The anti-piracy in Mr. Gimmick for the NES is terrifying. It's just a killscreen near the end of the game with nothing but white text in the middle saying "black hole". Imagine being in a poor family and getting a pirated version of Mr. Gimmick for Christmas and then that happens.
Kirby is just the strangest game series. All the weird scary stuff that randomly happens like the bleeding eyeball boss of course, but the damn second playthroughs lol. There's 2 difficulties in Kirby games, so easy you could beat it while asleep, and holy shit wtf you need to be just about perfect lmao
@@FilthyTea Why's it bother you so much? It's not like anyone here is saying "no this kid's game can't do this," just discussing dark subtext, it's not harming you in any way
The Jak and Daxter one reminded me of Spore. In the second lifecycle where you're on land, there is a creature that will kill you if you travel too far in the ocean. Its larger then any creature and is the only creature that can't be killed to my knowledge. I found it so scary as a kid because it just happens instantly. You can't run away from it, it'll just get you.
That thing and the Epic creatures were terrifying to me as a kid. Just the fact that they were so much bigger than me, could kill you in one hit, and couldn't be killed themselves... at least, not by an inexperienced player like me. I actually managed to kill an Epic creature when I got older and DAMN was it satisfying ^_^
Man I'm so glad you actually put Tom and Jerry Infurnal Escape from there, but I actually didn't expect it to be my suggestion out of all things. I loved the way you narrated it as well haha. Thanks once again!
I can imagine Tom meeting Kratos and the two bonding over their shared experience of being thrown into the underworld and having to steal souls to crawl out of it.
Yo-Kai Watch 4 has a few designs that could be scary for a child. Lets say you were a kid who loved the Franchise andolayed all three of the games and moved on to 4 you really liked the sweet and innocent granpa yo-kai, Hungramps, and couldn’t wait to see him in the new game. Just to see that he turned into a demon that eats people. There are many more yo-kai from the first three games that go through form changes like this, some scarier than others, but nonetheless I could see this shaking up a kid if not downright scaring them.
I don’t know if ace attorney would count as a family friendly game considering the themes of murder, but on the other hand it’s mostly wholesome dialogue with inoffensive humor and nothing overtly creepy happens in the series that is until the final case of dual destinies which arguably the darkest case in the series based on the implications behind it and the imaginary used in it which resulted in the game getting an M rating at the time. Basically it centers around the idea of a mom who put their daughter through multiple experiments centered around monitoring emotions and seemingly caused her to go insane and kill her with a knife. Of course going through the case we find that’s not what happened, but it still makes the accused look like psychopathic child who happily murdered their mother especially when it shows an image of them smiling covered in blood.
fun fact about marx,according to updated kirby lore the reason of why he did all of his stuff was because dedede stolen all the food from dreamland on that same game before, so since he was hungry he wanted to rule planet pop star by himself so basically the dude did all of that because he was hungry
@@realgambadogaming Like i said before: 25:03 One of the Scary parts about the game is the Backstory and Lore of some of the Spirits, like Toiletta, a Little Ghost girl with large, empty black eyes who is Based in Hanako-san born form the World war 2. And a top of that She have her own quest in the game when you have to face not only her, but also a Giant hideous Yokai Spider that clings on the Roof of the Bathroom.
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Joka from Klonoa: Door to Phontomile was always creepy to me as a kid. He's this clown-like creature with a frozen face. He acts silly at first, but at the climax of the game he becomes unhinged after his multiple failures. The boss fight with him is worse since he transforms into a giant monster
Shiver Star wasn't creepy to me as a kid (I love snow areas), but the implications/theories that it used to be planet Earth after an icy apocalypse is pretty dark.
I remember in Tomodachi Collection two scary things and this is news.First if you didnt save the game and exit the next time you open the game You gonna have Breaking news which say you need to save the game after leaving.The 2nd news introducing the ghost which looks like your mii in appartment the ghost looks very creepy and scary.
One thing from a very popular game that no one talks about: in Wind Waker, the first dungeon is a volcano area with a short outside section where you climb up the side of the volcano. Nothing wrong so far. The thing is, the game has a day/night cycle, but the first time you visit this area it will always be day time and there's no reason to come back here after you're done. However, you're free to do so, and if you come at night, there's a bug that makes the night sky clouds pitch black, and it TERRIFIED me. It doesn't even looks like clouds, more like giant globs of dark matter conquering the skies, or like Link's reality is falling apart. It's a bug so it happens just like that with no explanation or reaction from the game or its characters, you're just face to face with terror. This game already scared me a little with its endless ocean (especially when at the edge of the world and there's straight nothing in the distance) but this one took this fear of giant things and pushed it to the next level. Also this works on the Gamecube version, I don't know if it's still there on the Wii U version.
Some of Tomodachi Life's dream sequences creeped me out when I played it as a teen. Not terrifying or anything. Just...eerie. Specifically i remember there was one where you're driving at night in a forest and theres a bobblehead on the dashboard. Another creepy dream is one where a mii is walking alone through a dark forest with a skeleton keychain on their backpack. I was certain those two in particular were gonna have some sort of jumpscare but there never was. Theres one where a giant mii slowly rises from the water and scares another mii. Another one where a mii is in like a dining room and the windows open then your 3ds camera turns on. The mirror ones, hide and seek, or ninja dreams are also a little eerie.
Hey just in case you haven't mentioned it already, Paper Mario on the N64 The music that played when you first enter Boo's mansion scared me so much that i used to mute my tv when i got to that part. Also Tubba Blubba's castle, that entire segment had me irl trying to stay as quiet as possible. I think it also hit a lot harder since I briefly lived in a house where i had to sneak around both in during the day and during the night to not get in trouble
I have one! In Sonic Adventure 2, when they play the video diary that hold the manifesto and last words of Gerald Robotnik. Everything starts going wrong on the Space Colony the cast is on, and the video starts. It details his grief and his plan to kill everyone, and even more chilling is that at the end of it, a soldier asks if he has anything else to say, and when Gerald says “no”, the soldier calls “READY!”-as in, the footage cuts literally seconds before Gerald is killed by firing squad. That shit fundamentally warped my brain back in 2001, i wont lie
Tbh, I like how sudden it is. At first there is boss music but the moment Knuckles notices the video starting, it goes 3 miles sideways. It legitimately goes full MM Final hours on us, the atmosphere is replaced as the serious part starts.
@@lpfan4491 couldn't agree more! The stakes go from a 10 to 100 reeeeal fast. I single-handly attribute that moment to my modern love of analog and found footage horror tbh
I was very scared of the final boss of Pikmin 3 because the scary thing is he was the water wraith, goolix, and foolix all at the same time, and it also might’ve been the reason why the ships always crash, people should think about it more instead
I'm currently playing this game, but know some points of it get creepy/messed up. Madou monogatari is a Japan exclusive game with fanmade English translations available online, for the Japanese game system PC-98. In madou monogatari 1 (pc-98), you play as Arle, a 4-6 year old girl who goes through a tall tower as a graduation test for her magic kindergarten. Because I'm still early in, the full story is something I don't fully know yet, but the tower is full of horrifying enemies such as skeletons, rotting corspes, and actual demons who got in somehow. Your final attacks/enemy attacks/deaths can also be graphic, such as a werewolf catching fire and dying in a massive blaze, or the rotting corspes exploding from parasites within it (or having it's face fall off and it proceeds to just shamble to you for the rest of the fight), and one enemy has its eyeball come out of its skull from you hitting it too hard. But one of the more well known scary moments is a fake ending you get before the final boss - you think you leave the tower and see your friends from school. They happily congratulate you, only to slowly melt and their voices distort into zombie-like groans. Pc-98 is one of the worst versions of this scene, btw. Luckily the horrific vision goes away, leading to the final boss and the kids are all actually ok outside the tower, but that is still a freaky scene. Insane to know that most of Madou Monogatari cast has a slightly better life in Puyo Puyo (spin off series)
I feel like I need to mention that the gory bits, besides the vision of your friends dying and the werewolf ablaze, are all text. The visuals for them are all in your head and that can make it scarier. Looking at the well done sprites and imagining the effects of your actions can be scarier than the sprite work.
Sorry for being persistent dude, I always felt like the Planet Robobot just unnerved me with those sounds. Can't wait to see what else you find, some of these I've been aware of, but it's also interesting to see what others find unnerving.
