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Thank you for the absolutely fantastic LP, Vicas. This was a lovely, relaxing watch.
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That was one surreal fight. No idea what the gently caress happened, though.
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Aug 15, 2015 18:05
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The design of the first phase of the truth boss appears to be inspired by The book of Ezekiel.Ezekiel 1:16-18 posted:16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
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Aug 15, 2015 20:11
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Thanks for a lovely LP, Vicas! Still have no clue as to what the gently caress is going on story-wise, though...
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Aug 17, 2015 02:38
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Major_JF posted:The design of the first phase of the truth boss appears to be inspired by The book of Ezekiel. Yeah, my first thought when seeing the first phase was 'Oh wow they went with the old-school angel design, that's actually really neat'. I'm a sucker for eldritch abominations, what can I say?
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Aug 17, 2015 03:11
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The Truth was a lot like the final boss of a Kirby game, where everything goes from charming and cute to... that.
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Aug 17, 2015 04:26
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Searching for the Truth - Was not expecting that many eyes when I found it - Let's Play Titan Souls
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Aug 17, 2015 04:41
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Thanks for the fun LP. I enjoyed watching it a lot! 
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Aug 17, 2015 04:43
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Suspicious Cook posted:The Truth was a lot like the final boss of a Kirby game, where everything goes from charming and cute to... that. I would be amazed if the Inspiration for Truth's design didn't come from Fullmetal Alchemist. 
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Aug 17, 2015 06:13
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Kurieg posted:I would be amazed if the Inspiration for Truth's design didn't come from Fullmetal Alchemist. And Fullmetal Alchemist's designs for weird supernatural poo poo like that come from the Old Testament depictions of Angels. Like, if you took that picture right there and went back a few thousand years to show it to some proper Old Testament Jews they'd take one look at that and go 'yep that's an angel, did it announce itself? If not run.' Seriously, Old Testament Angels are batshit insane eldrich abominations and if the very first words out of their mouth aren't 'be not afraid' then you should be very, very afraid. They will gently caress you up. That said; 'a wheel within a wheel and the rims of the wheels all covered in eyes' is pretty much word for word how Ophanim (also known as Thrones) are described in Ezekiel 1:15-21 of which Major_JF quoted the relevant lines. So yeah Truth's first form is very clearly a reference to that. Neruz fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 06:16
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Neruz posted:That said; 'a wheel within a wheel and the rims of the wheels all covered in eyes' is pretty much word for word how Ophanim (also known as Thrones) are described in Ezekiel 1:15-21 of which Major_JF quoted the relevant lines. So yeah Truth's first form is very clearly a reference to that. Right, but in FMA that character is literally named Truth, and has silver ringed eyes. Whereas the homonculi have Purple ringed eyes. It's a biblical reference but probably one they came to by way of FMA.
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Aug 17, 2015 06:32
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You realize it's possible for a design to reference multiple things at the same time right? It can be both a biblical reference and a nod to FMA without either reference being in any way lessened by the presence of the other. FMA also doesn't have the wheels part; just the eye. The way Truth's eye is designed is clearly a reference to FMA Truth and the fact that it takes the form of wheels within wheels is clearly a reference to Chayots.
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Aug 17, 2015 06:35
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I'm not nearly enough of a sperg to go back through decades of anime and find the first one that had ringed eyes to show madness, but I am enough of a sperg to be able to say with some confidence that it wasn't Full Metal Alchemist. I can't remember it now, but there's a word for when two different works are referencing the same thing, but people confuse one work as referencing the other.
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Aug 17, 2015 06:41
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So after the snow area video, I went "hmm, if the Yeti's name is Yeti, can I work out what everything else is called from that?" and turns out I could (though in hindsight, you could probably crack it as soon as you work out that half the bosses have "of the" in their name). Vicas asked me to save this until he finished the main game, so I'm posting it now. Order is a little screwy because I worked out the snow ones first thanks to the Yeti: The ? could be J or Q, probably J. Feel free to speculate on this stuff!
