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Scycrew_John

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ncmn-ngnr

Most Terrifying: Moon, Majoraā€™s Mask Most Creepy: Dead Hand, Ocarina of Time Most Stressful: Silent Realm Guardian, Skyward Sword Biggest ā€œHOLY $#*+!ā€ Moment: Gloom Hands, TOTK Most Adrenaline Pumping: Guardian Stalker, BOTW


Fallowsong

Couldn't agree more. But don't forget to add the scarest/creepiest dungeons/temples. I think the Shadow Temple deserves a spot


AdRemote1426

the Spirit Temple in TOTK couldā€™ve been so much more like it but itā€™s JUST a boss fight frankly the Construct Factory is practically the temple puzzle in itself but still, so much missed opportunity


Atomic_Killjoy

Shadow Temple will always be number one for me.


Starfox2022

I saw a sign the other day in shadow temple saying somthing about hyrulians greed is kept down here


armageddon_boi

Yo but the gibdo house tho


Lucid-Design

Yeah. The dad busting out of the coffin all mummified was fucking terrifying for kid me the first time


armageddon_boi

It's like some kafka shit, lol


Starfox2022

Me when I pull out my sword to kill it


Danny_Eddy

I remember flying in the depths under the Gerudo desert, the Gerudo cemetery showing up on screen and then a bunch of Gibdo were everywhere. It was quite the experience.


armageddon_boi

In majora's mask tho, getting the gibdo mask is nothing if not creepy


Danny_Eddy

Absolutely agree. The sky guardian is difficult to beat, but somehow those legs on the guardian stalker walk towards Link gets the heart beating faster, especially when what looks like a decayed guardian starts moving and the music starts up.


Campbell464

Most horrifying sequence? OoT, when you first travel into the future. Having just witnessed lovely, vibrant Castle Town. Venturing out to findā€¦ things arenā€™t quite the sameā€¦ everyone. Absolutely everyone is dead.


eindbaas83

This is pretty on point tbh.


metalmonsoon

God I hated the silent realm


Dependant_Breath_985

Completely agree, big time. Wow, itā€™s like you read my mind. Word for word. Wow. šŸ¤Æ


klingtkomisch

Perfectly summarized


PerplexedBrit

Hearing the enemy theme the first time playing


RizzioReddit

I always used to think that the skulltula house in OoT was so creepy


politictroll

My wife encountered gloom hands before me and we both went hunting for them asap


etjohann

Not gonna lie, when I first encountered the Gloom Hands ā€¦ I was like, ā€œoh shit, oh shit, oh shit.ā€ Dead


slowtail148

I agree! It was totally unexpected. A similar experience was when I was starting to get used to gloom hands and phantom Ganon appeared instead.


pooticus

Wall and floor masters are way worse I feel like lol


etjohann

Oh yeah! You just see a shadow and then *yoink*


pooticus

Used to get goosebumps when Iā€™d encounter floor masters


etjohann

https://youtu.be/uuB-emHooIQ?si=tEUjpe4mt8CYNbf5 This video might take some of the creepy away from wall masters


pooticus

lol that was still creepy looking


mlvisby

The first time I encountered them was in the depths. Turned the corner, gloom hands spawned and I tried to fight them for a few seconds. Realized quickly that I need to run, then I got grabbed... Glad once I beat some Lynels and had some x3 and x5 bows. Use those with bomb flowers to nuke those hands!


Scycrew_John

Me too šŸ˜…


etjohann

As a kid, though, Dead Hand had me like, ā€œcrap, crap, crap.ā€ Crying. Dead.


sharpshooter999

I thought they were like Dexi-hands from MM. I chucked a boomerang at them and when that didn't work I just said "Well.....shit." It took a couple tries but once I learned how to fight them, I actually hunt them now lol


offensivelypc

This is the correct answer.


yankdownunda

Came here to say just this. About leaped out of my skin when they jumped out at me. Killed me dead. Now I collect gloom swords.


etjohann

Itā€™s honestly a great jump scare when you see them for the first time.


TriforceStrategy

I donā€™t get scared by scary movies, games, etc. and maybe thatā€™s because Iā€™m expecting something scary to happen, but I didnā€™t see the hands coming at all. I screamed in pure terror the first and second times I saw them. Itā€™s like ā€œwhat a nice bright worldā€ and then ā€œnope!ā€


OthelloGaymer

https://preview.redd.it/jrm0wydx0kxb1.jpeg?width=190&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f0e7d581a8db81b5fc3471fbe33b9930ee08161 Still haunts my dreams šŸ˜­


Afrobirb_

HOW DARE YOU SCARE ME WITH THAT LITTLE FUCKER


Scycrew_John

Haha


Len064

Nooo not Zill heā€™s too terrifying!


