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** [[AssholeVictim It certainly deserves it,]] but the sight of the final boss's shattered face at the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.

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** [[AssholeVictim It certainly deserves it,]] but the sight of the final boss's shattered face at the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.creepy-looking.
** Also, remember, that song is marked "Explicit".
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''Just Shapes And Beats'' is a game about dodging simple pink shapes to music. Surely it won't [[NightmareFuel keep you up at night]]...[[SurpriseCreepy right?]]

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''Just Shapes And Beats'' is a game about dodging simple pink shapes to music. Surely it won't [[NightmareFuel keep you up at night]]...[[SurpriseCreepy night... right?]]



** Just the appearance of the FinalBoss continues the NightmareFuel. The first half of the fight is against purely the environmental hazards of the writhing centipedes, and the blood dripping from the hollow eye sockets of the boss's head. Then, the beat drops, and the head breaks open to reveal a jagged, skull-like structure glaring outward in fury as it starts [[VillainousBreakdown frantically swarming you with everything it's got left.]] After the rest of the game's cutesy design, [[CerebusSyndrome you're suddenly str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''

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** Just the appearance of the FinalBoss continues the NightmareFuel. The first half of the fight is against purely the environmental hazards of the writhing centipedes, and the blood dripping from the hollow eye sockets of the boss's head. Then, the beat drops, and the head breaks open to reveal a jagged, skull-like structure glaring outward in fury as it starts [[VillainousBreakdown frantically swarming you with everything it's got left.]] After the rest of the game's cutesy design, [[CerebusSyndrome you're suddenly str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck struck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''
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** [[AssholeVictim It certainly deserves it,]] but the sight of the final boss's shattered face near the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.

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** [[AssholeVictim It certainly deserves it,]] but the sight of the final boss's shattered face near at the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.
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** It gets worse, too: after having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, watching your supposed triumph MoodWhiplash into sheer horror, fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, the boss pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into its mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good."

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** It gets worse, too: after having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, watching your supposed triumph MoodWhiplash into sheer horror, fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, the boss pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into its mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good.""
** [[AssholeVictim It certainly deserves it,]] but the sight of the final boss's shattered face near the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.
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Thought it needed a quote, so I went with the Credits Gag

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* The ''real'' FinalBoss. The game does its best to make you think that the song immediately prior is the last, complete with a Steam achievement and the chiptune victory song beginning to play... before the boss reenters the screen, knocks you aside, and impales itself on the [[MacGuffin]]. At which point its eyes swell and burst into empty bloody sockets, the music distorts, the screen fills with pulsing, spiky centipedes, and you're escorted to the actual finale: a song which fittingly opens with a distorted sample of someone screaming in terror.

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* The ''real'' FinalBoss. The game does its best to make you think that the song immediately prior is the last, complete with a Steam achievement and the chiptune victory song beginning to play... before the boss reenters the screen, knocks you aside, and impales itself on the [[MacGuffin]].MacGuffin. At which point its eyes swell and burst into empty bloody sockets, the music distorts, the screen fills with pulsing, spiky centipedes, and you're escorted to the actual finale: a song which fittingly opens with a distorted sample of someone screaming in terror.

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* Just the sheer feeling of hopelessness during the second phase of the FinalBoss fight. After fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, it pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into the boss's mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good."
** The ''opening'' of the song is made with a sample of someone screaming in terror.
** The appearance of the FinalBoss in general fits here. At the start of the fight, it's a strange egg-like head with eye sockets that ''bleed'', segmented tendrils that surround you completely, and some truly horrific writhing that speeds up whenever the song intensifies. Then, once the beat drops, the head breaks open and reveals a jagged, skull-like structure with eyes that portray nothing but fury as it starts [[VillainousBreakdown frantically swarming you with everything it's got left.]] Everything else in the game had such a cutesy design, too, and then, literally out of nowhere, [[CerebusSyndrome you're str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''

