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Your. Mileage. May. Vary. Just because you didn\\\'t fid it scary doesn\\\'t mean it isn\\\'t. Most people who\\\'ve played Earthbound will remember Giygas as a twisted, distorted, vaguely sentient CosmicHorror who seems to be trapped in a perpetual state of pain, screaming for all eternity in unending anguish and uttering cryptic, garbled messages. If you know the story of the first Mother game (AKA Earthbound Zero) and believe Giygas and the BigBad from that game are one and the same, then an extra level of horror is added as you realise that Giygas used to be an alien child who loved his surrogate mother and went insane when she was no longer in his life. Then there\\\'s the giant \\\"fetus\\\" shapes in the background. You are, in essence, fighting the tortured soul of a sad, crying child who just wants his mommy back. In general, [[CosmicHorror Cosmic Horrors]] are scary - they\\\'re eldritch beings beyond even the slightest notion of mortal comprehension, most often ultra-powerful beings who possess the innate power to destroy entire worlds if they want to. In the case of Azathoth and Giygas, they also happen to be insane subconcious entities, utterly impossible to understand, who could and would wipe out creation if they became aware of themselves. The fact that Giygas is - and, if Buzz Buzz is to believed, has in the future - trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and, as mentioned, is little more than a super-powerful and very unhappy being with a child-like mentality, ventures firmly into \\\"adult fear\\\" category.

Your. Mileage. May. Vary. Just because you didn\\\'t fid it scary doesn\\\'t mean it isn\\\'t. Most people who\\\'ve played Earthbound will remember Giygas as a twisted, distorted, vaguely sentient CosmicHorror who seems to be trapped in a perpetual state of pain, screaming for all eternity in unending anguish and uttering cryptic, garbled messages. If you know the story of the first Mother game (AKA Earthbound Zero) and believe Giygas and the BigBad from that game are one and the same, then an extra level of horror is added as you realise that Giygas used to be an alien child who loved his surrogate mother and went insane when she was no longer in his life. Then there\\\'s the giant \\\"fetus\\\" shapes in the background. You are, in essence, fighting the tortured soul of a sad, crying child who just wants his mommy back. In general, [[CosmicHorror]]s are scary - they\\\'re eldritch beings beyond even the slightest notion of mortal comprehension, most often ultra-powerful beings who possess the innate power to destroy entire worlds if they want to. In the case of Azathoth and Giygas, they also happen to be insane subconcious entities, utterly impossible to understand, who could and would wipe out creation if they became aware of themselves. The fact that Giygas is - and, if Buzz Buzz is to believed, has in the future - trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and, as mentioned, is little more than a super-powerful and very unhappy being with a child-like mentality, ventures firmly into \\\"adult fear\\\" category.