The Eye of Cthulhu, an old boss that existed for a long time. It's the stepping point for most players when they want to get the Dryad NPC, easily dealt with since all it does is charge at you without rhyme or reason. It does this because it doesn't have to worry about solid objects since it pretty much clips or phases though it.
I love this mod.
I'm pretty sure I told all of you about how much I love this mod.
I'll just say it again, I love this mod.
Not only did the mod developer create a fully dynamic three-dimensional open world, he also thought of the NPCs and how they would react, like no joke, some of these reactions are downright realistic. The voice acting is amazing as well since there are a lot of voice that I could hear instead of using two or three voices as stock samples with the same dull acting, these voices are actually done with heart and for that I must clap for the mod developer. But the icing on the cake wasn't the voices. No, it's the boss, Eye of Cthulhu, the mod creator even created a model for the gigantic eyeball, and I must say, it's a worthy model for its title.
The sclera of the eye was dotted with thousands of small veins that I could see pulsate everyone and then. The end of the eye where it looks like it has been ripped was also finely detailed which is also amazing while at the same time makes me wonder how my computer could handle such graphical marvels. I can't wait for this boss to reach the second phase; I want to see how much detail he put on that. Currently the titanic eye is destroying the village that Amber led Sir BoinkGeminid to, ramming into building, which I thought was kind of weird initially since the Eye of Cthulhu usually just phases through solid objects. The physics of the game are also astounding, there is something satisfying about collapsing buildings in game if done right.
Anyways, enough kissing the mod creator's rear end, time to experiment on this mod. Remember how I said a while back that the NPCs in this game are interactable? Yeah… you know what's happening. I guided Sir BoinkGeminid back to the village which was half destroyed and looked for the town hall of the village. Finding my quarry, I flew my character down to the town hall. Amber was already standing outside of the town hall with a confused and shocked face but when she saw Sir BoinkGeminid, her confusion disappeared, and she approached my character.
"W-What in the gods' name is that?!" she pointed at the Eye of Cthulhu.
A. "An enemy I had initially thought, defeated,"
B. "The Eye of Cthulhu,"
C. "That's a weak being, no need to concern yourself,"
D. "That's a giant eyeball,"
I gave a chuckle and chose option D.
"That's a giant eyeball," Sir BoinkGeminid said, the tone of his voice was dull.
Amber gave my character a deadpanned look. "Yes, and the floor is made with floor- why are just standing here and doing nothing? The village is getting destroyed!"
A. "Then there is no time to waste, come, we shall defeat this monster!"
B. "Call it a test; I want you to defeat that monster all by yourself. If things get hairy, I'll jump in,"
C. "That creature is a waste of my time, you deal with it,"
D. "I'M GONNA TO POKE IT WITH MY FINGER!"
Option B
"Call it a test; I want you to defeat that monster all by yourself. If things get hairy, I'll jump in,"
When Amber heard those words, she had shown signs of trepidation, but it was quickly replaced with realization. She muttered something about 'redeeming' before she looked at my character with a determined look.
"I understand,"
With a determined look in her eyes, she set off to fight the Eye of Cthulhu. You know this is going to be cool; I'm going to watch this fight from the skies. I guided Sir BoinkGeminid upwards, once I reached a certain height where I could see the entire village, I could finally see the scope of the damage that the Eye of Cthulhu had done. I have to say, they make one of the pre-hardmode bosses in the game look terrifying with the amount of damage that it had done. Half of the village is in ruins and in flames with people running around in a panic. The Eye of Cthulhu floated at the northern part of the town, hunting down some remaining villagers, while giving birth to smaller version of itself. It was easy to spot Amber since she was the only one who was shining so bright amidst the rubble, smoke and fire because of the Diamond Robe that I gave her.
She met up with the Eye of Cthulhu, brandishing the Diamond Staff that I gave her, she aimed it at the boss and fired a fire bolt. Huh, that's weird, shouldn't the Diamond Staff fire like a white bolt or something like that? Or maybe… WAIT, ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT COMPANIONS HAVE UNIQUE MAGIC?! Fucking awesome, now I want to see more companions if they have unique abilities and stuff. So, judging by the fire bolt I'm going to assume that she excels at fire-based magic. A little weird that the mod developer decided to make elemental magic instead of just the normal magic that you see in vanilla Terraria, but I don't really care.
Seems like she's handling the situation well, she's using the Cloud in a Jar properly, jumping from building to building while firing off some bolts of magic; a method known as kiting. The Eye of Cthulhu on the other hand has not tactics whatsoever and just resorted to ramming into the buildings where Amber had been on before jumping away. That didn't mean that Amber didn't have any trouble taking on the pre-hardmode boss; the smaller versions that was produced by the Eye of Cthulhu did pose some margin of threat, constantly zooming around her in an attempt to outbalance her and make her fall from the buildings. She had to multitask on defeating the Eye of Cthulhu while at the same time, avoid the smaller demon eyes from knocking her off the buildings.
All in all, it's a pretty decent boss to take on with some difficulty, of course it wouldn't be a challenge to me since I could pretty much out damage the boss before it could even reach its second phase. Speaking of second phases, it should be coming to that point soon enough. I continued to watch as Amber casted one last fire bolt, it hit its mark; which wasn't that hard considering how humongous the Eye Cthulhu is. The transformation was to its second phase was so much more different compared to vanilla Terraria; instead of spinning around and then shedding of its iris to reveal its teeth this time it started showing cracks, underneath those cracks were bright purple rays that seeped out of said cracks.
I assume that the purple cracks refer to the Demonite Ores that are stored within the boss; which was a good representation of what it can drop when it is defeated. It glowed a bright purple for a few more seconds before the light died down. I gave out a slight chuckle of amusement at Amber's astonished and stunned reaction when she looked at the second phase of the Eye of Cthulhu; the iris was completely cracked and started to fall off one by one, when all of it fell off, it finally revealed the true horrible depiction of the Eye of Cthulhu; its razor sharp teeth flexed as if they hadn't been used in a long time. I could see Amber pale up at sight of its second phase, and I couldn't blame her. The mod developer sincerely gave plenty of time in his details, and I have to say, he portrayed the Eye of Cthulhu damn well, I expect the other bosses to show some level of horror now too since he's completely set the bar pretty high even though it's just the one of the easiest bosses in the game.
The true monster turned its attention back to Amber, its teeth gritted before opening wide and with spittle flying everywhere, roared loudly.
Time for round two, I wonder how she'll handle it this time.
A/N: Do you guys still remember that search party that General Ironwood had created to find the Fall Maiden. I wonder what happened to them… HmMmMm. Also... ur gey and before you say 'no u' I say 'uno reverse card' HAH! Then I book it to Mexico :3
