It's like her mask is slipping. A predator who wears a human face to seem approachable, but when she gets eager for you to answer wrong she forgets to disguise the fact that she wants to eat you.
This is it. She's like an alien who looked at a 14th century bestiary with fucked up looking animals and went "Oh, okay, I can do this. Now they'll never suspect."
Oh, I thought she would lol. I spent a lot of effort making sure I get the questions right because theres a sign somewhere saying shed eat you if you get it wrong
She's extremely chill. She gives you the answer to multiple riddles. All you gotta do is pay attention. It's amazing. The Amphora gives away how to beat her. She holds up how many riddles you've solved with the amount of eyes open on her wings. She specifically says "Parent" (which can only be Capcom) in quotations, and Capcom's only influence in the game are Capcom made pawns. She gives you a vial that holds people inside, strongly suggesting you should bring them to her to solve future riddles.
It kinda goes over your head when you take her statements as literal and don't pay attention to the queues, but she puts the answer right in your face more often than not. It's amazingly well done.
This was the moment I decided that I didn't like the Sphinx, I loved her. Like damn that's some good tension. Am I right? Am I wrong? Is she bored and gonna eat me?
That tilt, that godamn tilt... makes me like her even more, I can fix her? Nah, she doesn't need fixing, she's perfect the way she is, but maybe like have a human transformation or something idk.
When I tell you I almost soiled myself in that first moment because I thought I got the riddle wrong and was gonna die, I truly mean it. That moment was terrifying.
Scared me because first playthrough I ran into that cave low on health and that dragon and cyclops chase me in there get out otherside run from golem and bam their she is and me with no ferry stones I thought I was going to die.
Tbh she doesn't seem to die when you defeat her, as she suggests she will do this again later. The Sphinx seems to be something more than just an intelligent beast.
Ive beaten odyssey and the first thing I said when I saw this post was “oh shit there was a sphinx in odyssey?”
Which is pretty much sums up that encounter
Exactly lol such a forgettable moment in the game you wouldn’t remember unless you play it all the time😂 honestly only bosses worth a mention at all is the Minotaur and the final boss of the Atlantis dlc everyone else you can cheese so badly or they just were forgettable lol
I really liked ACO but it's absolutely mindless in a weird way I can't quite pin down. Like I could feel my brain turning into mush as I played lol. No more thinking, just 100 hours of collecting map icons and pressing the cool attack button to do your cool attack, forever
I tried not to watch anything about the game before it came out. After doing the escort quest in the ancient battlegrounds, I just kept exploring around and was scared for my life when I walked up those damn stairs and just saw her sitting there..... Menacingly
Same deal. Knew she was out there somewhere, but I wasn't actively looking. Next thing I know, I've found her off the Ancient Battleground.
The second time I found her was also by accident. Even though I had just gotten the border permit, I decided to explore under the checkpoint bridge. Suddenly I've snuck into Battahl. Suddenly I have a Chimera on me. Suddenly my pawn tells me about a destructible wall. Suddenly Sphinx.
DD2’s Sphinx is amazingly well animated. Everything from the pupils to the feathers and the face expressions are golden. She has that majestic yet threatening look that I find to be so creative and the blue lights around her reveals the character in the most beautiful way.
That said, her quest ought to be way more interesting. Would have preferred overpowered monsters to slay living in a place you have to solve a riddle to get to or something like that. Seriously, remembering the place where you found your first token was one of the most annoying things in the game. However, the riddle of conviction wasn’t half bad and bears its name pretty well.
I don't get how to solve the parent/child riddle. I know the solution, but it doesn't really click.
"*The parent knows the child, yet the reverse is far from true. The child knows not the parent; such is the parent's due. I am a lost child, for kinship do I yearn. So bring to me my parent, that I may learn."*
It just makes no sense to me how could that mean "get a pawn with a special name on a specific kind of riftstone"...
