They lurk, they creep, they skulk and weep. This week the team is talking about their favourite monsters in games. Alice reckons you can’t beat a good Dark Souls skeleton. And Katharine tells us about a demon in Okami. Meanwhile, Adam ponders the gameiness of movie monsters like the sex curse of It Follows.

But we’ve also been playing monstrous things. Slay the Spire gets more praise from Alice the acrobatic stabber. Adam has been tracking a gigantospider in Hunt: Showdown. And Katharine has been acting most monstrously, playing games on a Nintendo.

Links:

The RPS verdict on DOOM: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/07/doom-pc-review-2/

Final Fantasy’s bomb: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Bomb_(creature)

Official Rock Paper Shotgun policy as regards to skeletons: https://twitter.com/rockpapershot/status/960861687887908864

Dark Souls has some good skeletons: http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Root+Skeleton

Look, these ones are wheels: http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Skeleton+Wheel

Okami review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/12/18/okami-hd-review-pc/

How do you get THIS THING drunk? https://orig08.deviantart.net/5eb0/f/2008/194/4/4/okami___yamata_no_orochi_by_vyrilien.jpg

Merlocks are adorable: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Murloc

Have you played… Left 4 Dead 2? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/12/have-you-played-left-4-dead-2/

Neon Maniacs is a b-movie about killing things with water and such: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127045/

Have you played… Soma? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/17/have-you-played-soma/

It Follows is a movie about a sexually transmitted curse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows

Slay the Spire has some mad possibilities: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/02/slay-the-spire-infinite-combo/

Hunt: Showdown looks neat: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/21/hunt-showdown-e3-2017-gameplay-footage/

Final Fantasy Explorers was a bad go at Monster Hunter: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Explorers

Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow on Itch.io: https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/anatomy

Depths of Fear review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/29/roguelike-horror-depths-of-fear-review/

The Deadly Tower of Monsters: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/12/deadly-tower-of-monsters-zeno-clash-devs/