When Does Gaming Horror Go Too Far?

#horror #metahorror #videoessay Spoilers for IMSCARED, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Metal Gear Solid 1, KinitoPET, OneShot, and Doki Doki Literature Club Metahorror is a genre of horror that has risen in popularity over the past 16 years. Plenty of significant markers in gaming history have released that signaled the beginnings of the genre, especially Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and nearly every Metal Gear Solid game. Today we'll be talking about some of the more damaging horror titles of the gaming medium. While writing a video on Doki Doki Literature Club, I realized that I had more to say about the dangers of the genre, and thought that making this an entirely separate video would be better as supplementary material. Happy early Halloween. Playlist for all of my GOOD videos:    • Biblical Canon   Socials: https://x.com/108r5meme   / discord   Sources/Videos used: https://pastebin.com/BF4XFTye No Generative AI was used in creating any part of this video, or any of my videos for that matter. KinitoPET is a 2024 horror game that parodies virtual assistants with a Windows 95 aesthetic. IMSCARED is a 2012(2016 rerelease) horror game that utilizes your computer in order to solve puzzles and scare you. Doki Doki Literature Club is a 2017 horror visual novel which utilizes visual novel tropes in order to lull the player into a false sense of security. Lose/Lose is a 2009 game created as a student project which utilized advanced system privileges in order to act as a gambling game of what files will be deleted by defeating monsters in game. It was based on games like Centipede, Space Invaders, and Galaga.