History NightmareFuel / TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds

* About half-way through the game, an earthquake occurs in Hyrule that produces many fissures in various walls that lead to Lorule. While you know that they are portals to Lorule and back, Sahasrahla starts to worry about their sudden appearance everywhere, ''including behind his own house''. They can also be unnerving for those who are familiar with {{Junji Ito}}'s short story, ''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault''.

* Three words: [[spoiler:Hilda's DeathGlare. It's not so much the action itself (though it is pretty creepy), it's more due to the sheer MoodWhiplash and how much it clashed with Hilda's character beforehand. Before, she was a stoic, if not tragic figure. But after she tells her story and demands Link's Triforce of Courage, she gives Link a glare that denotes chilling insanity. And even worse, because the scene is positioned so that it looks like you're seeing things from Link's point of view, she's not just glaring at Link, she's glaring [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou at the screen]]. And more frighteningly, at [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you, the player]].]]

* The final boss.

* In northeastern Lorule (below Death Mountain), there is a cave under a waterfall inhabited by a docile Hinox. If you find him, he will give you 5 rupees in return for leaving him alone. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can continue asking for more rupees]], with the amount he gives increasing every time. However, [[BewareTheNiceOnes if you do it too much]], he will get ANGRY at you for extorting him and attempt to kill you (for specifics, you can't kill him, his charge attack is much faster than a standard Hinox's and he can do six hearts worth of damage to you). You can survive by leaving the cave, but go inside again, and he will still be angry and want you dead. Word of advice: [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment Think twice before trying to take advantage of peaceful monsters.]]
* Some of the rupees on the ground are not rupees at all they are Like-Likes that have a rupee lure. The monster itself isn't the problem as it as just as easily killable as normal Like-Likes but the startling appearance when revealed.
** The worst part is that there are only about 10 Rupee-Likes in the whole game. To make up for that, they are scattered everywhere, extremely stretched out. And [[spoiler: some of them even hide in the Dark-World Rupee Rush minigame, and there's a whole floor fighting them in the Advanced Treacherous Tower]]. Not fun.

** Worse, you can phase into the wall and stand just behind the mask so that it seems Link ''is'' wearing it. Thankfully, if you phase back out he'll pass through the mask rather than put it on.

** [[spoiler: The destined fate of Lorule itself. After generations of fighting for their own Golden Power, they decided, unlike Hyrule, to destroy it outright, without knowing that it was the basis for their very world, triggering an ApocalypseHow. However, rather than instantly destroying their world, it just subjected it to a slow, inexorable rot, leaving it in the state you arrive in. And if Hilda would have succeeded, Hyrule would have been subjected to the very same.]]

** [[spoiler: The destined fate of Lorule itself. After generations of fighting for their own Golden Power, they decided, unlike Hyrule, to destroy it outright, without knowing that it was the basis for their very world, triggering an ApocalypseHow. However, rather than instantly destroying their world, it just sujected it to a slow, inexorable rot, leaving it in the state you arrive in. And if Hilda would have succeeded, Hyrule would have been subjected to the very same.]]

** The boss of the level is also creepy in its own sort way. Veterans of [[VideoGame/ALinkToThePast ALttP]] may be expecting Mothula again (or an {{Expy}} of him), but instead, you fight a giant WallMaster with an eye on its palm and coated in a knight's glove known as the Knucklemaster. If you look closely in the gaps between the plating, you can see some [[BodyHorror exposed muscle]]. In other words, it's not just a giant armored WallMaster; the armor ''is'' its skin.

** The boss of the level is also creepy in its own sort way. Veterans of [[VideoGame/ALinkToThePast ALttP]] may be expecting Mothula again (or an {{Expy}} of him), but instead, you fight a giant WallMaster with an eye on it's palm and coated in a knight's glove known as the Knucklemaster. If you look closely in the gaps between the plating, you can see some [[BodyHorror exposed muscle]]. In other words, it's not just a giant armored WallMaster; the armor ''is'' its skin.

* The state that Lorule appears to be in. The people of the Kakariko village analogue have either turned to a life of crime or have joined a cult that believe that they're monsters. The Castle soldiers have it even worse: Instead of serving the royal family, they appear to now serve the monster that lurks in the Dark Palace. Even the very land is coming apart at the seams with all the deep chasms that cut areas off from one another.