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"EVERYTHING. SHALL BE. CONSUMED."
It should say a lot that out of all the games in the past, after all of the Eldritch Abominations and Vile Villain, Saccharine Show horrors Kirby has faced, Kirby and the Forgotten Land is strangely only the first game to receive a Fear descriptor in its PEGI rating. Needless to say, it earned that descriptor.
- In this game, enemies hit by the Needle stick onto it like a katamari. Humorous when it's a star or a block, kind of disturbing when it's actual animals or people whose bodies lifelessly stick to the ever-growing needle ball.
- Two stages in the game, "Invasion at the House of Horrors" and "Moonlight Canyon", contain Blackout Basement areas with very little lighting which require Lightbulb Mouthful Kirby to illuminate the pitch black paths. Said paths are all perilous mazes that will send Kirby plunging into Bottomless Pits if you aren’t careful, and the Ghost Gordos will pursue Kirby when he is illuminated, meaning you can’t fully rely on the Lightbulb. What makes them scary is the sudden change of music and atmosphere, which sounds almost like something from a horror movie. When you revisit them in Forgo Dreams, the music actually overrides the normal song which usually plays on all of the first five stages. Said stages add even more perils such as enemies ambushing Kirby in the dark and twist mazes filled with spikes.
- The introduction to King Dedede's first battle is a frightening Out-of-Character Alert for the penguin king. We're treated to a lovely visual of a Waddle Dee cowering in fright inside its cage while Dedede and his Primal Awoofy flunkies look on. Then a Clocker comes down and takes it away to God knows where. You don't get to see his face at all through this, not until Kirby arrives on the scene and he does a rather spooky Face-Revealing Turn. If the game didn't cut away to Kirby looking shocked, it could easily have been a Jump Scare!
- The second Dedede fight is even worse. This time, you get to see him struggling and groaning in pain as he tries to remove the mask from his face. Then, his eyes glow bright red, and he lets loose a mighty roar as we see the result: the boar-masked "Forgo Dedede". And his figure description makes it clear that this isn't the same Dedede you fought before, having lost his true identity and is said to be corrupted by his new mask. When he gets down to his second health bar, he gets down on a Primal Stance, lets out a bestial roar, then starts running on all fours, becoming no more than a mindless beast. Sure, Dedede's been brainwashed and possessed before, but never to this extentnote . It's like watching a childhood friend go insane. His Inhale attack deserves a special mention; usually, when Dedede inhales Kirby, he just spits him out. But here, he's actively chewing on him! Even his boss theme "Masked and Wild: D.D.D." sounds like the Mind Rape has finally become too much for him and Dedede has finally lost it. And then in comes Leongar...
- There's something really unsettling about Sillydillo. The moment you walk through his lair, you'll notice a bunch of "Wanted" Kirby posters plastered everywhere, and right before fighting him, he lures Kirby with a dummy Elfilin. His first method of attacking is trapping Kirby in a cage, which, if you don't escape in 10 seconds, will kill you instantly by smashing the cage on the floor. Not even the True Final Boss could do that! "Silly" this specimen of Chaetophractus vellerosus is not.
- One particularly creepy thing about Sillydillo is his face. While it's clearly intended to have a dopey, unintelligent sort of look, the bulging eyes combined with the way he acts and moves make it look more like a rabid dog or serial killer chasing down their prey.
- The aforementioned One-Hit Kill deserves elaboration. Sillydillo is the first mainline game boss capable of instantly depleting Kirby's health without the use of Bottomless Pits, a feat not even the Eldritch Abominations Kirby defeats on a regular basis were capable ofnote . The only attack that comes close is Star Dream Soul OS' desperation attack, and even that attack would leave a sliver of health if Kirby had full health when hit. Sillydillo's will one-shot Kirby even if he has an entire extra health bar.
- The very beginning of the stage select music for Redgar Forbidden Lands starts with a very loud Scare Chord.
- Everything about Lab Discovera. Kirby and a few Waddle Dees flee into an elevator for safety from the Beast Pack, only for the lights to come on and a tinny human voice starts talking, all to an unfittingly jaunty remix of the main theme. The announcer goes on an info dump about an extremely destructive, unimaginably powerful alien that was captured by scientists, with the implication that they've been doing experiments on it for decades and are now using it as a tourist attraction. As if that isn't messed up enough, you also get to see a Waddle Dee in the background running on a hamster wheel... and then the camera zooms out, and keeps zooming out until you can see countless wheels propelled by countless Waddle Dees. That's right — the Beast Pack abducted these cute little Waddling Heads for SLAVE LABOR.
