Strangest Pets in Video Games

With quirky personalities all their own, it's difficult to not fall in love with pets. We're intrigued by their thought-processes and smitten by their charm, even if they cannot use magic spells to destroy our enemies as our video game companions often can. Inspired in part by Fiery Corgis in WOW, here are some of the strangest pets in gaming.

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When it Rains...

There is a very specific song that plays in my head when the clouds turn dark, thunder rolls across the vast sky and the rain starts falling steadily all around me.

This song manages to seep from my brain and before I know it, it has become audible and I'm humming away as if no one is listening.

When I hear the rain hitting the earth, I have that Pavlovian response.

Peeking into the Life of Kelly

It's 7:11 p.m. on April 22nd when I wake Kelly from her slumber. Her bare room - a fairly understated proclamation as literally there is no wallpaper, and no carpet for Kelly to rest her red Mary-Janes on as she hops out of the bed with red sheets - seems cold and lifeless. If not for Kelly's shocking pink mohawk, purple 1950s glasses and her red-striped "Where's Waldo?" dress, there's no colour to be seen in this house that could use a serious upgrade.