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Games you were utterly terrified of as a kid (thelemmy.club)
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First we have blinky bill and his ghost cave… i was like 3 and was scared by everything even a benign pc game, i actually struggle to remember exactly what it was that I was even afraid of.

Next up was 40 winks cos like its spooky

Next up is soul reaver 2 specifically watching my dad play this section collecting the coloured hearts and having them beating and bleeding all over the floor

Scooby doo classic creep capers on the gba very specifically the shaggy clones genuinely terrfied me. Also this is probably one of the best scooby doo games ever made absolutely recommend playing.

I cant find a single good photo of it somehow cos google search is fucked but silent hill 2 ps2 demo in woodside apartments. Idk how or why i had a demo disc for silent hill 2 but i thought the healing drinks were ketchup bottles and id reboot the console when id hear the static and shuffling from the first enemy and spent half my childhood wondering what was stuck in the trash chute.

Trash chute JPEG living rent free in my head for years

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[–] 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Only tangentially related to the question, but I always felt like Donkey Kong Country 3 had some sort of...mysterious, haunting vibe to it. Like something in the game world was just...off. I think maybe the music fed into that, but the atmosphere felt a little spooky, even in all the bright happy areas. Never scared me really, but the vibe and mood have stuck with me all these years.

Anyone else get that from the game?

Other than that, a lot of Silent Hill 2 scared me, but I can't remember any specific parts that jump out in particular. I just remember being scared of it and trying to not play it at night. Made it through the game a few times though growing up. Other people mentioned a few specific points in Ocarina of Time that I agreed with.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Oddly enough, yeah. Something felt "off" about that game as a kid and I couldn't place it. I'd played through the first two over and over again, especially 2, but I could never get through 3 for that reason. Looking at it today, there's absolutely nothing I can find that would give it that feeling, but as a kid it definitely felt "wrong".

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    I also got those vibes. I know the DKC3 soundtrack was a different composer, so it has it's own subdued vibe that's distinct from the first two games. I remember a youtube video, that I of course cannot find now, that talked about this at length.

    As an example of what I mean, the overworld themes of the first two games heavily use horns, but the third does not for either its Northern Kremisphere or its submap areas.

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