No worries man, if you hadn't I wouldn't have seen it as soon as I did, and I'm glad I did! It made for a really great entry, and it makes me want to find more to cover from the Kirby series. Thanks again!
I don't remember if this was brought up previously but in DK64, the crypt in Creepy Castle always terrified me. The moaning, graves, and especially the minecart section felt like such a serious departure from the spooky sheet-ghost camp that the rest of the level was.
18:40 "THERE I AM, GARY, THERE I AM!" Man that growl and heartbeat still makes my soul leave my body 💀 I only ever played the first Jak and Daxter game, but I've always wanted to play the Daxter spinoff... ironic I was interested in the only other game in the series with my archnemesis Lurker Shark
Plus god why does it happen with nothing but the eco island in the distance that’s what makes it worse, compared to banjo where you still can see your surroundings, and escape since you can take hits over it just killing you instantly.
Shiver Star is very creepy in Kirby 64. It's basically whats left of Earth in a nuclear winter or ice age. The further you go into the planet, the more strange things you see, especially in the factory. Making you think just what the hell was these people doing before the world froze over.
I forgot about Massiface (he works for Kyubi) from Yokai Watch. Damn he looked like Penniwise. It's been so long since I played Yokai Watch. The worst part of that Kyubi quest is when you had to team up with Komasan,who is completely scared by everything that has been happening. To sum it up,everything was done by Kyubi
I have a request for when you talk about yo kai watch again: it's the red box event that happens randomly The NPC you receive the box from tells you to NOT open it, and if you do one of many random things will happen, they may be minor changes, they may be major changes, the only way to tell is if you open the box
Actually, I got one more potential creepy thing from Wind Waker: The Seahats. They're just straight-up creepy, with their gaping fish-like mouths, strange helicopter droning noises, and the fact that they are about twice as big as the King of Red Lions. Whenever I'm sailing through particularly open waters, I always get a sense of dread when a group of these bastards sneak up on my boat. Once you here the sea battle music, it's too late.
I like how you're expecting yo-kai watch to be automatically kid friendly. It's a Japanese game about dead animals and people. Their mascot is a cat who was hit by a car and died. It's based on a bunch of horrid demons and spirits fom mythology. They fight zombies in the third game.
So, I've been watching this series for a while now and I haven't seen anyone talking about it, but when I was a kid and I played Golden Sun: Dark Down on my DS there's a part where the mood of the game changes completely In a little over the half of the game, there's a part where half of the world is plunged into shadows. Inside this shadows stronger monsters appear and fights become generally harder inside, but the part that used to unnerve me when I was a kid is that some towns that were inside the shadow are now filled with the corpses of the people who used to live there and I if I recall correctly, one of your companions can listen to them to hear what they thought about before dying or while they are dead, lying around the empty town It was quite shocking for me but that might only be me
Not sure if anyone else has said this one yet, but in the Party Mode of Sonic and the Secret Rings, there’s this minigame called “Watch Out! Trap.” It’s a luck-based one where you have to guess which locks are safe and which ones are traps (ei which ones summon these weird rock monsters). It’s always unnerved me for the following reasons: 1. There’s none of the usual quirky music. Just an ominous ambiance. 2. The designs of the rock monsters. Maybe it was just the graphics, but to me they’re somewhat unsettling. 3. Whenever a trap is sprung by picking the wrong lock, whatever Sonic character you’re playing as starts COWERING IN FEAR, as if they already know their fate. Was anyone else rattled by this minigame, or was it just me?
Uh in YKW3 there's a dog guy called mass mutterer that you have to find and defeat in battle. I think I may have screamed when he first came on screen.
You know what I was always terrified of? The beast makers area in spyro one. It was the main area that stopped me from finishing the game, especially with that level that had the bushes that charged at you. Hated that they got brought back in spyro 2 in fractured hills lol
I think one of the things that scared me as a kid was the alien fish in feeding frenzy 2, after every last level you play as a fish you see a shadowy fish hover across the screen as the fish you play as follows. I would literally have to look away from the cutscene it made me so tense. Especially since a few level descriptions would talk about the uptick in shipwrecks around the ocean caused by the alien fish. I think the game definitely made me afraid of the ocean.
I really like these more story / subtle scary entries, rather than just “SCOOBY DOO GAME HAS GORE JUMPSCARE?? WUHOH BOIOIOIOIOI I AM SO SPOOKED” I love hearing REAL scary stuff. I’m someone who doesn’t really get scared from a lot of jumpscares and surface level stuff (yes I can jump and get spooked, but rarely SCARED), but real things, real awful things, they scare me. The Kirby mecha planet thing with the father who basically did nothing wrong, but had to be murdered for the greater good… that’s scary. That is real fear Haha whoops I think I did a bit long of a message here, didn’t mean to do that haha so ‘derp’ am I right But yeah, PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS I LOVE ACTUAL SCARY SHIZ
In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, you can find an old love letter lodged in a tree in the town of Tida (which is a whole place of terror all on its own) left by someone who fled the village many years ago. Throughout the towns, there are two elderly NPCs you can choose to show the letter to if you happen to talk to them after getting the letter. They act shocked after showing them and disappear without any mention as to what's going on. If you go back to that same tree in Tida you found the letter, you will find the two NPCs bodies leaning against the tree embracing each other. Both are dêãd. They traveled to that place to reunite and they süfføçated in the toxic, unbreathable atmosphere. Later back in town, the grand daughter of the old man mentions how he went off one day and she hasn't seen him since. You help an old couple unalive themselves, and you don't realize it until it's too late. It's a bittersweet ending to a random side quest. Discovering that as a kid was pretty unsettling ngl. Always feel so guilty after doing that quest.
Hope this gets in the next one but Pixel Gun 3d has some dark stuff in it like the School level in the last level of the first campaign world. Lot of terrifying things in there that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid like the upside down classroom and the creepy baby laughter and the whole room of dead hanging kids in cages from the ceiling. Don’t get me started of Slender Forest map. I hated it so much back then.
I've got another scary Kirby moment-- it's not the MOST terrifying thing in the Kirby lore by far, but it freaked me out the first time I played it. In Kirby's Epic Yarn (which is quite possibly the cutest and most wholesome game ever made, fight me), there's a level called Deep-Dive Deep where you're down in the deep ocean, and there are these giant angler fish that try to suck you into their mouth and eat you. You can't die in the game, so they're not much of a threat at first glance, but eventually you come across this huge mound of what seems to be glowing algae. As you swim past it, an even BIGGER angler emerges from the algae and starts chasing you, covering the entire side of the screen. I've always hated chase sequences in games and this one caught me off-guard real bad, especially since it's in a game as cutesy as this. It doesn't help that there's yet ANOTHER angler chase sequence on your way back up, although the scare factor has somewhat worn off by then.
I have thalassophobia, so two games that stood out for me was subnautica, which is not a horror game some how, and endless oceans blue world, the earctic level to be exact, darkness below you, a massive sheet of ice above, and the blaring noise of the megamouth shark getting to close. That level was actually the only one that set me off.
megaman legends 1... i dunno if this count as family friendly game... it looks family friendly from the surface... but the intro stage for megaman legends 1 is so creepy for me... a really dark dungeon dig site ruin infested with violent reaverbots that had various patterns of creepy eye designs on them... with the music being so ominously terror inducing... and you can hear the creepy creaking of those reaverbots hiding in the dark or behind walls and doors just out of your sights... and in some of the dig sites, the jumpscares from the snake worm reaverbots still make me shudder in revulsion to this day... megaman legends 1 offers a very contrasting atmosphere for me... it had bright colorful kids-friendly adventurous artstyle design... kicking the can in the market street of megaman legends 1 is so nostalgic... and yet when you descend into the mysterious dungeon dig sites ruin and fighting the pirates, the theme suddenly starts shifting into otherworldly horror mixed with real life tragedies of wars. the bonnes pirates might look like ridiculous team rocket plus despicable me minions gang of clown pirates, but when they raid the towns and fighting megaman... they wouldn't hesitate to murder and destroy anything in their way (despite tron bonne having a crush on megaman)... i remember crying when the megaman and roll's airship the flutter gets destroyed when i fail to defeat the bonnes' gesselschaft airship... also kinda shocked when i see megaman can die from being run over by civilian cars... also, the title screen is somehow scary too with no music at all, the background is a mysterious wall section of some reaverbots dig site and low lighting, but then the bonnes' servbots/kobun occasionally walks into the screen doing some silly servbots comedy routines but with dead eyes... seriously, the title screen for megaman legends 1 feels more creepy than family friendly... reaverbots+their dig sites ruins and the bonnes suddenly turning from klutzy silly clown pirates into murderous pirates are the stuff of nightmares for my childhood...
