User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nightcloak Malfestio/@comment-5020152-20181005142304

I'll never understand why people hate Malfestio. Sleep is easily healed off with Energy Drinks. Confusion might mess with your controls, and yes it's a bit irritating, but it doesn't completely take away your control like most other ailments. (What's much worse is your Palico trying to knock you across the map every single time you're afflicted.) She also has the best design and is overall the greatest monster in the franchise. Am I biased? Maybe. But the only real causes for annoyance, at least for me, are the weird hitboxes on her Aerial Ace move and her increased aggression when enraged.

I may not have gotten to fight Nightcloak yet, but visually she's my favorite of the Deviants. She takes Malfestio's already gorgeous blue-and-gold color scheme and adds a splash of dark red to it, which only makes her look more exotic. The Confusion clouds are bigger, but they don't last as long, and she also gains the ability to launch small ones at her foes - which makes sense seeing as she's a Deviant, thus wiser and better able to use her abilities in creative ways. And Nightcloak's signature move (I guess I'll call it Feint Attack? Phantom Force?) is scary-as-hell-looking. The invisibility is an incredible touch and does indeed make her seem more like a mysterious stage magician. And for her next trick... she'll make the hunter disappear!

Not too keen on the item-stealing idea, though...