I'm playing Cassette Beast and I'm loving it. The combat is nice and even if the types chart was a bit confusing at the beginning, it's all easily explained and easy to Track down when you get far enough.
The monsters are amazing and the style is really charming. I really like my Sheepy and the friends are all really nice so far.
I'm only at like half the map explored (and not even that is fully Explorer so like 30% really?) And I really like the enviroment and puzzles, they are not hard but they are interesting enough to feel good when you do one.
I haven't found any Shiny, I mean Bootleg monster yet but I hope I get some before ending the game.
Most importantly! The I love the OST. The music is great in general but I think Beneath the Mask can be finally replaced as my favorite "vibing" song with Wherever We Are Now. I just loved it when it started playing and then siento like 10 minutes listening to it doing nothing. Also Same Old Story is so awesome too! Really, all the music so far has been great and I'm sure I'll keep listening them after I finish the game.
This is a great game and I really recomend this to anyone that wants a nice time playing.
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What's your interpretation that the left hand of cleric beast is much bigger that the right?🤔
Well, like I've pointed out before, the only explanation I am seeing is blood ministration being done on the left arm!
However, this might get a little more interesting with the Cleric Beasts, because Emilia is also one, yet her arms are symmetrical!
My closest guess to why it happened is because of something Healing Church has been known to do with female bodies. Namely - do some sort of surgery/manipulation/operation on them in order to change their blood type into 'holy blood' one, which they are able to share with the hunters!
English localization team had to use term "groomed" instead of whatever this actually says, and this is definitely going into top 10 of my biggest headaches with mistranslations! As you can see from the Japanese script retranslation ( x ), the meaning is more literal, implying a procedure. I always felt like it would be a surgery on bone marrow, since this is where blood cells are produced, and doctors in Bloodborne could have learned to alter them into having impossible type of blood!
So, as a female cleric, Amelia might have had her first communion with the holy blood as a Blood Saint, instead of generic blood ministration treatment like apparently everyone else has!
I am still not sure why female staff specifically was the Blood Saints, since apparently blood vials are not menstrual blood, as we can learn thanks to Adeline:
Maybe it could have something to do with menstrual cycle, though, because of the whole cycle of moon vs menstrual cycle thing, and Laurence being affiliated with Moon Presence, and then Micolash also stealing his swag and basing his own institution on:
I'd say this is either some sort of deeply rooted superstition within the setting, or in fact, yes, the holy blood links to the Great Ones who put HELLA importance on blood and birth, so being biologically female is crucial for that link to take intended effects.
Ludwig is an interesting case, though! He was SUPPOSED to have blood ministration too, like Laurence or Cleric Beast of the Bridge! Why would not the first Healing Church hunter and the HEAD of their hunters do something so crucial? Especially since Cleric Beast of the Bridge drops the Sword Badge with which you buy Hunter Chief Emblem, implying that this beast is currently what Ludwig used to be? But his left arm is not bigger. In fact, it is even smaller. So I am trying to think of the variants of what had happened here:
1) Ludwig somehow merged with an actual horse, so his anatomy is simply no longer judged through the same lense
2) Ludwig is a leftie, and this is where he holds his Holy Moonlight Sword, so its effect would be a "remedy" for possible arm deformations
3) Ludwig is not a simple beast, but the one with a lot of Kin features, so his anatomy is simply no longer judged through the same lense (+horses are primarily herbivores, and Kin is associated with the flora in the setting, so maybe that's why he went horsegirl mode instead of getting something weak like antlers lol)
4) Ludwig is trans and actually was the first to get Blood Saint treatment rather than regular blood ministration (+we take Adeline's blood from her right arm, and notice that his right arm is a little bigger)
5) Ludwig is a cis man and was the first biological male who attempted to receive Blood Saint treatment instead of regular blood ministration, but that didn't take the intended effect because the gods Be Like That in the setting + his unusual visions and mutation might be the side effect of that and that's why Healing Church stopped doing that with male organisms. Basically, if a male attempts becoming a living factory for the holy blood, it will go "wrong".
