Crowd sourcing ideas from video comments is seriously a great way to make a video. Some of my most popular videos have been crowd-sourced this way. I think it's much better than relying on someone else's iceberg, which often just reflect the narrow biases of one person.
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate any support I can get when making videos, especially from someone who's had success in it as yourself! I'm definitely going to keep going this route for future videos on this topic. Thanks for the support! ✌️
@@realgambadogamingI have an entry for you In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, there is a sidequest you can trigger in one of the Dungeons called Tida (which in itself is a whole unsettling and disturbing entry all on its own), where if you examine the trunk of an old pine tree you can find an old love letter. If you happen to go around talking to NPCs, you'll eventually get two separate Elderly people who will ask you to read the letter. If you let them, they will act shocked and will disappear afterwards and nothing really comes of it until you go back to Tida later When you go back to that dungeon, at the same tree you found the letter, you can find the dead bodies of the old couple laying together as they reunited and died (due to the toxic miasma on the air in the storyline) Its kind of wholesome I guess because they were reunited in love and died together, but at the same time it was downright unsettling, because 1.) You don't really expect to see their dead bodies just laying there to be found, you most likely would've forgotten about it by the time you travel back to Tida And 2.) You realize that you technically helped them both commit sewerslide. Another unsettling thing is if you talk to one of the girl NPCs back in the town where the old man was, you come across his grand daughter who will mention that her grandfather just up and left one day and hasnt come back and is unaware that he will never be coming back
I've got one, in Luigi's Mansion, Chauncey's description says "He cries loudly and never sleeps through the night, but since he was born a ghost, this seems natural". Being born a ghost has very creepy and disturbing implications.
I always assumed that description was Nintendo's way of clearing up any speculation as to why there was an infant ghost, as the implication of a death of one so young and innocent might have been too dark for them and something they wished to avoid. Hence, Chauncey was born a ghost. Of course, his sister, Sweet Pea (I believe her name was), was confirmed to have died in her description and I don't think she was much older.
@purplemist7 Nintendo: we cant let people think we have dead babies in this game. So this is a natural born ghost baby. Someone out there: so the ghosts can fuck?
There is more to the Marvelous Bridge ghost girl: In B2/W2, you can find the same ghost in the Strange House, where it's implied that she was trapped in an endless nightmare by Darkrai. At one point, she heard her father's voice tell her to stay in the nightmare and forget about the Lunar Wing (The item used to stop these nightmares). It also confirms the reason why she was on Marvelous Bridge in the previous game: She was trying to return the Lunar Wing to the Pokémon Cresselia.
Something that adds to the horror in Milla's hidden room in Psychonauts is that they're psychics; it's implied that she was listening to them telepathically as they burned alive when she arrived at the orphanage and the whispers are what she heard.
Seeing the Harvest Moon one (which I agree always seemed eerie) reminded me of something in Friends of Mineral Town that seriously freaked me out as a kid: in most of those games you’re advised to put your animals back in the barn/coop by the end of the day since they can get sick if they’re left out overnight, but one time when I was playing I wasn’t able to get them back inside fast enough. Then nighttime strikes (which is sounded with a ringing bell) and IMMEDIATELY this loud wild dog barking starts. I’m like what the hell is THAT? and try to locate the source. A black dog or wolf enters the farm from the entrance and starts terrorizing my livestock, biting them and making them become sick. I started attacking the wild dog with my hammer and it eventually bugged off but as far as I know the game itself doesn’t warn you about this anywhere and it doesn’t always happen. If your dog grows up he can fight off the wild dog and bite it back though which is badass. Still, the sound of the coarse barking it made haunts me lol
Interesting experience! Sounds like a nightmare for your animals, but I have to look into this one. I haven't played much of Mineral Town admittedly so this sounds like a good excuse to finally play it to see this scenario in action
@@spotlightanimation6719 That's why I have fences around the barns and coops for them to trot around in and always keep the doors open until they go back inside so I can shut the door after them before ending the day. The gates stay closed so they don't wander onto my crops.
Was so excited to see Psychonauts mentioned here, definitely one of my favorite childhood games! Thought I’d let you know that the things behind bars in Milla’s mind are Nightmares. They appear as an enemy in one of the later levels of the game so you likely hadn’t encountered them yet! Great video!
Thank you for actually getting Psychonauts pretty much right. So many videos like this call it things like a "cheery" and "lightheaded kids' game" and it frustrates me because it's not any of those things. They make it seem like it's a happy-go-lucky game with a big scary Easter Egg but as someone who's played 1, 2 and ROR, it's really not *that* out of place from the game's normal tone
So glad to see you continuing with this topic. It's a common point of discussion but you put such a unique and funny spin on the iceberg genre it's like hearing these stories for the first time.
It wasn't in the original game, but apparently in the remake of return to dreamland you can hear the boss screaming "KIRBY" once defeated. It's more of a blink and you'll miss it thing but it's oddly spooky considering that the villain is still sentient even when possessed.
Magolor Soul! I think there was also an unused disturbing death scream in the original but the Deluxe version either added the unused file or uses a whole new one. I don't even know whether the scream was Mistilteinn (the entity within the Master Crown, which we learn from the Magolor Epilogue in its final boss theme's title) pulling the name from Magolor's memories to curse the warrior that foiled its plans, or Magolor himself crying out for help. We do get confirmation that Magolor survives this event from the Magolor Epilogue as well. Edit: It seems they did in fact end up adding the original unused file as the death scream! Magolor's first boss form also had a defeat scream, but it was less "poor misguided soul whose body has been twisted into an eldritch prison crying out for help" and more "villain has been fatally wounded but masks the pain with rage as they scream"
No you can hear him calling out to Kirby for help throughout the entire battle, and it's only in the true arena, which is just a boss rush of the post game bosses
You can probably fill an entire iceberg with creepy moments from Majora's Mask, but one I don't see talked about that often is when you fail the Kafei sidequest at one of the very last steps, and you let the sun mask drops into the hole and a cutscene plays. The music just stops and Kafei is seemingly trapped forever in that room (of course ignoring that the moon will destroy everyone anyway shortly).
I think my favorite scary moment from Majora's mask was the Romani Ranch aliens. Not only are the aliens are modeled after a real life alien myth (The Flatwoods Monster) But if you fail to stop them, they will take not only the cows, but Romani herself as well, she'll come back a day later, but will basically be catatonic and will shake her head around like she has a bad headache
It was so cool to see you mention A Wonderful Life! It's definitely a creepy game with some great vibes. If you're ever looking for super obscure stuff, there's a rare line from Dr. Hardy that's pretty unsettling. If you talk to him when he's standing outside Galen's house at night, he'll caution you to be careful in the area because he's heard the sound of a woman screaming. Very strange.
Interesting! I knew there was some interesting dialogue pieces Hardy has but I never heard of this one. I'll definitely include it in the next one. Thanks for the suggestion!
Epic Mickey was so weird. Here's what stuck with me while I played it as a kid: - The Ticket Booth area in Gremlin Village is one of the first places you arrive at and the atmosphere stays weird for the rest of the game. - Even when it was day, the sky was constantly dark or a smog yellow. - You could spray Mean Street and Ostown with paint thinner and delete colorful sections of the place. You could also spray characters and make them dissolve into puddles on the ground. Then they just lay there screaming with arms flailing out of the puddle. - You find deteriorating animatronics of Mickey's friends who plead with him to be put back together. - Mickeyjunk Mountain, especially The Heaps. Not only is it creepy, but the Mickey merchandise there is massive and unusable. - The Stretching Room in Lonesome Manor had disturbing pictures on the wall you had to shuffle correctly in order to get to the next room.
