Pretty sure that the father was physically abusive and the mother drank to compensate.ĭid the monster model change in the closet levels near the end? I'd have to replay to make sure, but I think that monster might have been representative of the father. The drawings sometimes depict 2 adults and the male one usually seems in some position of violence or power over the female one. However, there are some clues to the sinister nature of the father as well. The alcohol bottles started appearing and so I deduced the father was an alcoholic but it was only very late game that I realized it was actually the MOTHER this whole time. I was kind of confused when the monster took on a feminine form. The man at the end recognizes the teddy bear, so it means it must be the father from the beginning.įrom that opening scene I kind of suspected the rest of the game was going to be a metaphor for child abuse, but I initially thought it was going to be about abuse from the father. Next we see the mother emerging with a present (pretending it is from her) and that is where we have teddy.
The game opens with the father knocking on the door and getting violently thrown out by the mother, but he says that he came with a present.
I'm almost positive that was his father at the end. Perhaps age 3 would have been more realistic, but I'm willing to give the developers that one. I have a niece who is 2 and I agree that perhaps the drawings were just a little too coherent, but really that's getting so nitpicky and it depends on the child.
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