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- Maiden of Black Water ramped up the Body Horror and Gorn of the series. Most of the shrine maidens you meet have had their eyes slashed out, and one ghost has glass shards stuck in his back after he hung himself and crashed into the window below. Fuyuhi Himino was also forced to cut her own throat.
- During the first flashback of the Looming Man killing the shrine maidens, there's a lovely close-up of one of the shrine maidens, whose mouth was sliced open on one side and a large wound around her eye.
- Just the fact that, if you aren't careful on the mountain, the ghosts will force you to reenact their suicide.
- Even worse: cases like the Umbrella Woman imply that even the mountain itself wants you dead, if you dare to come close to it. Indeed, the death of the Umbrella Woman is notably shocking due to how her decision to appease those who have died, or have committed suicide on the mountain, would then be "rewarded" with a freak accident that results in her LEFT EYE BEING SKEWERED by the red umbrella she was carrying mere moments ago. Her ghostly apparition is also unnerving, as unlike every other ghost in the game, she never attacks you.
- The most common ways to go (and thus to get forced to repeat by the ghosts) are: hanging, drowning, slashing your throat, and jumping from a high place. All but drowning rely on strong Body Horror while drowning itself leads to the victims creepily floating in mid-air.
- The box carriers, especially because of their rotting bodies and creepy masks.
- How about combining the "ghosts will force you to reenact their suicide" premise above with the Electromagnetic Ghosts theme that's been present throughout the series? One ghost came about precisely because of this: He was an ordinary man driving near a tunnel on the mountain, when a ghost dropped onto his car that caused it to crash. He crawled away, only for the car he left behind to become possessed and run him over.
- After defeating Fuyuhi Himino, the player is treated to a flashback of her death. She tried to resist the spirit's influence, but was distracted for a second by what looked like her friend and slipped. All you see is blood pouring onto her shoes, but it's enough.
- Big Bad Ouse Kurosawa, who looks like a drowned woman, and the other many victims of the Yomi, who have the black water streaming from their eyes like tears.
- Tall Woman. A gigantic, freakishly thin woman with creepily elongated arms and a perpetual Slasher Smile. And there is no information on how or why she came to the mountain or even what she actually is. She is based off of the Japanese Creepypasta of the Eight-Feet-Tall Lady
.- Another scary characteristic of her is the things she says. Things like "You'd better get used to me." Meaning that, unlike the other ghosts who simply react to you, she is legitimately malevolent and is actively stalking you.
- One of the scripted Jump Scares in the Thirteenth Drop has the Tall Woman suddenly pop up close to the camera when Ren checks the security feeds.
- Finally, given her complete connection to the mountain, the only explanation is that she is the actual Eight-Feet-Tall Lady.
- Watching Kazuya Sakaki body being distorted and twisted after being rejected for a potential groom by Ouse is very disturbing. It is basically the fate of all potential grooms that decide to reject their bride or the bride decides to reject them. Not only that the rejected grooms are buried in ummarked graves unmourned, basically becoming an Unperson.
- The final battle. In Phase 1, it has Ouze and dozens of sacrificed mikos in an eternal, from sunset dyed orange water setting. Everyone is a potential enemy and if the player isn't careful, then they can be tackled from all sides. At one point it then switches to Phase 2 which is now above-water, with Ouse trying to pull Yuuri into her coffin, if the player gets hit and the mikos unexpectedly coming up from the water without warning.
- Hostile ghosts in this game invade your own residence (in scripted cut-scenes and Drops, but still), and, unlike Fatal Frame III where their appearances only serve to spook you, they can either kill you outright should you fail to fend them off or take you back to the mountain to have you Killed Off for Real there, the latter of which is the fate befalling Haruka and that Yuri and Rui nearly suffer, as they are both spirited away from the house at one point, requiring Miu and Ren, respectively, to rescue them.
- Speaking of fighting hostile spirits, those with claustrophobia will LOVE the mandatory battles against them in enclosed rooms. Trying to get out of the rooms in question is not guaranteed to work, either, as the doors out of the rooms may be forced shut while the battles are ongoing.
