The especially scary thing about the Strange House is that... Darkrai _isn't_ malicious. Not generally, anyway. At the time of Gen IV, which takes place before Gen V, Darkrai secludes itself on Newmoon Island, right next to the resting place of the only Pokemon that can counter its effects. Its nightmare-causing properties are an involuntary defence mechanism that it can't turn off. Even the Pokedex in the very games with the Strange House states that it _means no harm._ This girl _died by accident._ Darkrai didn't even try to kill her, it just happened to be in the area while she was asleep and trapped her in a perpetual nightmare until she wasted away, and Cresselia wasn't fast enough to save her.
So fun fact about Undertale's True Lab: The music in this area uses sounds samples from EarthBound. There's a couple of sources, but the big one is Cave of the Past. What's funny about this is that Cave of the Past uses sound samples for a Beach Boy song. So It's a sound sample... of a sound sample. Also, the battle theme (Amalgam) Only uses EarthBound sound fonts for the songs, make it a pure AMALGAMATION of sound samples.
Pretty crazy how Forestia managed to do the entire “disturbing horror game disguised as an innocent children’s title” gimmick decades before it became a popular trope in indie horror. And the crazy part is that it actually WAS an innocent children’s title. It’s nothing new for kids games to have some scarier moments, but I can’t get over how oddly ahead of it’s time this was.
I was very surprised that this game was known abroad, especially in the United States. I used to play this game when I was a kid, maybe 5-7 years old, and I continued after that. It was a very small French development studio that created this game. It only made Forestia and two or three versions. I was born in France as well, so this game was quite easy to find at the time (although it was a very small game for children, it was not on the shelves in stores). In fact, I had this game in my family thanks to my operator "Orange", who gave gifts with the packages a very long time ago ... The first time I accessed the red level of the game and where everyone dies, I thought I had a heart attack. I was so not expecting this! I don't know if the developers did this on purpose to introduce a message or to elaborate a theory, or whatnot. But I think a simple guess would be that since the game is very dated (even back when I played it it was pretty outdated) it accentuates the horror side and the developers just wanted to surprise the kids. , without necessarily scaring them too much. In addition, we see one of the animals that we see previously in the game, talking to us quite quickly after entering this level, and the reaction of this same animal is quite "crazy", it remains in the humorous framework of the authors of this same game, which can reassure the player. If the developers had really wanted to scare the players, they would not have included this humorous figure, which seems quite absurd in view of the situation, and which is in line with the rest of the game.
That moment from 'Forestia' probably counts as what Doug Walker (Nostalgia Critic) calls "a BIG-LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!" It comes out of nowhere, completely goes out of tone with its weirdness compared to the rest of the game, and then goes away without ever being mentioned again for the rest of the game.
Even Doug Walker no longer uses that meme, let alone the actual creator of the meme, being Lindsay Ellis (ex Nostalgia Chick) So expecting creator of this video to use it, especially after he showed up cringing for using it in past... Nah
The Bottom of the Well gets even worse when you think about the fact that despite all the things in there, it's still a well. Meaning that the good folks of Kakariko Village, are drinking from that well, unaware that water isn't the only thing in there.
Forestia for the entire game: Cute and friendly edutainment game with chocolate rabbit for kids. Forestia nightmare sequence: *LITERALLY JUST THE ECLIPSE FROM BERSERK.*
Oh Forestia, should've seen that coming. It was one of my favorite games when I was like 6. But The Mountain of Fire plagued my nightmares for a long time. That music, the red forest, those dead animals... Heck, you could actually FAIL that level and be crushed by a flaming boulder coming directly at you as the bad guy laughed at your doom! And this is a game for CHILDREN!! o_o
I think what also really makes the Bottom of the Well in OoT even creepier are the implications of its existence. In the OG 64 version, the environment featured a disturbing amount of blood that seemed to paint the walls and floors, and it was usually around where certain…. instruments were. Kakariko was initially inhabited by the Skeikah, who as we all know were devoted followers of the Royal family of Hyrule, but also trained assassins and spies. The fact that they housed a torture chamber beneath their village goes to show just how far they went with their work, and now it’s inhabited by animated corpses and spirits…… yeah.
Yep, Zeta Metroids are pretty much Xenomorphs in all but name, and Samus has taken down Omegas and Queens among other worse things. The entire series' biggest visual and storytelling inspiration is the Alien series.
I’m mean samus has taken so many dangerous aliens, to her she will find it a annoying alien to deal with there acid blood and climbing walls constantly
@@WhiteFangofWar Don't forget Ridley. Literally named after Alien franchise's director and is modeled after a xenomorph. Considering the Metroids are literally just jellyfish xenomorphs, I don't care what anyone says, Metroids are scarier than Alien's Xenomorphs! O.O
@@bluestreaker9242 Wow, I can't believe I missed that. I always thought the connect there was Samus' inspiration Ellen Ripley being one letter away from Ridley, but it was just the director putting his name on the protagonist all along.
Rumbi factory is another level I found particularly disturbing in Hat in Time. Just seeing the origin place of that cute innocent Roomba all in a wreck and reeking of the industrialization imagery mixed with the air of something here has gone amiss as well as having hostile roombas running around was quite the whiplash that I enjoyed a lot.
Ah, boy, here we go again: 10: I've never been that big into Yoshi, though killer clowns are disturbing no matter the circumstances. 9: Metroid is definitely soft horror, though if I'm not mistaken, this was the game where the shift happened, so I'll allow it. Oh, and Samus would definitely win. 8: Halo gets a bit better at not being a horror game in later installments, but yeah, this was terrifying the first time around. 7: Okay, I'm surprised a track from World of Goo wasn't at least an honorable mention on the last list. 6: Good job going for the other other obvious pick (that one was for you, fellow Wambu fans). 5: If we were talking about a disturbing level based on music alone, N's house would be here, because N's Room is arguably one of the scariest theme in Pokemon history. Still, this is a REALLY good pick. 4: Still think that the Underworld with the song that is often considered SCARIER THAN SONGS FROM SILENT F***ING HILL would take this place, but boy, am I wrong. 3: Stupid water wraiths. Not to mention that one of the scariest final bosses in the Pikmin franchise may or may not be the water wraith's golden cousin. 2: I'm surprised that the True Lab got this high, but I can see why. And while counting this may be cheating, this place holds another secret when you start fiddeling with the code of the game; Entry Number 17. Alphys isn't the only scientist who caused some screwed up and disturbing things to happen in Undertale. Though I must admit... it's rude to talk about someone who listening... :) Honorable Mention 1: More of a fun Halloween level than actually disturbing, but it stands on both sides of the border. Honorable Mention 2: ANY FINAL BOSS FIGHT FROM KIRBY COULD EASILY MAKE THIS LIST, though I suppose that's a list for a different time. (did he already make one and I'm just stupid?) Honorable Mention 3: Still think Scarecrow is scarier. Honorable Mention 4: This is exactly why I haven't finished A Hat In Time. Do you blame me? 1: Yep. That'll do it. No arguments for placing this one at Number 1. There's probably a reason why this game has never been heard of. Also, normally he gives us an outro that hints at what he's going to do next, but he didn't this time. To me, this means that either he doesn't know exactly what he's doing next, he's taking a break, he forgot to write one this time, or the next episode's clue has to do with Barney sacrificing the kids to an eldritch abomination. I really hope it's the last one, because because spooky stuff doesn't just have to happen during the spooky month.
You can actually skip Vanessa's manor. I myself did it on my first playthrough. There's a secret entrance on the left side of the basement when you enter that allows you to skip straight to the hourglass and avoid the horror segment. There are plenty of videos on TH-cam showing you how to do this. Useful both for speedruns and for people who don't like horror games. Plus a lot of stuff in A Hat in Time is actually optional for any% as you really don't need that many hourglasses to complete the game. Heck, I beat the game without even setting foot in the forth and final non-DLC world or completing the second world in its entirety.
okay i was NOT expecting that number one segment! never in my life have i seen a video game pull a more complete 180 so the fact they got away with that in an EDUCATIONAL GAME FOR KIDS is freakin' hilarious XD thanks for introducing me to such a mind screw i love it
For me personally, I’d say that Chapter 23 of Kid Icarus Uprising is a good contender, since you get eaten by Hades and you spend the ground level being taunted by him as Pit goes crazy with being unable to talk to anyone but himself and the jerky villain
@@adamjsher04 Yeah, it just comes across as bad. Between taking away anyone who could talk to you EXCEPT Hades, and my past experiences with a similar dark inner body slog (hey there Cathedral Ship), and…yeah, I hate that level.
i certainly didn't expect that number 1 pick, and i might need a neckbrace thanks to that switch from "calming nighttime in the forest with nice bug ambience" to *"HELL"*
#8 i find it interesting that the instruction manual NEVER mentions the Flood. it goes into great detail about all the Covenant characters and all the weapons, but NOTHING about the Flood. thus making their appearance genuinely surprising. #6 well, well, well...i was expecting the Shadow Temple, but the well is pretty creepy too.
