PR: One day, after mistakingly putting hardcore hallucinogenics to your pizza instead of the portobellos (tentative explanation), you walk up to the mirror and some skin-less dude comes and ask you if you've seen his skin, to which rather than saying something cheeky like "shouldn't you know," or "Have look into your pockets?" you simply stare agape, which I suppose is a more common reaction for someone so high on drugs that skinless dudes start to appear, and that the skin-less dude interprets as an extension of assistence.
Then, he politely commends you to find his skin. Later on he stops being so polite and says that if you don't find his skin then he'll kill you, but a bribe of 99.999 dollas is an acceptable outcome as well. These kids, eh? think everything has a price tag.
As you begin your search for this skin which you don't really know where it is or what it looks like, assuming there are multiple sets of skin which the theme of the game suggests is entirely possible, your so-called friends start attacking you, which I suppose is a reasonable response when your floormate bursts into your room high on drugs wielding a gun, threatening you to loose your skin. It was self-defense, I swear! Anyways.
After they politely refuse to hand over their skin, you shoot them dead. This is before knowing that at some point in the shroom voyage they have gained the ability to ressurect and turn into monsters, so yes those bullets were completly wasted.
Later on you gain the ability to "negociate" with your enemies which presents this hilarious scenarios where you run out of bullets and just ask the mob for more and they just hand them over in exchange for cigarretes or something equally worthless, and then you just shot them dead with the bullets they gave you. You don't get the cigarrete back by the way, tradesmen code. Callously murdering your friends? Yes. Scavanging their dead bodies for something that you gave them? Even I have my limits. The stuff they already had is fair game, though. This is a horror game after all.
This isn't the only stupid thing mobs do, they all seem to have failed that mock of "weapons usage 101" characters sometimes do in action movies where they indicate the person that never used a weapon before to point the sharp end towards the bad guy. All mobs point their weapons against themselves, to the point I'm saying to the screen "rigz, ma man. Maybe I wouldn't hurt you so often if you pointed the (multiple) guns towards me instead of your head. Like, I get the $uicideBoyz references but maybe save them for after the battle?" Guess everyone ate from the magic pizza. The only mob that eludes this rule is the snake one probably due snakes not having arms. Notably, this is the hardest mob. Who'd think, right?
At the end of the game you beat up the sisters of fire, or whatever they're called, mostly due them being bored and acting dumb like "Ok, new rules. You have x turns to kill me or I kill you" like ok thanks for the free hits loser. The no skin man is also pretty easy boss once you realize you can just get the upgrade that allows you to deal melee damage and reduce all incoming damage instance to one, though I suppose that with upgrades of the sort even Elder Ring's final boss would be trivial.
Now, I know this is supposed to be, like, "psycological horror" and that these are all "metaphores of self-harming behaviors as experienced by runaway teenagers", sigh, and that the skin is supposed to represent, like, one's identity or whatever... but it's much funnier to think this was all some "bear on cocaine" kind of event where some teen high on PCP just goes around town killing people for their skin, haha... ok it's much funnier when you don't, hum, express it that way. I'm sane, I swear.
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