as a mention of pokemon, if you want to see what that world really would be like, the fanfic 'The Sun Soul' does it well. In fact, it does it so well, pokemon fanfic authors rate dark fics on a rating of 'game' to 'Sun Soul'. I recommend 'Traveller' for the best written though, also it doesn't give me nightmares like 'Sun Soul.
I can't believe nobody mentioned the fact that Kirby himself is a lovecraftian horror! The Final boss of star allies is just another incarnation of the same type of being that Kirby is. While Nintendo did not come out and say it they definitely heavily imply it.
I immediately wondered how many takes she needed. Unless someone just off camera had pictures of crying dogs, I don't see how she made it through that bit without giggling up a storm.
@@onespicysauce6599 You should read the manual from Mario Bros 1. King Kooper aka Bowser turned all inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom into boxes an bricks. Boxes and bricks who you as Mario are destroying for a Mushroom or just for Points. Turns out there is a value to life and it's 100 points.
I guess nothing is secret about pokemon either. We use them for cockfighting, we keep them on leashes, and we eat our "pets". In other words, humans, including you in this game, are trash-
Not sure if it qualifies. But Bioshock 1? At least if you got the good ending in the end it was adorable. And the setting is by lore by far an nightmare (drug fueled dystopian system...)
I would like to point out that according to lore, the whole Pokemon Trainer system was invented by the pokemon themselves. In ancient times they were worried about squishy, powerless humans hurting themselves, so some partnered up with humans to protect them. That relationship eventually evolved into the modern trainer system.
We all gonna ignore minecraft? You’re just thrown in to a world being the only human there! There is zombies and skeletons who share the body as you, but no evidence of who they were before.
MatPat from The Game Theorists is doing a heck of a job revealing all the hidden Nightmare Fuel in his Minecraft Lore series. Some of the episodes are nightmare-worthy...
@@Madhattersinjeans And after you die you just respawn back in your bed, get up, and fight some more monsters. Occasionally those monsters are fellow warriors that you disagree with.
You don't even need Shiverstar; Kirby's entire deal is literally about the dichotomy of Dream World's cute and happy veneer versus the encroaching horrors. Look at any true final boss in the Kirby series and you'll find demons, possession and soul consumption, genocidal madness, and that time Kirby fought a giant flying eyeball that was crying blood. No overthinking required. Kirby games involve *literal nightmares*.
Chaos Shadow including Kirby himself- he literally robs creatures of their free will in Star Allies. He EATS WADDLE DEES! Also there is a character NAMED Nightmare
Hey remember that time King Dedede was actually trying to help, but he knew Kirby wouldn't believe him so he and his friends tried to keep both the real villain *and* Kirby from collecting the pieces of the artifact and then Kirby killed and ate all of his friends? Oopsie!
Wind Waker is probably Tingle's most threatening appearance. You find him in jail where you have to break him out, later it's revealed that he has brothers and it's heavily implied that he forces them to do intensive manual labor under the threat of physical violence, and later still he charges a young boy who broke him out of jail exorbitant prices to decipher maps.
Giarno van Zeijl Of course Tingle doesn't look particularly threatening in Wind Waker, but that cutesy cartoony art style could make just about anything look pretty non-threatening. Hell, even Valoo (the gigantic dragon roosting on Dragonroost Island) looks pretty adorable. But WW Tingle is not the sort of person you want to mess with.
@@jruler93 Except ReDeads. I think Windwaker ReDeads are the most disturbing looking iteration of that enemy. Maybe because of the contrast with everything else, but that design generally has some starvation imagery going on to it.
The intro in that Legend of Zelda implies 2 things: 1) Gannon physically can never win. Even if he beats Link, the gods will destroy the world to stop him winning 2) The people of Hyrule did nothing to stop Gannon, just patiently waited for Link, and they prayed to the gods.
I actually heard a even better theory (well more interesting at least) about what happened to the literal missing Link that the people waited for. To cut a long story short, it wasn't necessarily that he didn't show, but that he wasn't believed to be the hero that he should have been (and probably died). The king of hyrule was waiting not for the reincarnation of the hero, but for the literal same human being to come back and save them all over again, and so when the reincarnated hero did show up the king even met him, but sent him away or something, but either way he didn't believe and accept that this hero was the hero he was waiting for and the hero was unable to complete his task, and the reason that the king is so focused on atoning and fixing the mistakes he made in the past and being at fault for what happened is because he could have actually stopped th flood before it happened had he helped the hero and let him achieve his destiny and defeat Ganon. I WISH i remembered who came up with this theory or the rest of the details but I founfd it so fascinating.
