• Piglet’s Resident Evil style game goes viral on social media

    by on November 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM, EST

    Piglet's BIG Game

    Piglet, that’s right, Winnie the Pooh’s cowardly little friend turns out to be the star of his own absolutely unhinged horror game.

    Before you start to roll your eyes and think this is another cynical “public domain character turns horror because it’s ‘subversive’.” This is an honest to goodness Disney licensed game, in fact it’s Piglet’s BIG Game from 2003.

    It all started when one user on X (formerly Twitter) noticed that the OST for the game contained some actual creepy ambience, not just some spooky Halloween music, but something that sounds like it belongs in Silent Hill or Resident Evil.

    When internet users decided to take a closer look, that’s exactly what they got. Fixed camera angles, horror environments that look a bit too grim and bleak for a children’s game, and to top it all off sound design that ramps the dread up to 11.

    One user posted a scene where Piglet enters a room and you can hear the imposing heffalumps before you even see them, their stomping and tooting is just a precursor to their bloated and corpulent bodies lumbering after poor and innocent Piglet.

    Children’s games are no stranger to uncharacteristic levels of horror, who can forget the piano from Super Mario 64, or the piercing scream of Redeads from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?

    But in this case it felt like the devs of Doki Denki Studios wanted to make a horror game, but they were handed the license to Winnie the Pooh instead.

     

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