Silent Ponyville

A fair bit more gore than I care for with my little ponies, and the writing is very amateur, but overall pretty good.

I think my biggest problem with the story is that Pinkie doesn't really take any active role in driving things forward. She finds some random but inexplicably important-seeming object placed in her path, heads off in a pseudo-random direction, and happens upon her next obstacle, which conveniently needs the random object she found earlier. I get that moon logic puzzles are a longstanding Silent Hill tradition, but usually you encounter the puzzle, figure out you need something, and then return to the puzzle with the objects/clues.

I did like the progressive discovery / unlocking of the (rather generically horrific) reason for the whole thing, although the last hallway scene kinda reeks of 11th-hour-let's-get-this-over-with infodump. The alternate endings were cool; it'd be fun if there was some kind of “choose your own adventure” edition that allows the reader to branch the story and get those endings organically. The unabashed referential retconning of Cupcakes was a nice touch too.

All in all, I probably won't be reading this again, but I'm glad I retrieved this fandom classic from where it's been languishing on my Read It Later list.