• Xariphon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I hadn’t seen one of these in years, then my wife and I played BotW.

    My first thought was that whoever named this thing an ‘octorock’ missed a golden opportunity by not calling it… a rocktopus.

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      1 year ago

      That name goes back to original LoZ, can’t change it now. Lots of Zelda creatures were introduced then, it had impressive diversity for a NES game. Molblin, Zoras, Darknuts, Lynels, Like-Likes, Wizzrobes, Peahats, WallMasters, Gohma, Dodongo…

      Some had weird names directly taken from Japanese, and some had weird names from localization (…Manhandla?)