History NightmareFuel / Ib

* Mary, the psychotic painted girl who wants to become real.

* TheReveal that Mary is a painting is disturbing in and of itself, but one of the things that makes it so frightening is that Garry learns about this while he is separated from the girls, meaning that if Mary were to attack Ib right now, [[AdultFear there would be nothing Garry could do about it]].

* The fake Garry, who appears if you're on the path for "Forgotten Portrait". When you get to [[spoiler:the portal back to the real world]], this guy appears, telling Ib there's another exit and trying to tempt her away from the portal painting. If you go along with him, you get "END: Ib All Alone", and if you refuse him and jump through the portal anyway, he suddenly lunges forward as if trying to grab you. Worse yet is the ending; Garry is dead and his corpse is displayed in a new painting in the gallery. Ib and possibly everyone who ever knew Garry forgets him. Ib gains absolutely nothing from the journey except maybe horrible nightmares she can never explain and a man lost his life. Who's to say that this isn't the first or ''last'' time this happened or will happen?
* Any of the "Ib All Alone" endings, but particularly the one you can get in the BonusDungeon, if you sleep too long on the artwork "Final Stage".
* The "Together Forever" ending, while cutesy, has its fair share of FridgeHorror. Garry is dead and becomes a painting like in the "Forgotten Painting" ending and everyone who knew him supposedly forgets him. Mary becomes real and is remembered as being Ib's sister. Ib and Mary become loving sisters and go on together. Okay, that's kinda cute and not too terrible except for Garry, but Mary is ''insane''. Who's to say that her insanity just went away? Worse yet, she's '''violently''' insane. Becoming real may not be enough to fix her broken mind. It's entirely possible that she would grow up to be a {{serial killer}}, and even if she doesn't, that doesn't change the fact that the kind-hearted Garry had to die to let this crazy person have access to the real world.

* Perhaps the creepiest aspect of the game is the ''background music itself''. It's basically ParanoiaFuel on its own. Throughout the whole Cursed Gallery there are a handful of [=BGMs=] played for each area, but they are uniformly ominous music that ''always'' set you into thinking that something very bad will happen or a JumpScare moment will pop out of nowhere. Sure, there are several jump scares or sudden loud voices around and they do not happen that frequently, although with the soundtrack is creepy enough that you won't stop thinking about it.

* Perhaps the creepiest aspect of the game is the ''soundtrack itself''. It's basically ParanoiaFuel on its own. Throughout the whole Cursed Gallery there are a handful of [=BGMs=] played for each area, but they are uniformly ominous music that ''always'' set you into thinking that something very bad will happen or a JumpScare moment will pop out of nowhere. Sure, there are several jump scares or sudden loud voices around and they do not happen that frequently, although the BGM playing make sure you will not stop thinking about it.

* [[spoiler: Mary, the psychotic painted girl who wants to become real.]]
* There's an optional sequence you can encounter by switching back to Ib immediately after TheReveal... or barring that, completing [[spoiler:the doll room event]] successfully. It's a three-part sequence, regarding [[spoiler:Mary going off the deep end. First she runs out of the room to stab a mannequin head, which ''bleeds''. Second, her sprite will ''visibly begin to follow Ib from behind'' -- something that NEVER occurs anywhere else in the game, even in cut-scenes. Third, she'll wander around endlessly, [[NothingIsScarier ignoring the player completely]].]] Couple this with some unnerving [[MadnessMantra Madness Mantras]] and vaguely threatening dialogues and you've got the player completely freaked out.

** The simple fact that until near the end of the game, [[spoiler:Ib can't see the dolls at all. Her mind replaces them with completely harmless bunnies, so she can't even see why Garry would find them unsettling.]]

