Bramble: The Mountain King - All Bosses & Ending & death screen
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Fairy tales, in their original forms, are not the reassuring bedtime stories we remember from our childhood. Jack and the Beanstalk caps off its home invasion with a murder. Beauty and the Beast revolves around extortion and an imprisoned child bride. Dimfrost Studios understands those fables' dark subtext and, drawing as much from Nordic folklore as from the niche subgenre of macabre platformers, has crafted in Bramble: The Mountain King a world that's enchanting and unsettling in equal measure—even if the accompanying challenge fails to match its inspired mood.
Young Olle wakes up in the middle of the night to discover his sister gone and their cabin, nestled near the edges of the forest, eerily quiet. Determined to find Lillemore, the worried child musters his courage and, against his mother's advice, ventures outside into the domain of trolls and fairies. Backstory details are shrewdly left hazy: we know little of the siblings' parents, their situation, or the mysterious stretch of countryside they inhabit—an ambiguity that only adds to the slowly escalating sense of menace. Only the narrator's gentle voice interceding in crucial moments with vital clues and a handful of beautifully illustrated tomes found scattered throughout illuminate the origins of the game's tragic heroes and villains.