Screaming Mantis
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Character
Design |
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Tactics |
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Level Design |
| Metal
Gear Solid
(PSX) |
* Shares Psycho Mantis's
code name.
* One of her puppets looks like Psycho Mantis.
* She united and enforced the BB Unit's will as Psycho Mantis had done
the Genome Army's. |
* Uses audio-visual illusions
as the Psycho Mantis fight had.
* Requires subversion of normal game rules to defeat.
* Reproduces Psycho Mantis's manipulation of Meryl against Snake,
forcing
her to attack Snake and herself, which Snake can only overcome by
non-lethal
means.
* Undermines the player's ability to aim unless Snake takes out of the
ordinary measures.
* Hovers and teleports as Psycho Mantis had. |
* Fight occurs in a Command
Center resembling Psycho Mantis's Commander's Office, replete with a
hologram of the world as Mantis's had featured a hologram of the
Shadow
Moses facility. |
| Metal
Gear Solid 2
(PS2) |
* Wields blades as Vamp
had. |
* Thrown blades home in
on player as Vamp's knives had. |
* Floor is broken into increasingly
larger octagonal rings, as the battlefield for Raiden's fight against
the Rays had been.
* Octagonal room with a second balcony level resembles the circular
arena where Raiden and Snake fought the second wave of Tengu inside
Arsenal Gear.
* As Snake's and Raiden's fight against the Arsenal Gear Tengu had
featured
several long hallways connected to a circular arena, the Screaming
Mantis
fight features an octagonal arena followed by several interlinking
corridors. |
| Metal
Gear Solid 3
(PS2) |
* Token emotion is a combination
of The Fear and The Pain.
* One of her puppets looks like The Sorrow. |
* Fires projectiles similar
to psychic energy attacks used by The Sorrow.
* Bodies of defeated Frogs rise to attack Snake as the bodies of Naked
Snake's fallen enemies had in The Sorrow's river. |
* Octagonal battle area
also suggests the circular field where Naked Snake fought The Boss.
* Screaming Mantis's exploding suit at the end of the fight resembles
the explosion following Naked Snake's defeat of The Fear: a barrage
of piercing weapons and a chorus of screams. |