I think one of my favorite things about Vanessa's Manor is that apparently during the game's development, playtesters were too scared to actually play through the level so a warp to the final room was made. The warp is still in the game and can be found by crawling through a hidden hole on the left wall of the Manor's basement. Also aside from being regular NPCs you can find throughout the game, I think some of the frozen characters are also scraped beta NPCs.
when you were talking about the guardian in minecraft I was hoping you were gonna include the clip of kurtis conner’s livestream where he says “yo mama” and then it immediately jumpscares him. it’s still the funniest twitch clip I’ve ever seen
I remember my brother playing Super Paper Mario when we were kids, and I was watching him and Mimi’s true form was startling to say the least. It was an intriguing point in the game
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THE GARFIELD FLASH GAME!!! I WAS JUST TELLING MY WIFE ABOUT IT THE OTHER DAY AND NOW I GOT TO SHOW HER A LITTLE BIT OF IT THANK YOU
For some reason as a kid Viva Pinata always creeped me out. I loved taking care of my pinatas but the idea of having to send your pinatas to die just made me so sad. But even more was that if they got sick then eventually the Witch Doctor Dastardos would just show up and KILL them right in front of you always put me off enough i stopped playing
I don't know if this would fit but for me the redeads in Wind Waker always freaked me out as a kid. Their scream sounded like a mix between human and elephant to me and the way Link gets so scared that he just shakes and can't move for a few seconds when he hears it, along with their red eyes and the jaw that just hangs open. Plus before you approach they just look dead as hell, totally silent with their head kinda drooping to the side...
I got literally jumpscared by a redead in WW when I was playing it for the first time last year, I was in the corridor inside the earth temple and a damn redead popped out, just stayed there in the tomb for a second, then cracked it's damn head at me. XD
Oh my gosh I knew I couldn't be the only one! Those ReDeads scarred me as a child, made Wind Waker a legitimately scary game to me! It's so colorful and happy otherwise, the way the Earth Temple just pulls the rug out from under you is both masterful and cruel.
the Minecraft igloo basement thing scared the shit out of me as a kid the first time i ran across it I deleted the world bc I thought id been hacked LOL
Thank you so much for the shoutout, man, glad my Rayman 3 video could help your research! Loved your video and looking forward to seeing more from your channel. Keep up the great work!
Ayee nice man! Glad you found the video, thanks for your informative video as well! It made my research a lot more enjoyable for that entry. Appreciate the kind words and support!
8:15 the first appearance of Boo's was in Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990) and Sonic Adventure 2 released in 2001. So it's not even a question who copied who
Might seem predictable given my Pikmin icon but when I first came across the submerged castle from Pikmin 2 (I forget if it was through game play or a video) I was unsettled and freaked out by it. I was genuinely a cowardly kid in general but then I had a nightmare where I was running from the water wraith with Olimar and Louie in a very particular floor (dweevil floor if people know what that is. It has a long straight path through the middle that I was running down.) I literally was so scared of that damn cave that I didn't beat it until I was 13.
The thing that also is a bit upsetting in psychonauts is that, one that specializes in mind reacing and thought manipulation, when meela found her orphanage burning, she couldn’t help but read the minds of her kids and hearing the internal screams as they burned, begging for her help and screaming in pain. It’s also why they’re so loud to begin with, as those voices must have been booming in her mind when she experienced it. It’s a mix of sorrow and fear from that entry.
The dinosaur demo looks like a reference to the T-Rex chase video from the MS-DOS game 3D Dinosaur Adventure. That video featured stuff like the dinosaur's skin becoming translucent to reveal its muscles and organs though. Definitely memorable for kids
There's a character in Viva Piñata named Dastardos who will come beat your piñatas to death with a stick if they're sick. I remember on specifically the DS game he had scary dirge-like music that accompanied him. Scared me a lot as a kid
Dude i freaking LOVE this channel, he is so freaking hilarious and i get excited everytime theres a new upload, and hes the only youtuber i have notifications on for, i usually find the notifications annoying, but not here!!!!
I remember being super freaked out by the basement area in Ghostbusters Wii in the home base. It had the painting of vigo and tobin‘s spirit guide, which contained all of the pages you collect during the missions of the game. To me it was very creepy to go down there and look at the book because it would take you to a screen with the book pages open on it and it also had a black background. A lot of the pictures in the book had eerie designs and were accompanied by this creepy music. I would never go down there because it always made me feel very uneasy. Also there was this weird goo monster that you would encounter in one of the last levels of the game where you go into some sort of sewage system of an old building located on a desolate island. That goo monster had eyes all over its body and made me have nightmares. I then didn‘t play the game for a very long time. It was a very cool game, though it was kind of broken because it would crash the wii at a few instances. Maybe my copy was haunted lul. Edit: I should also add that one factor that made it even more creepy was that the music would eventually stop while reading tobins spirit guide and you're just left with radio silence while looking at the spooky stuff that was in there. Now looking back at it its not nearly as bad as it was for me while i was a kid but can definitely see why i was scared of it though the art in that book was pretty cool. There is a video on youtube that goes over the extras of the game with the full spirit guide on there if you're looking to include this in a video.
I got a suggestion, both involve water levels. In Banjo Kazooii on the second level, there is a shark who chases you when you get in the water. The music is replaced with a tense song, and you here a chomping sound effect to show the shark is talking to you. Talking about how he wants to eat you, freaked me out. Another is I think Donkey Kong Country 3 where you have to keep your fish buddy feed or he eats you. As you swim you see your buddy slowly turn red, getting angry and hungry. The fear of "can I find a fish to feed this hungry b-ass before he chomps me"
I remember snackers well from Banjo Kazooie, also that fish from DKC3 gave me nightmares as a kid. These would make great entries, thanks for the suggestions!
26:23 This kind of reminds me of one place in Stardew Valley, like that one little pathway you take between your home and the town, where you cross paths with the bus. A lot of the time, the music stops, so it just quiet. It's not scary or anything, but it just sends a shiver down my spine and makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, even more than the caves in that game.
In Frogger 2 there was a part in the haunted house level where you had to chase a teleporting frog around a room while being chased by an evil laughing ghost, that shit terrified me as a kid
I still remember being scared of that knaaran level, I literally couldnt get past that first part where youre in the small maze and the knaaran is patrolling that area, i would try and defeat it but it turns out theyre invincible, i endedup putting the game down for a while till i finaly decided id get back into it and actually beat it
Holy hell...The Garfield haunted house games and yes the doughnuts! God I gotta play those again that was just a random blast of nostalgia I was not expecting.
One thing that always unnerved me as a kid was a few areas in the haunted house in Jumpstart World. The background ambience in general was always eerie to me. And at the end of the haunted house the area with glowing green water always had disturbing ambience as well
Fun Fact: A hat in time's queen vanessa mission is actually completely skippable as theres a secret airvent in the mansions basement that leads straight to the time piece, this was added into the game as beta testers were either too scared to continue or were struggling to find the keys
If I were to recommend something, I'd go with a Flash game I played as a kid called Dino Run and its remake, Dino Run DX. The game may be vibrant with cute dinosaurs, but you're always fleeing from a giant death wall caused by a meteor. As the wall gets closer, the background goes red, the foreground becomes dark, and the music is replaced by the rumbling of your impending doom. When you die, it's just a black screen that says 'Doomed' ('Extinct' when you run out of lives).