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* The ''real'' FinalBoss. The game does its best to make you think that the song immediately prior is the last, complete with a Steam achievement and the chiptune victory song beginning to play... before the boss reenters the screen, knocks you aside, and impales itself on the [[MacGuffin]]. At which point its eyes swell and burst into empty bloody sockets, the music distorts, the screen fills with pulsing, spiky centipedes, and you're escorted to the actual finale: a song which fittingly opens with a distorted sample of someone screaming in terror.
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Just the sheer feeling of hopelessness during the second phase appearance of the FinalBoss fight. After fighting through waves continues the NightmareFuel. The first half of bloody the fight is against purely the environmental hazards of the writhing centipedes, and the blood dripping from the hollow eye sockets of the boss's head. Then, the beat drops, and the head breaks open to reveal a jagged, skull-like structure glaring outward in fury as it starts [[VillainousBreakdown frantically swarming you with everything it's got left.]] After the rest of the game's cutesy design, [[CerebusSyndrome you're suddenly str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''
** It gets worse, too: after
having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, it watching your supposed triumph MoodWhiplash into sheer horror, fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, the boss pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into the boss's its mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good."
** The ''opening'' of the song is made with a sample of someone screaming in terror.
** The appearance of the FinalBoss in general fits here. At the start of the fight, it's a strange egg-like head with eye sockets that ''bleed'', segmented tendrils that surround you completely, and some truly horrific writhing that speeds up whenever the song intensifies. Then, once the beat drops, the head breaks open and reveals a jagged, skull-like structure with eyes that portray nothing but fury as it starts [[VillainousBreakdown frantically swarming you with everything it's got left.]] Everything else in the game had such a cutesy design, too, and then, literally out of nowhere, [[CerebusSyndrome you're str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''
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** The appearance of the FinalBoss in general fits here. At the start of the fight, it's a strange egg-like head with eye sockets that ''bleed'', segmented tendrils that surround you completely, and some truly horrific writhing that speeds up whenever the song intensifies. Everything else in the game had such a cutesy design, and then, literally out of nowhere, [[CerebusSyndrome you're str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''

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** The appearance of the FinalBoss in general fits here. At the start of the fight, it's a strange egg-like head with eye sockets that ''bleed'', segmented tendrils that surround you completely, and some truly horrific writhing that speeds up whenever the song intensifies. Then, once the beat drops, the head breaks open and reveals a jagged, skull-like structure with eyes that portray nothing but fury as it starts [[VillainousBreakdown frantically swarming you with everything it's got left.]] Everything else in the game had such a cutesy design, too, and then, literally out of nowhere, [[CerebusSyndrome you're str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''
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** The ''opening'' of the song is made with a sample of someone screaming in terror.

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** The ''opening'' of the song is made with a sample of someone screaming in terror.terror.
** The appearance of the FinalBoss in general fits here. At the start of the fight, it's a strange egg-like head with eye sockets that ''bleed'', segmented tendrils that surround you completely, and some truly horrific writhing that speeds up whenever the song intensifies. Everything else in the game had such a cutesy design, and then, literally out of nowhere, [[CerebusSyndrome you're str]][[SurpriseCreepy uck with]] ''[[EldritchAbomination this thing.]]''
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* Just the sheer feeling of hopelessness during the second phase of the FinalBoss fight. After fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, it pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into the boss's mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good."

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* Just the sheer feeling of hopelessness during the second phase of the FinalBoss fight. After fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, it pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into the boss's mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good.""
** The ''opening'' of the song is made with a sample of someone screaming in terror.
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''Just Shapes And Beats'' is a game about dodging simple pink shapes to music. Surely it won't [[NightmareFuel keep you up at night]]...[[SurpriseCreepy right?]]
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* When the blue cube becomes corrupted. Everything turns a hellish red and the soundtrack is replaced by ominous beeping and what sounds like demonic moaning. We also get the same demonic noises right before battling the BigBad's OneWingedAngel form. These sounds are actually reversed, slowed, and down pitched versions of the song of the boss fight. Therefore, the moans are actually “Close to me” and “You have been destroid [sic.]”, just downpitched, slowed, and reversed.
* Just the sheer feeling of hopelessness during the second phase of the FinalBoss fight. After fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, it pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into the boss's mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S '''NOT''' OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "[[AndIMustScream repeat this scene for eternity]] or face death for good."

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