Yeah though to be honest I saw something kind of gruesome this morning watching a Let's Play of a RPG called Guardian's Crusade that kind of made me go holy [parasitic bomb] in my mind since I was in a public place. It creeped me out more than Blood Borne to some degree. It's an RPG for kids, but god damn it's almost like Kirby with the Eldritch Abominations cut in half.
My comment on it pretty much summerizes my thoughts on it, but it's spolier heavy obviously.
[spoiler]Honestly I started to question what they were going to get away with when I saw the Stork and the demons get electrocuted in the opening. Then we had a monster depleting an entire village's food supply, political corruption, a really dangerous that cult that kidnaps and hypnotizes people, human sacrifices that for some reason remind me of the cannibalism in Illusion of Gaia in that one village with no food and the villagers being skin and bones and very definitely Grey characters like Kalkanor, Ramal, and Dark Beat who while good also do some controversial things, though Glor obviously wasn't even trying to be Grey, seriously don't want to know how he fooled Kalkanor with his attitude.
But having Spoo's mom's stomach ripped open, and probably Spoo's himself as well, was damn grisly. Just goes to show a 'Kids game' can be very dark and deal with mature themes, without being so grim dark. It's like Kirby except it's not being 100% caused by Eldritch Abominations.[/spoiler]
Keep in mind this game is Rated E and Spoo is this little Dragon that looks like the tiniest Hippo ever.
So uh I forgot something in that comment that just became more fridge horror territory. And that thing was way beyond squicky before, but now it just got worse.
[spoiler]So very early in the game the hero was forced to abandon Spoo, the baby Hippo Dragon thing, by the mayor of his home town in some cave because he thought Spoo, being a monster, was cursed and would only bring disaster. The cave lead to that town with the depleted food supply I mentioned before so he had to wander around to find some food. Eventually he happened upon an egg which he promptly ate. The egg turned out to have been the egg of a 6 wing Phoenx thing that attacked the Hero since Spoo ate her egg. So Spoo ate the unborn child of a Phoenix which is pretty horrible already.
Then we find out the Phoenix was one of the Holy Beasts that sealed away some great Evil along with a Legendary Hero and the Goddess of Light who is essentially the leader of the Holy Beasts. Spoo is the son of the Goddess of Light. So in other words......SPOO ATE WHAT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN HIS UNBORN COUSIN![/spoiler]
What the hell game, just what the hell.