Rainbow Dash receives a strange game cartridge from Gilda, with a message telling her to destroy it. She plays it instead, discovering a glitched copy of My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure that opens a new world of horror.
This is a parody of Sonic.exe and other creepypastas, but it still contains some horrifying imagery.
Good god that cover image...
One of the Driver games had a similar mechanic in one of its levels, where the player is controlling the car in front, not the car the camera is in.
As somebody who knows creepypastas pretty well, this was great. There was pretty good atmosphere, but the remarkable ability to parody creepypastas so effortlessly was nothing short of impressive.
You did great playing the story straight for so long, I was almost fooled. Very funny homage to creepypasta culture, I appreciated the random game rant. Almost a shame the story was featured, I probably would've believed it otherwise.
Casually playing Megaman Battle Network 3 on the school bus on original hardware in 2023 is such a raw flex.
Reading this again, I'm still finding all sorts of references to creepypastas; I noticed you put the odd tense swap here and there.
However, you did miss an opportunity to include a thing of bleach.