I played forestia when i was a kid… and oh boi was that level scary. Every creature i saw was just increasing the feeling of dread that installed Their soul litterally leaving their body under your eyes, the friendly trees having lost their lives with blank eyes The full ominous red and the dreadful music That was incredibly disturbing And i wondered why it didn’t appear in your other « unexpectedly scary » video
Other disturbing levels in non-horror games that personally come to mind: Tie between Deepnest and The Abyss - Hollow Knight Tie between the Genetic Engineering Ranch, and the Police Station Basement - South Park: The Fractured But Whole The Chimera Lab - Mother 3 Mirror Temple - Celeste
There’s one other aspect of the true lab in Undertale to consider. The video tapes. The tapes that you don’t see any pictures you just read the text but it starts throwing a bunch of questions. Biggest of all, why are the people being recorded talk about you as if you’ve been there before.
Well they technically dont, as the character you name at the beginning is actually the first fallen child (Chara). While your characters name is always gonna be Frisk, but you wouldn't know that yet playing the game your first time.
@@HeroponAlexander but that does add to the creepiness of the true lab because until you beat the pacifist ending you don’t know the name you chosen was not for the character you were playing.
@@jordanhunter3375 I could see that probably being the original intention. Like Alphis had an accent so thick laboratory sounds like lavatory. But the accent would probably have been a nightmare to implement well and the player still be able to understand what she was saying.
This man really said "remember what TH-cam was like ten years ago? let's do that." And then did it. Thank you for bringing me back to more peaceful times.
I didn't 100% epic Mickey a long time ago. I didn't save all of the gremlins in the horror castle (I forgot what the area's called) and didn't get every piece of robot Donald. After I beat the game, I regretted not finding every piece of robot Donald.
I specifically plugged in my Wii again just so I can play it again. Problem is I just need to play it lol. But yeah I LOVE Epic Mickey! It was so fun! Just a darn shame the sequel dropped the ball with it's new gameplay mechanic.
*Oswald* deserves better. Disney went to all that trouble to get him back, but aside from the Epic Mickey games, and a few cameos and references here and there, they've done NOTHING with his character!
Funny that you mention Metroid fitting right in with the alien franchise-I was just playing Metroid Dread today and my sister said it reminded her of Alien. But anyway, great list! Seeing as I initially discovered you from your Top 15 Most Disturbing Bosses in Non-Horror games collab, I love seeing these "disturbing things in non-horror" lists from you! Hope you had a great Halloween!
Not as surprising when you know that Alien was one of if not the core inspiration for Metroid. The creators have said that Samus was directly inspired by Ripley and recurring Boss Ridley got his name from Ridley Scott.
I would have included either the Cave of Bad Dreams or the Tomb of the Ancients, both from Rayman 2. The first one already puts you in the mood with the Guardian transporting you in like a nightmare, then the hands trying to grab you, the monsters who straight-up EAT you, and of course the chase at the end with the camera positionned inside the Guardian's drooling maw. More spoopy than spooky in some aspects, but the ambiance combined with the fact it's an early level AND the lore surrounding both the Guardian and Rayman, make for a pretty scary experience. The second one has the most dreary music in the game to start with (and one of the scariest I've ever heard), with the level taking place in a cemetery. You see tombs everywhere, ghosts coming at you more agressively than ever, giant spiders attacking you with the first notes of Psycho's main theme, and even zombies in the PS2 version ! Worst of all, is the goo you see everywhere, reeking of death. That's because the Robo-pirates (main enemies of the game) have descralized these tombs by digging up ancient corpses to fill them with their dead instead. So yeah, the water killing you in this level ? *It's corpse juice.* But still, another great list, Josh. Thank you ever so much for your great work.
My personal scary part is that part of The Sanctuary of Fire and Stone (where the second Mask is) where you are in a room with five pillars and that bouncing green monster that only comes around the other side if you turn your back....in a game where the camera automatically turns to look over the shoulder after 3 seconds....and you can only hear the bouncing, bouNCING, BOUNCING!
Definitely feel Ratchet and Clank has two contenders when it comes to pretty disturbing levels, those being the one in a crack time on planet lumos, where you have to out run a swarm of tetramites who’ll eat you alive if you aren’t quick enough, and the level in Rift apart where you go through a dark aquatic base while avoiding and distracting a terrifying creature who takes no damage .
I’d go with the Rift Apart level. The Crack in Time level doesn’t seem that scary personally speak especially with the invasion section between both segments of Lumos
For me, it's the Aquatos sewers from Up Your Arsenal. The labyrinthine pipelines, the veritable armies of Amoeboids, and the haunting music just give me a goosebumpy feeling that there's something just not right about this place. Especially the upper level tunnels, with their ominous red lighting. Even if nothing really out of the ordinary happens in there, it's just not comfortable in the slightest.
A judge: "343 Guilty Spark, how do you plead?" 343 Guilty Spark: "Innocent." same Judge: " Yeah, right. I pronounce you guilty. Hand him over to the Warden Eternal."
@@elijahhayter3026 Well, he tricked Master Chief into aiding him with the process that would activate the halo array. Which is when all of sentient life is destroyed including Master Chief. And then he killed one of the best soldier characters that we got from Halo in Halo 3.
@@elijahhayter3026 Yeah, about that..........I would say go outside the milkyway galaxy and head for the ARK Installation, which is currently the residence of the Banished led by Atriox and well, the toaster is already dead....so there's that too. Oh and did I mention the Flood as well.
My personal favourite creepy level in gaming? The whole shadow temple sequence thing in Fable 3 when you release the Crawler. Holy shit, what a change of tone and shit!!! Legit had me seriously spooked throughout and even when finished, it still left an atmosphere in the rest of the game as a looming presence of the terrors to come if you don’t resolve shit soon with your despot of a brother. God, the Fable games were amazing.
Wow this was a good list. The entries have a ton of variety and the writing and editing is some of the best I've seen in awhile. Really appreciate how much work went into this video. Nice to end this month on a high note after the mixed bag that was the scary music countdown
For me, the creepiest level is The Deadlands from Bug Fables, the theme that plays is ominous similar to the Submerged Castle, *and then you meet the Deadlanders.* creepy, unusual, and very strong monsters that even the game itself tells you to GTFO.
Honestly the Water Wraith from Pikmin 2 is so terrifying and memorable that they brought it back as the final boss of Pikmin 3 with the Plasm Wraith. Albeit in a slightly different way.
The derelict reaper level in Mass Effect 2 gave me a lite Dead Space vibe. The over-the-shoulder camera angle and fighting through a ship filled with monsters was reminiscent of Dead Space. Although husks and scions aren't nearly as scary as necromorphs lol
While that part is definitely scary I find the ardact yashi sanctuary in me3 to be every more scarier. Seemingly abandoned at first but once you find out what's in there the real terror begins. (Seriously though the Banshees are frigging horror game material! Why don't more countdown creators who make scary enemies in video games horror/non horror talk about those?! 😬)
@@shadowlinkbds Theoretically, one could argue they ARE scarier. The only reason they aren't game wise is because Shepard and his crew are some of the biggest badasses in the Galaxy. Isaac, while badass, is alone and technically just an engineer. The Reapers don't even need to get you're body like the Necromorphs do.
Hidden gem? It got a shitton of attention the year it came out. It was alongside Braid touted as the catalyst for the explosion of indie games to the mainstream.
Ok, so I’ve never heard of Forestia until now, and finding out it’s an educational game, I probably would’ve enjoyed it. What I wanna know is what in god’s name was that?! That was NOT an educational moment! What was that meant to educate?! That our ecosystem is getting fucked?!
It looks more like Forestia's nightmare level is actually one of the MORE gruesome levels on the list, the only thing more morbid I can see is the bottom of the well. The nightmare literally has frozen dead bodies just lying around!
Okay so I already commented before on how unexpected disturbing music can be in the last non horror countdown but disturbing levels from non horror themselves can be just as unexpected as well. Sometimes the levels can even have both disturbing part from its structure and from the music. Also again they're lot of choices that can fit this criteria.
Personal honorable mention : Bowser's Castle (Scissors takeover) from Origami King If paper phobia is a thing, this is a good place to start. Although a couple points had to be docked because of its short length.
really fun list Josh. for a neat honorable mention I would go with Hypocenter from Black Ops 3 of all games. Now the game is generally dark and violent but Hypocenter does a nice tone shift into more Horror and dread. Long story short, you follow a lead to an abandoned and semi-submerged facility. the level starts off normal but as you descend further the tone noticeably shifts and the atmosphere sets in. lifeless robots come alive and start attacking you in zombie-like hordes, isolation, moody lighting, and one point your tech abilities are deactivated, first time making you feel powerless since the prologue. towards the end it does go back action and explosions but for the most part Hypocenter became a great highlight to paythrough
the factors in creepy levels in non-horror games is the atmosphere contrasting with the rest of the game, the backstory of the location and the implications seen in the level that is showing rather than telling. and then there's stuff in the level we don't see but are implied to be there in the lore.
*Josh:* "There it is! The most vile monster in all of Halo!" [343 Guilty Spark is seen] *Me (not a Halo player):* "What, behind the robot?" *Josh:* "It is the robot!" *Me:* _"...You silly sod!"_ *Josh:* "What?" *Me:* "You got us all worked up over nothing!" *Josh:* "That's no ordinary robot! That's the most foul, cruel, sadistic machine you ever laid eyes on!"
Ocean House Hotel in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. Even though you are a vampire yourself, you still feel powerless and it still scares me whenever I replay it. It even has a specific console command to skip the whole level!
