#soul of sovereignty

[taylor-titmouse]

have you played soul of sovereignty yet

you should play soul of sovereignty. this doesn't happen in it but it will make you think about it happening for one hundred years after you've read it

#tt art #soulsov #soul of sovereignty

[tristepinguino]

Frog of Sovereignty

I simply had to.

#SoulSov #Soul of Sovereignty #The Muppets #Kermit the Frog #Miss Piggy #draws #I should draw more Muppets...

[deathflare]

soulsov is so good please play it

https://gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

#soulsov #soul of sovereignty #loic #i had to go back thru their entire tag afterward like a deranged person with my new eyeballs

[bobacupcake]

white dawn's eye - from soulsov

soulsov is sso good please play soulsov please play soulsov please pl

#soulsov #soul of sovereignty #been thinking about it all day. i need to learn 3d character modeling because i have Fanart Ideas #but i CAN make flowers. so i do that for now #and then learn how to model characters and come back to it #because no matter how long it takes me to learn how to model characters. i;ll still be thinking about soulsov

[rattanwhip]

💧

#soulsov #soul of sovereignty #obsessed with her...

[hpheisler]

it's pallid woman pwednesday...!

when i played soul of sovereignty for the first time, i was struck with one thought and one thought only: this needs to be a musical.

so, thank you to @pallisia for inspiring this. it's kind of a banger.

(you can also listen on soundcloud if you prefer!)

#soul of sovereignty #soulsov #music #fansong #synthV #synthesizerV #Youtube

[heartgrooooove]

#soul of sovereignty #soulsov

[windienine]

the best game of 2024 was an hour-long visual novel demo, and i can't tell you how it ends

attack and dethrone god.

okay. oh my god. soul of sovereignty by ggdg (of lady of the shard & deltarune fame) is discounted for only a few more days, so i need to get this one out while the iron's hot.

so: i'm inviting you along on another journey. we're following a polite gentleman of the wizardly inclination (loïc) who is approached by a sickly woman in dire need (ysmé). all she requests, in her plea, is an escort to guide her to the nearby temple. his decision to support her may turn out to be the most important choice he ever makes.

... have you ever enjoyed the kind of narrative that traps two people with heavily contrasting motives and personalities together in an unbreakable contract? do you like stories of absolute devotion?

i could look at this shot forever ngl

... are you compelled by immersive speculative fantasy worlds where the use and study of magic heavily influences the rhythm of people's day-to-day lives?

(really intriguing magical linguistics system going on here)

... do you ever promise too much of yourself to others, sometimes, even when it's a bad idea?

... if it was possible -- if you could -- would you abandon your humanity for the power to change your world forever?

and, whatever you may feel in your heart about the above...

do you want to see behind the eyes of a hot trans girl as she bullshits her way into a truly volatile level of power and influence and gets everything she wants?

(+ her pet dilf lovely assistant)

if even one of these elicited a "yes," i think you'll love this story.

i'll go out of a limb:

i think, if you open up your heart, you'll find yourself falling for both of the leads. It's a game that really wants you to look at it from every angle, take it apart, and ask questions about loïc, ysmé, their stories, and what they believe to be true about the world and one another. subtext -- especially the charged subtext this story throws at you and hopes you'll piece together -- is a beautiful thing.

the number of talksprites in this demo is kind of staggering

the jrpg-inspired world of the mosaic and its surroundings is as vibrant as it is profoundly lonely, color folded into every facet of its character as you move through it. appropriately, it's really invested in a lot of questions that arise not just from high fantasy as a genre, but from the modern fantasy sensibilities of jrpgs and the interrogation of what divinity even means in a world where the gods are forces you can interact with and draw power from, however indirectly.

what can i even say? that gg and toby fox's collab score for the prelude is downright heavenly and made it onto my work playlist right alongside the deltarune ost the day it came out on bandcamp? that gg's art, especially their use of light, conveys every scene with vivid beauty?

i wouldn't be posting so much of it if i didn't want to eat every CG. oh my god. he's so pretty. it's not even fair

beyond all of that, i think the game's main resonance point with people is that gg's writing is genuinely thoughtful. they use art detail and deft character writing to convey everything about the leads, using the limited time you get with it to paint layers and layers of information on who these people are and why they make the decisions they do. soulsov's roughly an-hour-and-change of text, expressive talksprites, and lush CGs is infused with so much heart and so much horror and so much intrigue that it leaves you feeling like you're a part of this world, carried along for the ride right alongside the two leads. gg clearly really adores these two, and that level of passion makes everything loïc and ysmé do shine even brighter. in spite of (or perhaps because of) all their friction and flaws, they're easy to love.

(it's really fun to read aloud as a script, too! ysmé's a hoot.)

i hope you experience it with high expectations and an open heart. i don't think it will disappoint. it is, perhaps, just a little bit magical.

i hope you see it through to the end!

