Dark Souls 2 is by far the creepiest game in the Dark Souls trilogy

[signal]

I know this stuff is subjective but none of the things in the OP are at all creepy imo. Majula music?? Demon of Song is cute if anything.

I'm trying to think of anything from the 3 Souls games that are actually scary and nothing comes to mind. Outside those, maybe the Headless in Sekiro might be.

 

[Deleted member 61531]

I can see it, but it really depends on the definition of creepy. DS3 definitely beats it in terms of post-bloodborne scary shit.

But DS2 has shit like the shaded woods ghosts, the lost sinner, the way that the gutter feels totally bottomless every time I play it. Even those dwarves with the hammer on a chain seem somehow off.

 

[Cutty]

Those abomination motherfuckers in the water around Sinners' Rise always gave me a heart attack.

 

[AuthenticM]

One enemy that scared the shit outta me when i first encountered him was the Labyrinith Madman from bloodborne. Running fast at you with that high pitch squealing trying to smack you with a dead body, lol.

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holy shit, I never noticed that he was carrying a dead body lol.

 

[finalflame]

It's also the best one

 

[Cheesebu]

I have to agree. It's hard to have time to feel scared but it certainly has the scariest spiders. And Demon of Song is easy but very unsettling.

 

[Solaire of Astora]

it certainly has the scariest spiders.

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Guess you haven't played Bloodborne?

 

[Cheesebu]

Guess you haven't played Bloodborne?

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I barely remember Bloodborne tbh. I know that boss summoned a million spiders but I don't recall what they looked like lol

 

[Solaire of Astora]

I barely remember Bloodborne tbh. I know that boss summoned a million spiders but I don't recall what they looked like lol

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There were even creepier spiders later on in the game. I always just run through there.

 

[Cheesebu]

There were even creepier spiders later on in the game. I always just run through there.

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Well I will see them soon, I just started a new BB file a few days ago but I've only killed up to Vicar Amelia.

 

[Karlinel]

Dark Souls 2 is creepy in a melancolic way, like a world dying with its inhabitants trying to go on. But it's more sad than creepy, to me.

 

[MikeProtagonist]

I think one of the most creepy parts is how many of the characters are losing their memory.

 

[Tortahegesztő]

Demon's Souls is definitely the creepiest for me.
The scariest thing in Dark Souls 2 is the iframes being tied to the adp stat.

 

[mario_O]

Nah, Demon's Souls is way more creepy.

 

[Garbrenn]

Kinda subjective based on your horror 'type' Dark Souls 2 had a dreamlike, nothing is as it seems kind of aesthetic to it which in terms of horror I really like so it set me on edge definitely. Definitely scariest Souls game, the only place the came close was New Londo, ghosts phasing through walls shit me up.

That being said Bloodborne despite not being part of the question will always be the scariest for me, the van helsing vibe which quickly descends into cosmic horror was so surprising that it freaked me out. Coupled with the scariest enemies (giant werewolves, snake heads, giant flies, brainsuckers, strange upright centepeds ect...) And the overall oppressive darkness of the game really works.

 

[It's mido]

It's hard to count anything in Dark Souls 2 as creepy when the animations are so clownish and weightless that it completely takes you out of the experience.

 

[Deleted member 23046]

Clearly, I felt jailed on a treadmill during all my run.

 

[Morrigan]

I think Upper Cathedral Ward is the creepiest part of Soulsborne, but if we stick to Dark Souls games only... maybe?

The spider-monkey creatures and the elephant things in the Profane Capital are up there, though.