Like i said before: 25:03 One of the Scary parts about the game is the Backstory and Lore of some of the Spirits, like Toiletta, a Little Ghost girl with large, empty black eyes who is Based in Hanako-san born form the World war 2. And a top of that She have her own quest in the game when you have to face not only her, but also a Giant hideous Yokai Spider that clings on the Roof of the Bathroom.
I remember one of the more weirdly intense moments ive seen in a GBA game was a Revenge of the Sith adaptation that used something like a mix between the movie itself and Gennedy Tartakovski Clone Wars for its visual aesthetic. Looks a bit bouncier and the combat isn't exactly pulse poundingly deep. The animations are passable but they clearly made a lot of sprites that could pull double duty. They only barely shiw off Dooku's death in any detail, with one dedicated sprite of him kneeling and Maybe missing his hands. So, when it gets to the Obi-Wan vs Grievous fight, you expect him to just fall over like Dooku, with maybe one sprite of visible damage... and see they lovingly recreated Grievous being incinerated in his own exoskeleton, his burnt out husk going limp on its feet, then keeling over lifelessly, it kind of took me off guard. The console version was also kind of intense because yeah it was a closer and more detailed adaptation, but it also had more overtly graphic animations for hacking clone troopers apart, chilling death screams for in-game combat performed by most of the actual cast, and an alternate ending if you play the final battle in two player mode where Vader wins the fight on Mustufar by killing Obi-Wan, successfully betrays Sidious and kills him too, then takes over the Empire for himself.
I remember the Lurker Shark damn near scaring the shit out of me as a kid-let alone in Jak 3, where you get abandoned in the desert, if you jump off a ledge out there without being in a vehicle you'll get snatched up by a tentacle. That one made me always hand the controller over to my dad or sister when I had to go there.
One moment in Mickey's Magic Mirror that stood out was the jumpscare painting. You click the trick prompt, it builds up before the painting abruptly turns evil and laughs at you. Baby's first jumpscare... And damn effective one.
something I'm surprised no one brought up about Yo-Kai Watch was a boss called Tarantutor, which is a giant creepy-looking spider that feasts on children who wander into the school at night. definitely creeped me out as a kid.
Always great to see more yokai watch. Tho I would like to see the 4th game brought up with its main antagonist soranaki. Or the overseerer in English, when I first saw them I never forgot them and all the actions they pull. Truly felt like a looming threat to be scared of at any moment
There is a point-and-click series called "Samorost", which I wouldn't call exactly scary, but it has this weird fever dream feel to it, since the visuals are quite surreal and events also can be weird. As a kid, I felt a sense of unease playing it. Some uncanny stuff.
I feel like if you do another one of these you should cover the final level of locoroco 1, honestly its kinda like something out of a creepypasta for a game like this and scared quite a few kids who got to it, with the mysterious dude who stands on the menu suddenly vanishing before you enter the level and then jumpscaring you with some slightly unnerving music and then proceeding to transform and it sorta coming out of nowhere really does catch you off guard if you don't know about it lol. just really that intro that sticks with you.
Can you talk about The Legendary Starfy? I was so scared of the main antagonist Mashtooth, along with a shark that appeared in a shipwreck level. The game aged poorly with Mashtooth literally having vore in his boss fight. He would sniff Starfy up through his nose and eat him like that. The shark would swim in the background a little while, and then come swimming towards you, and if you didn't get behind a pillar it would literally swallow you alive. You would end up in a fleshy part of the level where you have to escape.
Oh my god I completely forgot about that, having to navigate out of the shark's insides was such a jarring change of scenery, I expected a game over not a flesh cave level
Seeing the Thumbnail alone makes me happy that I'm not the only one who thought massiface from yokai watch was terrifying when younger me first played it. It didn't help that I thought the segment was building up to fighting kyubi (one of my favorites but overall a much less scary yokai), but he was like "lol no, have fun dealing with him". (though now I do love studying Japanese folklore particularly yokai)
These have probably been covered before, but I got a few!\ -The racing segment in SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab due to the artstyle change and the characters' faces becoming fucked up and gnarly -The screen that appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl when you decide to quit Classic Mode after losing all your stocks -The Dragon bossfight in Super Mario Odyssey -Minecraft's empty and lonely atmosphere -Wario specifically from Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins -The after-boss fight noises you hear if you stay in an area in Splatoon 1. Actually, the whole lore of Splatoon can kinda fit in there -The 3am TV secret in the Animal Crossing games -The various disturbing implications in the Punch-Out!! series, including that Von Kaiser has mental issues, Glass Joe received brain damage from Little Mac, many of the boxers were not just willing but wanting to KILL Mac (most notably Aran Ryan), and Mr. Sandman being able to tear a whole building down with his fists -Sonic CD's hidden sound test codes -Chauncey in Luigi's Mansion
I would like to mention that Patapon has multiple near-extinction events in-canon. And the mechanic for swapping out powers for your hero unit in the second game canonically _mind wipes them._
For an example of a “creepy” instance in Kirby is the Efilin boss fight in the arena, the design and the fact that the boss is so hard really spooked me when I played it the first time lol. The design looks cool af but it’s still kinda spooky.
You should cover the Mysterious Mr Gnome from the Sims 3, which are a variety of garden gnomes your Sim can find from all sorts of activities and which teleport around your Sim's house every night doing random stuff. Most of the things they do lean more towards goofy or annoying then scary, with the worst thing they can normally do is waking up your sim while they are sleeping by playing the stereo or watching TV. However, three variants added by the expansions can actually do some troublesome or spooky things, specifically the Gnome of the Darned, Magical Vampire Gnome, and Evil Mr Gnome.
Love your videos, thank you for all the work you put into it! Decided to share some of my traumatic experiences from the childhood: 1. Hugo: The Evil Mirror (PC) - the final boss with chase sequence, when the giant head chases you on the rainbow bridge and music is all intense, it was enough for me to quit the game and never go back to it again. 2. Sims 1 (PC) ambience at night and ghost music, had nightmares about that little graves and ghosts for years. 3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the 1st HP game, PC), the ambience is creepy too, but I had nightmares about Peeves and Baron ghosts, also it always creeped me out how there are so much flying faceless ghosts in the game. Also, the chase sequence with troll was so terrifying for me that my mom had to play it and beat it 😅 4. As you can assume with what I said earlier, I never liked chase sequences in the games, they terrified me and my heart would beat like crazy, so when you take the game that is based almost only on chase, you can bet that I had really hard time with it. Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit (PC) was really colorful and fun, but all that unnerving sound effects when you steal something and how the music changes when somebody chases you, it was making me sweat.
I don't know if you've covered Poptropica yet but some islands scared the hell out of me as a kid. The entire cryptids island I could never do by myself, that god damn new jersey devil was gonna give me nightmares. I'm know there are other islands that have a ton more creepy moments that would take a while to list. overall, Poptropica had that strange and mysterious vibe to it.
I don’t know if this was covered already but I played this one Ratatouille game for the GameCube as a kid that had this extremely loud alarm sound when you get spotted by a giant enemy, For me the one that got me the most was a dog that would grab Remy’s tail because I didn’t want the little rat to get mauled to death, Also the game over screens from that game got me too because it would have the most dramatic game over music you can think of for a kid’s game
The alarm was nothing. The scene of Skinner's face freezing at the end of the City Market chase is horrifying, so much so I literally can NOT look at it even today. Literally can't.
@@randoontheinternet5842 You're lucky. Of all childhood scares, big or small, this is the only thing that scarred me so badly I still nearly LITERALLY pass out in cold chill fear today. It's fcked me so bad. Idk, maybe it looks stupid today. But I'll never check.
@@zahkrosis666 I just remembered another thing that scared me about this game, It never actually happened in the game of course but when I got to the part of the first level in the Granny’s attic I was afraid she was gonna burst in any moment and pump Remy full of lead, Yes I was scared of a comedic relief grandma as a kid
@@randoontheinternet5842 lol that would have been great. But, yeah, if you play it again, brace yourself for, eugh, that scene, and the unusually loud jumpscare at the start of "Little Chef's Big KItchen" chase.
