Scratches (video game): Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|James Blackwood also heard whisperings coming from the mask's room, Christopher Milton in his diary questions his sanity when he also mentions hearing them.}}

* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: The grandfather's clock in the entrance, which serves as an indicator of progress since it advances only when a puzzle is completed; And certain events can only be completed at certain times.

* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: First with the music box hidden in the attic, then {{spoiler|on the nursery and near the ending.}}

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Christopher Milton's fate}} at the end of Last Visit.

* [[Musical Spoiler]]: Averted and played straight.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: "''I strained my eyes to detect if there was anything useful amongst that junk... but instead I got the impression of a sinister presence lurking in the shadows."''

* [[Occult Detective]]: First {{spoiler|James Blackwood}} then Michael.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|Your reaction when in the middle of the night, you find that the cursed mask is not in it's place...}}

* [[Pixel Hunt]]: Probably a consequence of having photorealistic graphics in a darkly lit game, but some items can be difficult to notice.

* [[Real After All]]: {{spoiler|Most people say it's a Red Herring.}}

* [[Sassy Secretary]]: Michael's secretary, Barbara Stiles.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: {{spoiler|A mask in this case.}}

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|Subverted, Michael fixes his car and attempts to leave the mansion on the third day, but he doesn't because he fears that something terrible might happen to someone in the future, so he decides to stay until he solves the mystery.}}

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Even if you correctly guess {{spoiler|Robin's}} name and use it to open the box in the study, you will still be forced to go through the puzzle in the crypt to try and find it.

* [[Skepticism Failure]]: {{spoiler|Christopher Milton, but later he starts experiencing the same things James Blackwood did.}}

* [[Sundial Waypoint]]: Twice: {{spoiler|Once in the crypt and later when you use the tip of the tower's shadow as a reference to find Catherine Blackwood's tomb.}}

* [[Surprisingly Similar Stories]]: The game shares several similarities with ''[[Chzo Mythos|5 Days a Stranger]]'', namely: They are both set on England in a Victorian mansion that the protagonists cannot leave, there is a terrible backstory on the manor's former owners, the games' progress is divided in days, {{spoiler|they also involve finding a secret room by looking at the mansion's plans, an African artifact is pinpoined as the source of the curse, theres the action of entering an inaccessible room by rappelling from the outside, and the [[Madwoman in The Attic]] trope}}.

* [[Take That Me]]: Arthate's working notes for his book, {{spoiler|in which he can't decide if a supernatural force is responsible for the scary events or not, and points out the flaws in choosing either alternative. The game itself seesaws between supernatural or natural explanations, and ends ambiguously.}}

** Last Visit: {{spoiler|Blackwood manor has been demolished, Robin is implied to be in a mental institution, but the cursed mask is still out there.}}

* [[Things That Go Bump in The Night]]: The scratching noises.

* [[The Unseen]]: The mailman who delivers the correspondence to Blackwood Manor.

* [[Victorian Britain]]: The entire game is set on a Victorian mansion and its grounds.

* [[The Voice]]: Michael's real estate manager, Jerry Carter and all of the other characters as none are ever seen. {{spoiler|Except one at the very end...}}

** {{spoiler|You also see the [[The Faceless|lower body]] of Dr. Milton at the end of Last Visit.}}

 

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