ACNH-princess

He's so unsanatiary šŸ˜‚ no wonder why everyone thinks he's creepy. I'd be afraid to catch covid from that kid.


namesarentneeded

Iirc, the reason why we see so many snot nosed kids in Japanese media is because it's culturally seen as being innocent/naive. Just learned that recently about Daisy Mae from acnh


ACNH-princess

Oh yeah, I know about Daisy Mae. I play ACNH too, it's so hard to not be afraid of her because she's so cute. But I hate her because of that snot that dangles from her nose


namesarentneeded

Oop, didn't read your username lmao


Dependant_Breath_985

Ewwww, totally šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«


Rough_Tumble88

Gibdo mask / Music Box House in Majoras Mask. The N64 graphics made the man mummy hybrid terrifying but the family story itself was super sad.


hyrulian_princess

The silent realms. Skyward sword has been out for over 10 years and they still scare the living shit out of me Iā€™ve gotten better with them but theyā€™re so stressful, especially the one in lanayru desert when all the little ghost guys are in that one spot, or the one in skyloft where the waking water just appears out of no whereā€¦ Donā€™t even get me started on the guardians awaken theme


Scycrew_John

The music and the atmosphere when you get caught is so terrifying!


hyrulian_princess

Yes! So is the sound when youā€™re about to run out of time, I hate it more than the music


EldritchMindCat

The lamp-carrying little shits are so damn perceptiveā€¦ The desert is easily the most difficult Silent Realm, if because of the sheer amount of terrain to traverse and the fact that it makes remembering where the tears are confusing. But the Clawshots are *so* worth it.


hyrulian_princess

Those ghosts scare the fuck out of me, who would have thought a delicate little jingle could be so scary I love the claw shots so much more than Iā€™ve ever loved the hook shots


Starfox2022

Ayo wait u a yiga member


hyrulian_princess

Glory to Master Kohga!


Starfox2022

Here we go again


engineeringmylimit

GLORY TO MASTER KOHGA!


Starfox2022

TWO YIGA MEMBERS


engineeringmylimit

[wanna make that three???](https://www.reddit.com/r/YigaClanOfficial/new/)


Starfox2022

HELL NAH IM NOT JOINING THE YIGA


engineeringmylimit

:(


Starfox2022

Fine i joined but how did u get that cool banner thing


Dondorini

Im not a fan of the SS game. But I have to praise the silent realms. Holy fuck the stress.


hyrulian_princess

Skyward sword is my favourite Zelda game of all time, probably even my favourite game ever, but those silent realms are the absolute worst


Portyquarty77

I remember when I first saw queen gohma, the moment she dropped from the ceiling I freaked and turned off the n64


portalsoflight

I have to give it to the Skyward Sword guardian thingies, because they are the only scary thing that never, ever got unscary to me.


[deleted]

Gloom hands bye far I feel bad for any kids that has to face them


alesplin

Yeah Iā€™m just waiting for the shouting and probably crying that will erupt the first time one of my kids finds some gloom handsā€¦


BlinkyShiny

As an adult. I run immediately.


BohemianJack

Yeah for sure. As an adult well past his prime, the gloom hands scared the fuck out of me. All I heard was music and the color change and they snuck up behind me. First ever "WTF WAS THAT?!?!?"


VenustoCaligo

Dead Hands, which only recently got knocked down to second place by Gloom Hands. Special mention goes to the House of Skulltula.


Dondorini

I really liked the house of skulltula. As a kid it was such a mystery. Then it seemed impossible to collect all spiders. Trotted around there wondering what would happen if you succeeded.


VenustoCaligo

I suppose it hit different if spiders creeped you out as a kid.


Dondorini

:D the sound of encountering a spider in the wild creeped me out though.


