Month of Horrors: The Creepiest Moments in Video Games Part 4

Well, here we are at the half-way point of this week. Now, today's entry is a little complicated. It is actually TWO moments, from two very different games. However, the moments I picked from both of these games happen to be very similar in tone, so I felt it appropriate to talk about both of them on the same day.

4. 2300 A.D. (Chrono Trigger) / The Future (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky)

Now, what freaks me out about both of these is the idea of a ruined future. The idea that there will be some kind of apocalypse, and humanity (or... Pokemonity) will be left in shambles, trying vainly to survive in the hellhole that was once their home. In Chrono Trigger, there's this scene where the characters, who just fell through a time vortex to get there, realize that this place is their planet, 1300 years in the future. The fact that their world has gone so horribly wrong terrifies them, leading them to resolve to avert the catastrophe that led to this world. Of course, this decision had terrible consequences of its own, but that is a discussion for another day...

Likewise, in Mystery Dungeon, the characters are shocked to discover that this is their future. It's especially shocking since they had thought that they had been working to avoid this horrible future, where time has ground to a halt. But then they found out that they had been manipulated by an enemy who had wanted to preserve this dark future, and they had to, like the Chrono Trigger protagonists, resolve to make their way back to their own time and avert this disaster. Which, actually leads to similar consequences as Chrono Trigger, as it turns out...

Oh my God, Explorers is a partial remake of Chrono Trigger! Screw talking about this scary stuff, I'm going to go work on their theory! See you guys tomorrow for Part 5!