History NightmareFuel / SilentHillShatteredMemories

** The very first transition is horrifying. As if the sudden ice covering and twisting the world in front of Harry wasn't horrible enough, he immediately gets a call from Cheryl, telling him "you can't fight them, you have to run". This is several moments before the Raw Shocks first appearance, leaving you wonder....just who are you supposed to be running from!?

* The MindFuck that is the nightmare sequence in Dahlia's apartment. Rooms so big they seem infinite, labyrinths of the same living room, throwing yourself into the abyss in classical ''Franchise/SilentHill'' style and see slideshows as you fall, that same fucking TV appearing everywhere... it really is where the "psychological" focus on this game really works out, as everything feels like a psychiatric session gone hell wrong. And all the time, while you cruise the huge level, when you look at the map you are still trapped in the tiny, tiny apartment.

* The hunting lodge. It's either relatively normal-looking for a hunter's space, with spartan comforts, traps, fur, and taxidermy in its decor and a display of pinned butterflies... or a terrifying butcher's room, with almost no furniture and only a dead, mutilated bear on the only table, ''still in chains''. The implication in either case, based on the ''Cycle of Death'' calls, is that Joel Jr. was traumatized by his father forcing him to shoot and kill a deer as a kid, but his father's emotional abuse lead him to connect killing animals with asserting his own masculinity (or his heterosexuality; in one variation, it's implied he was sexually aroused by it), became a skilled hunter, and eventually murdered and/or raped a girl, possibly one of the party-goers. It's hard to decide what's more frightening: the mad weirdo who chops up wild animals in his blood-drenched shack in the middle of nowhere, working out his aggressions away from normal society, or the mad weirdo who has a fetish for dying animals, living a quiet, unassuming life, diligently working his trade until a lost girl finds herself on his property...
* The Raw Shocks in general, but particularly [[BodyHorror the mix-n-match nature of their traits that become more and more extreme as the game goes on.]] It's possible to have a blend of two or three of the four types by the end, and since they're all based on imagery found in common nightmares, at least one of them is going to look like something out of your own horrible subconscious.

* The game itself has a bright red warning screen telling you [[PersonalHorror that, as you play, the game will change in certain ways to make it "your own personal nightmare".]] Holy crap. It even mentions that [[RussianReversal this game plays you as much as you play it.

* The game itself has a bright red warning screen telling you [[PersonalHorror that, as you play, the game will change in certain ways to make it "your own personal nightmare".]] Holy crap.

* The game itself has a bright red warning screen telling you [[PlayingThePlayer that, as you play, the game will change in certain ways to make it "your own personal nightmare".]] Holy crap.

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--> '''Creepy voice:''' That's a nice new belt, Todd...

* Near the cabin in the woods, you find a bloody pink jacket in the snow with a trail of blood leading into a cabin.

* The first time one of the Raw Shocks attacks from the ''opposite'' side of the door is a moment that will make most people jump in their seats and yell.

* The MindFuck that is the nightmare sequence in Dahlia's apartment. Rooms so big they seem infinite, labyrinths of the same living room, throwing yourself into the abyss in classical ''Franchise/SilentHill'' style and see slideshows as you fall, that same fucking TV appearing everywhere...it really is where the "psychological" focus on this game really works out, as everything feels like a psychiatric session gone hell wrong. And all the time, while you cruise the huge level, when you look at the map you are still trapped in the tiny, tiny apartment.

* The way the game plays with your expectations if you've played ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', and the speculations that go through your head as you play it. If you didn't know that this was a different continuity, you might wonder if this game is Harry Mason's personal hell after he died in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3''. Is his soul now doomed to repeat the events of the first game, trying to find Cheryl and never finding her forever? To those that liked Harry Mason in the first game, this is a horrifying thought. After the ending is revealed, you're both relieved and shocked that this isn't the case. The bitter-sweetness of the revelation is just how ''Shattered Memories'' gets under your skin.

* The Raw Shocks in general, but particularly the mix-n-match nature of their traits that become more and more extreme as the game goes on. It's possible to have a blend of two or three of the four types by the end, and since they're all based on imagery found in common nightmares, at least one of them is going to look like something out of your own horrible subconscious.

* Once you find out that every major event [[spoiler: is tied into Cheryl's life since Harry's death]].

