History NightmareFuel / EtrianOdyssey

* The Bared Essence. It's not that you destroyed the Heavenbringer's face to reveal it. [[BodyHorror You just forced open its jaw to an angle of approximately 120 degrees.]] When viewing it in the logbook, you can even see the Heavenbringer's deformed face, pushed back by the open jaw. And the ''teeth''. And the ''tongue''. And the Medium fused by some green goo to a giant red eye.

* The Bared Essence. It's not that you destroyed the Heavenbringer's face to reveal it. [[BodyHorror You just forced open its jaw to an angle of approximately 120 degrees.]]
** When viewing it in the logbook, you can even see the Heavenbringer's deformed face, pushed back by the open jaw. And the ''teeth''.

* The Bared Essence. It's not that you destroyed the Heavenbringer's face to reveal it. [[BodyHorror You just forced open its jaw to an angle of approximately 150 degrees.]]

* There's a small event in the Hall of Darkness which lets you reunite a family of dolls! [[spoiler: But immediately afterwards, a hammer which is explicitly said to be used in torture falls behind you from nowhere. Should you turn back around to check on the dolls, [[NothingisScarier they're mysteriously ripped apart with no explanation...]]]]

It's not an Atlus game unless it's [[NintendoHard ridiculously tough]], [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome has addictive music]], and fills you with absolute dread every time you step into a dungeon.

It's not an Atlus game unless it's ridiculously hard, has addictive music, and fills you with absolute dread every time you step into a dungeon.

* [[spoiler: Primeval]] from the first game, as mentioned before, has a very [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian appearance]].

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* There's a small event in the Hall of Darkness which lets you reunite a family of dolls! [[spoiler: But immediately afterwards, you find a hammer which is explicitly said to be used in torture, and you find the dolls [[NothingisScarier mysteriously ripped apart with no explanation...]]]]

* The [[BonusDungeon sixth stratum]] of the original ''Etrian Odyssey''. When you find the hidden stairway down in the room where you fought the FinalBoss, your first response is to get excited for the opportunity to explore more. As you go down, you get [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120619035045/etrian/images/c/cc/Clarret_Hollows.png this sight]] on your screens. The walls are [[WombLevel made of flesh and bones, the doorways look like heart valves, damage tiles are stomach acid]], and the TrueFinalBoss is titled "the Heart of the Labyrinth". Did we mention the whole stratum is ''covered in blood'' and is very claustrophobic compared to the others you've seen so far?

* The mission to find the missing soldiers in the first Stratum. You take the job, heading into an area that a member of another guild thought to close off to protect others from. And what do you find?

* In the second stratum of ''The Drowned City'', [[spoiler:there's a cutscene where you're tricked into being cornered by three [=FOEs=]]], with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4rpvS6LBSA the third game's version of Black and Red playing in the background]].

* From ''Legends of the Titan'', we have basically everything about the 6th Maze. It's dark, blood is ''everywhere'' to the point where the footsteps sound like they're stepping in it, it's eerie, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epoINGeaKUs the music is just creepy ambiance]], [[spoiler:and it contains a scattered ApocalypticLog and messages warning not to free a certain something...]] This area wouldn't look out-of-place in a SurvivalHorror game, especially since [[spoiler:this is both an AbandonedLaboratory ''and'' a SpookySilentLibrary rolled into one]].
-->'''Game text''': The dark, shadowy halls instill dread in you. This place has nothing of [[spoiler:the Echoing Library's sanctity]].

** Luckily, there's a small event in the Maze which lets you reunite a family of dolls! [[spoiler: But immediately afterwards, you find a hammer which is explicitly said to be used in torture, and you find the dolls [[NothingisScarier mysteriously ripped apart with no explanation...]]]]

* This game in gerenal has F.O.Es (Field-On Enemies) where they're far stronger than regular enemies, where you can see them. [[BossInMookClothing These you can see are almost boss-like.]] [[JumpScare One of them is a Boulder Boar disguise as a real boulder...]]
* Try listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2fnCE-CcI Red and Black]] at night with only your system on, especially when you're on the third floor or the [[BonusDungeon sixth stratum]] for the first time.
** The fifth game made it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfT5ADzvmSs more sinister]].
* The fifth stratum of the original is [[spoiler:''the ruins of Tokyo'', which [[WhamEpisode hits you like a ton of bricks]]. Seeing a modern-day city reduced to abandoned ruins is quite tragic.]]