10: That was interesting. Always been curious about Yoshi games. 9: While that segment was creepy, I give my Metroid point to The GFS Valhalla. The sheer emptiness of the abandoned wreck on top of the feeling I get that the entire nebula is made of Phazon Metroids gets to me even still. And to answer the question of Samus vs. Xenomorph, I think Samus would win. Genesis creatures basically are Xenomorphs and they go down from a couple shots of the Plasma Beam. And if that doesn't work, two words: Power Bomb. 8: Maybe playing the campaign at some point will soften my opinion on Halo. 7: Never made it that far in World of Goo. I should play it again. Thanks for the reminder. 6: Gotta love the Well. Thank you, Sun's Song. 5: My personal pick for creepiest Pokedex entry is Palossand: Buried beneath the castle are masses of dried-up bones from those whose vitality it has drained. 4: I didn't understand what happened the first time I played because I missed the text box and wasn't paying attention. In my defense, I was 7. 3: The best part about the Water Wraith is that it's appearance is entirely random. Some people won't see the thing until they fight it at the bottom floor. Others will have it spawn seconds after dropping into the dungeon and need to deal with it the entire time with no breaks. 2: Very uncomfortable area. 1: Umm... okay? I'm reminded of the Mother 3 mushroom samba moment with the difference being that Mother at least has dark moments already. A random edutainment game doing it just comes completely out of left planet.
I'm pretty sure the Water Wraith was at random in the original release of Pikmin 2. I think for re-releases, you have to get to the next floor with four to five minutes, or else it will spawn except on the last floor. I do, however, know it spawns after a time limit in the Engulfed Castle in Pikmin 4.
Not that I’m expecting Josh to have played it so I wasn’t expecting it to be on here, but the Flask Sea in Ar Nosurge: Ode To An Unborn Star is the creepiest area I’ve ever played in a non-horror game. Throughout the game, people are constantly being kidnapped by an alien race called the Sharl, as you try and fend them off. Then when you get to the Flask Sea, you come across a giant basin in a laboratory, and it’s filled with pods floating in the water (not dissimilar to aquatic mines) containing all the people the Sharl have kidnapped. And the worst part, is that as you backtrack to the area throughout the game, more and more pods get added to the sea. Gives me goosebumps whenever I have to go through it.
I do think the mansion on the Moon from Killer is Dead is one of mine. It's definitely one that made me unsettled when I first played it. Mostly because of the music.
I would've preferred The Manor from A Hat in Time to be actually on the list, but I'm glad you finally acknowledged it. Also, I love the swear tangent.
Another good one is the Okinawa Jail in Persona 5 Strikers. Before this level, all of the other Jails you visited were very fantastical settings like a flashy theme park, a gothic castle, and a worst-case scenario for Elsa’s winter. But that eventually changes in Okinawa when the Phantom Thieves’ brief respite at the beach is interrupted come nightfall, where the brainwashed locals try to ambush them and they’re forced to seek refuge in the Metaverse. What follows is a level that feels like something straight out of a Resident Evil game, as you travel through the narrow hallways of a ruined laboratory and fight off more Eldridge-looking Shadows like Legion and Black Ooze. You find various notes and recordings related to what happened to the test subjects on the island, as well as the unfortunate fate of the Jail’s Monarch. While the atmosphere and music are definitely unsettling, what makes the Okinawa Jail so creepy is how it gives us a glimpse of what could happen to a cognitive zone in the Metaverse if it’s original creator were to die before a Change of Heart; a “Mental Graveyard” as Ozaich puts it.
This one is long, but please bear with me. My pick would be the second mission of Star Wars: Republic Commando, the Assault Ship. More specifically the first chapter is where your team goes into separate areas of the ship to gather intel, which means in your area of the ship you are alone. The reason why this works is that the whole draw of the game and its biggest strength both gameplay and story-wise is your team of other clone commandos, take that away on any other level and it is an absolute nightmare. But here you are alone and you will be for a while. It also helps that in some sections of the ship there is no light and you have to use night vision, the problem is that night vision in this game is in black and white and has a grainy film quality to it. The level begins with your team wondering where had all the crew gone, and the suspicious static that sometimes hits the helmets and comms. Then all of a sudden one of your teammates starts shouting over the radio and it gets quiet. Later you meet a survivor who is hiding in the torpedo bay, who is then later killed by a new enemy, a probe droid of some kind. It then attacks you and you kill it relatively quickly after it latches on to you. Then you later come across more bodies of dead crewmates and clones. who you see are fighting another kind of enemy, which are Trandoshan mercenaries. They are manageable, but it would be easier if you had your squad with you. I won't go over everything to keep spoilers to a minimum. I wouldn't put this high on the list since after discovering the true threats it is not that scary anymore and once you reunite with your squad the Trandoshans and droids go down much easier and the level essentially becomes a defend ship segment with more droids attacking. But that opening chapter where you are alone just takes the cake.
Lavender Town. The music. The possessed Channelers. The dead Mother Marowak. The Team Rocket members who killed her above you on the next floor trying to force Mr. Fuji to rejoin their organization and help them make another mew.
I really want someone to at least mention the Desert of the Kanaren from Rayman 3 in a list like this. Easily the scariest thing I had to deal with as a kid
Yah know, I can actually see Barney doing that. I mean most of his actor's aka the guys in the suit were well known drug addicts and Barney himself is already pretty disturbing on its own with his dead eyes.
I still remember when I discovered the Zero boss fight in Kirby's Dreamland 3...I knew that Kirby games could get a little unsettling, but I didn't realize just how far they could go. Then I saw the rating for Kirby's 20th Anniversary Dream Collection... "Rated E-10 for *animated blood?* Okay, that's kinda weird...they're Kirby games, surely it's not that bad?" So I went and did some digging on the games in the collection, and found the Zero fight in Kirby's Dreamland 3...I absolutely lost my shit upon seeing its eye getting violently torn out of its body, leaving a gaping, bloody hole in its wake. Gotta love Kirby games!
I’d like to throw in the Silent Woods from Ori and the Will of the Wisps. You spend the first half of the game in this lovely beautiful world getting to know its inhabitants. Something happens in the past because they are all terrified of the game’s final boss skreech. To rescue your friend you have been searching for you have to go though land that she grew up in. The entire level is haunting there no enemies everything is dead the water is toxic and grey. The only living thing is an npc, who is depressed because the trees which he was the care taker for died. From this npc you learn the reason everything in this level is dead is because the spirits (the race of your character) failed to protect it. Up until this point your goal was to find and rescuer you friend Ku and then leave the island. You go through this level with the sense of horror, but also guilt knowing you planned to abandon these people you met to suffer the same fate as the Silent Woods.
18:06 Sooo... 'Be careful, I sense Watery Death'? Muncher Marathon of Donkey Kong Country Returns made an impression on me... or a something on me. Just when the music is going back to normal and you think you're finally safe, the swarm violently returns, bursting out of the walls, and will consume the entire final area if you don't hit the exit barrel. Can only imagine what that level would be like for an arachnophobe!
I would say Mystic Mansion from Sonic Heroes is creepy in some aspects. Jack-O-Lantern ghosts that appear and disappear, skeletons that watch you around the corners, paintings coming to life, and a giant spider web over a large bottomless chasm.
A little correction regarding Undertale: Alphys wasn't aiming to bring the dying monsters back to life, she was trying to make their souls last after they died, like the humans' souls did, in an effort to shatter the barrier trapping monsterkind underground. Flowey was created to serve as the vessel that would hold the harvested souls, but, everything went to hell. The dying monsters were revived, only to melt together into the amalgamates and Flowey disappeared. Alphys had promised to give the family members of the "fallen" monsters their dust after they passed, but, when it looked like dying monsters were going to be okay, she called the family members to tell them and planned to send them all home the next day. When the "revived" monsters didn't come home, Alphys was hounded by angry phone calls and letters by the family members asking about their loved ones. But, she couldn't bring herself to tell anyone what had actually happened, driving her into reclusion.
What a coincidence, I was watching one of Fawful’s minions Pokémon countdowns earlier, and he was also talking about the ghost girl from black and white 2!
Ha! What do you know, one of my predictions was on point when I guess World 6 from Super Paper Mario after a 'certain event' lol. Another game I just thought of was Omori. I know it has horror elements in it, but I don't know if I would consider it Horror considering all the areas you visit in the game, both in Sunny's head and real life. I would definitely add Black Space though, that whole area is just . . . OMG! Especially when you go for the True Ending route and learn the 'truth' of the overall mystery of the game.
10. Why do the clowns heads look like Olimar? 9. Yeah now THIS is spooky in a good way. 8. Haven't played any Halo games yet. Bur I do remember how Microsoft shoehorned them into the original Halo Wars due to the episode of Black Sheep Game Reviews by Blondeguygamer. 7. Gross. 6. I remember when Cjszero01 did a Best & Worst 3D Zelda Dungeons list and this line from that entry always sticks out to me (For context he was talking about the Master Quest version) "You know I've never played Eternal Darkness. But if this is what it's like for a game to mess with your mind then I don't want to go near it" (Not sure if I got the whole thing right) 5. What I find just as disturbing is how badly Game Freak is right now with the main series. 4. Yeah this really shows the stakes. 3. I knew this would be on here. BUT I didn't think it would be THIS HIGH! Also fun fact. In TheMetalBlade5's LP of Pikmin 2 he said he encountered THE THING on the final floor in what I think it was his first playthrough. Which also happened in said LP. 2. No comment. 1. OH MY GOD! Yeah this is the kind of thing that makes me ask one question. HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE CENSORS!
