More of the Scariest Moments from Family Friendly Games (Iceberg EXTRAS Explained)
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Welcome back to the channel, and welcome back to the Scary Things in Family Friendly Games Iceberg! As per usual with this series I have outsourced entry suggestions to my comments to gather even more spooky moments from family friendly games. Today we have some absolute bangers, and if you want to catch up on the series check out the playlist down below, as well as the original iceberg.
Iceberg Playlist: • Iceberg Videos
Iceberg: icebergcharts.com/i/Creepy_Mo...
Sources:
Pigle’ts Big Game Footage: @GameplayCompendium
Sonic Adventure Footage: @SonicJGB
Wario Land 4 Footage: @LongplayArchive
Ecco Footage: @DeShelly @AL82RetrogamingLongplays @Torne @MediaPool @RunPlaysinHD @EdgeCase
Golden Sun Footage: @Palmecia @EchoReaver
Splatoon Footage: @ZackScottGames @KoiKaede
DK64 Footage: @Ninbanyan @GoodOldDaysGaming @KorporalKKreep
Pokemon Footage: @GatorEx @PokePatrol @GosuNoob
Harry Potter Footage: @LongplayUniverse
0:00 Intro
1:03 Piglet's Big Game
5:39 Twinkle Park (Sonic Adventure)
8:05 Wario Land 4 Bosses & More
11:12 Ecco The Dolphin Entries (Intro)
11:41 The Vortex Queen
13:33 The Shrine of Contraversy
15:18 Tides of Time Epilogue
18:10 Forestia Nightmare Sequence
21:22 Bad Endings Entries (Intro)
22:10 Golden Sun Bad Ending
24:11 Splatoon Bad Endings
25:45 Donkey Kong 64 Bad Ending
28:09 Pokemon Sword and Shield Ghost Girl
31:11 Dementors from Harry Potter GBA
33:31 Thanks for 25k Subs! - Hry
There's this tom and jerry gba game, I believe it's called Infurnal escape and, well..The entire game is just disturbing and/or creepy, despite being based on an episode of the series. The fact that tom literally dies in the opening cutscene (I know this happened in the episode as well but they went all in here), the fact that Tom's damage icon slowly gets more miserable and eventually a skull, whenever you lose all lives tom is being literally dragged to hell while he tries to grasp back to the surface desperately, the fact you have to collect souls to gain back your lives (not to mention, those souls look creepy as hell, with wide (hypnotic?) eyes and a very wide smile, I dunno. This game made me unable to sleep for a while.
Oh somebody else played it
@@MissiGNO000 Yeah. While the game's quality can be debated, you can't really deny that the game was just kinda freaky in every way. I know the episode the game was based on was dark by itself but it's like they went absolutely all out freak factor with the game.
Sounds like an official creepypasta game damn
@@gizmoray721 Yeah. It's real though, search up Infurnal Escape GBA Gameover here on youtube. You'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
I just watched a olaythrough. The main thing I found unnerving were the cutscenes and the music
I always liked to think that they implied that Ecco didn't survive the time machine since it showed him spiraling into a black void. That could explain the retcon.
Or it spawns you back into the first game. I know it makes no sense but at least it lets me sleep at night knowing there will never be a conclusion LOL.
Lol bro got void
Nah I took it as he disappeared into the timestream, and ended up somewhere unknown.
@@Infindox yea that's what the end text implies
You should see how the Piglet game was on the GBA. I grew up on that version and it lowkey feels like a creepypasta game sometimes lol. Surprisingly charming at the same time.
There was also a GameCube Winnie the Pooh game. I don't think it was a port of the piglet game, though. The enemies in it were creepy. They made this awful noise when you beat them.
Rumbly rumbly adventure @@Mckenzie-sq6fw
I grew up playing the GBA port. I'd say the way it's presented makes it more fitting as a horror game. 10/10
One of the biggest scares for me was when my brother was playing Sonic Heroes and was casually swinging across vines when Tails suddenly shouts “Giant alligator!” And this massive thing come jumping out of the water, easily 20x bigger than any alligator should be. He threw the controller down and began whimpering. He wanted me to beat it for him but I wasn’t touching that crap with a ten foot pole. Scared me too.
So were you the older brother?
@@user-bottyboi6950 Yeah. Not much of a help to him with this particular problem though.
THANK YOU! Its just out of nowhere! I was able to play manhunt anything but fuck that crocodile!
@@MasterPatrick I probably would’ve been so scared I would think the game was cursed.
that shit scared me so much it took me so long to beat the level lol
I listed it on a previous video, but Yoshi's Story used to freak me the hell out as a kid. So much of the game's artstyle and sound design is so uncanny. I used to never be able to get past the second page on my own because of how scared I was of the loud noises and creepy enemies in all the levels.
But the giant eel in Lots 'o Jellyfish also stuck with me for a long time. Always hated invincible enemies, and this one took the cake for being such an oppressive force.
Absolutely same, I could not beat the game as a kid cause it was so scary to me 😭 I hated the game over scene so much
@@benamisai-kham5892 fr!! There was something so unnerving about watching all the Yoshi's disappear one by one, too.
Seriously, what drugs were these devs on 😭
Those damn Attacky Sacks...
Actually, most all of Baby Bowser's Castles were pretty bad, specifically the mecha one with the giant spikes that shoot out and instantly kill you.
