Super Mario RPG/Nightmare Fuel

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  • The scene of the final battle is surprisingly creepy for a kid's game. It's a sprawling hellscape made entirely of oversized Smithy heads, with a particularly gigantic one leering at you from the background. The hellish lighting and intense boss music further lend to the surreal, eerie atmosphere of the fight, as do the implications of the battlefield itself.
    • The remake tones down the scariness of the second phase arena. Instead, the now full 3D graphics do a lovely job of showing how Smithy can reform his own body in T-1000 style in disturbing levels of detail.
  • For the "Three Musty Fears" sidequest, the three ghosts challenge Mario to find three flags that they've hidden at various locations in the game world. One of them (the one planted by the Dry Bones) is in Mario's house at the starting area of the game. The idea that a ghost can so easily enter his house this way is... unnerving.
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