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The crazy crossovers don’t stop: Chucky (and Tiffany) will appear in a game you wouldn’t expect

‘Fortnite’ and ‘Call of Duty’ have had all kinds of characters wandering around their games, and now it’s the turn of ‘Dead by Daylight’ to see someone they once rejected for being too comical

We live in an era where any video game can set up a crossover for next to nothing. And it doesn’t matter how absurd it is: if, for example, mixing Lego and ‘Rock Band’ was once seen as crazy, now it would be just another ordinary game. ‘Fortnite‘ and ‘Call of Duty‘ have had all sorts of characters wandering through their games, and now it’s ‘Dead by Daylight’s’ turn to see someone they rejected in the past for being too comical.

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You are very Chu Chu Chucky

If in different updates killers like Michael Myers, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, Ghostface, or the Demogorgon from ‘Stranger Things‘ have already arrived, now it’s time for ‘Chucky’. And he will appear despite the fact that in 2019 the game’s director said he was “too far from the genre to use it because it’s too funny.” Just watch the first part of the saga. You split in two, but literally.

Of course, they also said they would never include the xenomorph from ‘Alien’, and there it is. For fun, you can even play as Nicolas Cage, Nemesis, a Cenobite, Ash (from ‘Evil Dead’, not ‘Pokémon‘), and Laurie Strode, the survivor from ‘Halloween’. Chucky comes to set a new milestone in horror movies brought into the video game, and he will do it with an exclusive skin.

Of course, there’s Tiffany, his girlfriend turned killer doll that we saw from ‘Bride of Chucky,’ when the saga itself realized it couldn’t keep up the seriousness for much longer. By the way, if you thought the killer doll saga was dead, you might be interested to know that after seven movies and a reboot, we already have three seasons of ‘Chucky,’ all at a very high level. Now, with a built-in video game. May the slashing never stop.

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When Crowdfunding Goes Wrong: The Disastrous Tale of a Gore Video Game Featuring Chucky

It was to be expected, then, that sooner or later the video game that would do justice to Chucky would arrive. After all, this killer doll is always profitable, right?

The 80s and 90s were the perfect breeding ground for psychokiller movies. With the culmination of the cold war and a boom state in the United States, filmmakers knew that a mutant or monster wasn’t scary enough. They had to strike where they could do the most damage to American society: the welfare state. Freddy Krueger was born from the dream, Jason Voorhees from summer camps, Michael Myers from children’s celebration… and Chucky from capitalism itself turned against you.

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Child’s Play was released in 1988 and grossed 44 million at the time (about 115 million with inflation), kicking off a new slasher saga that, by now, has six sequels, a reboot and a TV series that continues the movies. It was to be expected, then, that sooner or later a video game would arrive that would do justice to Chucky. After all, this killer doll is always profitable, isn’t it?

May 2011. TikGames, an indie games company that has published versions of Monopoly, dominoes or Mahjong for computers and consoles, announces a crowdfunding with the conviction that they will succeed. ‘Chucky: Wanna Play?’ was a playable version of ‘Child’s Play’ for which they needed an extra $925,000. They already had $500,000 and the rights, but they needed more to make a game that was really worthwhile.

A year and a half later, in October 2012, a Kickstarter appeared promising a hack-n-slash starring Chucky. A gore-filled adventure in which the doll would kill random victims in all the absurd and creative ways you can imagine, including slashing them in the face. You may be wondering why we’re not telling you anything about the plot. Well: of the $925,000 they were asking for they got… 585 from 19 people. Oops.

Crowdfunding doll

One can assume that in TikGames were not very happy with the result and they themselves canceled the Kickstarter and the game, whose demo was lost until it appeared for Xbox 360 emulators. The studio went on to do other things like ‘Scarygirl’, published by Square and rumored to have a movie sooner or later, or the games starring emojis ‘DurantEmoji’ and ‘ZaynMoji’.

For his part, Chucky did get his own game in 2013, although, of course, it was most disappointing: a simple ‘Temple run’ with the doll as the protagonist titled ‘Slash & Dash’ in which you could kill security guards using knives, screwdrivers, hooks or hammers. For whatever reason, it was neither liked nor did it ever live up to the original saga.

Luckily, children’s least favorite doll had better luck in the world of comics and amusement parks. Who knows? If Jason could have had his contemporary version to play with various friends/victims, why would we discriminate against a doll… no matter how diabolical?