Samus vs Xenomorph Samus absolutely wins, the things are powerful but Samus has a plethora of weapons and armors to continue changing up strategies as it's forced to try and adapt to her. It doesn't help it that she's far more experienced than it with multiple adventures under her belt against creatures just as, if not more powerful and dangerous than it is. Plus she can get through vents much faster than normal people thanks to her Morph Ball and leaves bombs to stall the Xenomorph in case she needs time to plan.
Most of this list works, but I think that one of the creepy levels in Epic Mickey should've been here. Junk Mountain, which you showed, is pretty much a graveyard for old Mickey Mouse stuff, with a lake of thinner, the poison/acid of the game. The castle is dark, has lots of powerful and creepy enemies, and has that sort of ominous music. And the last level of the game literally takes place inside of the main antagonist of the game: The Shadow Blot. You have to go around unkillable enemies made out of the kind citizens, destroy these bubbles to literally free Mickey's heart, and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is trapped inside one of the walls you can see. How is that not creepier than some of the other stuff on this list?
Well thank goodness I haven't played Forestia when I was little to get traumatized by that. Instead I played games like Earthbound and got traumatized by other things. 😊😁 Wait.....
In the book series of Halo, one of the marines that got infected still had some control over himself though that is slightly. And in another book, it is revealed that Sergeant Johnson is immune to the flood due to an illness he has called Boren's syndrome (or something like that).
Lohengrin Castle from Trails of Cold Steel 1. In Laura S. Arseid's Hometown of Legram, where your 5th field excursion take place in, 2 kids go in there, as a sort of Simba going to the Elephant Graveyard scenario. Your party consists of Rean Schwarzer, the main protagonist, Laura, a blue-haired female Cloud, who actually has more character than Lightning from FFXIII, Emma Millstein, Class VII's Class President and (spoiler alert) a witch, Jusis Albarea, a noble with a chip on his shoulder about his lineage, and Millium Orion, one of the "children" handpicked by Osborne himself who joins Class VII after Chapter 4 along with Crow Armbrust, the rival/best friend of Rean Schwarzer. You get some Scooby Doo vibes while exploring the castle, only instead of anime high school students trained in various weaponry, and the enemies consist of possessed moving swords, disturbing fiends fused to unicycles, and the like. The boss against the Nosferatu, while frustrating if you're not careful, also adds to the spooky, haunting tone of the castle. A history lesson about it though. Spoiler alert again, the castle was once home to a legendary maiden unmatched with a lance named Lianne Sandlot. Dreichels trekked back to Erebonia during the War of the Lions, which was a battle for succession of the throne, Dreichels intended to end the war and gathered several followers from the land of Nord, where he befriended them, and met her in Legram. Lianne was also in love with Dreichels and wanted to bear his children, but died at the age of 25. Also, fun fact, if you haven't played Cold Steel 3 and 4, this may escape you at first, but a clue you see is a door with a mysterious symbol on it. That symbol is the trial of the Awakener, and Lohengrin Castle was the trial ground for Argreion, the Argent Knight, one of the strongest of the 7 Divine Knights.
Wouldn’t personally consider that level too creepy, but you’re clearly enthusiastic about Trails (particularly the only game in the series I’ve finished so far), so you still get a like from me.
Tales of series has done very disturbing levels like the fonon clone factory where they imply people eating each other. Paper Mario thousand year door has so many dead body's all around Conker's bad fur day the zombie stuff.
@@halo129830 guess the flooded area in xillia works too as the marshes drowned so many people or xillia 2 where older ludger had Elise a child killed. Many places in xillia are dark. Symphonia the human ranches as a whole with making people into monsters
Also, an honorable mention to me would be Ultra Ruin from Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. Most players likely won’t experience it since it’s a *very* rare spawn point in the Ultra Wormhole. But once you do so, you’re treated to this empty, desolate city with no people but a couple of survivors who warn you of how dangerous things are around here. At the end you encounter the massive Ultra Beast Guzzlord, which means that the people previously living there were either driven away…or even worse, *eaten* by Guzzlord! But what makes this even worse is that the music is a distorted version of Hau’oli City. AKA the biggest and most bustling town in Alola, and so to see such a place driven to nothing but ruin in another dimension is just super creepy and morbid. So as chilling as the Old Chateau or Dream House can be, Ultra Ruin will always stand out to me as a pure reminder of how messed up Pokémon can be.
Vanessa's Manor from A Hat In Time may have only gotten an honorable mention, but for first time players, that Act is guaranteed to give you nightmares (if you don't know where the secret route to the attic is)!
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The especially scary thing about the Strange House is that... Darkrai _isn't_ malicious. Not generally, anyway. At the time of Gen IV, which takes place before Gen V, Darkrai secludes itself on Newmoon Island, right next to the resting place of the only Pokemon that can counter its effects. Its nightmare-causing properties are an involuntary defence mechanism that it can't turn off. Even the Pokedex in the very games with the Strange House states that it _means no harm._
This girl _died by accident._ Darkrai didn't even try to kill her, it just happened to be in the area while she was asleep and trapped her in a perpetual nightmare until she wasted away, and Cresselia wasn't fast enough to save her.
What about Mystery Dungeon tho
“Generally” I think is the key word here
*Darkrai:* "I didn't mean to...I didn't mean to..." 😔
@@dicksonmattxenoblade6491 Likewise!
Yeah, and Darkrai WILLINGLY put himself next door to his only counter.
So fun fact about Undertale's True Lab: The music in this area uses sounds samples from EarthBound. There's a couple of sources, but the big one is Cave of the Past. What's funny about this is that Cave of the Past uses sound samples for a Beach Boy song. So It's a sound sample... of a sound sample. Also, the battle theme (Amalgam) Only uses EarthBound sound fonts for the songs, make it a pure AMALGAMATION of sound samples.
The more you know
Gigyas wish he could be this creepy
-sans is Ness confirmed-
and also the fact that this song is Dark Alphys motive
.......some random food for thought
Pretty crazy how Forestia managed to do the entire “disturbing horror game disguised as an innocent children’s title” gimmick decades before it became a popular trope in indie horror. And the crazy part is that it actually WAS an innocent children’s title.
It’s nothing new for kids games to have some scarier moments, but I can’t get over how oddly ahead of it’s time this was.
I'm surprised no one has found that one game that lied it's genre in the early pc Era to scare the piss out of the consumer
I was very surprised that this game was known abroad, especially in the United States. I used to play this game when I was a kid, maybe 5-7 years old, and I continued after that. It was a very small French development studio that created this game. It only made Forestia and two or three versions. I was born in France as well, so this game was quite easy to find at the time (although it was a very small game for children, it was not on the shelves in stores). In fact, I had this game in my family thanks to my operator "Orange", who gave gifts with the packages a very long time ago ... The first time I accessed the red level of the game and where everyone dies, I thought I had a heart attack. I was so not expecting this! I don't know if the developers did this on purpose to introduce a message or to elaborate a theory, or whatnot. But I think a simple guess would be that since the game is very dated (even back when I played it it was pretty outdated) it accentuates the horror side and the developers just wanted to surprise the kids. , without necessarily scaring them too much. In addition, we see one of the animals that we see previously in the game, talking to us quite quickly after entering this level, and the reaction of this same animal is quite "crazy", it remains in the humorous framework of the authors of this same game, which can reassure the player. If the developers had really wanted to scare the players, they would not have included this humorous figure, which seems quite absurd in view of the situation, and which is in line with the rest of the game.
But WHYYYYYYYYY!?????? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!????????
@@jordanhunter3375 Stupidity?
That moment from 'Forestia' probably counts as what Doug Walker (Nostalgia Critic) calls "a BIG-LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!" It comes out of nowhere, completely goes out of tone with its weirdness compared to the rest of the game, and then goes away without ever being mentioned again for the rest of the game.
Even Doug Walker no longer uses that meme, let alone the actual creator of the meme, being Lindsay Ellis (ex Nostalgia Chick)
So expecting creator of this video to use it, especially after he showed up cringing for using it in past... Nah
The Bottom of the Well gets even worse when you think about the fact that despite all the things in there, it's still a well. Meaning that the good folks of Kakariko Village, are drinking from that well, unaware that water isn't the only thing in there.
There may be a ton of corpses down there, but at least they are free of pathogens!
And it used to be a torture area!, the monsters are mostly undead, coincidence? I think NOT!
Forestia for the entire game: Cute and friendly edutainment game with chocolate rabbit for kids.
Forestia nightmare sequence: *LITERALLY JUST THE ECLIPSE FROM BERSERK.*
When did the game change into a point clip version of black cauldron?!!!?????!!!
Oh Forestia, should've seen that coming. It was one of my favorite games when I was like 6. But The Mountain of Fire plagued my nightmares for a long time. That music, the red forest, those dead animals... Heck, you could actually FAIL that level and be crushed by a flaming boulder coming directly at you as the bad guy laughed at your doom! And this is a game for CHILDREN!! o_o
I think what also really makes the Bottom of the Well in OoT even creepier are the implications of its existence. In the OG 64 version, the environment featured a disturbing amount of blood that seemed to paint the walls and floors, and it was usually around where certain…. instruments were. Kakariko was initially inhabited by the Skeikah, who as we all know were devoted followers of the Royal family of Hyrule, but also trained assassins and spies. The fact that they housed a torture chamber beneath their village goes to show just how far they went with their work, and now it’s inhabited by animated corpses and spirits…… yeah.