** The Giant Doll, also known as "Red Eyes". It first appears in [[spoiler:the alleged bunny room (pictured above),]] and continues to appear ominously in several of Garry's solo sequences under certain circumstances, sometimes peeking over the top of walls and pillars and looking back and forth. [[spoiler:Then in the second doll room, the Giant Doll starts crawling out of a painting. If it catches Garry before he can escape the room, he is later found by Ib and Mary, traumatized and muttering incoherently. In a normal playthrough, Ib's able to snap him out of it, but if you really screwed up before that point, Ib can't save Garry and you end up with one or the other of the worst endings in the game.]]
** Even succeeding in [[spoiler:the second doll room]] gets creepy; while Garry manages to [[spoiler:escape the room,]] the thought that [[spoiler:the dolls are still there]] is more than unsettling. Also, [[spoiler:the split second before Garry escapes the room, the dolls suddenly all turn their heads at once]]. They don't look at Garry, they look at the ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou player]]''!

* The Sketchbook World is already quite disturbing. Even more disturbing that [[spoiler:Mary is actively looking for Ib and Garry, and at one point very nearly finds them]]. Even more disturbing after you [[spoiler:open Pandora's Box]] and every once in a while sharp pointy objects randomly fly out at you. [[spoiler:And then Mary ''does'' find you]]...
* TheReveal that [[spoiler:Mary is a painting]] is disturbing in and of itself, but one of the things that makes it so frightening is that Garry learns about this while he is separated from the girls, [[spoiler:meaning that if Mary were to attack Ib right now, [[AdultFear there would be nothing Garry could do about it]]]].
* The mirror. If Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], checking the mirror after the Separation room will lead to some pretty scary images. [[spoiler:Garry's own head may be blotted out (which only Ib can see), both Ib's and Garry's eyes will be scratched out with the word "EYE" scrawled all over the mirror, "NOFIRE" may be repeated to cover the mirror, and the word "Play?" may appear, written in crayon.]] Creeeepy.
* In the Grey Room with all of the Painted Ladies, if Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], the Hanged Man portrait can have a (random) case of [[spoiler:RedEyesTakeWarning]].
* When Ib and Garry are captured in the Sketchbook world. One moment they're staring into a toy box, the next moment they've been shoved into it and find themselves trapped in an area filled with statues... and dolls... and mannequins... and more dolls... and more mannequins. To make things even better, Ib's rose is missing. Depending on what story path you're on, either one of the dolls steals Ib's rose [[spoiler:and gives it to Mary, and Garry ends up having to trade his rose to save Ib's life]], or Ib finds her rose and discovers that [[spoiler:the impact from the fall knocked all the petals off except one. And there's no vases in the toy box so no chance for Ib to recover her rose]]. Either way, you're in bad shape in this section.
* ''Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois''. A charming little storybook, drawn in crayon, about a little girl celebrating her birthday. There is a coin in one of the cake slices and she accidentally swallows it. But that's okay, because it was a lucky coin, so now she'll have good luck. [[spoiler:Then one of the girl's friends goes back to her mother, and she can't find the key to the study now. The friend, realizing that they'd baked the key into the cake by mistake and Carrie had swallowed it instead of the coin, decides the best way to get the key back is to kill her.]] The end. It's also scary in a meta way, as some people have had it [[GameBreakingBug crash their game.]]

* The painting "Malice's True Form". You encounter it in a dark room, it makes sounds and moves slightly when you look at it closely, when you move away from it you hear something fall to the ground and it makes the weird noise again, then you go back to find that there's nothing in the frame that had held it. And then later you are in the area with the giant snake and find that [[spoiler:"Malice's True Form" is right there in the hallway.]] Eek. [[spoiler:It doesn't attack you, and it can't even harm you in any way, but it's still creepy as hell.]]

* "Final Stage". It's a strange, diamond-shaped bed that Ib can sleep on, and she dreams about her birthday. Awful cute, right? Sleep on it too long, though, [[spoiler:and Ib sleeps forever. "Ib All Alone". Notably, while Ib gets a "nostalgic feeling" from it, if Garry's with her at the time, he won't let her near it because he gets "a bad feeling" about it, and he's right.]]
** ''Not'' sleeping on it for too long can be almost as bad. [[spoiler:If you wake up in time, you'll find that some of the petals of Ib's rose have fallen off. It really gives the player a sense of ''wow, that was a close call'', and it removes any possible ambiguity to Ib's fate if she doesn't wake up in time...]]