@@swiftshock2615 I could not beat any of the Bowser's Castle levels except the first one as a kid. What the heck is with the sudden difficulty spike??
I always found the first pikmin game to be kind of unsettling, maybe it was the graphics or the feeling of isolation. The bad ending where olimar gets turned into a pikmin really creeped me out when I was young. Some of the enemies from this series have me questioning why they were put in a kids game, like the waterwraith and the fiery bulborb
Idk about the other people who played this game, but that part in the pokemon mystery dungeon explorers games where time is completely stopped was my first encounter with existential dread as a kid
The entire segment as you’re running from the sableye felt so tense for me as a kid, I feel ya
What scared me the most about Mystery Dungeon was this one side story of an Armaldo being friends with baby pokemon and taking them around in dungeons💀
I loved this game but I definitely remember being filled with dread as that happened, yeah.
When your monster got injured during battle then died in monster rancher was pretty traumatic. Not very graphical but very dark
The Wario Land 4 hurry up music never bothered me, but the weird-ass Sound Room was horrifying to me as a child
@@Dovah_SlayerSo it's a Sonic CD type situation?
@SniperOnSunday I don't know why this reply was put on this comment. I was talking about Sonic CD Fun is infinite because someone brought up how creepy it was. I don't actually know why Wario land 4 sound room is so creepy
HURRY UP!
The bowser laugh from SM64 still gives me a fear reaction in my mid 20s....
I remember turning my TV down as a kid until after I got into the castle 😂
@@benamisai-kham5892 Ughhh but anytime you died
I just got to say to my wife "Wake up honey, Gambado Gaming just dropped a new scary video."
She was driving at the time, so a little confused, but it was still fun to say
Mr. L from Paper Mario used to freak me out, specifically Super Dimentio, its lanky neck and how it moved around always scared me as a kid
Surpsingly never found much creepy in the game when you was younger till I was way older. Need to go back and replay it, I always thought super Dimentio was badass because of the whole Mr L bit.
Laughs in Mimi
@@jackminer2148 good point actually, my first time seeing Mimi made me freak out, and I'm fairly certain it gave me the most basic basic form of trauma. To this day, I freak out a little bit more when being chased by something unkillable in games.
I don't know if oddworld is family-friendly, but the bad ending in Munch's Odyssey is terrifying. Everything about it from the visuals to the dialog is horrific
U mean the one were abes creature dies and he looks sad then a flammble liquid leaking into the incratoer and you listen as some of abes friends scream in pain while dying
Mickey mouse and the magic mirror for the GameCube is one of the games that scared me the most as a kid. Mickey's model is just plain creepy, he nearly gets stabbed with a ghost sword, almost gets a chandelier dropped on him, and can be killed by a possessed rubber duck.
Throughout the game you find items from or referencing mickeys friends but never find them, which creeped me out as a kid because i thought something bad happened to them. Also theres several creepy music tracks/areas and even a jumpscare in the basement.
I remember that game is it GameCube? I remember the empty feeling of traveling through worlds which was eerie not to mention the random statues. Still a cool game though.
@@grimphantom99insaneenderma85 I think you're thinking of another game, this game is a point and click game for the gamecube. You travel through what I think is a big mansion? (younger me always thought it was a museum for some reason)
@@quackshley woops sorry it's been a long time ago. I do remember a Micky game on GameCube I got to remember. 😅
Honestly giant jellyfish in the sky with tentacles coming down to get you is a pretty unnerving thought lol.
The one thing that traumatized me when I was young was the PS1 Game Rugrats and the Search for Reptar.
The most unnerving thing in that game was Mr.Friend & almost everything else in that game just scared me but that voice still puts me on edge...
Can’t recall if you’ve touched on the Nancy Drew games yet, but Nancy Drew Shadow At The Water’s Edge is easily one of the scariest. The games are all supposed to be a little scary as mystery games often are, there were some pretty wild ones in that particular game. I remember there’s a mirror scare that’s pretty intense, and a puzzle that’s on a timer where you’ll drown if it’s not completed in time.
Hear me out: the nightmare scene in Curse of Blackmoor Manor. That scared the shit out of me as a kid.
@@PixelRoserade Blackmoor Manor was all sorts of freaky. The disembodied voice calling her right at the beginning? Eugh. getting trapped in the sauna in White Wolf Of Icicle Creek used to stress me out so much. And while I’ve never seen it, there’s also another Easter egg dream sequence in White Wolf that you need to do a bunch of stuff to trigger that’s also pretty creepy.
Apidya for the Amiga has some weird stuff in it, one of the weirdest being a naked doll boss that fights by detaching its hands and firing lasers from its eyes
I forgot about the projectile vomit attack
a lot of old "space shooters" fit into that kind of horror, apidya isnt even close to the darkest
I don't know if anybody else feels the same way, but I always found Bowser's Inside Story to be a weirdly eerie game. Sure, all of the Mario & Luigi games have some creepy moments here and there (save for Paper Jam), and it's not as blatantly dark as Partners in Time, but something about Bowser's Inside Story always stuck out to me. I don't even know how to explain it, really.
