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1* ''Devil Survivor 2'' easily trumps [[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor its predecessor]] in sheer horror, mostly because as you play the game, ''more and more of the world keeps getting swallowed into nothingness''. This even extends to the map on the intermission screen, where you get the hellish image of more and more of Japan ([[InferredHolocaust implied to be the only place that had anything protecting it in the first place]]) just ''disappearing'', as if it never existed.
2* This game [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids somehow got past the ratings board with a Teen rating]] even though it has even MORE [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath onscreen deaths]] than its predecessor. With the same [[SuperDeformed "chibi"]] [[ArtStyleDissonance art style]] as before. One of the first scenes you see in the game is an earthquake that causes a train accident. You get to see all the crushed, bloody corpses scattered around. This includes a full-screen picture (not sprites like the corpses from the train, but fully drawn art) of the main character dead and bleeding from a head injury.
3* [[MurderDotCom Nicaea]], the website that shows you the death of any person you type in. And yes, "any person" can include your friends and family. And no, sorry. ''You don't get to see your own.'' But look, here, see your friends burn to ashes!
4** Fail to rescue one of your potential party members, and the predicted death comes true. By "fail" we don't mean "lose the mission in which you rescue the person", we mean "skip out on the battle altogether". [[GuiltBasedGaming YOU could have prevented your friend's death!]]
5* The Septentriones easily prove themselves to be malicious monsters. How? Dubhe, the first one, appears at the Hills building and ''explodes.'' The curious people surrounding it are ''reduced to ashes.''
6** The JP's guy you see die at the Tsuutenkaku as Merak fires its Circumpolarity. He remains just for a moment, frozen as a statue, and then he ''topples over''...
7* The normal demons can be capable of similar cruelty. Fail to rescue Joe or Otome and you're treated to the same spectacle. It's even worse with Otome because you see Bifrons giving her a friggin' FinishingStomp and ''then'' burning her to death.
8* ''Devil Survivor 2'' deserves some kind of reward for making one of the Neutral endings NightmareFuel. This particular ending, the "Kill Polaris" one, involves killing Polaris, obviously. But there are several problems with this. All the damage that was done by the Septentriones? Never fixed. All the world that was consumed by the void? Never restored. All that's left is Tokyo and an endless sea. A sea that is probably neither drinkable, nor has anything to eat in it. Humanity will simply die a slow death from malnutrition. And where there is starvation and poverty, there's usually violence to go with it. And while there are no {{Jerkass}} supernatural beings to screw with humanity, there are no benevolent ones either to help humanity. (Yes, there are good supernatural beings in ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''). The only hope there is that the next guy in line for Heaven's Throne, Er Rai, will show up and fix things. This, however, is ''extremely'' unlikely. Good night, everyone!
9* The GameOver scene, which concludes with a sudden [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403 HTTP 403]] screen. It doesn't bother with ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation--just black text on a white screen. It's frightening ''because'' it's realistic.
10** Think about that for a second. In universe, the world is being swallowed by an ever growing void. A sudden error screen gives the implication that ''the whole world has ceased to exist, down to the programming.''
11*** To top it all off, 403 Forbidden is used to indicate that the domain's there, but it's not accepted any host requests. This is usually because the code is being rewritten. It's not just that the world is being dispelled; it's being ''completely reshaped''.
12** A game over during the Triangulum Arc ends with the more familiar 404 Not Found error message, because the Triangulum aren't here to test the world, they're here to ''destroy it''.
13* Keita's death in the ''Devil Survivor 2'' anime. Rather than getting pushed down the stairs and breaking his neck like he can die in the game, here he gets pushed down the stairs...and gets ''graphically, bloodily impaled on metal spikes!''
14* Alcor gets interrupted while pondering by Botis and Bifrons. Botis in particular is annoyed he's starting to like humans and may be likely to side with them. So he summons his blade and attempts to kill him. With a gesture, Alcor crushes Botis into a very, very small metal ball, reminding everyone that while he may ''look'' human, he most definitely ''isn't''.
15* Mizar's positively monstrous growth rate. It grows in a manner of seconds, and if you try and kill it except when it's at its smallest, it will split into two, which also start growing. It's a ridiculously stubborn AsteroidsMonster.
16* The NightmareSequence at the beginning of Wednesday in the Triangulum Arc. We are treated to a [[EverybodysDeadDave lovely shot of the majority of the playable cast dead]], having been completely destroyed by Arcturus. Daichi's begging for someone to answer him only hammers it home just how vicious their opponent was.
17** And the mystery of the NightmareSequence, the protagonist's curious absence from it, and his mysterious body condition in itself. Then it's revealed that the NightmareSequence isn't a premonition, but a ''memory'': Arcturus DID kill everyone once. The protagonist isn't in the memory because ''he didn't exist in that world''. He [[TakingTheBullet protected Saiduq from Canopus's attack]] and was ''[[{{RetGone}} erased from existence]]''. Saiduq and Yamato barely managed to restore him, but then this leads us to his flickering body: that's the Triangulum attempting to destroy his existence in the Akashic Record, thereby rendering you DeaderThanDead. Only Yamato's constant interference on your behalf is keeping you from disappearing altogether, but he himself is in danger of being killed at any time by agents of Canopus. ''[[ParanoiaFuel You are in danger of being wiped from existence at any moment in time.]]''
18** The NightmareSequence gets worse if the player talks to the various characters and finds out ''the order'' of how some of them died. Hinako died first, TakingTheBullet to protect Airi. And it turns into a SenselessSacrifice, because Airi was too shocked and distraught over Hinako's death, she was the second to die. ''Then'' you learn that Jungo tried to get to Airi and save her from Arcturus' next attack, but failed. Jungo saw her die and then he was next.

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