* The "Welcome to the World of Guertena" ending. [[spoiler:Garry loses his mind in the doll room, Ib is unable to bring him back to his senses, Ib has a breakdown over this, and Mary has grown so fond of Ib that she can't bear to go to the human world because it would mean parting with her. So she instead keeps Garry and Ib in her world. Forever. Not to mention she has a freaky SlasherSmile in the final scene.]]
* The ending "A Painting's Demise" is very disturbing. [[spoiler:With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. The "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture is faded into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance has turned into [[http://media.tumblr.com/36a1151b393da5fa9651a4e75c50ad8c/tumblr_inline_mmzn51HW6B1qz4rgp.png an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[http://media.tumblr.com/25cd255872fb9d423801731e87915b32/tumblr_inline_mmzn50gXZ31qz4rgp.png B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[http://media.tumblr.com/838f5a4ed679fffe3016ac0e110145d7/tumblr_inline_mmzn5bflYS1qz4rgp.png Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] as things get darker...]]
* [[spoiler:The fake Garry]], who appears if you're on the path for "Forgotten Portrait". When you get to [[spoiler:the portal back to the real world]], this guy appears, telling Ib there's another exit and trying to tempt her away from [[spoiler:the portal painting]]. If you go along with him, you [[spoiler:get "END: Ib All Alone",]] and if you refuse him and [[spoiler:jump through the portal anyway]], he suddenly lunges forward as if trying to grab you. Worse yet is the ending; [[spoiler:Garry is dead and his corpse is displayed in a new painting in the gallery. Ib and possibly everyone who ever knew Garry forgets him. Ib gains absolutely nothing from the journey except maybe horrible nightmares she can never explain and a man lost his life. Who's to say that this isn't the first or ''last'' time this happened or will happen?]]
* Any of the "Ib All Alone" endings, but particularly the one you can get in the BonusDungeon, [[spoiler:if you sleep too long on the artwork "Final Stage"]].
* The "Together Forever" ending, while cutesy, has its fair share of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler:Garry is dead and becomes a painting like in the "Forgotten Painting" ending and everyone who knew him supposedly forgets him. Mary becomes real and is remembered as being Ib's sister. Ib and Mary become loving sisters and go on together. Okay, that's kinda cute and not too terrible except for Garry, but Mary is ''insane''. Who's to say that her insanity just went away? Worse yet, she's '''violently''' insane. Becoming real may not be enough to fix her broken mind. It's entirely possible that she would grow up to be a {{serial killer}}, and even if she doesn't, that doesn't change the fact that the kind-hearted Garry had to die to let this crazy person have access to the real world.]]

** Even succeeding in [[spoiler:the second doll room]] gets creepy; while Garry manages to [[spoiler:escape the room,]] the thought that [[spoiler:the dolls are still there]] is more than unsettling. Also, [[spoiler:the split second before Garry escapes the room, the dolls suddenly all turn their heads at once.]] They don't look at Garry, they look at the ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou player]]''!

* TheReveal that [[spoiler:Mary is a painting]] is disturbing in and of itself, but one of the things that makes it so frightening is that Garry learns about this while he is separated from the girls, [[spoiler:meaning if Mary were to attack Ib right now, [[AdultFear there would be nothing Garry could do about it]].]]

* When Ib and Garry are captured in the Sketchbook world. One moment they're staring into a toy box, the next moment they've been shoved into it and find themselves trapped in an area filled with statues... and dolls... and mannequins... and more dolls... and more mannequins. To make things ever better, Ib's rose is missing. Depending on what story path you're on, either one of the dolls steals Ib's rose [[spoiler:and gives it to Mary, and Garry ends up having to trade his rose to save Ib's life]], or Ib finds her rose and discovers that [[spoiler:the impact from the fall knocked all the petals off except one. And there's no vases in the toy box so no chance for Ib to recover her rose]]. Either way, you're in bad shape in this section.

