
Let's players leaning in to read the dialogue are forced back as they watch a formerly stiff and still character sprite jump into full-fledged animation as she stabs herself. The switch between innocence and corruption is so jarring that the lighthearted music often has no time to catch up to the bloodstained image on screen. Abrupt moments when the meaningless conversations splice into an image of a wide-eyed, glitching version of a cute girl saying something like "Nobody would cry if she killed herself" have launched the game into the mainstream as a true-blue horror game.

It's these moments when the pastel veneer is suddenly and violently stripped away that has made the game a favorite with streamers and YouTubers.