There's just a lot of stuff that seems... off. The Mushroom Kingdom is wrought with a fantastical plague, and warped by the rule of Fawful in rather bizarre ways (both silly and eerie). There's a dormant force of nature beneath the kingdom that can copy Bowser's DNA and make the Bros. gasp for air just by being near them. Bowser gets trapped or incapacitated almost constantly throughout the story, and the Bros. get their fair share of this too. Bowser's Body is a bizarre labyrinth of alien geometry and vaguely organic shapes, which isn't helped by it being more "realistic" than places like Yoob's Belly (though it's still cartoony and even unnatural at times, most of the environment is clearly innards of some description).
I think what gets me the most is the music. While a lot of it is the usual Mario affair, there's quite a few tracks that make me really uneasy even now. Stuff like "Final Castle", "Fawful's Evil Plan", and "Dark Bowser" are intimidating and hopeless, "Deep Castle" is downright melancholic... but the one that gets me the most is "The Road Leading to the Secret", the song you will spend pretty much half the game listening to. It's just so eerie, especially the version heard inside Bowser. It makes you feel like you're hopelessly lost, and that you shouldn't be wherever it is you are. I'm willing to bet this one song is a big part of why I find this game to be so creepy.
God I love that game. Recently started replaying it but my ds is at the brink of it's death, so I had to start all over on pc again. What kind of adds to the creepy sense is the fact that you HAVE to "help" both sides. You're this beholder, overseeing all the situations the bros and bowser get themselves into, each one with a different goal in mind (although kinda same). The tutorial is beating bowser up, you get to play him a lot until suddenly you're not the one breathing fire and throwing punches, you're the one at the receiving end. That part scared me so bad as a kid haha. I honestly can't really remember much anymore as it's been some time, but partners in time was so much more scary for me, even though I only watched a let's play when the game came out
Huh, I never really considered Inside Story to be "creepy" but I definitely get what you mean by it being "off". A lot of messed up scenarios in that game for sure. It's still the only Mario RPG I've played (bought 2 during the Wii Eshop close and just haven't had time) and one of my favorite DS games of all time.
But yeah I guess looking back some stuff weirded child me out pretty bad. The whole Sockop area was disturbing to me, and the Dark Star stuff at the end gets pretty dark (pun not intended)
I commented about this last time, but the creatures in the skybox of the Nightmare World in Tak 2- Staff of Dreams always creeped me out. The ambience of the level is very slimy feeling, and I once built up enough speed in one of the vehicles to fling myself toward the skybox- the creatures arent a flat texture, either! They're (very roughly) 3D mapped!
Oh god I loved the Tak games! Tak 2 was very weirdly slimy in it's aesthetic, though, you're right
@@punchyroux the level variety in it is top tier, I miss the art style tremendously!
I'm glad you touched on Ecco the Dolphin. I remember playing it, thinking it was just one of those collecting-stuff games on the Genesis, back when I was like 4, and then I encountered the aliens. Played it through the Sega Channel, while that was a thing, to give you an idea of how long ago that was. I remember being relieved when the games changed at the end of the week or month or whatever.
I was a victim of this Forestia game ^^
I remember playing it when I was a kid and coming to this nightmare sequence... I was so shocked of the sudden change of athmosphere that I only made like 2 or 3 steps into the level before quiting the game. I never played this game ever again XD
The Wario Land 4 entry reminded me of this random DS platformer I got as a kid. I think it was called New Zealand Story. It was about these baby chicks getting abducted and you having to save them. I remember the game having a mostly cheery atmosphere, but something about it always made me a little uncomfortable. I remember the enemy/boss designs looking pretty strange as well as some of the levels creeping me out a little but I think what scared me the most was this unkillable reaper enemy that would hunt you down after a certain amount of time passed. Other than that, I remember the game being pretty challenging, and the levels weren't super linear, so I got lost often.
The Undead themed Chapters from the first Skylanders game scared me pretty bad as a kid. The eerie music and dark levels set a creepy atmosphere but the enemies made it for me. The gargantulas and shadow knights are physicallt intimidating, being giant spiders and possessed suits of armour, but the zombie enemies would shamble towards you and can only be efficiently killed with fire. If you dont have a Fire Skylander, the only way to kill the main enemies in the chapter is to push them into the torches that you find in the dungeon. I remember finding myself scrambling through arenas looking for a torch with a crowd of them on my tail. The Wilikin Village from Skylanders Giants could be considered creepy with the living dolls and world changingbut I mostly found it more whimsical and goofy.
Nah man, Wilikin land was definitely creepy as fuck, I always got bad vibes playing that section of the game
Oh my freaking gosh YES.
OK so I have had an irrational phobia of zombies ever since I was little (no idea what triggered it but to this day I can handle a LOT of horror stuff, but throw a shambling corpse in and I'm OUTTA THERE-)
I was also obsessed with the Skylanders franchise, kept up with it religiously until like game 5. NOTHING in Skylanders scared me like those invincible zombie enemies, not the final boss of game 3, not other Undead Element levels, nothing. I remember a part where you essentially grab an item and an entire horde breaks through a wall to chase you.
We didn't have a Fire Element Skylander at first either (my poor mom went and bought me a used Ignitor just to help me out lol) and I literally made my baby sister play through the Undead levels on her own while I left the room... and I would do this EVERY time we wanted to replay through the game.
Man what a nostalgia rush. I'm so glad someone else was as traumatized by that area as I was.
