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“Have pity on me!”

Did you know there was a Casper movie in 1995? I don’t know. But there's three games based off of it and they didn’t come out until 1996-97. This one is on the Playstation, Saturn and 3DO.

There are no enemies. Besides some boss fights, the entire game consists of floating around the mansion.

It’s all switch puzzles. Yes, the whole game’s just endless switch puzzles. And key puzzles. Rooms full of locked doors and keys are limited.

It includes only a few cutscenes. Voice clips with still images. And in one of them Casper explains how they died.

The movie is the only piece of Casper media to explain how he died, by the way. The others evade describing how a child died.

There’s only about four cutscenes so it’s impossible to follow the plot of the movie, but naturally they included this one. 

Note the illustration used instead of photos from the movie.

It’s full of jump scares. 

I don’t think a kid could beat it. It’s full of monotonous corridors and obscure puzzles and you can fuck up so easily due to the limited keys.

And it has one of the most obscure puzzles ever. If you acquire an worthless ability, then go near one very specific chair in the attic and use it, it takes you to an area with some gold coins spelling out 52-2-10. You have to convert this into binary and then go to three lines of switches and flip those that are “1”, but you also have to remove the last number in the first two but you have to add zeroes to the start of the last one. With no hints to this.