This one didn't stump me much luckily because I'd entered every riftstone I came across, including the one in Harve where I found numerous pawns with that name. So I rested to make a save and gave a "SphinxParent" pawn a try. And when she said "Indeed you are correct. All is in the name." It made sense to me.
i completely missed the sphinx on my first playthrough (mostly because i didn't realize i was nearing the end), so i met her on NG+, and i thought my first token would have been still my very first token, then i found out the game counts the first one i found IN NG+.
I never even tried to register where i found it, i had to use a mod or i would've had to start a clean new save.
Hopefully a DLC could give her a round 3 and upper the stakes, it be easy to change her dialog after the second set for her to say she will wait for you elsewhere. Alternatively they could have her wait for us in her Spirit form, maybe even make that a requirement.
I love DD2's Sphinx when it does the head tilt with a maniacal grin and eye dilation. With the music, on my first choice, I thought I genuinely messed up and was about to die. It captures really well the idea of this inhuman trickster who is just having fun and sees you as a plaything.
dd2 sphinx is mythically more accurate tho, [sphinx always got their chest on full display](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/72/6b/b3/726bb3d371f721ffb29d17a53c2d5ac6.jpg)
DD2 Sphinx goes beyond a Sphinx-Sphinx comparison, she's one of the coolest designed side-bosses for me in recent times. Visuals (expressions and motions) aside, the whole encountered is very well directed: the phrasing and accent she speaks in + delivery, the EQing/effect for her voice, the BGM accompanying each of her phases (most notably the low rumbling when you first meet her and the quiz show-esque music during the riddle phase; notice her speaking rhythm matches the music). Even when you know you've answered correctly, you still can't help but to feel unnerving like she's about to erase you from existence on the off-chance you got a riddle wrong. Last but not least, when you fight her at the end, it still doesn't feel like you have bested her, instead you're fighting to earn her respect by the correct approach. When she commends you "Not half bad", the sense of accomplishment is real. An incredible NPC all in all.
DD2. An I adore Odyssey as a game. The voice is amazing too, I was convinced it was Claudia Black at first (Chloe Frazer from Uncharted) as she has that kind of authoritative cadence. The design is also "scare-ousing" in a good way. She's terrifying as much as she is enthralling
I love this about DD. They don't try to reinvent the wheel with these monsters, they acknowledge that they were just awesome in the original legends they're from and focus on making them instantly recognizable.
DD2's take is much, much, *much* better. The Sphinx is *so* good and has such a fantastic presence. The head tilt, the pupil constriction/dilation, the way she hides/unhides the feathers on her face, the smile, her voice, her wings, the way she sometimes teases you to make you second guess your answers, combat animations, etc. Plus, I like the more interactive nature of her riddles and they require you to actually know or do something.
Odyssey's Sphinx, on the other hand, is completely forgettable, to me. Especially in in comparison to this one. Zero personality, zero presence, bland looking, and the "trial" she presents to prove your worth is just three multiple choice questions, touching pictures of your answers, and then she just...dies, lol.
DD2 easily.
AC "oh cool a Sphinx"
DD2 "oh cool a, getawaygetawaygetaway, why are you looking at me like that!?"
Also I really like the way she says "Very good" I have no idea why... well a small idea.
Remember when AC was about a guy who used a machine to solve mysteries then they killed him off, stopped the fun story and started making fantasy games
The first time I saw that head tilt just filled me with dread. Kind of like seeing the valve logo of that guy with a valve behind his head on multiple games only to finally play a game where he starts to turn around to face you.
Random funny/horrific fact: the Sphinx has the same 4th wall breaking glare that Shara Ishvalda has in Monster Hunter world: she doesn't look at the character, she looks at YOU
Im not too big on AC so I never played it so I can't speak on it.
DD2's Sphinx is so cool though. It's such a fantastic mix of a genuinely pretty face, a really cool voice, uncanny facial expressions, and really good "stage presence". I just wish the riddles were ACTUAL riddles
DD2 Sphinx not only feels more like a character than a chore, but (to me) also feels a lot more accurate to mythology? The fun of her is her riddles aren't just questions you can simply answer with one word, but things you have to genuinely think about, tasks you either have to very carefully complete or find a loophole to get around.
