If you allow any of the bars to empty, you’ll be met with a bellowing “feed me” or “brush me” until you manage to complete the task. You’ll need to raid the refrigerator to feed your little buddy, use a hairbrush located in the living room to groom its fur, and interact with the specialized charging pad in the basement to keep the batteries fresh. Three separate bars will appear at the top of the screen when Tattletail is in your possession. Once you pick Tattletail up, you’ll need to keep it happy or risk incurring the wrath of its loud and demanding voice. Down in the basement you’ll come across a large wrapped box, and inside you’ll meet Tattletail, a joyful egg-shaped companion that craves interaction. You’ll control a young child who simply can’t wait for Christmas and sneaks out of their room to peek at their present. The horrific journey starts on December 20th, 1998.
Thankfully, aside from the theme and overall atmosphere, Tattletail features enough variance in mechanics to make it look and feel like an entirely fresh adventure. You’ll spend most of your time clinging to a flashlight and shining it towards foes in an attempt to survive night.
Upon first glance, Tattletail seems a lot like Five Nights at Freddy’s. Developer Waygetter Electronics is shining a light on smaller animatronic toys, namely one called Tattletail, a fictitious bundle of blabbering joy that closely resembles a Furby. That particular adventure into madness focuses heavily on large human-sized animatronics. Inanimate objects suddenly exhibiting signs of life drops you right into the uncanny valley, and it’s no surprise that this type of irrational fear was the inspiration for the wildly popular franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s. Young children light up at the prospect of a talking furry friend, but those of us that are older are quick to recognize how truly creepy these robotic creatures really were. If you were ever fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on how you felt about it) to own a Furby, you know how eerie and unsettling talking electronic toys can be.
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