@@KaishaLouise I am not a fan of the theory. No other Link needed the kings help and in OoT the king didn't take Zelda serious. And none of the guardians mention anything along those lines(you can understand what they say when you play though a second time). In fact, what they say suggest that they recognized Link on sight and that he finally showed up. Personally, I think it was Zelda's fault for removing Link from the timeline at the end of OoT, but it could be as simple as Link died very early.
@@KaishaLouise I've been out of the Zelda loop but I thought due to the events in Majora's Mask(leaving Hyrule) the Hero lost the Triforce. After MM the Hero returned but without the power of the Triforce he eventually became Shade in TP.
Any lego game. Imagine you spend hours maybe days building something maybe your house only for some madman to come destroy it for money or to rebuild it Into some random object leaving you homeless and money out of pocket. Where are you going to get some more bricks to rebuild without yourself reverting to destroying another's House. Also everyone's immortal. So criminals can walk around forever leaving no end to this cycle and Instead rushing the risk of overpopulation meaning its only a matter of time until all their resources are gone!!!!
This 'Forced pokemon servitude blah blah' is a disservice to how terrifying the actual pokemon /world/ is. There is so much crime its unreal that people leave their house, genetic experiments on living breathing creatures is not only accepted but normalised, natural disasters every month, world ending events happen practically annually and people who aren't good trainers are constantly under seige from wild pokemon who go rampant. I know its a joke in itself but pokemon /do/ enjoy the bloodsport you put them into. Wild pokemon are ones that actively are seeking you out because caught pokemon grow faster and evolve sooner than if they were just in the wild and come on, don't you think that a ten foot tall rock snake or a former genetic experiment with the power of the gods would stay with a twelve year old instead of just killing them easily and peacing out? Mewtwo cannonically has murdered people, do you think they'd just be like 'oh you got me in the ~capture ball~ ah well time to serve you.'? No they'd break the thing (cause they can be broken) and just mind melt this child. No, because this twelve year old is giving them sweets and ear scratches. Life is good for them.
And don't forget that in addition to the random rampaging wild Pokemon who can easily wreck a house, there are the Legendary Pokemon that can easily destroy a continent. And some of them want to.
@@BJGvideos from bulbapedia: 'According to the scientific logs found in the Pokémon Mansion of Cinnabar Island, Mewtwo was born from a pregnant Mew, found deep in the jungles of Guyana, whose embryo had been tampered with to alter its DNA. It was held and studied in the mansion where a scientist performed horrific gene-splicing experiments that made it vicious and extremely powerful. It eventually broke free of the Mansion, destroying it in the process, and fled.' This pretty much implies it
@@BJGvideos I doubt a game intended for kids would go '6 dead'. And I'm sure there were more scientists than them there to do it but eh. Whatever. Just reading the Pokédex constantly saying Mewtwo is savage and reading that the mansion was destroyed after cruel experiments brings to mind a catastrophic event.
they dont only can evolve safetly (beacuse the only battles they figth aren't death battles like in the wild, beacuse nature), they have a "endless" supplies of food and they dont even need to worry about bed time..... and a lot of pokemons are like human lvl intelligents at least (someone are suppost to be more intelligents).... they wouldn't get capture if they didn't want it xD.... if i'm remember well, it have been stablished that pokemons and human has some symbiotic dependence, the pokemon protect (and that evolve into the battles) the trainer while the trainer keep the pokemon healty..... and i mean it's canon that pokemons and human had been in a relasionship (marred as a couple) in the past, so......
@@BJGvideos soooo why is it so hard to believe that Mewtwo killed people in game? Either way my initial comment is fine cause you could just take it as saying anime canon. I read the initial journal where it was mentioned and the wording is vague and changed often in translation so you could take it either way.
If the movies taught me anything, Monster Inc I'm looking at you, then the Studio should be powered off of Ellen's laughter since we all know laughing is a powerful energy saurce.
