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  • Take a good look at Graham's second form (the page image).
    • He is resting comfortably within the shared heart of two giant pale severed female torsos with completely exposed ribs and guts, conjoined by their intestines... oh, not to mention the large ring that's holding them together piercing through their eyes. And just to literally crown it off, there's a circlet made of human skulls that rotates above him, unleashing attacks on you.
    • After you damage him enough, he rises into the air and screams as his body explodes into a shower of blood that reforms as that giant monster thing. It is disgusting.
    • The last time you see him before the final confrontation is in the Underground Reservoir. Soma reaches the end of the area just in time to watch Graham stab Yoko in the gut; if Genya hadn't shown up afterward, Yoko could've died.
  • Of the many versions of Symphony's Legion that appear in later games, this game's version stands out thanks to its presentation.
    • Several rooms before the boss, you find yourself in an area full of strange humanoids who come out of doors in the background and walk mindlessly forward. They don't damage you; they don't notice you at all. They just keep making a low groaning noise (unsettlingly reminiscent of Zelda's ReDeads). Only when you reach the boss room do you see what's going on: these are corpses being summoned from their graves by Legion to create its shell. At least the original Legion didn't make you think about where the bodies came from...
    • Even worse, the Legion in this version has a fetus inside a cage as a core. This is pretty morbid and unusual, even by Castlevania standards (bordering on Silent Hill grade horror), and much moreso than even the SOTN version, which includes Beelzebub (a giant, rotting zombie) himself. And the Legion here, with all parts of shell still intact, resembles a baby that is being viewed through a sonogram. This makes you wonder what happened to the fetus.
  • The final area, the Chaotic Realm, feels like Aria's answer to Nowhere from Silent Hill. No map to check where you are, balconies that lead to some floaty-void-space-thingy, the entire area itself being composed of glitchy, monochrome versions of absolutely random parts of the castle (even if it means you're in a dry room, and the next one is submerged). And the music just seems to make it worse. And then there's the True Final Boss, Chaos, a being of almost Giger-esque incomprehensibility.
  • The Man-Eater, a monster that looks like a giant skull with 3 eyeballs which spurts blood when they appear.

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