User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Beotodus/@comment-5020152-20200105195511

Beotodus is definitely one of my favorite piscine wyverns in terms of design (but Plesioth will always be No. 1 for me). The color combination of deep, navy blue and iridescent gold creates an impressive-looking contrast, and I love its distinctive head design. The long blade-like horn and huge, curved teeth combine to create an intimidating visage that sent delighted chills down my spine when Beotodus was first revealed. Overall, Beotodus resembles Lavasioth but not to a totally unoriginal degree, unlike Jyuratodus. Speaking of which, Beotodus also reminds me significantly of Anorupatisu from Frontier, thanks to it being a giant ice shark with a prominent horn, but thankfully the two monsters are distinguishable enough so as not to take away from the originality of the other.

Beotodus also scratches an itch I've had ever since I got into Monster Hunter. For a long time, we've had monsters that were not only designed to swim through water, but also sand and lava. And, although we've seen a couple of monsters that were specialized for burrowing through ice, we've never had a monster that was able to swim through snow as easily as a Cephadrome through sand. Like sand, deep snow constitutes an environment made up of tiny particles that is able to flow like liquid, and so I've always wanted to see something that could swim through snowdrifts alongside the monsters that did the same with sand and lava. Beotodus is the tundra-dwelling Nibelsnarf subspecies I've always wanted but never got to see, until now.