Star Fox Adventures. It's one of those games that as you progress and go back to already beaten levels it feels liminal and empty, but as a kid, imagination goes wild and it feels truly eerie, as if you're not welcome anymore despite saving that place. This became worse when I was fooling around in the game and I grabbed an explosive barrel and it seemed as if the model swapped and grew legs and attacked my Fox character; this happened a second time with a friend as a witness. My brother didn't believe me and it never happened again. I never heard anyone having something like this happen again, but it happened. It's possible that the barrels noclipped and the models stretched around and as I tossed the barrel it exploded and harmed me and that's what happened.
Idk if you’ve covered this by two levels that freaked me out from Lego games are the venom level from Lego marvel superheroes and the doctor who level from Lego dimensions the venom one just has a creepy atmosphere and it’s set in a lab covered in black goo and venom just straight up jumpscares you and in the doctor who level there’s a section with the weeping angels When I was younger I could never play these by myself I made my dad play them
For the record the hat in time level is genuinely scary in context. Something about it popping out in a cute game had me more on edge than a lot of horror games I have played. Especially going in blind.
The Harvest Moon winds and the Minecraft cave sounds go hand in hand in giving you that sense of foreboding and loneliness as a kid that even today as an adult can be eerie to experience. Like even when I was 18 or 19 and playing Minecraft alone felt off, despite it being daytime in the game, and *especially* when you encounter abandoned mining shafts.
A couple minecraft things i see no one talk about is - The Ocean Sounds. - The Nether Sounds (specifically the Soul Sand Valley) - The Ancient City and it’s weird connection to the Nether and Redstone (Education Edition really adds onto that, surprisingly) - The Abandoned Villages There is definitely more but that’s what i can think of currently
Gotta say, it's validating seeing someone else afraid of flying insects which don't really pose a threat. The flying isn't what gets to me as much as the buzzing sound they make. I'm just thankful most media uses very unrealistic buzzing sounds which my brain can tune out.
In My Singing Monsters, Rare Wubbox is pretty creepy, with his realistic eyeballs and teeth. It's especially creepy as it sounds like he is saying some morbid stuff, lining up with the fact that you put monsters into wubboxes to awaken them. Add to the fact that the description implies that Rare Wubbox is eating the monsters as it states,"Get going with the boxing! Your Common Natural Monsters just won't do - this picky customer only accepts Rares." It's a well-known creepy thing around the My Singing Monsters community in a very light-hearted game.
There's an indie game called Kiwi 64 and the game is adorable and fun until you get to the tomb level. It won't make you shit yourself or anything but the whiplash is definitely something, if I remember correctly it's either this game or a different one by the dev where there's just a human fetus as set dressing so there's that. As far as I know they're all rated E
In A Hat In Time, Scarier than the manor is right outside of it those statues sometimes don't move, but on the off chance you bounce around their unmoving solid seemingly terrain-like bodies they will spring to life when you turn your back.
Thanks for mentioning that level in dkc. I always thought the spiders chasing you was super creepy and just made me rage non stop everytime id fail to escape 😭
Fun Fact about Vanessa's Manor in A Hat in Time: during development, the playtesters got so freaked out over the complete change in tone this level brought to the game that the devs put in a shortcut at the start of the level that bypasses all the Vanessa encounters and goes straight to the timepiece at the end.
my suggestion would be ice level from pvz1, it was an unused level only accessible using a debug menu, nothing would happen until the game would just play the game over sound effect, idk why but i always found it unnerving
As a kid, I played the CARS videogame. Y'know licensed videogame based on the movie 'n stuff. Something that seriously fucked me up were the segments where you're "tractor tipping". Essentially, you drive onto a big ass field, drive up to the little tractors sleeping, and honk, which causes them to freak out and tip over. These missions take place at night. However nothing particularly scary yet. If you watched the movie, you'll remember the red harvester car, Frank. He also appears in the game. And man, he fucked me UP. This mission still traumatizes me to this day.
Maaan, you gotta give Psychonauts a chance, the kinda stuff like that room in Mila's mind is what hooks you, bro, wait till you see the psych ward levels
DISTANCE MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🗣 Nah but fr, I've been hooked on this series for a while now (even though I'm watching it out of order) and you have a great voice, editing style and, although you sometimes need to stop and give context, you keep it concise and to the point. You truly are the youtuber of all time.
I remember feeling quite unnerved when i first entered the World of Nothing in Super Paper Mario. something about the music just creeped me out when i was younger.
Oh hey, nice to see my suggestions were included in a video! Even if my comment was super cropped. :P I didn't realize until your channel randomly got recommended to me again. Distance is fun as hell, and by this point, I've gotten gold medals on almost all of the arcade maps! Reminds me of a modern Sonic game, in terms of gameplay and design.
I played some of the games you mentioned, but never have thought to try to go deeper into the games. The one that got me good with palpitations and shaking hands was Slender Rising back then ;w;. Being in a tundra and partially in a wooded environment then, I thought he was out to get me XD. I give thanks to your videos as they give a sense of nostalgia.
I've been remembering stuff that scared me when I was a kid. I got 3 so far. All PS1. 1- A Rugrats game, it had a couple of levels with eerie ambient, I remember an empty space ship and the house at night, with a flashlight and some ghost PNGs. 2- The second boss from Gex 2, Moo Moo something. Oh and the Horror TV levels... and the Circuit ones... 3- A bully kid enemy from the park level in Jersey Devil. Can't say why they scared me so much, maybe the laugh. More stuff came to mind while writing. 4- The stained glass boss from Medievil 5- A space ship level from a Sega Genesis Toy Story game. My cousin had it and that level was so empty and eerie... I feel there's a theme here. 6- All of Contra Hard Corps if that counts.
Well, also, the gyroids in Animal Crossing are apparently based on some sort of creature or statue related to funerals and deaths in Japanese folklore, so having the player’s face become a Gyroid face on top of losing everything your villager had on them upon turning off the game in another player’s town without saving first would seem to indicate that something bad happened to them after essentially being abandoned in another town by the player.
The sims 2 lore has a lot of fucked up details, too, especially in strangetown, where there's Olive Specter, a serial killer, and Nervous Subject (which is Olive's son) who is used as a human experiment and tortured by two evil scientists
I used to play Rayman 3 all the time on my PS2, I miss those days.. but yeah it took me some time to muster the courage to go through the Knarren levels
I never finished Vanessa's Manor lol (I was literally 16-17 when I played AHIT), I just used the hidden dev skip in the basement that I'm convinced was left there on purpose
This is the second time my footage for the Psychonauts Mila Easter Egg was used for one of these Scary Kids Game Iceburg videos and I think that's pretty cool.
