i see it

is this man from hollow knight or am i the only one who see's the resemblence

One of the best workshop character's i've played yet. Gameplay is incredibly fun, and landing a sick combo is extremely satisfactory. It is also great visually. Great job

Definitely makes sense that he was experimental. Still very cool.

I like the idea that he uses words and phrases from all over. Makes it seem like he's been everywhere; yet people hardly ever catch a glimpse of him. He probably has a lot of epic stories to tell; but refuses to tell them, refuses to elaborate, and refuses to care. That might be a bold assumption; but that's where my mind would go. I like him a lot!

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Probably gonna do some artwork of this guy...

@S.I.L. Thanks again for the review! Glad you have a lot of fun with this one as well haha. Monarch was my most experimental character, and was kind of a vessel of how far I could push the game's engine. I focused mostly on the theme, style and visuals over gameplay here which is why I think it's one of the weaker aspects looking back, but I learned a lot from it.

I think Monarch would talk, but not too often. My gut feeling is a mature, "mysterious masked figure" voice what only says a few words at a time. He would probably use a mix of strange wording and phrases from a lot of different places which would make him sound like a foreigner wherever he was, which is not really untrue.

P.S.

I'm aware of Lite; and that it tones down the VFX; but the confusion comes more-so from his movements in the animations; and not the VFX therein

Overall, he's a fun character to play, watch, and even fight if you aren't a salt mine. He's no doubt one of the most visually stunning characters I've laid eyes on; and he will definitely be a regular pick of mine. Whether for the fun; or if I'm just in the mood for some fireworks.

This might be the longest review of a character I've done; but that just means this character inspired a lot of fancy words 'n' such.

Before I go, I'm gonna ask the same question I did for my fuzzy pool noodle buddy:
If you have a headcanon voice for Monarch, what is it?

Now, I'm going to touch on something I don't normally mention in these monologues: Fighting AGAINST the character.

As much as I adore his animations, they are nearly unintelligible to me as an opponent. I ran into a Monarch online the other day; and trying to make sense of some of his movements is a battle in-and-of-itself. Granted, that plays into his strength of confusing the enemy; but it feels a bit extreme in this instance. It's definitely not a huge factor in my opinion of the animations, nor will it negatively affect my thoughts in him in the long run. It's simply that versing him is rather disorienting; but y'know what?


It's still fun watching my character get annihilated by him.

As for design:

There's something about a cyberpunk butterfly man gracefully dashing about while firing high power photon blasts from a colt revolver that tickles a particularly unhinged part of my brain. This character's design and animations are something to be proud of; and as I stated: watching him beat people brains out is almost as fun as doing it yourself. He currently holds the (somewhat) prestigious position of one of my favorite taunts in all of RoA.

I suppose my main gripes would be: I wish NSpec automatically aimed down, as that's far more frequent, and having me input downwards while placing one cases me to accidentally enter the newly made portal.
I also would have preferred if entering the portals was done with a different input. Even though it isn't a huge issue; but I keep accidently entering portals while mid-combo, which is particularly inconvenient, considering the portals have a certain number of uses before they disappear. Perhaps a combination of down and another button would be more convenient for me personally; but I stress the word personally.

Hello again! Playing Awatsu (my current favorite workshop character) had me curious about this author's other work; so here I am after playing with Monarch.

I'll start by saying he's possibly one of the most unique characters I've played. His attacks behave vastly different from other characters; and are put together in a way that's a bit difficult to adjust to. Once adjusted, however, he becomes one of the most fun characters to knock people around like ragdolls for however long he decides to. Even watching this guy dart around, throwing out lethal blows at random is extremely fun. His playstyle seems to be built around constantly moving around, never letting the opponent (& at times even yourself) know where you'll be next.

MONARCH IS THE MOST FUN CHARACTER IN THE WORKSHOP!!!!!!!!!!

this is my main, because holy crap is monarch fun to use

@Cedar_Z try installing monarch lite

Why does it look like a Hollow Knight char?

This character is cool but like holy shit it hurts my eyes it is a cluster fuck

This Legitimately have so much amount of effort with so many other famous workshop, I main this purely on how much work it took and how fun it is to play

I really hope this one is added to the base roster just for the amount of effort put into it.

Hopefully Mollo already being in the game doesn't affect the choice at all. Like, "We already have a moth, so we can't have a butterfly, too."

I'm guessing as far as story is concerned, Monarch must be from the future, same as Claren to explain his tech.

I have to say it, this is probably the character with the most comlicated and fun mechanic i've ever seen in a fighting game, almost every move in his moveset chains perfectly with all the others and the amount of small details even in the pixel art is sign of a very well done job. Even if it's a little bit difficult to uderstand how this character works, after you learn the basics it's actually very easy to play. 10/10 character

@Ikarosta Thank you! I'm glad you like him! Feel free to join the discord listed at the bottom of the page if you want some advice

wow i gotta say this is the coolest character ive ever seen, like the amount of work, animation, coding,...your character really deserves to in the base game. just wow 10/10, definitely gonna learn to be a monarch main!!!

Thank you!

@SIMΩMEGA Glad you like the character! Had a look at the bug page. The content in the screenshots is:
Battle of Bohr by GrenadesInSpades
Nade by GrenadesInSpades
Starry Hilltop by Hyuponia
Diamond Grove by fespadea
Tenru by Me

Also do you mind sharing which stages and / or other Workshop characters in the screenshots?

Very great character! Although it has few problems (check Bugs).

This looks like if Persona and Hollow Knight did a collaboration and this was original to said collaboration

The coolest character in any platform fighter ngl

this is the coolest character i've played in a platform fighter, good job

so is he a moth or a butterfly?

How do you shoot the portals in diffrent directions?

does this thing have lore?

He do be looking like hornet from hollow knight

Honestly, this is the best looking and feeling character in the workshop! New main for sure! Fantastic job!

it's the craziest thing ive ever seen

this moveset is one of the most fluid things to exist and I'm in love.

a spy main in rivals

absolutely incredible

looking cool Monarch

Character too advanced brain hurt.

this showed up when i searched the workshop for "hollow knight" and honestly yeah i don't blame it this guy looks like a hollow knight boss

Monarch is in my top 10 fighting game characters of all time. Portals teleportation and all that. I was somewhat anoyed with the last few changes to the character, but once I got used to them the fun returned. Give it a whirl or two. play with your friends. Portals are fun

I was looking through the character and noticed not only the extra icons on the selection screen for monarch, but also how there are only 10 skins out of at least 25 unlocked for me. How do I go about interacting with the icons and grabbing all of the skins? Anybody know?

look how they massacred my boy

Why you nerfed it that hard :'v?

When I first saw Monarch I thought they were a base game character they're so high quality, absolutely excellent work

amazing

Don't nerf. He is perfect. At the moment he's my main.

Add the ability to reverse momentum and direction off of a hit nair

nerf after nerf after nerf, please he's gonna be bad if you keep going

maaan, did his fspecial get it's really fun gimmick removed? I get it's for balance if it was but that really dilutes the character imo