Mother 3/Nightmare Fuel

"Inside the mailbox is absolutely nothing. Nothing after nothing came bursting out."

- MOTHER 3

""Everyone's waiting for you, Lucas. Waiting to throw rocks at you, and spit on you, and make your life Hell. Who's everyone? Everyone you love.""
 * MOTHER 3 would have a terrifying (even for adults!) scene at the final boss fight, but it is cut off. You still can see the unused scenes by special code (or by this link) if you dare...
 * What role was it meant to play in the game?
 * The Ultimate Chimera. After the duel with the Almost-Mecha Lion in the Chimera Laboratory, your fellow Pigmask co-worker alerts you to pretty much get the hell out of a room if you see it, and for good reason: . If that warning doesn't scare you, the next part will: the creepy music will cut out, replaced with background sounds of other Pigmasks fleeing for their lives only to get devoured by that thing. Can you confidently traverse from one room to another knowing that such a powerful creature is loose inside the lab?
 * Perhaps even more horrifying, if you DO run into it, you get to witness the Ultimate Chimera chomping and crunching on Lucas while the screen turns red.
 * The rather horrific changes that Fassad undergoes. It may look funny to some, but he's been turned into a cyborg who can't even speak anymore because they've replaced his mouth with trumpets. The second time around is even worse.
 * The horrible change that occurs to your hometown. In the beginning, no one locked their doors, there was no crime, and everyone helped one another if the need arose... there was no concept of 'money'.
 * By Chapter 7, . Shudder.
 * Tanetane Island. Oh God. The trip went bad, the trip went bad, the trip went bad...
 * To clarify if you haven't played:
 * To clarify if you haven't played:


 * More specifically your father and your brother.
 * The script for this was rewritten, because the original terrified its creator... So if you thought this was horrifying, imagine what the original script could have been!
 * The People Jars in the . Made all the more disturbing by the fact that you can talk to them, and they're all quite 'happy' being there. There's even a cow, who will say he's going to become a wonderful steak. Yeesh.
 * If you've seen the unused sprites, you can pretty much tell what happened between the prologue and Chapter 1. As seen in this vid here. To make matters worse, this happens BEFORE the twins were found in the river WHILE they were still with Hinawa.
 * There is also Porky/Pokey Minch's original (or unused) death scene. While some people like to see what's coming to him for all he's done, others might find it disturbing when they see him in a sympathetic light. . What a way to go.
 * How about the zombies from the canceled Nintendo 64 version? Here's what they originally looked like. Compare that to what we eventually got on the resurrected GBA final version of the game, and many will agree they were toned down greatly.
 * Lucas gaining access to his PSI abilities by having his head shoved underwater and held there in a hot spring by Ionia, one of the Magypsies. While we aren't shown the actual act, Ionia's dialogue (as well as what occurs afterwards, with Lucas emerging out of the water) makes it obvious as to what they did to him...
 * The Empire Porky Building can create a deep sense of unease. The floors are extremely varied in their contents and layout, ranging from indoor pools of hippos (complete with grass and vines), a game show, a futuristic area, dozens of toilets, and even including a large area still under construction. The whole building seems to be an Eldritch Abomination. Compounding how disturbing it is, the player is repeatedly told that whatever floor they are on is the 100th floor, their goal. An air of futility begins to seep in as the player may begin to wonder if they'll be trapped in this product of Porky's twisted imagination forever.
 * The Empire Porky Building can create a deep sense of unease. The floors are extremely varied in their contents and layout, ranging from indoor pools of hippos (complete with grass and vines), a game show, a futuristic area, dozens of toilets, and even including a large area still under construction. The whole building seems to be an Eldritch Abomination. Compounding how disturbing it is, the player is repeatedly told that whatever floor they are on is the 100th floor, their goal. An air of futility begins to seep in as the player may begin to wonder if they'll be trapped in this product of Porky's twisted imagination forever.


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