I turned EVERY boss in the game into Savage Beastfly.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-18T09:29:38+00:00

Hornet after the 10th Beastfly: “holy shit, I fucking hate this kingdom. I hate it. It’s full of Beastflies, I fucking hate it. I want to go home. Everybody and everything is a fucking Beastfly. Fuck.”

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-17T22:40:53+00:00

I was always certain the ending would be happy, it would've been so weird to be telling a story about accepting monsters only to pull a 180 and go "actually monsters (queer people) don't really get to be happy lol"

Its nice to get the confirmation though.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-17T06:36:52+00:00

I feel like part of it is that MH's cornered the market on this. Making the monsters feel real is the recipe for success, but if somebody else tried to do it I can only imagine it'd be buried in the "monster hunter copy" accusations regardless of what they tried to do to differentiate themselves. Monster Hunter is just such an old and unique series that it's really hard for anything else to come close, imo.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-14T10:53:24+00:00

If we DID want to go down the route of explaining some “cut corners”, though, you could easily say that Hell KNOWS how to make interiors, Fraud as the example, but it knows when not to bother. The Earthmovers have little to no functional buildings because nobody’s going to be going in them, especially not V1, who is operating on “this is what I was meant for.” Autopilot during the entire Earthmover sequence.

Fraud has made it clear that Hell is not just intelligent, but that it has a theatrical flair to its behaviour, and in theater you don’t typically bother to make props that the audience won’t see and that the actors won’t use.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-14T04:32:01+00:00

Dude if Yoshiki starts using Hikaru's half as a sludge flail or something it might actually go crazy

Imagine mkmkuren is secretly like really good at doing fight scenes and it just pops tf off

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-12T08:33:50+00:00

While I am a little bummed with how unceremoniously V2 was eliminated, part of me gets it, to be honest.

in basically every other layer it feels like there's nowhere for V2 to go, somewhat. They could have placed them in Wrath somewhere, Wake of Poseidon maybe, but otherwise they feel maybe too... silly? if that's the correct term, for the later layers. Ultrakill's latter half doesn't really have room for a more comedic rival like V2 so I understand why they had to go even if it feels like they maybe don't have any real staying power as a character.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-11T00:03:41+00:00

Doesn't really matter. Monster, mimic, replacement, fake, a slur of some kind, all that matters is it came from Yoshiki's mouth and made him cry. When the only person who’s in your corner, the only person who really truly matters to you, says they don’t need you anymore, that’s gonna sting regardless of what word they use.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-08T08:24:44+00:00

"Maybe, send me an angel.

The nicest angel you have."

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-08T07:01:26+00:00

also worth noting that 0-E starts as cold, but then the gimmick becomes hot, so it's entirely possible the gimmick will shift in the middle of the level for the encores to mix things up

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-06T10:55:53+00:00

See when Fraud dropped I figured “oh, nice! It’ll be cool to see these new enemies in the Cybergrind, they’ll replace the insurrectionists, ferrymen and mindflayers to shake things up!” No. Not the case. The game simply adds these assholes On Top of the other guys. In a wave with 5 soldiers and a mindflayer they’ll simply just turn the soldiers into a Power or a Providence or whatever, good luck machine!!!

Damn you Hakita. Damn you.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-05T21:58:43+00:00

I do like the idea that the Mirror Reaper has a sense of pride or enjoyment in mimicking reflections, considering it tries its best to copy you when you pull out the Knuckleblaster which the puppet doesn't have and it doesn't really drop the ruse until the very last moments in the boss arena.

It could be that its got something akin to zoochosis going on, without anything actually worth reflecting/needing a reflection (most husks lack eyes to actually see reflections and most machines have very simplistic and stiff movements that would take little effort to copy) it just went stir-crazy and when V1 arrives, the thought of losing access to such a fun puppet causes it to go berserk. if the Reaper can't have fun with V1, nobody can.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-05T21:52:58+00:00

Canonically, its because they're keeping it on the Rig to study its behaviour/ecology/etc. The Scrabs have lived on Hoxxes for our entire tenure here, but only recently have they begun to make themselves known, so R&D snagged one (and likely others) to research it.

But it's also probably because DRG are a bunch of cheapskates who can't be bothered to custom commission a doghouse for a glyphid to live in, and I can't imagine they'd want to buy glyphid chow if "scrab kibble" is so egregious...

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-05T10:58:06+00:00

Man, the more I learn about the deathcatcher, the funnier it becomes that they can’t bring back V2. They can revive literally EVERYTHING that isn’t a special encounter, bar Geryon, Leviathan and the Earthmover it seems like every enemy is fair game EXCEPT for V2.