Did anyone who grew up on the PS1 played the game I.Q.? More specifically, the demo version? I always thought it was meant to have some horror elements behind it considering you play the demo levels in silence. Only hearing the echoing of your footsteps, the cubes moving towards you, and the dreaded sounds if you messed with with the narrator scolding you to do it again while the platform you are on is getting smaller and smaller. Also the sound of being pushed off into the black void of nothing as your characters screams for their life. I was very sad to find out that the released version of the game has classical music playing in the levels kindof negating this eerie effect.
Interesting! I have played IQ a few times mostly on PS Plus but I had no idea the demo was missing music. Reminds me of the early build of Crash without noises, I'll definitely check this one out, thanks for the suggestion!
I swear, a core childhood memory of mine was discovering the jak n daxter lurker shark as a child, and I ran away crying from the game (as someone who could handle resident evil just fine, this concerned my parents, and my dad sat down with me and attempted to kill the shark) He purposely swam out to find the shark, and my memory seems to tell me that he either killed the shark (idk if its possible or not), or, he glitched it out, because it WOULD NOT spawn after he repeatedly dive attacked it in water; He happily smiled, replying that he killed it for me, and, seemingly satisfied, went about his business
Got one for you, Gambado! The Simpsons game Virtual Bart has a health system a lot like Infurnal Escape (Bart eventually becoming a skeleton upon death) and features a handful of surprisingly grim game over scenarios. Not the scariest stuff around, but pretty jarring for a Simpsons game.
Late af but been watching you for a while so, guess i’ll post a personal one (: The Carnivores series always came to mind, y’know the dino hunting game. An oddly creepy thing gotta be all the subtle worldbuilding stuff, more so realizing you’re on an alien planet full of uncanny wildlife that resemble (outdated) earth dinos. In Carnivores DH, you can find easter eggs that allude to this like the monoliths, those alien eggs on the Manya Jungle map, abandoned settlements like Fort Ciskin. Stuff like these add to the already uneasy vibe playing this game gave as a kid
Massiface (along with all the other bosses) actually returns in yo-kai 2 and he's actually pretty chill. And they gave Dr. Maddiman a backstory which I don't really remember but I think when he was alive his wife died, and then at some point you find his secret lab in the hospital and there's some yo-kai in those tubes you usually see in movies and stuff, and he actually created another yo-kai whose english name I don't know, but I think he even calls him "son", once again, I don't exactly remember it since it's been a while since I've done that sidequest
The biggest horror part in the Kirby series is Kirby himself. He's an entity of Void. He has virtually limitless power. And, as revealed in Star Allies, if he was having a bad day he could easily destroy entire worlds. The people in the Kirby universe have to count their blessings that unless you threaten his friends or his planet, it is literally impossible to piss Kirby off to that degree. The final bosses of the games - which include eldritch horrors, physical gods, reality-warping supercomputers and planet-assimilating parasites - really didn't know what they were in for until they backed the pink puff into a corner. And likely spent their last moments alive regretting doing that.
I highly recommend looking into some of the in-game Yo-Kai descriptions because some of them are pretty creepy or just flat out state how the person died and became a Yo-Kai. It’s also alluded to throughout the series that a majority of these Yo-Kai were once human.
I don’t know if this was talked about yet but the Spiderwick Chronicles game based on the movie has a few chase sequences, one terrifying one was in a cave where you were chased by a quadrupedal“troll”. I think the death screens make it worse.
@6:01 But, I enjoy the depressing parts. Maybe more than any other parts. The enjoyment has been achieved. Do you not feel the same way? The sadness... it hurts in a nice way. It leads to happiness later. I love it. Let the sadness seep into my soul, for it is not the sadness of real life, it is not the sadness I have felt of bad things happening to me personally. It is wonderful.
I'm still going to mention the final day in Camp Chilly Wa-Wa of Pink Panther's Passport to Peril and the coffin scene from The Museum of Anything Goes. Another one I forgot to mention is of course from Kirby. Canvas Curse World of Drawcia. There is a very trippy and unsettling background, eerie, disturbing music, and you're completely alone other than twisted smiling, laughing paintings. No other enemies, nothing.
Pikmin has some creepy bosses but what scares me the most about it is the fact many people have put theory videos of it being connected to the umibozo.
The game Gregory Horror Show is a 13+ game, so idk if it'd count here, but it's technically a kids game. My memories are a bit blurry, but I've seen it online, so I do know it exists. Idk if you've already talked about it, but it's a game where you are stuck in this (if I remember correctly) hotel, and you need to collect sould for Death in order to escape. Death even gives you a child's body to possess in order to do so, since you don't have your own. If a character you're trying to steal the soul of catches you, there's a thing called a Horror Show, where they play a scene in which they attack you. The ending of the game implies that you created this frightening hotel to escape from reality, and although you escaped, you might go back to it again for that reason. Even the character designs themselves are a bit eerie, especially Gregory, and old mouse/rat with scraggly blonde hair that gives of the cliché "scary movie, creepy old man" vibe, and his mother. It's based off of an anime by the same name, which you can find a large portion of on TH-cam. If you need more info on the game, I'm pretty sure there is a review for it on TH-cam, as well, that goes over basically the entire game and it's story. Extra bit: This isn't necessarily a game moment, but I think it does explain a lot of the content in games like Yokai Watch being a bit darker, so I think it'd be a nice mention here in the comments. A lot of kids content around the world has different standards, like the USA not being allowed to show guns, while most of Europe can. I've found that in Japan, particularly, they seem to be a bit more lenient on some things which a lot of other places believe might scare kids (though, that might just be because Japanese media has become more popular worldwide recently, and a lot of other countries might also have creepy kids media and games). A good example is Popee the Performer, a pretty violent animated show that aired on a kid's channel called Kids Station.
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The anti-piracy in Mr. Gimmick for the NES is terrifying. It's just a killscreen near the end of the game with nothing but white text in the middle saying "black hole". Imagine being in a poor family and getting a pirated version of Mr. Gimmick for Christmas and then that happens.
Seriously, that type of thing was the shit that would scare me as a child. I mean, I was scared by the damn error message in Melee.
Marx soul in your nightmare
people need to stop being surprised at kirby having disturbing content it happens a lot
Kirby is just the strangest game series. All the weird scary stuff that randomly happens like the bleeding eyeball boss of course, but the damn second playthroughs lol. There's 2 difficulties in Kirby games, so easy you could beat it while asleep, and holy shit wtf you need to be just about perfect lmao
It’s more surprising when Kirby doesn’t have disturbing themes
@@evbableKirby without a disturbing bad guy is a scam
I’m so tired of people sperging out because “this CUTE AND INNOCENT GAME has BLOOD IN IT?!?!?!?!”
@@FilthyTea Why's it bother you so much? It's not like anyone here is saying "no this kid's game can't do this," just discussing dark subtext, it's not harming you in any way
The Jak and Daxter one reminded me of Spore. In the second lifecycle where you're on land, there is a creature that will kill you if you travel too far in the ocean. Its larger then any creature and is the only creature that can't be killed to my knowledge. I found it so scary as a kid because it just happens instantly. You can't run away from it, it'll just get you.
yes this terrified me as a kid the first time i saw it
It gave me uncertainty as a kid because i don’t like out of bounds areas.
That thing and the Epic creatures were terrifying to me as a kid. Just the fact that they were so much bigger than me, could kill you in one hit, and couldn't be killed themselves... at least, not by an inexperienced player like me. I actually managed to kill an Epic creature when I got older and DAMN was it satisfying ^_^
@@lululuvscats I believe youi can recruit the epic creatures as well lmao
Man I'm so glad you actually put Tom and Jerry Infurnal Escape from there, but I actually didn't expect it to be my suggestion out of all things. I loved the way you narrated it as well haha. Thanks once again!
I can imagine Tom meeting Kratos and the two bonding over their shared experience of being thrown into the underworld and having to steal souls to crawl out of it.
Thank you again for the suggestion! Your description was super intriguing and it turned out to make a great entry!
@@realgambadogaming Haha, no problem at all! It definitely was a nice entry. If I got or remember something else I’ll definitely let you know!
Yo-Kai Watch 4 has a few designs that could be scary for a child. Lets say you were a kid who loved the Franchise andolayed all three of the games and moved on to 4 you really liked the sweet and innocent granpa yo-kai, Hungramps, and couldn’t wait to see him in the new game. Just to see that he turned into a demon that eats people. There are many more yo-kai from the first three games that go through form changes like this, some scarier than others, but nonetheless I could see this shaking up a kid if not downright scaring them.
