What's the best implementation of the mimic?

>>3772983 (OP)
>What's the best implementation of the mimic?
Dark Souls one, though it's not perfect.
To a certain extent the one in Metaphor was also good, because it was slightly more complex in how it also tied into a gold gimmick.

Mimics work best when they're rare, legit threat and actually functions are mimics in that they can trick you into thinking it's a real chest.

>>3772983 (OP)
Baldur's Gate 2 was memorable

>>3772993
dark souls' design is principally antithetical to the mimic because the point of the mimic is to surprise the player and in dark souls you can only be surprised once.

>>3772998
That applies to any game where you can detect a mimic

>>3772983 (OP)

Isekai: slow life

Dragons Dogma.

>>3773067
Probably the deadliest mimic in JRPGs, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nbiJnJFMmjw

>>3773097
Dragon's Dogma isn't a jRPG, it's an Action RPG.

>>3772983 (OP)
Romancing Saga 2

>>3773022
Checks out.

>>3773675
Dragons Dogma is a Japanese wRPG. Anachronox is a Western jRPG.

>>3772998
Stupid post
It surprises the hell out of you that first time in Sens Fort, no other game can spook you with a mimic like that
Besides that they remain creepy throughout the game after that because they are so powerful, even though you test every chest from then on, chests always make you nervous for the rest of your playthrough because you don't know when it will suddenly jump up have an arsenal of several very high damage moves

>>3774186
DS2 mimic's wonky instakill grab hitbox gave me ptsd

>>3774208
Yeah, the only thing terryfing is the mimic hit box.

>>3774186
>no other game can spook you with a mimic like that
let me guess, you've played no other game

>>3772998
That's the same for every other game. Once you see a mimic the first time in any game you can't be surprised again.

>>3773001
And the same is true in tabletop where the concept was invented.
It's the "shame me once" phrase in game form.

>>3774218
Well? Provide examples of a game that can surprise you with a mimic after you've already met one. Go on.

>>3772998
the point of the mimic isn't to surprise you, it's force you to weigh the risk and reward of opening a chest but you have to actually make mimics a dangerous enemy and not just another trash mob. the reason dark souls' mimic sucks is because you can easily tell what's a mimic and what's a real chest so fighting one is unnecessary unless you want more souls.

>>3774418
Making a non-dangerous mimic is even worse.

I can't remember which game it was, but in it the mimics were so weak they weren'ta threat yet gave you good rewards. So opening a chest was always win/win with no threat to it. In fact many times I wanted the mimic depending on the chest reward, since if it was just basic consumables or something I'd much rather have fought the mimic.

I can barely even think of games with dangerous mimics.

I got an idea for a new kind of mimic
the mimic is the item inside the chest (the chest is its shell or whatever)
so you loot this cool new helmet that smells a little funny and wear it to the next boss fight and suddenly it's chomping your fucking head while a centaur or whatever is trying to kill you

>>3774509
They aren't aesthetically mimics, but there are plenty of dangerous monsters in boxes in games. Shit like Shinryu in FF5 or Dark Falz in PS2 are pretty memorable.

>>3774545
A fun idea but like the Dark Souls mimic, only really works once. There's some opportunity for emergent gameplay though, sell it to a shop, come back later and the shopkeeper is dead, drop it in a bandit camp, it kills the bandits, that sort of thing.

>>3772983 (OP)
One mimic. One mimic in the entire game. But don't tell the player that. Let him worry and check every single chest for the rest of the game.

>>3772983 (OP)
I like it when mimics disguise themselves as save and/or healing points.

>>3774843
this is the better idea than usual chest ones but never seen any jarpig does it outside of that one Hrpg i never remember the name. it was heal point mimics but only used for one dungeon

Searching for mimics that can shapeshift into its victims.

>>3774990
Final Fantasy 12

>>3774843
>>3774990
Bigger mimics that look like beds, closets and other furnitures.

icewind dale

>>3772983 (OP)
Mimics don't work in a game with quicksaves that ruined video games

>>3772998
>>3774186
The Sen's funhouse mimic permanently made every single person afraid of opening a chest going forward. Even if you know 100% for sure that chest isn't a mimic, you hit it anyway, just in case.

>>3774838
the very first chest you open is a mimic and then there are no others

>>3772983 (OP)
you have a buddy that you're really cool with and then they talk about going on an adventure together and it turns out they were just a mimic who wanted to get you into the woods to eat you

>>3777046
BG2 had the best RPG betrayal of all time

dragon quest 3 because they can actually kill you (in the original famicom version anyway)

>>3777049
You should have known not to trust him because he was a swarthy foreigner.
VtM:R has the best betrayal of all RPGs.