* [[spoiler: Primevil]] from the first game, as mentioned before, has a very [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian appearance]].
** It's bad enough to be Yggdrasil's core, but one of its attacks is called Necrosis. If you know about the actual medical condition, or looked it up, it becomes ''much'' worse.
* Some other enemy designs will qualify, including the one-eyed worms in the third stratum of the first and third games.
* In the second stratum of ''The Drowned City'', [[spoiler:there's a cutscene where you're tricked into being cornered by three [=F.O.E.s=]]], with the third game's version of Black and Red playing in the background.

** The fifth game made it more sinister.

* From ''Legends of the Titan'', we have basically everything about the 6th Maze. It's dark, blood is ''everywhere'' to the point where the footsteps sound like they're stepping in it, it's eerie, the music is just creepy ambiance, [[spoiler:and it contains a scattered ApocalypticLog and messages warning not to free a certain something...]] This area wouldn't look out-of-place in a SurvivalHorror game, especially since [[spoiler:this is both an AbandonedLaboratory ''and'' a SpookySilentLibrary rolled into one]].

* This game in gerenal has F.O.Es (Field-On Enemies) where they're stronger than regular enemies, where you can see them. [[BossInMookClothing These you can see are almost boss-like.]] [[JumpScare One of them is a Boulder Boar disguise as a real boulder...]]

* This game in gerenal has F.O.Es (Field-On Enemies) where they're stronger than regular enemies, where you can see them. [[BossInMookClothing These you can see are almost boss-like.]] [[JumpScare One of them is like Boulder Boar disguise as a real boulder...]]

* This game in gerenal has FOEs (Field-On Enemies) where they're stronger than regular enemies, where you can see them. [[BossInMookClothing These you can see are almost boss-like.]] [[JumpScare One of them is like Boulder Boar disguise as a real boulder...]]

* This game in gerenal has FOEs(Field-On Enemies) where they're stronger than regular enemies, where you can see them. [[BossInMookClothing These you can see almost boss-like.]] [[JumpScare One of them is like Boulder Boar disguise as a real boulder...]]

* The fifth stratum of the original is [[spoiler:''the ruins of Tokyo'', which, given the premise of the game, [[WhamEpisode hits you like a ton of bricks]]. Seeing a modern-day city reduced to abandoned ruins is quite tragic.]]

* The [[BonusDungeon sixth stratum]] of the original ''Etrian Odyssey''. When you find the hidden stairway down in the room where you fought the FinalBoss, your first response is to get excited for the opportunity to explore more. As you go down, you get [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120619035045/etrian/images/c/cc/Clarret_Hollows.png this sight]] on your screens. The walls are [[WombLevel made of flesh and bones, the doorways look like heart valves, damage tiles are stomach acid]], and the TrueFinalBoss is titled "the Heart of the Labyrinth". Did we mention the whole stratum is ''covered in blood'' and is very claustrophobic compared to the other strata?

* [[spoiler: Primevil]] from the first game, as mentioned before, has a very [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian appearance]]. It's bad enough to be Yggdrasil's core, but one of its attacks is called Necrosis. If you know about, or have looked up, the actual medical condition, it becomes ''much'' worse.
* Some other enemy designs will qualify, including the one-eyed worms in the third stratum of ''The Drowned City''.
* In the second stratum of ''The Drowned City'', [[spoiler:you're tricked into being cornered by three [=F.O.E.s=]. The cutscene part involves creepy music.]]
* From ''Legends of the Titan'', we have basically everything about the 6th Maze. It's dark, blood is ''everywhere'' to the point where the footsteps sound like they're stepping in it, it's eerie, the music is ominous, [[spoiler: and it contains a scattered ApocalypticLog and messages warning not to free a certain something...]] This area wouldn't look out-of-place in a SurvivalHorror game, especially since [[spoiler: this is all an AbandonedLaboratory]].
-->'''Game text''':[[spoiler: The dark, shadowy halls instill dread in you. This place has nothing of the Echoing Library's sanctity.]]
** We don't even know what caused this and ''other'' buildings like this to crop up. One theory by some fans is [[spoiler: the area went through a nuclear disaster]], but the canon event that occurred before the buildings became shelters is never entirely explained. ''What happened''?

** If you had any doubts about the floor before, ''The Millennium Girl'''s version brings back the footstep sounds from the BonusDungeon of the last stratum. Which, as mentioned below, sounds like you're stepping in blood.

* From ''Legends of the Titan'', we have basically everything about the 6th Maze. It's dark, blood is ''everywhere'', it's eerie, the music is ominous, [[spoiler: and it contains a scattered ApocalypticLog and messages warning not to free a certain something...]] This area wouldn't look out-of-place in a SurvivalHorror game, especially since [[spoiler: this is all an AbandonedLaboratory]].