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[[caption-width-right:256:MY EYES]]
* Despite it being an NES game, the setting of Abadox is gruesome and horrifying, and the developers got away with the censors and pulled out all the stops to make the whole experience freaky. The main antagonist is a planet-eating EldritchAbomination that you must go inside in order to rescue Nazar's lover. Along the way, you must fight a variety of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080215211950/https://bogleech.com/nes-abadox.html creatures, presumably parasites that live inside the alien]]. The first stage alone pits you against a giant skinless hellhound and a face that stretches its eyeballs at you by its optic nerves. The worst of these is the Cilia Monster; not only is it a really big foe, when you first encounter it, the music is replaced by [[HeartbeatSoundtrack heartbeats]] and it pulsates as you descend towards its weakpoint.
* The fact that in the Japanese manual, Parasitis is suspected to have ''[[WasOnceAMan once been a human infected with Parasite X]]''. The thought of some luckless astronaut turning into...''[[EldritchAbomination that]]''...over a period of time is not a pleasant prospect. A possible other interpretation is even worse, however--Parasitis's host human was ''Nazar and Maria's unborn child''. Imagine Maria finding her [[TheAntichrist malign baby]] has decided to ''encase her'' in demonic tissue, then proceed to ''grow'' that into the Parasitis body...
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