Think You've Mastered Skyrim? Try Playing It As A Mudcrab
With Skyrim's Playable Monster Mod you can, as the name suggests, play as a monster. Created by SirCumference64, this mod lets you transform into almost any creature, monster, or enemy in the game, including small critters like chickens and mudcrabs. I've recently written about playing Bethesda's RPG as a pure mage, an NPC, an illusionist, a pacifist, and an unarmed brawler, but playing as a lowly mudcrab, the most basic of low-level enemies, might be the toughest challenge I've taken on to date.
I'm going to experiment with some other creatures too. Install the mod and you can conjure up a treasure chest stuffed with spell books that let you morph into a vast array of creatures—and use all the attacks and abilities they have when you encounter them in the vanilla game too. I thought it would be interesting to start some fights while inhabiting these forms, to see how viable they might be to legitimately play the game. I've played a lot of Skyrim over the years, but never like this. Let's see what happens.
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Skyrim as a mudcrab is the hardest video game I've ever played. You move painfully slowly (because you're a crab), your claws barely do any damage, and you die in one hit. Whether it's a dragon, a random villager, or a low-level monster, your survivability is basically zero. I'd be amazed if anyone could make it more than a few steps through a dungeon as a mudcrab. It's a lot of fun playing as one, though—especially if you use the ToggleImmortalMode console command and go on a pincer rampage in a city.
If playing as a mudcrab is Skyrim nightmare mode, then playing as a giant is the complete opposite. Not only is lumbering around the world as one of
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