History NightmareFuel / Bugsnax

** Secondly, once you return, Filbo leaves to use the restroom, and screams a minute later. When you investigate, a creepy deep voice growls comes from inside. Filbo then reveals he didn't go in at all, and when you turn around, the porta-potty is wide open and empty. It's never properly explained what happened there, and whatever it was had a voice too low to have been Chandlo.

* The very beginning of the game is quite unsettling. You start during a literal dark and stormy night with fairly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQNTTWzS-o ominous music]] playing as you look at a map to Snaxburg. And the next thing you know a giant pizza-moth attacks your ship, knocking you off and separating you from it as it drifts off! You land right outside a small mine with a ''grumpus skeleton'' inside it as well as some Fryder's scurrying around, which can be quite startling, especially for those who have arachnophobia. And to make matters even creepier, there are two signs in the small cave, one that says "DANGER" on it and the other with a skull and crossbones. And if you take out your Snaxscope and scan them, the Journalist will point out how odd it is that those two signs are there and that they doubt Lizbert set them up. After you leave, a small tremor shakes the area, knocking a Strabby statue off the cliff. You then walk across a bridge that begins to ''collapse'' from underneath your feet! You narrowly avoid that and come across some rustling bushes before standing at the top of a cliff with a ladder when the pizza-moth appears over your head again. And then ''another'' tremor shakes the area, causing you to fall off the cliff and smack your head on a rock! So yeah, all in all, not a very warm welcome.

* The very beginning of the game is quite unsettling. You start during a literal dark and stormy night with fairly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQNTTWzS-o ominous music]] playing as you look at a map to Snaxburg. And the next thing you know a giant pizza-moth attacks your ship, knocking you off and separating you from it as it drifts off! You land right outside a small mine with a ''grumpus skeleton'' inside it as well as some Fryder's scurrying around, which can be quite startling, especially for those who have arachnophobia. And to make matters even creepier, there are two signs in the small cave, one that says "DANGER" on it and the other with a skull and crossbones. And if you take out your Snaxscope and scan them, the Journalist will point out how odd it is that those two signs are there and that they doubt Lizbert set them up. After you leave, a small tremor shakes the area, knocking a Strabby statue off the cliff. You then walk across the bridge that begins to ''collapse'' from underneath your feet! You narrowly avoid that and come across some rustling bushes before standing at the top of a cliff with a ladder when the pizza-moth appears over your head again. And then ''another'' tremor shakes the area, causing you to fall off the cliff and smack your head on a rock! So yeah, all in all, not a very warm welcome.

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** Lizbert's description of her own transformation is pretty horrific in itself. Imagine having large parasites crawling all over your body, forcing themselves down your throat and warping your body into various mutations as they attempt to take over your body unwillingly.

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* As described [[{{WhatCouldHaveBeen/Bugsnax}} here]] and [[https://www.ign.com/articles/bugsnaxs-ending-was-originally-much-darker here,]] the original ending was '''much''' darker then what we got and what we got is scary enough! To go into detail, Elizabert's original reason for disappearing was unintentionally causing ''Eggabell's death!'' The original story would've had the grumpuses turn into something similar to ''zombies'' instead of just turning into bugsnax upon consuming too many of them! Eggabell ended up undergoing this transformation and attacked Lizbert only to be pushed off the cliff at Frosted Peak! And then her corpse disintegrating into various Bugsnax upon her death! This caused a distraught Lizbert to simply hide in a cave in shame. The various video diaries of Lizbert and Eggabell were meant to help the player get to know Eggabell before her untimely death. To add insult to injury, in the second video diary, Eggabell tells Liz that "she'd fall to pieces without (her)", foreshadowing her eventual ''death!'' Of course, all of this is also a massive TearJerker and they thankfully changed this, to prevent themselves from invoking the BuryYourGays trope and also to still keep this game relatively kid-friendly.

* As described [[{{WhatCouldHaveBeen/Bugsnax}} here]] and [[https://www.ign.com/articles/bugsnaxs-ending-was-originally-much-darker here,]] the original ending was '''much''' darker then what we got and what we got is scary enough! To go into detail, Elizabert's original reason for disappearing was unintentionally causing ''Eggabell's death!'' The original story would've had the grumpuses turn into something similar to ''zombies'' instead of just turning into bugsnax upon consuming too many of them! Eggabell ended up undergoing this transformation and attacked Lizbert only to be pushed off the cliff at Frosted Peak! And then her corpse disintegrating into various Bugsnax upon her death! This caused a distraught Lizbert to simply hide in a cave in shame. The various video diaries of Lizbert and Eggabell were meant to help the player get to know Eggabell before her untimely death. To add insult to injury, in the second video diary, Eggabell tells Liz that "she'd fall to pieces without (her)", foreshadowing her eventual ''death!'' Of course, all of this is also a massive TearJerker and they thankfully changed this, to prevent themselves from invoking the BuryYourGays trope and also by still keeping this game relatively kid-friendly.

* As described [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/Bugsnax here]] and [[https://www.ign.com/articles/bugsnaxs-ending-was-originally-much-darker here,]] the original ending was '''much''' darker then what we got and what we got is scary enough! To go into detail, Elizabert's original reason for disappearing was unintentionally causing ''Eggabell's death!'' The original story would've had the grumpuses turn into something similar to ''zombies'' instead of just turning into bugsnax upon consuming too many of them! Eggabell ended up undergoing this transformation and attacked Lizbert only to be pushed off the cliff at Frosted Peak! And then her corpse disintegrating into various Bugsnax upon her death! This caused a distraught Lizbert to simply hide in a cave in shame. The various video diaries of Lizbert and Eggabell were meant to help the player get to know Eggabell before her untimely death. To add insult to injury, in the second video diary, Eggabell tells Liz that "she'd fall to pieces without (her)", foreshadowing her eventual ''death!'' Of course, all of this is also a massive TearJerker and they thankfully changed this, to prevent themselves from invoking the BuryYourGays trope and also by still keeping this game relatively kid-friendly.

* The Triplicate Space. Aside from the mournful music that plays as you explore it, there are several unsettling implications as to what the place is and what it's doing there.
** For starters, there are various tape recorders scattered all throughout the area, with a mysterious voice basically mocking whoever's interviewing him. As we later discover, the voice's name is Alegander Jamfoot and the journalist interviewing him? It's ''Clumby,'' your cranky boss from the beginning of the game!
** The voice reveals what he's learned about this area and the discovery o

* The Triplicate Space.

* If one of your characters dies during the town defense, their [[BodyHorror snakified body parts start to fall off]] as they succumb to their desire for the Bugsnax before disappearing completely, leaving only the parts behind. To put the cherry on top, they'll delve into corrupted ramblings of despair.

* While not elaborated on much outside of Liz' reveal earlier, the implications of the Bugsnax turning on their "predators" and ''forcing themselves'' down their throats to force snakification is extremely disturbing in itself. This ends up playing out in front of you as you work with the town defenders, as if you don't do a good job of keeping the Bugsnax at bay, they will do ''exactly'' this to them, forcing them to change and become Bugsnax even faster. It's even more horrifying given how much the locals have come to see the Bugsnax as harmless, only for them to turn out to be anything but.