History NightmareFuel / Okami

** The fact that he's based on an Oarfish doesn't help either...

[[AC: Sunken Ship]]

*** Seeing as bombing a hole in their roof will bathe them in moonlight and reveal just [[https://okami.fandom.com/wiki/Crow_Tengu what kind of beasts they truly are,]] it’s safe to say [[https://okami.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._and_Mrs._Cutter it’s the latter.]]

* Yami. [[FridgeHorror At first, he's seems to be simply a giant sphere with weird symbols, but it gets worse when you think about it.]] He manages to stand out like a sore thumb due to the fact that unlike everything else in the game, he looks cold and realistic rather than the bright and lush art you've gotten used to. He's portrayed as a force of pure malevolence rather than an actual "character". Furthermore, his back story is about next to nothing; all we really know is that he killed an entire race by himself, and he seems to be related to the Moon Tribe somehow. His final form is essentially a demonic claw, and his true form is that of a small fetus-like being. One terrible thing to notice is that he has blue FacialMarkings that are just like Amaterasu, suggesting that he is also related to the gods. His powers are essentially that of a LightningBruiser {{Magitek}} tank, which no other enemy is like aside from Lechku and Nechku. Worst of all, he seems to have the power to randomly destroy Amaterasu's powers, and if it weren't for the fact that Ammy had just entered her SuperForm, it's very likely Yami would have slaughtered her easily. All in all, the questions of "who is he?" "where did he come from?" and "what does he want?" is enough to scare anyone who has thought about him long enough. And as for bonus points, killing him doesn't even work, as his powers just split into separate beings. So yeah, he's quite the mysterious EldritchAbomination.

** The Spider Queen herself. The eyeless face, the slashed-looking mouth and tusks, the backward turned-in hands, and her habit of suddenly rushing the screen at terrifying speed, as well as the screeches she makes when you damage the eyes in her abdomen. Oh and if you take too long, she gobbles you up, munches on you a little bit, and spits you out of her bud.

[[caption-width-right:350:Not even [[PhysicalGod a god]] is safe]]

''VideoGame/{{Okami}}''. A game where you are a goddess stuck inside a wolf's body while fighting off demons, monsters, the fearsome Yamata no {{Orochi}}, and Darkness personified. Between the VideoGameCaringPotential and the comedy in this game, there lurks scary, terrifying stuff...

[[AC: The Ghost Ship]]

* In the same place, there is also a pair of little girl dolls. A player will regret power-slashing them.

* The ghosts. Okay, so it's just a few imps, just try and go around this and- Spider Queen in your face, with the screech she makes as well. Furthermore, the prayer slips that exterminated ghosts up to this point are completely ineffective.

** On the topic of ghosts, that giant chattering skull of Crimson Helm that keeps coming at you even when you're trying to use the brush. It also looks like it's trying to chew on you when it's hovering over you.

** The Spider Queen herself. The eyeless face, the backwards-looking hands, and her habit of suddenly rushing the screen at terrifying speed, as well as the screeches she makes when you Power Slash/use slips on her eyes. Oh and if you take too long, she gobbles you up, munches on you a little bit, and spits you out of her bud.
* [[ImAHumanitarian Mr. and Mrs. Cutter]] live in a decaying house, surrounded by a cursed aura, complete with creepy music, even after you restore Taka Pass. Get too close during the day, they'll try to catch and eat you. At night, you can go inside, where she's sharpening her knife and he's talking in this sleep ("I'm... so hungry... Guuurgh..."). Even worse there's a cute puppy you can feed waiting just beyond the Cutters' gate. They don't do anything to him, but the fact that they try to kill Amaterasu to eat makes it seem like they might try to catch and eat him.

* The ghosts. Okay, so it's just a few imps, just try and go around this and-[[spoiler: Spider Queen in your face, with the screech she makes as well.]] Furthermore, the prayer slips that exterminated ghosts up to this point are completely ineffective.
** What's scarier is that even after the player tries to use the Celestial Brush, an action that normally freezes all gameplay, [[spoiler: the Spider Queen will continue her ghastly in-your-face, screen-filling floating.]] The only way to get rid of the ghost is to just wait until it leaves. Before you even see her ghost though you hear her unsettling laughing and there's nothing and nowhere obvious it's coming from until you get close enough for her to appear.
** On the topic of ghosts, that giant chattering skull of [[spoiler: Crimson Helm]] that keeps coming at you even when you're trying to use the brush. It also looks like it's trying to chew on you when it's hovering over you.

* [[spoiler: It gets worse in Okamiden: you actually spend a fair amount of time on the ship before it sank and you witness it getting destroyed by the Water Dragon. Imagining all the people there becoming monsters.. yeesh...]]

*** Seeing as [[spoiler:bombing a hole in their roof will bathe them in moonlight and reveal just [[https://okami.fandom.com/wiki/Crow_Tengu what kind of beasts they truly are,]] it’s safe to say [[https://okami.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._and_Mrs._Cutter it’s the latter.]]]]
* The [[spoiler:Evil Rao]] reveal. Specifically, the way her face moves while she's talking, eyes included - but the glowing red pupils don't.
** [[spoiler: And then finding the crusty old body in the well when the ghost leads you in.]]
** Even worse, though, is seeing the [[spoiler: purple wisp over the corpse. It may be just the stench of the corpse, but the corpse has no meat left on it. One could deduce that that's the real Rao's ''soul'' that wasn't able to pass on because the body wasn't properly buried.]] It's enough as a TearJerker and a spine-chiller. The utter lack of music in the area doesn't help, either.
** Before that, even, the [[spoiler: ghost of the real Rao guiding you to the secret passage is a bit off-putting, even before one realizes that the corpse in the passage is of the real Rao.]] It's just that finding ''that'' out makes it more off-putting in hindsight.