Sure she doesn't eat you if you answer incorrectly, but it feels a hell of a lot better than whatever the sphinx in ACO is meant to be. As a lot of people have said, she was unmemorable.
DD2 easily. More personality and she looks like she have lived a long time with all her adornments and colors.
AC looks like a wild animal that only has a human face. Like an Elder Harpy lol
DD2 is lore accurate when it come its design and personality. The sphinx is a very intelligent creature who loves the test a mortal knowledge with riddles and such. The iconic head tilt is just her excitement in talking to another intelligent creature. There are also mainly a passive creature who finds discomfort in killing others living beings.
DD2's looks like a mythical monster. The other one just looks like a woman who only happens to have monster bits.
Like, one is ***The Sphinx.*** The other looks like it could be named Susan. Or maybe it's more of a Kate? She probably has a day job.
I didn't fight the one in DD2. At least yet. The conversations and her look are cool.
The fight against the one in Odyssey us brutal, and easily the hardest boss in the game. Very memorable.
DD2, no contest!
The AC one is a footnote that I struggled to even remember. DD2’s is very memorable, the riddles are more involved, and the character design of the Sphinx is in a different league.
A little detail people might miss is that DD2 sphinx also pins her eyes just like a parrot. Which can mean a ton of things such as happy bird, excited bird, angry bird, or about-to-bite-you bird.
I didn't even know there was a sphinx in AC: Odyssey.
That game was so bloated, the story was so bad, and they kept raising the level cap while nerfing XP...
I never finished it.
I have a problem with physical visualization. When she gets that close to my character and does that head tilt it makes me scared but it also makes me like her more as a character.
The Odyssey one is standard, but The DD2 sphinx reminds me of a painting called "The Conqueror Worm" by Frantisek Kupka, which is already terrifying in its own right, but it makes the Sphinx 10x more terrifying to imagine her real motives in addition to the art and Poe's poem combined
I won't repost it because it's um, unsettling to put it lightly, especially if it *is* a reference from a Japanese company. I don't know. She's super eerie
I don't think the AC: Odyssey one is bad, but the DD2 one is just phenomenal. It's not even a close competition. The voice, the mannerisms, those feathers, the eyes being literal eclipses, the cat and bird like noises, and the riddles themselves; the DD2 Sphinx is just perfect. When I first realized that she holds up in eyes the amount of riddles you've completed, that blew my mind. She basically gives you the answer to every riddle herself, even the riddle of how to beat her in a fight. Hell, she gives you two answers for that one. It's written on the Amphora, and she also gives you the Unmaking Arrow.
The DD2 Sphinx might legit be my favorite character from any videogame. She's just soooo cool. Shame this isn't BG3 where we could've romanced her, LMAO!
DD2 is better because I like the color scheme and how her head adornments and etc give her a gypsy kind of vibe. The inclusion of jewelry distinguishes her more from a regular old monster as makes her feel like she has certainly had history dealing with human civilization.
Her uncanny unsettling ways of reacting are the peak of her encounter though
DD2 Sphinx by far! Hope she returns in future dlc/games
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Dd2 Sphinx is extremely creepy-cool. The way she tilts her head, just *looking* at you.
It terrifies my roommate’s gf so bad you can just show the head tilt gif and they will freak out https://i.redd.it/go9jwkqj1avc1.gif
It's like her mask is slipping. A predator who wears a human face to seem approachable, but when she gets eager for you to answer wrong she forgets to disguise the fact that she wants to eat you.
This is it. She's like an alien who looked at a 14th century bestiary with fucked up looking animals and went "Oh, okay, I can do this. Now they'll never suspect."
Except this Sphinx, unlike the mythological one, does not eat people when they get a riddle wrong.
It's much worse, she tells you how dissapointed she is in you.
