History NightmareFuel / FinalFantasyVIIRemake

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* There are two main areas that feel like something from a horror movie.
** The first is the Train Graveyard. The chapter title is even "Haunted". Before you get there, you are told that people tend to disappear there, taken by the "Black Wind". Once you arrive, it's night, you hear the disembodied voices of children, see their spectral forms running about, and glowing children's art appears on the walls around you. As you explore, it becomes apparent that some malevolent force is keeping these spirits bound here. It isn't until the Black Wind appears and makes off with Aerith that it shows its face, an Eligor.
*** To make matters even worse, you will often find glowing little child-sized handprints all over walls, boxes, the floor, etc., in quite a few locations. You will also find spatters of that same glowing substance, that look uncomfortably like blood dripped on the floor. One particular area has several of both the prints and the spatters, very reminiscent of a gruesome crime scene.
** The second is, unsurprisingly, Hojo's lab. Hojo himself puts on a bit of a nightmare face as he taunts Aerith, describing how he dissected her mother's body down to its component cells. Making your way through them, you encounter various research specimens and failed experiments including some that look like they used to be ''people''. And then you have a boss battle with Specimen H0512, which looks something like the unholy offspring of Cthulhu and King Kong, if not rivaling G-Birkin from the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake Resident Evil 2 remake]] due to updated graphics. A claw for its right hand with another fang-filled mouth, while its left hand is a mass of tentacles, and to top it off, Specimen H0512 can spawn[=/=]revive H0512-OPT units that harasses the team.
* The destruction of the Sector 7 itself is significantly more disturbing than in the original version. There, the upper plate section fell and landed as one contiguous piece, leaving some slim hope that at least some of the people on the upper section may have survived. Here, the plate doesn't just fall, it ''crumbles'', meaning that instead of the slums being cleanly squished, we get to see it get graphically destroyed by massive chunks of debris.

** The Sector 1 bombing in the original game that was mostly glossed over as perhaps a bit chaotic? Here, Shinra intentionally destroy the core to cause as large an explosion as possible for a catastrophe so they can claim [[HeroWithBadPublicity Avalanche are crazed terrorists trying to kill everyone.]] The President signs off on this like one would ask a secretary to get them a coffee. A couple screens of vague chaos in the original is turned into the better part of an hour having to hear people screaming in terror at the damages, highways collapsing before your eyes on populated streets, and numerous families either joining together for some vague sense of comfort or being separated with countless individuals still missing. The Shinra troops on the ground may care -- but the brass simply don't have a single concern about it.
** While traveling beneath the plate to Sector 5's Mako Reactor, our heroes have to shut down the giant sunlamps that artificially light the sector below, and Tifa is rightfully worried about that even though they'll be deactivated when the reactor blows anyway. What doesn't get enough attention drawn to it is straight up seeing gigantic pipes releasing constant amounts of blackened smoke and smog; as Barret says, they're filtering out all the bad air on the plate surfaces, and just ''dropping it on the people below'', nonstop, 24/7. Considering the upper echelon's love for calling Avalanche "sewer rats", it's effectively considering all the people not privileged to live up high non-humans.
** Heidegger and the President's EvilPlan? Frame Avalanche as agents of Wutai so they can raise a patriotic fervor in the people to justify WarForFunAndProfit with a nation they already thoroughly beat into complacency several years ago. They're outright causing horrific, countless casualties for the sake of making more reasons to further an explicit BreadAndCircuses agenda for consolidating their authority and wealth, and only Avalanche and ''a small portion'' of the Slum denizens see through the ruse.
** Compared to the implications of the Turks sabotaging the pillar to cause the Sector 7 plate drop in the original, here it's a mere terminal: [[AMillionIsAStatistic the entirety of Midgar is genocidally disposable on a whim]] because it was only one step in the big plan to eventually create a Neo-Midgar. All those cheery Shinra advertisements and slogans about working together for a better future amidst industrial construction makes one realize these people are building their own thoroughly-planned ''gigantic tombs'' with a damn smile.

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** Not to mention, the entire episode happens concurrent to the pillar incident, so after the final battle we are treated to the destruction of Sector 7, from '''''Yuffie's''''' perspective - remember, she is only 16!

Despite being a reimaging of possibly the most popular game in the entire main series, it wouldn't be a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game without the inclusion of plenty of nightmarish moments, not just the odd creature that looks like they came straight from hell or even the most unhinged of conversations. After all, life wouldn't be complete without being reminded that Gaia is '''not''' the ideal world you should be living in!

Despite being a reimaging of possibly the most popular game in the entire main series, it wouldn't be a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game without the inclusion of the odd creature that looks like they came straight from hell, or even the most unhinged of moments. After all, life wouldn't be complete without being reminded that Gaia is '''not''' the ideal world you should be living in!

It wouldn't be ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' without some things that looked like they came straight from hell.

