Ugh... So THAT'S what this artist brought up here... 3rd floor mantises are probably the Stalker FOEs from EO1, right? I have very 'fond' memories of them... Then those butterflies chasing that lone Reimu survivor is probably a Venomfly... yeah, they were screwed from the beginning.
poweryoga said: Yes, from EO2 at least... in EO3 the Stalkers are like on floor 20+.
Um, I was talking about EO1 here ;; Do they appear as well in EO2? Honestly, I've only played EO1 and EO3 here. (Coulnd't finish the former, cleared the latter 4 times) So yeah, I've seen those Stalkers in EO3 (with a new badass name, 'Mortal Hunter')
...Now I wish that 'Labyrinth of Touhou' game had yukkuris as normal mobs
praying mantises are carnivorise why would one go after a yukkuri that have no meat in them there manjus not meat buns, and i've been around enough praying mantises to know that they hunt useing stealth they never use a direct attack so in all actuality the yukkuri with there superor numbers useing direct attacks should have won
Here's the problem what what you just typed up: you're trying to apply logic and real-world reasoning to magic talking pastries based of characters made by a drunk guy in Japan. It just doesn't work that way.
Yukkuris can only win against single, smaller and weaker creatures (at least with average animals, we had seen dosus being defeated by single humans rather easily out of superior intellect.), if they face bigger numbers regardless of size they lose, if they face something bigger than them they lose, even if they face bigger creatures using 100 yukkuris or something the victory is not assured, way to many animals would make short work of 100 yukkuris.
Now there is the deal this may not be a normal Mantis, not only out of rpg logic like it is implied in the comic, but because it clearly is way bigger than "adult yukkuris" who are as big as basketballs.
Now you see how the Mantis can win easily, specially this one?
Of course there is also the question of "why would you want the yukkuris to win?" anyway...after all they don't look exactly like a nicehead party or anything.
JusticeItEasy said: Of course there is also the question of "why would you want the yukkuris to win?" anyway...after all they don't look exactly like a nicehead party or anything.
it's not that I want them to win it's just logically they should have won, I know how mantis act and move do to a project I had to do for school where I studied a family of mantises, also did you know that male manties have two brains, anyways I also did a small project to see if mantis could be used to reduce the number of plant eating bugs in the area around a small garden, as it turns out they can but only a little because alot of there pray is much faster than they are, in retrospect the praymantis probably wouldn't have done anything to them if they had stayed away the only time a praying mantis will move quickly is when they are either trying to defend them selves or when they are mateing.
Again, we are talking about a Mantis that is BIGGER than basketball sized magical pastries called yukkuri, all this happening in some "rpg dungeon", or to be precise in the floor number 3 of one.
How is that logical to begin with?
Just don't use real life logic, leave it at the door, again "magical pastries" that's illogical by default using real world standars.
I've just noticed that Alice had a dickbow there. That kind of terrifies me.
JusticeItEasy said: Of course there is also the question of "why would you want the yukkuris to win?" anyway...after all they don't look exactly like a nicehead party or anything.
That describes nearly any party of plucky RPG adventurers, ready to commit murder and robbery in the pursuit of gold and XP.
JusticeItEasy said: Again, we are talking about a Mantis that is BIGGER than basketball sized magical pastries called yukkuri, all this happening in some "rpg dungeon", or to be precise in the floor number 3 of one.
How is that logical to begin with?
Just don't use real life logic, leave it at the door, again "magical pastries" that's illogical by default using real world standars.
sorry buddy I can't do that, I'm like a vulcan, I have to bring a certain level of logic into anything I do even if it doesn't make sense
yukkuriking said: sorry buddy I can't do that, I'm like a vulcan, I have to bring a certain level of logic into anything I do even if it doesn't make sense
This is a reference to the Stalkers in Etrian Odyssey. (yes those butterflies too...) No need to try to make this into a man-sized praying mantis.
Again, drop IRL Logic before entering here, just use the local brand of logic, since if we think about it IRL logic should dictate nothing of ALL the yukkuri works (be it FF or not) to be plausible and so on.
Again No IRL Logic, Yed Fictional/Yukkuri World Logic.
poweryoga said: This is a reference to the Stalkers in Etrian Odyssey. (yes those butterflies too...) No need to try to make this into a man-sized praying mantis.
Not necessarily Man Sized but it has to be bigger than usual considering the size of an adult yukkuri and comparing it with this Stalker Mantis thingy.