Elden Ring - Weird little guys
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Published 2024-07-14
Song used: Gerudo Town - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild OST
All Comments (21)
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The AI for the Spirit Jellyfish is labeled "Reikurage", which naturally just means "Spirit Jellyfish", but it shows that there's seemingly a consistent naming scheme between them.
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They have feet?! Damnit Miyazaki...
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I feel like those legs are 100% one of the developers just having a giggle. They make it, see it has arms, give it legs and show some people. Everyone has a chuckle and agree to keep it like that since they're underground.
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that's why the tarnished can't swim
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These guys hit that sweet spot right between weird, slightly unnerving, and really adorable. I like their design a lot.
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They're my friends, even when they're grumpy.
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The best souls creatures of all time, it's not even close, they're just little guys
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"The Eels turn red when hostile, though only partially, looking almost like a gummy worm." We're one specification of "a sour gummy worm" away from this just being a Zullie Twitter post.
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i notice that most of the time they only become red if provoked, but when i find them already aggressive, its usually in a circular formation around a turtle, like they are protecting it.
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The eel having feet is definitely a Michael Zaki moment
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Something I noticed, the big groups of pre-hostile eels are usually accompanied one of the old horned turtles. Plus the two-headed turtle talisman, which is found alongside hostile. eels aswell.
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Oh to be a spirit eel, rooted to the ground, just chillin'
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Also helping the water-death theme, the divine tower at the centre of the realm of shadow says "all matters of death WASH UP here"
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Interestingly, they have five fingers on their hands, which is often regarded in-game as the sign of possessing the pinnacle of intellect. Could they have more going on than we give them credit for?
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sometihng i appreciate about Fromsoft games is that despite the reputation, they dont really feel the need to make "everything" hostile. there are creatures that are weird looking, but are just there, not normally aggressive towards the player. It helps this sense that, despite the feeling, this is not a world that exclusively exists to antagonise you.
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Zullie: *insightful comments about the lore and coded AI for mysterious NPCs Also Zullie: "They look like gummy worms. :3"
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Based on their shape and sometimes explosive tendencies, I assumed that they were the "unbound" form of the rock caterpillars, the ones that hang out around gaols.
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Oh wise Zulie the Witch, what wisdom do you have for us? As yes, Spirt eels have little legs. Thank you. This made my day.
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isn't it strange how a lot of them happen to be around those new wolfy turtles too?
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Considering the death/ocean link, the face also resembles part of a sailing ship's rigging, the triple deadeye. On a shipwreck, the rope rots away, and the deadeyes resemble round, 3-dot faces staring up from the deck.
