8 MORE Weirdest Video Game Enemies (And What They Represent)

[Music] weird and wonderful go hand in hand and that statement is no different for the strange beast that we happen across in the treacherous landscape of video games whether its foes made of mishmash meat cuts many limbed Horrors from the deep or just straight-up cows deigned royal by bovine believers there's some pretty weird monsters you'll go up against should you dive on into the realm of joystick jousting and speaking of joystick jousting Jules is here to for a look at all things odd as where there is weird he's a low-rate like a tentacle on hentai say hello Jules hello I feel like I've been wheeled out the mental asylum just to look at the Freak look at the freak poking with sticks yeah I'm here I'm ash from what culture and these are 8 more weirdest video game enemies and what they represent labate No More Heroes all the bosses there is not a semblance of normality when it comes to the balls to the walls weird game that is No More Heroes a game which sees low life we've warrior Travis touchdown valiantly vowed to become the number one ranked assassin in the world all because he wants to buff this lass here yeah he's not exactly the Pope however the bosses of the game while being some of the best action sequences you can hope to play are actually all character studies of Travis and the player themselves there's way too much to detail in a single entry but each of them showcases either a tragic flaw in our protagonist or a commentary on the concept of violence as gratification and I can think of no better example of Travis being faced with his own limitations than with the showdown against bad girl she represents the carnal pursuit of violence as sexual or at least immediate gratification she sees no honor no deeper meaning to the violence that surrounds her profession and scoffs at Travis trying to justify his aggression under the guise of nobility or a quest to prove himself in her eyes he's just as bad as she is even commenting how there is little to separate them after all as she points out they both enjoy the violence they both seek it out and both of them are bloody good at killing number 7 minecraft the creepers creepers at their heart are just a bunch of green pixels Elise that's what we tell ourselves when faced with the creature intent on delivering the most intense visceral and heartbreaking pain you could ever experience when you least expect it dropping in and exploding your hours and hours and hours of hard work into smithereens with one horrible surprise hiss that leaves only dirt blocks in their wake they're one of the scariest and strangest looking monsters you can find surely something so cruel and maligned was intentional by design right well it turns out that the creeper is as unfortunate as its sad little face suggests and came from accidentally coding a pig too taller rather than longer arguably the accidental nature of its conception and the way it takes everything you love and turns it into bite-sized chunks for a laugh is indicative of something much bigger than a stressed-out Green Square bean creepers really are just a big analogy for life sometimes it blows up in your face for no reason it doesn't matter how long or how hard you work a green but you can roll along and smash it all up for the heck of it who said minecraft was for kids number 6 deadly premonition shadows deadly premonition is a strange and ultimately near-perfect game at least in my opinion for every moment where I feel the rug has been pulled out from under me there's another 10 that pulled me back in with its charm which kind of makes Ash's mum's crispy fanny the combination of the two as that's a rug which keeps pulling me in again and again what up Wendy big love and also there's my one / ashes list anyway one of the most common enemies you'll end up fighting are the shadows now at first these guys look like a poor man's zombie I mean look at this guy looks like he slept funny for Christ's sake however with a bit more analysis you'll notice some very strange things why do they bend over backwards like Scott trying to listen to his own stinky ass opinions why do they shove their hands down you like they're trying to make a collect call to your kidney why do they apologize so bloody much well it's because they don't want to be there and are in fact remnants of trapped spirits who were forced into aggressive outbursts by a chemical gas released by the government in the area long ago driven to madness they murdered everything that they could see therefore the doubled over movement and apologetic mumbling is referenced to their minds becoming corrupted against their will it makes them seem so pathetic and you're almost doing them a favor shooting them in the arse slash face blossom number five Resident Evil 2 dr. William Birkin poor William Birkin what we know from the Resident Evil games is that the man was hunted down and shot only for the g-virus he'd injected into himself to run wild on his dying body turning him into a monster whilst the causation of Birkins appearance is clear exactly why he specifically turns into a creature of protruding limbs and eyeballs is open to interpretation we know it's a natural result of the g-virus infection since the sir creatures also grow eyes but what could it mean the G viruses full name is the golgotha virus with Golgotha being the site where Jesus was crucified the eyes could be a representation of Birkins attempt to play God that is now the mutated and demonic version of the all-seeing all-knowing entity pretended to be by creating such life-altering viruses in the first place that they're his weak point is poetic his true weakness being they thought he could create and change life in this way at all in a broader manner an evil eye is often a reference to wishing misfortune on those that receive it and although quite literal interpretation of the gaze coming from the aggressive Birkin since his one desire is to kill continuously that this can then be linked to African witchcraft also reinforces the idea since that's