For example, Yamamba, who wears clothes covered in Bloody handprints, and chases down the player, attempting to stab them to death
Kirby itself is an eltrich level horror. He vacuums living beings up and magically gains its essence.
Majin buu ass.
You should definitely do a Kirby spooky iceberg, it goes extremely deep.
No it doesnt. Youre just simple
@@Tywaydo I need to send the chart, there is a chart and connections to Japanese Shintoism and a million other things to understand
@@bobbyonkazoo3512please do
@@Tyway My guy you're insulting a person over Kirby.
Leaning Kirby lore is a bad psychedelic trip lol
truly a scariest shit found in a kid-friendly game moment
4:34 interestingly, there's a word for that, bisect. To be divided into two. I thought that was neat :)
Or dichotomize if you want to be really fancy
@@redwiltshire1816 I personally prefer "asunder" as it makes me feel like some castlevania character / arthurian hero lol
I don’t know if ace attorney would count as a family friendly game considering the themes of murder, but on the other hand it’s mostly wholesome dialogue with inoffensive humor and nothing overtly creepy happens in the series that is until the final case of dual destinies which arguably the darkest case in the series based on the implications behind it and the imaginary used in it which resulted in the game getting an M rating at the time.
Basically it centers around the idea of a mom who put their daughter through multiple experiments centered around monitoring emotions and seemingly caused her to go insane and kill her with a knife. Of course going through the case we find that’s not what happened, but it still makes the accused look like psychopathic child who happily murdered their mother especially when it shows an image of them smiling covered in blood.
fun fact about marx,according to updated kirby lore the reason of why he did all of his stuff was because dedede stolen all the food from dreamland on that same game before, so since he was hungry he wanted to rule planet pop star by himself
so basically the dude did all of that because he was hungry
That's actually hilarious lol
On brand for motivation in Kirby games (looking at you, Squeak Squad).
@@realgambadogaming Like i said before: 25:03 One of the Scary parts about the game is the Backstory and Lore of some of the Spirits, like Toiletta, a Little Ghost girl with large, empty black eyes who is Based in Hanako-san born form the World war 2.
And a top of that She have her own quest in the game when you have to face not only her, but also a Giant hideous Yokai Spider that clings on the Roof of the Bathroom.
-marx
-game is about stealing food
River Twigs Bed in Super Paper Mario used to scare me as a kid. You should do entry about that
The whole underthere is very messed up Mario literally goes to hell before he dies like captain lou said.
he already did that in an earlier video. in fact, this video is _actually_ a part of a fairly long-running series, so you should check those out!
i'm glad you referred to "i feel fantastic" as a music video, john bergeron would be proud
Gambado is the number 1 occasional yo-kai watch mentioner
Melody Nosurname is an honorable mention
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Thank you! I appreciate the kind words!
I think Mickey with human ears was the creepiest thing in this video.
Love Yo-kai Watch and how it got mentioned again by you :)
Joka from Klonoa: Door to Phontomile was always creepy to me as a kid. He's this clown-like creature with a frozen face. He acts silly at first, but at the climax of the game he becomes unhinged after his multiple failures. The boss fight with him is worse since he transforms into a giant monster
4:20 that’s not Frieza’s final form but I love the joke lol
Love the Yo-Kai Watch representation.
I think in terms of Kirby, nothing gets creepier than Shiver Star.
Shiver Star wasn't creepy to me as a kid (I love snow areas), but the implications/theories that it used to be planet Earth after an icy apocalypse is pretty dark.
@@lululuvscats precisely my point
@Hambrack we're making a shiver star of our own in real life. Thats why its creepy.
I remember in Tomodachi Collection two scary things and this is news.First if you didnt save the game and exit the next time you open the game You gonna have Breaking news which say you need to save the game after leaving.The 2nd news introducing the ghost which looks like your mii in appartment the ghost looks very creepy and scary.
One thing from a very popular game that no one talks about: in Wind Waker, the first dungeon is a volcano area with a short outside section where you climb up the side of the volcano. Nothing wrong so far. The thing is, the game has a day/night cycle, but the first time you visit this area it will always be day time and there's no reason to come back here after you're done. However, you're free to do so, and if you come at night, there's a bug that makes the night sky clouds pitch black, and it TERRIFIED me. It doesn't even looks like clouds, more like giant globs of dark matter conquering the skies, or like Link's reality is falling apart. It's a bug so it happens just like that with no explanation or reaction from the game or its characters, you're just face to face with terror. This game already scared me a little with its endless ocean (especially when at the edge of the world and there's straight nothing in the distance) but this one took this fear of giant things and pushed it to the next level.
Also this works on the Gamecube version, I don't know if it's still there on the Wii U version.
Puppet ganon.
Some of Tomodachi Life's dream sequences creeped me out when I played it as a teen. Not terrifying or anything. Just...eerie. Specifically i remember there was one where you're driving at night in a forest and theres a bobblehead on the dashboard. Another creepy dream is one where a mii is walking alone through a dark forest with a skeleton keychain on their backpack. I was certain those two in particular were gonna have some sort of jumpscare but there never was.
Theres one where a giant mii slowly rises from the water and scares another mii. Another one where a mii is in like a dining room and the windows open then your 3ds camera turns on. The mirror ones, hide and seek, or ninja dreams are also a little eerie.
Hey just in case you haven't mentioned it already, Paper Mario on the N64
The music that played when you first enter Boo's mansion scared me so much that i used to mute my tv when i got to that part. Also Tubba Blubba's castle, that entire segment had me irl trying to stay as quiet as possible. I think it also hit a lot harder since I briefly lived in a house where i had to sneak around both in during the day and during the night to not get in trouble
I have one! In Sonic Adventure 2, when they play the video diary that hold the manifesto and last words of Gerald Robotnik. Everything starts going wrong on the Space Colony the cast is on, and the video starts. It details his grief and his plan to kill everyone, and even more chilling is that at the end of it, a soldier asks if he has anything else to say, and when Gerald says “no”, the soldier calls “READY!”-as in, the footage cuts literally seconds before Gerald is killed by firing squad.
That shit fundamentally warped my brain back in 2001, i wont lie
Tbh, I like how sudden it is. At first there is boss music but the moment Knuckles notices the video starting, it goes 3 miles sideways. It legitimately goes full MM Final hours on us, the atmosphere is replaced as the serious part starts.
@@lpfan4491 couldn't agree more! The stakes go from a 10 to 100 reeeeal fast. I single-handly attribute that moment to my modern love of analog and found footage horror tbh
The biolizard is pretty twisted to, it’s crazy how dark adventure two got.
I was very scared of the final boss of Pikmin 3 because the scary thing is he was the water wraith, goolix, and foolix all at the same time, and it also might’ve been the reason why the ships always crash, people should think about it more instead
There's a whole theory of that boss being the umibozo actually. Search it up it makes it all the more creepy.
I'm currently playing this game, but know some points of it get creepy/messed up.
Madou monogatari is a Japan exclusive game with fanmade English translations available online, for the Japanese game system PC-98.
In madou monogatari 1 (pc-98), you play as Arle, a 4-6 year old girl who goes through a tall tower as a graduation test for her magic kindergarten.
Because I'm still early in, the full story is something I don't fully know yet, but the tower is full of horrifying enemies such as skeletons, rotting corspes, and actual demons who got in somehow.
Your final attacks/enemy attacks/deaths can also be graphic, such as a werewolf catching fire and dying in a massive blaze, or the rotting corspes exploding from parasites within it (or having it's face fall off and it proceeds to just shamble to you for the rest of the fight), and one enemy has its eyeball come out of its skull from you hitting it too hard.
But one of the more well known scary moments is a fake ending you get before the final boss - you think you leave the tower and see your friends from school. They happily congratulate you, only to slowly melt and their voices distort into zombie-like groans. Pc-98 is one of the worst versions of this scene, btw.
Luckily the horrific vision goes away, leading to the final boss and the kids are all actually ok outside the tower, but that is still a freaky scene.
Insane to know that most of Madou Monogatari cast has a slightly better life in Puyo Puyo (spin off series)
I feel like I need to mention that the gory bits, besides the vision of your friends dying and the werewolf ablaze, are all text.
The visuals for them are all in your head and that can make it scarier. Looking at the well done sprites and imagining the effects of your actions can be scarier than the sprite work.
