Ranking the SCARIEST Video Game Music of All Time

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00:20 The soothing Hymn
02:50 submerged Castle
05:01 Innocent moon
07:40 Those chosen by the planet
10:00 If you gaze long into an abyss
12:48 not your rain
15:26 River Twygz Bed
16:18 Blood for s*x
18:27 Giygas final battle
23:00 breather

[@ucNguyen-ty9cx]

Timestamps(for people needing it): 0:26 Bloodborne: Soothing Melody 2:57: Pikmin 2: Submerged Castle 5:08: Silent Hill 3: Innocent Moon 7:44; Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Those Chosen By the Planet 10:21: Ender Lily's Quietest of the Nights: If You Gazed Long into An Abyss 12:52: Rain World Downpour: Not Your Rain 15:36: Super Paper Mario: River twig's Bed 16:21: Lisa the Painful: Blood for S*x 18:33: Earthbound Mother 2: Battle with Gigus I hope you all enjoy this video! If you do, drop a like, consider subscribe to Marco and becoming a member :)

[@MarcoMeatball]

Aw thank you! I included timestamps! You didn’t have to do all that. I appreciate the support.

[@TicTacToeCraft]

Minor correction: The Super Paper Mario theme is spelled "River Twygz Bed".

[@foggy8298]

Another minor correction, it should probably be written "Earthbound / Mother 2" they're alternate titles for the same game

[@Maelthorn1337]

​@@MarcoMeatball you know how people are with reading descriptions. 🙃

[@slurplie]

I think the FF7 one is from the OG

[@CrazyDoodEpicLeaves]

"Theres no way mario could have anything scary" and then its just instantly demonic voices LOL

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

It’s also from a paper Mario game too

[@crinklyonion1410]

I haven’t seen the video yet but as soon as I read the reply I instantly knew what song it was.

[@milleniam]

I love River Twygs Bed.

[@Halfaway_Shorts]

@@milleniam fun fact: it’s also audio for a MIBU phase

[@milleniam]

@@Halfaway_Shorts - YUM

[@ShahroozSmith]

Y'know what makes the Super Paper Mario song even worse? It plays when you go down into giant pink river in an Underworld level and there's a bunch of disembodied hands trying to grab and hurt you on the way down.

[@lindsaysmith777]

It's literally the mario world's version of hell, you and your friend's are killed and sent to hell and the river twigs is such a horrible place since the game makes you dive all the way to the bottom and listen to that shit! Child me hated that it was too scary.

[@heckermcheck8109]

​@@lindsaysmith777 Though, technically, you weren't actually killed, just teleported directly to hell while the person teleporting you made it *look* like he brutally exploded you. ...So Mario went to hell before he died. Guess he took that Super Mario Bros. Super Show drug PSA seriously.

[@PiraticOctopus]

@heckermcheck8109 Sent his ass to eeby deeby

[@piskelo10]

WAIT SERIOUSLY???? I thought this was like, unused test audio or something 😭 I literally started tearing up when I heard it and I'm a huge horror fan no less

[@ShahroozSmith]

@@piskelo10 It's real, and believe it or not.. This is probably the most darkest Mario game in terms of themes and concepts for good reason.

[@LadyBrightcynder]

Marco's face listening to the Super Paper Mario song is the pure incarnation of "I have made a terrible mistake".

[@Berkut_FE]

“There’s no way Super Mario is gonna have anything scary.” *Does he know?*

[@IvoryMadness.]

This also applies to some Kirby music, as well 😅

[@alexhoughton3305]

On the same video as giving _pikmin_ a 10

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

He said that about Earthbound too lol

[@matteogalbusera1149]

Infact, that's PAPER mario, a franchise that come close to kirby when it comes to hidden dark lore in a cute and fun game

[@shukuchishikeishuu9540]

My response: MIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMI

[@momsaccount4033]

Audio: Those Chosen by the Planet Video: Cloud getting make-up applied by force

[@MarcoMeatball]

Call it a palate cleanse

[@momsaccount4033]

@@MarcoMeatball XD

[@bombomos]

For context on the Earthbound song. The beginning is you entering the lair of Guygas. You are walking on basically his intestines. A road of flesh up to his final form. A twisted pained alien fetus. The next phase is you going into battle with him. The next phase is you as the player and the Characters realizing... You are max level and yet you arent doing enough damage. You start loosing. The next stage is your healer character doing the "least" used spell during the game. Pray. You begin to pray for the safety of everyone. For your words to reach everyone around the world to help you fight. Then a cutscene happens that shows everyone youve met on your journey in a spirit bomb fashion, praying to help you defeat gaygus and return safely. Then the last transition is the prayer working. Gaygus is in pain and his form is beginning to twist even more in pain. You can now defeat guygas. What a fight.

[@corianteri]

gaygus

[@REDOYSTERCULT302]

Should have listened to porky means business

[@Dhalin]

Actually, you still can't beat Giygas. The only way to beat Giygas is to continue praying, and each time you use Pray, it shows you a cutscene of someone you met on the journey and their prayer does damage to Giygas, with each one consecutively dealing more and more damage until the very last one deals 65,535 damage and it defeats him. I've tested this with an entirely overpowered group that had stats so high they were glitching (using the infinite Rock Candy glitch) and I tested it at all stages of Pray and Giygas is literally invincible. You can deal a million damage to him at each of the stages of Praying and you will never beat him. It's scripted so that Only Pray works, and you must use it a pre-set number of times. There's literally no point in attacking Giygas once you get to the part you're supposed to Pray.

