I didn't design THIS! :(
Just Shapes And Beats is a game about dodging simple pink shapes to music. Surely it won't keep you up at night... right?As a Nightmare Fuel page, all spoilers are unmarked.
- When the blue cube becomes corrupted. Everything turns a hellish red and the soundtrack is replaced by ominous beeping and what sounds like demonic moaning. We also get the same demonic noises right before battling the Big Bad's One-Winged Angel form. These sounds are actually reversed, slowed, and down pitched versions of the song of the boss fight. Therefore, the moans are actually “Close to me” and “You have been destroid [sic.]”, just downpitched, slowed, and reversed.
- The real Final Boss. The game does its best to make you think that the song immediately prior is the last, complete with a Steam achievement and the chiptune victory song beginning to play... before the boss reenters the screen, knocks you aside, and impales itself on the MacGuffin. At which point its eyes swell and burst into empty bloody sockets, the music distorts, the screen fills with pulsing, spiky centipedes, and you're escorted to the actual finale: a song which fittingly opens with a distorted sample of someone screaming in terror.
- Just the appearance of the Final Boss continues the Nightmare Fuel. The first half of the fight is against purely the environmental hazards of the writhing centipedes, and the blood dripping from the hollow eye sockets of the boss's head. Then, the beat drops, and the head breaks open to reveal a jagged, skull-like structure glaring outward in fury as it starts frantically swarming you with everything it's got left. After the rest of the game's cutesy design, you're suddenly struck with this thing.
- It gets worse, too: after having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, watching your supposed triumph Mood Whiplash into sheer horror, fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, the boss pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into its mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S NOT OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "repeat this scene for eternity or face death for good."
- It certainly deserves it, but the sight of the final boss's shattered face at the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.
- Also, remember, that song is marked "Explicit".
