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* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Just about every female villain in the whole series. |
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Just about every female villain in the whole series. |
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]] -- A lot of the illustrations swung this way. Of particular note is ''Beneath Nightmare Castle'', which also had some genuinely disturbing monsters, and a scene in which the player has to slaughter a gang of children armed with knives. Many of the deaths the player can suffer also come under this trope. |
* [[Nightmare Fuel]] -- A lot of the illustrations swung this way. Of particular note is ''Beneath Nightmare Castle'', which also had some genuinely disturbing monsters, and a scene in which the player has to slaughter a gang of children armed with knives. Many of the deaths the player can suffer also come under this trope. |
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** Beneath Nightmare Castle was notable in that they couldn't print one of the illustrations drawn for the book — namely, that of a woman with tentacles emerging from her mouth — because it was deemed [[What Do You Mean |
** Beneath Nightmare Castle was notable in that they couldn't print one of the illustrations drawn for the book — namely, that of a woman with tentacles emerging from her mouth — because it was deemed [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|too disturbing for children]]. |
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* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: There were a few text adventures based on books from the series and a [[PS 1]] version of ''Deathtrap Dungeon'', all of which were pretty execrable. |
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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: ''Night of the Necromancer'', where {{spoiler|the main plot is that the player has been suddenly murdered, then returns as a ghost and has until dawn to find out why they were attacked and take revenge. At several points, particularly the parts of the book set at the gateway to the afterlife, it is strongly implied that once the character has reached this objective, they will pass on. Two paragraphs before the end, the character is [[Handwaved]] back to life, and the typical 'good' ending ensues, as opposed to the more interesting idea of the 'good' ending being the character passing on.}} |
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: ''Night of the Necromancer'', where {{spoiler|the main plot is that the player has been suddenly murdered, then returns as a ghost and has until dawn to find out why they were attacked and take revenge. At several points, particularly the parts of the book set at the gateway to the afterlife, it is strongly implied that once the character has reached this objective, they will pass on. Two paragraphs before the end, the character is [[Handwaved]] back to life, and the typical 'good' ending ensues, as opposed to the more interesting idea of the 'good' ending being the character passing on.}} |
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* [[Tear Jerker]] -- In ''Deathtrap Dungeon'', when you are forced to {{spoiler|kill Throm The Barbarian Warrior, whom you have befriended, in self defence after he becomes a drugged and mind-wiped slave.}} |
* [[Tear Jerker]] -- In ''Deathtrap Dungeon'', when you are forced to {{spoiler|kill Throm The Barbarian Warrior, whom you have befriended, in self defence after he becomes a drugged and mind-wiped slave.}} |
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