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1* Pretty much everything about Sylvain Castle and its boss. [[spoiler:The queen went insane after her sons died on Columbus' voyage, killing everyone in the castle and turning into a monster that, judging from the sprite, is LaughingMad. And before the boss fight proper, you get to see dolls that represent her children play creepy games with you and scream for help from their mother once you kill them]]. The defense mechanisms of the castle are also quite creepy: all the water is turned into acid, the eyes of portraits are ripped out, and AnimatedArmor walks around in place of guards.
2** Don't forget that, in the dimly lit chapel of the castle, there's a lost soul who can't find its body, so it asks to tag along with Ark. [[spoiler:Turns out its "body" is one of the aforementioned {{Animated Armor}}s, and after going into it thanks Ark by ''trying to kill him''.]]
3* The zombie town, [[spoiler:Louran]]. You first see it as a thriving town full of ordinary people, but once you sleep at the inn, it's revealed to be nothing but an illusion, and the people are replaced by [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]]. Zombies that ''rip their heads off and throw them at you''. Oh, and some of the zombies [[UndeadChild are children]], too.
4* The [[ReligionOfEvil Beruga worshippers]] in Mosque.
5* The {{Family Unfriendly Death}}s, though, mercifully, they're [[GoryDiscretionShot censored]] [[VideoGame/IllusionOfGaia this time]]. [[spoiler:Beruga]] being carved up by a propeller is a notable one.
6* Heck, the truth about [[spoiler:Ark and his hometown]] can even be NightmareFuel to some gamers; [[spoiler:fitting with the Biblical theme of Satan being unable to create life, Crysta and everyone in it is just a copy of a village on the surface. This means that the only purpose of their lives is to serve the GodOfEvil and they're doomed to disappear as soon as Ark succeeds]].
7* The goat [[ImAHumanitarian eating her own dead husband's corpse]] when trapped in a cave.
8** Her justification of that is really creepy.
9** If you go back to that cave after the boss battle for that dungeon, you'll find [[spoiler:both of them dead.]]
10* [[spoiler:Upon returning to Crysta, if you talk to any of the village folk, they will pretend to be relieved you're back. However, once you've walked a small distance away, they will make some disparaging remark and transform into a malignant blue spirit that chases and harms (while leaving your HP untouched) Ark. This is accompanied by the wonderfully peaceful Crysta theme turning into the eerie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRbOln6Alpo Gaia Stone]] theme that plays on your trip up the staircase to face the final boss. Cue chills down players' spines and goosebumps.]]
11* [[spoiler:Incarnations of Elle apparently have the ability to ''warp people clean out of existence.'']]
12* Meilin: a child who has the power to create powerful illusions; she’s the one who [[spoiler: “created” Louran’s current zombification and recreated Storkholm and Princess Elle’s real parents, leading Elle to kill the king. She also has a crush on Ark, and doesn’t understand that he’s not interested in her, so she becomes a StalkerWithACrush and follows him around the world, disguising herself as a shadow in Norfest. After Ark rejects her, Meilin snaps and creates illusions of Elle in order to trap Ark inside Dragoon Castle. It’s telling that Fyda has to slap her in the face and tell her off in order for Meilin to understand what kind of havoc a person with her powers can have.]]
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