6) Combinations of the above points
.....Okay, that went a little unfocused from the initial topic, but you see my points here! Thank you for the ask!
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Bonus ideas:
- Whereas Ludwig is holding the Holy Moonlight Sword in his left hand, Amelia also is grasping the Gold Pendant in her left hand. So maybe nothing was special about her, but holding a special item in the "effected" hand will remedy the asymmetry effect, and had Amelia not been doing that all the time, she'd be asymmetrical too?
- Amelia using recolored model for Bell-Ringing Woman for her appearance might be not accidental, but a fuel for the headcanon that she has Pthumerian blood too, and Pthumerians might simply evolve differently, or traditionally have different way they' go for the blood communition. Off the top of my head, look at Loran Clerics having same sized arms:
Basically, I can answer why Cleric Beasts and the huntsmen have asymmetrical arms, but not why people like Emilia and Ludwig broke the trend despite being the first in line to have blood ministration normally... Because I just have too many ideas, and my preference usually falls towards the most logical ones, but when there are equally logical ideas I become helpless :')
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Ever think about the fact that Uther fell in love with a corpse?
That Catrina was dead, had already been dead for weeks, when the troll strutted into court wearing her face
And speaking of the origins of their plan- the troll had likely scavenged the estate of Tregor after the invasion minutes after the event, kicking bodies out the way on her instinctual hunt gold
Instead of finding anything valuable, which the bandits had already taken, she found pretty personal belongings, too lesser for a thief... and the lady that they belonged too.
Brutally murdered maybe, but intact enough to be recreated, and impersonated.
Finding her manservant’s body fallen nearby made the idea too easy to conceive, a "Jonas" in hand and the personal items of Catrina ruthlessly ripped away, the plan wealth beyond their imagining was already in motion
And then in the aftermath, of the whole horrid, gruesome, embarrassing affair, when the rumors had died down enough…
Uther must’ve gone quietly, in the early hours of the morning, to visit Catrina’s grave - the real Catrina
Laid flowers, and shed a few private tears over the woman he had never met, but had strong feelings for, perhaps love. Her physique and voice had enchanted him, in more ways than one, and temporarily given him a happy out from the sins of the past
Though it must've unsettled him, that he had fallen for the figment of a woman, not even a ghost, and pledged his entire Kingdom in a heartbeat over a pleasant if pitying face
Although I'm sure the irony, of beloveds coming back to the present, wearing marred faces with a masked intent for vengeance over ghosts of his evils, must have eluded him...
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obsessed with jean’s colorful insults/descriptions so here’s a compiled list of them in order
you arrogant fool (abby)
you imbecile (kevin)
your ball-battered brain (kevin)
you feckless child (kevin)
those clowns (trojans)
pet goalkeeper (andrew)
the tiny bastard (neil) [LMFAO]
kevin’s pet monster (andrew)
the sunshine court [derogatory]
wholesome in an unsettling, unhealthy way (the trojans)
unhinged optimist (renee)
some plump shrink (bee)
that creepy little goalkeeper andrew minyard [PLEASE i was fucking DEAD he has no idea how funny he is]
you tedious malcontent (neil) [probably my favorite one]
an abominable cockroach (neil)
the wayward child (neil) [jesus christ he is not taking it easy on neil]
andrew’s twin
worthless trash bags (foxes, past tense)
a rabid little fox (neil) [hey. remember when neil described andrew as a ‘rabid goalkeeper’ ???]
annoyingly easy to look at (jeremy)
strange and misguided (the trojans)
the cruelty of these nonstop temptations (kevin, renee, jeremy)
the sunshine court [less derogatory]
“I was hoping he would bite his tongue off in the fall and save us both some grief in the long run.” (lucas)
wretched beast (gr****n)
your ignorant mouth (lucas)
“Your apologies are as useful as perfume on a frog.” (lucas)
neil, being the person he was,
you ignorant child (neil)
miserable wretch (neil) [giving his everything to neil’s insults]
ok that’s all. unless i missed some. and if i did you have to add them it’s just law
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