u/Academic-Edge

1. Snartle from Yokai Watch. I fucking love this piece of shit. So in Yokai Watch, there's a minor mechanic involving cross walks that require you to wait for the stop light to turn red in order for you to cross. Crossing 3 times, while the the light is still green, activates an unskippable boss fight with Snartle, a yokai/spirit who punishes naughty "brats" for breaking the rules. In bany point of the game, this guy will absolutely destroy your team. Despite the mechanic I just mentioned, cross walks aren't too common in the game and you can just skip a lot of them, so the only time you'll fight him is if you actively choose too. Also, while he is super strong, hes very much beatable and can be added to your team if you beat him.

Adding onto him in general, he's an interesting character because his strength scales to where you are in the story, so the easiest way to beat him and add him is to fight him as early as possible with an over leveled team (I was able to do this in a play through of mine and hes so fun to play with)

2. The Reaper from Persona.

I'll be using Persona 5 as a reference because that's the one I've played/playing (replaying on PC).

To summarize as poorly as I can, in Persona 5, mementos, or dungeons, house a majority of rogue personas and treasures for the player to fight and loot. With how deep mementos drops is, it is very easy to lose track of time and just stay there and grind out your team, and with the right amount of healing items, you could technically stay there and grind forever. However, the game knows you'd try this, so for players who stick around for too long, the Reaper spawns in and is a boss you can encounter.

Fighting him is basically a death sentence with how fucking powerful he is. He practically one shots your team in each turn and needs specific requirements, like fighting him in flu seasons or having certain equipment on, in order to make him manageable. Regardless of how strong you think you are, he is always stronger.

You need to be a minimum of level 75 just to fight him, maybe even higher than that, but you can beat him and be rewarded a handsome amount of EXP and money.

This isn't meant to hate on any specific artist and especially not the one that made this illustration, but it is something that I have seen way too much off and I needed to talk about.

I'm an artist and I love art. I love how creative people are able to bring to life cool and never before seen things.

This beautiful drawing of this cool and awesome robot is used in a song by Retrospector: https://youtu.be/-TfDcXalxxw

The song isn't gonna be everyone's cup of tea, but I like it and I think it works in tangent with the drawing. While the robot looks evil at a glance, carefully examining it and the background tells me the story of this cautious and weary robot who's trying to escape this futuristic, cybernetic city. It's got this defensive posture as if it's actively aware of its surroundings, as if it is being hunted by something or someone. Maybe it's living in a dystopian city and is being chased by a robot dystopian police force, maybe it's a wanted criminal of sorts. I don't know for sure but that's what I was able to get out of this beautiful illustration.

Point is, I wanted to see this drawing in full, no animation of it slowly panning down, I wanted the full image. And when I went to click on the link that Retro put in for the artist, the account was deactivated!

Okay not bad, maybe they have socials elsewhere and posted this art and other art as well!

Nope, gone, nada. Every trace of this artists work is gone save for a few illustrations floating around and some archived pages. Wayback machine didn't archive their deviantart so that was a bust, and they don't have any other social media as far as I know.

It's frustrating for me because this is the only existence of this illustration and their might be so much more about it that I won't know. Maybe it's from a series of illustrations that tell the story of this particular robot. Maybe the illustration was bigger than the video had shown and was cropped significantly, I will never know that because the artist deleted all their accounts.

It's even more frustrating because I think a lot of art, except anything made by Shadman, should be archived because it's what keeps a lot of these artists hard work immortalized in a way. They might delete it sometime in the future due to storage, or it can even be deleted or lost in a hardrive and all proof and existence of said hard work is forever gone and that just saddens me.

The artist went by luisagiliberti and this is not a hate post to them. I don't know them but this is the only thing I know of them and it sucks I can't find the original illustration it came from to truly appreciate it.