They look sort of tacked-on to just be more grotesque. The extra limbs in his midsection don’t save it, either. Without them, the face reads as a generic monster, lessening any real deep-seated fear and going with a much safer “zombie” aesthetic. If he still had them, there would have been some terrifying humanity left in his face despite the huge gash. One thing that does a disservice to the rest of the design is the lack of eyes. The bisection of his whole upper body has the puckered, dried look of an old wound, his cancerous growths look properly upsetting, and the rest of him is emaciated in ways that help his complicated silhouette still read as “human” while setting off your primal alarm bells. In the concept art, there is a lot of (upsetting) reference imagery for the artists to make sure the bodies look accurately awful. One of SOMA’s great strengths is its dedication to making corpses look, well, corpsey.
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