History NightmareFuel / Transistor

* Grant and Asher's final hours up on the roof, besieged by the Process and wracked by remorse. And after Grant's suicide, Asher had to spend half an hour there with Grant's dead body and a disintegrating skyline for company, waiting for Red to arrive, fighting for his life against his own grief. And then he [[DrivenToSuicide lost]]...

* Grant and Asher's final hours up on the roof, besieged by the Process and wracked by remorse. And after Grant's suicide, Asher had to spend half an hour there with Grant's dead body and a disintegrating skyline for company, waiting for Red to arrive, fighting for his life against his own grief. And then he lost.

* Grant and Asher's last hours up on the roof, besieged by the Process and wracked by remorse. And after Grant's suicide, Asher had to spend half an hour there with Grant's dead body for company and the view of a disintegrating skyline, waiting for Red to arrive, fighting for his life against his own grief. And then he lost.

-->''He studied this formula closely for it filled him with a deep sense of wonder and even deeper sense of dread. He developed predictive algorithms to determine where and when the visualization would take form, and began drawing it out with his own architectural plans, until one day he found it in its natural state. He saw beyond the confines of the city into something more, and there before him was something extraordinary. He took it, and realized the things he saw now stood at his call.''

* The way Transistor's database describe Royce's gradual discovery of Cloudbank's secrets and the Transistor; Imagine that you found out how the entire world around you - the will of its people - has been stuck in repeating pattern of the same voting/decision-making over and over for untold amounts of time, to the point that Royce managed to'' pinpoint the exact time and place'' where Cloudbank's alteration would occur. All the while, Cloudbank's own history has been ''unnaturally'' vague. [[TomatoInTheMirror No wonder why the Camerata would freak out]].

* Being Processed isn't just being killed, apparently it's closer to cessation of existence... and at the end, Red's the only person left. [[spoiler: [[LastSurvivorSuicide For a few minutes, anyway.]]]]

** Later on they start showing an... obsession with Red. The Snapshots who usually take photos of you to distract you during combat now seem to be taking them because they ''want'' to.

* Being Processed isn't just being killed, apparently it's closer to cessation of existence... and at the end, Red's the only person left.

** Halfway through the fight, the music goes from a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMWL8cOeAU somber melody sung by Red]] to an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgCUqJ7vlY eerie techno remix sung by a barely-intelligible, robotic-sounding voice.]] The change in tone portrays perfectly just how horrible being processed is.

* The fight against a processed Luna Reisz is a mix of this and TearJerker. All throughout the battle, Luna [[MadnessMantra mutters threats and accusations at Red]] in a voice that sounds as if she's in a lot of pain.

* All Red's songs have rather morose lyrics, but "The Spine" easily takes the cake. It sounds like a James Bond movie theme, but if you listen closely, it's about how the singer sees the spine of the world and wants to break it, because she's simply had enough. "If the Romans had but one neck", indeed.

* The entire game is a train wreck of nightmare fuel for [[AndIMustScream the Man in the Transistor]] but let's start with the first thing that happened to him. The man was impaled and Processed by the Transistor; [[FridgeLogic the first thing he saw when he "woke up?"]] ''[[FridgeHorror His impaled and mostly likely BLEEDING CORPSE.]]'' No wonder he freaks out.

* The fate of the Camerata. Sybil is [[spoiler:turned into a Process]], Grant and Kendrell [[spoiler:commit suicide]], and Royce [[spoiler:is sucked into the Transistor and you have to kill him.]]

* The fate of the Camerata. Sybil is [[spoiler:turned into a Process]], Grant and Kendrell [[spoiler:commit suicide]], and Royce [[spoiler:is sucked into the Transistor and you have to kill him.]]

* [[MookMaker Younglady]] '''[[OhCrap Farm]]'''. Be prepared to mash the turn() button. Mitigated by some VERY careful maneuvering, allowing you to bypass them completely unharmed.

* [[MookMaker Younglady]] '''[[OhCrap Farm]]'''. Be prepared to mash the turn() button.

* The Process. Imagine a completely alien menace hell bent on turning every last building and person in Cloudbank into data to be processed. It knows nothing, feels nothing, but the need to gather data.

** [[ShadowSilhouetteScare Your first encounter with Younglady.]]

* [[MookMaker Younglady]] ''''[[OhCrap Farm]]''''. Be prepared to mash the turn() button.

* [[MookMaker Younglady]] '''[[OhCrap Farm]]'''. Hope you have your Jaunt() ready.

* [[MookMaker Younglady]] ''[[OhCrap Farm]]''. Hope you have your Jaunt() ready.

* The fate of the Camerata.

* The fate of the Camerita.

* The Spine, a massive, implacable beast that hunts Red as she climbs a tower in order to find answers. Even worse, its very presence causes the Transistor to start losing his mind, drunkenly rambling and losing memories. At times, he can't even tell if Red is still there. It gets bad enough that she logs into a message board to type messages to him, [[TearJerker begging him to hold on long enough for her to kill the Spine]].

* The Process. Imagine a completely alien menace hell bent on turning every last building and person in Cloudbank into data to be processed. It knows nothing, feels nothing, but the need to gather data.