RE7 Biohazard is genuinely the scariest piece of media ive ever consumed

how the fuck did the capcom dev team manage to make this game as scary as this was. i normally never get scared at any form of horror media except for the odd jumpscare here and there but this had me terrified from start to finish. i somehow finished the game on EASY in 7h 45 minutes (tbf i had 4 restarts but i never managed to escape the baker house until this playthrough, but that was because i was going back to uni from home). i had to be sitting on the pause menu for at least 4 hours in total just to regrow my balls and change whatever song was playing if i deemed it as "not happy enough" to push through this game; i NEVER play songs while playing story games but holy fuck after i reached the old house i was genuinely about to give up because of how scary the fucking MOTHS were.

when i played re2, i was thinking that "oh alright this isnt scary, sure re7 is considered the scariest, but if i didnt get scared with this, re7 is gonna be a cakewalk" (it was NOT).