Breath of Fire/Nightmare Fuel

The series sometimes thrives on this, as noted below:
 * Breath of Fire I: Mote's whole dreamworld stitch, and Myria's portrayal in The Dragon Warrior manga adaptation.
 * Breath of Fire II: the opening where you go from beloved resident of Gate to no one having any recollection of you (shudder). Most of what Habaruku does. The worst ending. The final dungeon's pulsating-flesh appearance.
 * Breath of Fire III: with a bit of Fan Disservice, Myria's One-Winged Angel, especially when she uses her physical attack (guts literally busting out) and her special attack Holocaust, which involves her face melting off. Graphically.
 * Breath of Fire IV: . The Carronade and anything to do with how it works and what it does. Ryu's breakdown, who even terrifies Nina, who had never shown fear of being that close to a dragon before. The Fou Empire's predecessors, with their three attempts at summoning caused the first to, the second to , and the third to be.
 * The manga adaptation seriously drives this point home with both the Carronade and Ryu's breakdown: the former, and the latter.
 * Dragon Quarter: . and his demonic-looking arm (the monstrous features even reaches up to his face). The Nonstandard Game Over.
 * Nina..
 * Everything about what Yuna does to sacrifices for the Carronade qualifies. In order to make them potent offerings, he tortures them in the most painful ways imaginable into their minds completely break.
 * It gets particularly terrifying when the party explores his laboratory at the end of the game..
 * The manga's depiction of this scene is quite possibly even more disturbing..
 * The manga's depiction of this scene is quite possibly even more disturbing..