A My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fangame by Jay-6. You can play it here
or here, and watch its official Let's Play here and here.
You play as Jade, a filly who is new to Ponyville and is trying to get her Cutie Mark.
The game itself is short and simple, but its Multiple Endings make it worth replaying.
This game provides examples of:
- Badass Adorable: Jade is a cute little filly, and in the best ending, she takes down a dragon in a dogfight.
- Creepypasta: The 'Blank Flank' ending. shows traces of this genre, most notably the game suddenly turning horrifying, with specific elements including Zecora's eyes turning completely blank, staticy transitions, slowed down music, and shadowy ponies who dismember Luna and Jade, the latter of whom comes back to life and attacks Twilight in a startling fashion. What is interesting here is that, unlike many other fan games of this nature, the game itself can very much remain light-hearted from start to finish in some endings, with the creepypasta elements relegated to an optional ending that you have to go out of your way to find.
- Dark Fic: Played with. The game has an infamously bleak ending the "Blank Flank" ending but this is optional and requires going out of your way to find and achieve it. Most of its darker elements are related solely to said ending, and it can be played from start to finish as an overall lighted-hearted game, with two more light-hearted endings that can be accomplished.
- Earn Your Bad Ending: You have to go out of your way to get the bleak "Blank Flank" ending. Doing so requires pretty much one hundred percenting the game and playing at a specific time frame.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: One of Rarity's dialogues can only be read this way.
- Forgot About Their Powers: Luna is an Alicorn; a pony with near god-like levels of magic power and yet she cannot seem to do anything to escape he Everfree forest nor successfully fight off the "Bloody Hooves" that are going after her, instead crying and solemnly waiting for her end. Though it's possible, given the nature of the forest, there is some sort of magical curse or something in play stopping her from escaping. Its worth noting Jade can try to leave the forest but will find she is unable to do so in gameplay.
- In the better endings, None of the main characters or other ponies in town seem to be able to fight off the dragon that attacks, despite the fact the Mane 6 have fought off far worse during the show, including on their own. Surely everyone in town working together with the Mane 6 might be able to pull off something instead of leaving it to a filly.
- Genre Shift: The 'Blank Flank' ending turns into straight Horror. Additionally, this ending was inspired by the Luna Game.
- Idiot Ball A few.
- Yeah sure, Jade. Ignore the creepy black-eyed zebra's warning not to go into the dark spooky woods. Alone. At night.
- Luna, an alicorn with god like levels of magic power, can't seem to figure out anyways to escape the woods or fight off the "Bloody Hooves" and does nothing other than sit, cry, and wait for her end. Given the vast amounts of magic power she has on the show, including teleportation, maybe she could do something to escape, even if the Forest won't let her or Jade walk out physically.
- Jump Scare: A particularly effective (and literal) one at the end of the 'Blank Flank' ending, where Jade suddenly lunges at Twilight, with a close up of her bloodied face while a loud scream plays.
- Killed Off for Real: Luna ends up meeting a terrible fate in the 'Blank Flank' ending, and that fate is dismemberment.
- Multiple Endings: Three of them, in varying degrees of seriousness.
- Super Filly Ending: Achieved by talking to everypony enough to receive an invitation and use the correct ingredients for the muffin. The ponies have their party, but a dragon attacks, and Jade fends it off. The ponies celebrate her victory and continue the party in peace.
- Muffin Ending: Achieved by using the incorrect ingredients for the muffin and talking to at least Applejack and Derpy. Derpy enjoys the spoiled muffin and Jade receives a Muffin Cutie Mark. The dragon attacks like in the Super Filly Ending, but Jade is too concerned about getting Twilight to try her muffins to help. After Ponyville burns down and is rebuilt, a new muffin shop opens, of which Derpy is the only customer to regularly visit since the other ponies get sick soon after.
- Blank Flank Ending: Achieved by first completing all the tasks for the other endings and talking to everypony, and also playing between 11:00pm and 6:00am and going back to Zecora. Zecora, now with black eyes, tells Jade to go back, but she enters the Everfree Forest anyway. She gets trapped inside and meets Luna, who was banished there and had an encounter with "the bloody hooves". As Jade ventures deeper into the woods, she discovers the creatures that Luna talked about, who are shadowy red-eyed ponies who eventually dismember Luna and Jade. Twilight ventures into the forest to look for her new friend, only for Jade, who has become one of the "bloody hooves", to lunge at and presumably kill her.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The shadowy ponies in the Everfree Forest who dismember other ponies (and Jade after she turns into one of them) all have glowing red eyes.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Minor. In the intro, the sentence starting with "However, all filly's are born..." uses "filly"'s contracted form instead of its plural form.
- Shout-Out:
- There's quite a few references to Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), such as Pinkie asking player character Jade if she wants to make cupcakes with her, Twilight referring to a book called 'Cupcakes' (which Jade insists she shouldn't read), and Pinkie musing on the purpose of a 'hacksaw' and claiming she's seen an 'eevil' version of herself in the mirror.
- The text after Jade is killed by the shadow ponies in the Blank Flank ending is "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" which comes from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, but is more specifically a reference to Ben Drowned (where it appears prominently) due to the ending's Creepypasta nature.
- Talk to Everyone: You need to finish the whole conversation with each character in the game to get one of the endings. For the normal ending, you only need to talk to the characters long enough to give them their invitations. Averted for the remaining ending, where you can talk to only two characters, ignoring all the others, and still finish.
- Unexpected Shmup Level: Most of the game is an adventure game where you mainly talk to other characters, but the fight against the dragon in the best ending turns into a 2D Shoot 'Em Up.
- The Virus: It's implied that the shadow ponies in the Blank Flank ending turn ponies that they kill into one of them, since the first one says "One of us..." to Jade and while we don't see Luna after her death, Jade after her death becomes a bloodied, shadowy, red-eyed version of herself, much like the aforementioned shadow ponies, and she lunges at Twilight upon noticing her, presumably subjecting her to the same fate that the shadow ponies inflicted on her.
- Schmuck Bait: Yeah sure, ignore the creepily black-eyed Zecora's warnings to not go into the dark, spooky forest at night. Surely nothing bad will happen, right? There might as well have been a neon sign there screaming "grim dark ending this way."
