Zuma is an Aztec styled game, so it's obviously scary sometimes, but it's much more than that.
- The ominous music that plays when the balls are getting closer to the skull can sometimes give some players anxiety and paranoia. It doesn’t help with the fact that when the skull eats the balls, it sucks them in and the frog spins, getting brighter and then pops.
- You also see the skull open its maw wider and wider as the balls gradually get closer.
- Plus, just to stress the player even more, every incremential jaw opening is accompanied by a heartbeat/thumping noise. And some levels have two skulls, which can lead to a scary superposition of thumping if they happen to activate at the same time...
- You also see the skull open its maw wider and wider as the balls gradually get closer.
- Just at the start of the game, the skull might scare some people.
Specific to Zuma's Revenge
- The redesigned skull is much more frightening than the original was. What with its angrier expression and added fangs. Also when the skull eats the balls, it grows until its bigger than the frog, than eats it in one bite while laughing evilly.
- When you defeat Khatiki Khan, he tells you you broke his jaw forever.
- When defeating Zhaka Mu in his shadow frog form, he fades away until all you see is his face glowing in the darkness.
- The ominous chanting after you defeat a boss. The black background with angry tiki faces certainly doesn't help.
- Kolo Kamari, mosquito god of pestilence's constant Slasher Smile. Especially combined with how he constantly stares at the player wide-eyed.
- A majority of debuffs applied by the bosses make the frog look like it's deathly sick. It's a very unpleasant sight, and it's difficult not to feel sorry for the amphibian at the same time.