TheGhostOfAGamer you can’t convince me that’s not already happening. Ellen’s laugh can’t not power electricity, it powers joy and all things good, it has to power electricity too
The early Crash Bandicoot games could get a mention here. You're in a colourful world playing as a marsupial wearing jorts and trainers, yet the reason Crash became powerful in the first place was because Dr. Cortex was experiementing on animals for world domination
ya i mean dosent the game slap you in face with it there could have been a better pick then something everyone knows about already as well as pokemon that one was also very well known and memed about
@@distantignition most likely but video is suppose to be about secret nightmare games everyone knows about doki doki and pokemon which is why useing either of them let alone both feels like cheating
My time at Portia - you might be too busy building stuff and riding colorful llamas to realize that humanity is trying to rebuild after a machine uprising nearly wiped them out in the age of destruction followed by the day of calamity and the age of darkness...
@@BJGvideos - It's as "all out in the open" as Kingdom Hearts. No overthinking necessary, just get a look at the lore, which is easier when it's all exposed in one game instead of half a dozen.
@@princeblackelf4265 I believe OX fam did coverage on the entirety of KH's universe🤔 i may dig to see Note: yes I am familiar, and have played the series throughout. So many twists and turns... And loss of life 😭 Aha found some lore ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qgQyxDcjaqk.html And more ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-STkA8U1chzY.html
About the Great Pokemon War, it was also referenced in "Lucario and the mystery of Mew", where you see 2 different sides fighting(with Aggrons, Lairons, Onixs, Steelixs, Houndooms, Rhydons, Rhyhorns, etc) and Lucario sending a message to his trainer through aura about it. The trainer sends him into his staff to protect him, which is where it ends. Also, in XY, AZ's Floette died during the war, and he created the ultimate weapon, which absorbed ALL of the surrounding life(which can explain the lack of pokemon variety in Kalos) in order to revive Floette. Then Floette left him(for obvious reasons), and by the end of the games, he learned the error of his ways.
As much as I want to say Hollow Knight for this category, it doesn't ever at one point not remind you that everyone died and the enemies are walking corpses or just driving insane. But the player character sure is adorable.
Is Dragon Quest Builders "secretly" a dystopia? I mean, they're pretty upfront that the world is a horrible mess and no one knows how to even make a torch. But it is cute.
Huh...wonder if the events of Majora's Mask, where Link was trapped in a different dimension, caused the events of Wind Waker...and my favorite LoZ game JUST GOT BETTER...
Kinda?Windwaker is in the adult timeline,the one link abandoned to return to being a kid at the end of OoT,his absence caused the world to need to be flooded,so because manjoras mask link is also OoT link,you are partially right.
Windwaker is adult timeline, Majora's Mask is child timeline. Windwaker happened because Link time travelled to the past creating after defeating Ganon in the future, before defeating Ganon in the past, creating one timeline branch with no spirit of the hero.
I legit turn off all the lights in my apartment by saying "Alexa, true darkness!" every single night so I so very love that you included that Malificent clip 🥰
The Pinata game: An easily accessible serial killer starter kit, now gamified for your convenience! Not so fun fact: Animal abuse is an early indicator that a person may become a serial killer at some point in their life.
New Years resolution for you guys! There needs to be a running compilation of clips taken out of context for laughs. It can DEFINITELY start with "Congratulations!! You're complicit in pinata murder!
3:02 Just as an aside, but the Hyrule Castle theme is way underappreciated. It's one of the best tracks in the SNES game, and it shows up in nearly all the sequels - up to and including BOTW - but no one ever talks about how awesome it is: majestic, yet ominous.
Behind scenes at OX: “So we need some footage from Doki Doki do illustrate how horrifying it becomes...” No. No. DEAR GOD no! “Uh. We could show the glitches I guess?”
Gotta be glad they spared us the actual horrifying (and honestly demonetizing, probably) stuff that is in there. Particularly that erm… one… very long afternoon, and then night, and then day again.
What about minecraft? The whole point of the game is to ravage the land and murder it's inhabitants only because of an endless thirst for pointless onstruction.
