Giygas From Earthbound
Giygas from Earthbound is a disturbing boss in an otherwise non-disturbing game. He is a disturbing boss that was around long before disturbing bosses existed, and he has pretty much given a generation of gamers like me PTSD for almost two decades now.
For the three of you who may not know, Giygas appears at the end of the Super Nintendo game Earthbound, and over the years, many theories have popped up about it. Some people think it is an aborted fetus (a running theme of this list), while others don’t know what it is, except that it’s too damn dark for this game.
Truth is, Giygas did stem from something mega fucked up. Earthbound’s creator Shigesato Itoi mistakenly stumbled into a theater playing snuff (real sex, real death) and claims that it fucked him up so badly that he thinks it made its way into the ending his game, subconsciously.
How is that for freaky as hell?