Gambado how did you know i’m snowed in and bored rn?! you controlling the weather or something?? Well doesn’t matter the city’s in snow shambles this is some quality content as always 👌
there's another very creepy part of a hat in time. in the snatcher's forest there are these literal nooses that talk about your neck and how they would love to be around it
Something else about the Pokemon Black/White bridge girl, in Black 2/White 2 there's an area called the "Strange House" where you learn more about her, and its implied that Darkrai, a Mythical Pokemon from the previous generation, killed this girl by forcing her into an endless sleep plagued with nightmares. Further evidence to it is when you obtain an item to encounter Cresselia, which is the pokemon who is designed lore-wise to counter Darkrai's nightmares. The Strange House also has some creepy music and every time you leave or re-enter rooms the furniture shuffles itself around, and you also see the ghost girl from the bridge around the house talking about endlessly sleeping and nightmares along with Darkrai iirc.
After watching this video with the PS1 T rex, I was re-traumatized by the memory of the T-rex in the underworld of Mario Odyssey, in the Wooded Kingdom. That area was super out of left field, as to get to it you have to jump off the edge of the Wooded Kingdom, and I did so as a joke, but then was transported to this underground, dark forest with heavy footstep noises and fog. Plus, you can't just fast travel out of there-- you have to use seeds and water to grow a vine to get out, all while avoiding the T Rex. Terrifying. Also, so happy to see Super Paper Mario representation on this Channel! No one talks enough about it, it's my favorite story-driven game. Was so happy to see the giant squid on this list, especially since I thought I was a pussy for being afraid of the level. Some other creepy video game things that come to mind (sorry if these have already been covered in your other videos): - The Zombie Possessor enemy from Earthbound (especially its clay model), also Fourside - The destroyed Sammer Kingdom in Super Paper Mario - Bigmouth Galaxy, Unagi (Maw-Ray) Eels in Mario Odyssey, (or those big-eyed eels that hide in nooks and crannies in Galaxy) -The atmosphere of the game Chu-Lip! It's a little-known weird Gamecube game filled with strange and uncanny characters, like the Policeman who looks like a person in a Mascot costume (and his eyes glow while he's on patrol), Doctor Dandy, who is a jekyll-hyde situation, and so on. You win the game by figuring out how to kiss each character...yeah it's pretty weird. Love your vids!
Awesome stuff here! Thanks for all the suggestions, sounds like some good ones in here. Also I totally forgot about that part of the Wooded Kingdom, and your right the fact you couldn't fast travel really made it all the more scary.
Oh my gosh, someone who remembers Glover in the same way I did. Hard as f*** (I couldn't even get through the tutorial for a good while) and the overworld scared me too much to continue playing once I did. The box always made this game look so fun and when I finally got to rent it, I was definitely met with... an experience.
Id love to see a video on creepy things found in Elder Scrolls games (theres a lot of interesting creepy things found beyond the normal ghosts and zombies and spooky dungeons)
Here's one I've never seen anybody talk about - Dog's Life for the PS2. The basic plot is that you're a dog named Jake who's trying to save his crush, another dog named Daisy, from kidnappers. You travel through a few different towns, completing quests to get bones so you can go to the next town. The game maintains a pretty child-friendly atmosphere, until you reach the last level - the dog pound. The dog pound is bleak and dead looking. Dogs you've met over the game are stuck in these tiny cages, and you have to free them while also running away from the dog catcher and his doberman. There's no upbeat music playing here, just ominous ambience with an owl hooting in the background. It gets even worse when you get to the building Daisy is being kept in. This place is called "The Big Machine." There's a bunch of bloody machines full of blades, crushers, grinders, etc., meant to turn dogs into cat food. You have to turn these off before Daisy is taken to them. If you fail, Jake will say that he "can't watch this" as it cuts to some cans of freshly made cat food coming off the conveyor. If you succeed, you'll free Daisy and encounter Ms. Peaches herself, who will actually swear at them. Jake will fart to make her back up into The Big Machine which will turn her into cat food instead as the machine narrates the entire thing. The game is sprinkled with some more adult-oriented jokes and dialogue, and the game does outright say what you're going to run into in cutscenes with Ms. Peaches talking to her workers, so it's not 100% out of nowhere to the player, but it's still a pretty disturbing and scary part of what's otherwise a pretty family-friendly game. I grew up playing this game and it sucks that I never see anyone talking about it. It's an old, obscure game though, so it makes sense.
I still remember around the time Epic Mickey was being made I saw a youtube video called something like "Walt Disney's dark dreams realized" that was the concept art set to music that I swear was just blast beats and the wailing of the damned and it scared the hell out of me
mimis true form actually scared me and my brother so much when we were young that we literally never played the game ever again and never finished it 😭
You slept on the actually scary water part in Super Paper Mario, the River Twygz Bed. It has hands trying to drag you down and possibly the scariest music ever committed to media.
The grim reaper entry reminds me a ton of the death enemy from Gauntlet Legends with the way he points while charging you. Dude would pop out of treasure chests randomly instead of loot and the only way to fend him off was the run or use the expensive magic potions.
Crowd sourcing ideas from video comments is seriously a great way to make a video. Some of my most popular videos have been crowd-sourced this way. I think it's much better than relying on someone else's iceberg, which often just reflect the narrow biases of one person.
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate any support I can get when making videos, especially from someone who's had success in it as yourself! I'm definitely going to keep going this route for future videos on this topic. Thanks for the support! ✌️
@@realgambadogamingI have an entry for you
In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, there is a sidequest you can trigger in one of the Dungeons called Tida (which in itself is a whole unsettling and disturbing entry all on its own), where if you examine the trunk of an old pine tree you can find an old love letter.
If you happen to go around talking to NPCs, you'll eventually get two separate Elderly people who will ask you to read the letter. If you let them, they will act shocked and will disappear afterwards and nothing really comes of it until you go back to Tida later
When you go back to that dungeon, at the same tree you found the letter, you can find the dead bodies of the old couple laying together as they reunited and died (due to the toxic miasma on the air in the storyline)
Its kind of wholesome I guess because they were reunited in love and died together, but at the same time it was downright unsettling, because 1.) You don't really expect to see their dead bodies just laying there to be found, you most likely would've forgotten about it by the time you travel back to Tida
And 2.) You realize that you technically helped them both commit sewerslide.
Another unsettling thing is if you talk to one of the girl NPCs back in the town where the old man was, you come across his grand daughter who will mention that her grandfather just up and left one day and hasnt come back and is unaware that he will never be coming back
I just started but when I see you comment on a video I know it'll probably be alright
Your content annoys me, honestly
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What's extra weird is that you own the Wii U version of Epic Mickey 2, but it's in an original Wii case. That's truly cursed.
I noticed that when I filmed that bit, wtf cursed gamestop copy did I get a decade ago
@@realgambadogamingwatch out you may have gonna Mickey.exe or S**c*d* Mouse.avi as part of the copy.
@@realgambadogaming personalized asf copy of Epic Mickey 2 or something idk
Not only that, it has the Wii instruction manual
That's cursed. Not because of the mismatch, but because the WiiU port sucks(all the ports do).
I've got one, in Luigi's Mansion, Chauncey's description says "He cries loudly and never sleeps through the night, but since he was born a ghost, this seems natural". Being born a ghost has very creepy and disturbing implications.
I always assumed that description was Nintendo's way of clearing up any speculation as to why there was an infant ghost, as the implication of a death of one so young and innocent might have been too dark for them and something they wished to avoid. Hence, Chauncey was born a ghost.
Of course, his sister, Sweet Pea (I believe her name was), was confirmed to have died in her description and I don't think she was much older.
