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I've tried to play that game so many times, but the deep sea scares me in ways I find difficult to verbalise.
Sometimes, I just skate across the top to the islands and scream because I don't know what's below me, and what if they're all chasing me just under the surface.
What's your favourite bits of the game? :)
I tried too as well and I find it too scary for me :(
I'm ok with sailing, have gone on many long ferry rides and done yacht sailing and I'm ok with the ocean . I suppose I'm on the border between the water and the dry world, I'm in floating world, which is a different place
It's more the fact that you get attacked and it feels scary under the sea and when you go looking for materials in caverns.
I know there are bigger monsters and fishies later in the game and if the start of the game terrifies me I don't think I'm going to make it anywhere near the later stages of the game.
I'm talking about real life experience!!
Have you gotten as far as getting a PRAWN suit? They aren't quite invincible, but they can take a hit from anything in the game. One PRAWN suit and a repair tool, and you can face anything in the ocean. You can kill just about anything in the ocean, for that matter. Though the game does nothing to encourage or reward that.
I have, even made a cyclops and went down to the lava area? It's been a while since I played, before Sub Zero came out. But I just hate large organic masses looming out of the dark, watery depths. Lights up a primal fear where climbing a tree seems like a great idea hahah
I tend to watch other people play instead, same with horror games. The only horror games I've been able to play through are the short indie ones by David Szymanski π
Yeah the ocean is terrifying. Blue holes.
Ha yes! Itβs wild because I am an experienced diver IRL professional and recreational.
Thalassophobia has only stricken me on those rare occasions where you have really good visibility in daytime and floating over a coral shelf that drops off into the abyss. Into nothingness.
This game does an astonishing job of replicating that feeling. Itβs uncanny. (The large screaming monster noises probably donβt help either lol)
yup, I found looking into the abyss terrifying
so why isn't it terrifying to look up into sky? Why don't I get the same terror when I'm flying? It's odd
maybe the abyss is a different world and that's why it's scary