Cucurbito the Pumpkin is an enemy in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam HD.
Overview
Cucurbito the Pumpkin is basically a human wearing overalls, uses a chainsaw and has a pumpkin for a head. It was made by Mental, by combining elements his time-traveling agents found in 20th century Earth, including Smashing Pumpkins albums, a copy of the Burt Reynolds movie Deliverance and a copy of Lumberjack Digest.
Cucurbitos only have one attack: charging at the player. The player can also be damaged by walking into a Cucurbito. Cucurbitos make a screeching/screaming noise when they are killed.
Tactics
- Cucurbitos are easy to dodge, making them not a major serious threat when encountered with other enemies. The player can easily dodge Cucurbitos while taking out more serious threats, such as Major Bio-mechanoids.
- Cucurbito is very similar to a Sirian Werebull minus the knockback effect from its charge attack and should be treated as such.
- For obvious reasons, one should not use melee weapons against Cucurbito, unless as a last resort and you sidestep to avoid its attacks.
- A single or small group of Cucurbitos can be killed with the Double Barrel Coach Gun or XPML21 Rocket Launcher.
- Groups of Cucurbitos can be easily taken out with the XM214-A Minigun, XOP Flamethrower, MK III Grenade Launcher, zoomed in RAPTOR Sniper Rifle or a charged up cannonball. The minigun's high rate of fire and the very large amount of damage a charged up cannonball can do to a group make them very useful against Cucurbitos.
- In the HD version of the game, Cucurbitos sometimes can rapidly slash the player, dealing the same amount of damage but in a rapid succession. Usually occurs if you are close to them after their charge attack is finished.
Trivia
- If the player is killed by a Cucurbito, Sam will be sliced in half. The same also happens when he is mutilated by the Beheaded Rocketeer's buzzsaw.
Gallery
As it appears in The Second Encounter.
The Chainsaw used by Cucurbito.
Original Croteam sketch.
Serious Sam HD version of Cucurbito.
Chainsaw used by HD Cucurbito.
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