[@emile_jeanne]

Paula is not a healer lmao. Ness is the healer/tank of the party Paula is most definitely the glass cannon with deployable shields for physical and psi defense she doesn't even learn healing psi

[@josephbartholomew]

intestines? more like umbilical cord

[@goli8699]

I feel like the more ambience-y pieces tend to be scarier because you end up with little to no structure you can metaphorically attatch yourself to, really emphasising a feeling of helplesness and loneliness. Nothing to put your mind off of things, no one to talk to, no escape out of the situation.

[@frozeniota]

Someone finally put it into words; congrats...!

[@unknowna8056]

​@@frozeniotaikr!?

[@damb1858]

me looking at my ps2 red screen of death

[@reklov6638]

submerged castle is terrifying to me because of the context. you are playing this funny, kid friendly strategy game and then you see a cave, you jump in and you are greeted by....... that. not the normal atmosphere, but an anxiety inducing track that puts you on edge. And for good reason too, since after a certain time..... "something" starts to chase you. A creature that does not fit into the game. Unkillable, and completely different then anything you encountered so far. All that and imagine how players felt when it all happened again in Pikmin 4. Awesome moment. They actually remixed that track in Pikmin 4, and somehow made it even scarier then the original. Take a listen if you don't believe me.

[@Redwolf2495]

One thing that makes "The Soothing Hymn" from Bloodborne even scarier is that the vast majority of areas in the game don't have any background music. Then THAT starts playing when you get to the Upper Cathedral Ward.

[@gergodavid4882]

Hail the Nightmare is scarier imo. Same concept, that other areas have no music but after you realise that it's not background music it's way creepier.

[@etrusco2898]

The werewolves falling from the chandeliers don't help either.

[@blackbloom8552]

The title also creates discomfort through the implications that the song is meant to be soothing and that the only reason it doesnt sound as such is that it isnt meant for you. Contribute to the whole otherworldly vibe of the great one in that even what they find comforting is alien to us.

[@cojack1118]

Ah, yes. Super Paper Mario. Rated E for "Every single kid who played this game is traumatized"

[@moister3727]

The song doesn't play for too long since it's only the underwater section. Out of context it is scary, on context is a bit less knowing things like Mimi or that creepy otaku lizard exist. IDK Super Paper Mario is weird

[@rainpooper7088]

@moister3727 Don't look up how Mario beat the creepy otaku lizard in the official Super Mario-kun manga, you will never recover mentally.

[@samlikeswatchinganime9531]

the context of the ender lilies track is so much more haunting and tragic deep within this land lies the priestess, being held together by the very blight that cursed the land, these are her gasps for air as she tries to contain it.

[@Joetheknight406]

thanks, i hate it

[@areszeudion5153]

So, the theme was more of one's struggle to live amidst the weight of responsibility that suffocates her? Yikes, and damn. I thought it was panic attack.

[@uncroppedsoop]

I don't know much about the game but that screams Hollow Knight to me with Marco calling it a metroidvania

[@Mantosasto]

@@uncroppedsoop If you like metroidvanias try Ender Lilies. It's one of the solid ones.

[@bomb4r719]

Oh that mario track is a classic, that's been all over the internet as a spooky backing track The game it comes from Super Paper Mario Is a surprisingly dark game with some very mature themes And for that reason it's one of my favourite Mario games

[@TicTacToeCraft]

I found it funny how he showed Sticker Star gameplay during the SPM segment. It feels like unintentional disrespect toward Super Paper Mario fans, since Sticker Star lacks an engaging story and instead has a basic New Soup-like plot.

[@maximilianodiaz4151]

I got jumpscared harder by the Sticker Star gameplay than by the song

[@Khann_2102]

​@@maximilianodiaz4151 Same 😂

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@maximilianodiaz4151 Paper Mario fans when they see Sticker Star:

[@heckermcheck8109]

​@@TicTacToeCraft Tbh, I thought it was a dig at Sticker Star at first. Like, Sticker Star is the only Paper Mario game comparable to being pulled deep into the water and drowned by the spirits of the damned inside the Mario world's equivalent of hell.

[@mt2r-music]

It’s more of a sound effect but ”god is coming“ from Squirrel Stapler is really scary. Talking about sound design in general I can’t think of a horror game with better sound design than Darkwood. Can’t get any better than that one.

[@fruityplumguy6532]

Darkwood is probably the only game that has me jumping because I heart a twig snap.

[@Karanthaneos]

I think the sense of disorientation that it causes you when you don't really know what the heck are you supposed to do, and the voices keep getting louder. It's a masterful use of suspense, and the reveal is simple yet effective and brilliant

[@mt2r-music]

@@fruityplumguy6532 100%

[@mt2r-music]

@@Karanthaneos going from scared and confused to brave and understanding the story is what makes it so amazing. Especially because everything comes from you as the player instead of cutscenes or NPCs telling you what’s going on. You connect the dots yourself. You learn how to protect yourself. You get curios what happened to that world and in the end witness the big finale with one of the coolest stories I’ve ever seen in a video game.

[@uncroppedsoop]

​@@fruityplumguy6532 similar energy to acorns falling in voices of the void

[@dashieofthebeards2613]

Soothing hymn started right as i found out my cat had a hairball 10/10 perfect timing for my reaction

[@MarcoMeatball]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dashieofthebeards2613]

@MarcoMeatball oh, hey, btw I plan on donating to your patreon when I'm not broke If you do another horror music video can you please cover fallow?

