Scary Monsters in Scary Games: Monster Hunter: Nakarkos

Have you ever-

Wait...no, we know that Monster Hunter can actually get pretty terrifying. From pale-white leech monsters, to decaying, but powerful elder dragons, to monsters that can quite literally come out of nowhere to attack you and the monster you’re hunting, there’s a wide array of things that can unseat you as a hunter. Their attacks, their roars, their means of hunting their prey, or you, if you’re unlucky enough, all lend some aspect of fear and terror to you. So when you get a quest that actually makes your quest givers quiver, you know you’re in it in a bad way.

One of those happens to be another Elder Dragon. This one, however, isn’t decaying skin like a Vaal Hazak. No...it’s all boned up enough as is.

And it’s two heads.

And you’re fighting it in a giant bonefield.

*Ahem* perhaps I should start at the beginning.

You are hunting and researching monsters for the Wycademy. It takes a bit, but you managed to get yourself up and recognized by various hunters and quest givers alike. Then, you hear about a team that’s discovered a cavern littered with bones. Before they’re able to investigate further, they’re driven off by a two-headed dragon. They put out an urgent quest to travel to this cavern (now known as Wyvern’s End) so that hunters investigate it. From the ruined camp, you leap down into the abyss, in which you land into a sea of bones. And you see the bones start moving. And out pops this:

The Nakarkos has come to greet you.

Stumbling into its lair can and will piss it off it wanting to tear you a new one, and it does so in brutal, terrifying fashion. Firstly, it’s big as a house. Secondly, it’s two-heads that are constantly twisting and turning, are constantly trying to seek you out. Should they spot you, they will beam you, and it’s a painful beam. Not only that, but they’ll spit out these blue sticky mucus globules that will slime the hell outta you. Sometimes they’re small; other times, get the hell outta there! If you happened to get slimed, and you accidentally roll, you’ll be covered in bones, to the point that you can’t move.

This is one of the few monsters that’s not only terrifying to look at, but terrifying as hell to fight. It’s one of the few that uses the environment against you, so your normal tactics are, in a sense, doomed to fail if you aren’t careful. And it’s surprisingly quick for its size. Giving that you’re surrounded by water and fighting it in a sea of bones, you’ll find it submerging and swimming all over the place. Truly a terrifying monster to fi--

Wait...those aren’t heads?

Well what are they? Tentacles?

If those are tentacles, where’s it’s--

OH GOD, NOPE GETTIN DA FUQ OUTTA HERE!

AND STOP THAT CREEPY MUSIC!!!

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