Sorry for being persistent dude, I always felt like the Planet Robobot just unnerved me with those sounds. Can't wait to see what else you find, some of these I've been aware of, but it's also interesting to see what others find unnerving.
No worries man, if you hadn't I wouldn't have seen it as soon as I did, and I'm glad I did! It made for a really great entry, and it makes me want to find more to cover from the Kirby series. Thanks again!
I don't remember if this was brought up previously but in DK64, the crypt in Creepy Castle always terrified me. The moaning, graves, and especially the minecart section felt like such a serious departure from the spooky sheet-ghost camp that the rest of the level was.
18:40 "THERE I AM, GARY, THERE I AM!"
Man that growl and heartbeat still makes my soul leave my body 💀
I only ever played the first Jak and Daxter game, but I've always wanted to play the Daxter spinoff... ironic I was interested in the only other game in the series with my archnemesis Lurker Shark
Plus god why does it happen with nothing but the eco island in the distance that’s what makes it worse, compared to banjo where you still can see your surroundings, and escape since you can take hits over it just killing you instantly.
Shiver Star is very creepy in Kirby 64. It's basically whats left of Earth in a nuclear winter or ice age. The further you go into the planet, the more strange things you see, especially in the factory. Making you think just what the hell was these people doing before the world froze over.
I forgot about Massiface (he works for Kyubi) from Yokai Watch. Damn he looked like Penniwise. It's been so long since I played Yokai Watch. The worst part of that Kyubi quest is when you had to team up with Komasan,who is completely scared by everything that has been happening. To sum it up,everything was done by Kyubi
I have a request for when you talk about yo kai watch again: it's the red box event that happens randomly
The NPC you receive the box from tells you to NOT open it, and if you do one of many random things will happen, they may be minor changes, they may be major changes, the only way to tell is if you open the box
Actually, I got one more potential creepy thing from Wind Waker: The Seahats. They're just straight-up creepy, with their gaping fish-like mouths, strange helicopter droning noises, and the fact that they are about twice as big as the King of Red Lions. Whenever I'm sailing through particularly open waters, I always get a sense of dread when a group of these bastards sneak up on my boat. Once you here the sea battle music, it's too late.
You calling them bastards cracked me up.
@@joshshrum2764 Yeah bro, they creepy af. I already have a bit of fear of water and big animals, Nintendo didn't have to go and make it worse lol.
Me, who met Peahats: first time?
I like how you're expecting yo-kai watch to be automatically kid friendly. It's a Japanese game about dead animals and people. Their mascot is a cat who was hit by a car and died. It's based on a bunch of horrid demons and spirits fom mythology. They fight zombies in the third game.
So, I've been watching this series for a while now and I haven't seen anyone talking about it, but when I was a kid and I played Golden Sun: Dark Down on my DS there's a part where the mood of the game changes completely
In a little over the half of the game, there's a part where half of the world is plunged into shadows. Inside this shadows stronger monsters appear and fights become generally harder inside, but the part that used to unnerve me when I was a kid is that some towns that were inside the shadow are now filled with the corpses of the people who used to live there and I if I recall correctly, one of your companions can listen to them to hear what they thought about before dying or while they are dead, lying around the empty town
It was quite shocking for me but that might only be me
Not sure if anyone else has said this one yet, but in the Party Mode of Sonic and the Secret Rings, there’s this minigame called “Watch Out! Trap.” It’s a luck-based one where you have to guess which locks are safe and which ones are traps (ei which ones summon these weird rock monsters). It’s always unnerved me for the following reasons:
1. There’s none of the usual quirky music. Just an ominous ambiance.
2. The designs of the rock monsters. Maybe it was just the graphics, but to me they’re somewhat unsettling.
3. Whenever a trap is sprung by picking the wrong lock, whatever Sonic character you’re playing as starts COWERING IN FEAR, as if they already know their fate.
Was anyone else rattled by this minigame, or was it just me?
Uh in YKW3 there's a dog guy called mass mutterer that you have to find and defeat in battle. I think I may have screamed when he first came on screen.
Don't question why i wear boots to bed!
You know what I was always terrified of? The beast makers area in spyro one. It was the main area that stopped me from finishing the game, especially with that level that had the bushes that charged at you. Hated that they got brought back in spyro 2 in fractured hills lol
Thank you lots for covering YW again, it's one of my favorite video game series
I think one of the things that scared me as a kid was the alien fish in feeding frenzy 2, after every last level you play as a fish you see a shadowy fish hover across the screen as the fish you play as follows. I would literally have to look away from the cutscene it made me so tense. Especially since a few level descriptions would talk about the uptick in shipwrecks around the ocean caused by the alien fish. I think the game definitely made me afraid of the ocean.
I really like these more story / subtle scary entries, rather than just “SCOOBY DOO GAME HAS GORE JUMPSCARE?? WUHOH BOIOIOIOIOI I AM SO SPOOKED”
I love hearing REAL scary stuff. I’m someone who doesn’t really get scared from a lot of jumpscares and surface level stuff (yes I can jump and get spooked, but rarely SCARED), but real things, real awful things, they scare me. The Kirby mecha planet thing with the father who basically did nothing wrong, but had to be murdered for the greater good… that’s scary. That is real fear
Haha whoops I think I did a bit long of a message here, didn’t mean to do that haha so ‘derp’ am I right
But yeah, PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS I LOVE ACTUAL SCARY SHIZ
Super underrated channel. Look forward to you hitting 50k soon.
I was so scared of Murlock in Donald Duck Quack Attack (ngc) Especially him in the intro cutscene
I never winned the true arena from planet Robobot, nor my sister, so yeah, thanks for the info.
you still need to cover the scary noises you can hear in the splatoon boss rooms
In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, you can find an old love letter lodged in a tree in the town of Tida (which is a whole place of terror all on its own) left by someone who fled the village many years ago.
Throughout the towns, there are two elderly NPCs you can choose to show the letter to if you happen to talk to them after getting the letter. They act shocked after showing them and disappear without any mention as to what's going on.
If you go back to that same tree in Tida you found the letter, you will find the two NPCs bodies leaning against the tree embracing each other. Both are dêãd. They traveled to that place to reunite and they süfføçated in the toxic, unbreathable atmosphere. Later back in town, the grand daughter of the old man mentions how he went off one day and she hasn't seen him since.
You help an old couple unalive themselves, and you don't realize it until it's too late. It's a bittersweet ending to a random side quest. Discovering that as a kid was pretty unsettling ngl. Always feel so guilty after doing that quest.
About as dark as FF7.
@@joshshrum2764 Ok. And?
@@joshshrum2764 FF7 is probably one of the least dark games in the series lmao.
The original version of the haunted house level in LittleBigPlanet is horrifique
Hope this gets in the next one but Pixel Gun 3d has some dark stuff in it like the School level in the last level of the first campaign world. Lot of terrifying things in there that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid like the upside down classroom and the creepy baby laughter and the whole room of dead hanging kids in cages from the ceiling. Don’t get me started of Slender Forest map. I hated it so much back then.
I've got another scary Kirby moment-- it's not the MOST terrifying thing in the Kirby lore by far, but it freaked me out the first time I played it. In Kirby's Epic Yarn (which is quite possibly the cutest and most wholesome game ever made, fight me), there's a level called Deep-Dive Deep where you're down in the deep ocean, and there are these giant angler fish that try to suck you into their mouth and eat you. You can't die in the game, so they're not much of a threat at first glance, but eventually you come across this huge mound of what seems to be glowing algae. As you swim past it, an even BIGGER angler emerges from the algae and starts chasing you, covering the entire side of the screen. I've always hated chase sequences in games and this one caught me off-guard real bad, especially since it's in a game as cutesy as this. It doesn't help that there's yet ANOTHER angler chase sequence on your way back up, although the scare factor has somewhat worn off by then.
Planet robobot was my favorite game in the series.
They still haven’t surpassed it honestly.
