System Shock 2 is also the game that made SHODAN one of the most memorable and frightening villains in gaming history. Even Better Sequel: The second game improves and expands on the first in just about every way.

While they may not have as much hp as the others (60, or 48 for the red kind), they throw ninja stars which a really hard to dodge, and are one of the few enemies smart enough to back up if you try to melee them. Made worse by the fact that killing them only grants a temporary reprieve from further attacking you and they'll quickly respawn several seconds later to make you more miserable the only way to truly prevent them from respawning is by destroying their primary brain that powers them which is located somewhere nearby in order for them to truly be eliminated.

While they don't appear until you're in the heart (or brain, considering that their 'boss' is a gigantic mutated cerebrum) of the Body of the Many (you also get a preview of one in the form of Mutated!Korenchkin), they more than make up for their rarity by firing psychokinetic balls of energy that take away a very large amount of your health even on the easiest difficulty setting. They're a bigger threat in close spaces, which happens to be most of the ship, and even then you're entirely screwed if you come across one while in direct line of sight. Encountered in nearly every part of the ship, they can easily kill you with their energy weapons, even if you manage to dodge them up close. The only true disadvantage that they have is their lack of ranged attacks, but even that is negated if you're not properly equipped to face one of them. It gets even worse when you're in the Body of the Many and you can get blindsided by up to 6 of the bastards. Very fast, tons of health, hits like a runaway train, and even exploiting their Weaksauce Weakness to fire takes much longer than any other enemy to wear down. They've got all the qualifications for Demonic Spiders.

And that's even disregarding that they might have back-up with them. Toxics you upon hit, condemning you to a slow death if you have no Hypos for that? You better believe it. Bullet sponges, even after you research them? Yeah. The larger spiders - their smaller cousins are easy, but these guys are bad news.Despite the fact these monkeys you fight are stated to be squirrel monkeys, which make rodent like squeeking sounds in real life. Critical Research Failure: The monkey enemies you fight, for some reason, make chimpanzee noises.

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