#soulsov #soul of sovereignty #indie games #deltarune #long post #i'm not saying everything i want to say here but #i need you to discover the rest and leave a nice review #ok?? #i love it

[obscuretobyfox]

Toby Fox recently contributed to the soundtrack for a game named “Soul Of Sovereignity”! The link can be found here: https://gigidigi.bandcamp.com/album/soul-of-sovereignty-prelude-ost

(Source: https://x.com/_ggdg_/status/1746994713058750876?s=46)

#toby fox #toby fox music #soul of sovereignty #Bandcamp

[aleybeh]

"Alive and well." The words ring in my ears.

oh my GOD please play soulsov like it's good for your health bc idk maybe it is

#art #fan art #soulsov #soul of sovereignty #i've been looking forward to this game forever and it was BEYOND what i'd hoped it would be #lowkey resurrected my tumblr so i could hopefully see more fan art of it #i love clowns #i love incredibly kind yet put upon men #really need i say more

[elevenquietseas]

soulsov

#soulsov spoilers #soulsov #soul of sovereignty

[frickaccident]

him!

#love him #soul of sovereignty #soulsov

[charmwitch]

mr. soulsov

#mr soulsov #soul of sovereignty #soulsov #fan art #pallisia #i was actually listening to mr worldwide himself while drawing #because of course i would do that

[laddo-d]

Ysme, a woman who’s never done anything wrong, ever, in her life

You should check out soulsov

https://gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov by @pallisia

#soulsov #soul of sovereignty #ysme

[ghostlyghosti]

Warm up for the week to get that rust off, been wanting to do fanart of these two for a looong time. I'm so excited to see more of these two. If you're seeing this play Soulsov by @pallisia If you like these characters play Soulsov P l a y So u ls o v

#ghostiart #digital art #fanart #soul of sovereignty #soulsov #loic #ysme

[ohcorny]

i need to post loic soulsov character analysis because if i don't i'll die. he's been plaguing my thoughts for *checks watch* like three to four days because we get SO much information about him and who he is in just this one nugget of the game and i'm spinning out of control about it.

spoilers for the most raw bits of the prelude so obviously go play the game first and then come back and read me ramble and make wild assumptions about this man and the direction of his character

so i have been obsessed with this (paraphrased because i'd have to whip through nearly the whole game again to correctly quote it) exchange between the voice and loic:

"Are you prepared for the world Ysme would create?" "Could it really be any worse than this one?"

and god. bro. bro. the absolute devastation necessary for this man to feel this way, about a woman who lied to him from the moment they met (which he clocked! very early on!), mugged him with a gun, SHOT him with that gun, and then when she became his ghost-god immediately realized she could force him to commit suicide by cop if she wanted. this woman did all of this to him, and when given the opportunity to just let her die--arguably justifiable given her goals and how she threatened him and the fact her death was entirely of her own doing--he doesn't. even though "don't let this woman die", a morally good thing on its face, is actually "let this violent, selfish woman become god with the ability to remake the world in her image, while also becoming her slave" and he knows it.

because to him, that's preferable to the world he lives in. your world has to be so bad for that to be the case.

and it is! his world is that bad. not the physical actual world, which yes, is harsh and cold and dangerous outside the mosaic, but his world, his daughter, in an incurable coma. there is a cruelty to somebody you love being incurably sick. to the selfish, hurting heart, it can be worse than if they were just dead. you can mourn somebody who's dead, and move on from your grief, but as long as they're still living, you're shackled to hope, constantly grieving. there is no moving on, there is only waiting for it to end. you might bargain, as loic does in his search for the flower to cure her, but it's still just waiting.

and when ysme comes into his life, he gives up on waiting. he has been haunting his own life until then, doing good at lamplight because it was within his power while he was there, but i don't think it was ever with dedication. it was something to pass the time as he looked for the flower. essentially selling his soul, surrendering his free will to ysme, this incredibly dangerous, selfish woman, is better than living as he has been. because he's selfish too.

what i like so much about loic is that he's presented as this very kind, soft, unassailable dad who wants to do the right thing. A Down to Earth Good Guy, to contrast with the chaos of ysme, but he's fucking selfish! while he couldn't have predicted the raw physical power of exalted ysme, he still knew she would receive the power to remake the world. and he still decided: fuck this world.

the natural assumption is that his kindness will balance out ysme, and i'm here for that narrative, but honestly. i think she's going to make him worse. the seed of selfishness is already in him, and he's indulged it by giving her power over him, and that must be in some way a relief. he's effectively surrendered responsibility for himself and his actions over to her. he can no longer be fully blamed for anything now that she has power over him.

and i think he's tired of being nice. i think he's ready to go apeshit.

.........and while that would make a good button to end this on, i have to mention: there is a non-zero chance he thinks she's hot and the idea of being a goddess' slave is hot. he's a grown ass man who we know for a fact HAS fucked, and while ysme was like "i thought you were a dead wife guy. i guess you still could be" my money is on divorced. my theory is lia was going over to her mom's house in that flashback.

like yes, all of that above is the main motivator, but i'm not ready to discount sex. loic wants to be lifestyle dommed. because what i just described about surrendering his free will is literally the appeal of being a sub: giving somebody else control, so you don't have to feel the weight of it. this is a story for adults about adults and it is on that le guin shit of linking a sexual fantasy inexorably to the world building and plot thrust, and i am ESPECIALLY here for that.

and i think that's everything i had to say about loic soulsov. i am exorcised. i'm better now.

#soulsov #soul of sovereignty #i wish i could bring this energy of analysis to my fuckin book club but i'm here writing essays about hot dads instead