History NightmareFuel / TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild

* There's something tremendously disquieting about shooting a Yiga Clansman with an Ancient Arrow, which vaporizes them out of existence. Knowing that defeating them with other weapons simply gives them an opportunity to retreat at the very least, hitting them with the Ancient Arrow is the only way you can kill a sentient person in this game (Not counting Master Kohga, because [[SelfDisposingVillain he did it to himself]]), and since they're not monsters per se, but people, there's a chance that the Blood Moon can't help them, since it doesn't do Master Kohga any favours. You just killed a fellow human being, which is not a common occurrence in other Zelda games...

* The Lynel. It's like a Chimera crossed with a Centaur and looks like something straight out of ''Videogame/DarkSouls'' with its red eyes, ''enormous'' amount of HP, and the ability to slaughter you in one hit. [[TurnsRed It breathes fire when it’s pissed.]] For bonus horror, its face resembles Ganondorf's, but it also resembles Akuma's appearance in Street Fighter V! ''And there's more than one.'' You'll be terrified to encounter one if ill-equipped, or if you just haven't yet perfected the art of perfect dodges and blocks to initiate a flurry rush. [[ImplacableMan Try to keep them away at a distance? They'll hunt you down with a barrage of]] [[AlwaysAccurateAttack deadly accurate arrows.]] [[ImplacableMan Try to put it on ice with an Ice/Blizzard weapon or tase it with a Thunder Spear?]] [[NoSell Think again, as they're immune to all elemental effects (except for Urbosa's Fury, and that only stuns them for a bit.)]] [[ImplacableMan Try to escape?]] ''[[ImplacableMan They will sometimes teleport after you.]]''

** It doesn't stop there: the first DLC pack introduces ''GOLDEN LYNELS''. They're even stronger than the Silver Lynels, and they're so bad they're ''exclusive to hard mode''. That alone should be enough to terrify you.

** In short: Ganon, in this game, has essentially become ''Zelda's [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Giygas]]'', losing his mind and body in exchange for ultimate chaotic power.

*** This becomes even more grim when you realize the actual logistics of this scenario; The Champions were trapped there for 100 years with their own killers and likely had to watch ''their own bodies'' rot. Horrific.

** It was discovered that if you get far away enough from a Yiga Blademaster to where They cannot get to you, they despawn. This may not seem that bad, but the noise they make sounds ABSOLUTELY OTHERWORLDLY for a human.

''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is one of the most melancholy and desolate versions of Hyrule, due to [[AfterTheEnd the post-apocalyptic nature of the setting.]] Monsters are everywhere, and remnants of the once thriving civilization are crawling with evils that make this one of the more horrifying incarnations of this world.

** Under the Lomei Labyrinth Island, there is a chamber filled with dead Guardians. Walk a bit around, and you will quickly realize that a large portion of them ''are still alive'' and you will be targeted by their lasers from all sides.

* ''Just starting the game'' is oddly terrifying. If it's your first time playing, you don't even get a title screen, just a [[NothingIsScarier soundless, black screen]] with an oddly ominous "Press A to start." Then you think it's just another "Prophetic Dream wakes Link up" opening, only for Link to be revealed to be coming out of some kind of stasis. ''Why was Link in some kind of stasis?'' The traditional three hearts of starting health have never felt more inadequate, as a Blue Bokoblin (as in a level 2 version of the basic enemy) can and likely ''will'' one hit kill you. A few minutes in, and after activating the first tower, you see what you're up against, an EldritchAbomination that swirls around Hyrule Castle and roars into the sky in rage. [[WithThisHerring And there you are in your ratty starter clothes and rusty sword]], tasked to defeat that... ''[[EldritchAbomination thing.]]'' By the time you're done with the Plateau, you've ostensibly learned how to play and progress, and have been given the basic tools needed to do so, but what you've ''actually'' learned is how completely unprepared you are to even begin this journey. Oh, and if you're going the direction the game is gently asking you to, it's entirely possible to get surprised by a ''giant rock monster'' immediately upon getting off the plateau.

** Under the Lomei Labyrinth Island, there is a chamber filled with dead Guardians. Walk a bit around, and you will quickly realize that a large portion of them ''are still alive'' and you will be targetted by their lasers from all sides.

* Link can actually ''eat parts of some enemies he kills''. Yes, it's in the form of elixers, but the thought is still disturbing, especially since [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness no other incarnation of Link has explicitly eaten any remains of felled enemies]], with the closest being [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CD-i Link]], and even he was joking when he said he could eat an Octorok. Guess Nintendo finally found the vore part of Link's fandom.

** FridgeHorror also kicks in when you consider the following: Zelda is barely keeping Ganon contained in Hyrule Castle, and it's all but spelled out to you that her power to do so ''will'' eventually run out. Most of the NPCs you meet, especially younger ones like children? ''They have no idea they're living on borrowed time.''

** FridgeHorror also kicks in when you consider the following: Zelda is barely keeping Ganon contained in Hyrule Castle, and it's all but spelled out to you that her power to do so ''will'' eventually run out. Most of the NPCS you meet, especially younger ones like children? ''They have no idea they're living on borrowed time.''