* There's a part in the game in which you must enter the belly of the water dragon. The fact that the inside of the dragon's belly looked more like a place with cliffs, waterfalls and islands, complete with strange trees, actually manages to be somewhat disturbing. [[spoiler: Power Slash the "trees" and they bleed]].
** Even worse when you find out [[spoiler: the water dragon is the [[BodyHorror sea king]]- [[AccidentalMurder after you kill him.]]]]
*** Inside the water dragon, there is a little grotto you can reach by using the fountain ability. Inside is a small sea vessel and human remains. What's especially horrible is that this person didn't die upon being swallowed. There is a firepit with fish skeletons around it, one still on a spit over the firepit. The poor person tried their best to survive but died while cooking a meal. The [[spoiler: sea king]] later laments at all the lives lost [[spoiler: because of him]].

* While also a candidate for BestBossEver, the battle with Lechku and Nechku was one of the creepiest things in that game. Unlike most of the bosses, they don't really speak to you, they float around with their heads twitching, [[spoiler: You can hear their clockwork ticking and occasionally their hoots]] amongst the epic battle music.

** When both of their clocks reach 12, time just ''stops'', and the colors are reversed. Then, Lechku starts ''slowly walking toward you''.... [[spoiler: It looks like you need something complicated to fix that, but you don't. It's just Powerslash.]] But, God, does it scare the ever-loving crap out of you the first and only time it happens.

* The enemy gallery is made up of very detailed calligraphy drawings of each enemy, complete with hideous faces and grotesque details not visible in-game. Images range from an overly graphic fish-woman in a kimono, a flaming wheel with a grinning mouth in the center, and [[spoiler: a drawing of Orochi that appears to be bleeding heavily.]]

* Anything that keeps moving even when you've got the Celestial Brush screen open. Normally the screen is completely paused, so you feel free to edit the world at your leisure, but enemies that keep moving, or keep coming at you, can really get under your skin and make you feel defenseless. In the same vein, trying to use the Celestial Brush against [[spoiler:Ninetails]], only to see ''him'' start drawing...
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', delivering the final blow to [[spoiler:Akuro and Kurow]] is certainly a moment of awesome, but can be downright creepy as there's always the chance of getting a FreezeFrameBonus where you see [[spoiler:Akuro, overlapping Kurow entirely, its mouth-eye wide open, gazing straight at you through the screen]]. It won't be one's fault to drop the stylus or accidentally mess up the final attack, after getting caught by surprise.
* Yami. [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror At first, he's seems to be simply a giant sphere with weird symbols, but it gets worse when you think about it.]] He manages to stand out like a sore thumb due to the fact that unlike everything else in the game, he looks cold and realistic rather than the bright and lush art you've gotten used to. He's portrayed as a force of pure malevolence rather than an actual "character". Furthermore, his back story is about next to nothing; all we really know is that he killed an entire race by himself, and he seems to be related to the Moon Tribe somehow. His final form is essentially a demonic claw, and his true form is that of a small fetus-like being. One terrible thing to notice is that he has blue FacialMarkings that are just like Amaterasu, suggesting that he is also related to the gods. His powers are essentially that of a LightningBruiser {{Magitek}} tank, which no other enemy is like aside from Lechku and Nechku. Worst of all, he seems to have the power to randomly destroy Amaterasu's powers, and if it weren't for the fact that Ammy had just entered her SuperForm, it's very likely Yami would have slaughtered her easily. All in all, the questions of "who is he?" "where did he come from?" and "what does he want?" is enough to scare anyone who has thought about him long enough. And as for bonus points, killing him doesn't even work, as his powers just split into separate beings.]] So yeah, he's quite the mysterious EldritchAbomination.

* Anything that keeps moving even when you've got the Celestial Brush screen open. Normally the screen is completely paused, so you feel free to edit the world at your leisure, but enemies that keep moving, or keep coming at you, can really get under your skin and make you feel defenseless. In the same vein, trying to use the Celestial Brush against [[spoiler:Ninetails]], only to see him start drawing.

* That place also had the deadly spirits of a couple-turned-fish monsters, who combined into what one can only describe as a scarred, monstrous orca whale-sized great white shark. If you have an incredible fear of deep water, especially with fish that easily dwarfs you, finally killing it brought huge relief. Before they go into their shark form, upon defeat you hear Jiro and Saburo's distorted human screams.

** The way to kill it is also pretty bruta. Since your brush is useless against it and touching it hurts you, the only way to kill it is by rolling over it with the spiked barrels in the room. It doesn't kill it in one go too, you have to keep rolling while hearing slashing sounds and see the sea-weed monster turn more and more red until the poor thing dies. The fact it drops a lot of praise when killed doesn't help, [[MercyKill as if the thing wanted to die...]]

** The way to kill it is also pretty bruta. Since your brush is useless against it and touching it hurts you, the only way to kill it is by rolling over it with the spiked barrels in the room. It doesn't kill it in one go too, you have to keep rolling until the poor thing dies. The fact it drops a lot of praise when killed doesn't help, [[MercyKill as if the thing wanted to die...]]

** The way to kill it is also pretty bruta. Since your brush is useless against it and touching it hurts you, the only way to kill it is by rolling over it with the spiked barrels in the room. It doesn't kill it in one go too, you have to keep rolling until the poor thing dies. The fact it drops a lot of praise when killed doesn't help, as if the thing wanted to die...