Creepypasta

I found a creepypasta that said that your dead family members talk to you in Pokémon RB if you encounter a Pokémon in the first grass patch prior to getting your starter, which is impossible. It was a detective who was studying children suiciding due to the game albeit just starting, and then a bunch of dead children attacked him.

Of course this is false, as it mentions a game developer secretly programming it in and committing suicide after being questioned why he did it, albeit still being alive today (if I remembered the right person).

"This Slenderman Mythos fan agrees, Slender is not scary, not now that it's been overplayed and done to death. It is definitely a flawed game and for some people, just won't scare them. But you still have to admit it got some things brilliantly right about horror gaming and, when it came out a few years back, was easily one of the better indie horror titles. It was genuinely terrifying in 2012, primarily because I think fewer people had heard of Slenderman then.

And to be honest, it did capture the concept of being alone, isolated and helpless pretty well, which I think too many horror games lack nowadays. You didn't get a weapon, you didn't even get a ton of time or energy. All you got was a flashlight, stuck in a forest, and told "Hey, go do this random thing". It took the fear of being isolated and stalked and used that to its advantage; it used slowly building ambient music to build up tension. And then revealed the monster after it had let the tension build a while, just like all good horror stories should.

In other words, it was actually a damn good indie horror game for the concept it picked, especially for the climate it was launched in - a culture that was much more used to jumpscares and gore than psychologial horror in their games. And there's a reason the various clones of Slender: The Eight Pages just aren't as scary - partially because they're overdone clones, yes, but also partially because they copied the formula without understanding why the formula worked. They just looked at this successful game, went "oh, Slenderman + creepy environment = SCARY HORROR GAME!", and made a game. However, they failed to realize that in order for this particular monster to work, you need to build tension, a fear that you're unable to escape, a sense of paranoia. That's literally the only way anyone can ever make Slenderman scary, because it's pretty much what he and his Mythos are based around. This goes for all media with the character - in other words, Marble Hornets isn't creepy because Slendy's in it, it's creepy because of the underlying story, the tension-building, and how Slendy is used in it."