Ayyy you talked about the splatoon 2 and 3 bad endings! i suggested them and im not sure if it was MY comment that you saw but im happy to see them. They're so scary for no reason!
Bro I didn't see the 3rd games bad end until now, what the heck is that about
And even though 2's cutscene isn't as theatrical, the in-universe consequences and buildup are horrifying. Like yeah "the city gets oozed" is already bad - but with the context of "an insane sentient telephone left by an extinct civilization has declared Inklings to be unworthy of life, and so is grinding down their "purest" specimens into ooze to eradicate the rest of the species and start evolution over"..... holy crap dude
@@drawingdragon agreed! I was absolutely SHOCKED first playing octo expansion and realizing how horrific the story was... for a funny brigt nintendo game about squids!
So I left this comment on the last video but it was a little late, so I'll leave it here again.
In the flash game poptropica, I experienced my first ever jumpscare in a game. In ghost story island, your character goes into this creepy old house and looks through a telescope. while you're distracted looking through it, someone, in your ear, says "looking for someone?"
this wouldnt be such a big deal if it wasnt the ONLY example of spoken dialogue in all of poptropica. it scared ten year old me so badly, i wasnt expecting it at all. i replayed the game later and more recently, and it got me again.
Holy shit speaking of poptropica, the Jersey Devil section from cryptid island scared me as a kid, especially the scene where it’s staring at you from the window in the abandoned house.
THIS. Omg I had the same experience. I was alone and playing this. It was so quiet since this was before they added music so it was dead silent. The voice clip came from nowhere and made me fall out of my chair. No joke. Genuinely one of the biggest scares I’ve ever had in my life.
i remember stumbling upon footage of the nightmare sequence for forestia as a youngster, and for YEARS i was convinced it was a weird nightmare i had and not something that actually existed after struggling to find anything about it, i still remember being utterly shocked when i stumbled upon footage of it a few months ago and realizing it WAS real.
And now we got Winnie the Pooh horror films, oh bother.
I remember being terrified by the sea monster from Jumpstart back in the day. I had a nightmare once where he was in my shower and my parents sacrificed me to him or something whack like that
I used to play World of Goo a lot when I was a tiny child. Plenty of its visuals come across as rather unsettling, which mostly comes down to the art style. It's definitely a cartoonish sort of creepy.
One highlight is the level "Burning Man" in Chapter 3, Cog in the Machine. One of the set pieces in the level, which I suppose is the titular burning man, starts out on a platform of matches, which you have to burn away to get to the exit of the level. But when you do that, the burning man's eyes explode, leaving only empty (and possibly bleeding?) black sockets.
Another level from the same chapter is called "You Have to Explode the Head" in which the objective is exactly what it sounds like, although the head does belong to a robot if that makes it any better. And in the level "Misty's Long Bony Road," the starting point is an eyeless, skeletal frog and you have to use skulls to cross a road of spikes.
The final level of Chapter 4, "Deliverance," has you enter a recycling bin to undelete all the spam mail within. The depths of the recycling bin take on a completely black-and-bright-red color palette and at the very bottom, submerged in some kind of lava, is a massive, writhing red skeleton. Absolutely no idea why and there's no explanation for it. Oddly enough, this is the one that scared me the most when I was young.
Pretty gnarly stuff for a family-friendly game!
There's this movie that I loved as a kid, Legends of the Owls: Guardians of Ga'hoole. Now that movie was a bit creepy on its own, with its character designs being pretty messed up in their own right, but the GAME has its moments. I remember playing it on my Xbox 360, and the night levels scared me so bad. But the worst part was the Hagsfiends, ESPECIALLY the Hagsfiend Queen boss. Genuinely scared the shit out of me, and I think I stopped playing for a long time because of how much that Queen scared me.
If I remember correctly too, there were a ton of other levels that were a bit unsettling, like a bat boss thing that freaked me out, but the Hagsfiend levels in general were definitely the most unsettling for me. I can't remember if the music was creepy or not tbh, if I find the ost I'll take a listen and update :)
Update: just listened to the ost and HOLY SHIT. I unlocked a memory listening to it and DAMN is the Hagsfiend (?) soundtrack STRESSFUL sounding. The song is "Nightmare" and DAMN does it actually kind of slap. But yeah, parred with the stress of the boss fight, the soundtrack definitely makes the game a whole lot more stressful and unsettling.
Wasnt expecting someone to be Gahoole posting
the original ending for Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (ds) messed me up so bad lol
The car accident one? ._.
@@somacruz7759 YEAH!
@@CelestialRaposa That was fucked up :(
I hardly ever hear anyone talk about this, but the Big Octos from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker absolutely terrified me as a little kid (and even well into my teens). Everything about them was so scary to me: the way the music completely stops, a storm immediately starts no matter the weather condition beforehand, and you get stuck in a giant whirlpool before this huge squid with a bunch of giant glowing eyes slowly emerges from the center of the whirlpool combined with the intense music that plays as it fully appears. I genuinely had a panic attack when i encountered one of these things. I actually developed a genuine fear of these things, I had nightmares (as an adult, I STILL from time to time get a big octo nightmare) and was unable to beat the game for the longest time. Eventually I finally beat it a couple of years after the HD version came out (we had the gamecube version, but my older brothers never let me play it) after realizing i could just look up the big octo map and avoid them. But despite knowing that, the big octos very much made an impression on me and to this day they still give me goosebumps.