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Nintendo: we cant let people think we have dead babies in this game. So this is a natural born ghost baby.
Someone out there: so the ghosts can fuck?
@@shrimpyalfredo3933 it sounds like a less dark way to say stillbirth
Which means either the mom died when she was pregnant or ghost sex
Sounds like his mom paid a visit to the clinic
In Super Paper Mario, I'd say more the floating hands reaching to grab you if you try to swim the River Styx was a lot more creepier
There is more to the Marvelous Bridge ghost girl:
In B2/W2, you can find the same ghost in the Strange House, where it's implied that she was trapped in an endless nightmare by Darkrai.
At one point, she heard her father's voice tell her to stay in the nightmare and forget about the Lunar Wing (The item used to stop these nightmares).
It also confirms the reason why she was on Marvelous Bridge in the previous game: She was trying to return the Lunar Wing to the Pokémon Cresselia.
Pretty sure she was telling him to forget about the lunar wing and stay with her because was scared.
Something that adds to the horror in Milla's hidden room in Psychonauts is that they're psychics; it's implied that she was listening to them telepathically as they burned alive when she arrived at the orphanage and the whispers are what she heard.
She's not the only one with them, just the one that has her Nightmares under control.
Seeing the Harvest Moon one (which I agree always seemed eerie) reminded me of something in Friends of Mineral Town that seriously freaked me out as a kid: in most of those games you’re advised to put your animals back in the barn/coop by the end of the day since they can get sick if they’re left out overnight, but one time when I was playing I wasn’t able to get them back inside fast enough. Then nighttime strikes (which is sounded with a ringing bell) and IMMEDIATELY this loud wild dog barking starts. I’m like what the hell is THAT? and try to locate the source. A black dog or wolf enters the farm from the entrance and starts terrorizing my livestock, biting them and making them become sick. I started attacking the wild dog with my hammer and it eventually bugged off but as far as I know the game itself doesn’t warn you about this anywhere and it doesn’t always happen. If your dog grows up he can fight off the wild dog and bite it back though which is badass. Still, the sound of the coarse barking it made haunts me lol
Interesting experience! Sounds like a nightmare for your animals, but I have to look into this one. I haven't played much of Mineral Town admittedly so this sounds like a good excuse to finally play it to see this scenario in action
reminds me of stardew valley where if you dont let your animals back into the barn/coop coyotes get em
@@spotlightanimation6719 That's why I have fences around the barns and coops for them to trot around in and always keep the doors open until they go back inside so I can shut the door after them before ending the day. The gates stay closed so they don't wander onto my crops.
@FuryMcpurey I tried to do that but opening and closing gates on mobile is hard :(
I heard they have something like that in Stardew Valley, I've just been careful enough to not get it.
Was so excited to see Psychonauts mentioned here, definitely one of my favorite childhood games! Thought I’d let you know that the things behind bars in Milla’s mind are Nightmares. They appear as an enemy in one of the later levels of the game so you likely hadn’t encountered them yet! Great video!
Thank you for actually getting Psychonauts pretty much right. So many videos like this call it things like a "cheery" and "lightheaded kids' game" and it frustrates me because it's not any of those things. They make it seem like it's a happy-go-lucky game with a big scary Easter Egg but as someone who's played 1, 2 and ROR, it's really not *that* out of place from the game's normal tone
The infamous Milk Man being an example
@@eur0be4t3rI am the milkman, my milk is delicious
So glad to see you continuing with this topic. It's a common point of discussion but you put such a unique and funny spin on the iceberg genre it's like hearing these stories for the first time.
Thank you!
It wasn't in the original game, but apparently in the remake of return to dreamland you can hear the boss screaming "KIRBY" once defeated. It's more of a blink and you'll miss it thing but it's oddly spooky considering that the villain is still sentient even when possessed.
Magolor Soul! I think there was also an unused disturbing death scream in the original but the Deluxe version either added the unused file or uses a whole new one. I don't even know whether the scream was Mistilteinn (the entity within the Master Crown, which we learn from the Magolor Epilogue in its final boss theme's title) pulling the name from Magolor's memories to curse the warrior that foiled its plans, or Magolor himself crying out for help. We do get confirmation that Magolor survives this event from the Magolor Epilogue as well.
Edit: It seems they did in fact end up adding the original unused file as the death scream! Magolor's first boss form also had a defeat scream, but it was less "poor misguided soul whose body has been twisted into an eldritch prison crying out for help" and more "villain has been fatally wounded but masks the pain with rage as they scream"
No you can hear him calling out to Kirby for help throughout the entire battle, and it's only in the true arena, which is just a boss rush of the post game bosses
@@diamondmemer9754hey man I've never beaten the arenas, cut me some slack
@@inktonythekaonashigaster6631 just wanted to point out that it's not the final boss nor the extra mode final boss for clarity
You can probably fill an entire iceberg with creepy moments from Majora's Mask, but one I don't see talked about that often is when you fail the Kafei sidequest at one of the very last steps, and you let the sun mask drops into the hole and a cutscene plays. The music just stops and Kafei is seemingly trapped forever in that room (of course ignoring that the moon will destroy everyone anyway shortly).
I think my favorite scary moment from Majora's mask was the Romani Ranch aliens. Not only are the aliens are modeled after a real life alien myth (The Flatwoods Monster) But if you fail to stop them, they will take not only the cows, but Romani herself as well, she'll come back a day later, but will basically be catatonic and will shake her head around like she has a bad headache
It was so cool to see you mention A Wonderful Life! It's definitely a creepy game with some great vibes. If you're ever looking for super obscure stuff, there's a rare line from Dr. Hardy that's pretty unsettling. If you talk to him when he's standing outside Galen's house at night, he'll caution you to be careful in the area because he's heard the sound of a woman screaming. Very strange.
Interesting! I knew there was some interesting dialogue pieces Hardy has but I never heard of this one. I'll definitely include it in the next one. Thanks for the suggestion!
Epic Mickey was so weird. Here's what stuck with me while I played it as a kid:
- The Ticket Booth area in Gremlin Village is one of the first places you arrive at and the atmosphere stays weird for the rest of the game.
- Even when it was day, the sky was constantly dark or a smog yellow.
- You could spray Mean Street and Ostown with paint thinner and delete colorful sections of the place. You could also spray characters and make them dissolve into puddles on the ground. Then they just lay there screaming with arms flailing out of the puddle.
- You find deteriorating animatronics of Mickey's friends who plead with him to be put back together.
- Mickeyjunk Mountain, especially The Heaps. Not only is it creepy, but the Mickey merchandise there is massive and unusable.
- The Stretching Room in Lonesome Manor had disturbing pictures on the wall you had to shuffle correctly in order to get to the next room.
I think one of my favorite things about Vanessa's Manor is that apparently during the game's development, playtesters were too scared to actually play through the level so a warp to the final room was made. The warp is still in the game and can be found by crawling through a hidden hole on the left wall of the Manor's basement.
Also aside from being regular NPCs you can find throughout the game, I think some of the frozen characters are also scraped beta NPCs.
when you were talking about the guardian in minecraft I was hoping you were gonna include the clip of kurtis conner’s livestream where he says “yo mama” and then it immediately jumpscares him. it’s still the funniest twitch clip I’ve ever seen
I remember my brother playing Super Paper Mario when we were kids, and I was watching him and Mimi’s true form was startling to say the least. It was an intriguing point in the game
Psychonauts 1 is basically a half-game tutorial followed by some of the most imaginative platforming levels ever made.