[@frozeniota]

Marco: "This isn't too bad-" The wondrous and terrifying presence that is the Mother series: "The f**k you say?!"

[@AHylianWarrior]

I always love when "cartoon style" games have really scary and unsettling moments like those because like with a horror game it's expected, not from a game about a wahoo Italian man made of paper that jumps and hits things with a hammer

[@jamesproctor4568]

No one expects the turns Super Paper Mario throws.

[@rainpooper7088]

@jamesproctor4568 Mr L is the Spanish inquisition confirmed, finally his identity is reveal

[@joshshrum2764]

The whole shadow queen moment is horrifying.

[@slayeroffurries1115]

I hope we can get Fear & Hunger in a future sequel of this video. Miro is pretty ingenious when it comes to soundtracks

[@tulpaart8462]

Yess get some of that Pulse& Anxiety in here

[@ratoftoska7497]

One could easily make a video like this with only FHunger 1&2 music ― such a unique soundtrack.

[@SinYingWong]

Same, interested to hear Marco's thoughts on Funger soundtrack! 🙏

[@Jaund1ce_j3an]

Gotta have Relentless in here. Shits a banger frfr

[@nutbutterbruh4405]

Would absolutely love to see some funger

[@francjirachi]

Some context for the earthbound song: (vague spoilers version): The pleasing song that plays during the middle is part of the fight, so it's more of a cutscene playing and it then changes to the extra cursed song, so it's not just done for a "fuck you" (heavy spoilers version): the mechanical sounds are both giygas being somewhat mechanical and your characters being in robot bodies since they had to surgically remove their souls and place them there to travel back in time for the final fight (organic matter can't travel in time) and the pleasant melody: you find out that nothing is effective against giygas, and the only option left is praying, eventually those prayers reach everyone you've helped along the way and they basically send you their energy, in that moment is when the song plays, and it's actually a song you've been collecting through the entire game (which also does some crazy stuff with the protagonist), also a reference to the first mother game where you also collect a song that is actually the lullyby the final boss's (adoptive) mother sang to him as a baby (the boss is the same as the one in earthbound)

[@joshshrum2764]

Yeah it being stitched together took the context out.

[@chosentoaster6626]

I absolutely loved this video and I really do hope you make a follow-up to this video. Some themes I'd recommend are Drought- pokemon Ruby Shadow temple- zelda ocarina of time Ripple star catacombs- Kirby 64 Just Monika- Doki Doki Literature club The place- Earthbound Barracks settlement- Yume Nikki

[@PowerfulPine]

lol it's funny the way the Earthbound music is structured you basically almost went through the final boss yourself. The final boss has 4 or 5 phases to the battle, and the uploader of the video you watched took the music that plays each phase that normally loops until you beat each phase and strung it into a complete piece.

[@aldoenriquez6294]

Yooooo, holy shit, we get some Lisa the Painful love! I'd definitely recommend the radio theme from Half Life 2.

[@DaJokur]

Oh man the half life 2 radio theme still scares me to this day

[@Roiadas]

The xylophone part of the Giygas theme isn't supposed to be scary. It's the song called the 8 melodies which in the context of the fight is acting sort of as a beacon of hope.

[@mikedacoolnerd788]

The Theme is structured ingeniously honestly, especially in context with the game. The parts leading up to 8 Melodies embodies a feeling of unease and hoplessness from the character's POV. 8 Melodies itself like you said acts as a beacon of hope; it also conveys a sort of innocence that in context with the fight makes Giygas remember their "humanity". (The song has such an impact on Giygas because while the 8 melodies in Earthbound and Mother 1 are different, they still represent similar things; nostalgia and innocence. All this to say the 8 Melodies in Mother 1 is a lullaby that Giygas's adopted Mom used to sing to them when they were little) This makes them deeply unstable. The song afterwards becomes much more chaotic as it is now supposed to represent Giygas's state of being.

[@paulgrotebeverborg1119]

If you do a part 2, i suggest Not Safe from OFF Also, the Giygas theme is not one single piece, it's a medley of all the different phases, the music changes the farther you progress

[@KeonKetihw]

I’d wanna add Endless Hallway to the OFF recommendation, a different kind of fear OFF is great at being uncomfortable

[@paulgrotebeverborg1119]

@@KeonKetihw it is!

[@amandamakin1542]

The scary Super Paper Mario music part gets better when you realise the footage for Paper Mario he used is Sticker Star. That is TERRIFYING!

[@rainpooper7088]

Honestly, the fact that it not only wasn't the right game but *Sticker Star* of all games cracked me up honestly.

[@Maelthorn1337]

5:31 GOD. It was such a relief hearing the piano come in.

[@Teuwufel]

14:28 It sounds to me like dying or decay. Like lifting a huge stone and seeing a dead rat that died long ago. Something that souldn't be seen. It sounds like an antithesis to life, which makes it extremely uncomfortable and scary.

[@uncroppedsoop]

more than just an antithesis to life, to me, it feels like everything _but_ life. unnatural constructs, decay and ruin, the passing indifferent weather, so on

[@David111IsHere]

If you guys haven't played Rain World I will be impressed because this is pretty spot on.

[@y_rnd]

"Silent Heaven" from Silent Hill 2 might take the spot for me. I will never forget that room.

[@orthoceras]

i agree. that song is unbelievably poignant and terrifying

[@maggie6152]

Yuuuuup. Screw that clock sound.