** [[FromBadToWorse It gets better]]. In the real world, there is an exhibit named "Fusion". It is a sculpture of a person whose legs are missing, so that it looks like the person is becoming one with the floor. [[ColorMotif To top it off, the sculpture is entirely blue]].

* The ending ''A Painting's Demise'' is very disturbing. [[spoiler:With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. The "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture is faded into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance has turned into [[http://media.tumblr.com/36a1151b393da5fa9651a4e75c50ad8c/tumblr_inline_mmzn51HW6B1qz4rgp.png an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[http://media.tumblr.com/25cd255872fb9d423801731e87915b32/tumblr_inline_mmzn50gXZ31qz4rgp.png B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[http://media.tumblr.com/838f5a4ed679fffe3016ac0e110145d7/tumblr_inline_mmzn5bflYS1qz4rgp.png Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] as things get darker...]]
* [[spoiler:The fake Garry]], who appears if you're on the path for "Forgotten Portrait". When you get to [[spoiler:the portal back to the real world]], this guy appears, telling Ib there's another exit and trying to tempt her away from [[spoiler:the portal painting.]] If you go along with him, you [[spoiler:get "END: Ib All Alone",]] and if you refuse him and [[spoiler:jump through the portal anyway]], he suddenly lunges forward as if trying to grab you. Worse yet is the ending, [[spoiler:Garry is dead and his corpse is displayed in a new painting in the gallery. Ib and possibly everyone who ever knew Garry forgets him. Ib gains absolutely nothing from the journey except maybe horrible nightmares she can never explain and a man lost his life. Who's to say that this isn't the first or ''last'' time this happened or will happen?]]
* Any of the "Ib All Alone" endings, but particularly the one you can get in the BonusDungeon, [[spoiler:if you sleep too long on the artwork "Final Stage".]]
* The "Together Forever" ending, while cutesy, has its fair share of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler:Garry is dead and becomes a painting like in the "Forgotten Painting" ending and everyone who knew he supposedly forgets him. Mary becomes real and is remembered as being Ib's sister. Ib and Mary become loving sisters and go on together. Okay, that's kinda cute and not too terrible except for Garry, but Mary is ''insane''. Who's to say that her insanity just went way. Worse yet, she's violently insane. Becoming real may not be enough to fix her broken mind. It's entirely possible that she would grow up to be a serial killer, and even if she doesn't, that doesn't change the fact that the kind-hearted Garry had to die to let this crazy person have access to the real world.]]

* The "Together Forever" ending, while cutesy, has its fair share of FridgeHorror. [[spoiler:Garry is dead and becomes a painting like in the "Forgotten Painting" ending and everyone who knew he supposedly forgets him. Mary becomes real and is remembered as being Mary's sister. Ib and Mary become loving sisters and go on together. Okay, that's kinda cute and not too terrible except for Garry, but Mary is ''insane''. Who's to say that her insanity just went way. Worse yet, she's violently insane. Becoming real may not be enough to fix her broken mind. It's entirely possible that she would grow up to be a serial killer, and even if she doesn't, that doesn't change the fact that the kind-hearted Garry had to die to let this crazy person have access to the real world.]]

* One of the first puzzles involves heading into a hallway with a bunch of people with colored shirts in frames. There are six, and the trick is to find out who's telling the truth. Once you do that and find what you're looking for, you hear something from the hallway (by this point, you'd have entered a room with a statue and tiles). Once you get out, all of the picture frames have red splattered all around them, and the truth-teller is [[FridgeHorror completely gone from its frame]]. In a show of irony, they all yell "Liar!" It's ''really'' unnerving.

** The Giant Doll, also known as "Red Eyes". It first appears in [[spoiler:the alleged bunny room,]] and continues to appear ominously in several of Garry's solo sequences under certain circumstances, sometimes peeking over the top of walls and pillars and looking back and forth. [[spoiler:Then in the second doll room, the Giant Doll starts crawling out of a painting. If it catches Garry before he can escape the room, he is later found by Ib and Mary, traumatized and muttering incoherently. In a normal playthrough, Ib's able to snap him out of it, but if you really screwed up before that point, Ib can't save Garry and you end up with one or the other of the worst endings in the game.]]

