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• Anvilicious: The series isn't subtle in its imagery, which unfortunately means that the messages that are subtle are easily overwhelmed. Extremism in any human endeavour is bad; this is more or less the true message of the games, represented with all of the major villains and settings. Any time you encounter an individual who pursues something to an extreme, it all ends poorly.
• Awesome Music: Found here.
• Love to Hate: There are many despicable characters in the franchise, from Andrew Ryan to Sofia Lamb to Sander Cohen to Zachary Comstock to Jeremiah Fink. But damn if they don't tend to be great orators.
• Nightmare Fuel: Lots. Between claustrophobia, hydrophobia, body horror, deadly doctors, mad artists, deadly doctors who ''think'' they're artists, fear of surgical implements, fear of needles, fear of the dark, mind control, child cruelty, creepy children, soundtrack dissonance, animal cruelty, fear of being hunted through a decaying city by gene-spliced psychopaths, and seafood allergies, there's something in the series to terrify everybody. All three games have their own pages.