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Any idea why Atlus is adding new content for SMT V: Vengeance late?
Releasing a demo for Vengeance now seems odd, but I agree with others who have said they're probabaly trying to push the game again in the wake of Metaphor's success. Couldn't hurt, and i like the Marici add. Haven't done anything with the new navigators yet.
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indeed, you were first, Mondo! Congratulations!
Also, my days of spending an hour writing replies to individual asks are definitely not back yet.
No one asked me anything on Bluesky like I had intended, so I guess you guys win. Know that I don't have the free time I once did. It will remain open at my discretion.
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Okiku-Mushi's art has her hanging from the ceiling, which some games references by having her drop down. It is somewhat well known that she does this in games like SMTIV - however, her entry animation in Raidou also has her fall down, albeit in a way that implies the rope holding her has snapped entirely.
early-mid 2024 sketches
TONIGHT, November 10th, 8:00 PM EST/7:00 PM CST, we're closing down the first act of the game in Persona 3 FES! This time Kazushi's knee is hurt or something. Watch as we struggle to progress the story and get cheats to work so that we don't have to fight as many Muttering Tiaras. Tonight!!!
One last Bluesky reminder!
I need more time to think out my whole return plan (it's surprisingly complicated), so, in the meanwhile, @ me on Bluesky and I'll try to respond as well as I can. Let's give this a week and see how it goes.
Tumblr inbox will remain closed by necessity; I'll explain later.
A zombie martyr carrying a cross on his back. The meaning of his name is "anguish" [agony].
I figured I could make him similar to UFC's "Kimo Monster". Since the zombie is carrying a cross, I was also thinking of referencing The Mission* but that would have resembled the movie too much and it would have gotten me in trouble, so I decided to turn him into "Agony" because of his pain. (Kaneko Kazuma)
nah, i don't think i would've wanted to include Agony anyway 🥴
TONIGHT, November 8th, 9:00 PM EST/8:00 PM CST, we're going to avenge the angel in Requiem: Avenging Angel! Join us as we go straight to hell in this lowercase 'c' classic FPS that was recommended for the stream many moons ago. Tonight!!!
Messian Terminator: The Video Game
Sometime In the coming days, I will be detailing my intention to return to answering things like in the pre-stroke times.
Things will naturally be different, because they have to be. But I'll try my best.
So it turned out this guy is the most realistic SMT character
TONIGHT, November 4th, 8:00 PM EST/7:00 PM CST, we're something like a quarter of the way through Persona 3 FES! The full moon is here again, and it's time to slay the Emperor and the Empress and then find a pair of fucked up coffins to stuff them in. Tonight!!
Oh God, only a quarter?
TONIGHT, November 1st, 9:00 PM EST/8:00 PM CST, we're back after serving a dime (3 days) for showing off Broly's big ass on stream for longer than you're allowed to do that, and you know our boy PHIL was outside the gate waiting to pick us up in Dark Souls Remastered! Join us as we brave various optional challenges in preparation for Sen's Fortress, and maybe learn a thing or two about the criminal justice system. Tonight!!!
(Art in thumbnail by t2_hatori!!!)
I'll be honest with you all, we're running out of cribs. Who knows what the landscape will look like next year. Only one thing is for sure: Kaneko's bare, spooky carcass will be on full display at least once more by our fine friends at Colopl.
LEPRECHAUN: An often controversial design because "why is an Irish fairy clad in a Union Jack boot, isn't that a bit insensitive to Ireland? "; however, Eirikr puts that argument to rest with an exhaustive look into the design's context. And yeah, Leprechaun's "scandalous" boot is clearly cribbed from the one used by the Spice Girls' Geri Halliwell.
HOMO GORLEO: There are two things to say about Metaphor's human designs. The first is that most seem to be inspired by the works of Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, like Gorleo here, which iterates on a figure found on the center panel of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.
HOMO AVADES: The second thing we can say about the Metaphor humans is that we're frustrated by the lack of transparency regarding who designed them. One would assume that would be Shigenori Soejima, but Atlus has been less than forthright about something so apparently obvious. For the time being, we'll just have to credit them to "Studio Zero Art Team." Avades itself is at least more clearly adapted from the central figure of the the right panel of Bosch's Garden.
NYAMI NYAMI: We've made light of Doi in the past for over-relying on Wikipedia as a source for things, and, hey, it happened again for Vengeance's Nyami Nyami, this time an image of a wood carving of the deity used on the JP Wikipedia page that Doi clearly saw while researching and used as a reference, not that we're faulting him for it!
AMABIE: A design actually borne out of Atlus piggybacking on a Japanese Amabie meme during the Covid-19 pandemic, Doi's Amabie is based on a 19th century woodblock print that's the genesis for virtually all modern depictions of her.
This year's crib set came down to the wire, and almost included Agony, but the source was not as incontrovertible as I like these things to be.
I did machine translate the core bit of Agony's description, though:
十字架を背負った殉教者のゾンビ。 A martyr zombie carrying a cross.
No mention of Jesus at all, obviously.
Hey soren, this one for you buddy: ¡chinga tu madre!
Don't be a stranger, give me your five—no, six favourite Halloween flicks. Cinematics to rot your molars to.
Uh, I'm thinking this 'wey' might be 'loco'!
Luckily I have made a record of my seasonal viewing on Letterboxd for the last several years. A lot of this is just filling in the blanks for genre staples that I missed out on during the majority of my life where I barely paid attention to film. The six that stand out to me are...
I know what you're thinking, and yes, the special features are just as epic as the film itself.
seasonal update: I blew out the waistband on these and1s from wearing them too often and now if I try to put my phone in the pocket they immediately fall down
Marsyas and the Vampyr is out now! This is the Twine game that I've been chipping away at since December. Here's the official summary from the Itch.io page:
Marsyas and the Vampyr is a comedy-horror-pastiche of the 'haunted mansion' subgenre. Explore EIGHT ROOMS and brave THREE TRIALS of occult substance in the most earth-shattering ludic experiment since Maximo: Ghosts to Glory.
If you like reading, Halloween, and things that are fucking stupid, then please consider checking it out at the link below!