* In Version 1.04, if you have Garry kick the mannequin head and see the "Hanged Garry" message, then in optional dialogue later on, he asks Ib if there's something around his neck...

* The "Welcome to the World of Guertena" ending. [[spoiler:Garry loses his mind in the doll room, Ib is unable to bring him back to his senses, Ib has a breakdown over this, and Mary has grown so fond of Ib that she can't bear to go to the human world because it would mean parting with her. So she instead keeps Garry and Ib in her world. Forever. Not to mention she has a freaky SlasherSmile in the final scene.]]
* The ending ''A Painting's Demise'' is very disturbing. [[spoiler:With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. The "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture is faded into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance has turned into [[http://media.tumblr.com/36a1151b393da5fa9651a4e75c50ad8c/tumblr_inline_mmzn51HW6B1qz4rgp.png an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[http://media.tumblr.com/25cd255872fb9d423801731e87915b32/tumblr_inline_mmzn50gXZ31qz4rgp.png B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[http://media.tumblr.com/838f5a4ed679fffe3016ac0e110145d7/tumblr_inline_mmzn5bflYS1qz4rgp.png Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] as things get darker...]]
* The BonusDungeon. There's such charming things like discovering Garry's lighter is out of oil right when you're in a pitch-black room, a giant sleeping snake that you have to get past, giant flowers that grab Ib's ankles and eat her if she tries to walk by them, a painting named "Mistake" escaping its frame and wandering around, a vase that has blood in it for no apparent reason...

* The painting "Malice's True Form". You encounter it in a dark room, it makes sounds and moves slightly when you look at it closely, when you move away from it you hear something fall to the ground and it makes the weird noise again, then you go back to find that there's nothing in the frame that had held it. And then later you are in the area with the giant snake and find that [[spoiler:"Malice's True Form" is right there in the hallway.]] Eek.
* ''Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois''. A charming little storybook, drawn in crayon, about a little girl celebrating her birthday. There is a coin in one of the cake slices and she accidentally swallows it. But that's okay, because it was a lucky coin, so now she'll have good luck. [[spoiler:It turns out to be the key to the study. The mother of one of the girl's friends can't find the key now. The friend, realizing that it was the key and not the coin that the girl had swallowed, decides the best way to get the key back is to kill her.]] The end. It's also scary in a meta way, as some people have had it [[GameBreakingBug crash their game.]]
* It turns out to be perfectly okay, he really did need a rest and he woke back up just fine, but the part in the BonusDungeon where Garry takes a nap is quite disturbing, especially when he says it feels like his legs are becoming one with the floor, or the [[NothingIsScarier "....."]] if you try to talk to him after that.

* Speaking of the Bonus Dungeon, the painting 'The Mistake' is a walking piece of nightmare fuel. It almost looks like conjoined twins fused at the torso, if one of them had gotten their head cut off. And the way it comes alive is just as bad; Ib reads a label near the painting, saying "My heart goes to art. My spirit goes to my creations" (a quote from Guertena), and suddenly The Mistake springs out of the painting and tries to chase Ib down. (May also induce FridgeHorror if you think enough about it. Is Guertena's spirit itself in The Mistake?)
* Any of the "Ib All Alone" endings, but particularly the one you can get in the BonusDungeon, [[spoiler:if you sleep too long on the artwork "Final Stage".]]

