#existential horror kinda

you are playing pokemon snap, which is a “first-person shooter” (pun). You are under the water in your photography pod. A pokemon named after a gun destroys a bolder in front of you and you decide to follow it into an area you haven’t explored before. After a bit, everything is foggy and you’re having issues pointing your camera level. You finally manage to get your camera figured out (darn left-joystick lag) and the first thing you see is this: