Nightmare Fuel / Dragon Quest

• The town of Damdara/Hauksness.
  • It has been completely wrecked by the Dragonlord's forces. It uses the eerie dungeon theme, and it's filled with wrecked shops, grown-over pavement, and poisonous marshes. Unfortunately, the town isn't actually deserted: it's loaded with the strongest enemies in the overworld.
  • The nightmare factor is lessened in the remakes: the dungeon theme is replaced with "Requiem" from Dragon Quest II, turning the town into a Tear Jerker of sorts.
• On the original version, if you accept the Dragonlord's offer to rule at his side, he will tell you that your quest is over, and invite you to take a long rest with an Evil Laugh. The whole scenery then cuts to black, the text turns blood-red... and the game freezes, like something out of a creepypasta. This was removed in the SFC remake onward, as it turns out accepting his offer was All Just a Dream and you wake up in nearby Rimuldar, where you can continue the game from there. Dragon Quest Builders's plot is spun out of this ending, and from the looks of that, it was an even worse ending for everyone else.