Also, I love your videos a ton, keep them up!
Yeah, those creeped me out as a kid. Those as well as that ghost ship.
You wanna talk obscure scary games; Sea Life Safari (I know I've commented this game previously, but he didn't see it before).
It's an old PC game I played when I was little, which was basically Pokemon Snap, but underwater. It has a very similar vibe to that shark hunting game you've brought up a couple of times. The first level is a colorful coral reef with goofy clownfish and smiling turtles, but then every level afterwards is a dark abyss with much more vicious looking creatures. This game is pretty much entirely responsible for me being thalassophbic.
let's go, gambado video out just in time for my morning nap
The only thing I found creepy in non-horror game is phonecalls from Sims. Like, I remember that the phone rang in the middle of the night and saying creepy stuff
The mochi mayhem special event from pokemon scarlet/violet is definitely up there for creepy moments. seeing the characters get their bodies possessed and being forced to do that weird dance with the creepy music playing in the background will never not be terrifying, especially considering that the game never actually explains what pecharunt is or why it was possessing people in the first place
Love your profile pic. Mephiles is awesome.
Rayman Origins (Technically a kids game...) had the most disturbing bosses of all time.
After completing the first 5 worlds, you get revealed secondary worlds and its bosses (the 4 kings the nymphs {Characters that shouldn't be in a kids game that give you various abilities} told you about). and each of those bosses are equally disturbing. (except for the bird one) The magician who helped you learn the basics is found to be the villian of the game, scattering the enemies about. He probably turned the 4 kings into these creatures.
I was so happy to see Piglet’s Big Game on this list. I’ve always thought it had an eerie atmosphere, despite loving it, and played it a lot as a kid.
There’s even a glitch where the brave face puppet show freezes , and you see piglet’s turned back for 15 seconds.
I haven't personally experienced it, but there was a jumpscare in a flash Scooby-Doo game (Escape From the Smithsonian I think) that is genuinely frightening to an adult. I'm pretty sure it must have traumatized more than a few kids.
I was a five or six-year-old playing Futurama the Game for the first time… The sewer monsters on the first level were terrifying… I remember green goo, zombie-like characters and tentacles that hit you. The music was creepy too. Safe to say that I never went back 20 years later!
So glad to see Forestia! It's not very well known but I've heard a story of it being given away to kindergarten kids in some schools here with it being edutainment lol I guess being educated on fear and horror is... Education too?
Edit: I used to get scared by almost everything I played as a kid, maybe because when everyone was talking about ps3 I was still playing eerie ps1 games, but my worst experience must have been with crappy cheap games that were given away in cereal boxes especially because they would always clash with the antivirus! Nowadays those same eerie games feel so comforting
Great vid mr. Gambado!
I have two suggestions for your "bad ending" segment.
The first one is a bit of a stretch but in "juju densetsu" the ending made want to cry with her crying voice.
The second one is "Rolo to the rescue"! This one surprised me the first time I got it because how sad and creepy it seemed.
I'm not sure if Robocop 2 on NES counts as family friendly, but its game over screen with broken down Murphy and his exposed terrifying face traumatized me as a kid
In FF12, I went exploring in some caves in the desert, looking for a mark. I went too deep but figured I'd just keep going to explore since you can pretty easily avoid most enemies. As I got deeper, the map got static-y and disappeared. I eventually entered a room with a lavapit and some thing that looked like Chernobog popped out and wiped my party.
There are two levels that in Lego Indiana Jones 2 that could be worth talking about, first is the second level of crystal skull, doom town where you have to escape a nuke site, while you do escape the nuke, mannequins who are implied to be alive don't. The second level is the third level of the Last Crusade, Berlin Brawl, which is a recreation of an area in Nazi Germany, and the game usually cuts out any references to the Nazis or anything mature.
Mushroom men the spore wars very obscure and trippy game with horrifying mutant dogs,racoons,moles,and rabbits with the most kid friendly gore scene in a kids game I’ve ever seen.
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I have no idea if you covered this before since I haven't went through every video, but Insaniquarium's aliens and final boss were what creeped me out when I was young, they come in periodically to try and kill your fish, with a horn and some ominous music alerting you of one approaching, I found the robot and the squid in particular terrifying due to the sounds they make, the final boss makes it darker by trying to kill the pets you obtained throughout the game rather than the regular guppies you took care of, making this evil laugh when he appears, with the design even having his brains showing
it may not scare me now, and it may not be as scary as some of the other stuff, but it sure did scare me back then
small side note: the ultravores were also quite creepy to me due to the red eyes, but not to the degree of the aliens since they were actually aggressive
i love your videos so much man thank you for uploading
Man I LOVE these videos, something about little creepy things in games you don't expect, the fact this one little moment caused nightmares for someone just tickles me.
Also if our suggestion was favorited in the past does that mean it'll be in a future video?
I love your videos so much! Thank you for everything you do, it helps me both be entertained and sleep❤❤
Thank you for watching!
In Elebits on the Wii, when you go to the amusement park level, there are statues all over the place of a pink rabbit mascot with what appears to be blood all over it's face. It's actually a direct reference to the character Robbie the Rabbit from Silent Hill, which some of the developers of Elebits worked on. The in game description for the statue says it's "ketchup" and not blood, but 10 year old me was not buying that shit and I'd pick the little fucker up and fling him halfway across the map.
