One common enemy that players will encounter is the Bokoblin. In both their fleshy and skeletal forms, Bokoblins are a fairly easy challenge for Link to overcome, though they can easily kill less experienced players in large numbers. For Master Sword-wielding high-level players, they present little difficulty, however, as seen in a clip posted to the r/Breath_of_the_Wild subreddit.
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In the video, user Reasonable-Gap9869 is shown fighting five skeletal Bokoblins with some high-level weaponry. After blocking some hits and being pelted with stones, one Bokoblin goes for a powerful swing with their detached arm that Link ripostes with a perfectly timed parry. The damage the shield deals sends the attacking Bokoblin’s weapon flying from their hand, while another crumbles to the ground. Unusually, a further Bokoblin dies in a spectacular fashion.
After the shield does its damage, the middle monster is sent floating up into the air a few feet above Link’s head, arms outstretched, looking up to the sky as its corpse blackens before it explodes in a purple puff of smoke. As Reasonable-Gap9869 rightly points out, it looks as though Stranger Thing’s Vecna has killed the creature.
The main antagonist of Stranger Things Season 4, Vecna kills his teenage victims by tormenting them with Freddie Kruger-like visions before lifting their bodies in the real world, snapping their bones, and gouging out their eyes before they crumble, lifeless, to the ground.
Commentors like cupcakelover011 make reference to the popular meme song in Stranger Things “Chrissy, Wake Up” by schmoyoho on YouTube, which “songifies” a character’s death scene in Season 4, Chapter 1. Others are reminded of a similarly iconic Stranger Things scene from Chapter 4 involving Max and the popular Kate Bush song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).”
With the show’s iconic monster thoroughly lodged in the popular consciousness, it’s easy to understand why gamers are seeing Vecna’s signature style in The Last of Us, Dead by Daylight, and other gaming properties. With one season of the hit show remaining, it’s likely that gamers will continue to see these parallels well into the future.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is currently exclusive to Nintendo Switch.
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