


Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Along with having blonde hair, Little Red Riding Hood seems to be a rather nice girl apart from the first True End in which she kills her grandmother.Which is impressive, because Little Red Riding Hood is already a Grimm fairy tale. Grimmification: Of Little Red Riding Hood.All the other endings that involve straying from the path are more narratively exciting, but are also far worse. Good Is Boring: Since the standard ending, "Good Girl", is literally just walking straight ahead by the road as you were told, meeting the grandmother, and delighting her, at which point the game just ends.Earn Your Bad Ending: To achieve any of the "True Ends", you have to walk through one of the many paths outside the Main Street, which you are actively warned against doing.Downer Ending: Out of all the Multiple Endings, the bad ones are all of them, besides the Standard Ending.the ending where Red Riding Hood gets lost and starves to death is preceded by her going through the same four narrow, twisting screens that form a perfect loop several times after she makes a wrong turn, so that the player can feel the increasing sense of panic themselves. Cut and Paste Environments: You might go through the main path, or one of the forks, but they all share the majority of their screens with basically no alterations.

Comic Relief: Here, it's offered by the save point rabbit, a fixture in Charon's games.Break the Cutie: Red Riding Hood suffer this in the third and fifth "True Ends".

Book Ends: True End 1 again shows you Mother's speech from the opening of the game, but this time you see additional lines, which reveal that Mother instructed her to kill Grandma.In True End 5, the child slaver who paid Red's mom to capture Red is the antagonist.In True End 4, the grandma herself is the antagonist as she eats Red and has eaten other girls like her in the past.In True End 3, the woodsman/hunter is the wolf (or a werewolf) who kills the grandma and captures Red is implied to have made her a Sex Slave.In True End 1, Red's mom turns out to have sent her to kill Grandma.Antagonistic Offspring: In one of the endings, Mom is sending Red to kill her grandma.Tropes associated with The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood: What sort of horrible end awaits her? And who is the wolf?Ĭompare to The Path, which is also based on the Red Riding Hood story, and has a largely similar gameplay premise.Ĭontrast with Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries, which also takes a Darker and Edgier approach to the same fairy tale, but moves it in a more action-heavy direction. Along the way, she will encounter five detours, and can either stay on the path or decide to explore. At her mother’s request, she goes to visit her ailing grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood, the protagonist, is a young girl. The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood is a 2013 freeware, horror-themed game made by Charon in RPG Maker, based on Little Red Riding Hood.