(I posted this in the last vid, but I gotta rep my boy Elebits)
Bad burger king nuggets nightmare sequence is crazy 😂
Yay! I made it into a video! But dude definitely give Golden Sun a chance.
It isn’t a kids game, but I played Mass Effect as a kid. I got to the Overlord DLC and hooo boy was I not prepared to the weird sci fi horror show that was about to happen. When it got to the reveal of the dude connected to all those wires, especially the tubes going down his throat, I got so freaked out I immediately turned off the console. Ended up having to replay a bit because I lost progress from not saving before quitting, but I had such a knee jerk reaction that I had to turn it off lol
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As a kid two games really freaked me out.
The shark in Banjo-Kazooie with the off-brand jaws music was really upsetting as a kid mostly because you couldn't fight back in the water only run.
The other was in Gex 3 on the N64. There was a mystery level that after had taxidermied bears that at first look like they are part of the environment, but after you hit a switch to open a blocked way they spring to life. The worst part they had higher heath then some of the other enemies so I die to them a few times as a kid.
It seems that sharks in this game is terrifying to many people... But I'm very surprised to the fact that almost no one is frightened by Dragundas, the green monsters in Banjo Tooie that chews you with its razor sharp teeth and spits you out while laughing at you menacingly. This traumatizes me so much more, and I have no clue why to be honest
I really appreciate the effort of making your title cards / intros for every video.
The worst ending I ever got for DK64, was finding out that my younger brother had unintentionally deleted my save file.
Your mileage may vary with this one, but it's a part of a kid-friendly game that always unsettled me.
When you think of a game series like Kingdom Hearts, which prominently features Disney characters, you don't normally expect anything particularly frightening to happen. The first few hours of Kingdom Hearts 2 take place in a decidedly serene place called Twilight Town filled with kind folks, relaxing music, and a comforting sunset. All the player character, a young boy named Roxas, has to deal with is weird dreams and local bullies, until strange creatures (called Nobodies) and men in black cloaks start appearing.
All of this culminates in the last day Roxas spends in his home of Twilight Town. On the last day, there are no people roaming the town. There's no relaxing music. Roxas's friends basically vanish in front of his eyes. From then on until the end of the prologue, it's nothing but you, an empty city, an eerie mansion, and the potential of unnaturally flexible, physics-defying monsters randomly appearing whenever they please. In particular, one monster called the Assassin will appear from nowhere and IMMEDIATELY lash out with an attack once encountered, before diving backwards and swimming towards you in the ground. As a kid, I was frightened by the mere thought of bumping into an Assassin while passing through the close, enclosed alleys of the town. As an added bonus, if you get an Assassin to low enough HP, they may just decide to tackle you and explode in a suicidal last attempt on your life. Fun!
Kick ass video! I don't know if you covered Super Mario 2 at all, but when I was a kid I always found the hidden potion doors you go into them and its like a dark version of the normal world with a slowed down version of the original SMB theme from the first game. Also, those mouth doors that slowly open... man, there are just certain parts of that game that were kinda creepy to me like just no music in certain spots and stuff was really foreboding.
When I was a kid I got very uncomfortable vibes from a level in Skylanders Spyro's adventure. The name of the level is Cadaverous Crypt and there are some unkillable zombie like enemies in it that make it even worse for the vibes cuz you are already in a crypt. Not to mention the creepy Ost in the background
Oh yeah I remember that level. It was scary
3:24 Um, that's not an elephant. That is a heffalump.
Great work! Big respect for not just ripping off Oddheaders videos like some other creators on this platform 🙂
goddamn you just unlocked a memory of mine with the forestia game. that game scared the shit out of me when i was young
I think any of the persona bad endings could fit into this classification. Just to name a few:
-Persona 3 has a choice in the story where you choose to fight a force that will end the world or give up, if you choose the latter a cutscene plays of the characters hanging out seemingly unaware the world will end in mere seconds
-In persona 4 near the end of the story the game's "TV World" starts leaking into the real world which fills the overworld with fog, removes npcs, and replaces the typical cheery music with chilling ambience. If you beat the game's final dungeon in time this is all reversed but if you miss the time limit you instead wake up one day to a phone call from another character telling you the monsters have started leaking into the real world before screaming and going silent.
-In Persona 5 if you fail to finish the third dungeon in time you will have the police show up to your door to announce they found one of your friends dead in an alley
There's plenty more of this too, in any modern persona game if you either choose the wrong dialogue choice near the end or miss an in-game time limit there's always some horrible cutscene.
Ok I feel I can add on to the obscure games that traumatized me as a kid.
Back when I was first getting into gaming I got 2 games for the Wii, “Scooby-Doo First Frights” and “Scooby-Doo and the Spooky Swamp”. First Frights had sectioned level areas and wider enemy variety. Some highlights that freaked me out as a kid were: the headless guy from the first area, the clowns from the second area, the sewer dolls from the second area (specifically when they made this really creepy groaning noise as they approached), the green tank robots from the second area that showed up in a very freaky level atmosphere imo (insane factory that had children’s aesthetics all over the place?), the giant divers from the third area (and subsequently the entire ghost ship segment), the lobster boss from the third area, and the entire final area and the reveal at the end that it was a real monster the whole time.