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Aug 17, 2015 20:35
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If it makes you feel any better, the game just unlocks a special option that translates all these automatically for you. Also I think there's a 'language' options in the settings that allows you to change all the in-game text and menus to the made-up alphabet.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:41
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Niggurath posted:If it makes you feel any better, the game just unlocks a special option that translates all these automatically for you. Also I think there's a 'language' options in the settings that allows you to change all the in-game text and menus to the made-up alphabet.
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Aug 17, 2015 20:43
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Niggurath posted:If it makes you feel any better, the game just unlocks a special option that translates all these automatically for you. Also I think there's a 'language' options in the settings that allows you to change all the in-game text and menus to the made-up alphabet. so is it a Q or a J?
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Aug 17, 2015 20:47
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By the way, the rings around Truth's eye in the end-game cutscene read (outer) LIFE FROM CHAOS (middle) TRUTH FROM LIFE (inner) ALL FROM TRUTH e: should also add, it's been a fun LP, thanks for doing it  .
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Aug 17, 2015 20:51
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I liked the looks of that last fight. The sheer black and white, with a bit of purple, was disorienting from the SotC inspired design in a good way and visually compelling. The animations have been pretty good in this game, but I think they looked superb in that last fight.Neruz posted:You realize it's possible for a design to reference multiple things at the same time right? It can be both a biblical reference and a nod to FMA without either reference being in any way lessened by the presence of the other. Think of references as a triangle where one point is the game from the player's perspective, one is FMA, and one is the biblical references. The audience then must navigate through the three points. In one route, the player could recognize the biblical references from FMA, which are intentional, but that doesn't mean the game actively references Old Testament angles when it references FMA. All of this is hypothetical and any permutation based on the relationship of references is equally valid until we get word from the creators.
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Aug 17, 2015 21:10
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Blind Sally posted:so is it a Q or a J?
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Aug 17, 2015 21:14
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It's pretty neat with the inferred background, or "lore" I guess it's called now, with the shared "Gol" in a bunch of names, like a surname but pre-fixing their given name. Also, the Gols tend to do the whole central-body-with-smashy-fists. "Mol-Qayin" and "Rol-Qayin" have the subtitles of being the creations of "Gol-Qayin", and obviously have names that reflect their natures. ("Mol" is a blob of molten lava, "Rol" rolls around a bunch. Also "mol" sounds a bit like "Molly", a female name, which matches her(?) Pac-Woman-eqsue sexual characteristic in the bow-like crystal on her(?) head) Considering what the big-cliff-face said... quote:"You found what you sought..." Four of the Titans are described as Guardians, Gol-Iath, Gol-Hevel ("Murdered"), Gol-Qayin ("Disgraced", and "creator" of Mol & Rol) and Gol-Set. The rest are "lost souls", including the Titan-Slayer Knight Elhanan who also was armed with a bow and "magic" arrow like the player. This makes me think that there's been a lot of attempts at tackling this gates, perhaps all with a singular Titan-killing arrow, and when the person with the arrow either gives up out of remorse ("lack of conviction for killing") or perhaps at just being stuck, they get formed into yet another Guardian. There's also the untold story of the Murdered and Disgraced Guardians of the second gate. Gol-Qayin has chains, Gol-Hevel's body is found separated, lifeless, from his head. Gol-Q perhaps did in Gol-H, believing his creations Mol & Rol were better than Gol-H, but Gol-Q was found out and punished? Perhaps Gol-Q was annoyed that all the Gol's had a similar way of Guarding, so he created the unique Mol & Rol, Gol-H criticised him and so Gol-Q murdered his "brother"? I've checked a wiki for what else the big-cliff-face can say, and have a few more (probably obvious) things to add, but I'll wait.
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I don't know what I like better, that the Yeti is called Yeti or that the brain is Brainfreeze. Anyway, thanks for showing off the game Vicas, definitely seems like a game I'd like to see but not play.
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