"IT'S...ALLL..YOURRR...FAULT..."
Persona 5 Tactica might be Lighter and Softer than other Persona games, but it doesn't stop it from having its more nightmarish moments.
- The giant teddie bear version of Toshiro encountered shortly before Marie is an equal mix of goofy and disturbing, to the point where the party wonders if it's a psychological warfare tactic. It's chained to a wall, has bulging eyes and an Overly-Long Tongue, stuffing spilling out, and speaks in a slow, stilted Simpleton Voice, implying it's partially alive. Made worse as, due to the nature of the Kingdoms, it's likely born not from Marie, but from how Toshiro sees himself — a Henpecked Husband to his future fiancee who had to let her call all the shots.
- Right from the start, there's something unsettling about the 3rd Kingdom. Eerily quiet school hallways, with the legionnaires existing in Fire and Brimstone Hell pocket dimensions. The rebels are more aggressive and suspicious than those of the prior kingdoms. The Tyrant is completely unknown, with his name coming out as garbled static anytime someone says it. Even the hideout theme gives the feel of a Bleak Level. All of this leads up to The Reveal that the leader is actually the Shadow Self of Toshiro.
- The One-Winged Angel form of Shadow Toshiro is really terrifying in a similar way as Shadow Teddie. It's a horrifically disfigured corpse of Eri Natsuhara with one eye missing and a wide Slasher Smile on her face who blames Toshiro for "ruining her life". The chibi graphics only migitate the gruesomeness by a bit and it would be even worse if wasn't. Oh and this form is a manifestation of Toshiro's guilt of dragging Natsuhara into getting her life ruined by his efforts of exposing Nakabachi. Given how it's explicit Natsuhara survived and made as full a recovery as she could, it's implied this is how she looked directly after the accident.
- Believe it or not, the clone version made by Salmael is even more creepy than the real one. Clone Eri Natsuhara is completely monochrome and has red eyes just like the Marie and Yoshiki copies prior, but given the original is a massive, disfigured corpse with a hollow Slasher Smile, this somehow makes it even worse, as if it was some sort of Terminator mixed with a gigantic zombie schoolgirl. It's like this...thing isn't supposed to exist in the first place.
- It's thankfully not lethal unlike Kasumi's fallout in Royal, but the way Natsuhara goes down is a bit unsettling. After Toshiro and Natsuhara successfully discredited Nakabachi and did the right thing against him, Nakabachi was harassed by the students so hard that he went insane. Then one day he stalks her right into a train station when she was discussing him with Toshiro and ran towards her trying to kill her by throwing her onto an incoming train, with one glance in his soulless eyes and drooling face making it clear that this man is completely wrong. As the poor girl tried to run away, she slipped off and fell into the train track as the train is about to arrive to the station and seemingly runs over her. The next time she shows up, not only is she hospitalized and wrapped with bandages, she's also hiding her right eye with her bangs — it's implied that her right eyeball was either lost or so badly damaged that she can no longer see with it. Yikes. One would be forgiven if they didn't see the post-credits and thought that she died.
- Salmael's second form has the mask on his disembodied head break and reveal a Nightmare Face with glaring red eyes and an incredibly wide Slasher Smile. And when you attack him, he looks directly at your character.
- In the DLC scenario, when the Phantom Thieves meet Guernica the first time, she's in the middle of slaughtering a few Mouscots with her paintball gun. One of these Mouscots gets hit, which causes it to inflate like a balloon graphically and explode into paint. Later, an entire pile of the Mouscots are seen dead in the streets as Guernica and Jerri's latest "artpiece", with the malevolent pink parrot deity showing sadistic glee over the carnage she induced. Even Akechi, who is indirectly responsible for possibly over a dozen people's deaths, is startled by the sight of it.
- The Game Over screen for the DLC campaign. Instead of a quote from Paradise Lost, you're greeted with an excerpt of a poem by a journalist depicting the Real Life bombing of Guernica, with the implication being Guernica (as in the character) has encroached into the real world and annihilated humanity through arousing their minds with her art.