In Spooky Swamp the enemies weren’t that scary but the game itself was. Instead of sectioned levels, it was basically open world, but there were NO NPCs besides the plot necessary ones, so any building you went into was empty and almost always silent. Partnered with the fact there was a ghost mechanic, and the ghosts would show up in the empty buildings, it unnerved little kid me quite a lot, looking back on it now, both games have areas that are old and empty that feel so liminal. I vividly remember the abandoned ski shop building in the snowy area of Spooky Swamp, and how it had only a few spiders, a ghost, and silence. Even though you had a COM second player (or a sibling or friend if you were lucky) you still felt so alone.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who's freaked out by mirror mazes
The Neverhood is full of nice creepy stuff. My dad gave my sister and I the copy he got a long time ago and we were both minorly traumatized. Jumping down "the hole" is a pretty scary bad ending as a kid. My sister and I were both creeped out by different random events through the game, (the insect jumpscare, the big bug getting squashed onto Willie, the creepy camera dude, the "sheep" getting smashed, for some reason my sister couldn't get over the body horror of Klaymen using the shrinking and growing potions.) The true bad ending is also super hopeless considering the implication that Klaymen is now completely alone forever. Even as a kid, the emptiness and surrealness of the game starts getting to you by the end. I know a lot of people are creeped out by claymation in general, so the first fully claymation video game might be spooky without even trying. While not technically creepy, the lore on "the wall" and the ending of the big battle at the end are pretty dark for kids.
I keep waiting for someone to talk about this, but it seems like I was the only one who played Zelda Wind Waker is as kid. The Redeads in that game were horrifying... and the whole Earth Temple is scary enough as it is, but the redeads in it make it worse. The redeads were so scary that I'm still afraid of them to this day. They made me stop playing the game several times.
The don't rock the boat mini game on the webkinz flash game scared me stupid. I cried for an hour when the ghost popped up.
One personal recommendation (experience) of mine is the Venom jumpscare from LEGO Marvel Superheroes 1 in a cutscene that would trigger in one of the levels. Considering it was a LEGO game, I was NOT expecting a jumpscare, which definitely caught me off-guard during the time!
Love this series and your content, keep up the great work!
That was rlly predictable imo and not scary
I'm surprised I havent seen any mention of Earthbound's Final Boss before, in my book it's example number 1 of one of the most unsettling thing from a family friendly game. It's genuinely scarred me since I was 12 years old, and even now at age 27 the fear of any image of it is still as fresh as ever.
YES!!! I'M GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT WAS SCARED BY PIGLET'S BIG GAME!!!
(BTW, You should have used Dreamcast conversion for your Sonic Adventure footage)
Can't wait to see your new video
A scary moment like this with a children's video game would be in Super Paper Mario, world 2-4 Mimi's mansion ,the basement, when you move through that world you discover Mimi's true identity and intentions, which leads to her transformation, where she literally breaks her neck, transforms into a spider and starts chasing you, at that very moment you discovers that she is invincible, so your only option is to flee, you have to go through the basement (which is a labyrinth) fleeing from an invincible bug that she can teleports next to you, I was always afraid of that level because the only thing I can do was running
A lot of video games seem to add creatures into water specifically to prevent swimming out of bounds while keeping immersion intact. The Lurker Shark from Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy was my introduction to this, and thus cemented my fear for water in video games. Other good examples include Snacker the Shark in Banjo-Kazooie, alien fish in Ratchet & Clank, and the Kraken in Jak 3.
Snacker the Shark may be scary but... Have you ever played Banjo Tooie and fell in the quicksands? If not, I'd suggest you not to look it up...
I don't know if this'll make it in to one of your videos or even counts, but FNAF World had some insane stuff that would terrify kids. What set FNAF world from the rest of the Five Nights at Freddy's games is that it was suppose to be a cutesy child friendly RPG with no horror elements. However, Scott Cawthon couldn't help himself, so there are layers of just absolutely messed up stuff in this game if you go beneath the surface.
For example, if you pick Fredbear (the yellow teddy who greets you at the start and talks to you throughout the game) as your party leader, you get a pretty disturbing cutscene of two Fredbears spazzing out before their heads explode, followed by a textbox saying "Two Fredbears can't exist in the same universe at the same time." I was playing the game with my younger brother when this happened and it freaked us both out.
That's just scratching the surface, you could honestly make a whole video about scary things hidden in this family friendly game alone.
Finally someone covered Forestia in this type of video!!
Forestia was one of my childhood's favorite games, even when the nightmare stage terrified the shit out of me. But at the same time it was fascinating and worked kind of as a gateway to horror fiction, and nowadays I love horror as a genre.
2 IP based games come to mind when talking about this subject
The first one is Bugs Bunny and Taz Time Busters. there was a whole level dedicated to spooky stuff called "Transylvanian Era" (You travel through time to different eras.) which made no sense as Transylvania is a place, not an era. The music at that level is quite ominous and depressing and you could literally transfer your brain with these colour-coordinated monsters to open areas.
There was a haunted river where the water was pitch black and full of threats to avoid, things like swarms of bats, crocodiles, whirlpools and disembodied hands trying to grab you. With a giant whirlpool at the end which you had to escape.
