Gone Home absolutely does this on purpose. Really early on you see this notice about electricity and how turning on too many lights could cause the system to overload and you to be plunged into pitch black darkness.

This isn’t a mechanic. It’s just trying to spook you.

Small asterisk, and this is even more trivial, but this does happen once in the original Japanese release. A trinity in Traverse Town leads you to a barrel containing an item. This was replaced with a chest in the international release because, clearly, it was confusing people!!

“He’s stealing my girlfriend!” - on Riku

“My girlfriend is *harsh*” - in response to Kairi saying “no slacking”

“Oh, she is lazy, he’s right” - on Kairi, after seeing her lose the race in the opening cutscene.

“He’s mean! I wanna fight him” - on Riku, after he insulted Kairi by calling her lazy

“You’re my mommy now. Protect me from the scary monsters!” - on Darkside

“This makes no sense. Why is there a door?”

That really is KH1 in a nutshell, innit?

“This is kinda like Roblox! Or Minecraft in the nighttime” - on fighting Shadows

“My shoes are big!”

“What is this, the 1800s?” - on seeing Sora come out of the water fully dressed instead of wearing a swimsuit (because they didn’t have bathing suits back then)

This reminds me that I'm a Butterfree/Venonat truther

How familiar are you with the even-more-off-model sprites of the original Red and Green? Because those are also vaguely disquieting in like, a fun way.

It's actually not that hard to jailbreak words and then use them however you like, if you don't mind voiding your language's warranty.

I always wondered about this. Tampons expand when they absorb liquid and that, uh, seems bad in an open wound???