#And I really love Sekiro

[doodledstars]

I've been gitting gud at my skills and Blender, as well as work on some secret projects coming up 030

I'm tackling a personal concept art project called "Shincha: The Last Dragon," which is a soulsborne game set in feudal Japan with dinosaurs! :)

The story follows an amnesiac shinobi/samurai who is tasked to defend the hidden village of Gingko from the Dragon Shogun.

#artists on tumblr #concept art #art #game art #concept #shincha the last dragon #shincha #I've always wanted more dinosaurs hehe #And I really love Sekiro

[heraldofcrow]

There are two types of Soulsborne fans.

1. This boss kicked my ass and now I absolutely detest the actual character too.

2. This boss kicked my ass and now I’m utterly in love with the actual character too.

#i am forever doomed to be the latter #*looks at bloody crow and malenia* #i was so used to souls games when i first played BB so admittedly i found it really easy #i was beating the bosses on my 2nd-3rd tries #then i met bloody crow and he humbled me #i fell hard and fast from that point on #same with malenia #i adore her for how badly she destroyed me on my first playthrough #i guess i’m as much of a masochist as miyazaki #if you can effortlessly destroy me i love you <3 #bloodborne #elden ring #dark souls #sekiro #soulsborne #CrowNotes

[ladyqahnaarin]

Normalize loving Soulslike games but not having the emotional control to play them

#dark souls #dark souls 2 #dark souls 3 #elden ring #demon souls #sekiro #soulslike #really i love them #but i feel so frustrated that i cant keep playing it #i played elden ring and I had to pause every ten minutes to breathe

[tsuchinokoroyale]

#I was talking to some buddies about lies of p and sekiro and how LoP’s defense as offense mentality helped get into sekiro #but then how sekiro overwrote that mentality with its own “offense is the best defense” mentality #or “hesitate and you lose” as Grandpappy isshin would say #and how the switch for the change for me was genichiro who I think is one of the best designed bosses in gaming #you CAN’T play too defensively with him because he’s happy to pepper you with arrows from a distance #and then the moment comes when you realize your sword interrupts his bow attacks sekiro truly begins as a game #lady butterfly is also a good fight but all her moves bring her to you so there’s less incentive to be as aggressive #vs genny baby who will back off and fire off his bow if you let him #this isn’t even like a video of me playing perfectly but I LOVE getting my feudal edgelord corner stunned and just bursting him down #I kinda hate the owl shinobi fight bc he hits too hard and his attacks just aren’t interesting to react to #but it’s also possible to corner stun him and just go to town on his health bar #owl father and inner father are much better fights and I actually really enjoyed inner father a lot #but the Ashina family fights are absolutely stunning achievements in game design imo #perfectly balanced to be difficult but fair and visually stunning to boot #even if there is a layer of artificial difficulty in the final battle with the flowers obscuring their swords when they’re crouched #but the animations are solid enough that there are enough other more subtle differences like how hes shifting his weight #if he’s centered he’s going to lunge but if he’s angled he’s gonna sweep #I had so much fun with LoP and sekiro 🥰🥰🥰 I crave more… #I can’t say the combat in Elden ring gorilla gripped me like these two games have but I like HAVE to play dark souls I know this #sekiro #tsuchi plays games

[tibialtybalt]

Listening to the sekiro ost rn. Banger after banger

#tia posts #i love this game dude....... #i already have a bunch of the songs in my playlists but im listening to the stuff i dont normally listen to #the understated area background music instead of the sick boss themes #and the VIBES!!!!!!!!! i mean up in flames. thats probably my favorite aside from the obvious choices #i remember in my first playthrough going through hirata with that playing and taking in all the fire and the corpses #really puts you in wolf's head. pushing sadness and horror to the back of your mind so you can focus on what you have to do #and ofc there are the obvious choices for favs like the DoH and lady butterfly themes thats CRAZYYYYYY #ive gone off in the tags before about sekiro music and I'LL DO IT AGAIN‼️

[girlvinland]

Obsessed with the way people who are primarily Dark Souls people and people who are primarily Bloodborne people and people who are primarily Elden Ring people engage in parallel play on this webbed site.

