User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-28303251-20130803064921/@comment-3195217-20130804140151

Something with this sort of behavior seems a little off to me... Tetsu has teeth. And they look perfectly able to crush its food. The other thing that doesn't seem right, that Tetsu's eyes sit high and are small compared to the skull. Speaking of the skull, it looks pretty damn sturdy to me (added to the fact that he has pretty solid looking teeth, its skull sorta needs to be solid and strong, not light and crushable. I'm not even gonna mention the fangs it has to keep above ground...), so the eyes might not have much mobility. With these attributes, Tetsu's ability to shove down its food using its eyes seems a lot like some sort of hindrance to it, rather than a helpful ability...

And I'm gonna rant about a few other things now so please bear with me...

A lot of aspects of Tetsu are sort of inconsistent. For example, a basic trait of the amphibians, that hey require to keep thir skin damp, because it's thin and also their main tool for breathing. Now Tetsu's skin looks like an armor of some sort. Heavily scaled animals don't breathe though skin snd they don't have to keep their skin moist for a reason. (TBH this guy looks rather like a reptile to me, than an amphibian)

I really hope those scales are some sort of camouflage element and his skin is at least partially thin to be able to breathe though it... I mean, yeah, even it is Monster Hunter, it's still a game and I should not get worked up by these things, but I just can't help it, since MH was always trying to explain how the monsters work, And we, the fans are capable of thinking about the things that they didn't tell us, without finding out anything biologically incosistent facts. ( well, aside from the shared biological niches by so many large monsters)

All right, I shut up. Peace&Love