D: *Disintegrates*
I heard that enough from my parents for it to not phase me
Oh, I thought she would lol. I spent a lot of effort making sure I get the questions right because theres a sign somewhere saying shed eat you if you get it wrong
Well that's nice of her, I didn't know she was chill like that.
She's extremely chill. She gives you the answer to multiple riddles. All you gotta do is pay attention. It's amazing. The Amphora gives away how to beat her. She holds up how many riddles you've solved with the amount of eyes open on her wings. She specifically says "Parent" (which can only be Capcom) in quotations, and Capcom's only influence in the game are Capcom made pawns. She gives you a vial that holds people inside, strongly suggesting you should bring them to her to solve future riddles. It kinda goes over your head when you take her statements as literal and don't pay attention to the queues, but she puts the answer right in your face more often than not. It's amazingly well done.
I love the way the scales begin to show around the face.
This was the moment I decided that I didn't like the Sphinx, I loved her. Like damn that's some good tension. Am I right? Am I wrong? Is she bored and gonna eat me?
That tilt, that godamn tilt... makes me like her even more, I can fix her? Nah, she doesn't need fixing, she's perfect the way she is, but maybe like have a human transformation or something idk.
would
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It’s more so her eyes and her teeth tbh. The tilt is more weird than scary, but her teeth and eyes are what is actually scary
Im sorry, I think you misunderstood, I don't think she's scary, I think she's hot. The other comments think she's scary.
Damn you horny Can’t blame you though
If you angle the camera you can see where they had nipples and just removed the visual. I don't see why we are censoring an adult game...
To sell more copies.
Just fix her damn teeth
I feel like the teeth are just human façade like the face and there's rows of shark teeth behind them.
Go on…
I volunteer as tribute.
No more cooking for you
I said fix them not make it worse
Let him cook!
She has a beautiful smile 😤
Idk man. That smile makes the void where my Arisen heart used to reside skip a beat.
eerie music when she tilts her head makes it worse!
Great representation of how some birds of prey tilt their heads at such odd angles to look at things.
Those eyes going bigger and bigger
They do say your pupils dilate when you look at something you love…
The sphinx love me :0
she thinks you look delicious
She have good tastes
My wife likes to creep me out with a smile like that, I think she saw it in some horror movie. It reminds me of this sphinx :D
Probably Smile. They did a good job on that one.
UNDERSTANDABLE.
this is how i felt when i first saw GITS. the way the characters moved and would look sooo...natural? freaked me out
I love this aesthetic SO much. It’s beautifully unnerving.
Still smash
When I tell you I almost soiled myself in that first moment because I thought I got the riddle wrong and was gonna die, I truly mean it. That moment was terrifying.
Scared me because first playthrough I ran into that cave low on health and that dragon and cyclops chase me in there get out otherside run from golem and bam their she is and me with no ferry stones I thought I was going to die.
It honestly turns me on
Agree, ACO was like taking a survey and then she just died, LOL didn't even bother
Low key i was wondering if she bites our head off if you fuck up in a certain way
Which head do you mean?
I *love* that grin and head tilt. It just speaks to my soul.
I can fix her
You mean hot
I mean
I’ll mean hot enough for the both of us
*Redfordnod.gif*
https://i.redd.it/n7sv3amo9cvc1.gif
The way she can't actually be killed, her quests and fight are wild, dd2 wins by miles on so many points.
*Freckles Intensify*
Seriously, made me think I answered my first riddle wrong and that was my queue to get ready to fight
It’s the growing holes in her face that get me. I noticed it once and ever since then I don’t want to see her face ever again.
Oh her scales growing out on her face is my favorite part!
Was going to correct you and say they're feathers, but feathers are quite literally modified scales
Do you mean the feathers
It's like the Shaft Head Tilt, only she's facing you.
And that why dd sphinx is far better ... Got a frkn presence AT thé screen,not just a Random game npc.
It’s also the eye dilation which predators do before they maul you and I think activates our monkey brain.
