User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nerscylla/@comment-4969421-20150426194853

This is how you design a monster.

And to be more accurate, this how you design a monster that fits with the current gen. Because I will be Tingled if Nerscylla isn't a perfect link with the 4th gen's new mechanics and gameplay. He's basically everything a top-tier monster should be, and he's almost as flawless as Ocarina of Time.

I remember back in the dark days of early 2013, when everybody was complaining about the lack of news regarding the newest MH game, MH4. But then, Capcom gathered enough Courage to release a brand new trailer, and this one included some cool new monsters. One was a tusked frog, and the other was a badass-looking spider. Due to these monster's names being unknown at the time, the latter got the nickname of "Armogohma" in the wiki chat, due to the similarities between them. And because everybody knows the MHWiki Chat is loaded with Zelda nerds. As time passed, I began realizing that new monster was pretty damn awesome.

Because, not surprisingly, Ner is a pretty damn awesome monster.

His design is as Great as the Sea from The Wind Waker. His color scheme is really clever, and I love how the Gypceros hide covers part of his face, as if he was some sort of hooded assasin. If 4th gen was inspired on fear, they damn succeeded on making Nerscylla the creepiest monster around, by making him a cunning, sociopathic maniac that goes around wearing the skin of his prey. He's not something you'd like to find in the middle of the Midnaight.

And also when it comes to gameplay, Nerscylla manages to fit perfectly with the 4th gen's mechanics. He's one of the monsters that is masterfully adapted to this kind of gameplay. This can be a majora pain, and I find this monster to be Master Quest of Low Rank, being the monster I had more trouble with. He combines both sleep and poison and he can too use his very own status effect. First he webs you, then he puts you to sleep, and then he disturbingly extends his fang-things to send you all the way down to the Sacred Realm, AKA the base camp. Nightmares were had.

...In a completely unrelated note, and because I can't manage to consider a monster a personal favorite if I don't find it cute in some way, I will also point out that Ner can be adorable as fuck. Yeah. He's cute. He reminds me of a male Grammostola rosea I had, named Hamlet. I know this is random, but whatever. Nerscylla is cute. I need absolutely nothing to back up my statement. Haters gonna hate.

Also, there's the equipment made out of Nerscylla parts. Sleep4Days, mah bois. We FINALLY got a decent Sleep Hammer, and while his CB has poison instead, its design is kickass and it has natural purple sharpness. Maybe the only thing I can complain about is the armor, because otherwise Nerscylla equipment Helmarocs. While I think the design of the male version is pretty cool, the female one makes you look as manly as Groose. And I don't quite like-like that. For some reason, armors made out of bug parts (Seltas, Butterfly, etc) make female players look pretty dumb (Bnahabra being the only exception). And yet still, loads of people chose Nerscylla Armor in all ranks due to it having nice skills and being easy to make. A viable armor, indeed.

So in a deku nutshell, Nerscylla is the epitome of Fourth Gen. It's not hard to see why. 2, 3, 1, Ner is number one. And hy-rule at making Zelda puns. It's not hard to see why either. Hah.