#by bug #also shout out to the Sekiro people I’m sure y’all are out there #idk lol BB was my first FS game near when it was released #and I was really into it then but I could not reach the level of some of you #it fascinates me #and the talent!! #meanwhile I sit over here in my weird random-land-of-dark-souls obsession sandbox #but I love seeing people talk at length about whatever fromsoft thing fascinates the shit out of them #even when I really have no idea what they’re talking about #I’m like wow you know so much about that! #all while having a multi-part 58 page lore essay about velka open on my phone

[thatsaseriouscomplexhun]

Genichiro Not Quite Headcanons But Close; plus a bit of the Fountainhead Palace

For the longest time I was convinced Genichiro’s bow was super glued to his back. Turns out I’m blind af and didn’t notice the cord wrapped around him to keep it there.

It’s even there both wearing his armor and not. Honestly I was just impressed that he even managed to get it to stay by sheer will. I also didn’t see his forehead scar and thought that was something people were making up but no, I just overlooked it completely bc his arms were much more fascinating to me. (His armor was really pretty too. Especially the cape, I loved the embroidery around it and kept getting distracted.)

To me his arms look quite small compared to the rest of his body, especially since he is trained in several different combat styles. It looks almost like large chunks of muscle have been burnt off by the lightning he uses. I don’t imagine he can feel much of his arms besides the pressure from the scars themselves, (which to my small amount of research is what severe burn scars feel like), though the pressure can get worse to a point where it feels constricting and painful. He probably doesn’t have very good function of them either, at least not for very fine motor functions and it probably takes a lot of effort and thought to get his arms to cooperate. Which I can imagine leads to a lot of frustration and an overall more snappy temper. No one likes the feeling of being inadequate or useless.

I don’t think Tomoe or any other of the Okami Warriors would have this problem because their extremities aren’t blackened like his. There’s something about the Okami Warriors that makes it to where they don’t get burn scars, probably due to being somewhat connected to the ‘big tree’ that I forgot the name of and just being connected to the Fountainhead Palace in general.

Also I don’t believe their skin was always blue or their faces were always sucked in like hyper dried raisins, it’s probably something to due with the ‘essence’, or whatever it’s called that the nobles started to crave. Maybe the nobles took the youth from them after Lord Takeru left and Priestess Yao was corrupted and couldn’t stop them/sway them from the heresy of it or find it in her to care as the centipede vibed with her spinal cords.

Fountainhead Palace Headcanons (plus Takeru and Tomoe)

The Okami Warriors are born from the water, like some type of bootleg jesus baby. Explaining the description of Tomoe’s eyes. They are amazing swimmers and can stay underwater for hours, though they cannot breathe underwater. Just big, strong lungs.

Eel liver is a common dish and anyone outside of the palace can barely stomach the slimy texture. Genichiro can eat it without an issue, mostly, Tomoe was overjoyed her student ate something from her homeland while Takeru still gagged. And Wolf… That boy ate raw rice. The amount of fucks that man gives is none. Wolf will eat anything that doesn’t eat him first, cooked or not, it is going to be eaten.

Cuju games/tournaments were very common before the place fell apart.

The Okami Warriors once had an oath to always protect youth, especially kids. This is influenced by that lady calling Wolf a ‘young man’ and saying the nobles craved his youth, putting a darker turn onto the palace as a whole.

Maybe when Lord Takeru left the palace with Tomoe, the waters of the place shifted once its balance was removed and flooded. Causing all the damage seen.

Priestess Yao (Corrupted Monk) and Takeru were close friends, basically siblings. I imagine Takeru wearing a string of red prayer beads ever since I saw a fanart of him, making me believe he was part of a temple as well. A monk or maybe a priest himself, the closest to the divine dragon. He was probably well respected at the palace.

Takeru heard rumors about the palace nobles and their want for youth or whatever it was that they craved and fled, Tomoe went with him as his guard. Yao had to stop them, severely injuring Tomoe and this is where she becomes sworn to Takeru’s immortal oath if she wasn’t already. Takeru can clearly see Yao is not herself and does the only thing a non-combatant that’s immortal can do, jump the fuck off the bridge and into valley below. Leaving Yao waiting for them to return and never leaving her post due to centipede messing with her brain.

Personally, I see Takeru and Tomoe’s relationship as lovers. I don’t really have a reason why but it fits, until we probably won’t get more lore and my opinion will be swayed. But for now, lovers.

Takeru is soft spoken, his voice is gentle and quiet while Tomoe is the opposite. Loud, brash and unwaveringly confident but not enough so to underestimate someone due to an ego/pride.

Takeru probably reads a lot and had a garden of some type in Ashina Castle, featuring both flowers and regular food.

