For a 2D game, Alundra can be quite dark.
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- Characters can die by dreaming. You may start skipping sleeps if the concept of 'sleeping and dreaming kills you' gets over your head. The music itself doesn't help.
- The Nightmare theme
itself is pretty disturbing. It begins with the sound of a woman screaming, then it turns into a ghostly song with heartbeats. - Lars Crypt in its entirety counts for this. Everything from the scary music to the haunting mist in the area and the undead monsters attacking along with the fact that you are under a graveyard during this sequence.
- Kline infiltrating your house: it is nightime, with Alundra sound asleep in his bed. Suddenly, you hear a chilling roar, Kline jumps on your bed (from the roof), and begins to ask you to show him how your body will soon turn into bloody dead meat. Brrrr. Without the timely intervention of Alundra and Septimus, who knows who else might have been attacked during that night (several doors of houses in the village are wide open, and another character was awaken by Kline, screaming in horror)?
- The game's spritework allows for some horrifying monster designs, but usually anyone dead might as well be collapsed on the ground. Have no fear, because checking the corpses is a mix-up between either a brief eulogy, or supplementing your imagination through just enough words to detail how they died and letting your mind fill in the blanks. What would be otherwise simple dead bodies turns into something much worse when the game almost gives you a mental visualization of what caused it, or perhaps describing their last moments.
- Amongst those horrifying monster designs, the scariest one would be the Soul Leech. Unlike the Gelatinoid or Sara before it, this thing is a HUGE monster that has a gigantic gaping maw on its chest, which eventually opens and then sucks everything in front of it to be devoured. Since it appeared only in dreams, it devoured SOULS and can leave people and whatever Dreamwalker within it dead. And with appearance like this◊ and this is how it opened its maw...◊ Looking at it alone may give you nightmares.
- Inoa village being burned down by monsters coming out of a child's nightmare. Only two or three corpses are found outside, implying that most of the villagers died incinerated inside their houses (possibly during their sleep). Also, the town's dog is never seen again.
