Summary
2003’s movie tie-in game Piglet’s Big Game has suddenly gone viral due to its weirdly horrific tone and survival-horror-esque gameplay that basically make it “baby’s firstSilent Hill”.
To say that the world oflicensed movie tie-in games is a very weird one would be a massive understatement. While we don’t really get many games based on movies anymore due to how expensive IP can be to adapt, back in the good old days of thePS2,Xbox, andDreamcast, pretty much any developer could nab a game and do what it pleased with it.
Shockingly, that even applied toDisney, which is currently known for being one of the strictest companies in the world next toNintendo. That wasn’t the case a few generations ago, though,as it had a wealth of licensed gamesranging from fairly regular ones like Chicken Little to weirder ones like PK: Out of the Shadows. Nothing quite compares to Piglet’s Big Game, however.
Piglet’s Big Game Was Basically A Disney Survival Horror
Winnie the Pooh is no stranger to the world of video games nowadays, but he was everywhere on the PS2. This includes 2003’s Piglet’s Big Game,a loose adaptation of Piglet’s Big Movie that was developed by French developer Doki Denki Studio. Piglet might seem perfect for a platformer or puzzle game, but Doki Denki instead decided to go in a very different direction.
As everyone on Twitter has been discovering over the past few days, Piglet’s Big Game is much closer to games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill than you’d expect from something based on Winnie the Pooh. Piglet’s Big Game has the adorable pink pig going into his friend’s dreams, which have been invaded by heffalumps, woozles, and all manner of frightening things chasing after Piglet.
While some of the levels arefairlyeasygoing, like Pooh’s sweet-based dream,Piglet’s Big Game has gone viral due to Owl’s Dream, which takes place in a library and has some truly unsettling music to boot. Although it’s not quite on the level of Silent Hill or Resi, the library setting does make the survival horror influences a little clearer.
To make matters even funnier,Piglet’s Big Game has a music track simply titled “Foreboding"that wouldn’t look out of place in a Silent Hill game.It’s so similar, in fact, that some have even theorised that the Silent Hill 2 remake actually samplesit for the track “Chthonic Symphony”. Dear god, please let that be true.