[@Zanodia]

I am suprised to see that neither Fear & Hunger or Fear & Hunger 2 made it on this list. Another on that came to mind was Uboa from Yume Nikki although that also needs the visual context I think.

[@matthewkelly5480]

Skipping over “Hail the Nightmare” from bloodborne is crazy! Definitely give that a shot if you make a part 2

[@slayeroffurries1115]

isn't this the song that plays in the area that the Bagman sends you to when he kidnaps you? If it is then I agree, that whole segment of the game is horrifying because of the soundtrack

[@inspectorwhoreacts]

100% hearing that theme after ending up somewhere unknown. It was daylight outside for me and I was still scared to explore where I was, also realize Bloodborne doesn't have ambient music til that point.

[@user-vh7ks8px3s]

Yeah I love that track. When the male chorus comes in I always have to change my pants and take a shower

[@nedf538]

Lots of ambient/grotesque songs here... One underrated game that has outstanding horror music is Evil Tonight, I'd recommend reacting to its academy floor tracks and the Bloodthirst theme!

[@dnbfkrldkhddkdjgeejnfkfkp2105]

ONG yessss especially bloodthirst coming in when your minding your business and a monster suddenly jumps through the window right next to you and the violins give you CHILLS

[@thegreatgonzales6813]

Great video as usual man! If you're interested in doing a part two, I recommend some of the following: - "The Cradle of Time" - Tales of Legendia (This one is a must) - "My Heaven" - Silent Hill - "Silent Heaven" - Silent Hill 2 - "The Place" (The Cave of the Past) - Earthbound/Mother 2 - "It's Chimera Research" - Mother 3 - "Ikana Valley" - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - "Scared" - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - "Legend of Hyrule" - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - "Witch" - Left 4 Dead - "Tomb of the Ancients" - Rayman 2 - "Lock Down" - The Escapists - "Misty Menace" - Donkey Kong Country - "RIP Suites (Suspense)" - Luigi's Mansion 3 - "Sublimity" - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - "Season of Despair" - New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - "Environmental Sound (Silence 2)" - Metroid Fusion - "Haunted Tunnels" - Metro 2033 - "What's That Sound" - Metro 2033 - "Chamber Below" - Skullgirls

[@pixelator5312]

for a potential future video, here are my personal picks: - "Fade" from OMORI, despite being only a three second loop, makes me want to leave my skin - if you want an actual full-length song from OMORI, try "Acrophobia", "56-12-2", or "Something" - an unnamed song from Deltarune, going by "flashback_excerpt" in the game files; I'd call this one more haunting than flat-out scary, but I'll still count it

[@astralbirthvoid02]

Or Omori-Alter.

[@CGFillertext]

Lavender Town, because I’d like to hear him break down how it works

[@ebrardogan4852]

OMGH YESSSS I HOPE HE LISTENS TO OMORI SONGSSS

[@joshshrum2764]

Deal gone wrong is creepy though.

[@uncroppedsoop]

one I never see many people talking about is Infected Crossroads from Hollow Knight. its execution in the context of the game, overriding a previously familiar, relatively safe starting area, and seeing how badly some of the enemies are suffering, really adds to the effect

[@crazykim]

Can't help but noticing Khezu's theme from Monster Hunter isn't on here, that one really gets me.

[@OuterWildin]

It was there, it was just playing in the background between each song.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

Lol

[@yume372]

Oh my god, I LOVE the Ender Lilies soundtrack! It's such a great game in general. But "if you gaze long into an abyss" is so uncomfortable to listen to, that I actually turned off the sound when I heard it for the first time. xD

[@shaggyrogers8869]

Which will mean more mili

[@travsvertkirktNull]

Great vid! Really surprised to not see the actual scariest track in the Silent Hill series, Silent Heaven in Silent Hill 2

[@AT7outof10]

There is SO MUCH more creepy music from games, entire channels have made playlists featuring hundreds of songs! Some I'd wanna see you react to include: Shadow Man "Playroom", White Camber "Corridor", Baten Kaitos "Deterioration", and King's Field IV "Ancient City Level 3" (altho you'd have to look for a high quality version to get the full experience.)

[@Painocus]

-Patreons- We were really going easy on him by choosing Innocent Moon for him for Silent Hill over something like My Heaven, Prayer, Ain't Gonna Rain, Don't Cry, Blank Fairy, Terror in the Depths of the Fog or even Room of Angel, huh? Also no Fatal Frame/(Project) Zero or Postal 1?

[@MarcoMeatball]

This wasn’t Patreon

[@Painocus]

@@MarcoMeatball Oh, my bad. Was it in the community tab? I must have missed it somehow.

[@MarcoMeatball]

@@Painocus yup! About three weeks ago :)

[@Venomdrad]

Scariest video game music? I got a few I’d recommend. Ordered by song and game title: Playrooms - Shadowman Chess World - Yume 2kki Werewolf - The Path The Sewer Passage - Silent Hill Breakdown (Rotted Foul) - Doom 64 Lycan II - Resident Evil Village Cradle of Time - Tales of Legendia Honestly these songs are some of freakiest stuff I’ve heard in general.

