Gruegloom is anenemy appearing inKirby Mass Attack. It is a floating skull-shaped creature which revels in the dark, taking on the appearance of a dark purple puff of smoke unless exposed to the light. The Gruegloom cannot be harmed while it is in darkness, and will eat anyKirbys it gets its mouth on. In the light, however, it is very vulnerable, and can be easily pummeled. Defeating it yields 500 points to the player.

A second variety of Gruegloom exists inKirby Mass Attack which has a blue hue. These appear in swarms in various dark places, and will fade away when exposed to the light. They effectively serve as an intangible and motionless but deadly stage hazard which forces the Kirbys to stay in lit areas.

Locations[edit]

Gruegloom appears exclusively inVolcano Valley - Stage 6.

Trivia[edit]

• A plausible inspiration for the Gruegloom (either in localization into English or in conception by the original Japanese developers)^[1] is the grue, a monster popularized byZork and other text adventure games created byInfocom in the 1970s and 1980s. When it is pitch black, the player character of these games is likely to be eaten by a grue, unless the player equips a light source like a lamp.
  • As the grue primarily thrives in the dark as the Gruegloom does, few visual descriptions of the grue exist. However, theField Guide to the Creatures of Frobozz included with later releases ofSorcerer suggests a scholarly consensus within the world ofZork "that grues are black and black and red and black and purple",^[2] similar to the hues of the purple Gruegloom. The illustration provided, of a pair of glowing eyes in a dark cloud, also matches the portrayal of the blue Gruegloom.
• The purple and blue Gruegloom variants have different names in the enemy credits sequence exclusive to the Japanese version. Notably, despite the third medal ofVolcano Valley - Stage 6 requiring navigating a hallway largely full ofblue Grueglooms (グルーモ,gurūmo), Daroach's hint to this medal refers only to グルーネ (gurūne), the Japanese name for thepurple Gruegloom variant.^[3]
• The Gruegloom's nature as a floating skull surrounded by smoke, which dissipates when it is vulnerable, is similar to the way thatBubbles function in certain installments of theLegend of Zelda series.

Names in other languages[edit]

Purple Gruegloom[edit]

Blue Gruegloom[edit]

References

• Enemies in Kirby Mass Attack

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