>>109902989I've always just assumed they never brought him back because the unfriendly mechanic of "having to deal with other large monsters randomly gangfuck tag-teaming you in a corner sometimes" that would happen in the older games has gone more and more by the wayside over time but he was such a cool lil bird. And honestly already by 3rd gen dung bombs were actually functional enough that it was rarely ever a problem unless they had really bad timing.