where the flowers that sprung the original virus strains were initially found number 4 the suffering ties that bind gorgeous woof the suffering short is a bleak game I've seen war documentaries more fun than this prison paradise getaway experience and that's in no small part thanks to the awful designs of the enemies housed within now the second suffering also known as the newest wave of what culture presenters was also bloody brilliant and full to the brim with odd enemies that offer a lot of explanation when given a dissection my personal favourites are those gorgeous gorgeous who just love ramming everything into their gaping maws which kind of makes me wish I'd saved my one palace for this moment to be honest the gorgeous with their horrible bloating might at first appear just to be an incarnation of greed but there's a much deeper backstory to it than that as we're in the lovely lovely Baltimore and the game leans heavily horrors that transpired around the time of the Great Depression the gorgeou isn't actually about greed but about starvation and desperation digging into the game's law you can read about the lack of food that was available to the people at the time of the American crisis and the story of parents telling their children that the reason they had nothing to eat was because a creature called the Gorger had come to steal it we also get another charming tale of a vicar who tried to feed the poor people in his community but when he ran out of food he started thickening his broth with the bodies of those that died of starvation it's pretty cost effective but still ultimately pretty grim number three The Last of Us clickers explained in game as being the result of humans that have been infected for longer than your average zombie clicker sits somewhere between normal infected and bloaters on the last of us is evolutionary scale with the latter a rarer larger and older version of the fungal zombies that can tear your face off if you get too close but why do these beings look so bloody horrible especially when compared to their rather human looking counterparts clickers resemble the infection that renders them mindless killing machines taking on a mushroomy appearance in the same way of the cordyceps fungus and this locates itself largely on their faces since the virus inflicts itself on the brain to transform its hosts nature is of course reclaiming its natural state as can be seen throughout the entirety of the last of us the longer the infected are left the more natural they become returning the earth to its desired state by fighting back with its own arsenal of fungal weapons stopping and listening is something that's so often heralded as a special moment in busy bustling lights and what better way to remind you of that than a murderous mushroom head you realize on sound to kill you that'll make you quiet number two Psychonauts nightmares in Psychonauts your mission is to help clean up the emotional problems at the populous by diving inside their heads and seeing what makes them tick it's a wonderful romp and easily one of my favourite games and say it with me kids that Tim Schafer had a hand in got you again you fools nightmares crop up twice in the game once inside the mind of the milkman and again inside the beautifully 70's head of agent Fidel Oh their design is that of a horrible bug with multiple appendages all of which are looking to grab hold on to something it's clear that the limbs are representative of the hold of which nightmares can have over people and the insect head shows how they can infest our thoughts Vidal owes connection to these nightmares is especially dark as she locks her nightmares up inside her mind and her nightmare is that of voices of children who she was unable to save from a fire a long long time ago number one Kingdoms of Amalur reckoning lien ash screeching like a banshee shaped somewhat by a mermaids body and ostensibly outwardly feminine in appearance it is no surprise that actual folklore inspired these big bad monsters originating in Celtic legend lien and she is translated to faerie lover a female of the Fae folk who takes a human partner often an artist that wants to use their beauty is amused for their work and usually ends up going mad in the process Liana and she feast upon the life force of their partners unknown to the rest of the world by appearing as a normal beautiful woman otherwise people would probably have something to say about the giant draining monster attached to their pals you'd hope anyway Abalos take on the legend is a mostly naked woman as a nod to this myth alluring and beautiful though marked with dark magic and strangely inhuman extremities to signpost their true malicious intent the lien ashes of Amal are an embodiment of the pain and suffering that liyan and she inspire in their victims they want to cause the player pain in the same way that their mythical counterpart does just in a far more physical and obvious sense and that's our list what are the weird monsters would you like to suggest for some examination give us some suggestions as we'd love to dive further into a weird video game monster law IV Nash and this has been what culture and I've been Jules and can you do me a little favor before you go not only should you be treating yourself as well as you possibly can both physically and mentally but also if you want to do us a little favor then why not swing by shop what culture calm or down below at the T Springs website and you can see all of the dead memes that we've got on a t-shirt for sale it all goes towards helping us carry on this glorious burning ship that is slowly sinking into the sea of content quite 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Keywords: Video Games, Video Game Enemies, Video Game Enemies And What They Represent, Video Game Enemy History, VIdeo Game Enemy Lore, Video Game Boss, Boss Fight, Final Boss, Video Game Bosses, RE2 Remake, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

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Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 10 2019