Final Fantasy X/Nightmare Fuel

In the hair-raisingly popular Final Fantasy series, This is the most possibly frightening out of all of the previous installments.

By the time you finish reading this, you'll be wanting to play with the lights on. And the twelfth installment is no better.


 * Yu Yevon.
 * Fiends used to be people. For added Squick, consider that when you hear Wakka and Rikku's humanitarian jokes about eating Behemoths and Dark Flans.
 * . A human soul, changed into a monstrous summon to defeat . And this goes on for a thousand years.
 * The summoners go on long, dangerous journeys with their guardians and cheerfully - almost to the point of brainwashing - accept that . And people celebrate it; even children seem excited about it. Made worse by the fact that
 * The Dark Aeons, corrupt versions of Yuna's regular Aeons. Specifically:
 * Dark Shiva. She will give anyone nightmares with her ridiculous speed and attacks.
 * Dark Yojimbo. You're just exploring the Cave of the Stolen Fayth, when suddenly it starts CHASING YOU.
 * Anima. Just...every last thing about her. A massive, twisted humanoid giant, chained and hideous. Its appearance is disquieting, but the real nightmare fuel comes when you learn what Anima is:
 * Seymour summonning her in Luca. When she kills the monsters in the arena, she's crying tears of blood! Her mannerisms are also pretty heart-rending in a disturbing sort of way.
 * Watching Crusaders get reduced to black particles on a white screen at Operation Mi'ihen is extremely disturbing. Then Tidus started doing their autopsies.
 * The Chocobo Eater. Just the idea that there is something out there that eats Chocobos is terrifying, and just before the fight it picks one up.
 * Once you finally get inside Sin, there's a cutscene where the characters marvel at how surprisingly beautiful it looks in there...then suddenly it turns dark, an Evil Laugh is heard and you see a brief-but-horrible extreme close-up of, complete with Giant Eye of Doom.
 * Sin itself. RPG villains can never be that truly scary - they may be cruel and ruthless, but you just know that, as long as you level up enough and have good equipment, you'll defeat him. Sin wasn't like this. In fact, the game did its best to show the player that Sin is not defeatable - he has a powerful barrier and, if you can pierce it, the thorned up parts of the monster will become new monsters to kill the aggressor. Doesn't help the fact that the only known method of putting him on hold for a couple of years requires the sacrifice of . In fact, if no one had noticed that Sin, the game probably wouldn't have ended well. It's basically comparable to a natural disaster.
 * Final Fantasy X-2's Bonus Dungeon has Elder Drakes which can wipe you out without breaking a sweat unless you've been Level Grinding like mad. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, as there's always the Flee command... except, it doesn't work on fiends you can see before you fight them. You have to time your run perfectly to avoid them, and they keep jumping out at you - and the noises they make as they pounce... *shudder*
 * Listen carefully to the Hymn of the Fayth in each shrine. Near the end of the game, it becomes clear that the singer is the Fayth itself. Now listen to the version that plays in Yunalesca's chamber. It's not only being sung by a full chorus, they're off-key.
 * Occasionally in the Bikanel Desert, you run across a GIGANTIC SANDWORM that is only rivaled by the Nintendo 64 Peahats for scariness.
 * Talk to Maechen at Mount Gagazet after getting the airship. If you take the time to listen to his exposition and put things together, you realize that
 * Seeing the characters get Swallowed Whole by the Worm type enemies was really disturbing. Seeing them get regurgitated back out is even more disgusting and nightmare fuel inducing.
 * And this goes double for those freaking Greater Malboros. Giant desert worms are relatively common. Giant flesh-eating tentacular blobs with dozens of eyes? Not so much, outside HP Lovecraft.
 * And this goes double for those freaking Greater Malboros. Giant desert worms are relatively common. Giant flesh-eating tentacular blobs with dozens of eyes? Not so much, outside HP Lovecraft.