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TopicSnake Ranks Anything Horror Related Vol. 4 *RANKINGS*
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10/03/19 5:14:19 PM
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92. The Tam-Tara Deepcroft, Hard Mode (11 points)
Nominated by: Trdl23 (4/5 remaining)
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Importance: 1.5
Fear: 4.5
Snake: 5

At first, I wasn't that impressed with this nomination. I had written it off much lower than I had it at first, that was, until I looked into and was fairly impressed with what I saw for an MMO. The perspective and gameplay style of your typical MMO makes it hard for FF14 to illicit any real scares through play, but looking into the lore of it all I discovered the darker meaning behind Avere, the weird floating head and Edda, the White Mage who appears to control it in some fashion. You need to pretty steeped in FF14 lore to get the full extent of this revelation, as the dungeon doesn't reveal much of this itself, but from what I gathered, Edda was a white mage in group of adventurers and betrothed to Avere. The group broke up after Avere was killed during a dungeon, blaming Edda for her lack of skills. Edda proceeded to carry her lover's head around, before resurrecting it as a Lovecraftian entity. Now, that's a pretty abridged summary of everything, but it's a creepy and dark story I definitely wasn't expecting out of this game. Edda's facial expressions in the dungeon are extremely unsettling as is her ghostly appearance after you defeat her.

I can't help but think this as a whole would be scarier in a different game though. There are so many things here that take me out of the atmosphere, including speechless characters, goofy actions from protagonists, the hilarious out-of-place victory tune after the defeat of Avere. There's some good lore here for an absolutely solid fantasy horror game all on its own, and while I'm glad something this does exist for an MMO, I also feel like there's a bit of wasted potential here too.

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