Tomoe wears her hair in a braid. Like Youngest Owl’s is in terms of neatness and thickness. She’s probably left handed too because of how Genichiro shoots his bow, and you usually shoot with your dominant hand unless your teacher is left handed then you will learn that way or be able to shoot with both left and right as your dominant.

#sekiro #sekiro shadows die twice #headcanons #I really love the series and there’s so many stories I want to write #this is really long #genichiro ashina #Lady Tomoe #Fountainhead Palace #Tomoe would have adored Wolf #I still can’t believe he ate raw rice tho #I thought it was cooked #which is probably stupider now that I think about it

[gremlingirlsmell]

wish i didnt have 'playing soulslike games wrong' and 'misassigning all my skill points' syndrome aside from just having a general skill issue in those games, because theyre genuinely super fun games with interesting worlds but they're soooo frustrating when i play them

#watched revscarecrows dark souls 2 playthrough #and he just used ranged weapons half the time!! #it wouldnt even have occured to me to use a ranged weapon because i wasnt doing an archer build!!!!! i didnt know that was a valid option #im somehow so resistant to trying new weapons 'correctly' that i was using my starter weapon cane in bloodborne towards the end #because nothing else seemed to deal any damage!? #when i tried to replay sekiro it was so frustrating i cried and had to stop because it was just too much #i really wanna try lies of p but im scared it will just make me feel bad despite probably being a super cool fun game #the demo gave me vertigo because of the camera too so i might wanna check if you can disable the weird camera smoothing #every time i replay dark souls 1 i brickwall at ornstein and smough and need to overlevel to overcome them. probably because my levels went #into the wrong stats even though i try a bit different each time #jeady rambles #wow this was a long ramble. hi people who read unnecesseraly long tag ramblings. love you :3

[ghostofashina]

Genichiro turned to face her. He took her hand gently between his, rubbing it fondly. It was shaky.

“You are the only one who understands me, besides my lord grandfather. You're the only one who can understand how I feel about this place, because you're just like me. We are Ashina's children and, lacking a mother, we have a homeland to return to. Ashina is our home and we are bound to each other through these lands.”

“Bound? Like brother and sister?”

"No."

Then he kissed her.

SHARP MEMORIES OF A GENTLE BLADE, CHAPTER FOUR: A whisper in the darkness.

🐺

#sekiro shadows die twice #sekiro #emma/genichiro #first time writing about them and they are so fine #i really came to love this ship #even feeling like i'm cheating on wolf pairing emma with someone else

[dragunova]

love having f.romsoft fans unfollow me over the most annoying opinions of mine

#🥀; #i think all of my opinions are right because i played ds1 ds3 and elden ring around 3-6 times each and have been into these games for #nearly a decade now lmao #ds2.. i am trying so hard to play through that game but unfortunately i only own sotfs #which makes it so much harder esp since i dont get the game feel for ds2 at all which is so sad bcs i really love the locations/lore of the #game bcs i do think they are way nicer looking than. ds3 and grey #the only reason i didnt finish bloodborne/sekiro is bcs i dont own a ps+i dont wanna support sekiro publishers tho i have played a bit of #both of them. actually there is another reason for sekiro but im not gonna get into it bcs it sucks so much

[perpetuallyobsessed]

it would be so nice if fromsoft incorporates different gameplay per class someday. Like. Hunter type characters would play like bloodborne's hunter. Samurai/shinobi types would play like Sekiro (WITH THE POSTURE SYSTEM AND FUCKING PARRY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING)

#i just REALLY love sekiro's combat way too much to go back to the other games #gah #shit gerlee says

[cultivating-saplings]

it's fun to be bad at video games sometimes actually :]

#this is to say that ive started playing sekiro after thinking i wouldnt be good enough to have fun with it #and i am not good at it by any stretch of the imaginy #but i find the combat really engaging and i love the process of mapping out routes in the stealth sections #it just scratches a really nice itch in my brain

[bikiniarmorbattledamage]

This is truly stiff competition for the worst case of willful false equivalence we've ever seen.

So, for those not aware: Ongoing embarrassment to gamers and the gaming industry, Mark Kern (former lead on FireFall), has been desperately trying to get Gamergate 2 going on X/Twitter... well after others have given up. If you need to get caught up on Mark, I recommend this video by documentary maker and experienced game developer, Dead Domain:

One of the latest fiascos in this mix has been the comparison of responses to character designs from Hades 2 (Aphrodite, left) and Stellar Blade (protagonist Eve, right). The post isn't by Mark, but is part of the general harassment campaign he's trying to lead.

