A question for y'all

[Atwa]

I think they kinda failed to make the creature menacing.

A pig monster is so easy to make fun of, its so lazy to simply post a piglet picture and laugh. Which inherently creates a problem, something so easy to dismiss needs further buildup to demonize. In a sense I think you are right OP and something should have been done, I can't say what exactly cause its certainly hard.

Personally I found the game scary, not quite as the first game but there was certainly parts where I was tempted to just shut the game off and not play for a while. I found the monster scary, which I kinda contribute to the fact that I had previous to playing the game seen videos of pigs being butchered in very gratuitous and gruesome ways, while they were squealing at the top of their lungs. That itself was enough for me to feel genuine terror towards the creature. Maybe a slaughterhouse level early on would have been effective in creating a disdain for the creature. I don't know.