glitch horror

Hitboxes have an incredible potential for horror. Something might /seem/ to miss you, only for it to have hit your hitbox and suddenly you're losing blood from a wound which shouldn't be? What the shit.

Other fun with stuff like that: Platforms flickering out of existence only to reappear and trap the unwitting player in a solid object. Friendly objects registering as enemies or dangerous things. (That bug is ACTUALLY a bullet!!) Hitboxes shrinking so that enemies aren't hurt when they're stabbed. It's pretty terrifying slashing at a basilisk and just watching it continue. To. Advance.

The minus world has a great potential for horror. Everything you know is wrong. Good day.

Player data being corrupted could totally be a thing (though a thing you'd want to be careful with). Fingers being attached the wrong way, being unable to speak properly because you forgot how to talk. After death, corpses could just hang in the air, unable to be interacted with in any way -- an after-image. (Good for guardians?)

Skins could get mixed up. Imagine enemies having the guardian's skins -- Saki's skin stretched over a Giclops, or Macy's skin stretched over a Basilisk.

Related to that, textures could be messed up. Sometimes, innocent textures could get corrupted and replaced with parts of the player's sprites or skins -- meaning hands replacing tree-branches, eyes in the water instead of rocks and pebbles, and literal cave mouths.

Things could move in an entirely wrong fashion, jerking like marionettes, because they're lagging behind the players.

Sprites could be warped like the Humanimals of Red Dead Redemption or the Demon Babies of the Sims.

Skins could exist without models to be placed on. They'd just flop down on the ground, or float in the air, completely flat. Bonus points if they're cognisant and can actually communicate.

Bodies could follow the player automatically when they were killed, still trying to execute a kill command while they were dead. Corpses could also twitch and jerk around after they died.

Guardians could get glitched as they died, repeating a line or a series of lines, like a data ghost a-la Doctor Who.

Sidequest buddies could be glitched, perhaps missing limbs OR EVEN HEADS..........


Sound glitches -- voices slowing down, music being replaced by static, things like that. Creepy as fuck. Just sayin'.

The Watson glitch could be a thing -- that is to say, NPCs are never seen moving or heard moving, but they're always beside you. Like weeping angels who just want to help.