#also i checked and somehow i typed 778 words about a cat with depression in less than 15 minutes

[seagull-spouse]

5: infodump about anything you want <3 <3

i actually love you for asking this one <3

okay so i'm going to do night in the woods because i don't talk about it enough

**TW for mental illness, death and kidnapping**

okay so you play as Mae, a sophmore college dropout who returned to her hometown of Possum Springs. you don't really find out why she left until much later into the game. you get to hang out with your old friends, Bea, Gregg and Angus, and learn more about them as people. Gregg and Angus are together and are trying to save up enough money to move to the nicer town over called Bright Harbour. being the only queer people, besides Mae, in a small town is quite rough for them. while Bea is still living with her father, running their family hardware store, the Ol' Pickaxe. Her mother died in senior year of highschool and life's been pretty hard for her since then. her dad does literally nothing to help with the store but takes all the money since his name is on all of the legal documents. Mae is living with her parents while she's in Possum Springs. Night in the Woods is a platformer where you can explore the town each day while uncovering it's secrets and hidden spots. The first two days the stairs in front of the church are being repaired so you can't access that part yet, but after they're fixed you're able to see the church where Mae's mom works and the woods behind them where you can meet an array of cool people. there's Bruce, a homeless man who you can visit everyday and learn more about his story, a group of "weird teens" who give you the mission of finding three pentagrams around the town to reveal a secret, and finally you can meet Jen, Gregg's super cool cousin who knows how to use a crossbow. Other places you can visit are the Ol' Pickaxe, the Snack Flacon where Gregg works, Angus and Gregg's apartment, the roof of Mr. Chazokov (Mae's high school science teacher) and a bunch of different places you can only access by getting onto the powerlines. Okay i swear i will talk about the story i just want to talk about Mr. Chazokov real quick. so every two in-game days you can climb up to Mr. Chazokov's roof and hunt for dusk stars with him. there are 9 total that you can find. i could name them all and go into detail about the lore behind each one but i don't need to make this longer than it needs to be. (please feel free to ask though i will info dump solely about them in a different post if wanted). so, yeah he's super nice and one of my favourite side characters. ANYWAYS it's lore time baby. so throughout the game, if you pay close enough attention, you noticed some strange things start to go on. and at the town's harvest festival ( their version of halloween) Mae sees someone get kidnapped by a mysterious figure after that, the figure begins to stalk her. from there, you can see her mental state start to decline. she's convinced it was a ghost that took the kid and that it's somehow in her head. she has certain episodes that we see before harvest night, but they only get worse as the game progresses. we later learn that this is not the first time she's experienced these sort of issues. she struggles a lot with derealization and left college because of that mixed with serious depression. she finally decides to face off this "ghost" and ends up mindlessly stumbling to the abandoned mineshaft at the edge of the town during the middle of the night. her friends quickly find her and they all head into the mine. it turns out that it had been a cult kidnapping these people and following Mae, and this mine had been their main place of practice. they believed the god they worshipped called out to them from an extremely deep whole that resided in the mine, and they threw all of their sacrifices into said hole to please their god. bunch of metaphorical stuff happens and then the mine starts to collapse. Mae and the gang get out safely but the same can't be said for the cultists. the game ends with everyone heading to band practice which is a thing they do that i forgot to mention.

also everyone is an anthropomorphic animal

Mae is a cat, Gregg is a fox, Angus is a bear and Bea is a crocodile.

non anthropomorphic animals also exists in this game so i don't really know how that works

but!!!! there's a very cute little possum named Rabies that you get to meet through a little sidequest and i love her with all my heart

#ask game! #nitw #night in the woods #wow this was way longer than i expected #anyways yeah please let me know if you want to know more about the dusk stars because they all have cool lore behind them #also i checked and somehow i typed 778 words about a cat with depression in less than 15 minutes