@@normalhuman9878 Yeah I don't think you can really say this about most sandbox games, because there are always multiple ways to play. Now replace Minecraft with Factorio and you have a winner, because that game is actually bleak as fuck (although not cutesy at any point). You crash on a planet and proceed to strip mine it out which causes massive clouds of pollution, the native inhabitants try to stop it, and you murder the shit out of them before they can evolve into something capable of saving their planet lol
Mike: Tingle is in this game resonably unthreatening Reminder: You find Tingle in jail and when he goes back to his tower he let's his brothers work like slaves. . . . . . . . Sorry Mike
@@kadosho02 If I had to guess it's because it takes place mainly in America. In films like Pirates and Peter Pan, the majority of the action and stakes are reliant on fantastical plot points and locations, but in the Princess and the Frog Tiana's whole motivation is to open a restaurant. In relatively modern New Orleans. The best way I could think to incorporate her would be to put her on Traverse Town working at the Bistro. Maybe in KHIV Scrooge's going to have started an interdimensional chain of restaurants and she's the location manager. Or they make a world based off of New Orleans, at which point they are missing out on an opportunity to create a world called London and stuff Mary Poppins and the Darling family in there.
Luke: describes corrupt corporations that use Pokémon as sources of energy. Also Luke: Fun fact this entire studio is run off the use of Pokémon and the joy humans get from them. I see you OutsideXtra I see you.
so happy to see solatorobo here,its one of my fave games of all time,and recently found out its creators are in development creating a new game for switch
Also in Pokemon Black/White you actually play as a 13 year old, Pokemon Black 2/White 2 (which takes place 2 years after the events of Pokemon Black/White) you play as a 14 year old, and in Pokemon Sun/Moon you play as an 11 year old. Not all the Pokemon games have you play as a 10 year old, you know.
When even Maleficent, Disney's archetypal evil queen/lord of ultimate evil needs to be literally impaled with a giant key to experience "true darkness", as if she isn't already the literal personification of it, you know you're in trouble.
Me: see's list of games. Huh maybe Nintendo really is trying to take over the world and impose it's own distopian rule and this is how it gets us used to it
The really scary thing about Doki Doki Literature Club is that that wasn’t actually the most dystopian, terrifying, disturbing thing about the game. Trigger warning: self harm.....terrible, surprising, soul rending depictions of self harm. But it’s best not to show it, I would agree. I just hope nobody goes off simply looking for an electronic dystopia because, frankly, you will not be entirely prepared.
Burnout Paradise - The world has been taken over by sentient self driving cars, and the only human left is the DJ on the radio =3 And if you need Squeenuable energy, just show a picture of an Eevee to Ellen XD
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I need a lie down!” *Cuts to an ad about a woman being forced onto a hospital bed and injected with morphine* That couldn’t have been planned better.
15:11 and that's why I watched Digimon as a child. It was dark in its own right but you got one Digimon who chose to be with you and could communicate it's needs with you. And they were data that could regenerate, not flesh.
I feel like the point of kingdom hearts is to suck you in with cuteness, and then keep you in the franchise by horrifying you so that you need to know whether it all turns out okay (spoiler alert: we're still not sure).
Ha, you think that’s the worst part in Kirby? Don’t forget that there was a two way genocide between the Halcandrans and Jambans, who each occupied an entire planet!
You could just send out hookups so we can connect ourselves to them, make videos of Ellen laughing for 30 minutes straight and power the planet. If it was half the day Ellen laughing, the other half cats doing things that will later make Ellen laugh we could have enough power to convert energy to matter and then we could end world hunger with laughter and cats.
After seeing the bit about Solatorobo I remember this really old title: "Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb" Which is set in a medieval world inhabited by antropomorphic animals. You play as a fox who is accused of have stolen a mighty weather-control-orb. Even if the game is from '94 spoilers ahead: Turns out the orb is part of an ancient human weather-control system you discover deep in the wild lands in basically an old starport/military base where old flickering screens still show in 'unintelligable runes' words like 'nuclear launch detected' and such...
Real talk. When the video first started I mistakingly thought Ellen's shirt had a picture of her own face on and was shocked by the sheer amount of clout she possessed.
humm basicaly any kirby game, them always follow the next path: begins: oh! no someona has stolen all our food...... ending: after a bloodly battle kirby dispell a darknes god back to the deeps of hell from where it came....