[@biddybugs2145]

your reaction to river twygz was priceless i'm so happy it got on there. Fun Fact in case you didn't get it, "River Twygz" is a pun on "River Styx"! Fun! oh, and for another reccomendation from Super Paper Mario, I find "World Of Nothing" even scarier. I have no clue how I beat this game as a kid

[@WhoTookSaltyCabbage]

If you do another video like this, I have some suggestions: - Ripple Star Catacombs (Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards) - Eternal Echo of the Thrilling Tour-our-our (Kirby and the Forgotten Land) - Chimera Lab Chaos (Mother 3) - Battle Against the Masked Man (Mother 3) - Ultra Ruins (Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon) - z30huri2ba0tt12le1110 (Xenoblade Chronicles X) (yes, that is the name of it) - Vanessa Wants to Play (A Hat in Time)

[@yeahman6907]

Surprised “Not Safe-OFF” wasn’t mentioned. That’s one of those few tracks that unsettled me the first time I heard it. Of course it’s definitely far scarier with context as most of these are

[@DearAnem0ia]

I don't think Innocent Moon was the best pick for Silent Hill, it starts really strong but becomes more melancholic as the piano kicks in. I personally think Black Fairy is the most unsettling song from any of the games, it never fails to give me the chills.

[@aquiler3959]

Was thinking the same thing, why pick innocent moon for silent hill. Black Fairy is way more uncomfortable

[@aquiler3959]

Or silent Heaven

[@AlessaParker]

or "Don't Cry" or "I'll kill you" from the first SH soundtrack

[@borna53200]

Hollow knight's Deepnest or anything from Signalis not being on the list is unfortunate, but a great sellection nontheless.

[@miuindminor]

the scariest part of deepnest is zote being savable.

[@bigzero7720]

While we're at Hollow Knight, then also "Mage under Glass".

[@PiraticOctopus]

The Nosk fight music is pretty darn good too

[@Game_InSky]

Super Paper Mario probably also has the second scariest mario game song with "World of Nothing". The apropriately titled soundtrack to a post-genocide world.

[@TicTacToeCraft]

I agree. I would have suggested it alongside River Twygz Bed, but I unfortunately forgot the name.

[@taylozen]

i really recommend listening to Dead By Daylight's chase music. all of the killers have a theme that plays in 4 parts; 3 of them play when the killer is in close proximity, and 1 plays during a chase. i've been obsessed with the music because they all have a lot of depth and character put into them, "The Trickster" is my favourite out of all of them since they're not included in the game's official soundtrack, you'll have to go to DBDLeaks' channel and use the "Chase Music" playlist. some of them were changed before releasing so they're separated by PTB and Live versions

[@Dimumouto]

Here's one for the next time you do one of these! "Kyouki he no Kairou (Corridor to Insanity)" from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel OST. Even out of context, it definitely feels unnerving, like your mind is not your own. And *in* context, especially after things get revealed, it makes it that much more haunting.

[@david_8916]

How did OG Lavender Town not get in here? Impossible

[@TopOfAllWorlds]

It's not really that scary at all

[@Onavi1]

@@TopOfAllWorlds Yeah i´d say the Unown Radio Frequency deserves that spot in Pokémon OST but then again it isn´t that much of a "musical piece" but Arceus Battle theme in Legends Arceus absolutley deserved to be here

[@Ennello]

Lavender town is quite soothing tbh

[@thegreatgonzales6813]

Always found it to be more somber and depressing than scary. Though the original does have that almost out of tune creepiness to it. The Old Chateau on the other hand...

[@destinygalearies7382]

bc its "scariness" is entirely carried by bogus creepypastas making up obviously fake stuff about kids killing themselves for edgy horror points

[@Dhalin]

The visuals of the Giygas fight really help sell the whole thing, just listening to the music you lose a bit of the context. And also some of the text that appears, lines like "You cannot perceive the nature of Giygas's attack!" and IIRC, it even will sometimes randomly cause random status effects on your characters. As the fight goes on, the background gets more and more twisted and distorted to match the distorted noise in the music. The "beautiful kids music" you hear is a cutscene that plays in the middle of the battle and is not part of the battle itself.

[@jacksonwilloughby7625]

The droning in Not Your Rain is just a tornado siren. Specifically something like the Modulator MOD-2008 Alternate Wail. There is a clip on YT for these alternating wails.

[@Blitzkava]

I know it's cliche, but it would be great to hear your thoughts on some Pokémon spooky music. Things like the Old Chateau from Gen 4, the Strange House from Gen 5 or the always classic Lavender Town from Gen 1.

[@TheHipOneMusic]

If you do another one of these, I would totally recommend "Dark Passage" from the Outer Wilds DLC. It's like every scary part of the base game multiplied by 10

[@NeoChampion]

came here to comment this exact one

[@johngoldfield6602]

tbh I thought the cave of the past (The Area you are in before entering Giygas' cave) sounds alot more terrifying it gives that unnerving feeling that you're in a place that is so ancient it compliments the very bleak setting empty, colorless gray an unknown beginning of the world.

[@kaijukingofthemonsters1075]

Another song I'd recommend is gonna be Nameless Chaos from Lies of P, that shit had me panicking for the boss fight

[@omasta5500]

As someone who loves video game music AND is a horror enjoyer, I LOVE whenever people listen to the scarier side of game OSTs. Loved this video! Always fun seeing someone listen to tracks like River Twygz Bed for the first time! If you do ever decide to listen to more, I’m gonna throw a request in for “The World of Drawcia” from Kirby Canvas Curse. It’s one of the scariest songs I’ve heard from a game, you’ll just have to trust me :)

[@zunikanu1087]

props to whoever suggested If You Gaze Long Into an Abyss, Ender Lilies is more of a tragic game than scary but the breaths actually made me bail out of the area for a bit. Also Marco if you haven't seen the Giygas fight you should check out a video of it. I couldn't imagine having handled that as a kid.