I have thalassophobia, so two games that stood out for me was subnautica, which is not a horror game some how, and endless oceans blue world, the earctic level to be exact, darkness below you, a massive sheet of ice above, and the blaring noise of the megamouth shark getting to close. That level was actually the only one that set me off.
megaman legends 1... i dunno if this count as family friendly game... it looks family friendly from the surface... but the intro stage for megaman legends 1 is so creepy for me... a really dark dungeon dig site ruin infested with violent reaverbots that had various patterns of creepy eye designs on them... with the music being so ominously terror inducing... and you can hear the creepy creaking of those reaverbots hiding in the dark or behind walls and doors just out of your sights... and in some of the dig sites, the jumpscares from the snake worm reaverbots still make me shudder in revulsion to this day...
megaman legends 1 offers a very contrasting atmosphere for me... it had bright colorful kids-friendly adventurous artstyle design... kicking the can in the market street of megaman legends 1 is so nostalgic... and yet when you descend into the mysterious dungeon dig sites ruin and fighting the pirates, the theme suddenly starts shifting into otherworldly horror mixed with real life tragedies of wars. the bonnes pirates might look like ridiculous team rocket plus despicable me minions gang of clown pirates, but when they raid the towns and fighting megaman... they wouldn't hesitate to murder and destroy anything in their way (despite tron bonne having a crush on megaman)... i remember crying when the megaman and roll's airship the flutter gets destroyed when i fail to defeat the bonnes' gesselschaft airship... also kinda shocked when i see megaman can die from being run over by civilian cars...
also, the title screen is somehow scary too with no music at all, the background is a mysterious wall section of some reaverbots dig site and low lighting, but then the bonnes' servbots/kobun occasionally walks into the screen doing some silly servbots comedy routines but with dead eyes... seriously, the title screen for megaman legends 1 feels more creepy than family friendly...
reaverbots+their dig sites ruins and the bonnes suddenly turning from klutzy silly clown pirates into murderous pirates are the stuff of nightmares for my childhood...
Like i said before: 25:03 One of the Scary parts about the game is the Backstory and Lore of some of the Spirits, like Toiletta, a Little Ghost girl with large, empty black eyes who is Based in Hanako-san born form the World war 2.
And a top of that She have her own quest in the game when you have to face not only her, but also a Giant hideous Yokai Spider that clings on the Roof of the Bathroom.
You're so right about the horror you have to dig down to discover being the most interesting and disturbing. It's what I love about this series.
I remember one of the more weirdly intense moments ive seen in a GBA game was a Revenge of the Sith adaptation that used something like a mix between the movie itself and Gennedy Tartakovski Clone Wars for its visual aesthetic. Looks a bit bouncier and the combat isn't exactly pulse poundingly deep. The animations are passable but they clearly made a lot of sprites that could pull double duty. They only barely shiw off Dooku's death in any detail, with one dedicated sprite of him kneeling and Maybe missing his hands.
So, when it gets to the Obi-Wan vs Grievous fight, you expect him to just fall over like Dooku, with maybe one sprite of visible damage... and see they lovingly recreated Grievous being incinerated in his own exoskeleton, his burnt out husk going limp on its feet, then keeling over lifelessly, it kind of took me off guard.
The console version was also kind of intense because yeah it was a closer and more detailed adaptation, but it also had more overtly graphic animations for hacking clone troopers apart, chilling death screams for in-game combat performed by most of the actual cast, and an alternate ending if you play the final battle in two player mode where Vader wins the fight on Mustufar by killing Obi-Wan, successfully betrays Sidious and kills him too, then takes over the Empire for himself.
I remember the Lurker Shark damn near scaring the shit out of me as a kid-let alone in Jak 3, where you get abandoned in the desert, if you jump off a ledge out there without being in a vehicle you'll get snatched up by a tentacle. That one made me always hand the controller over to my dad or sister when I had to go there.
Massiface cannonically being a really nice guy who just wants to make friends
The final area in bug fables Is surprisingly creepy. Feels similar to gigas in earthbound.
I need to play it then.
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One moment in Mickey's Magic Mirror that stood out was the jumpscare painting. You click the trick prompt, it builds up before the painting abruptly turns evil and laughs at you. Baby's first jumpscare... And damn effective one.
something I'm surprised no one brought up about Yo-Kai Watch was a boss called Tarantutor, which is a giant creepy-looking spider that feasts on children who wander into the school at night. definitely creeped me out as a kid.
Always great to see more yokai watch. Tho I would like to see the 4th game brought up with its main antagonist soranaki. Or the overseerer in English, when I first saw them I never forgot them and all the actions they pull. Truly felt like a looming threat to be scared of at any moment
imo the tentacle in jak and daxter is way scarrier bcs it just shows up and kills u instead of spawing in and then hunting you
There is a point-and-click series called "Samorost", which I wouldn't call exactly scary, but it has this weird fever dream feel to it, since the visuals are quite surreal and events also can be weird. As a kid, I felt a sense of unease playing it. Some uncanny stuff.
I feel like if you do another one of these you should cover the final level of locoroco 1, honestly its kinda like something out of a creepypasta for a game like this and scared quite a few kids who got to it, with the mysterious dude who stands on the menu suddenly vanishing before you enter the level and then jumpscaring you with some slightly unnerving music and then proceeding to transform and it sorta coming out of nowhere really does catch you off guard if you don't know about it lol.
just really that intro that sticks with you.
Can you talk about The Legendary Starfy? I was so scared of the main antagonist Mashtooth, along with a shark that appeared in a shipwreck level. The game aged poorly with Mashtooth literally having vore in his boss fight. He would sniff Starfy up through his nose and eat him like that.
The shark would swim in the background a little while, and then come swimming towards you, and if you didn't get behind a pillar it would literally swallow you alive. You would end up in a fleshy part of the level where you have to escape.
That shark scared me so bad
Oh my god I completely forgot about that, having to navigate out of the shark's insides was such a jarring change of scenery, I expected a game over not a flesh cave level
This sounds like a great fit! The odd description has intrigued me lol
I like this guy he does recemendations from his subscribers. How chill!
A few of these would've terrorized me as a kid! Good list!
Seeing the Thumbnail alone makes me happy that I'm not the only one who thought massiface from yokai watch was terrifying when younger me first played it. It didn't help that I thought the segment was building up to fighting kyubi (one of my favorites but overall a much less scary yokai), but he was like "lol no, have fun dealing with him". (though now I do love studying Japanese folklore particularly yokai)
These have probably been covered before, but I got a few!\
-The racing segment in SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab due to the artstyle change and the characters' faces becoming fucked up and gnarly
-The screen that appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl when you decide to quit Classic Mode after losing all your stocks
-The Dragon bossfight in Super Mario Odyssey
-Minecraft's empty and lonely atmosphere
-Wario specifically from Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
-The after-boss fight noises you hear if you stay in an area in Splatoon 1. Actually, the whole lore of Splatoon can kinda fit in there
-The 3am TV secret in the Animal Crossing games
-The various disturbing implications in the Punch-Out!! series, including that Von Kaiser has mental issues, Glass Joe received brain damage from Little Mac, many of the boxers were not just willing but wanting to KILL Mac (most notably Aran Ryan), and Mr. Sandman being able to tear a whole building down with his fists
-Sonic CD's hidden sound test codes
-Chauncey in Luigi's Mansion
20:45 Holy shit Photonegative Mickey in an official Disney game (not clickbait)
I am pretty sure it's also the model used for the first FNATI game too
I would like to mention that Patapon has multiple near-extinction events in-canon. And the mechanic for swapping out powers for your hero unit in the second game canonically _mind wipes them._
Worth noting that the wish-granting comet and the wish-granting computer have the same face....
Also inferno is Italian (and some other languages) for Hell, so yes, that most certainly is!
For an example of a “creepy” instance in Kirby is the Efilin boss fight in the arena, the design and the fact that the boss is so hard really spooked me when I played it the first time lol. The design looks cool af but it’s still kinda spooky.
You should cover the Mysterious Mr Gnome from the Sims 3, which are a variety of garden gnomes your Sim can find from all sorts of activities and which teleport around your Sim's house every night doing random stuff. Most of the things they do lean more towards goofy or annoying then scary, with the worst thing they can normally do is waking up your sim while they are sleeping by playing the stereo or watching TV. However, three variants added by the expansions can actually do some troublesome or spooky things, specifically the Gnome of the Darned, Magical Vampire Gnome, and Evil Mr Gnome.
Love your videos, thank you for all the work you put into it!
Decided to share some of my traumatic experiences from the childhood:
1. Hugo: The Evil Mirror (PC) - the final boss with chase sequence, when the giant head chases you on the rainbow bridge and music is all intense, it was enough for me to quit the game and never go back to it again.