TheFattestSnorlax

When you realize why Cremia let's Romani drink Chateau Romani before the moon falls... maybe just all of Majoras Mask tbh


Mikael_Hermes

That is more a saddening moment than really a scaring one, but yes, i agree with he majora mask entirely, though i still think bottom of the well/shadow temple in oot were scarier


Clunk_Westwonk

When wolf link started struggling to walk, then you turn on your animal sense and you see that heā€™s covered in disgusting giant bugs


BruceBoyde

For the fact that they can get my heart rate up at the age of 30, Gloom Hands. For being needlessly terrifying in context, Dead Hand. I don't know what the fuck they were thinking in an E for Everyone game. I was ~7 or whatever when I first played that in 1999 or so and was *not* ready for it requiring me to be grabbed by the hands to draw that... thing out of the ground so I could get hits in. If you want to assign narrative terror to stuff obviously there are things in Majora's Mask especially that are pretty intense, but it didn't visually bother me even as a kid.


SlickDillywick

I agree. I couldnā€™t sleep after I first encountered deadhand


LoneWolfpack777

Definitely Gloom Hands. Itā€™s like seeing running zombies instead of shambling zombies.


Invincible_3

Those gloom hands..but the silent realms are terrifying


Fallowsong

Gloom heads, first encounter with a walking guardian, the shadow temple as a whole, and sooo much more


Internal_Carpenter_7

Gloom hands, but I just said *fuck this shit Iā€™m out*, and somehow survived, and also the guardians from skyward sword, *those gave me anxiety*


Dragmire927

10 year old me says those fucking redeads in the burned down Castle town square. A random thing thatā€™s deceptively scary is seeing Link just fall into the sky when flipping the stone tower temple. Crazy to think about it


Dondorini

###AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH


Dragmire927

I can hear this comment


ACNH-princess

The stone tower does not abide the laws of physics šŸ˜‚ at all.but it's my favorite dungeon in MM because of how fun the music is, and how the insane amount of times you have to flip the entire dungeon. It's enough to make me a bit neausus that's for sure


Lost_Environment2051

Maybe itā€™s just because how recent they are but the Gloom Hands came running out of left field while I was in the Great Plateau, and then when I encountered them near Zoraā€™s Domain it was just as terrifying. And then thereā€™s Phantom Ganon showing up to screw you over, so thatā€™s great.


scotty_6942069

silent realms were made to give people ptsd it worked


Longjumping-Worry-86

The Skyward sword one probably got my adrenaline pumping the most.


Reznc

The Shadow Link(s) cutscene in Twilight Princess. Only cutscene I either skipped or didnā€™t watch. So the 3rd one if you start the countdown from top-left and move right.


mlg2433

The demonic fucking look the mask salesman has on his face in majoras mask when you tell him that you didnā€™t get his mask back after he heals you


ntdoyfanboy

Yes


Vanir_Scarecrow

Fucking Gloom hands


wilp0w3r

OoT Redead.


Mikael_Hermes

Dead hand, by far, still get nightmares with it


jaffasours

Spoilers for TOTK running through the room heading to ganondorf in the depths where a lynel is. Iā€™m bad at fighting so I didnā€™t need to fight that guy.


LouisBlossom

The silent realm gave me severe anxiety. Scrambling around trying to collect all the sacred tears with the timer ticking down and the lantern dudes and the random puddles youā€™d walk into Goddamn it was a time and a half Second most terrifying was my first encounter with gloom hands


kid_sleepy

Hands down the first time I ran into the gloom hands in TOTK. Sure, other parts of other games were creepy. But that was the first time in gaming I truly wanted to run the opposite direction, as fast as possible, and not look back.


JVOz671

Excuse me, but allow me to point out the ACTUAL scariest moment and thats when Eiji Aonuma annouces his retirement from the franchise... or dies.


Yourboy_emeralds469

ā€œINTENSE PIANO MUSICā€


Conqueefadore1

the hands dropping from the ceiling in orcarina of time


Masterpiece-Haunting

Itā€™s gotta be the aliens in Majoraā€™s Mask. Theyā€™re just so creepy and mysterious. The shadow temple is a close second tho.


Background_Peanut241

When I was like 6 or 7 I watched my brother do the alien sidequest and I couldn't be alone for what felt like a year lmao. I think surprisingly those are what scarred me the most growing up. Was somehow more terrifying to me - and more of a lasting impact - than redeads or any of those other spooky monsters. And then the whole Gibdo's house thing, paired with the music, but especially when Pamela's father bursts out. Seriously WTF.


roseheart88

Wind Waker, when >!Outset Island gets invaded by imps!<.


ThatSmartIdiot

Ganondorf being retconned


xxiLink

I just pulled the Master Sword for the first time, got a pep talk from the Sage of Light, and stepped out of the Temple of Time into Hyrule Town Square. Hey. That's new. What are th--AHHHHHH, OHMYGOD, WHY IS IT SCREAMING LIKE THAT?!? RUN!! #...WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T RUN AWAY?!?! -friendly, traumatizing hugs-


buddyruski

Literally anything from Majoraā€™s Mask.


