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What’s better: summoning spectral animals or blink teleports?Vote now!
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Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco
Summoning spectral animals
You can’t hurt my spectral wolf, not really. She’s not an actual wolf. She’s made of aether or ectoplasm or psionic energy or other non-blood materials. She doesn’t really feel pain. Even if she does have a healthbar, it doesn’t really matter if you splat her; she’ll be back, hale and hearty, whenever my ability comes off cooldown.
Spectral beasties can be more ephemeral, too. I game might not let me have a murder of crows permanently flapping around my head, uncertain how it should portray this, but it’s relatively likely to let me summon a stream of crows to peck at an enemy’s eyes. Everyone wins when the animals are not really there. Well. Except for when it’s bedtime and I can’t rest my head next to a spectral kitten. A terrible shame.
Blink teleports
The coolest superpower, I think, is blinking. A teeny little teleport which hops you a short distance in the blink of an eye. Now you’re here. Now you’re there. Now over here. Blinking in and out, skipping distances and surprising enemies.
I like blinks so much because they’re both utility ability and violence ability. InDishonored, for example, this one skill will let you dodge patrolling enemies, reach ledges beyond leaping range to find paths and secrets, get the jump on enemies, hop back from a fight which got out of hand, and so much more. I will take a blink in any game I can.
A blink just feels unfair in a very stylish way. Always a great noise and spell animation with devestating effects. The dirty trick of wizard spells. If you won’t give me pocket sand, I’ll take a blink.
But which is better?
As much as I adore spectral animals bouncing around a bit for a spot of violence before fading away, bouncing is cooler when I’m doing it. Blinks for me! But what do you think, reader dear?