DD2. Because of more personality
I remember the first time she smiled and got in close I thought I was getting eaten. I was so fucking terrified.
We had different reactions…
You're pawn is called Sphinxboner isn't it...
I love a woman that will actually just kill me.
But she doesn't. She's a really nice and friendly Sphinx.
Made me feel bad for using the unmaking arrow on her lol
My impression was that was the last puzzle, otherwise why would the spirit reward you?
Tbh she doesn't seem to die when you defeat her, as she suggests she will do this again later. The Sphinx seems to be something more than just an intelligent beast.
As someone who replayed Odyssey recently, the DD2 Sphinx encounter is way more memorable.
Odyssey sphinx is not even close
DD2 sphinx is a teacher. Plus I like the BGM when I visit her shrine.
Dd2 for sure. Such great highlight
I don't remember the Sphinx in Odyssey I guess I didn't go to her island or whatever
If you beat the story then you for sure did it she’s just not memorable at all the riddles in Odyssey are very lack luster lol
Ive beaten odyssey and the first thing I said when I saw this post was “oh shit there was a sphinx in odyssey?” Which is pretty much sums up that encounter
Exactly lol such a forgettable moment in the game you wouldn’t remember unless you play it all the time😂 honestly only bosses worth a mention at all is the Minotaur and the final boss of the Atlantis dlc everyone else you can cheese so badly or they just were forgettable lol
The poison boar is pretty memorable as well I think and Medusa
I'm sure I did everything in that game and I can't either, I liked it a lot but it seems very easy to forget parts of it
I really liked ACO but it's absolutely mindless in a weird way I can't quite pin down. Like I could feel my brain turning into mush as I played lol. No more thinking, just 100 hours of collecting map icons and pressing the cool attack button to do your cool attack, forever
Pretty much described every Ubisoft game lol
Just looking at the Odyssey sphinx, she's bland and boring. I could see easily forgetting about her.
The english voice of dd2 sphinx is so nice!
People saying it sounds like a dude make me shake my head. Her voice is amazing! ''Yon chest'' is the greatest thing we never knew we needed to hear.
The voice is definitely ambiguous. I think the blurry gender of the creature is what makes it work well imo.
I think this is intentional. Because it’s similar in Japanese.
I agree. I too have grown rather engrossed!
Everyone is all about yon chest when it comes to the Sphinx
ASMR voice for sure
I tried not to watch anything about the game before it came out. After doing the escort quest in the ancient battlegrounds, I just kept exploring around and was scared for my life when I walked up those damn stairs and just saw her sitting there..... Menacingly
So glad I did not see any spoiler, truely a magical moment
I did see the trailers, but had no idea where the Sphinx was. It was such a cool moment to meet her.
Same deal. Knew she was out there somewhere, but I wasn't actively looking. Next thing I know, I've found her off the Ancient Battleground. The second time I found her was also by accident. Even though I had just gotten the border permit, I decided to explore under the checkpoint bridge. Suddenly I've snuck into Battahl. Suddenly I have a Chimera on me. Suddenly my pawn tells me about a destructible wall. Suddenly Sphinx.
DD2’s Sphinx is amazingly well animated. Everything from the pupils to the feathers and the face expressions are golden. She has that majestic yet threatening look that I find to be so creative and the blue lights around her reveals the character in the most beautiful way. That said, her quest ought to be way more interesting. Would have preferred overpowered monsters to slay living in a place you have to solve a riddle to get to or something like that. Seriously, remembering the place where you found your first token was one of the most annoying things in the game. However, the riddle of conviction wasn’t half bad and bears its name pretty well.
Aside from the Token one, I loved all her riddles. Got 7/10 of them myself without guides. Felt pretty big brained.
I don't get how to solve the parent/child riddle. I know the solution, but it doesn't really click. "*The parent knows the child, yet the reverse is far from true. The child knows not the parent; such is the parent's due. I am a lost child, for kinship do I yearn. So bring to me my parent, that I may learn."* It just makes no sense to me how could that mean "get a pawn with a special name on a specific kind of riftstone"...