* [[spoiler:The fake Garry]], who appears if you're on the path for "Forgotten Portrait". When you get to [[spoiler:the portal back to the real world]], this guy appears, telling Ib there's another exit and trying to tempt her away from [[spoiler:the portal painting.]] If you go along with him, you [[spoiler:get "END: Ib All Alone",]] and if you refuse him and [[spoiler:jump through the portal anyway]], he suddenly lunges forward as if trying to grab you. Worse yet is the ending, [[spoiler:Garry is dead and his corpse is displayed in a new painting in the gallery. Ib and possibly everyone who ever knew Garry forgets him. Ib gains obsolutely nothing from the journey except maybe horrible nightmares she can never explain and a man lost his life. Who's to say that this isnt the first or ''last'' time this happened or will happen?]]
* TheReveal that [[spoiler:Mary is a painting]] is disturbing in and of itself, but one of the things that makes it so frightening is that Garry learns about this while he is separated from the girls, [[spoiler:meaning if Mary were to attack Ib right now, [[AdultFear there would be nothing Garry could do about it]].]]
* The mirror. If Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], checking the mirror after the Separation room will lead to some pretty scary images. [[spoiler:Garry's own head may be blotted out (which only Ib can see), both Ib's and Garry's eyes will be scratched out with the word "EYE" scrawled all over the mirror, "NOFIRE" may be repeated to cover the mirror, and the word "Play?" may appear, written in crayon.]] Creeeepy.
* In the Grey Room with all of the Painted Ladies, if Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], the Hanged Man portrait can have a (random) case of [[spoiler:RedEyesTakeWarning]].
* The way the game kicks off without Ib really doing anything to trigger what happens. She's simply wandering through the gallery, looking at things like she's supposed to, when suddenly the lights flicker and she's stuck in a terrifying and deadly situation.
* The "Together Forever" ending while cutesy can be seen this way. [[spoiler:Garry is dead and becomes a painting like in the "Forgotten Painting" ending and everyone who knew he supposedly forgets him. Mary becomes real and is remembered as being Mary's sister. Ib and Mary become loving sisters and go on together. Okay, that's kinda cute and not too terrible except for Garry, but Mary is ''insane''. Who's to say that her insanity just went way. Worse yet, she's violently insane. Becoming real may not be enough to fix her broken mind. It's entirely possible that she would grow up to be a serial killer and, yet again it needs to be stated, the kind-hearted Garry had to die to let this crazy person have access to the real world.]]

* [[spoiler:The fake Garry]], who appears if you're on the path for "Forgotten Portrait". When you get to [[spoiler:the portal back to the real world]], this guy appears, telling Ib there's another exit and trying to tempt her away from [[spoiler:the portal painting.]] If you go along with him, you [[spoiler:get "END: Ib All Alone",]] and if you refuse him and [[spoiler:jump through the portal anyway]], he suddenly lunges forward as if trying to grab you.

* There's an optional sequence you can encounter by switching back to Ib immediately after the TheReveal... or barring that, completing [[spoiler: the doll room event]] successfully. It's a three part sequence, regarding [[spoiler: Mary going off the deep end. First she runs out of the room to stab a mannequin head, which ''bleeds''. Second, her sprite will ''visibly begin to follow Ib from behind'' -- something that NEVER occurs anywhere else in the game, even in cut-scenes. Third, she'll wander around endlessly, [[NothingIsScarier ignoring the player completely]].]] Couple this with some unnerving [[MadnessMantra Madness Mantras]] and vaguely threatening dialogues and you've got the player completely freaked out.

** The doll that stalks Garry down a hallway. Her tendency to [[OffscreenTeleportation teleport]] around when you're not looking is more than a little spooky. Also if you kick her, her head keeps following you.
** The Giant Doll, also known as "Red Eyes". It first appears in [[spoiler:the alleged bunny room,]] and continues to appear ominously in several of Garry's solo sequences under certain circumstances, sometimes peeking over the top of walls and pillars and looking back and forth. [[spoiler:Then in the second doll room, the Giant Doll starts crawling out of a painting. If it catches Garry before he can escape the room, he is later found by Ib and Mary, traumatized and muttering incoherently. In a normal playthrough Ib's able to snap him out of it, but if you really screwed up before that point, Ib can't save Garry and you end up with one or the other of the worst endings in the game.]]
** Even succeeding in [[spoiler:the second doll room]] gets creepy; while Garry manages to [[spoiler:escape the room,]] the thought that [[spoiler:the dolls are still there]] is more than unsettling. Also [[spoiler:the split second before Garry escapes the room, the dolls suddenly all turn their heads at once.]] They don't look at Garry, they look at the ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou player]]''!