There was also a zoo you could visit called Zoovania. Upon entering, it was set in the daytime, and all the animals were normal. Monkeys and birds in cages, fish in pools and exotic plants on display. Your goal was to turn the giant clock to nighttime and then the animals would transform into beastly versions of themselves, attacking you if you got too close.
The second game Sprung to mind when I saw the bad ending of Splatoon. In the game Hello Kitty Roller Rescue, the world is being invaded by aliens known as the Cube Batallion completely by accident. The ending had the leader go full gundam and make his way to a cannon that you had to power up before the leader reached it. If you failed then you saw the world turn into a cube and a shot of the leader laughing in victory. I assume all the characters died in that scene as they aren’t seen again.
I do like that you can replay as Badtz-Maru who is generally quite rude to the people you talk to in the game, though.
fuck yes. Love the series of videos. keep up the good work man
Can't remember if you've already mentioned it but Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1 had quite ominous atmosphere at times. The most memorable scary thing was in the 3rd person shooter portion of the game when you've cleared a floor and they send an armed bomb down the elevator. A very intense countdown music starts while you try to reach and disarm the bomb, in an often hard-to-navigate and dark map, in order to proceed to the next floor.
EDIT: It's not a family friendly game but it would fit a non-horror game video ahah
I was just wondering when the next video will come out. Time to buckle up.
I’m not sure if you’ve already covered this or if it counts in any way but the Easter egg on the gameboy camera is one that comes to mind for this topic
Love to see a DojinShinji shout out. Underrated af
I know it's a spooky game, but when you fail to stop the moon in Majora's Mask and the moon comes crashing down into Termina always scared me so bad that the first time I ever saw it, my brother was playing and I got so scared I hid behind the couch
And just like that peak has returned 🙏
Hadn't heard of the Wario Land series prior to this video and it definitely looks like it could've been an influence for LumpyTouch's style
Here's a game no one may have mentioned yet: TerraTopia. It's an old point-and-click computer game about kids that can turn into animals, and the cutscenes are in a silly cartoon style.
The vibe during gameplay though is entirely different. It feels mysterious, and eerily lonely, as all the characters are off doing something until you reach the next cutscene. Even the "you did something good!" noise was loud, slightly eerie, and would kind of jumpscare me as a kid.
The part most worth mentioning is the labyrinth. You navigate in first person through a maze collecting tablets, but sooner or later you may realize you're not alone; no labyrinth is complete without a minotaur, after all. When you're getting close to wherever he's roaming, you start to hear realistic roars and snarls.
The actual scene of the minotaur running up to the camera and catching you is a little silly in hindsight, but the roaring always made me high-tail it out of the maze and then to my dresser to change into less pee-soaked pants.
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As a child, someone decided to purchase *Seaman* for the dreamcast, and I've been disgusted, with it ever since.
It made me quite wary to go to bed at night, when my bedroom was down a darkened hallway, and they played the sh1t right before bedtime. Otherwise haven't had another "game" bother me in that sense.
Who's friggin dream was that, to cast it, on a game system?!
Not sure if this was covered in the previous videos but in Jak and Daxter, when you try to swim out of bounds, a heartbeat plays and gets faster and eventually a giant fish swallows you up. Frightened me as a kid.
Or maybe in Sly Cooper 1, there's a section during the Bayou stage where Sly is getting chased by a giant swamp serpent. That imagery scared me shitless as a child that I just turned off my PS2 and haven't played the Sly Cooper series until I was much older lol
Ah, Lurker Shark... traumatizing Jak and Daxter kids beyond repair since forever.
I never experienced Thalassophobia until I tried to swim to Misty Island without a boat.
Pikmin has a few scary moments, like the smoky prog espcially in the orginal with its dead glowing eyes, the cannon beetles eyes were creepy too but to a lesser extent. Also the bad ending of pikmin if you didnt already cover it
The Reala jumpscare from 'Christmas Nights into Dreams' gets me everytime. It's not bad enough you lose a turn, but they really have to hit you with that sudden scary music?
Does Anyone Remember Mickey Mouse Magical Mirror?, That game was creepy when I played it when I was in middle school.
I love these videos
I have always been a fan of the MediEval games, specifically the first one. But I always needed to have my parents beat the bosses for me since they scared me too much. The first boss in particular still freaks me out to this day (It's a demon made of stained glass with a beating heart that you have to shoot at before it shoots back with glass shards and drains your health fast)
The timer in DK64 in that pyramid level that says "GET OUT" always scared me a lot as a kid!
"Botanicula" has quite a lot of creepy/scary moments in it. The main villain literally sucks the life out of things, and there are some cut scenes of it killing living things and even ripping the head off of some insect creature. Most of the NPC's in the game are insects as well and they can seem creepy on their own. Certain areas of the game have very creepy atmospheres, like one that is deep underwater, and one that is in a section where the villain has sucked all the life out of the plants. The final area of the game is the scariest, with everything being mostly black and having some scary "bosses" to defeat.
"Machinarium" has a bad ending where near the end of the game the main character is trying to diffuse a bomb, and if you fail you see the bomb explode and destroy the tower it's attached to, obviously killing the main character and another character who's up in that tower.
Commenting to remind myself to recommend a specific scene in the game “life signs” for the ds
I’m about to pass out