* There's a rather...''disturbing'' bit of information that is revealed [[AllThereInTheManual in the Material Ultimania guide book;]] During the ending after Cloud and Sephiroth's battle at the Edge of Creation, the scene ends with Cloud, alone, staring at a celestial body in the distance. However, looking closely at it, one notices that said body looks strangely, horrifyingly familiar. That's right, what you're looking at is '''[[OneWingedAngel Safer Sephiroth.]]'''

* During the Final Boss fight against Sephiroth, he has some optional dialogue for Cloud, Tifa and Aerith. While his lines aimed at Cloud are mostly just mocking taunts and scornful call-backs, and his lines aimed at Tifa merely just treats her as an annoying obstacle that he wants out of his way, his lines to Aerith are of a far more chilling nature: [[spoiler:"Can you not see your future?" "What hope have you?" "You cannot change it." [[ItWasHisSled He knows. She knows. He knows that she knows.]] [[{{Jerkass}} And he's rubbing it in]].]]

* During the Final Boss fight against Sephiroth, he has some optional dialogue for Cloud, Tifa and Aerith. While his lines aimed at Cloud are mostly just mocking taunts and scornful call-backs, and his lines aimed at Tifa merely just treats her as an annoying obstacle that he wants out of his way, his lines to Aerith are of a far more chilling nature: [[spoiler:"Can you not see your future?" "What hope have you?" "You cannot change it." He knows. She knows. He knows that she knows. And he's rubbing it in.]]

* There’s a rather...''disturbing'' bit of information that is revealed [[AllThereInTheManual in the Material Ultimania guide book;]] During the ending after Cloud and Sephiroth’s battle at the Edge of Creation, the scene ends with Cloud, alone, staring at a celestial body in the distance. However, looking closely at it, one notices that said body looks strangely, horrifyingly familiar. That’s right, what you're looking at is '''[[OneWingedAngel Safer Sephiroth.]]'''
* The trailer for Yuffie's adventure is meant to be during the time while Cloud had been separated from AVALANCHE, but the stinger has some horrible implications even in this timeline: [[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus DEEPGROUND]] is waking up earlier than their original timeline counterparts from the brief glimpse of Weiss the Immaculate.
* The Intermission Episode takes this a step further. All throughout the episode we have been led to believe that Yuffie and Sonon are looking for Shinra's new materia, and we are led to believe that this makes Scarlet (the head of Weapons R&D) the episode's BigBad. Instead, after beating her mech prototype (which presumably goes on to being her Proudclod mech) she activates a trigger which awakens the '''Tsviets'''. After a series of battles in the simulator, the actual final boss of the episode is Nero the Sable, and ''BOY'' is he a tough customer!
** Not to mention, the entire episode happens concurrent to the pillar incident, so after the final battle we are treated to the destruction of Sector 7, from '''''Yuffie's''''' perspective - remember, she is only 16!
* The destruction of the Sector 7 itself is significantly more disturbing than in the original version. There, the upper plate section fell and landed as one contiguous piece, leaving some slim hope that at least some of the people on the upper section may have survived. Here, the plate doesn't just fall, it ''disintegrates'', meaning that instead of the slums being cleanly squished, we get to see it get graphically destroyed by massive chunks of debris.

** While traveling beneath the plate to Sector 5's Mako Reactor, our heroes have to shut down the giant sunlamps that artificially light the sector below, and Tifa is rightfully worried about that even though they'll be deactivated when the reactor blows anyway. What doesn't get enough attention drawn to it is straight up seeing gigantic pipes releasing constant amounts of blackened smoke and smog; as Barret says, they're filtering out all the bad air on the plate surfaces, and just ''dropping it on the people below'', nonstop, 24/7. Considering the upper echelon love calling Avalanche "sewer rats", it's effectively considering all the people not privileged to live up high non-humans.

** Compared to the implications of the Turks sabotaging the pillar to cause the Sector 7 plate drop in the original, here it's a mere terminal: [[AMillionIsAStatistic the entirety of Midgar is genocidally disposable on a whim]] because it was only one step in the big plan to eventually create a Neo-Midgar. All those cheery Shinra advertisements and slogans about working together for a better future amidst industrial construction makes one realize these people are building their own thoroughly-planned ''gigantic tombs'' with a damn smile.

** While traveling beneath the plate to Sector 5's Mako Reactor, our heroes have to shut down the giant sunlamps that artificially light the sector below, and Tifa is rightfully worried about that even though they'll be deactivated when the reactor blows anyway. What doesn't get enough attention drawn to it is straight up seeing gigantic pipes releasing constant amounts of blackened smoke and smog; as Barret says, they're effectively filtering out all the bad air on the plate surfaces, and just ''dropping it on the people below'', nonstop, 24/7. Considering the upper echelon love calling Avalanche "sewer rats", it's effectively considering all the people not privileged to live up high non-humans.

** Heidegger and the President's EvilPlan? Frame Avalanche as agents of Wutai so they can raise a patriotic fervor in the people to justify WarForFunAndProfit with a nation they already thoroughly beat into complacency several years ago. They're outright causing horrific casualties for the sake of causing more death to further an explicit BreadAndCircuses agenda for consolidating their authority and wealth, and only Avalanche and ''a small portion'' of the Slum denizens see through the ruse.