12 Weirdest Video Game Enemies (And What They Represent)

In Psychonauts, your mission is to help clean up the emotional problems of the populace by diving inside their heads and seeing what makes them tick. It’s a wonderful romp and easily one of the best games of its generation on the PlayStation 2; one that Tim Schaffer made before hurting the world with Brutal Legend's terrible release.

As for Psychonauts, Nightmares crop up twice in the game, once inside of the mind of The Milkman, and again inside the beautifully 70’s head of Agent Vodello. Their design is that of a horrible bug with multiple appendages, all of which are looking to grab hold of something.

It’s clear, if we get our analysis hat on, that the limbs are representative of the hold with which nightmares can have over people and the insect head shows how they can infest our thoughts. Vodello’s connection to these nightmares is especially dark as she locks her nightmares up inside her mind, the nightmare that is the voices of children who she was unable to save from a fire, a long time ago.

Dark.