Colourful games that are dark in story/mood?

[deuxhero]

I need examples of how games can have more than 3 colors and scare/disturb the average adult.


Obvious answer is Majora's Mask. That shit's really really fucked up.


Others I can think of include a good portion of the MegaTen games (Nocturne is a bit dulled in color, but DeSu and Persona 4 are appropriately dark). I really enjoyed Custom Robo's use of it. Light hearted setting with near constant gags, then comes the end-game and... damn...


More?

 

[sgc_meltdown]

Sanitarium bro

 

[Felix]

Mother 3 something ? I found P4 pretty tame and boring

 

[zeitgeist]

X-COM

 

[Zeus]

There were a ton of vivid FMV games loaded with nightmare fuel. Bad Day on the Midway looked pretty messed up. Sanitarium *is* disturbing, and while parts are gray, others are pretty colorful.

Illbleed is my favorite. It's a sort of Survival Horror parody that pokes fun at the genre while simultaneously serving up a dish far more disturbing than anything the straight horror games could come up with.

While some parts were grimdark (beating RE4 to the whole Italian horror grindhouse look by a few years), others--including the hub system--were neon sign amusement park movie theater vibrant color Circus of Horrorathons. And a neat trick it'd pull is setting up a level as a fun horror movie parody (i.e., level 2 was Tremors), then veering off and getting incredibly !@#%ed up plot twist midway through. The voices behind doors, the baseball bat with the kid's face, it was all messed up.