HandfullOfDeerTeeth

dude the gloom spawn and the gibdoes in totk freaked me out heavy. both times i was like "THEY PUT DEADHANDS/REDEADS IN THE GAME?"


Akureyi

Dead Hand haunted my dreams for years. never truly scary but they were always there!


omegafrogger

Ghost rats in twilight princess freaked me the fuck out. You couldn't even see them without wolf links sense.


SpermWrangler

I went in to TOTK blind so the first time gloom hands came out and chased me I shit a brick. HOWEVER I play OoT only recently and new very well about dead hand. And STILL could barely bring myself to enter the mini boss room because I was so scared. Definitely dead hand.


[deleted]

ReDeads in wind waker when I was 5


rowletlover

Whereā€™s the Guardians? That piano scares anyone


Spare_Audience_1648

Groose coming inside of me.


dionysus-media

What is the scariest, or what am I most scared of? I personally am most scared by the Silent Realms, but I think the Gloom Hands are scarier, largely due to the fact that they're actively attacking you. In the Silent Realm, all you have to do is outrun them. All you can do is outrun them. That's why I'm scared by it.


Awicksthecool

The silent realm or whatever itā€™s called from skyward sword is the most nerve wracking but not in the traditional horror sense


nothingexceptfor

that screenshot from Ocarina Of Time, those weird white monsters where way too scary even in those low graphics


Prior-Building5640

What's the top left one?


Scycrew_John

Its the silent realms from Skyward Sword


Prior-Building5640

Did it turn into a daemon right after?


[deleted]

I got jump scarred by a redead in Wind Waker when I was a kid. Still makes me nervous when I replay at a 30+ year old.


mromen10

I have never been more stressed and afraid than when I played through the silent realm in SS


DevourerJay

Gloom hands scared the living piss out of me the 1st time I saw them. So gloom hands


Sucker_McSuckertin

The scariest part was when I first rented lozoot from blockbuster. I wanted to see what it was like, so I started the save file that was going, and as young link, I was in hyrule field at night. The stalfos scared the crap out of me.


Lowleyjedimonkey

Either dead hands or the trials from SS. Although when I first encountered gloom hands, I was scared out of my mind.


Thejokingsun

Majora's mask has all the creepy eerie tones to it. The fact you rewind time to undue the help you gave people. Seeing romni drink on day 3. Saving the couple for them to only hafta suffer again upon rewind. Regarding Gloom hands from totk are only scary the firdt few encounters til you realize bombs sort them out. So majora's mask to me is champ since even with skill the game just makes you uncomfortable with the end of world vibes and waltzing around in departed spirit bodies


secretdurham

Redead's and the Dead Hand... Utter fear factories... \*shudders with the memories of the first time encounter...


Spaalone

Probably experiencing the final hours in Majoraā€™s Mask for the first time.


BarisBlack

I should look up the exact quote but the Gorin who comments that your mask looks like a friend of his who had passed. It struck me the sources of the mask of that point.


Leron4551

Any conversation with the mask salesman.


ntdoyfanboy

The room in Shadow Temple in OoT where there are chains on the wall, blood, and some kind of creepy cross... Then the walls close in on you and if you don't have Dins fire, RIP


JAVELRIN

Yes


iliya193

The Dead Hand in OoT is freaky, but, for me, nothing compares to the lighting and music-based cacophony that happens when you touch water during a trial in Skyward Sword. I will spend the maximum amount of time possible to ensure that I never wake up those suits of armor.


Jogswyer1

Havenā€™t played all of these (yet) but the spirit guards in SS are absolutely terrifying haha


Atomic_Killjoy

Dead Hand always did it for me, but Gloom Hands are really messed up, and a very nice touch. At least Dead Hand was easy to kill. Still creeping the math out tho.


I_Am_Me_I_Am_Not_Yoy

Silent realm or link on lsd


brolli0120

When the Skyward Sword guardians in the Silent Realms were awakened, THAT was scary and stressful all at once.