Just gonna add that the pokemon world also has a light vampire that wants to steal all the light and has already done that to an alternate world and a walking black hole that ate an alternate version of melemele island. Also based on the anime cry of Guzzlord its always in pain or stubs its toe with every step
Considering I dropped off after half way through Alpha Sapphire (and barely got through the first gym of Sun), much to my chagrin, which version was the Light Vampire? (I also didn't play Black/White2 because I missed the hype and didn't know it was actually hugely plot different.)
@@Crisjola that was Necrozma in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. And its canon in that story that it stole the light from an another dimension, Ultra Megalopolis. That pokemon is also known to be a nuzlocke killer in the game.
Welp, you forgot the most abominable secret dystopia of all: Oxventure World. It's all cute animals and fun villagers, until you walk down the street only to realize that your house has been destroyed and remade out of orphan juice while dead naked rogues are roaming the streets in their comfy rotten-cat slippers. Fun !
Mobius, AKA Sonic's World is a fantastical realm filled with anthropomorphic animals and adventures around every corner! Oh, but pay no mind to the fact that *Mobius* is actually *Earth* after getting nuked from orbit by aliens, and those anthropomorphic animals, Mobians, are actually mutant Human/Animal hybrids.
4:47 it’s also possible that Link died in the beginning of Majoras mask (thus why the 5 dungeons in that game mirror the 5 stages of grief, depression, anger, bargaining, denial, and acceptance) and this couldn’t be there to save hyrule.
The wife and I first audibly groaned at Lukes "bad rep" joke and then slow-clapped. Epic pun. Edit a couple minutes later: now we get "squeenewable energy"? Never mind.
Adventure Time is one of the most extreme examples! (Sure, it's a TV show, but it has games and Cars was a movie series.) From the "great mushroom war" to Marceline the Vampire queen being reveled to have previously been a vampire HUNTER to the sad story of Simon Petrikov, Adventure Time gets surprisingly dark.
um... as a massive kingdom hearts fan, the keyblade war is much more dark than that. The keyblade war was thousands of children trained to fight darkness who are eventually deceived into turning against each other till they all kill each other
Quick, everyone! We need some fanart of Luke in the hamster wheel! The joy generated from said fanart will provide enough squee-newable energy to allow Luke to STOP running in the hamster wheel! xD
Probably mentioned by now, but the pinatas in Viva Pinata actually like being broken at parties and come back stronger after being broken. They're like little paper mache Gokus
Cute things that are secretly nightmare dystopias: OX Towers itself! Luke’s enslaved to power the studio, Mike explodes things at random, the Oxventurers are not so secretly leaning more towards evil than good, Andy has more form in sneaky murder than one would expect from a “journalist”, Ellen... well, meatgrinder. And Jane... I mean, let’s face it, she’s probably behind it all.
You think they main line Pokémon games are bad? The Mystery Dungeon world has faced at least 5 global calamities, ranging from meteors colliding with the world in the first game, to everyone being turned to stone, sent to what is effectively hell, and the planet nearly being pulled into the sun in the last game. Oh, and that last one happened twice.
Pokémon don’t have to listen to trainers For example ash’s Charizard Pokémon can oppose their trainers if they don’t feel respected or properly treated or just cuz they feel like it Pokémon battles are CONSENSUAL you can’t force a Pokémon to battle Pokémon only battle if they want to It’s a companionship a way to bond While yea Pokémon can be abused by bad trainers That’s not the fault of battles That’s just the fault of the bad trainer
Do you want to know what was really (kinda) frightening to me as a child? It wasn't the dark background story of a war in Pkmn. It was the sudden disappearance of my Pidgeot in Pkmn Yellow Edition. I lvled my team up to 30+ when I arrived in Lavender Town, where I fought against my brother (who had the Red Edition) via LAN, before saving and turning the GameBoy off. The next day I played again (as opposed as I was back than as a 5 years old kid) and saw that my Pidgeot vanished over night. This confused me so much that I checked the PC boxes three times, and I even asked my brother if he transferred it to his game. He even showed me that he didn't have my Pkmn. I still remember that I trained my Pidgeot up to Lvl 36...... Today I'm well aware of bugs, and this just MUST'VE been one. Sorry, but as dark as background stories or "between-the-line" stories may be, bugs can be much more disturbing XD And sorry if there's another video that's referring to stuff like this, but you guys have so many videos uploaded that it would that hours to find the right one 🙈