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THE GARFIELD FLASH GAME!!! I WAS JUST TELLING MY WIFE ABOUT IT THE OTHER DAY AND NOW I GOT TO SHOW HER A LITTLE BIT OF IT THANK YOU
For some reason as a kid Viva Pinata always creeped me out. I loved taking care of my pinatas but the idea of having to send your pinatas to die just made me so sad. But even more was that if they got sick then eventually the Witch Doctor Dastardos would just show up and KILL them right in front of you always put me off enough i stopped playing
I felt the same when the game tells you to kill your pinatas by bashing them with a SHOVEL! made me so upset as a kid lol
@@djslimetime642 I KNOW
I don't know if this would fit but for me the redeads in Wind Waker always freaked me out as a kid. Their scream sounded like a mix between human and elephant to me and the way Link gets so scared that he just shakes and can't move for a few seconds when he hears it, along with their red eyes and the jaw that just hangs open. Plus before you approach they just look dead as hell, totally silent with their head kinda drooping to the side...
I don't know if the 64 redead or ww redead is scarier to be honest
I got literally jumpscared by a redead in WW when I was playing it for the first time last year, I was in the corridor inside the earth temple and a damn redead popped out, just stayed there in the tomb for a second, then cracked it's damn head at me. XD
Oh my gosh I knew I couldn't be the only one! Those ReDeads scarred me as a child, made Wind Waker a legitimately scary game to me! It's so colorful and happy otherwise, the way the Earth Temple just pulls the rug out from under you is both masterful and cruel.
the Minecraft igloo basement thing scared the shit out of me as a kid the first time i ran across it I deleted the world bc I thought id been hacked LOL
The Animal Crossing gyroid face thing gets more creepy when you learn what are gyriods based on... haniwa.
I always love when there’s creepy music in the background. It adds so much to these iceberg videos I love it
Thank you so much for the shoutout, man, glad my Rayman 3 video could help your research!
Loved your video and looking forward to seeing more from your channel. Keep up the great work!
Ayee nice man! Glad you found the video, thanks for your informative video as well! It made my research a lot more enjoyable for that entry. Appreciate the kind words and support!
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the first appearance of Boo's was in Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990) and Sonic Adventure 2 released in 2001. So it's not even a question who copied who
Boo from SA2 creeped me tf out.
Might seem predictable given my Pikmin icon but when I first came across the submerged castle from Pikmin 2 (I forget if it was through game play or a video) I was unsettled and freaked out by it. I was genuinely a cowardly kid in general but then I had a nightmare where I was running from the water wraith with Olimar and Louie in a very particular floor (dweevil floor if people know what that is. It has a long straight path through the middle that I was running down.) I literally was so scared of that damn cave that I didn't beat it until I was 13.
The thing that also is a bit upsetting in psychonauts is that, one that specializes in mind reacing and thought manipulation, when meela found her orphanage burning, she couldn’t help but read the minds of her kids and hearing the internal screams as they burned, begging for her help and screaming in pain. It’s also why they’re so loud to begin with, as those voices must have been booming in her mind when she experienced it. It’s a mix of sorrow and fear from that entry.
I remember as kid being to creeped out to even finish that Rayman 3 level
The dinosaur demo looks like a reference to the T-Rex chase video from the MS-DOS game 3D Dinosaur Adventure. That video featured stuff like the dinosaur's skin becoming translucent to reveal its muscles and organs though. Definitely memorable for kids
THAT'S IT. That's what it reminded me of! Holy crap, now there's some memories unlocked.
Glad to see the channel finally kicking off!
There's a character in Viva Piñata named Dastardos who will come beat your piñatas to death with a stick if they're sick. I remember on specifically the DS game he had scary dirge-like music that accompanied him. Scared me a lot as a kid
Dude i freaking LOVE this channel, he is so freaking hilarious and i get excited everytime theres a new upload, and hes the only youtuber i have notifications on for, i usually find the notifications annoying, but not here!!!!
Thanks for the support!
The ps2 screen was a good touch but you should talk about the aika village mystery from animal crossing, but awesome content
I remember being super freaked out by the basement area in Ghostbusters Wii in the home base. It had the painting of vigo and tobin‘s spirit guide, which contained all of the pages you collect during the missions of the game. To me it was very creepy to go down there and look at the book because it would take you to a screen with the book pages open on it and it also had a black background. A lot of the pictures in the book had eerie designs and were accompanied by this creepy music. I would never go down there because it always made me feel very uneasy. Also there was this weird goo monster that you would encounter in one of the last levels of the game where you go into some sort of sewage system of an old building located on a desolate island. That goo monster had eyes all over its body and made me have nightmares. I then didn‘t play the game for a very long time. It was a very cool game, though it was kind of broken because it would crash the wii at a few instances. Maybe my copy was haunted lul. Edit: I should also add that one factor that made it even more creepy was that the music would eventually stop while reading tobins spirit guide and you're just left with radio silence while looking at the spooky stuff that was in there. Now looking back at it its not nearly as bad as it was for me while i was a kid but can definitely see why i was scared of it though the art in that book was pretty cool. There is a video on youtube that goes over the extras of the game with the full spirit guide on there if you're looking to include this in a video.
Pretty unique entry potential here, I've never seen much on the game but I'll look into this one. Thanks for the suggestion!
man you should see the sonic X episode with the boom boos, those are nightmare fuel
I got a suggestion, both involve water levels. In Banjo Kazooii on the second level, there is a shark who chases you when you get in the water. The music is replaced with a tense song, and you here a chomping sound effect to show the shark is talking to you. Talking about how he wants to eat you, freaked me out. Another is I think Donkey Kong Country 3 where you have to keep your fish buddy feed or he eats you. As you swim you see your buddy slowly turn red, getting angry and hungry. The fear of "can I find a fish to feed this hungry b-ass before he chomps me"
I remember snackers well from Banjo Kazooie, also that fish from DKC3 gave me nightmares as a kid. These would make great entries, thanks for the suggestions!
That shark literally gave me a phobia of video game water 😂 can't even grab cave fish in totk without a cold sweat.
The Pokemon Black & White ghost girl actually does get expanded upon in Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 through the location known as the Strange House
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This kind of reminds me of one place in Stardew Valley, like that one little pathway you take between your home and the town, where you cross paths with the bus. A lot of the time, the music stops, so it just quiet. It's not scary or anything, but it just sends a shiver down my spine and makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, even more than the caves in that game.
In Frogger 2 there was a part in the haunted house level where you had to chase a teleporting frog around a room while being chased by an evil laughing ghost, that shit terrified me as a kid
Mr Get Out in Angry Aztec in Donkey Kong 64...traumatized the hell out of me as a kid 😅
I still remember being scared of that knaaran level, I literally couldnt get past that first part where youre in the small maze and the knaaran is patrolling that area, i would try and defeat it but it turns out theyre invincible, i endedup putting the game down for a while till i finaly decided id get back into it and actually beat it
I like your scene transitions from topic to topic. Every video has unique flair. Having the algorithms feed me stuff it’s nice to have something new
Holy hell...The Garfield haunted house games and yes the doughnuts! God I gotta play those again that was just a random blast of nostalgia I was not expecting.