* In a DLC, Majora makes its return since you can have the mask pretty early in the game. It is used like all the masks Hilton created for you, making the ennemies think you are one of their kind. What makes it horrifying is that you don't know if it is the real one that lost consciousness or a simple copy. Just the fact that it looks too real can make everyone doubt.

* In a DLC, Majora makes its return since you can have the mask pretty early on the game. It is used like others masks Hilton created for you, making the ennemies you are one of their kind. What makes it horrifying is that you don't know if it is the real one or a simple copy. Just the fact that it looks too real can make everyone doubt.

** Hino at the Dueling Peaks Stable has a... disconcertingly large interest in the Blood Moon. Try chatting him up when it's in the sky. The instant the moon is high enough in the sky to start affecting your surroundings Hino takes off, but if you think he's running because he's frightened you're sorely mistaken. Instead he starts running meaningless laps around the stable while screaming sentences like "Arise, monsters!" in bright red text, and if you talk to him afterwards he can only comment on how red the moon is in mad joy. His overworld speech bubble also uses red text at this moment, which no one else in the game uses. What's more jarring is, if you ask him what moon is up before midnight, he calmly states that it is finally the night of the Blood Moon. This makes his outburst a real MoodWhiplash

* Imagine you made it to Hyrule Castle, but instead of just heading into the sanctum, you decided to climb up to the room above it, and you're met with a room with a huge patch of Malice nearly covering the whole floor except for the edge, with what appear to be [[SurrealHorror veins made of Sheikah Technology growing out of it.]] Peer into the santum below and you'll find just what those things are attatched to.

* The Lynel. It's like a Chimera crossed with a Centaur and looks like something straight out of ''Videogame/DarkSouls'' with its red eyes, ''enormous'' amount of HP, and the ability to slaughter you in one hit. [[TurnsRed It breathes fire when it’s pissed.]] For bonus horror, its face resembles Ganondorf's. ''And there's more than one.'' You'll be terrified to encounter one if ill-equipped, or if you just haven't yet perfected the art of perfect dodges and blocks to initiate a flurry rush. [[ImplacableMan Try to keep them away at a distance? They'll hunt you down with a barrage of]] [[AlwaysAccurateAttack deadly accurate arrows.]] [[ImplacableMan Try to put it on ice with an Ice/Blizzard weapon or tase it with a Thunder Spear?]] [[NoSell Think again, as they're immune to all elemental effects (except for Urbosa's Fury, and that only stuns them for a bit.)]] [[ImplacableMan Try to escape?]] ''[[ImplacableMan They will sometimes teleport after you.]]''

* ''Just starting the game'' is oddly terrifying. If it's your first time playing, you don't even get a title screen, just a [[NothingIsScarier soundless, black screen]] with an oddly ominous "Press A to start." Then you think it's just another "Prophetic Dream wakes Link up" opening, only for Link to be revealed to be coming out of some kind of stasis. ''Why was Link in some kind of stasis?'' The traditional three hearts of starting health have never felt more inadequate, as a Blue Bokoblin (as in a level 2 version of the basic enemy) can and likely ''will'' one hit kill you. A few minutes in, and after activating the first tower, you see what you're up against, an EldritchAbomination that swirls around Hyrule Castle and roars into the sky in rage. [[WithThisHerring And there you are in your ratty starter clothes and rusty sword, tasked to defeat that...]] ''[[EldritchAbomination THING.]]'' By the time you're done with the Plateau, you've ostensibly learned how to play and progress, and have been given the basic tools needed to do so, but what you've ''actually'' learned is how completely unprepared you are to even begin this journey. Oh, and if you're going the direction the game is gently asking you to, it's entirely possible to get surprised by a ''giant rock monster'' immediately upon getting off the plateau.

* You can be killed by lightning strikes if you are wearing metal weapons during a thunderstorm.

* ''Just starting the game'' is oddly terrifying. If it's your first time playing, you don't even get a title screen, just a [[NothingIsScarier soundless, black screen]] with an oddly ominous "Press A to start." Then you think it's just another "Prophetic Dream wakes Link up" opening, only for Link to be revealed to be coming out of some kind of stasis. ''Why was Link in some kind of stasis?'' The traditional three hearts of starting health have never felt more inadequate, as a Blue Bokoblin (as in a level 2 version of the basic enemy) can and likely ''will'' one hit kill you. A few minutes in, and after activating the first tower, you see what you're up against, an EldritchAbomination that swirls around Hyrule Castle and roars into the sky in rage. [[WithThisHerring And there you are in your ratty starter clothes and rusty sword, tasked to defeat that]] ''[[EldritchAbomination THING.]]'' By the time you're done with the Plateau, you've ostensibly learned how to play and progress, and have been given the basic tools needed to do so, but what you've ''actually'' learned is how completely unprepared you are to even begin this journey. Oh, and if you're going the direction the game is gently asking you to, it's entirely possible to get surprised by a ''giant rock monster'' immediately upon getting off the plateau.