* The scene where Harry and Dahlia are in her car, arguing, when suddenly [[spoiler:Dahlia is frozen solid as everything around Harry transitions into the Otherworld once again. This results in the bridge upon which the car is sitting to bend and twist as it is covered in ice, and the car to slip off down into the water, with Harry still trapped inside as water starts seeping in. The worst part? Once the car is in the water, you get to see everything from Harry's POV, completely helpless. As if that wasn't bad enough, Raw Shocks suddenly appear out of nowhere outside the car as the windows freeze over and the freaks start scratching messages into them, urging Harry to give up on resisting.]]

* The way the game plays with your expectations if you've played ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', and the speculations that go through your head as you play it. If you didn't know [[spoiler: that this was a different continuity]], you might wonder if this game is Harry Mason's personal hell after he [[spoiler: died in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'']]. Is his soul now doomed to repeat the events of the first game, trying to find Cheryl and never finding her forever? To those that liked Harry Mason in the first game, this is a horrifying thought. After the ending is revealed, you're both relieved and shocked that this isn't the case. The bitter-sweetness of the revelation is just how ''Shattered Memories'' gets under your skin.

---> '''Creepy voice:''' That's a nice new belt, Todd...

* The MindFuck that is the nightmare sequence in Dahlia's apartment. Rooms so big they seem infinite, labyrinths of the same living room, throwing yourself into the abyss in classical SilentHill style and see slideshows as you fall, that same fucking TV appearing everywhere...it really is where the "psychological" focus on this game really works out, as everything feels like a psychiatric session gone hell wrong. And all the time, while you cruise the huge level, when you look at the map you are still trapped in the tiny, tiny apartment.

* The way the game plays with your expectations if you've played SilentHill1, and the speculations that go through your head as you play it. If you didn't know [[spoiler: that this was a different continuity]], you might wonder if this game is Harry Mason's personal hell after he [[spoiler: died in SilentHill3]]. Is his soul now doomed to repeat the events of the first game, trying to find Cheryl and never finding her forever? To those that liked Harry Mason in the first game, this is a horrifying thought. After the ending is revealed, you're both relieved and shocked that this isn't the case. The bitter-sweetness of the revelation is just how Shattered Memories gets under your skin.

* The text messages received from taking the UFO photos get increasingly more bizarre and insane, starting with the guy sending them relating how he suspects his wife is one of "them". Then he locks her in the basement, she pleads for food...and finally she's "just laying there, but ''she can't fool me!''" Truly unnerving, and at that point (the 12th photo of 13), you become afraid to continue with it - because who knows what his next message might be? The messages are readable [[http://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh_shattered_memories/messages_en.htm here]].

---> '''Creepy Voice:''' That's a nice new belt, Todd...

* Joel Jr.'s hunting lodge. Depending on how you play, it's either a relatively normal-looking for a hunter's space, with spartan comforts, traps, fur, and taxidermy in its decor and a display of pinned butterflies... or a terrifying butcher's room, with almost no furniture and only a dead, mutilated bear on the only table, ''still in chains''. The implication in either case, based on the ''Cycle of Death'' calls, is that Joel Jr. was traumatized by his father forcing him to shoot and kill a deer as a kid, but his father's emotional abuse lead him to connect killing animals with asserting his own masculinity (or his heterosexuality; in one variation, it's implied he was sexually aroused by it), became a skilled hunter, and eventually murdered and/or raped a girl, possibly one of the party-goers. It's hard to decide what's more frightening: the mad weirdo who chops up wild animals in his blood-drenched shack in the middle of nowhere, working out his aggressions away from normal society, or the mad weirdo who has a fetish for dying animals, living a quiet, unassuming life, diligently working his trade until a lost girl finds herself on his property...

* The first sequence where you have to run from the Raw Shocks. They give you no direction other than to run, they don't tell you where, and it's extremely tense. Silent Hill should not use a Wiimote. That, plain and simple, is fear.
** Compounded, perhaps, by the in-game instruction for throwing them off being, well. Imagine the horror of ''following the instruction'' and it's ''not working''.

-->[[LetsPlay Voidburger]]: By the way, those motions? That they tell you to do? ''Don't! Don't do that!'' Don't do that fucking motion!
-->snarkcookie: What do you do instead?
-->Voidburger: You twitch, you jerk, you flick; you don't do that crazy ''directing-air-traffic'' maneuver, because that's what I did for the blind run, and that's why I died fucking 80 times or some shit, 'cause I was ''actually doing'' what the game ''actually told me to do'', and was doing that crazy motion that was a big sweeping motion over my head, left and right and front and back, and nope!

* The game itself has a bright red warning screen telling you [[PlayingThePlayer that the game will read your playstyle and change itself to be even scarier than it already is.]] Holy crap.