid of him.
- Technicolor Fire: Waxworth's fire burns bright blue.
- Vampire Vords: Subverted. Draphael's accent is French rather than Hungarian.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The Boogeyman is distinctly more sinister in both design and presentation compared to the rest of the brighter and cartoonier cast, and nothing about his character is played for laughs.