One thing that always unnerved me as a kid was a few areas in the haunted house in Jumpstart World. The background ambience in general was always eerie to me. And at the end of the haunted house the area with glowing green water always had disturbing ambience as well
good video i loved the scary atmospheric music in the background it fits the vibe perfectly and makes the video more immersive.
Fun Fact: A hat in time's queen vanessa mission is actually completely skippable as theres a secret airvent in the mansions basement that leads straight to the time piece, this was added into the game as beta testers were either too scared to continue or were struggling to find the keys
Neat, picked the right time to refresh lol. Nice to see you back Gambado, luigi was a cool guest but its nice to hear the OG again.
Appreciate ya!
If I were to recommend something, I'd go with a Flash game I played as a kid called Dino Run and its remake, Dino Run DX. The game may be vibrant with cute dinosaurs, but you're always fleeing from a giant death wall caused by a meteor. As the wall gets closer, the background goes red, the foreground becomes dark, and the music is replaced by the rumbling of your impending doom. When you die, it's just a black screen that says 'Doomed' ('Extinct' when you run out of lives).
Same here, l remember playing this game on my old PC.
Star Fox Adventures. It's one of those games that as you progress and go back to already beaten levels it feels liminal and empty, but as a kid, imagination goes wild and it feels truly eerie, as if you're not welcome anymore despite saving that place. This became worse when I was fooling around in the game and I grabbed an explosive barrel and it seemed as if the model swapped and grew legs and attacked my Fox character; this happened a second time with a friend as a witness. My brother didn't believe me and it never happened again. I never heard anyone having something like this happen again, but it happened. It's possible that the barrels noclipped and the models stretched around and as I tossed the barrel it exploded and harmed me and that's what happened.
Idk if you’ve covered this by two levels that freaked me out from Lego games are the venom level from Lego marvel superheroes and the doctor who level from Lego dimensions the venom one just has a creepy atmosphere and it’s set in a lab covered in black goo and venom just straight up jumpscares you and in the doctor who level there’s a section with the weeping angels
When I was younger I could never play these by myself I made my dad play them
For the record the hat in time level is genuinely scary in context. Something about it popping out in a cute game had me more on edge than a lot of horror games I have played. Especially going in blind.
The Harvest Moon winds and the Minecraft cave sounds go hand in hand in giving you that sense of foreboding and loneliness as a kid that even today as an adult can be eerie to experience. Like even when I was 18 or 19 and playing Minecraft alone felt off, despite it being daytime in the game, and *especially* when you encounter abandoned mining shafts.
A couple minecraft things i see no one talk about is
- The Ocean Sounds.
- The Nether Sounds (specifically the Soul Sand Valley)
- The Ancient City and it’s weird connection to the Nether and Redstone (Education Edition really adds onto that, surprisingly)
- The Abandoned Villages
There is definitely more but that’s what i can think of currently
Some of the sounds in the crimson forests sometimes scare the shit outta me
5:32 I'm curious if you would ever make a video scary Easter eggs are scary things found in video games and rate them from the best to the worst
Gotta say, it's validating seeing someone else afraid of flying insects which don't really pose a threat. The flying isn't what gets to me as much as the buzzing sound they make. I'm just thankful most media uses very unrealistic buzzing sounds which my brain can tune out.
Oh thanks, by the time I make my game, I'd better give my insectoid race the most realistic buzzing I can to make them more unnerving.
@@aeroblu2002 Only small insects buzz in the way that scares me. Once they get to the size of a giant hornet, the buzz doesn’t scare me.
@@ShenDoodles BZZZZRRRRIIIIRRRRRREEEERRRRRBRBRBRBRBR!!!
In My Singing Monsters, Rare Wubbox is pretty creepy, with his realistic eyeballs and teeth. It's especially creepy as it sounds like he is saying some morbid stuff, lining up with the fact that you put monsters into wubboxes to awaken them. Add to the fact that the description implies that Rare Wubbox is eating the monsters as it states,"Get going with the boxing! Your Common Natural Monsters just won't do - this picky customer only accepts Rares." It's a well-known creepy thing around the My Singing Monsters community in a very light-hearted game.
nah, i always found him to be goofy lmao
@@yololthepikminenjoyer I don't like when he looks like this though
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I think you should probably cover either the skulldozer or the wedding intmusic from the first little big planet
Was not expecting to see the HHR shoutout, but I'm here for it. Both you guys put out quality content
There's an indie game called Kiwi 64 and the game is adorable and fun until you get to the tomb level. It won't make you shit yourself or anything but the whiplash is definitely something, if I remember correctly it's either this game or a different one by the dev where there's just a human fetus as set dressing so there's that. As far as I know they're all rated E
That Garfield spooky house flash game is where I experienced my first jumpscare lol
In A Hat In Time, Scarier than the manor is right outside of it those statues sometimes don't move, but on the off chance you bounce around their unmoving solid seemingly terrain-like bodies they will spring to life when you turn your back.
Thanks for mentioning that level in dkc. I always thought the spiders chasing you was super creepy and just made me rage non stop everytime id fail to escape 😭
Fun Fact about Vanessa's Manor in A Hat in Time: during development, the playtesters got so freaked out over the complete change in tone this level brought to the game that the devs put in a shortcut at the start of the level that bypasses all the Vanessa encounters and goes straight to the timepiece at the end.
It's always a good time when GambadoGaming uploads :)
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my suggestion would be ice level from pvz1, it was an unused level only accessible using a debug menu, nothing would happen until the game would just play the game over sound effect, idk why but i always found it unnerving
As a kid, I played the CARS videogame. Y'know licensed videogame based on the movie 'n stuff.
Something that seriously fucked me up were the segments where you're "tractor tipping". Essentially, you drive onto a big ass field, drive up to the little tractors sleeping, and honk, which causes them to freak out and tip over.
These missions take place at night. However nothing particularly scary yet.
If you watched the movie, you'll remember the red harvester car, Frank. He also appears in the game. And man, he fucked me UP.
This mission still traumatizes me to this day.
Maaan, you gotta give Psychonauts a chance, the kinda stuff like that room in Mila's mind is what hooks you, bro, wait till you see the psych ward levels
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Nah but fr, I've been hooked on this series for a while now (even though I'm watching it out of order) and you have a great voice, editing style and, although you sometimes need to stop and give context, you keep it concise and to the point. You truly are the youtuber of all time.
this is the kinda content I live for. also, dope intro with the ps start up sound
Thanks!
I remember feeling quite unnerved when i first entered the World of Nothing in Super Paper Mario. something about the music just creeped me out when i was younger.
I'm so glad someone talked about how terrifying Glover was! Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Even as an adult it creeps me out hard.
"It's got chicken legs!" (Admit it. You read that in GIR's voice.)😺👻
This is the first time I've seen a video and idk why but I kinda love how all over the place you are with the things you're talking about sometimes
Oh hey, nice to see my suggestions were included in a video! Even if my comment was super cropped. :P I didn't realize until your channel randomly got recommended to me again. Distance is fun as hell, and by this point, I've gotten gold medals on almost all of the arcade maps! Reminds me of a modern Sonic game, in terms of gameplay and design.
I played some of the games you mentioned, but never have thought to try to go deeper into the games. The one that got me good with palpitations and shaking hands was Slender Rising back then ;w;. Being in a tundra and partially in a wooded environment then, I thought he was out to get me XD.
