It's Hurting My Eyes

It's Hurting My Eyes (Megaitai 目が痛い) is an Amnesia: The Dark Descent slice of life comedy anthology, created by Litronom. The series follows Denny, an every man employee thrust into a bizarre series of events with their trusty space fairing car and close friend, the Knight. Journeying from workplace sports with their boss to escaping a moon base, Denny's wacky life is full of never ending surprises.
In stark contrast to Litronom's previous series the Small Horse, It's Hurting My Eyes primarily focuses on the more comical atmosphere of Amnesias model porting coinciding the familiarly chaotic, nonsensical narrative with no horror elements to be seen. While lacking an ultimate goal or overall objective, the series is still highly regarded as influential to Amnesia Custom Stories as a whole.
== Gameplay ==
Similarly to its predecessor, It's Hurting My Eyes primarily focuses on a familiar yet satirical experience, best described as a fever dream with a wide variety of random scenarios filled with nonsensical jumpscares and early 2010s internet "wtf" meme culture. Coinciding this, various environments and characters throughout the series are modeled after existing media such as Metroid, Secret of Mana and Legend of Zelda.
Featuring an inviting world with a silly atmosphere and premise, the comical nature of the world development encourages players to seek out hidden areas and explore for small easter eggs. While the story may be lacking, what little difficulty is present throughout the duology is engaging enough to admire the attention to detail and various references depicted.
== History ==
=== It's Hurting My Eyes ===
Waking after a long night of partying, Denny comes to the abrupt realization that his phone had been on airplane mode, missing an important call to come into work. Hastily getting himself ready and assisting his roommate Opa-Opa whom remains suspiciously resolute and assuring towards him, he returns to work and is scolded by his irate boss, Tommy Wiseau, for his laziness. Promptly being laid off, Denny solemnly returns home after a short trip to the restroom with his coworker Piccolo.
Stopping at the gas station and returning home in a drunken stooper, Denny is surprised by his friends and coworkers who have thrown him a party with a massive cake made by Tommy and Opa-Opa, who had both setup Denny to prepare the party for him. The group once again party the night away, with Denny going to bed shortly after.
=== It's Hurting My Eyes 2: Another Boring Day ===
Forced to take a day off from work after his boss Tommy had gotten into a fight on work premises and called off his employees until further notice, Denny helps Opa-Opa bake another cake. Deciding to get dressed and leave for the evening, Denny plays football with Tommy and Gabe Newell before detouring to an old space station on the Moon to relax.
No sooner does Denny make it to the space station, he is promptly alerted by the disappearance of his close friend the Knight, having also left for the moon but not returned. With no time to celebrate his vacation, Denny sneaks through the old space base and an aggressive sentinel only to find his friend frozen in cold storage. Quickly unthawing him and making a run for his van, the two wearily return home and celebrate the occasion.
== Characters ==
Denny: The adventurous every man employee for a factory job run by his friend Tommy Wiseau, living with his roommate Opa-Opa whom the two share a timid yet motivating relationship with. Despite Dennies average life, he finds himself in strenuous and bizarre circumstances regularly and is more than capable of handling them professionally.
Opa-Opa: A trouble maker that prides himself on family and cooking. Opa-Opa is a father of two, and is more than capable of playing the role of house-husband for his various residents, despite being plagued by Dennies constant unintended house parties.
Tommy Wiseau: The CEO and leader of a highly technologically advanced factory, prone to going overboard with his frustrations but meaning well enough in the end to make up for any trouble caused.
Knight: A close friend and roommate of Denny that lives in the garage cabinet with his family. A charismatic pacifist by trade and an adventurer with the misfortune of becoming a damsel in distress, the knight is more commonly cited by his cheery "HALLO!" greeting.
== Trivia ==
* Oddly, the player characters model used is actually the same one present for Gabe Newel as seen when the player raises their hand while collecting the Milk from the Toilet Hand.
* Throughout It's Hurting My Eyes, various Youtuber cameos can be found in secret rooms:
** Platforming on the large crates in Tommy Wiseau's workplace, it's possible to reach a secret room filled with various easter egg portraits.
** Taking the Gamecube from the Bublin with Gruntildas Broom and slotting it into the console at the Space Base will reveal a secret room with Cinnamon Toast Ken.
** Reaching the Airman corridor, it's possible to take the tornado present in one of the safe zones to an upper scaffold containing a velociraptor voiced by Markiplier dubbed the Markisaur, dancing to Everybody do the Dinosaur.
** Approaching the frozen containment room, Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls attempts to catch the players attention, leading them to an upper strut with John Wolfe (Harshly Critical).
** While nearing the end of the Space Base and the truck, it's possible to parkour onto a rusty metal tube and find a giant head of Anthony Higgs, a stand in for Ratchness Oldie.
* It's Hurting My Eyes is the only Amnesia: The Dark Descent custom story made by Litronom to have multiple endings. These endings include:
** Knight Ending: The Knight Ending is triggered when the player interacts with the Knight without overcoming the platforming and obstacles present in the finale, showing the Knight returning to Earth without the player and being prompted they got the Wrong End.
** Party Ending: The Party Ending is triggered when the player makes it to their van and leaves the moon with the Knight, overcoming the platforming and obstacles present in the finale, depicting Denny returning home and celebrating with his friends.