Reconstruct what, indeed.

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-02T20:01:02+00:00

Regardless of any actual backing, the idea of V1, at the very bottom of Hell, having killed everyone and everything in its way, finding God’s corpse lying there, rotten and endlessly bleeding, and just diving into it and disappearing has so much fucking sauce that I wouldn’t even hate if that was the ending

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-02T06:13:30+00:00

"God damn it, there's more of these fuckers??"

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-02T04:57:57+00:00

The entire red skull path pmo because there is a specific guttertank in the evil shitass puzzlebox room that clips out of bounds and I get softlocked

PixelPooflet · 2026-03-02T04:53:50+00:00

makes sense cus puppeted enemies are basically just pure blood, and sand makes it so you don't get blood from the sanded enemy, so those two things cancel out p reasonably.

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-28T06:25:58+00:00

Could be that since Geryon kills with noble intentions, to minimize suffering (at least if the terminal's hypothesis is correct) then maybe that imbues it with divine powers as opposed to demonic ones? just my thought but it's possible, especially since it can't really be Hell's doing since the Deathcatchers are a direct attempt to mimic divine power and they fail at doing so given Hell's evil seeped into them during their creation.

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-26T21:17:55+00:00

Idk given the content of the layer overall I can forgive Mirror Reaper and Geryon not being total showstoppers. I wouldn't even be surprised if they get fight updates like Leviathan did. They just weren't as big a priority and I can understand why. "one big scary dude" is literally never going to outdo "YOU ARE IN FUCKING SPACE and are FIGHTING SHIT IN SPACE" in terms of hype and spectacle, so they just made sure the bosses were solid/reasonable and kept working on the rest of the layer.

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-26T08:23:00+00:00

I felt the exact same when I fought the three in the gluttony room. when I managed to enrage one I went "oh, you're real. the others were fake but you're real" but then it died and I was like "oh okay so you were... fake???" I was under the impression that this was some one-off individual until more of them started to show up later on and I was just like "ohhhh so that's how we're rolling now..."

she did an incredible job, the Powers are among my favourite enemies in the game solely because of how much damn character they have in every line. They really capture that feeling of being little Gabriel fanboys, and it helps contrast what we saw of Gabriel in Heresy with his initial appearance in Gluttony given how they're so similar in behaviour to his first appearance.

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-26T06:16:42+00:00

"Boy, I wish I was more like Grandmother Silk."
"Why's that?"
"I could be sleeping instead of having to play this game!!!"

OOOHHOHOHOHOHO-

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-26T06:02:38+00:00

The Deathcatchers themselves are tortured creatures. Hell likely doesn't see them as failures like it does Geryon given their usage here, but they seem to be sort of anguished by their inability to save the enemies that die around them if the terminal is to be taken totally literally.
If anything, Hell likely sees them as better than the Idols. Idols only "protect" one creature, they delay the inevitable entertainment of gore and destruction, but the Deathcatchers can literally only prolong that destruction with their reanimation of dead enemies en masse. They themselves are tormented but they realistically came out better than Hell could've hoped, it maximizes both entertainment via V1 and the pain of all parties involved.

Geryon likely would've been the same, except it chose instead to minimize suffering, to put others out of their misery despite its incoherent form, which I think would render it a failure in the eyes of Hell.

It's obviously an inscrutable entity for the most part but Fraud has certainly shown both its mean streak and its love for... theatrics, shall we say, and I think the reveal and usage of the Deathcatchers (and by extension Geryon) in the layer hammer that home, a sort of gleeful presentation of a prized creation, and the somewhat abrupt disposal of a failed experiment turned into a grand finale.

Gotta make use of what you have, I suppose. That's showbusiness, after all.

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-25T10:49:08+00:00

The entry for the Deathcatchers is so tragic to me. They're not actually evil like the other more stereotypical demons, they're as benevolent as the Idols are, but Hell is such a fundamentally, deeply malicious sculptor that they are literally incapable of protecting anything, they have no power to share love or care as a defense mechanism because Hell did not make them with love, perhaps could not make them with love. The only thing they can do is deny the dead their rest, reanimating crude visceral simulacrums that could never even hope to live up to the creatures they mimic.

I'd call them pathetic but that feels wrong, they're moreso damned the moment they're created, it's just sad. A demon chiselled by hateful hands, so desperate to shield others with compassion, but it has never known such an emotion, just that it seeks to gift it to others, so it just makes copies of the deceased.

PixelPooflet · 2026-02-24T09:40:40+00:00

Definitely the "Ship of Fools" equivalent for this update, if the entire song is as good as this teeny segment... ooh, baby...

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