Tears of the Kingdom The depths are so scary!

[Mikey the Gengar]

What? No they're not lol
They're the overworld with more interesting flora and world design

 

[Chevywolf:30]

They're not creepy, but they're definitely eerie. Gloomy even, if I dare.

 

[Bowsette Plus-Ultra]

I didn't find them spooky. Maybe if the enemies had been different from those on the surface, but the area didn't really do much to lean into a spooky atmosphere.

 

[Fraxinus]

mmm i like the deep sea aesthetic of them a lot

the low visibility however puts me on edge like certain areas in hollow knight. and being on edge definitely makes me more likely to be jumpscared.

 

[Ninja]

They were a bit ominous at first however once you get used to it and accumulate the eventual 349085903830 brightbloom seeds, it's not so bad.

I like being able to see, so sometimes I'll spend a bit of time hoverbiking to the lightroots.

 

[Azure Sage]

I love the Depths. The darkness and the comparatively alien environment worked really well together. Gradually lighting up the place as I explored was a really fun sense of progression. It also scratches the itch of exploring and filling in a big map piece by piece AND the itch of making lots of different numbers go up (zonaite, poes, lightroots, crystalized charges, etc). My brain likes both of these things a lot. The lore surrounding it also fascinates me, as it's very likely purgatory as a real place in the world. Also the way a Bargainer statue could momentarily hijack a Goddess statue during the Great Plateau quest has really, really intriguing implications. There's just a lot about it that I find neat. Just kinda wish there were more freaky alien things down there that were out to get you. The way Froxes were described as "you only see a sparkle of ore in the darkness and then you die" was cool. I wanted more stuff like that unique to the Depths. That's about my only real complaint with them.

 

[WoodelChick]

The only thing that is slightly scary is that annoying sound whenever you enter the depths

 

[Captain_Jack]

The only thing that is slightly scary is that annoying sound whenever you enter the depths

Oh, I love that boom!
when I first played, I avoided the gloomy pits and had no idea there was the depths at all while I opened every tower and shrine I could on the surface. When I finally took the dive, I was floored that it existed.

I hope in the next game there is further play on the depths but with more mysterious things to discover or developing lore.

 

[Daku Rinku]

I didn't find them spooky. Maybe if the enemies had been different from those on the surface, but the area didn't really do much to lean into a spooky atmosphere.

How does it compare to The Snowpeak Ruins?

 

[Bowsette Plus-Ultra]

How does it compare to The Snowpeak Ruins?

Honestly, it's been long enough that I couldn't really tell you how spooky Snowpeak was. I'd say the Depths are pretty low on the spooks bar, so it'd be easy to be spookier than them.

 

[Daku Rinku]

Honestly, it's been long enough that I couldn't really tell you how spooky Snowpeak was. I'd say the Depths are pretty low on the spooks bar, so it'd be easy to be spookier than them.

Yeah my bar is Shadow Temple for spookiness. I only wish it had those wraith sycthe traps as actual enemies that could brewk off to seek Link and add his bones to the temple.

 

[Captain_Jack]

The gloom hands in the depths can be interesting…