Marionasty



A somewhat easy enemy in Conner Forest. It however tends to show up with a Kobold more often than not, who are much tougher. You can easily avoid Wind Cutter Lv 2 by standing fairly far away. If you're a little too far, it might still hit you. Due to its nature, being extremely far away is not enough to usually hit you. If you get too close, they will go with a Physical Attack.



In the remake, you cannot really dodge them well at all. Wind Cutter Lv 1 has a near perfect hit rate and due to having a 2D field, you can't do stuff like dodging a homing move. The physical attack is a lot more powerful as well.

Enemy Formations
Marionasty x 1

Marionasty x 1, Kobold x 1, Frog Knight x 1

Marionasty x 2

Trivia

 * Marionasty is byte value 9 in the coding
 * It has a counterpart in Mad Doll. Ghost Stalker shares a similar design, and even a similar Physical Attack, while still having very unique animations. It's also Earth just like Mad Doll is too, even using Rock Lv 2 like Mad Doll does.
 * It's named after Marionette and Nasty.
 * Mad Doll is also another puppet-like monster, which is why they share animations. They do not have the same animation for their Wind Cutter Lv 2 and Rock Lv 2 spells, respectively.
 * Mad Doll's sprite in the remake is almost identical in coloration to Marionasty's. Among all the various recolors, this is the only one where they have barely a few shades of difference.
 * Marionasty, Mad Doll, and Ghost Stalker are found in different game areas, but they're all very close to each other. Among counterparts who only show up in different areas, very few are as close to each other. Frog Knight and Frog King (Gameboy variants only), Bat and Death Hugger, Goblin and Dark Goblin, Nightmare and Gloom Wing, Sandman and Rocky also share this distinction.
 * Marionasty and Ghost Stalker are two full areas apart, despite Mad Doll being between them. They're massively further apart in the remake.
 * Bumbershoot and Parassault are basically counterparts, but show up together instead.
 * White Rose Knight and Red Rose Knight are counterparts, but show up together as well.