What I particularly loved that many people probably didn’t even notice was the unique death animations each enemy had in SotN. Some monsters just fall over & die, the zombie guards in the Marble Gallery get split in half & yell in agony as blood squirts from their abdomen, other creatures fall apart limb my limb, etc. this attention to detail was amazing. A lot of gruesome death scenes. I recall an old zombie-ish man with his demonic pooch, and if you kill the pooch first, he mourns his death for a few seconds before attacking you in revenge. I think a similar thing happens when you kill an armor knights owl, he gets visibly upset. The Hippogryph doesn’t have a violent death animation, but simply admits defeat & disappears out of reality. It was cool to see because it wasn’t expected.
Do you guys have any favorite death animations?