* Those roses. When you [[LifeMeter take damage, they wilt]]. Fair enough, except it works the other way around too; Garry mentioned that before he met Ib, whenever his rose took damage he'd notice physical wounds opening up on his skin. Imagine if you'd left your flower behind, never realizing its significance. If a monster found it, you could just be walking down the hallway when huge cuts start opening up on your body, and since you don't have a vase it might never heal...
* In Version 1.04, if you have Garry kick the mannequin head and see the "Hanged Garry" message, then in optional dialogue later on he asks Ib if there's something around his neck...

* "Final Stage". It's a strange, diamond-shaped bed that Ib can sleep on, and she dreams about her birthday. Awful cute, right? Sleep on it too long though, [[spoiler:and Ib sleeps forever. "Ib All Alone". Notably, while Ib gets a "nostalgic feeling" from it, if Garry's with her at the time, he won't let her near it because he gets "a bad feeling" about it, and he's right.]]
** ''Not'' sleeping on it for too long can be almost as bad. [[spoiler: If you wake up in time, you'll find that some of the petals of Ib's rose have fallen off. It really gives the player a sense of ''wow, that was a close call'', and it removes any possible ambiguity to Ib's fate if she doesn't wake up in time...]]

* In the Grey Room with all of the Painted Ladies, if Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], the Hanged Man portrait can have a (random) case of [[spoiler: RedEyesTakeWarning]].

** Even succeeding in [[spoiler:the second doll room]] gets creepy; while Garry manages to [[spoiler:escape the room,]] the thought that [[spoiler:the dolls are still there]] is more than unsettling. Also [[spoiler:the split second before Garry escapes the room, the dolls suddenly all turn their heads at once. They don't look at Garry, they look at the ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou player'']]!

* The way the game kicks off without Ib really doing anything to trigger what happens. She's simply wandering through the gallery, looking at things like she's supposed to, when suddenly the lights flicker and she's stuck in a terrifying and deadly situation.

** The simple fact that until near the end of the game, [[spoiler:Ib can't see the dolls at all. Her mind replaces them with completely harmless bunnies, so she can't even see why Garry would find them upsetting.]]
** The doll that stalks Garry down a hallway. Her tendency to use OffscreenTeleportation to get around is more than a little upsetting. Also if you kick her, her head keeps following you.
** The Giant Doll, also known as "Red Eyes". It first appears in [[spoiler:the alleged bunny room,]] and continues to appear ominously in several of Garry's solo sequences under certain circumstances, peeking over the top of walls and pillars and looking back and forth. Sometimes when it does that, it will then [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou look straight at the screen and giggle.]] [[spoiler:Then in the second doll room, the Giant Doll starts crawling out of a painting. If it catches Garry before he can escape the room, he is later found by Ib and Mary, having suffered a mindwipe. In a normal playthrough Ib's able to help him, but if you really screwed up before that point, Ib can't save Garry and you end up with one or the other of the worst endings in the game.]]
** Even succeeding in [[spoiler:the second doll room]] gets creepy; while Garry manages to [[spoiler:escape the room,]] the thought that [[spoiler:the dolls are still there]] is more than unsettling. Also [[spoiler:the split second before Garry escapes the room, the dolls suddenly all turn their heads at once. They don't look at Garry, they look at the ''player.'']] TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou strikes again.

* Those roses. When you take damage, it wilts. Fair enough, since it's this game's version of a LifeMeter. Except it works the other way around too; Garry mentions that before he met Ib, whenever his rose took damage he'd notice physical wounds opening up on his skin. Imagine if you'd left your flower behind, never realizing its significance. You could just be walking down a hallway when a huge cut opens up on your arm, and since you don't have a vase it might never heal...

