20 Day Video Game Challenge - Day 20: A game that truly scared you

I feel ya, Moldo. I don't have Minecraft myself, but when my cousin would come, we would play the game together on survival mode. Those baddies terrified me man, and as such I always wanted to stick to creative mode. Made many racetracks there.

Other than that, I can't say any other game really had a big lasting scary impact on me, so...
 
No game I have played has scared me.
 
Day 19: Shovel Knight is one of the only Indie games I've ever played, so that's gotta be it.

Day 20: Right now, no game really scares me, but some games had some moments that scared me as a kid.

Epic Mickey: Yes, I'm talking about this game yet again,and some moments are dark and disturbing. For example, there's an area in the game that's a mountain filled with creepy giant Mickey Merchandise. That area gave me nightmares when I was young. The game's main villain also looks super intimidating and sometimes I was scared for the main characters when I saw him.

Super Paper Mario: This game isn't scary right now, but some moments can still be disturbing. Obviously, there's Mimi's transformation, and there's also the River Twyggs that has the scariest music ever.

And sometimes, when I see footage of some horror games, I genuinely freak out sometimes and can barely sleep at night.
 
HOW COULD I FORGET EPIC MICKEY MAN?!

Yeah game has some really fucked up moments.
 
Metroid Fusion does a pretty excellent job of instilling the feeling of dread onto the player especially during the SA-X segments where you slowly hear the SA-X's ominous footsteps echo behind you.
 
Shadow the hedgehog. the cutscenes are very scary, and the whole game scared me as a child when I was watching my eldest sister play it. it doesn't scare me anymore, but I still won't play that game. it was the first Sonic game to get mature, and not for good reason. It also started my hatred for Shadow, who I thought was very cool in Heroes, to just a person who wanted to kill everyone in his own game and onward. Though, in the past few years I’ve started to like him again, I still hate how SEGA interpreted him in this game, that opinion will never change!

Here are the cutscenes:

 
SMG1 kinda scared me with the Taranatox Battle. It was like that one boss fight from Contra III: The Alien Wars.
 
Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body

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The image looks fine and all and everything is colorful and cartoony when you're in the classroom. But when you start exploring in Arnold, that's when things start getting creepy as hell. It has weirdly realistic 90's CGI graphics but with a dull and dark color palette along with trippy and weirdly creepy and unsettling music that doesn't belong in an edutainment game.

This is the music when you're traveling through organs for instance.

And this is music when you're painting with body organs

And this is in the first "level"

And this is the sinister music that sound more fitting in a space horror game. The title of the video even agrees with me.

Unsettling imagery

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So it's that one Magic School Bus game I refused to touch as a child and I think it gave me nightmares, especially the music in the first video I linked.
 
I would like to take the time to thank Packy (or Alexander Hamilton as he's called now) for starting this 20 Day Video Game Challenge. It has been quite a nice reflective experience for me to think of what games or characters I have preferences under the categories listed. Some of them are pretty much no-brainers for me like the "Favourite male video game character" and "Favourite game as a kid", but some were admitted very challenging to come up with, especially the "a game that inspires you" and "favourite female video game character" (yes, this is actually something that I didn't have a set answer to). Even then, I felt the need to provide an answer since non-answers like "I don't really have a game that is *so and so category*" are particularly not interesting.

The other thing that this thread affords is the perspective of other people, so like Baby Luigi's responses are a mix of obvious and fascinating. I made an effort to "Like" any post that either present a modicum of effort in explaining the choices in a satisfactory manner or shares my preference (so for example, people who likes Mario the character gets a thumbs up from me). I mean, I felt that if there is effort in elaboration, then surely they present a stronger case in why they like it (this isn't Twitter where just mentioning a game is understandable, due to post character limits), since feelings can't necessarily be translated into a post.

Perhaps the whole thing isn't as ideal as I thought it would end up, but I can at least appreciate that there are posts with effort.

Thank you for reading.
 
winstein said:
The other thing that this thread affords is the perspective of other people, so like Baby Luigi's responses are a mix of obvious and fascinating.
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I am flattered by your thoughts on my responses, as I am mostly passionate about the games I have posted on here (even when it's talking about games i'll never play). I indeed did strive to have a mix between obvious and less obvious choices and I am more inclined to explain games people here typically aren't familiar with.