Time to get into the Halloween season, and what best way to start with a cute horror game like Ib! 🌹 This is an Indie game I hope people don't forget about. It was such a well designed concept, that was actually terrifying to play. I'm not great with Horror at the best of times but this game really caught me off guard with how scary it was. Especially the sound effects! 🥶
I can also appreciate the whole, 'art coming to life to kill you'. Obviously it hits home considering I draw literally all the time and you do sometimes feel consumed by your craft. But you still draw all the same! 🎨 All in all, a game that I am defiantly thinking about replaying because it is just so good!
But that’s all for this one! If you like my art and want to see more, stick around! 😊
why mary deserves to win her rounds of the @problemgirlbracket : an explanation from a longtime ib fan
who is mary?
character from the rpg horror game ‘ib’
introduced as the tritagonist of the game
just like ib, she’s a young girl trapped in the cursed gallery
or is she?
jk lol, she’s actually one of the paintings
and also technically the main antagonist
pictures below
(art by kouri)
okay, but why is mary a problem girl?
straight up lies to your face the first time she meets you
pretends she’s a human girl trapped in the gallery to gain the trust of ib and garry, but the rose representing her life is as fake as she is
actually wants to escape to the real world; knows she’ll have to take the place of either ib or garry to do so, willingly leaving one of them behind in the gallery (following screenshot is a hint towards this fact)
has a close bond with the other living artworks, almost all of which have attempted to kill the other characters at some point; specifically regards the lady in red as her “big sis” in ‘a painting’s demise’
when things become dire for her and garry discovers her secret, she’s willing to kill the others to be able to escape into the real world
wields a palette knife as a weapon and tries to use it to hurt/kill ib and garry
DOES straight up kill garry in at least four endings by plucking all the petals off of his rose; is implied to have killed both ib and garry in ‘welcome to the world of guertena’ given their slumped over positions in the ending
the only endings where she survives (her painting isn’t burnt to a crisp) are considered bad endings: these are ‘together, forever’ (where she escapes into the real world with ib), two variations of ‘ib all alone’, and ‘welcome to the world of guertena’
while she is a painting, she is still depicted as a little girl doing all of these things. her exact age isn’t known, but she’s thought to be around the same age as ib, who is 9
is somewhat of a little sister character; younger siblings commonly cause so many problems (source: i am one)
causes problems on purpose, but also she just wants a friend, but she goes about it in a not so typical way
was vehemently hated in the early days of the fandom due to her actions, sometimes to the point where people would be happy that they get to kill her (examples below)
VOTE FOR MARY !!!! 💛 she’s my fave silly little problem girl who deserves to win
You know what? I really hate the stereotype that Ib is this emotionless child who's scared of nothing when that's far from true. I mean, it's like people look at her for how she is on the cover art and assume that's her entire character. I understand she's a silent protagonist and we only learn so much about her but like, she has a sense of humor when Mary asks her if her mom is nice and she's like: "Not when she's mad." Or when Garry screams she calls his scream scarier. She also apologizes and expresses guilt such as when Garry gets upset with her after she disappeared in the secret room. Plus, Kouri has made multiple pictures of her smiling for crying out loud!
And she isn't completely fearless either, and we see that in how she reacts to the headless statues and paintings. She even looks uncomfortable as Mary was advancing towards her. Not to mention the nightmare she experiences after nearly getting killed and people still think she's not scared of anything? I just don't get it.