Talk:BEN Drowned/@comment-24466828-20150103214447/@comment-25655620-20150104102736

Well, I think that your points are all valid, this story is certanly ovverrated from that prespective, however, I think it deserves a "10outta10" for the effort put into this.

For your first point, I never understood why do people think gaming creepypastas should be scary like, I don't know, maybe "abandoned by disney", gaming pastas are based on another type of horror, paranoia and atmospheric. creepypasta don't always have to scary to be good, you have to consider them as literature, I mean laughing jack certanly scares me, but is it a good story? Of course not.

I've read the NES godzilla creepypasta, and it seemed to me that the formula and the emotion that invoked in me were pretty much the same as BEN, just a bunch of glitches, maybe it's a taste thing but, I just tough it was worth mentioning.

Now, let's see, first of all, I found the godzilla story very appealing, but everytime I looked at the screenshots, it all seemed very, fake, sprites taken from other games, sprites too little for the NES, monsters clearly drawn by the author, etc. But look at the videos of BEN, you don't see anything wrong, and if you do, let me tell you something, it's not photoshopped, it a hack that the author made, so you can't possibly see anything out of place.

While the godzilla creepypasta have a bunch of screencap edited in what looks like MSpaint, BEN has a hack on it's own, much effort went into making it, much more than some screencaps.

Also, NES godzilla gets repetitive too, it's just "glitch-boss-map-level-boss-map-level-scaryfingerpuppetghost-question-map-level-boss-question......" sure it has some variety, but so does this story.

So, I agree with you that this is overrated, but so is NES godzilla, and I prefer this one just for the effort put into this.