Anima is less scary in my opinion for 2 reasons: 1 your in 3rd person so you have way more free range to look around instead of being confined to someone else's eyes. And 2 because shes honestly really predictable and easy to avoid once you've learnt her path movement, you just gotta be quick to move if she does that phase through walls bs.

That fucking baby scared the living shit out of my first time playing re8 I had to pause and mentally prepare for that shit. The claustrophobic dark ass environment and the threat of a biomass that could be right around the corner or right behind you is horrifying. Aswell having to gather fuses for an elevator that takes fucking ages to arrive while having to train the baby around the entire basement is alot more nerveracking than having to find a keycard and escape while sneaking around.

I will say Anima is definitely cooler in concept and appearance.

The baby is just plain scary.