- Right after the Wham Shot of the Waddle Dees, that seemingly cheerful remix changes to the theme for when you're about to fight a boss, showing that things are about to get serious. After going through the hall, the tour voiceover cheerfully says "And here we are! Let's meet the ultimate life-form: Specimen ID-F86!" Even the voiceover is somewhat telling you that you're in for a terrifying ride.
- When Leongar is taken over by Fecto Forgo, he goes absolutely, terrifyingly ballistic, running around on all fours and lashing out indiscriminately like a wild animal, all while his head and neck twist into some very unnatural looking poses. The worst part is that in this state, his roars become so harrowing that it's difficult to tell whether he's roaring in anger or screaming in pain. What's more, but he also gets an attack where he shoots a laser straight from his mouth, and how he is portrayed doing so is reminiscent of someone vomiting in a very violent way.
- Special shoutout to one specific attack where Leongar lunges at Kirby and tries to take a bite out of him over and over. Despite its speed, it's pretty easy to dodge, but it's pretty scary the first couple times he does it.
- Leongar's boss battle was frightening enough, but Forgo Leon, whose straight-up possessed instead of brainwashed, is even worse. How bad is this battle? Well, he starts in the feral state mentioned above. Then you deplete his health bar, and a black, ghostly version of Fecto Forgo manifests from out of his body. It disappears, turning Leon's entire body purple... and then Leon roars right at the camera with his face wreathed in black smoke and glowing white eyes shining out of the darkness. It's both totally unexpected and completely terrifying, and is the subject of the page image. Not to mention that this is the same appearance as several of the enemies you encounter throughout Forgo Dreams, as well as the enemies in your path in the Big Rig Mouth sequence from the fight with Fecto Elfilis, possibly implying that at this moment, Leon is under the complete control of Fecto Forgo. One new attack in particular has him clutch his head in pain while the same Fecto Forgo ghost emerges from his body, before releasing a terrifying, bloodcurdling scream; he then proceeds to unleash four claw slashes, followed by a laser attack, and then topped off with Soul Forgo releasing a massive Smart Bomb-like explosion around themselves that can't be guarded whatsoever. But what's more, as the first part of that attack goes on, Soul Forgo grows larger, implying that they're using Leon's energy to become stronger and attack Kirby themselves.
- Fecto Forgo waking up. After the battle with Leongar, the lion warrior becomes possessed by the psychic specimen, who is already very unsettling-looking as a giant embryonic monster that vaguely looks like Elfilin. Then, in a scene straight out of Resident Evil or any other piece of sci-fi horror, Fecto Forgo becomes a shambling mass of blue slime that immediately grabs and devours every creature in the area, assimilating them into their body to create an amalgamated horror. Then the Leongar head of Fecto Forgo lunges at the camera and the cutscene ends with his mouth practically devouring it. What follows is a boss battle that consists of just running down a hallway fighting back an advancing, amorphous wall of slime with a multitude of writhing animal faces!
- Even worse, while the series has a reputation of having you fight Eldritch Abominations such as Zero, Zero Two, Void, Galacta Knight, and Marx Soul, very few of them are actually required to fight for Any% completion for past Kirby games (the aforementioned Void being one of the exceptions) and you have to go out of your way to find their respective encounter triggers to even qualify to fight them in the first place. Here, you have to fight this living homage of Resident Evil 2's final boss for Any% completion!
- Right before assimilating the Beast Pack, Fecto Forgo opens their eyes. Their icy blue, realistic-looking eyes, one of which is staring right into the camera as they declare "EVERYTHING. SHALL BE. CONSUMED." Those same eyes adorn all of the animal faces in their Blob Monster form, now with glowing pink pupils, and they're all the more disturbing for it.
- While battling Fecto Forgo, Kirby is limited to running down a narrow hallway and fighting as he goes. However, Kirby can only run as far as the camera lets him. At some points, Kirby is trapped in a nauseatingly claustrophobic fight as Fecto Forgo snaps at Kirby with nowhere to run until the camera pans out.
- Their chimera form is just downright terrifying; first things first, countless members of the Beast Pack are seen trapped in this interdimensional beast: a Primal Awoofy at the bottom right, a Poison Croakom at the top right, four Sssnackers at the bottom left, and the list goes on. And who's at the front of this Resident Evil-esque Eldritch Abomination? Leongar himself, only his face is now red and deformed, with the ears of a Bernard and a Buffahorn respectively, one of his arms at the top right of the blob, and he even has three slimy tentacles hanging in his mouth.
- Once Fecto Forgo absorbs Elfilin and regains their true form as Fecto Elfilis, they become a Angelic Abomination that looks simultaneously majestic and very unnerving, though nowhere near as horrific as their previous form. When Kirby beats them down a bit, they eventually transform the sky into a warping mess of darkness and color, giving the impression that this thing's power is causing space itself to go haywire.