2. Sims 1 (PC) ambience at night and ghost music, had nightmares about that little graves and ghosts for years.
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the 1st HP game, PC), the ambience is creepy too, but I had nightmares about Peeves and Baron ghosts, also it always creeped me out how there are so much flying faceless ghosts in the game.
Also, the chase sequence with troll was so terrifying for me that my mom had to play it and beat it 😅
4. As you can assume with what I said earlier, I never liked chase sequences in the games, they terrified me and my heart would beat like crazy, so when you take the game that is based almost only on chase, you can bet that I had really hard time with it. Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit (PC) was really colorful and fun, but all that unnerving sound effects when you steal something and how the music changes when somebody chases you, it was making me sweat.
I don't know if you've covered Poptropica yet but some islands scared the hell out of me as a kid. The entire cryptids island I could never do by myself, that god damn new jersey devil was gonna give me nightmares. I'm know there are other islands that have a ton more creepy moments that would take a while to list. overall, Poptropica had that strange and mysterious vibe to it.
I don’t know if this was covered already but I played this one Ratatouille game for the GameCube as a kid that had this extremely loud alarm sound when you get spotted by a giant enemy, For me the one that got me the most was a dog that would grab Remy’s tail because I didn’t want the little rat to get mauled to death, Also the game over screens from that game got me too because it would have the most dramatic game over music you can think of for a kid’s game
The alarm was nothing.
The scene of Skinner's face freezing at the end of the City Market chase is horrifying, so much so I literally can NOT look at it even today. Literally can't.
@@zahkrosis666I never got to see it because child me was trash at video games even the easy ones
@@randoontheinternet5842 You're lucky. Of all childhood scares, big or small, this is the only thing that scarred me so badly I still nearly LITERALLY pass out in cold chill fear today. It's fcked me so bad.
Idk, maybe it looks stupid today. But I'll never check.
@@zahkrosis666 I just remembered another thing that scared me about this game, It never actually happened in the game of course but when I got to the part of the first level in the Granny’s attic I was afraid she was gonna burst in any moment and pump Remy full of lead, Yes I was scared of a comedic relief grandma as a kid
@@randoontheinternet5842 lol that would have been great.
But, yeah, if you play it again, brace yourself for, eugh, that scene, and the unusually loud jumpscare at the start of "Little Chef's Big KItchen" chase.
Did anyone who grew up on the PS1 played the game I.Q.? More specifically, the demo version? I always thought it was meant to have some horror elements behind it considering you play the demo levels in silence. Only hearing the echoing of your footsteps, the cubes moving towards you, and the dreaded sounds if you messed with with the narrator scolding you to do it again while the platform you are on is getting smaller and smaller.
Also the sound of being pushed off into the black void of nothing as your characters screams for their life.
I was very sad to find out that the released version of the game has classical music playing in the levels kindof negating this eerie effect.
Interesting! I have played IQ a few times mostly on PS Plus but I had no idea the demo was missing music. Reminds me of the early build of Crash without noises, I'll definitely check this one out, thanks for the suggestion!
@realgambadogaming Interactive Sampler vol. 5 I used to play that a ton as a kid and that version of IQ always stood out to me.
I swear, a core childhood memory of mine was discovering the jak n daxter lurker shark as a child, and I ran away crying from the game (as someone who could handle resident evil just fine, this concerned my parents, and my dad sat down with me and attempted to kill the shark) He purposely swam out to find the shark, and my memory seems to tell me that he either killed the shark (idk if its possible or not), or, he glitched it out, because it WOULD NOT spawn after he repeatedly dive attacked it in water; He happily smiled, replying that he killed it for me, and, seemingly satisfied, went about his business
Got one for you, Gambado! The Simpsons game Virtual Bart has a health system a lot like Infurnal Escape (Bart eventually becoming a skeleton upon death) and features a handful of surprisingly grim game over scenarios. Not the scariest stuff around, but pretty jarring for a Simpsons game.
I love the Yo-Kai Watch references, thanks(:
these intros are so cute man almost at 30k congrats!
Thank you!
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Late af but been watching you for a while so, guess i’ll post a personal one (:
The Carnivores series always came to mind, y’know the dino hunting game. An oddly creepy thing gotta be all the subtle worldbuilding stuff, more so realizing you’re on an alien planet full of uncanny wildlife that resemble (outdated) earth dinos.
In Carnivores DH, you can find easter eggs that allude to this like the monoliths, those alien eggs on the Manya Jungle map, abandoned settlements like Fort Ciskin. Stuff like these add to the already uneasy vibe playing this game gave as a kid
Massiface (along with all the other bosses) actually returns in yo-kai 2 and he's actually pretty chill. And they gave Dr. Maddiman a backstory which I don't really remember but I think when he was alive his wife died, and then at some point you find his secret lab in the hospital and there's some yo-kai in those tubes you usually see in movies and stuff, and he actually created another yo-kai whose english name I don't know, but I think he even calls him "son", once again, I don't exactly remember it since it's been a while since I've done that sidequest
The biggest horror part in the Kirby series is Kirby himself.
He's an entity of Void. He has virtually limitless power. And, as revealed in Star Allies, if he was having a bad day he could easily destroy entire worlds. The people in the Kirby universe have to count their blessings that unless you threaten his friends or his planet, it is literally impossible to piss Kirby off to that degree.
The final bosses of the games - which include eldritch horrors, physical gods, reality-warping supercomputers and planet-assimilating parasites - really didn't know what they were in for until they backed the pink puff into a corner. And likely spent their last moments alive regretting doing that.
I highly recommend looking into some of the in-game Yo-Kai descriptions because some of them are pretty creepy or just flat out state how the person died and became a Yo-Kai. It’s also alluded to throughout the series that a majority of these Yo-Kai were once human.
I don’t know if this was talked about yet but the Spiderwick Chronicles game based on the movie has a few chase sequences, one terrifying one was in a cave where you were chased by a quadrupedal“troll”. I think the death screens make it worse.
Another Yo-Kai Watch one, You can find Excel Ent in hazy lane and they just say a weird thing about watching you.
4:59 Kirby is like “WTF” 😂
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But, I enjoy the depressing parts. Maybe more than any other parts. The enjoyment has been achieved. Do you not feel the same way? The sadness... it hurts in a nice way. It leads to happiness later. I love it. Let the sadness seep into my soul, for it is not the sadness of real life, it is not the sadness I have felt of bad things happening to me personally. It is wonderful.
I'm still going to mention the final day in Camp Chilly Wa-Wa of Pink Panther's Passport to Peril and the coffin scene from The Museum of Anything Goes.
Another one I forgot to mention is of course from Kirby. Canvas Curse World of Drawcia. There is a very trippy and unsettling background, eerie, disturbing music, and you're completely alone other than twisted smiling, laughing paintings. No other enemies, nothing.
Yokai Watch mentioned. Like dropped
Pikmin has some creepy bosses but what scares me the most about it is the fact many people have put theory videos of it being connected to the umibozo.
Woooo, new Gambado video, let's go!
The game Gregory Horror Show is a 13+ game, so idk if it'd count here, but it's technically a kids game. My memories are a bit blurry, but I've seen it online, so I do know it exists. Idk if you've already talked about it, but it's a game where you are stuck in this (if I remember correctly) hotel, and you need to collect sould for Death in order to escape. Death even gives you a child's body to possess in order to do so, since you don't have your own. If a character you're trying to steal the soul of catches you, there's a thing called a Horror Show, where they play a scene in which they attack you. The ending of the game implies that you created this frightening hotel to escape from reality, and although you escaped, you might go back to it again for that reason. Even the character designs themselves are a bit eerie, especially Gregory, and old mouse/rat with scraggly blonde hair that gives of the cliché "scary movie, creepy old man" vibe, and his mother. It's based off of an anime by the same name, which you can find a large portion of on TH-cam. If you need more info on the game, I'm pretty sure there is a review for it on TH-cam, as well, that goes over basically the entire game and it's story.
Extra bit: This isn't necessarily a game moment, but I think it does explain a lot of the content in games like Yokai Watch being a bit darker, so I think it'd be a nice mention here in the comments. A lot of kids content around the world has different standards, like the USA not being allowed to show guns, while most of Europe can. I've found that in Japan, particularly, they seem to be a bit more lenient on some things which a lot of other places believe might scare kids (though, that might just be because Japanese media has become more popular worldwide recently, and a lot of other countries might also have creepy kids media and games). A good example is Popee the Performer, a pretty violent animated show that aired on a kid's channel called Kids Station.