Scare Crow



Scare Crow is a decently strong monster that can remove your Hit Points fairly fast with its Wind Cutter Lv 2. It has high enough agility, but very slow walking speed, making it somewhat of a pain to deal with.

In the remake, it's technically a bit stronger, but is also easier to hurt thanks to being Earth and Wind Cutter Lv 3 being massively buffed. It however is even harder to dodge, and can deal more damage than the original.



Enemy Formations
Scare Crow x 1, Cryshell x 1, Fish Man x 1

Scare Crow x 1, Cryshell x 1, Fish Man x 2

Scare Crow x 1, Blood Jell x 2

Scare Crow x 2, Blood Jell x 2

Trivia

 * Scare Crow is enemy byte value 4 in the coding.
 * It's a literal joke on a straw-filled scarecrow. Instead, it's an anthro crow with glowing yellow eyes.
 * The name is one of the many names of the Wrry Cow, a type of Goblinoid. This is also why it's called Bugbear as a Japanese name, one of the many terms being used for it.
 * Due to Blue Cave no longer having a secondary section in the remake, you can no longer find Scare Crow among it.
 * Birds are known for liking bread, making it logical for it drop a Bread item.
 * It's one of the two bird-like enemies in the entire series. Cockatrice is the other. Two other birds do appear, a falcon-like NPC named Chappy and a messenger pigeon in the remake.
 * This also makes it one of the few monsters to have some kind of real animal counterpart within the series. Though Chappy is more magical, the messenger pigeon is a regular bird. Wolf Goat shows up well after you find two Sheep, and Pale Rider shows up near the end of the game, in an area that is like a dark version of Melrode Monastery, where you normally find a Horse.
 * In the puzzle game, Hell Hound transforms into Scare Crow as an attack.