10 Cringiest Video Game Moments You Wish You Could Forget
8. The Ghost Girl
With Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, developers Supermassive Games have demonstrated their love for all things horror. Specifically, their titles are love letters to schlocky teen horrors from the early 2000s.
For as much as the developers get right, one of their biggest missteps came in Little Hope, the second entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology.
When a bus crash traps a group of students and their professor in the eponymous town, they soon find themselves terrorised by demonic creatures that may be connected to the area's witchy past.
As the characters continue to explore, they encounter a young girl who shows them visions of the harrowing events that happened to her. Each time players come face-to-face with the child, however, they're greeted with a jump scare of a close-up of her ghostly face.
Although this scare is effective the first time, this exact scare occurs so frequently that it doesn't take long for it to wear thin.
By the third time players see the same shrieking ghost face appear onscreen, what was intended to be a tribute to schlocky horror became the cringe-inducing and frustrating trope the developers were trying to avoid.