[@xTunafishx]

there's only 1 scary video game music, and that's the Sonic drowning music...

[@RF-Ataraxia]

Truly the scariest music to ever music

[@simpa94]

Scary =/= stressful

[@xTunafishx]

@@simpa94 stress is seeing 'that town' in your restless dreams. Fear is watching Tails steal your bubble before you die

[@legendsdontdie466]

For sure not the only one, but definitely the most infamous one for the trauma 😭

[@chair_dib]

What about the us boss theme from cd?

[@eduardotorres6108]

More of this! Then when October comes marathon of horror games

[@Pikacat98]

Something that is really important to these tracks (and any track) is also the visual side of things, like with submerged castle you're in a dank and dark cave with creatures out of this world, then out of nowhere a giant humanoid creature with two large rollers drops from the sky and you are told that there is no way to kill it, you have no choice but to run, lest you get crushed by the thing. For me that's what makes the submerged castle so frightening, knowing that you gotta get to the next floor as quickly as possible or it'll appear and make your life hell. I would say you could put the relevant footage of these levels/parts alongside the music so you can get the full effect of each track but what you're doing now still works well as it lets you fully focus on the music itself. Also I know a bunch of disturbing vgm songs I can suggest for a part two to this video, just let me know and I can type them all out. : D

[@BiyikFrostDiaz]

I wonder how Marco would react to "Eternal echo of thrilling tour our our" from Kirby and the forgotten land I can no longer here the words "and here we are" the same

[@lasmirandadennsiewillja9435]

I want to add! Because, of course I do. One of my most favourite unsettling video game tracks will always be from Illusion of Gaia "Signs of the Past" because it's haunting, somewhat unnerving, but beautiful. As a bonus, it's not just lovely by itself but fits the scene melancholically well the first time it plays in the game. Sure, in the game it might be more mournful and sad than really scary, but have it loop into your ear for a few rounds and the shadows in your room will move differently. Also, low-key unnerving but not overly bad: "Magus's Castle", Chrono Trigger. Basically the complete OST of Shadow of Memories. I couldn't find a playlist with actual track names, but the ones I have in my "unsettle" playlist are: "Track 6 - 2000A" and "Track 26 - Time Traveller". Honourable mention: "Spain" and "City of Lost Souls" from Terranigma. The "call to action" mood is a bit too strong for them to be really scary but there's still something unpleasant-in-a-good-way about them, especially if you have been there. "Barran Land" is a good one, too, but sounds a bit "thin" to me in its 16-bit-area glory, I think it's similar to "Magus's Castle" but falls a bit short of being as impactful to me. I think I listened to a remix or orchestra version before which gave it what it needed but since it's not original in-game music, it doesn't count. And now my top most unnerving, unsettling tracks that I do not listen to and have always muted in the game: Secret of Mana, "Ceremony" and "The Oracle". Similar to Terranigma, they aren't quiet and subtle, but where Terranigma gives me this "Come on, let's do this!" push that JRPG tracks from the 90s loved to put in their tracks, those two Secret of Mana tracks tell me to get out of there, or else...! They're more scary in a threatening, terrorising way than giving the creepy chills way. Sorry, I'm not a musician, I do the best I can to describe it in my layman's terms.

[@limb-o7180]

How did SH1's My Heaven not get into the list?? hopefully it gets featured if MArco ever does a part 2 of this

[@cymonin5549]

Has Marco heard the scary Minecraft music discs? Some parts of them are not music persay, but an assortment of unnerving and uncomfortable sounds put together so they can vaguely tell a story. But I love the idea that Minecraft, this game most people have probably viewed as a 'kids game' at some point in their life, has some of the most terrifying series of sounds in the form of music discs, that I've heard. For anyone unaware, I'm talking about the numbered discs - 5, 11, and 13. Also apparently, when you play them all together each at a specfic delay, they match up to tell a story through these sounds.

[@Neppiko]

Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame would have been my pick it's my favorite boss theme because it's the best combination of terror and tension I've found in music form whilst maintaining a main melody instead of relying on spooky noises and dissonant droning

[@ujyb6581]

The scariest video game OST I've ever experienced is 'Pulse and anxiety' from fear & hunger and 'Relentless' from fear & hunger 2: Termina

[@captainbones-is3tx]

This is captain bones approved 🎉

[@ucNguyen-ty9cx]

Thank you, Captain Bones! We appreciate your approval, as always :)

[@slayeroffurries1115]

Captain Bones

[@shadowraith10]

I love hearing your takes on these songs, A majority of these I've played the games and listened to these in game... Each one holds a place in my heart. Even if they're unnerving as all hell when hearing them.

[@drkarate5219]

I thought the sudden gasps in the ender lilies song was Marco till he started reacting to them, god damn that song is ROUGH to listen to

[@KlutzyNinjaKitty]

The interesting part about video game music is how context-based it is sometimes. A track that’s not all that scary on its own might me absolutely fucking TERRIFYING when you’re actually playing it. Though, it does speak to how good some of the tracks really are (looking at you Submerged Castle) when they make a chill go up your spine without ever even HAVING the context. Also, some recommendations if a part 2 is ever made: First, Not Safe from the Off OST is wonderfully terrifying. And the Wraithmarsh Theme from Fable 2, while more context-based, is just a wonderfully spooky track.

