Despite being a family-friendly party game in general, the Richman series isn't without a few scary moments.
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Richman 4
- The bad gods in general. When a character gets possessed by one, they pop up in front of the screen while a usually scary sound effect plays. The face of the two great bad gods are especially scary.
- However, none of them are as nearly scary as the Grim Reaper: upon being summoned, a piece of sinister organ music begins to play as his entire face closes up on the screen, while telling you that you are doomed. Luckily, his summoning requires a human player to surrender manually, so it's not that easy for a casual player to discover him while playing blind...
- The music that plays in the Magic Hut
is pretty unsettling. - October/Uncle Tuu's ending. It shows October becoming the president of the U.S. (even though he is actually Taiwanese), before the camera pans to an alien that looks exactly like October. Just who is he? Is he the actual October, or the October we are playing as is one of his minions? Or the alien just happens to look similar to October, but decides to use this at his advantage to do something?
- Also his intention. Is October participating in the game because he is planning to take over the world starting from the U.S., while disguising as a peaceful farmer? You can't look at him the same way again when thinking about this possibility, really...
- Baby King's portrayal. In her ending, we see her using landmines and bombs to wreck havoc around the world, even launching a nuclear bomb (although nuclear bomb is indeed a recurring item that deals huge area damage, it's somewhat rare as it can only be made in the research lab), all while writing her secret diary in different languages saying that she is merely having fun tormenting other characters. And to think this is just what her everyday life is, one can only wonder what she will do if she gets serious.
- Her in-game default playing style reflects this too. In 4, character playing styles in auto mode are categorized in three types: "Cute", "Normal" and "Cunning". The worse one type is, the more they will use offensive cards and attack others. Not only does Baby King belong to the "Cunning" type, she is also very infamous for being the most offensive in this category. So long as you don't collect the treasure chests on the maps before she does...
Richman 8
- After appearing as a more innocent kid in 5, 6 and 7, Baby King's portrayal in this installment is just as threatening as hers in 4, if not worse. After being exposed to the Lucky Star, she becomes a condensing boss who aims to lead the babies in the world to overthrow all adults and take over the world. She is even seen in her own ending where she chases down the Monster with the Lucky Star in her stroller, before James punches it away with the Lucky Star in it. It's clear that she will easily take over the world and rule it with however terrible ways you can imagine if it weren't for James separating her from the Lucky Star. And you think Kimchi kidnapping the Monster from Igloo and threatening to beat him up in his ending is bad enough.
- You have seen people being bombed, mauled by dogs, falling into a pit and injure themselves, and they can somehow even survive being at the ground zero of a nuclear bomb across the series. The just never die no matter how badly they are injured... until 8 has the story of James being killed by the aliens when hunting down King Octopus. He was shortly revived by the aliens by being merged with an eel, which gives him the ability to transform into a superhero after eating canned eels. But really, no other characters in this series were this close to the actual concept of death itself...
- The "Pirate Barrel" minigame. It involves all players, and one of them is forced by the God of Unlucky into the barrel (and you can hear them screaming their "worst luck" lines as they are captured by the God of Unlucky, which doesn't help). The other players then have to try to stab the trapped player. Yes, it's actually a stab, because the trapped player will be hospitalized for three days if they are hit, as the game will explicitly state that they are injured in this game. The length of this game because of the slow animations, as well as the dreadful music that plays over this minigame tops off the horror this game can bring.
