Piglet's Big Game goes viral for its strange survival horror influences

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Piglet's Big Game might seem like an unassuming Disney game, but it's actually anything but.
As everyone has discovered over the past few days, it's eerily similar to survival horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
The worst of this can be seen in The Owl's Dream, which takes place in a creepy library and sees Piglet being chased and constantly scared.

The tie-in game to the 2003 film, Piglet's Big Game, suddenly went viral due to its bizarrely horrifying tone and survival-horror style gameplay that essentially makes it “the kid's first Silent Hill.”

To say that the world of licensed movie games is very strange would be a huge understatement. While we don't really get many games based on movies anymore due to how expensive adapting IP can be, back in the good old days of PS2, Xbox, and Dreamcast, pretty much any developer could take a game and do whatever they wanted. satisfied.

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Incredibly, this also applies to Disney, which is currently known for being one of the strictest companies in the world next to Nintendo. That wasn't the case a few generations ago, though, as it had a wide range of licensed games ranging from fairly normal ones like Chicken Little to weirder ones like PK: Out of the Shadows. However, nothing compares to Piglet's Big Game.

Piglet's Big Game was basically a Disney survival horror game

Winnie the Pooh is no stranger to the world of video games these days, but he was everywhere on the PS2. This includes 2003's Piglet's Big Game, a loose adaptation of Piglet's Big Movie developed by French developer Doki Denki Studio. Piglet might seem perfect for a platform or puzzle game, but Doki Denki instead decided to go in a very different direction.

As everyone on Twitter has discovered 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 sees the adorable pink pig enter his friend's dreams, which have been invaded by heffalumps, woozles and all sorts of scary things chasing Piglet.

While some levels are Enough breezy, like Pooh's sweet dream, Piglet's Big Game went viral thanks to Owl's Dream, which is set in a library and has some seriously creepy music to boot. While it's not quite on the level of Silent Hill or Resi, the library setting makes the survival horror influences a little clearer.

To make things even more fun, Piglet's Big Game has a music track simply titled “Foreboding” that wouldn't sound out of place in a Silent Hill game. It's so similar, in fact, that some have even theorized that the Silent Hill 2 remake actually sampled it for the track “Chthonic Symphony.” Dear God, please let it be true.