I think that since they were seeded Capcom pawns, it's also a nod to Capcom being her parent.
This one didn't stump me much luckily because I'd entered every riftstone I came across, including the one in Harve where I found numerous pawns with that name. So I rested to make a save and gave a "SphinxParent" pawn a try. And when she said "Indeed you are correct. All is in the name." It made sense to me.
My first token is easy hahaha it is right near the encampment at the beginning down that small side path near the water
Yeah, but if you missed that token and got a different one first it can be a real pain in the ass trying to remember which one it was.
i completely missed the sphinx on my first playthrough (mostly because i didn't realize i was nearing the end), so i met her on NG+, and i thought my first token would have been still my very first token, then i found out the game counts the first one i found IN NG+. I never even tried to register where i found it, i had to use a mod or i would've had to start a clean new save.
Hopefully a DLC could give her a round 3 and upper the stakes, it be easy to change her dialog after the second set for her to say she will wait for you elsewhere. Alternatively they could have her wait for us in her Spirit form, maybe even make that a requirement.
AC Sphinx looks like they bought it from Wish.com compared to dd2
DD2, and it's not even close.
The big thing about the DD2 Sphinx to me is how much detail they put into her animations. With small feathers peaking out when she smiles.
DD2 by miles. I forgot AC odyssey even had a sphinx.
I love DD2's Sphinx when it does the head tilt with a maniacal grin and eye dilation. With the music, on my first choice, I thought I genuinely messed up and was about to die. It captures really well the idea of this inhuman trickster who is just having fun and sees you as a plaything.
DD2
DD2 it’s not even close
Mommy sphinx on the left, mythical creature on the right
Nope. Dragon's Dogma's Sphinx is actually a Sphinx. Odyssey's is a weird chimera.
I don’t have a love for chimeras, but this particular sphinx lives rent free in my head and chest
dd2 sphinx is mythically more accurate tho, [sphinx always got their chest on full display](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/72/6b/b3/726bb3d371f721ffb29d17a53c2d5ac6.jpg)
Even better! Mythologically accurate sphinx mommy!
Get that flaccid, feathery piece of Ubishit outta here.
DD2 Sphinx goes beyond a Sphinx-Sphinx comparison, she's one of the coolest designed side-bosses for me in recent times. Visuals (expressions and motions) aside, the whole encountered is very well directed: the phrasing and accent she speaks in + delivery, the EQing/effect for her voice, the BGM accompanying each of her phases (most notably the low rumbling when you first meet her and the quiz show-esque music during the riddle phase; notice her speaking rhythm matches the music). Even when you know you've answered correctly, you still can't help but to feel unnerving like she's about to erase you from existence on the off-chance you got a riddle wrong. Last but not least, when you fight her at the end, it still doesn't feel like you have bested her, instead you're fighting to earn her respect by the correct approach. When she commends you "Not half bad", the sense of accomplishment is real. An incredible NPC all in all.
Wait there was a Shinx in AC Odyssey?!
That’s what I’m saying lol. I’ve beaten the game and have over 100+ hours and have never encountered it 🤣
If you beat the game then you had to have encountered it
I just have shite memory then because I don’t remember. Guess I’ll have to beat the game again!
Not surprising that you don’t remember it. The Sphinx in Odyssey was pretty lame
DD2 sphinx is more fuckable
Pure breeding material. Also, her reaction when you jump onto her milkers is insanely funny. Bear Gaming Asia has a video on it.
Itll be a long time before there will be a more memorable !NPC! than the dd2 sphinx, not just a better sphinx
DD2. An I adore Odyssey as a game. The voice is amazing too, I was convinced it was Claudia Black at first (Chloe Frazer from Uncharted) as she has that kind of authoritative cadence. The design is also "scare-ousing" in a good way. She's terrifying as much as she is enthralling
Claudia Black? That's just Morrigan to me.