[@domonkosrevay9423]

Rain world: downpour is amazing and the ost should definitely be listened to in context. Imo its an underrated masterpiece

[@glitch263]

this!! not your rain plays in the most scary area in the game in general, imo. and the heartbeat ambient there amplifies the song's effect

[@Palochii]

If you ever do another one I recommend Trivia Murder Party - Final Round ! I think most spooky songs try to make you feel like hiding, that one makes you feel like running away with the song evolving along with the state of the game.

[@OvenFreshBread]

I was sure if there was Bloodborne music it would be "Hail the Nightmare". I hope you'll rank that in the next video. And another suggestion from one of my favorite video games: the "Regenerator" theme from Resident Evil 4 (preferably from the original, though the remake version is also very good).

[@E0nW0lf]

LOL your reaction to the melodic music in the Gigas battle ost jumping into absolute chaos is golden.

[@ModernAegis]

Honestly, I think World of Nothing is way scarier than River Twiggz Bed. Also, Giygas’ theme is a chill bop to me and I can’t explain why.

[@aisliin]

please make more of these reacts !! loved this series, just bought ender lilies thanks for the rec :3

[@nemesis6057]

There's actually a sequel on the works named Ender Magnolia btw. It's available in early access for now and should come out this year

[@cynderadracona7093]

I may just be desensitised thanks to my spooky Nintendo music playlist, but I don’t think Submerged Castle is all that scary. River Twygz Bed, on the other hand, is nightmare fuel

[@user97881]

River twygz bed is more outright horrifying while submerged is more ominous, like something is out of place.

[@TicTacToeCraft]

What about "Distant Piano" from Luigi's Mansion 2, "Haunted House" from Super Mario 64 or "World 6" from Yoshi's Wooly World?

[@cynderadracona7093]

@@TicTacToeCraft distant piano is unsettling, but not actively scary, haunted house is scary and unpleasant, but not quite as nightmarish as river twygz, and world 6 sounds like it should be featured in a silent hill level or the movie A Quiet Place, and would probably be on par with the river if it had some ominous moaning/tortured screams of the damned in the background.

[@TicTacToeCraft]

@@cynderadracona7093 Thank you for your input. I definitely agree with you here. Btw, not that it matters, but I was the one who suggested River Twygz Bed for this video (or at least one of the people, there were likely some others recommending it too).

[@methanolfortheblind]

Jumping in to re-recommend "Plague Awake Here" from Pathologic 2 if you ever want to do a video like this again. It absolutely makes my skin crawl and it achieves that effect with such a clever use of vocals.

[@OuterWildin]

World of Drawcia from Kirby is scary. The music is barely music, the background is hard to comprehend, there are no enemies, just paintings that stare at you and occasionally giggle. The name isn’t even a pun like all the other worlds. Just a world made just how Drawcia wants it. An empty, twisted world where no one but she dwells.

[@JorechDalc]

I'd like to tell you more about Giygas battle theme in Earhbound (although someone might have already done it). It's not just scary and disturbing but also very sad. You enter to a big place that looks like flesh, like the gutts of someone, or maybe a uterus. You found a strange red creature you've just been told is the embodiment of pure evil with no mind. You can hear some weird and disturbing music, I think that it sounds like you've just encountered something incredibly dangerous. As you keep going on the battle, Giygas calls out your name, you can tell that it has some innocence and thinks that you are friends, but keeps on atacking, it's like if it did it unintentionally, but its attacks are brutal. You and your friends are about to die. As you struggle to survive, Paula (the one who has the strongest magic powers) prays from the bottom of her heart asking for strength. That's when you can hear that variation that sounds like an organ. She does this many times, and the friends you've met along the journey have an uneasy feeling and decide to start praying for your behalf, and that's what actually hurts Giygas. The music gets more intense, you can tell Giygas is hurt, but it says things like 'I'm happy', 'It's not right', 'I feel good', 'I'm so sad', 'It hurts, Ness', you begin to think that you are doing something wrong but you have to do it anyway. And finally, Ness's mother (your mother) has the same uneasy feeling, and starts praying for her son and his friends. That's when you can hear the nice melody, that melody reminds you of your mother and your home. That causes Giygas great damage, and so starts the final part of the battle, where the music gets more erratic. In this last part, Giygas gets huge damage and is defeated, but I think I shouldn't say how that happens because it's a big surprise. I can't recommend this game enough. It was a big experience for me and made me feel things that I can't put into words. Just listening to this music made me feel really sad, at this part of the game you've been through a lot of things, being just a child with his friends exploring the world.

[@foggy8298]

If you want another song from a series you think wouldn’t be scary, try World of Drawcia from Kirby Canvas Curse! Also, Giygas’s theme combined with the story context and the atmosphere and that fucking dialogue result in Giygas being the scariest final boss in any video game ever and it’s not even that much of a debate. The series director of Mother mentioned how Giygas in Mother 2 was meant to be a representation of his own childhood trauma (hence the Giygas dialogue taken straight from a r*pe and murder scene in a horror movie he walked in on as a child), as well as a controlled space where kids could face horror in a game themselves

[@Dimumouto]

Correction, it wasn't a rape/murder scene, just he thought it was one. It was the movie "The Polceman and the Disfigured Woman" or something along those lines, and the scene in particular was a woman being already dead IIRC.