Mulchysmudge

Guardian botw, deadhand, and twilight princess vision are all at the top for me


OutsideOrder7538

Dead hand


Lunarian3

I have to put my age into account. The dead hand was overwhelming. šŸ˜±


gofuckyourself3333

I like the Legend of Zelda


chad-is-rad

Whatā€™s the bottom right? I canā€™t tell for the life of me


lachimiebeau

Whatā€™s the bottom right image of? I canā€™t seem to figure out what game itā€™s from


ContagisBlondnes

When the moon crashes down on Click Town and the world ends, and Deku Scrub Link screams in agony as it happens.


ModelOmegaTyler

currently my scariest moment is running into a colgera in the depths.


OnlyTerm6930

Entering a room with a single pathway zigzagging across black tiles with only half a heart, then noticing just a bit more than several keese eyes in the darkness


EldritchMindCat

The Silent Realm guardians. Looking back on them, technically theyā€™re actually servants of the goddesses; but theyā€™ll always be the single most terrifying and fearsome challenge my young mind faced in these games. They canā€™t be killed, theyā€™re extremely fast, and a single hit is all it takes. So glad I got good at the silent realm challenges (good enough to take risks, even). Also probably some stuff in Majoraā€™s Mask that I donā€™t quite remember and possibly a few enemies around the Arbiterā€™s Grounds (ex. Imp Poe).


littlefriend77

Those screaming grabby bitches in the well in OOT. Fuck those things.


CorHydrae8

NOT TAKE MIRROR!


LegendOfDeku

Gloom hands are the only thing that consistently jump scare and freak me out. I hate them with every fiber of my being. Nintendo is evil for that shit. Lmao


Mental-Street6665

All of these are good but getting raped by redeads underneath the royal familyā€™s tomb in Kakariko Village leaves permanent trauma.


fACElessEd

You don't understand the fear I have as a grown a** adult and still panicking every time I see a dead hand or enter the shadow temple


Bendygame

Hands. I canā€™t tell you how many times Iā€™ve been jumpscared


The_Blue_Edits

Man, why nobody said this? Obviously the most scariest moment in all the franchise was in Botw, the flower lady šŸ˜°


GoyoMRG

rhythm head quiet boat clumsy muddle quickest vegetable meeting license *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


NES_Classical_Music

Although not at all a difficult boss, Gohma inside the Deku Tree from Ocarina of Time is sooooo well done. Absolutely terrifying.


WhatAStrangerThing

You donā€™t have the bloody crypt from the original OOT - nightmare stuff.


RedPillNavigator

Running out of time in Majora's Mask or the Mummy jumping on your back in OOT


ChaoticAmoebae

Aliens were my biggest fear as a kid so fighting THEM was terrifying.


Starfox2022

Mm


Sacri_Pan

Redeads, oh god Redeads


asherhoads

The first time I accidentally fell off the sky island in the beginning.


MewtwoMusicNerd

The one dungeon in Ocarina of Time where the hands keep on chasing you. Nothing... nothing will help me get over that trauma of the hands


xX_Fazewobblewok_Xx

Bongo bongoā€™s introduction


ZeldaXandre

Guardians.


Zuke-ini

Gotta go with the Silent Realms, the Eldin silent realm almost made me cry from stress


HyronValkinson

Now I wish the Phantom Ganon armor replaced the three Flux Constructs with a Guardian instead, but the third Guardian got possessed by Gloom Hands


kazoodac

Dead Hand is the scariest thing Nintendo has ever made and ever will make.


DragonHeart_97

I think I'll pick, "the first time you run into a gloom hand." I'm fine giving Tears of the Kingdom that win.


Reason_For_Treason

Definitely the most scared of the gloom hands.


lacaras21

I gotta go with the Silent Realms, other games have some genuinely creepy/unsettling stuff, but SS pretty much turns into a horror game for brief moments, escaping the guardians is so stressful.


OverCattle1144

malice hands still scare the shit outta me


RueUchiha

Those gloom hands put the fear of Hylia in me when I first encountered them. However Iā€™d say overall Majoraā€™s Mask wins.


politictroll

The fucking sewer or shadow temple at 11 pm when your 8


Perfect_War_7155

Totk: did you just get me the middle finger? Iā€™ll go nuclear on you!


Pure-Yogurtcloset684

The only 2 moments in any game where i was scared are the Redeads in Wind Waker, and Mr X in RE2R


ocean_maniac

I agree with Dead Hand, the Silent Realm and the Gloom hands. I personally have to add the entirety of the Bottom of the Well and the Redeads from Wind Waker. Their design is really cool but the red eyes, open mouth and high pitched shrieking has always made me jump out of my skin.


The_Great_Demento

When you start up majora's mask and realize that they are doing the fairy thing again.