User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Week: Stygian Zinogre/@comment-3062343-20130901210712

Can't say I'm a huge fan of Stygian Zinogre. I can accept that from a purely objective point of view, it's a pretty good subspecies, but the design and fight are both pretty terrible IMO. Since I prefer a more minimalistic aesthetic, the "spikes everywhere" design of both Zinogres puts me off them somewhat. It looks like too much effort was put into making it look "badass", which always makes things ridiculous. From a gameplay aspect, I love the regular Zinogre (although it suffers slightly from being too easy). For the portion of the fight where Stygian isn't spamming the homing spheres, it's basically an even better fight than regular Zin. Unfortunately, this only comprises about 10% of the fight.