History NightmareFuel / SacrificeGirl

What happens when Creator/FoxEye takes their already DarkerAndEdgier ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'', and makes it into a full-fledged SurvivalHorror? You get ''[[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl this]]'' [[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl game]]. With a subtitle like ''The Curse of Demon Snake'', there�s bound to be some creepy elements in ''Sacrifice Girl'' that will keep somebody awake at night.

* The demon snakes are the first and foremost example of Nightmare Fuel this in the game. You could be minding your own business, such as unlocking/bombing a wall or swimming towards an air pocket. Then suddenly, the ScareChord plays, and one of these monsters appear from a wall to give chase to Miyo. Your only way of defeating them (for most of the game) is to swim away from them, and towards a blind spot, then wait for them to crash into a wall and slowly disappear along with their ScareChord. If you can�t do that, then [[EatenAlive prepare to be the snake's bloody snack]]. Depending on how you swim away from the snake, it may even be impossible to get away from it, and you�re just ForcedToWatch as Miyo helplessly gets eaten.

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[[caption-width-right:350:You thought those demon snakes were the ''only'' threat in this game? [[FromBadtoWorse It gets worse.]]]]

What happens when Creator/FoxEye takes their already DarkerAndEdgier ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'', and makes it into a full-fledged SurvivalHorror? You get ''[[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl this]]'' [[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl game]]. With a subtitle like ''The Curse of Demon Snake'', there’s bound to be some creepy elements in ''Sacrifice Girl'' that will keep somebody awake at night.

* The demon snakes are the first and foremost example of Nightmare Fuel this in the game. You could be minding your own business, such as unlocking/bombing a wall or swimming towards an air pocket. Then suddenly, the ScareChord plays, and one of these monsters appear from a wall to give chase to Miyo. Your only way of defeating them ([[spoiler:for most of the game]]) is to swim away from them, and towards a blind spot, then wait for them to crash into a wall and slowly disappear along with their ScareChord. If you can’t do that, then [[EatenAlive prepare to be the snake’s bloody snack]]. Depending on how you swim away from the snake, it may even be impossible to get away from it, and you’re just ForcedToWatch as Miyo helplessly gets eaten.

* Not only the demon snakes, but every other attack in the game makes Miyo bleed out, as well. Her OxygenMeter is also her LifeMeter, so even if she does well of not drowning, she is still likely to receive a lot of scars and cuts from things such as the spiked boulders and the beams from the FacelessEye monsters. If Miyo is killed by being EatenAlive by the snakes or the [[DemBones skeletal fish]], she’ll ''scream out in horror'' [[BloodyHorror while her own blood almost entirely obscures the player’s sight of her]]. The blood can be toggled off, at least...
* Later on in the game after getting a special item that doubles the length of Miyo’s OxygenMeter, [[spoiler:she starts encountering red seaweed that hurts her as she swims through it. In order to progress further through the game, the player is forced to have the poor girl swim through a lot this deadly seaweed, having her yell out in pain every time. It’s hard to imagine just how much she’s hurting these sections. And if that wasn’t enough, for some reason, this seaweed also has multiple eyes, making them even ''more'' unnatural]].
** [[spoiler:Later on, Miyo discovers the lair of the source of all of the red seaweed. It’s all being controlled by a big evil heart, and the lair of that heart is a total WombLevel where even the extremely narrow walls of pulsating flesh and body tissue found here can hurt Miyo and make her drown sooner, as shown in the page image. As she gets closer towards the evil heart, it becomes more and more obvious that ''she is literally swimming through its own blood''. This is all topped off with the area being represented with a haunting OneWomanWail [[HellIsThatNoise to symbolize its demonic nature even by the standards set by the rest of the cursed cave]]. The only mercy of this place is that none of the sub-titular demon snakes will ever appear here, but not for lack of effort. This area may possibly be even scarier than ''them'']].

* The events that start off the game: ''Someone'' traps Miyo into a coffin-esque encasing and drops her into the watery abyss. Of course, once she breaks free, she will be have to face potentially suffocating underwater as well as all the [[DemonicSpiders demonic monsters]] the watery deep has to offer. [[FateWorseThanDeath Drowning in the coffin would have been a kinder fate.]]

* The events that start of the game: ''Someone'' traps Miyo into a coffin-esque encasing and drops her into the watery abyss. Of course, once she breaks free, she will be have to face potentially suffocating underwater as well as all the [[DemonicSpiders demonic monsters]] the watery deep has to offer. [[FateWorseThanDeath Drowning in the coffin would have been a kinder fate.]]

* The events that start of the game: ''Someone'' traps Miyo into a coffin-esque encasing and drops her into the watery abyss. The oxygen meter won't start to deplete until she breaks free (even though realistically [[FridgeLogic it should]]). Of course, once she breaks free, she will be have to face potentially suffocating underwater as well as all the [[DemonicSpiders demonic monsters]] the watery deep has to offer. [[FateWorseThanDeath Dying in the coffin would have been a kinder fate.]]

