>>60845889Jump scares are most effective when the game is able to direct your focus and control ambient volume properly to best hit you, and when it's able to intimidate you into not wanting to walk past corners or interact with items for fear of the obvious incoming surprise. Having not one but two backseaters yelling at you and distracting you and forcing you to move forwards should completely defang almost everything in the genre.
With that said, we haven't seen her try horror with some buddies in VC yet, so we'll see how it goes. I didn't expect her silly licorice batsu to work for training her into not squeaking and it somehow worked out for her, so maybe she'll surprise me and somehow get more scared with Mococo there yelling at her kek
Either way we haven't had Diamond Dogs able to unleash chaos on each other freely without others stuck between them in the Discord since debut, so definitely looking forwards to seeing how the pairing's evolved since then.