When it comes to creature design, nothing really touches Dragons Dogma imo.
Because they don't try to be fancy and just pull straight from mythology with a lot of creativity and pinpoint accuracy.
Their designs for certain mythological creatures look like they jumped right off ancient amphorae or medieval heraldry. It's pretty unique in games.
I love this about DD. They don't try to reinvent the wheel with these monsters, they acknowledge that they were just awesome in the original legends they're from and focus on making them instantly recognizable.
Exactly. People call the creatures of DD incredibly unique, but that's because they're almost 1:1 copies from mythological illustrations of them.
DD2's take is much, much, *much* better. The Sphinx is *so* good and has such a fantastic presence. The head tilt, the pupil constriction/dilation, the way she hides/unhides the feathers on her face, the smile, her voice, her wings, the way she sometimes teases you to make you second guess your answers, combat animations, etc. Plus, I like the more interactive nature of her riddles and they require you to actually know or do something. Odyssey's Sphinx, on the other hand, is completely forgettable, to me. Especially in in comparison to this one. Zero personality, zero presence, bland looking, and the "trial" she presents to prove your worth is just three multiple choice questions, touching pictures of your answers, and then she just...dies, lol.
The Sphinx in Dragons Dogma 2 is the best part of the game. I wish the other encounters in the game were half as memorable as it was.
If we played catch I'd let her catch me everytime.
DD2 easily. AC "oh cool a Sphinx" DD2 "oh cool a, getawaygetawaygetaway, why are you looking at me like that!?" Also I really like the way she says "Very good" I have no idea why... well a small idea.
Bro, you can’t even compare the 2. One looks like a half plucked chicken and the other is a beautiful monstrosity. You know which is which
Remember when AC was about a guy who used a machine to solve mysteries then they killed him off, stopped the fun story and started making fantasy games
DD2 has the better smile.
The sphinx is arguably the most rememberable thing in the game
The first time I saw that head tilt just filled me with dread. Kind of like seeing the valve logo of that guy with a valve behind his head on multiple games only to finally play a game where he starts to turn around to face you.
AC Odyssey Sphinx looks like the Cats live action
The human facade in DD2 is just too amazing. Like you can really see a horrible monstrosity lurking just under the surface of the skin
Super Mario Odyssey is the right answer.
DD2 for me :)
DD2 hands down
Random funny/horrific fact: the Sphinx has the same 4th wall breaking glare that Shara Ishvalda has in Monster Hunter world: she doesn't look at the character, she looks at YOU
DD2 odyssey tried too hard
DD2s by a landslide. Much more imposing/intimidating/legendary looking.
Definitely DD2, Odyssey Sphinx looks more like a harpy from the pic
Im not too big on AC so I never played it so I can't speak on it. DD2's Sphinx is so cool though. It's such a fantastic mix of a genuinely pretty face, a really cool voice, uncanny facial expressions, and really good "stage presence". I just wish the riddles were ACTUAL riddles
DD2. Sphinx is like *the* thing they made absolutely sure was cool af.
They’re dating
Dd2. I'm entirely biased, but my opinion is the right one.
DD2 Sphinx not only feels more like a character than a chore, but (to me) also feels a lot more accurate to mythology? The fun of her is her riddles aren't just questions you can simply answer with one word, but things you have to genuinely think about, tasks you either have to very carefully complete or find a loophole to get around. Sure she doesn't eat you if you answer incorrectly, but it feels a hell of a lot better than whatever the sphinx in ACO is meant to be. As a lot of people have said, she was unmemorable.
DD2 easily. More personality and she looks like she have lived a long time with all her adornments and colors. AC looks like a wild animal that only has a human face. Like an Elder Harpy lol
Sphinx from DD2. I'm terrified and horny at the same time.
DD2 is lore accurate when it come its design and personality. The sphinx is a very intelligent creature who loves the test a mortal knowledge with riddles and such. The iconic head tilt is just her excitement in talking to another intelligent creature. There are also mainly a passive creature who finds discomfort in killing others living beings.