* The ending ''A Painting's Demise'' is very disturbing. [[spoiler:With Garry driven insane by the Doll Room and Ib too distraught to leave, Mary abandons them and leaves the Fabricated World. Only, as she steps into the "Alternate Gallery", the writing on the walls threatens and warns her not to leave. When she ''does'' step out into the "Real Gallery", there's no-one around and the Gallery's door out is locked. As Mary gets frightened and tries to find another way out, it slowly gets darker, and dark paint drips from the ceiling like blood. Other [[SarcasmMode nice details]] include the "Embodiment of Spirit" rose sculpture fading into a withered and grey husk with a warning about Mary's "fabricated heart", the poster advertising Guertena's Art Exhibition at the entrance turning into [[http://media.tumblr.com/36a1151b393da5fa9651a4e75c50ad8c/tumblr_inline_mmzn51HW6B1qz4rgp.png an image of a face-down (dead?) Mary]], the windows overflowing with a creepy bloodlike red liquid, the creepy crooked writing saying things like "[[http://media.tumblr.com/25cd255872fb9d423801731e87915b32/tumblr_inline_mmzn50gXZ31qz4rgp.png B Y E B Y E M A R Y]]", the painting of "Abyss of the Deep" bleeding out into the Gallery, "A Well-Meaning Hell" turns into [[http://media.tumblr.com/838f5a4ed679fffe3016ac0e110145d7/tumblr_inline_mmzn5bflYS1qz4rgp.png Tones of the Dark Gallery]], and then if you repeatedly examine [[SchmuckBait Mary's inventory screen]] as things get darker...]]

* In the Grey Room with all of the Painted Ladies, if Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], the Hanged Man portrait can have a (random) case of [[spoiler: RedEyesTakeWarning]].

** The Giant Doll. It first appears in [[spoiler:the alleged bunny room,]] and continues to appear ominously in several of Garry's solo sequences under certain circumstances, peeking over the top of walls and pillars and looking back and forth. Sometimes when it does that, it will then [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou look straight at the screen and giggle.]] [[spoiler:Then in the second doll room, the Giant Doll starts crawling out of a painting. If it catches Garry before he can escape the room, he is later found by Ib and Mary, having suffered a mindwipe. In a normal playthrough Ib's able to help him, but if you really screwed up before that point, Ib can't save Garry and you end up with one or the other of the worst endings in the game.]]

** The doll that stalks Garry down a hallway. Her tendency to use OffscreenTeleportation to get around is more than a little upsetting. Also if you kick her her head keeps following you.

* The dolls.

* One of the first puzzles involves heading into a hallway with a bunch of people with colored shirts in frames. There are six, and the trick is to find out who's telling the truth. Once you do that and find what you're looking for, you hear something from the hallway (by this point, you'd have entered a room with a statue and tiles). Once you get out, all of the picture frames have red splattered all around them, and the truth-teller is [[ParanoiaFuel completely gone from its frame]]. In a show of irony, they all yell "Liar!" It's ''really'' unnerving.

* One of the first puzzles involves heading into a hallway with a bunch of people with colored shirts in frames. There are six, and the trick is to find out who's telling the truth. Once you do that and find what you're looking for, you hear something from the hallway (by this point, you'd have entered a room with a statue and tiles). Once you get out, all of the picture frames have red splattered all around them, and the truth-teller is completely gone from its frame. In a show of irony, they all yell "Liar!" It's ''really'' unnerving.

* The "Welcome to the World of Guertena" ending. [[spoiler:Garry loses his mind in the doll room, Ib is unable to bring him back to his senses, Ib has a breakdown over this, and Mary has grown so fond of Ib that she can't bear to go to the human world because it would mean parting with her. So she instead keeps Garry and Ib in her world. Forever.]]

* In the Grey Room with all of the Painted Ladies, if Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head]], the Hanged Man portrait can have a (random) case of [[spoiler: RedEyes,TakeWarning]].

* The mirror. If Garry [[spoiler:kicked the mannequin head and read the "Hanged Garry" message]], checking the mirror after the Separation room will lead to some pretty scary images. [[spoiler:Garry's own head may be blotted out (which only Ib can see), both Ib's and Garry's eyes will be scratched out with the word "EYE" scrawled all over the mirror, "NOFIRE" may be repeated to cover the mirror, and the word "Play?" may appear, written in crayon.]] Creeeepy.