Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh/Nightmare Fuel


 * Despite its excessive amounts of Narm, the game still delivers a few honestly scary moments. Ironically for a game/film with such slick-looking gore effects, the game is at its best when it does subtle atmospheric horror.
 * The blink-and-you'll-miss-it phrases like "USURPER" and "EAT THEIR EYES" that keep popping up in your email are especially effective. At least until you end up fishing through the email system long enough to get used to it.
 * One example of this is in the asylum. One patient is an old woman who keeps calling Curtis a freak and claims that she saw him and knows what he did. She actually bites her wrists, causing some bleeding, and holds her hands up high, saying a prayer to God. Curtis shows an appropriate demonstration of Squick towards that. That alone was nasty, but here comes another interesting detail. There are indications that the Hecatomb may have been acting through her (and maybe some other people there), as part of an attempt to drive Curtis insane. That scene certainly contained this trope.
 * Even the good endings were pretty chilling.