Thread:Pikipedian/@comment-6050823-20160807043036/@comment-13433622-20160807214459

Rathalosaurus rioreurensis wrote: And if it isn't a swimmer, how come there is water all around the area you fight it in, and the monster gets into the water and swims around you and shoots its mucus balls? And, you can really trust BannedLagiacrus when it comes to lore - there is no swimming in this game, so why should Nakarkos swim, if it only does it occasionally and not all its life like a Plesioth.

I'd be more careful as Banned is an Admin. I bear no will towards BannedLagiacrus; I simply consider what's in the game to be a higher degree of canon, as it were. I saw an apparent contradiction between what was\written in the article and what I saw in the game, and I chose to believe what I saw. I had interpreted it as Nakarkos simply burrowing beneath the ground and did not think the water to be quite deep enough to suggest that Nakarkos was anything more than amphibious at most.

My comment about Capcom making their information accessible to everyone remains, however. How is anyone supposed to know things such as the relation between Nakarkos and Ceadeus when the game itself gives not even the most indirect clues to it and the official confirmation behind it is impossible to understand unless you can read Japanese? I expect these things to be shown directly in the game, not mentioned in a developer's offhand comment never to be referred to in the game or anywhere else. "Show, don't tell", as the old adage goes.

Not to be disrespectful to Banned or the other admins for their diligence in finding such information, but I'm sure that adding citations to the information in question would be much appreciated, if only because the sources for said information are either obscure or do not exist in English.