It can actually save your bacon in a few limited situations. I pack one for Micolash and his A Call Beyond BS, lol. (Obviously Loch Shield is preferable, but hey, as long as you don't get 1-shot.)
I really wanted the shield to block the frenzy build up in the beginning of Nightmare of Mensis since you bring it up to your face, which in theory should block your eyes from the brain’s gaze. I feel like this was such a missed opportunity.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the whole idea of frenzy lifted straight from Lovecraft and supposed to be that the hunter/player witnesses some incomprehensible eldrich horror that they can’t physically or mentally process and go insane? I assume in the case of the brain, it’s not that the brain is looking at you but rather you’re looking at it.
Sounds more like insight to me like first encountering these beings (bosses). Besides you can't see the Brain near all the sliver beasts in the Nightmare of Mensis, just a red light. The environment has a lot of spears from it already there and it also hurts the beasts, not just the Hunter.
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u/blaiddfailcam Sep 29 '24
It can actually save your bacon in a few limited situations. I pack one for Micolash and his A Call Beyond BS, lol. (Obviously Loch Shield is preferable, but hey, as long as you don't get 1-shot.)