so if it isn't scary bc it ain't real, that means horror media shouldn't exist, as it apparently isn't scary.
If you don't get scared from the media that is meant to scare you, you are not a normal person. I know it's a video game. It's still scary when you're playing it because it's meant to immerse you into the experience.
And yeah, maybe being trapped in a mall during normal circumstances isn't too scary, but at night when you have f**king serial killer robots chasing you, and you constantly have to hide, yeah, that's scary.