3:15 Definitely Samus, as intimidating as the Xenomorph is, she would absolutely smoke that thing.
Yep, Zeta Metroids are pretty much Xenomorphs in all but name, and Samus has taken down Omegas and Queens among other worse things. The entire series' biggest visual and storytelling inspiration is the Alien series.
Two words: Bird magic.
I’m mean samus has taken so many dangerous aliens, to her she will find it a annoying alien to deal with there acid blood and climbing walls constantly
@@WhiteFangofWar Don't forget Ridley. Literally named after Alien franchise's director and is modeled after a xenomorph. Considering the Metroids are literally just jellyfish xenomorphs, I don't care what anyone says, Metroids are scarier than Alien's Xenomorphs! O.O
@@bluestreaker9242 Wow, I can't believe I missed that. I always thought the connect there was Samus' inspiration Ellen Ripley being one letter away from Ridley, but it was just the director putting his name on the protagonist all along.
I just know Queen Vanessa's manor's at least getting an honorable mention.
A funny one too with that description.
Rumbi factory is another level I found particularly disturbing in Hat in Time. Just seeing the origin place of that cute innocent Roomba all in a wreck and reeking of the industrialization imagery mixed with the air of something here has gone amiss as well as having hostile roombas running around was quite the whiplash that I enjoyed a lot.
@@chillyfalcon I haven't been there yet. Sounds dope.
Man Vanessa still gives me nightmares
Ah, boy, here we go again:
10: I've never been that big into Yoshi, though killer clowns are disturbing no matter the circumstances.
9: Metroid is definitely soft horror, though if I'm not mistaken, this was the game where the shift happened, so I'll allow it. Oh, and Samus would definitely win.
8: Halo gets a bit better at not being a horror game in later installments, but yeah, this was terrifying the first time around.
7: Okay, I'm surprised a track from World of Goo wasn't at least an honorable mention on the last list.
6: Good job going for the other other obvious pick (that one was for you, fellow Wambu fans).
5: If we were talking about a disturbing level based on music alone, N's house would be here, because N's Room is arguably one of the scariest theme in Pokemon history. Still, this is a REALLY good pick.
4: Still think that the Underworld with the song that is often considered SCARIER THAN SONGS FROM SILENT F***ING HILL would take this place, but boy, am I wrong.
3: Stupid water wraiths. Not to mention that one of the scariest final bosses in the Pikmin franchise may or may not be the water wraith's golden cousin.
2: I'm surprised that the True Lab got this high, but I can see why. And while counting this may be cheating, this place holds another secret when you start fiddeling with the code of the game; Entry Number 17. Alphys isn't the only scientist who caused some screwed up and disturbing things to happen in Undertale. Though I must admit... it's rude to talk about someone who listening... :)
Honorable Mention 1: More of a fun Halloween level than actually disturbing, but it stands on both sides of the border.
Honorable Mention 2: ANY FINAL BOSS FIGHT FROM KIRBY COULD EASILY MAKE THIS LIST, though I suppose that's a list for a different time. (did he already make one and I'm just stupid?)
Honorable Mention 3: Still think Scarecrow is scarier.
Honorable Mention 4: This is exactly why I haven't finished A Hat In Time. Do you blame me?
1: Yep. That'll do it. No arguments for placing this one at Number 1. There's probably a reason why this game has never been heard of.
Also, normally he gives us an outro that hints at what he's going to do next, but he didn't this time. To me, this means that either he doesn't know exactly what he's doing next, he's taking a break, he forgot to write one this time, or the next episode's clue has to do with Barney sacrificing the kids to an eldritch abomination. I really hope it's the last one, because because spooky stuff doesn't just have to happen during the spooky month.
You can actually skip Vanessa's manor. I myself did it on my first playthrough. There's a secret entrance on the left side of the basement when you enter that allows you to skip straight to the hourglass and avoid the horror segment. There are plenty of videos on TH-cam showing you how to do this. Useful both for speedruns and for people who don't like horror games. Plus a lot of stuff in A Hat in Time is actually optional for any% as you really don't need that many hourglasses to complete the game. Heck, I beat the game without even setting foot in the forth and final non-DLC world or completing the second world in its entirety.
@@krimsonkatt More games should let you skip scary parts.
I am a coward and I just want to play a fun game.
Regarding number 7, that’s because it was on the first list, along with River Twygz Bed and Ikana Canyon.
DUDE. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER FORESTIA'S TITLE FOR SO LONG
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
OH GOD THE NOSTALGIA
Have you playing at this game, in the past ?
okay i was NOT expecting that number one segment! never in my life have i seen a video game pull a more complete 180 so the fact they got away with that in an EDUCATIONAL GAME FOR KIDS is freakin' hilarious XD
thanks for introducing me to such a mind screw i love it
For me personally, I’d say that Chapter 23 of Kid Icarus Uprising is a good contender, since you get eaten by Hades and you spend the ground level being taunted by him as Pit goes crazy with being unable to talk to anyone but himself and the jerky villain
Due to the writing it doesn't really come across as creepy though tbh.
I'd say the stuff involving Chaos Kin would be more fitting.
@@monkeykingw Holy shit this. The Chaos Kin levels are some creepy nonsense
@@adamjsher04 Yeah, it just comes across as bad. Between taking away anyone who could talk to you EXCEPT Hades, and my past experiences with a similar dark inner body slog (hey there Cathedral Ship), and…yeah, I hate that level.
Pit is secretly just a bacon strip with wings
i certainly didn't expect that number 1 pick, and i might need a neckbrace thanks to that switch from "calming nighttime in the forest with nice bug ambience" to *"HELL"*
#8 i find it interesting that the instruction manual NEVER mentions the Flood.
it goes into great detail about all the Covenant characters and all the weapons, but NOTHING about the Flood.
thus making their appearance genuinely surprising.
#6 well, well, well...i was expecting the Shadow Temple, but the well is pretty creepy too.
Kratos: I died and had to climb my way out of Hell.
Mario: I did it first.
I played forestia when i was a kid… and oh boi was that level scary.
Every creature i saw was just increasing the feeling of dread that installed
Their soul litterally leaving their body under your eyes, the friendly trees having lost their lives with blank eyes
The full ominous red and the dreadful music
That was incredibly disturbing
And i wondered why it didn’t appear in your other « unexpectedly scary » video
Other disturbing levels in non-horror games that personally come to mind:
Tie between Deepnest and The Abyss - Hollow Knight
Tie between the Genetic Engineering Ranch, and the Police Station Basement - South Park: The Fractured But Whole
The Chimera Lab - Mother 3
Mirror Temple - Celeste
Binding of Isaac is absolutely a horror game but i agree with all the others.
@@Faux_Sunlight Ah, my bad. I'll get rid of it, then.
Love the SAO Abridged reference. Josh is a man of culture.
What?
Where, exactly?
@@axell15thewispmaster51 3:39 “Oh boy. That’s a tone-setter.”
Especially since Kirito standing in the Log-in Room resembles Samus stuck in the elevator. 😅
@@Kwatcher100 how did I miss that xd
OH MY GOD "BE AFRAID OF THE DARK" FREAKED ME OUT SO MUCH
I DO NOT EXPECT TO FIND AXE MURDERERS IN MY YOSHI GAMES
There’s one other aspect of the true lab in Undertale to consider.
The video tapes.
The tapes that you don’t see any pictures you just read the text but it starts throwing a bunch of questions.
Biggest of all, why are the people being recorded talk about you as if you’ve been there before.
Well they technically dont, as the character you name at the beginning is actually the first fallen child (Chara). While your characters name is always gonna be Frisk, but you wouldn't know that yet playing the game your first time.
@@HeroponAlexander but that does add to the creepiness of the true lab because until you beat the pacifist ending you don’t know the name you chosen was not for the character you were playing.
I remember, during the live premiere of this video, I made a joke about confusing 'Laboratory' with 'Lavatory"
@@jordanhunter3375 I could see that probably being the original intention.
Like Alphis had an accent so thick laboratory sounds like lavatory. But the accent would probably have been a nightmare to implement well and the player still be able to understand what she was saying.
This man really said "remember what TH-cam was like ten years ago? let's do that." And then did it. Thank you for bringing me back to more peaceful times.
343 guilty spark: exists
Josh: "And I took that personally"
You have no idea how happy I was to see Mickeyjunk Mountain from Epic Mickey as the transition. That game deserves better.
I didn't 100% epic Mickey a long time ago. I didn't save all of the gremlins in the horror castle (I forgot what the area's called) and didn't get every piece of robot Donald. After I beat the game, I regretted not finding every piece of robot Donald.
I specifically plugged in my Wii again just so I can play it again. Problem is I just need to play it lol. But yeah I LOVE Epic Mickey! It was so fun! Just a darn shame the sequel dropped the ball with it's new gameplay mechanic.
@@Zodia195 and the main reason we didn’t get a Epic Mickey 3 because the 2nd one dropped so hard
Do you guys know what the theme that plays between the transition is
*Oswald* deserves better. Disney went to all that trouble to get him back, but aside from the Epic Mickey games, and a few cameos and references here and there, they've done NOTHING with his character!