If you're somehow not familiar with Aphrodite, she's the Ancient Greek goddess of love, lust and hot girl shit. It is absolutely perfect characterization for her to show up to a battle (or anything else) nude but for her hair teasingly covering the intimate parts of her body. But the buried lede here is, you don't fight her in Hades and nothing about Hades 2 indicates she'll fight there either, she just likes the aesthetic and has no reason not to indulge.

Stellar Blade will release on 26 April 2024, so we can't really give an informed discussion of her character. But what we do know is the studio head is the illustrator from Blade & Soul, Eve is described as being a member of "the 7th Airborne Squad" engaged in an "operation to reclaim the planet from the Naytiba", and the promotion material promises "an enthralling narrative filled with mature themes, mystery and revelation. Embrace the relentless pace, with no time to pause between moments where critical, story-changing decisions are made."

It's to be compared to games like Nier: Automata, Devil May Cry 5, Jedi: Fallen Order and Sekiro. And the screenshots look like this:

And yeah, unlike Bayonetta she's not supposed to be an unstoppable force of nature (and fashion) who is immune to self-doubt, she's supposed to be the scrappy underdog last survivor of her team.

Weird they gave her a costume that conveys... the opposite of literally everything they're supposed to be trying to tell you about her.

-wincenworks

#stellar blade #hades #hades 2 #aphrodite #character design #costume design #commentary #mark kern #gamergate #dead domain #video games #false equivalence #blade and soul #nier automata #devil may cry #star wars #sekiro #bayonetta #firefall #science fiction #mythology #Greek #image #video #bikini armor battle damage #bikiniarmorbattledamage #babd #Youtube

[apollo-cackling]

having transmasc friends is affecting me when's the last time there was a male character I liked that I didn't hc as transmasc

#affecting me (complimentary) #ganoes paran I said his name has transmasc vibes so he doesn't count as a counterexample #I was going to say wolf sekiro but hm. he's kinda got transmasc vibes too doesn't he #quirrel and traitor lord I've said have transmasc swag and transmasc cringefail respectively #and I've said cornifer and iselda are t4t #speaking of sekiro I really wish I had time to get back into that game I remember loving it but #1) hitting a wall at lady butterfly 2) the game was getting kinda hard w/o a controller and 3) not enough time :( #anyway conclusion: it is impossible to write a convincingly non transmasc guy #well that I like anyway #my rambles

[amygdalae]

i love the laios pfp . you have always been like this but laios really adds to your posts. also i just beat guardian ape sekiro

Yesss destroy ape. Kill ape

[beesmygod]

a while ago there was a blodoborne lore guy who i was like "ugh! this guy doesnt know what hes talking about!" over some statues he argued were depicting people looking up at an unknown astrological event but now i think he is kinda right. after watching the shetani's lair video, which argues pretty convincingly that a meteor severed the "divine realm" from the rest of the world of sekiro.

like, first of all: fromsoft loves to repeat itself. if something has appeared once in a game, its probably appeared prior or will appear again. they love to iterate on a theme over there. they also love to lightly reference japanese cultural knowledge that is lost on my dumb ass. but prior to this, the importance of an external, extraterrestrial force flying in and suddenly up-heaving the balance of the known world had not occurred to me.

in bloodborne, this is explicitly referenced but in the classic fromsoft "saying without REALLY saying it" way: the burial blade and the blade of mercy were forged from meteoric iron. oh my fucking god are you kidding me right now. sorry i just did a google search and realized something else lol. fuck hold on. look i can't find like a plain english wiki page about forging swords with meteoric iron in japan so youll have to take it from this nasa abstract. it was an uncommon practice due to scarcity and i think the swords kind of suck lol. however, the thing about iron from space is that its magnetic, which is how the first "trick weapons" operated: the blade of mercy is two blades magnetized together and the burial blade is just a magnet that flicks loose.

dude what in the hell. i have learned so much useless shit from this game. okay: japan wasnt the only nation to forge with iron meteorites; the indian (esoteric buddhism/shugendo/vajrayana buddism is also a recurring theme, for real) kris is famous not only for it's uncommon snake-y shape (....snakes are also a recurring theme) but the patterning of the metal, called pamor. this unique pattern is achieved by use of meteoric iron during the forging process.

now look at the weapons used by the ancient race of pthumerians

def proof that multiple meteors have landed in yharnam.