Rated E games usually come around with cute cuddly graphics and attempt to make their titles available to the largest amount of people possible. Though this is true, a lot of rated E games rip that away for a moment. They will sometimes try to give people a dash of horror only to then move along as though nothing ever happened.
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The moments on this list belong to some of the biggest rated E games out there, yet they still managed to briefly frighten players for either a brief moment in time or for the duration of most of the level where the scary event occurred. These moments in gaming are those that introduced many to that wonderful world of horror games.
10Giant Boo In World 2 - New Super Mario Bros. 2
Giant Boo in the Haunted House in World 2 ofNew Super Mario Bros. 2has probably scarred the brains of players who were unlucky enough to play this game at a younger age alone in the middle of the night. The design is different from the cute conventional Boos in other Super Mario games.
This design has Giant Boo’s cheeks protruding from his face. The open mouth with the tongue out makes it look like it is ready to devour Mario more than other Boos in the series. That’s not even the most terrifying part. The most terrifying part of Boo would have to be his sunken eyes that appear as he chases Mario down.
9The Hero’s Shade - The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Hero’s Shade inThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princessis not a ghost that is meant to instill fear into the player. It is meant to give the player a sense of mystery. In the lore, the Hero’s Shade is actually Link from a different dimension there to help the link from the Twilight dimension to defeat Ganondorf.
The Hero’s Shade is a good person in the story, but that does not stop him from appearing like a ghastly ghoul when the player first encounters him. He looks like the remains of a skeletal soldier. At first, this gives him a highly ominous appearance and the player the unsettling feeling they get when thrown into a mysterious boss fight.
8Lavender Town - Pokémon Red and Blue
Lavender Town is inPokémon Red and Blueand is the town where Pokémon go to get buried when they die. There is a giant-haunted tower called the Pokémon Tower that acts as a graveyard in the game. It is full of trainers who are there to mourn for their Pokémon. This location is filled with what looks like hundreds of different graves.
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The spookiest part about this location is the ghosts that haunt it and the eerie music that plays in the background as the player explores. The area is actually so blood-curdling that it had a creepypasta made based around it that did really well.
7Halloween Town - Kingdom Hearts
Halloween Town is aworld in Kingdom Heartsthat is full of scary moments that are not brought about by jump scares but rather by the appearance of both the setting and the enemies that appear in this setting. In thisKingdom Heartsworld, there are ghosts that have one of their eyes ripped out of their sockets and dangling onto their face with unnatural movements.
The Heartless also appear more textured and off-putting while the setting behind them remains full of spooky contraptions and areas where players must traverse through coffins.
6Haunted Hall - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
The Haunted Hall inDonkey Kong Country 2is not a map that’s going to make most people go to bed with the lights on. That being said being chased by a ghost while on some train tracks while riding on the head of a skeleton is as wildly tense as the situation sounds.
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The entirety of the level takes place in what looks to be a large haunted and abandoned library. Throughout the entire ghost-chasing sequence, the ghost will appear to always be one mistake away from killing the player.
Mad Monster Mansion is a world inBanjo-Kazooiethat carriesa spooky themewith it. The haunted maze and creepy chapel in the center of the map make that all the more apparent in the game as the player roams around the map looking for the different jigsaw pieces that they need to gather.
The ghosts located throughout the map are the most chilling part of the map. The player will need to be especially worried about ghosts in the maze as they can go through solid areas in the maze and do some damage to the player.
4Stormy Ascent Deranged Prisoner Grab - Crash Bandicoot
Stormy Ascent is theCrash Bandicoot N' Sane Trilogy’sfirst game is scary in multiple ways. One of those ways is by getting the player’s heart racing when they are trying to execute perfectly timed jumps on the slippery platforms that are coming in and out of different areas of the map.
The creepiest part of the map has to be the deranged prisoners that will try to grab at Crash’s feet as he passes by them. The player will have to be careful that they don’t get grabbed by these terrifying enemies by moving through the areas they belong to with precision.
3Confronting Glados - Portal 2
Some people are afraid of monsters, aliens, or ghosts but something that many other people are afraid of but are not talked about anywhere near as much is killer robots.Portal 2takes the secret cake it always mentions when it comes to reintroducing Glados and switching her personality between somewhat lovable and also ominous. The game does remind players by the end that she is one of the most merciless killer robots in gaming.
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When the player first goes to confront Glados, one of the creepiest murderous robot entries in gaming happens. To introduce Glados the player is slowly brought into a dark room where a dim light shines upon Glados and slowly crescendos in brightness.
2Hello Neighbor
Hello Neighboris a stealth horror game where the player has to avoid getting caught by their neighbor while trying to get deeper into his house. The entirety of this game deserves to be on this list because the game will have players jumping from fear throughout its duration. Players will need to try over and over to try and figure out different maneuvers that would make them less prone to getting caught.
The game is scary, yet it still falls into the E 10+ rating. This makes it the perfect game for many to play yet still get a good jump scare in them.
1Contessa Boss Fight - Sly 2: Band Of Thieves
Countessa’s level inSly 2: Band of Thieveslooks like a haunted prison with giant bird guards, mace-wielding dog-like creatures, and tanks roaming the perimeter of the area. The area where the player encounters Contessa’s minions have one of the most haunting themes of the series, but what’s even creepier is the fight against her.
Contessa is a half-spider and half-woman and while this is a reoccurring villainous archetype in many games, it is her features that really set her apart. Her eyes are deep blood-red and her face is distorted in a cartoonishly petrifying manner.