Funny that you mention Metroid fitting right in with the alien franchise-I was just playing Metroid Dread today and my sister said it reminded her of Alien.
But anyway, great list! Seeing as I initially discovered you from your Top 15 Most Disturbing Bosses in Non-Horror games collab, I love seeing these "disturbing things in non-horror" lists from you! Hope you had a great Halloween!
Not as surprising when you know that Alien was one of if not the core inspiration for Metroid. The creators have said that Samus was directly inspired by Ripley and recurring Boss Ridley got his name from Ridley Scott.
i've heard someone say that Alien was essentially a horror movie in a sci-fi setting.
@@ericb3157 It is. Ridley Scott quite literally likened it to making a "haunted house in space".
My first video was Top Ten Worst Kingdom Hearts Bosses, then Music Battles, then I think Scariest Nostalgic Moments....*shivers*
I would have included either the Cave of Bad Dreams or the Tomb of the Ancients, both from Rayman 2.
The first one already puts you in the mood with the Guardian transporting you in like a nightmare, then the hands trying to grab you, the monsters who straight-up EAT you, and of course the chase at the end with the camera positionned inside the Guardian's drooling maw. More spoopy than spooky in some aspects, but the ambiance combined with the fact it's an early level AND the lore surrounding both the Guardian and Rayman, make for a pretty scary experience.
The second one has the most dreary music in the game to start with (and one of the scariest I've ever heard), with the level taking place in a cemetery. You see tombs everywhere, ghosts coming at you more agressively than ever, giant spiders attacking you with the first notes of Psycho's main theme, and even zombies in the PS2 version ! Worst of all, is the goo you see everywhere, reeking of death. That's because the Robo-pirates (main enemies of the game) have descralized these tombs by digging up ancient corpses to fill them with their dead instead. So yeah, the water killing you in this level ? *It's corpse juice.*
But still, another great list, Josh. Thank you ever so much for your great work.
My personal scary part is that part of The Sanctuary of Fire and Stone (where the second Mask is) where you are in a room with five pillars and that bouncing green monster that only comes around the other side if you turn your back....in a game where the camera automatically turns to look over the shoulder after 3 seconds....and you can only hear the bouncing, bouNCING, BOUNCING!
Definitely feel Ratchet and Clank has two contenders when it comes to pretty disturbing levels, those being the one in a crack time on planet lumos, where you have to out run a swarm of tetramites who’ll eat you alive if you aren’t quick enough, and the level in Rift apart where you go through a dark aquatic base while avoiding and distracting a terrifying creature who takes no damage .
I’d go with the Rift Apart level. The Crack in Time level doesn’t seem that scary personally speak especially with the invasion section between both segments of Lumos
I’d say for me it’s Ghost Station, Orxon (Ratchet Deadlocked) and Catacrom Four which that Planet is full of Robot Zombies
@@deciduous_reaper Meh. Not really.
You're having too much fun blowing everything up.
For me, it's the hidden Swamp Monster from Ratchet and Clank 2
For me, it's the Aquatos sewers from Up Your Arsenal. The labyrinthine pipelines, the veritable armies of Amoeboids, and the haunting music just give me a goosebumpy feeling that there's something just not right about this place. Especially the upper level tunnels, with their ominous red lighting. Even if nothing really out of the ordinary happens in there, it's just not comfortable in the slightest.
Someone share this with our boy, Wambu. He has two of his favorite scary levels on here
A judge: "343 Guilty Spark, how do you plead?"
343 Guilty Spark: "Innocent."
same Judge: " Yeah, right. I pronounce you guilty. Hand him over to the Warden Eternal."
I only saw 5 halfway through, what did the dude do that was so horrible?
@@elijahhayter3026 Well, he tricked Master Chief into aiding him with the process that would activate the halo array. Which is when all of sentient life is destroyed including Master Chief. And then he killed one of the best soldier characters that we got from Halo in Halo 3.
@@jcmahrt5100 Alright, *click-click* where do I find that cycloptic toaster? I'm-a give it the sarge special!
@@elijahhayter3026 Yeah, about that..........I would say go outside the milkyway galaxy and head for the ARK Installation, which is currently the residence of the Banished led by Atriox and well, the toaster is already dead....so there's that too. Oh and did I mention the Flood as well.
@@jcmahrt5100 ...DAMNIT!
My personal favourite creepy level in gaming?
The whole shadow temple sequence thing in Fable 3 when you release the Crawler.
Holy shit, what a change of tone and shit!!!
Legit had me seriously spooked throughout and even when finished, it still left an atmosphere in the rest of the game as a looming presence of the terrors to come if you don’t resolve shit soon with your despot of a brother.
God, the Fable games were amazing.
Wow this was a good list. The entries have a ton of variety and the writing and editing is some of the best I've seen in awhile. Really appreciate how much work went into this video. Nice to end this month on a high note after the mixed bag that was the scary music countdown
For me, the creepiest level is The Deadlands from Bug Fables, the theme that plays is ominous similar to the Submerged Castle, *and then you meet the Deadlanders.* creepy, unusual, and very strong monsters that even the game itself tells you to GTFO.
Oh god I hated the Deadlands, what the hell was that light thing?
@@inktonythekaonashigaster6631 *Deadlander Omega.*
Honestly the Water Wraith from Pikmin 2 is so terrifying and memorable that they brought it back as the final boss of Pikmin 3 with the Plasm Wraith. Albeit in a slightly different way.
They then would do the same in Pikmin 4, only it *is* the Water Wraith again.
The derelict reaper level in Mass Effect 2 gave me a lite Dead Space vibe. The over-the-shoulder camera angle and fighting through a ship filled with monsters was reminiscent of Dead Space. Although husks and scions aren't nearly as scary as necromorphs lol
While that part is definitely scary I find the ardact yashi sanctuary in me3 to be every more scarier. Seemingly abandoned at first but once you find out what's in there the real terror begins. (Seriously though the Banshees are frigging horror game material! Why don't more countdown creators who make scary enemies in video games horror/non horror talk about those?! 😬)
@@shadowlinkbds Completely agree. The Banshees of ME3 are the bane of my existence lol
@@shadowlinkbds Theoretically, one could argue they ARE scarier.
The only reason they aren't game wise is because Shepard and his crew are some of the biggest badasses in the Galaxy.
Isaac, while badass, is alone and technically just an engineer.
The Reapers don't even need to get you're body like the Necromorphs do.
Mass Effect 3 - Ardat-Yakshi Monastery.
It's always cool to see someone mention World of Goo, this game is truly a hidden gem.
Hidden gem? It got a shitton of attention the year it came out. It was alongside Braid touted as the catalyst for the explosion of indie games to the mainstream.
Ok, so I’ve never heard of Forestia until now, and finding out it’s an educational game, I probably would’ve enjoyed it. What I wanna know is what in god’s name was that?! That was NOT an educational moment! What was that meant to educate?! That our ecosystem is getting fucked?!
It's educating kids about what it truly means to be afraid
@@genericname2747 thanks. I’ll use that for resume on being a doctor like every child wants to be.
Nightmares are nightmares and someone made this to show they have really bad nightmares :( (In my opinion)
I could do you one solid for Sammer's Kingdom being turned into the World of Nothing. Write it into the story that they _forget_ that it even existed.
It looks more like Forestia's nightmare level is actually one of the MORE gruesome levels on the list, the only thing more morbid I can see is the bottom of the well. The nightmare literally has frozen dead bodies just lying around!
Okay so I already commented before on how unexpected disturbing music can be in the last non horror countdown but disturbing levels from non horror themselves can be just as unexpected as well. Sometimes the levels can even have both disturbing part from its structure and from the music. Also again they're lot of choices that can fit this criteria.
Personal honorable mention :
Bowser's Castle (Scissors takeover) from Origami King
If paper phobia is a thing, this is a good place to start. Although a couple points had to be docked because of its short length.
really fun list Josh. for a neat honorable mention I would go with Hypocenter from Black Ops 3 of all games. Now the game is generally dark and violent but Hypocenter does a nice tone shift into more Horror and dread. Long story short, you follow a lead to an abandoned and semi-submerged facility. the level starts off normal but as you descend further the tone noticeably shifts and the atmosphere sets in. lifeless robots come alive and start attacking you in zombie-like hordes, isolation, moody lighting, and one point your tech abilities are deactivated, first time making you feel powerless since the prologue. towards the end it does go back action and explosions but for the most part Hypocenter became a great highlight to paythrough
the factors in creepy levels in non-horror games is the atmosphere contrasting with the rest of the game, the backstory of the location and the implications seen in the level that is showing rather than telling. and then there's stuff in the level we don't see but are implied to be there in the lore.
*Josh:* "There it is! The most vile monster in all of Halo!"
[343 Guilty Spark is seen]
*Me (not a Halo player):* "What, behind the robot?"
*Josh:* "It is the robot!"
*Me:* _"...You silly sod!"_
*Josh:* "What?"
*Me:* "You got us all worked up over nothing!"
*Josh:* "That's no ordinary robot! That's the most foul, cruel, sadistic machine you ever laid eyes on!"
The second he mentioned Forestia I knew EXACTLY where he was going with it.
21:57 - Had me cracking up with laughter.
Ocean House Hotel in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. Even though you are a vampire yourself, you still feel powerless and it still scares me whenever I replay it. It even has a specific console command to skip the whole level!