* Not only the demon snakes, but every other attack in the game makes Miyo bleed out, as well. Her OxygenMeter is also her LifeMeter, so even if she does well of not drowning, she is still likely to receive a lot of scars and cuts from things such as the spiked boulders and the beams from the FacelessEye monsters. If Miyo is killed by being EatenAlive by the snakes or the [[DemBones skeletal fish]], she’ll ''scream out in horror'' while her own blood almost entirely obscures the player’s sight of her. The blood can be toggled off, at least...

* Remember on ''Holdover'''s [[NightmareFuel/{{Holdover}} Nightmare Fuel page]] where Marie’s drowning was described rather-realistically? Miyo here has it ''worse''. She has two stages of distress as her OxygenMeter runs low. She first gets an OhCrap expression and starts using her arms to swim faster in an anxious rush to find an air pocket (it also works well as showing her [[RunOrDie swimming for her life against the aforementioned demon snakes]]). Then, when her OxygenMeter is nearly depleted, she covers her mouth and nose ''while shaking her head in pain'' as she desperately resists taking a breath. Then when she actually drowns, she tries to prolong it for about 10 more seconds before her lungs finally give out, leaving her floating motionlessly in the water. On top of all of this, unlike Marie, [[OhCrap Miyo has an actual voice actress this time]], which means you get to graphically hear her cough and strain her lungs through all of this, too. [[SarcasmMode How delightful!]]

** [[spoiler:Later on, Miyo discovers the lair of the source of all of the red seaweed. It’s all being controlled by a big evil heart, and the lair of that heart is a total WombLevel where even the extremely narrow walls of pulsating flesh and body tissue found here can hurt Miyo and make her drown sooner, as shown in the page image. As she gets closer towards the evil heart, it becomes more and more obvious that ''she is literally swimming through its own blood''. This is all topped off with the area being represented with a haunting OneWomanWail to symbolize its demonic nature even by the standards set by the rest of the cursed cave. The only mercy of this place is that none of the sub-titular demon snakes will ever appear here, but not for lack of effort. This area may possibly be even scarier than ''them'']].

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* Remember on ''Holdover'''s [[NightmareFuel/{{Holdover}} Nightmare Fuel page]] where Marie’s drowning was described rather-realistically? Miyo here has it ''worse''. She has two stages of distress as her OxygenMeter runs low. She first gets an OhCrap expression and starts using her arms to swim faster in a rush to find an air pocket (it also works well with her [[RunOrDie swimming for her life against the aforementioned demon snakes]]). Then, when OxygenMeter is nearly depleted, she covers her mouth and nose while shaking her head in pain as she desperately resists taking a breath. Then when she actually drowns, it’s prolonged for about 10 more seconds before her lungs finally give out. On top of all of this, unlike Marie, [[OhCrap Miyo has an actual voice actress this time]], which means you get to hear her cough and strain her lungs rather-graphically through all of this, too.
* Not only the demon snakes, but every other attack in the game makes Miyo bleed out, as well. Her OxygenMeter is also her LifeMeter, so even if she does well of not drowning, she is still likely to receive a lot of scars from things such as the spiked boulders and the beams from the FacelessEye monsters. If Miyo is killed by being EatenAlive by the snakes or the [[DemBones skeletal fish]], she’ll ''scream out in horror'' while her own blood almost entirely obscures the player’s sight of her. The bleeding can be toggled off, at least...

** [[spoiler:Later on, Miyo discovers the lair of the source of all of the red seaweed. It’s all being controlled by a big evil heart, and the lair of that heart is a total WombLevel where even the extremely narrow walls of pulsating flesh and body tissue found here can hurt Miyo, as shown in the page image. As she gets closer towards the evil heart, it becomes more and more obvious that ''she is literally swimming through its own blood''. This is all topped off with the area being represented with a haunting OneWomanWail to symbolize its demonic nature even by the standards set by the rest of the cursed cave. The only mercy of this place is that none of the sub-titular demon snakes will ever appear here, but not for lack of effort. This area may possibly be even scarier than ''them'']].

** [[spoiler:Later on, Miyo discovers the lair of the source of all of the red seaweed. It’s all being controlled by a big evil heart, and the lair of that heart is a total WombLevel where even the claustrophobically-narrow walls of pulsating flesh and body tissue found here can hurt Miyo. As she gets closer towards the evil heart, it becomes more and more obvious that ''she is literally swimming through its own blood''. This is all topped off with the area being represented with a haunting OneWomanWail to symbolize its demonic nature even by the standards set by the rest of the cursed cave. The only mercy of this place is that none of the sub-titular demon snakes will ever appear here, but not for lack of effort. This area might possibly be even scarier than ''them'']].

What happens when Creator/FoxEye takes their already DarkerAndEdgier ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'', and makes it into a full-fledged SurvivalHorror? You get ''[[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl this]]'' [[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl game]].

* The demon snakes are the first and foremost example of Nightmare Fuel this in the game. You could be minding your own business, such as unlocking/bombing a wall or swimming towards an air pocket. Then suddenly the ScareChord plays and one of these monster appear to give chase to Miyo. Your only way of defeating them ([[spoiler:for most of the game]]) is to swim away and towards a blind spot, then wait for them to slowly disappear along with their ScareChord. If you can’t, then [[EatenAlive prepare to be the snake’s bloody snack]].