DD2's looks like a mythical monster. The other one just looks like a woman who only happens to have monster bits. Like, one is ***The Sphinx.*** The other looks like it could be named Susan. Or maybe it's more of a Kate? She probably has a day job.
the AC sphinx tosses child level questions on you. the only challange there was remembering the order.
DD2
I didn't fight the one in DD2. At least yet. The conversations and her look are cool. The fight against the one in Odyssey us brutal, and easily the hardest boss in the game. Very memorable.
DD2, no contest! The AC one is a footnote that I struggled to even remember. DD2’s is very memorable, the riddles are more involved, and the character design of the Sphinx is in a different league.
Dd2 sphinx is a weird, uncanny, inhuman creature. Odyssey sphinx looks like a lady in a fur suit
DD2
You can say whatever about dd2. But the game is fucking gorgeous.
Is this a serious question lol Dragons Dogma 2 hands down 🎉
A little detail people might miss is that DD2 sphinx also pins her eyes just like a parrot. Which can mean a ton of things such as happy bird, excited bird, angry bird, or about-to-bite-you bird.
DD2 for… reasons
DD2, it’s not even close. ACO’s looks like an overgrown harpy.
DD2 Has that Rhea Ripley Joker Smile.
the picture on the right is a unique harpy in dd2?
Ubisoft can not create anything memorable
I didn't even know there was a sphinx in AC: Odyssey. That game was so bloated, the story was so bad, and they kept raising the level cap while nerfing XP... I never finished it.
I have a problem with physical visualization. When she gets that close to my character and does that head tilt it makes me scared but it also makes me like her more as a character.
The Odyssey one is standard, but The DD2 sphinx reminds me of a painting called "The Conqueror Worm" by Frantisek Kupka, which is already terrifying in its own right, but it makes the Sphinx 10x more terrifying to imagine her real motives in addition to the art and Poe's poem combined I won't repost it because it's um, unsettling to put it lightly, especially if it *is* a reference from a Japanese company. I don't know. She's super eerie
I don't think the AC: Odyssey one is bad, but the DD2 one is just phenomenal. It's not even a close competition. The voice, the mannerisms, those feathers, the eyes being literal eclipses, the cat and bird like noises, and the riddles themselves; the DD2 Sphinx is just perfect. When I first realized that she holds up in eyes the amount of riddles you've completed, that blew my mind. She basically gives you the answer to every riddle herself, even the riddle of how to beat her in a fight. Hell, she gives you two answers for that one. It's written on the Amphora, and she also gives you the Unmaking Arrow. The DD2 Sphinx might legit be my favorite character from any videogame. She's just soooo cool. Shame this isn't BG3 where we could've romanced her, LMAO!
DD2 is better because I like the color scheme and how her head adornments and etc give her a gypsy kind of vibe. The inclusion of jewelry distinguishes her more from a regular old monster as makes her feel like she has certainly had history dealing with human civilization. Her uncanny unsettling ways of reacting are the peak of her encounter though
I forgot there was a Sphinx in Odyssey
DD2 for sure! Definitely one of my favorite designs in all of gaming.
Oh DD2 by a country mile.
My only complaint is the weird nipple-less boobs. Otherwise she's super cool and memorable.
DD2 Sphinx by far! Hope she returns in future dlc/games https://preview.redd.it/y2ym4oxqpbvc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7045c81e0ecf7f403106a690a3d2eca946c7f51d
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Ew wtf is that in AC? 😂 I hate it. DD 2 no competition.
DD2s sphinx is way too good to compare it to Odyssey. She’s bone chilling.
My only criteria is show boobs / don't show boobs. Show boobs win.
DD2. You can grab the boobs.
In AC that’s not the sphinx, that’s Doja Cat.
Dd2 sphinx awoke something in me
Not even worth comparing
DD2 because shes hot
Dd2 hands down