10: That was interesting. Always been curious about Yoshi games.
9: While that segment was creepy, I give my Metroid point to The GFS Valhalla. The sheer emptiness of the abandoned wreck on top of the feeling I get that the entire nebula is made of Phazon Metroids gets to me even still.
And to answer the question of Samus vs. Xenomorph, I think Samus would win. Genesis creatures basically are Xenomorphs and they go down from a couple shots of the Plasma Beam. And if that doesn't work, two words: Power Bomb.
8: Maybe playing the campaign at some point will soften my opinion on Halo.
7: Never made it that far in World of Goo. I should play it again. Thanks for the reminder.
6: Gotta love the Well. Thank you, Sun's Song.
5: My personal pick for creepiest Pokedex entry is Palossand: Buried beneath the castle are masses of dried-up bones from those whose vitality it has drained.
4: I didn't understand what happened the first time I played because I missed the text box and wasn't paying attention. In my defense, I was 7.
3: The best part about the Water Wraith is that it's appearance is entirely random. Some people won't see the thing until they fight it at the bottom floor. Others will have it spawn seconds after dropping into the dungeon and need to deal with it the entire time with no breaks.
2: Very uncomfortable area.
1: Umm... okay? I'm reminded of the Mother 3 mushroom samba moment with the difference being that Mother at least has dark moments already. A random edutainment game doing it just comes completely out of left planet.
I'm pretty sure the Water Wraith was at random in the original release of Pikmin 2. I think for re-releases, you have to get to the next floor with four to five minutes, or else it will spawn except on the last floor. I do, however, know it spawns after a time limit in the Engulfed Castle in Pikmin 4.
Not that I’m expecting Josh to have played it so I wasn’t expecting it to be on here, but the Flask Sea in Ar Nosurge: Ode To An Unborn Star is the creepiest area I’ve ever played in a non-horror game. Throughout the game, people are constantly being kidnapped by an alien race called the Sharl, as you try and fend them off. Then when you get to the Flask Sea, you come across a giant basin in a laboratory, and it’s filled with pods floating in the water (not dissimilar to aquatic mines) containing all the people the Sharl have kidnapped. And the worst part, is that as you backtrack to the area throughout the game, more and more pods get added to the sea. Gives me goosebumps whenever I have to go through it.
"Instead, THIS happens!"
*Cue ad*
"What's *strong* with me?"
...Oh my God, I remember playing Forestia a lot at friend's house. That portion of the game horrified me.
I do think the mansion on the Moon from Killer is Dead is one of mine. It's definitely one that made me unsettled when I first played it. Mostly because of the music.
I would've preferred The Manor from A Hat in Time to be actually on the list, but I'm glad you finally acknowledged it. Also, I love the swear tangent.
Me, who expected Ocarina from the Dead Hand thumbnail: You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting!
The Bunker in Uncharted. Your fun Indiana Jones adventure turns into a survival horror inside an old Nazi sub base.
Another good one is the Okinawa Jail in Persona 5 Strikers. Before this level, all of the other Jails you visited were very fantastical settings like a flashy theme park, a gothic castle, and a worst-case scenario for Elsa’s winter. But that eventually changes in Okinawa when the Phantom Thieves’ brief respite at the beach is interrupted come nightfall, where the brainwashed locals try to ambush them and they’re forced to seek refuge in the Metaverse.
What follows is a level that feels like something straight out of a Resident Evil game, as you travel through the narrow hallways of a ruined laboratory and fight off more Eldridge-looking Shadows like Legion and Black Ooze. You find various notes and recordings related to what happened to the test subjects on the island, as well as the unfortunate fate of the Jail’s Monarch. While the atmosphere and music are definitely unsettling, what makes the Okinawa Jail so creepy is how it gives us a glimpse of what could happen to a cognitive zone in the Metaverse if it’s original creator were to die before a Change of Heart; a “Mental Graveyard” as Ozaich puts it.
After just playing through it before commenting this, I agree. Compared to what came before, and what was in P5, it was really unsettling.
@@pizzaeater8905 Not to mention Ryuji finally being able to drop an f-bomb. 😂
@@Cure_Hana That too.
I never really thought about it... But yeah... Okinawa Jail is pretty disturbing... Every other jail was more lively to say the least.
Me during the Okinawa Jail playthrought: "Am I playing Persona 5 Strikers or Resident Evil?"
This one is long, but please bear with me.
My pick would be the second mission of Star Wars: Republic Commando, the Assault Ship. More specifically the first chapter is where your team goes into separate areas of the ship to gather intel, which means in your area of the ship you are alone. The reason why this works is that the whole draw of the game and its biggest strength both gameplay and story-wise is your team of other clone commandos, take that away on any other level and it is an absolute nightmare. But here you are alone and you will be for a while.
It also helps that in some sections of the ship there is no light and you have to use night vision, the problem is that night vision in this game is in black and white and has a grainy film quality to it. The level begins with your team wondering where had all the crew gone, and the suspicious static that sometimes hits the helmets and comms. Then all of a sudden one of your teammates starts shouting over the radio and it gets quiet. Later you meet a survivor who is hiding in the torpedo bay, who is then later killed by a new enemy, a probe droid of some kind. It then attacks you and you kill it relatively quickly after it latches on to you. Then you later come across more bodies of dead crewmates and clones. who you see are fighting another kind of enemy, which are Trandoshan mercenaries. They are manageable, but it would be easier if you had your squad with you.
I won't go over everything to keep spoilers to a minimum. I wouldn't put this high on the list since after discovering the true threats it is not that scary anymore and once you reunite with your squad the Trandoshans and droids go down much easier and the level essentially becomes a defend ship segment with more droids attacking. But that opening chapter where you are alone just takes the cake.
Lavender Town. The music. The possessed Channelers. The dead Mother Marowak. The Team Rocket members who killed her above you on the next floor trying to force Mr. Fuji to rejoin their organization and help them make another mew.
I’ve got to mention the Cradle from Thief. Those games are always dark and bleak, but a haunted asylum/orphanage hybrid? Fuck that shit
DMC isn't really a horror game but in DMC 3 you have to basically go through the belly of the beast. Literally. That's pretty disturbing.
Jubba Jubba is less disturbing than this but, slice through the stomach like what Gamora did in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2!
Well, number one was certainly a surprise.
Good video tho. Happy Spooky Day on spooky month!
Though, I wish World of Drawcia was in here.
I really want someone to at least mention the Desert of the Kanaren from Rayman 3 in a list like this. Easily the scariest thing I had to deal with as a kid
Right? It was such a tone shift from the rest of the game! Screw those things so hard! O.O
RegularPat just did a video like this and that was #1. He's a kingdom hearts TH-camr. Very underated channel.
@@krimsonkatt Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check him out
Yah know, I can actually see Barney doing that. I mean most of his actor's aka the guys in the suit were well known drug addicts and Barney himself is already pretty disturbing on its own with his dead eyes.
I still remember when I discovered the Zero boss fight in Kirby's Dreamland 3...I knew that Kirby games could get a little unsettling, but I didn't realize just how far they could go. Then I saw the rating for Kirby's 20th Anniversary Dream Collection... "Rated E-10 for *animated blood?* Okay, that's kinda weird...they're Kirby games, surely it's not that bad?" So I went and did some digging on the games in the collection, and found the Zero fight in Kirby's Dreamland 3...I absolutely lost my shit upon seeing its eye getting violently torn out of its body, leaving a gaping, bloody hole in its wake.
Gotta love Kirby games!
I wonder if Kirby will ever have blood in it again?
And will there ever be a boss more surprisingly violent than Zero?
Forestia was clearly created by a sociopathic pre-school teacher. also i love how the ending basically nukes it from orbit!
I’d like to throw in the Silent Woods from Ori and the Will of the Wisps. You spend the first half of the game in this lovely beautiful world getting to know its inhabitants. Something happens in the past because they are all terrified of the game’s final boss skreech. To rescue your friend you have been searching for you have to go though land that she grew up in. The entire level is haunting there no enemies everything is dead the water is toxic and grey. The only living thing is an npc, who is depressed because the trees which he was the care taker for died. From this npc you learn the reason everything in this level is dead is because the spirits (the race of your character) failed to protect it. Up until this point your goal was to find and rescuer you friend Ku and then leave the island. You go through this level with the sense of horror, but also guilt knowing you planned to abandon these people you met to suffer the same fate as the Silent Woods.
18:06 Sooo... 'Be careful, I sense Watery Death'?
Muncher Marathon of Donkey Kong Country Returns made an impression on me... or a something on me. Just when the music is going back to normal and you think you're finally safe, the swarm violently returns, bursting out of the walls, and will consume the entire final area if you don't hit the exit barrel. Can only imagine what that level would be like for an arachnophobe!
It took me years to notice they were spiders. I thought they were scarabs and the level was intended as a subtle reference to The Mummy
I would say Mystic Mansion from Sonic Heroes is creepy in some aspects. Jack-O-Lantern ghosts that appear and disappear, skeletons that watch you around the corners, paintings coming to life, and a giant spider web over a large bottomless chasm.
