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

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Piglet's Big Game may seem like a nondescript Disney game, but it's far from it.
As everyone has found out in the last few days, it's strangely similar to survival horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
The worst of this can be seen in Owl's Dream, which takes place in a spooky library and stalks and constantly terrifies Piglets.

The game “Piglet's Big Game,” based on the 2003 movie, has suddenly gone viral due to its incredibly horrific tone and survival-horror-esque gameplay, making it essentially “baby's first Silent Hill.”

To say that the world of licensed movie games is a very strange one would be a massive understatement. While we don't really get a lot of games based on movies anymore because adapting IP can be very expensive, back in the good old days of PS2, Xbox and Dreamcast pretty much any developer could grab a game and do whatever it did makes you happy with it.

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

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Surprisingly, this even applied to Disney, which is currently considered one of the strictest companies in the world alongside Nintendo. However, that wasn't the case a few generations ago, as there was a plethora of licensed games available, ranging from relatively normal games like Chicken Little to stranger games like PK: Out of the Shadows. However, there is nothing like Piglet's Big Game.

Piglet's Big Game was essentially a Disney survival horror

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

As everyone on Twitter has discovered over the last 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. In Piglet's Big Game, the adorable pink pig enters his friend's dreams, where Heffalumps, Woozles and all sorts of scary things invade in pursuit of Piglet.

While some of the levels are quite Carefree, like Pooh's Sweet Dream, Piglet's Big Game has gone viral because of Owl's Dream, which is set in a library and has really unsettling 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 more obvious.

To make things even funnier, Piglet's Big Game features a music track simply titled “Foreboding”, which wouldn't be 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 samples it for the track “Chthonic Symphony.” Dear God, please let this be true.