Talk:Hajime Nagumo/@comment-43661862-20190926214729/@comment-24053170-20190927023913

After you defeat monsters in FF Legend, you can gain their flesh/meat. Which you can eat to either gain new powers/skills or even transform your characters into a new species.

The strange thing about it is that you also gain the flesh of things that are totally inorganic (such as from robots/cyborgs) and even disembodied (spectral/undead/elemental monsters).

Its quite possibly the oldest example of gaining things from eating them.

Nethack is also another video game example of consuming monsters to gain powers and/or immunities to things.