Despite its gothic horror setting, I wouldn\u2019t call Mina the Hollower<\/em> a scary game. It has its eerie moments and some fierce monsters, but it\u2019s as whimsical as any Zelda game. That said, I do have a warning to anyone who is easily spooked by jump scares: Never, under any circumstances, talk to Klumpy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Klumpy is a clown who lives in Ossex, the central town on Tenebrous Isle. He\u2019s some sort of critter in a mascot costume; you can see his dastardly eyes poking out of the clown\u2019s mouth. You can find him hanging out northeast of the fountain at the center of town. At a glance, he just looks like any other unassuming NPC there to say his one canned line. This is a ruse. Klumpy is a jump-scare machine that will haunt your entire playthrough if you agree to his devil\u2019s bargain.<\/p>\n When you first speak to Klumpy, he\u2019ll ask if you\u2019d like to hear his jokes. If you say yes, you\u2019re signing up for him to appear throughout the rest of the game to tell you jokes. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t hurt, you\u2019re not laughing hard enough,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ll have you laughing all over the Isles soon \u2014 just you wait!\u201d This is a threat, and you should treat it as such.<\/p>\n The deal is that Klumpy will jump out at you during several unexpected moments, and he will scare the shit out of you in the process. Just cutting some grass in Mourner\u2019s Mile? Klumpy is going to launch out of the ground and hit you with some gallows humor. He\u2019s always making jokes about murder and executions, too, which makes his presence all the more unsettling.<\/p>\n The fiends at Yacht Club Games have a blast putting Klumpy in places where you\u2019re not expecting him, and his appearances are spaced out far enough apart that you\u2019ll forget he\u2019s there by the time he pops up again. You might be taking down an enemy in battle when Klumpy hops out of the bastard\u2019s corpse to hit you with his latest joke. Klumpy has no chill, and you won’t either after the devil frays your nerves.<\/p>\n As much as I would beat Klumpy to a pulp if he ever pulled that on me in real life, I do have a soft spot for the freak. He\u2019s just one small example of something I love about Mina the Hollower<\/em>: its NPCs. Every character you meet has a ton of personality, even if they only spout a one-liner that gives color to the world. You can learn a lot about the inner politics of Ossex if you chat with its residents about the state of the city\u2019s newspaper or its western slum. Yacht Club Games put so much detail into its adventure, and you can really feel that even in the littlest conversations.<\/p>\n So go ahead: Talk to everyone you see! Just be wary of Klumpy if you\u2019re trying to keep your heart rate down in an already high-stress game. He\u2019ll make Resident Evil Requiem<\/em> look like a walk in the park.<\/p>\n ![\"Mina](\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mina-the-hollower-klumpy-intro.jpg?q=70&fit=crop&w=825&dpr=1\")
\n <\/picture>Image: Yacht Club Games via Polygon<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Klumpy](\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mina-the-hollower-klumpy-jump-scare.jpg?q=70&fit=crop&w=825&dpr=1\")
\n <\/picture>Image: Yacht Club Games via Polygon<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Mina,](\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minablaststrikemaul_bg.png?q=49&fit=crop&w=220&h=124&dpr=2\"\/)
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