Month of Horrors: The Creepiest Moments in Video Games Part 6

So, this month is reaching its finale. As we approach the end, we also reach the end of this list. These last two were probably the easiest for me to place, admittedly for wildly different reasons. Once more, if you have any problems with them, that's fine, this is my own subjective list.

With that out of the way, here's number 2!

2. The Darkness Beyond Time (Chrono Cross)

So, for those of you unfamiliar with Chrono Cross, you might be wondering why there's no picture for this entry. Well, I tried to find one, but, sadly, I could not find a single picture of the Darkness Beyond Time that didn't contain MASSIVE spoilers for the game. If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't played it, you should. It's a great game, and I'm sure I'll be talking about it at some point, but that's neither here nor there.

So, remember a few days ago, when I talked about 2300 A.D. in Chrono Trigger, and how it inspired the heroes of that game to prevent the disaster causing the bad future from ever happening? Remember how I said that, later, I would talk about the consequences of preventing that bad future from happening? Well, it's later, so here we go.

The Darkness Beyond Time is the fate which awaits all timelines that are prevented from occurring. It's sort of like a temporal graveyard, serving as the final resting place of all things that should've been, but aren't. Every time a time traveler prevents something from happening, the timeline where it DID happen is sent to the Darkness, where it and its inhabitants will exist for all time.

And THAT is what scares me about the Darkness Beyond Time. The idea that one could spend all eternity in this place, due to no actions of your own, and being completely incapable of doing anything about it. Someone could go back in time right now, and change the timeline in such a way as to throw us all into this kind of place.* And the idea that there's nothing I could do to prevent this kinda terrifies me.

So, just once more entry left on this list, and one more day left in the Month of Horrors. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the exciting conclusion!

*Assuming time travel exists and works this way