I give thanks to your videos as they give a sense of nostalgia.
I've been remembering stuff that scared me when I was a kid. I got 3 so far. All PS1.
1- A Rugrats game, it had a couple of levels with eerie ambient, I remember an empty space ship and the house at night, with a flashlight and some ghost PNGs.
2- The second boss from Gex 2, Moo Moo something. Oh and the Horror TV levels... and the Circuit ones...
3- A bully kid enemy from the park level in Jersey Devil. Can't say why they scared me so much, maybe the laugh.
More stuff came to mind while writing.
4- The stained glass boss from Medievil
5- A space ship level from a Sega Genesis Toy Story game. My cousin had it and that level was so empty and eerie... I feel there's a theme here.
6- All of Contra Hard Corps if that counts.
Well, also, the gyroids in Animal Crossing are apparently based on some sort of creature or statue related to funerals and deaths in Japanese folklore, so having the player’s face become a Gyroid face on top of losing everything your villager had on them upon turning off the game in another player’s town without saving first would seem to indicate that something bad happened to them after essentially being abandoned in another town by the player.
The sims 2 lore has a lot of fucked up details, too, especially in strangetown, where there's Olive Specter, a serial killer, and Nervous Subject (which is Olive's son) who is used as a human experiment and tortured by two evil scientists
I used to play Rayman 3 all the time on my PS2, I miss those days.. but yeah it took me some time to muster the courage to go through the Knarren levels
Your editing is top notch. I love the visual gags and there’s just enough of them to not be too overwhelming
Conker Live and reloaded had that creepy zombie level with the grim reaper
I never finished Vanessa's Manor lol (I was literally 16-17 when I played AHIT), I just used the hidden dev skip in the basement that I'm convinced was left there on purpose
Got flashbanged by memories of the garfield donut collection game. 10/10 video
I think one of the best thing about your vids are the openings.
Thanks!
This is the second time my footage for the Psychonauts Mila Easter Egg was used for one of these Scary Kids Game Iceburg videos and I think that's pretty cool.
The Sherk Xbox game scared me when i was young
Gambado how did you know i’m snowed in and bored rn?! you controlling the weather or something??
Well doesn’t matter the city’s in snow shambles this is some quality content as always 👌
Yikes, being snowed in sucks, glad I could help in a small way ✌️
there's another very creepy part of a hat in time. in the snatcher's forest there are these literal nooses that talk about your neck and how they would love to be around it
Something else about the Pokemon Black/White bridge girl, in Black 2/White 2 there's an area called the "Strange House" where you learn more about her, and its implied that Darkrai, a Mythical Pokemon from the previous generation, killed this girl by forcing her into an endless sleep plagued with nightmares. Further evidence to it is when you obtain an item to encounter Cresselia, which is the pokemon who is designed lore-wise to counter Darkrai's nightmares.
The Strange House also has some creepy music and every time you leave or re-enter rooms the furniture shuffles itself around, and you also see the ghost girl from the bridge around the house talking about endlessly sleeping and nightmares along with Darkrai iirc.
Glover entry: "random caw of a crow"
Audio: bluejay noise
After watching this video with the PS1 T rex, I was re-traumatized by the memory of the T-rex in the underworld of Mario Odyssey, in the Wooded Kingdom. That area was super out of left field, as to get to it you have to jump off the edge of the Wooded Kingdom, and I did so as a joke, but then was transported to this underground, dark forest with heavy footstep noises and fog. Plus, you can't just fast travel out of there-- you have to use seeds and water to grow a vine to get out, all while avoiding the T Rex. Terrifying.
Also, so happy to see Super Paper Mario representation on this Channel! No one talks enough about it, it's my favorite story-driven game. Was so happy to see the giant squid on this list, especially since I thought I was a pussy for being afraid of the level.
Some other creepy video game things that come to mind (sorry if these have already been covered in your other videos):
- The Zombie Possessor enemy from Earthbound (especially its clay model), also Fourside
- The destroyed Sammer Kingdom in Super Paper Mario
- Bigmouth Galaxy, Unagi (Maw-Ray) Eels in Mario Odyssey, (or those big-eyed eels that hide in nooks and crannies in Galaxy)
-The atmosphere of the game Chu-Lip! It's a little-known weird Gamecube game filled with strange and uncanny characters, like the Policeman who looks like a person in a Mascot costume (and his eyes glow while he's on patrol), Doctor Dandy, who is a jekyll-hyde situation, and so on. You win the game by figuring out how to kiss each character...yeah it's pretty weird.
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Awesome stuff here! Thanks for all the suggestions, sounds like some good ones in here. Also I totally forgot about that part of the Wooded Kingdom, and your right the fact you couldn't fast travel really made it all the more scary.
Oh my gosh, someone who remembers Glover in the same way I did. Hard as f*** (I couldn't even get through the tutorial for a good while) and the overworld scared me too much to continue playing once I did. The box always made this game look so fun and when I finally got to rent it, I was definitely met with... an experience.
Id love to see a video on creepy things found in Elder Scrolls games (theres a lot of interesting creepy things found beyond the normal ghosts and zombies and spooky dungeons)
Here's one I've never seen anybody talk about - Dog's Life for the PS2.
The basic plot is that you're a dog named Jake who's trying to save his crush, another dog named Daisy, from kidnappers. You travel through a few different towns, completing quests to get bones so you can go to the next town.
The game maintains a pretty child-friendly atmosphere, until you reach the last level - the dog pound.
The dog pound is bleak and dead looking. Dogs you've met over the game are stuck in these tiny cages, and you have to free them while also running away from the dog catcher and his doberman. There's no upbeat music playing here, just ominous ambience with an owl hooting in the background.
It gets even worse when you get to the building Daisy is being kept in. This place is called "The Big Machine." There's a bunch of bloody machines full of blades, crushers, grinders, etc., meant to turn dogs into cat food. You have to turn these off before Daisy is taken to them. If you fail, Jake will say that he "can't watch this" as it cuts to some cans of freshly made cat food coming off the conveyor.
If you succeed, you'll free Daisy and encounter Ms. Peaches herself, who will actually swear at them. Jake will fart to make her back up into The Big Machine which will turn her into cat food instead as the machine narrates the entire thing.
The game is sprinkled with some more adult-oriented jokes and dialogue, and the game does outright say what you're going to run into in cutscenes with Ms. Peaches talking to her workers, so it's not 100% out of nowhere to the player, but it's still a pretty disturbing and scary part of what's otherwise a pretty family-friendly game.
I grew up playing this game and it sucks that I never see anyone talking about it. It's an old, obscure game though, so it makes sense.
I still remember around the time Epic Mickey was being made I saw a youtube video called something like "Walt Disney's dark dreams realized" that was the concept art set to music that I swear was just blast beats and the wailing of the damned and it scared the hell out of me
mimis true form actually scared me and my brother so much when we were young that we literally never played the game ever again and never finished it 😭
You slept on the actually scary water part in Super Paper Mario, the River Twygz Bed. It has hands trying to drag you down and possibly the scariest music ever committed to media.
The grim reaper entry reminds me a ton of the death enemy from Gauntlet Legends with the way he points while charging you. Dude would pop out of treasure chests randomly instead of loot and the only way to fend him off was the run or use the expensive magic potions.
As an Eskimo I can confirm we all have basements in our igloos where we make stinkflipper