[@foggy8298]

@@Dimumouto You realize the dialogue came from the woman right 😭 dead people can’t talk. Y’all really be here trying to correct comments off of misremembered trivia It wasn’t *explicitly* an assault, it was just a murder, but watch the scene, the subtext is obvious. Or just play Earthbound and read the Giygas dialogue lol, It was meant to emulate that. Itoi also thought it was an assault scene as a child

[@Dimumouto]

@@foggy8298 My guy, you got it wrong in the first place. No need to be rude because of someone trying to correct you. And I have played Earthbound, about a decade ago.

[@foggy8298]

@@Dimumouto Wasn't trying to be rude, sorry, just pointing out its probably wrong to try to correct people on trivia you don't remember fully yourself

[@spectrified]

I don’t know if you’re interested in more selections, but the track Shadow from ICO messed me up pretty good when I first played/heard it. At any event, I think it’s so interesting to see what these all have in common, especially those on the “scarier” end of the scale! It seems like there are things like melody and patterns that tether a piece back to the idea we have of “music,” but these tracks instead veer right into experimental soundscape territory 😆

[@BobzBlue]

*shows sticker star gameplay...

[@luccafortestoledo1300]

I don't understand how the editor messed up this badly

[@gilroyscopa]

@@luccafortestoledo1300 Intentional. Stickerstar was the true horror here

[@hollykuma]

Would love a part 2! One that comes to mind for me is the "Corrupted Dragon" theme from Breath of the Wild. I remember being chilled and transfixed when I encountered it in the game for the first time; the feeling of wrong-ness is so palpable, even if you've barely encountered the normal or "purified" dragon theme. Like most things in the game you just sort of stumble upon it, and it immediately feels like you've found something far more ancient and devastating (devastating in the sense of potential danger, but also in the sense of being unspeakably _sad_ ) than any other encounter in the game.

[@Rezard]

Knock Knock - It's Welcome to the Machine From Ecco the Dolphin CD

[@genesisgryphon1582]

Obscure Ways to Terminus (or something like that) from the PS2 game is super spoopy, too.

[@Rezard]

@@genesisgryphon1582 Yes i ecco DOTF had a bunch of weird tracks, especially terminus

[@Carbonic123]

Do More of these! This was a very fun format for a video! Similar videos focused videos on other categories such as inspiring, sad or, even jovial songs for games would be very interesting to also see in my opinion. Great video! Wish you the best

[@thearkhamnerd8393]

One that always gets me is “ The Basement of Police Station “ from resident evil 2 by the Capcom sound team

[@blackbird7781]

Personally I found it not that scary. The Regenerador theme from og RE4 is really scary though

[@Frosty8221]

Oh man, this was a treat, and I'd absolutely love to see another video like this. There's just such a breadth of video game tracks out there that hit that sweet spot of unease and disturbing, igniting the imagination. Doom 64's OST did it for me, where every single track I can listen to recreationally now, but as a kid it gave me this disturbing feeling of being lost in space, alone, facing the most gruesome hell.

[@gave8657]

To this day i still think that My Heaven from Silent Hill 1 is the most terrifying track in a video game

[@macaronisaladd]

Some suggestions if you plan to make a part two: Space Ocean - Half life Distorted Trumpets - Half Life 2 Underground Labs - Resident Evil 2 (1998) Black Fairy - Silent Hill 2 Old Chateau - Pokemon Pearl & Diamond Horror music - Roblox

[@zarwd3005]

The creepiest video game music I have ever heard is Drakengard 1 ending b. Even now, I still remember it.

[@zephytime8196]

You could do an entire one of these about Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. What impresses me about it is the sheer variety of horror flavors it manages to keep relatively distinct between each track.

[@LaserTractor]

My personal opinion - Elden Ring: Midra, Lord of Frenzied flame. It is one of the scariest, unnatural, dissonant to listen to. One of the strangest experiences in many latest years

[@itachileesan]

Agreed. its been a long time since a song literally gave me chills.

[@AdalHRivera]

Love how this particular reaction is riddled with "Famous Last Words" moments

[@lukefish52]

Another good video!

[@MarcoMeatball]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@riemaennchen]

If this video ever gets sequel I would nominate "Wandering Spirits" from Terranigma. That whole sequence scared the crap out of me as kid, and the music was big part of it. For context: This plays in a Desert Town which seems perfectly normal the first time you enter. But when you go to sleep and wake a after a while everyone in the town is dead.

[@pangopod2969]

Have you listened to Returnal OST ?

[@johnnychopsocky]

Lemme guess: the tower climb followed by Hyperion's theme?

[@delsinrowe2014]

Loved this type of vid! Hope you make a Part 2! Here’s a few more that’d be cool to see you react to: Ripple Star Catacombs - Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Taxidermy - killer7 Tomb of the Ancients - Rayman 2 Disc 13 - Minecraft Witch - Left 4 Dead Season of Despair - New Danganronpa V3 Misty Menace - Donkey Kong Country

[@Fellknauel]

rayman 2 spider theme. that is all. if you know, you know

[@miuindminor]

NO YOURE SO RIGHT THO THAT PART IS HORRIFYING

[@Fellknauel]

specifically the name of the track is "psycho spider"

[@FranciGitGud]

YES

[@BiyikFrostDiaz]

No tomb of the ancients?

[@cojack1118]

The reason why I have arachnophobia

[@collinwagner1362]

For my choices, I would pick the shadow temple from Zelda Oot. That metal door banging sound is still stuck in my head I would also choose Daniella chase theme called “Something Lacking”from Haunting ground.