#and he swum over and punted me straight through a wall and out of the map

[colinrobinsonscardigan]

You know what's something that bugs me and approximately three other people a completely unreasonable and unjustified amount? When people go 'um ACTUALLY ☝️🤓 the reaper leviathans from Subnautica aren't that dangerous: they're very rare, very easy to evade, and you're really unlikely to get killed by one, so ACTUALLY ☝️🤓 you shouldn't be scared of them.'

You fool. You utter buffoon. Do you not think that the point??? Do you not realise that by only having a few, terrifying chance encounters with this emissary of marine horror, it allows them to maintain their air of mystery and terror? Does familiarity not breed contentedness?

I, like many, had to tango with the squidshark assisted by nought but my diving gear and my seaglide, and after only two minutes of being chewed on like a plastic dino by that extendable-jaw-owning, betentacled, sentient foghorn, do you know how I felt? I felt annoyed.

Do you want to know which of the original Subnautica's hostile leviathans was the only one to (sort of) kill me? The sea dragon. Do you want to know the name of the only hostile leviathan from the original Subnautica I'm not at all scared of? Because it starts with S and ends with N and looks a hell of a lot like the original D&D fifth edition Kraken.

I had TWO actual encounters with a reaper leviathan in my first play-through of Subnautica, both in the seamoth which allowed me to vastly outpace them, neither of which even resulted in them attacking me, and I can STILL remember both of them clear as day

I rest my case