A little correction regarding Undertale: Alphys wasn't aiming to bring the dying monsters back to life, she was trying to make their souls last after they died, like the humans' souls did, in an effort to shatter the barrier trapping monsterkind underground. Flowey was created to serve as the vessel that would hold the harvested souls, but, everything went to hell. The dying monsters were revived, only to melt together into the amalgamates and Flowey disappeared. Alphys had promised to give the family members of the "fallen" monsters their dust after they passed, but, when it looked like dying monsters were going to be okay, she called the family members to tell them and planned to send them all home the next day. When the "revived" monsters didn't come home, Alphys was hounded by angry phone calls and letters by the family members asking about their loved ones. But, she couldn't bring herself to tell anyone what had actually happened, driving her into reclusion.
One that still sticks with me after years and years is the Desert of the Knaaren from Rayman 3.
What a coincidence, I was watching one of Fawful’s minions Pokémon countdowns earlier, and he was also talking about the ghost girl from black and white 2!
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This is objectively correct, Papyrus is the best.
Pretty much any level in Psychonauts 1 or 2 could be here, but Meat Circus definitely fits the bill.
Especially the ford cruller level from psychonauts 2
Meat Circus, Ford's levels as a whole (including Sharkophagus), maybe an honorable mention to Milla's Party (THAT certain room).
If any level from those games could be on this list, then you're arguing against yourself. Do you seriously not see the oymoron here?
Ha! What do you know, one of my predictions was on point when I guess World 6 from Super Paper Mario after a 'certain event' lol.
Another game I just thought of was Omori. I know it has horror elements in it, but I don't know if I would consider it Horror considering all the areas you visit in the game, both in Sunny's head and real life. I would definitely add Black Space though, that whole area is just . . . OMG! Especially when you go for the True Ending route and learn the 'truth' of the overall mystery of the game.
Omori is a psychological horror
Barney... Eldritch abomination?... dear sweet hyperdeath alive, please don't be what I think this means.
The Ruined Future from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers is a creepy level mostly because it shows what would happen if Primal Dialga isn't stopped.
I remember when i played samur kingdom at, like, 5, i cried. Not because i was scared, but because i was really sad i couldn't do the other fights.
From one of my own personal list of some thing if returned the hotel Sedgwick from the Ghostbusters game is an on here I’m gonna be surprised
10. Why do the clowns heads look like Olimar?
9. Yeah now THIS is spooky in a good way.
8. Haven't played any Halo games yet. Bur I do remember how Microsoft shoehorned them into the original Halo Wars due to the episode of Black Sheep Game Reviews by Blondeguygamer.
7. Gross.
6. I remember when Cjszero01 did a Best & Worst 3D Zelda Dungeons list and this line from that entry always sticks out to me (For context he was talking about the Master Quest version) "You know I've never played Eternal Darkness. But if this is what it's like for a game to mess with your mind then I don't want to go near it" (Not sure if I got the whole thing right)
5. What I find just as disturbing is how badly Game Freak is right now with the main series.
4. Yeah this really shows the stakes.
3. I knew this would be on here. BUT I didn't think it would be THIS HIGH! Also fun fact. In TheMetalBlade5's LP of Pikmin 2 he said he encountered THE THING on the final floor in what I think it was his first playthrough. Which also happened in said LP.
2. No comment.
1. OH MY GOD! Yeah this is the kind of thing that makes me ask one question. HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE CENSORS!
Samus vs Xenomorph
Samus absolutely wins, the things are powerful but Samus has a plethora of weapons and armors to continue changing up strategies as it's forced to try and adapt to her. It doesn't help it that she's far more experienced than it with multiple adventures under her belt against creatures just as, if not more powerful and dangerous than it is.
Plus she can get through vents much faster than normal people thanks to her Morph Ball and leaves bombs to stall the Xenomorph in case she needs time to plan.
In terms of Metroid and Aliens, Let's just say there's a reason Samus's main enemy is called Ridley...
I'm still surprised how World of Drawcia didn't make it in the list.
21:57 It sounds like a squeaky toy.
Samus curbstomps so hard, it's not even funny.
Samus lays waste to Xenos faster than you can blink
Most of this list works, but I think that one of the creepy levels in Epic Mickey should've been here. Junk Mountain, which you showed, is pretty much a graveyard for old Mickey Mouse stuff, with a lake of thinner, the poison/acid of the game. The castle is dark, has lots of powerful and creepy enemies, and has that sort of ominous music. And the last level of the game literally takes place inside of the main antagonist of the game: The Shadow Blot. You have to go around unkillable enemies made out of the kind citizens, destroy these bubbles to literally free Mickey's heart, and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is trapped inside one of the walls you can see. How is that not creepier than some of the other stuff on this list?
And yensid
Yensid isn't in the actual games. Only the cut scenes.
Next Horror related theme:
Top 10 most Lighthearted/Funniest moment or levels in Horror games.
Well thank goodness I haven't played Forestia when I was little to get traumatized by that. Instead I played games like Earthbound and got traumatized by other things. 😊😁 Wait.....
Yeah, it's a good thing that wasn't one of the Education games my mom got for my youngest brother lol.
If I would've picked a location from Metroid, I would've chosen the Valhalla. Way spookier than anything in Fusion.
... now i want to see Forestia getting an update just so it can expand on what the dragon meant.
In the book series of Halo, one of the marines that got infected still had some control over himself though that is slightly. And in another book, it is revealed that Sergeant Johnson is immune to the flood due to an illness he has called Boren's syndrome (or something like that).
Lohengrin Castle from Trails of Cold Steel 1. In Laura S. Arseid's Hometown of Legram, where your 5th field excursion take place in, 2 kids go in there, as a sort of Simba going to the Elephant Graveyard scenario. Your party consists of Rean Schwarzer, the main protagonist, Laura, a blue-haired female Cloud, who actually has more character than Lightning from FFXIII, Emma Millstein, Class VII's Class President and (spoiler alert) a witch, Jusis Albarea, a noble with a chip on his shoulder about his lineage, and Millium Orion, one of the "children" handpicked by Osborne himself who joins Class VII after Chapter 4 along with Crow Armbrust, the rival/best friend of Rean Schwarzer. You get some Scooby Doo vibes while exploring the castle, only instead of anime high school students trained in various weaponry, and the enemies consist of possessed moving swords, disturbing fiends fused to unicycles, and the like. The boss against the Nosferatu, while frustrating if you're not careful, also adds to the spooky, haunting tone of the castle. A history lesson about it though. Spoiler alert again, the castle was once home to a legendary maiden unmatched with a lance named Lianne Sandlot. Dreichels trekked back to Erebonia during the War of the Lions, which was a battle for succession of the throne, Dreichels intended to end the war and gathered several followers from the land of Nord, where he befriended them, and met her in Legram. Lianne was also in love with Dreichels and wanted to bear his children, but died at the age of 25. Also, fun fact, if you haven't played Cold Steel 3 and 4, this may escape you at first, but a clue you see is a door with a mysterious symbol on it. That symbol is the trial of the Awakener, and Lohengrin Castle was the trial ground for Argreion, the Argent Knight, one of the strongest of the 7 Divine Knights.
Wouldn’t personally consider that level too creepy, but you’re clearly enthusiastic about Trails (particularly the only game in the series I’ve finished so far), so you still get a like from me.
@@isenokami7810 I actually finished the whole Cold Steel story. Now, I'm waiting in anticipation for the Crossbell Duology.
The Submerged Castle gave me nightmares as a child
Number 1 seems to be where the idea behind many gaming creepypastas come from
Tales of series has done very disturbing levels like the fonon clone factory where they imply people eating each other.
Paper Mario thousand year door has so many dead body's all around
Conker's bad fur day the zombie stuff.
Tales of vesperia and the ghost ship if get into battles just to ignore that music for a few seconds
@@halo129830 guess the flooded area in xillia works too as the marshes drowned so many people or xillia 2 where older ludger had Elise a child killed. Many places in xillia are dark.
Symphonia the human ranches as a whole with making people into monsters
@@ivanbluecool yes
@@ivanbluecool Yeah those Human ranches were just screwed up and I took great joy in defeating the villains in charge of them.
@@Zodia195 it's more bittersweet as many of the people died as monsters
For me I would say Cavern of the Cresent Moon from Pirate101, and that mushroom hallucination level from Bastion.
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Thought that was Oxhorn talking for a min.
Implying that Barney doesn’t sacrifice children to an Eldridge deity........I am on to you Joker
Implying that Barney himself isn't the eldritch abomination…
@@AntiVillain26845 acolite dont blow his cover!
Also, an honorable mention to me would be Ultra Ruin from Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. Most players likely won’t experience it since it’s a *very* rare spawn point in the Ultra Wormhole. But once you do so, you’re treated to this empty, desolate city with no people but a couple of survivors who warn you of how dangerous things are around here. At the end you encounter the massive Ultra Beast Guzzlord, which means that the people previously living there were either driven away…or even worse, *eaten* by Guzzlord!
But what makes this even worse is that the music is a distorted version of Hau’oli City. AKA the biggest and most bustling town in Alola, and so to see such a place driven to nothing but ruin in another dimension is just super creepy and morbid. So as chilling as the Old Chateau or Dream House can be, Ultra Ruin will always stand out to me as a pure reminder of how messed up Pokémon can be.
And to make it even worse, in the anime, the Ultra Ruin *_is_* Hau'oli City.
Vanessa's Manor from A Hat In Time may have only gotten an honorable mention, but for first time players, that Act is guaranteed to give you nightmares (if you don't know where the secret route to the attic is)!