- Kirby eventually gets the upper hand and pulls Elfilin out of Fecto Elfilis, causing their body to break down and literally melt. Their response is to tear open a rift in space, pull Popstar out of orbit, and send it on a collision course into the new world in a final attempt to kill Kirby — and by extension, everybody on both planets.
- Fecto Forgo in general could qualify for an outright SCPnote and is quite possibly the scariest case of Vile Villain, Saccharine Show that Nintendo has had since Giygas. An Eldritch Abomination of unknown origin described as the Ultimate Life Form with terrifyingly strong dimension-warping and psychic powers, and a desire to assimilate any life-forms or even souls it comes across. They attacked the new world in the distant past and nearly destroyed it, before being subdued by the denizens and experimented on to gain access to their Space Master abilities, letting them travel through dimensions and eventually abandon the planet. However, an experiment gone wrong split the entity into two parts (Fecto Forgo and Elfilin), and the former is dead-set on regaining its full strength. Even weakened, their psychic powers were able to reach the denizens of the new world and corrupt them through their dreams, turning them into their servants before opening vortexes to steal more slaves from other worlds, all in the hopes of assimilating Elfilin again.
- In true Lovecraftian fashion, Fecto Forgo's psychic abilities are implied to be so powerful that their dreams are manifested as a separate dimension, the isolated isles of Forgo Dreams. According to Elfilin, it's also the place that anyone assimilated by Fecto Forgo will become trapped within.
- The deepest part of Forgo Dreams, "Forgo Land", is modelled after Lab Discovera. It's little more than a short hallway leading to where Leon's soul was kept, but that hallway has one of the scariest tracks in the game: a distorted, ambient version of the tour guide's announcement, with the announcer's cheery voice glitching up and repeating itself over and over. Just listen to it!
It's worse when you realize this area was constructed from Fecto Forgo's dreams. How long have they been inside the Eternal Capsule, forced to hear that same voice repeat itself over and over again? Evil they may be, but it's rather sobering to think they cannot escape Lab Discovera even in their dreams.And here we are! AND HERE WE ARE! Ȁ̲N̮͡D̨̧͔̮́̋̌̕ ̪͈̿̋HẺ͜Ṟ̕Ȅ̻ ̬̲̝̰̈́͐͐͆̏ͅW̥̯̯̾̕̚Ë͓͕̹́͛͝ ̡̛̯̰̄̒Á̬̜̠̹̈́̀̊Ṛ̅͢͝E—And here we—WELCOME VISITORS! - And the above "lyrics" have a wide variety of languages depending on the system's region and language settings, so it's entirely possible that Elfilis is not only screaming at Kirby, but also the player.
- As long as Forgo's soul exists, they can't even die from having their body destroyed. After the end of the story, they survive and intend to use Leon's body as a vessel, shattering his soul to ensure it doesn't interfere and scattering the pieces across Forgo Dreams, protected by hostile illusions conjured by their psychic powers. If Kirby and the others hadn't gathered up all his soul pieces, he would have been Deader than Dead at best and subjected to A Fate Worse Than Death at worst.
- The worst part? Unlike many Kirby villains, Fecto Forgo is fully aware of what it's doing and willingly chooses to be evil.
- At the end of The Ultimate Cup Z, the final boss turns out to be Fecto Elfilis again — but not quite. After being annihilated by Morpho Knight, they somehow managed to survive, assimilate a part of Morpho when it was beaten by Kirby, and create a new body for themselves just to get revenge. Not only is the newly christened Chaos Elfilis even stronger than they were before, but they've also turned into a being born of and driven only by pure chaos.
- They now have Black Eyes of Evil with red pupils that, if you pay attention, always face the screen no matter where the camera is. This can most easily be seen when rotating their figure on Kirby's desk after defeating them for the first time.
- At the start of Chaos Elfilis' final phase, the music suddenly cuts out and turns into the same distorted track from Forgo Land, implying that Elfilis is reliving the memories of those they heard talking about them and showing it off like an attraction in the distant past, to the point of actively mimicking their voices.
- As noted above, Fecto Elfilis assimilates Morpho Knight's power. Let that sink in. This is a being that sent a warrior like Galacta Knight to the afterlife by touching him and is implied to be the closest thing the franchise has to a grim reaper, and Fecto Elfilis took that power for themselves.
- In their final form, a glowing blood red orb, Chaos Elfilis uses multiple attacks that cause their appearance to shift and give it a horrifyingly strong resemblance to Nightmare's Power Orb, Marx, Miracle Matter, Dark Mind, Drawcia Soul, and Void. Further increasing the resemblance to Drawcia Soul and Nightmare's Power Orb specifically is the way it distorts when hit.
And here we are!
