Chimera-gui posted:

Someone else can probably explain this better than I can, and correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the Japanese cremate their dead both to save space and for semi-religious reasons?

Oxxidation posted:

I'm still incensed that the fuckin Vita was the only platform to get the Remastered version. The original is serviceable but has some quality-of-life issues and the translation is horribly threadbare.

AnotherGamer posted:

Why do you call Quick Draw "item crash"? This isn't Castlevania.

FractalSandwich posted:

This isn't necessarily obvious, and I find it pretty funny: the 百 momo in 百姫 "Momohime" sounds exactly the same as 桃 momo "peach". 100% of the 1 native Japanese speakers I've polled about it were pretty confident that it's a deliberate joke about the other princess called "Peach".

FractalSandwich posted:

Could be. There's also a secret third reference that's actually much clearer than either, which is to the "night parade of a hundred demons". The first characters of 百姫 "Momohime" and 鬼助 "Kisuke" together are the same as the 百鬼 hyakki there. This one is called out explicitly in the name of Momohime's story, "朧剣百鬼夜行", which this version translates as "Pandemonium of the Demon Blade", as seen here in the video.

Akujiki posted:

This depends on a number of things, actually, including what you define as profanity. If you define profanity classically (as in, profane words, that show disrespect to God), then you're correct. If you consider its more modern definition as a basic synonym for vulgar language, Japanese actually has quite a bit of it.

In an effort to establish Kisuke's manner of speech (his speech is very informal and he uses incredibly rude language in addressing people), vulgar language is a pretty reasonable thing, and it's not really what I'd call a "heavy amount". Guy's using language that would get him outright fired in Japan (address your boss as "teme" and see how long you stay employed!).

Do some groups overdo it? Naturally, but generally speaking if you have any history with fansubs you know which groups are troll subs anyways

RareAcumen posted:

I'm surprised that, after the last LP, your friends aren't already here to torment you further by vehemently getting off topic as you try to explain game mechanics.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

The young monk, Ikkyu, is named after the Historic monk of the same name.

Akujiki posted:

Ikkyu is great. He was a drunk and (to a certain degree, if memory serves) whoremonger. Basically like the worst kind of priest, who still managed to walk very far down the path of priesthood.

FractalSandwich posted:

Are you aware that you put Momohime's TOC in front of Kisuke's background, and Kisuke's TOC in front of Momohime's background?

Akujiki posted:

Of interest is Jinkuro mentioning Yukinojo's status as the "personal swordmaster of the shogun's family". After Yagyuu Munetoshi created Yagyuu Shinkage Style (basically name changing the Shinkage Style he learned), he taught it to his son, Yagyuu Munenori, who established the school in Edo. He eventually became the tutor of Ieyasu's son Hidetada - making the Yagyuu Shinkage Style the shogun's official style of kenjutsu. It's a pretty high honor, as you might imagine (as well as a strong position of influence). Yukinojo, here, has inherited that position for the shogunate.

FractalSandwich posted:

The little yellow goblin things are named as "gaki" on the official website, and the blue fleshy things as "nuppebo".

Argas posted:

Just a request but later on in the LP, could you make a compilation of clips just of cooking and eating the variety of food in the game? Top results of searches for food porn of this game is usually old and from the Wii, or super janky Vita clips.

bpACH posted:

Regarding your comment about christians in Japan during the shogunate:

Christianity was introduced in 1549 by the Portuguese, but it was banned by the Japanese authorities. Refusing to renounce christianity (if you were Japanese) or trying to convert people to christianity was punishable by death until after the end of the shogunate in 1867.

The Japanese Catholic Church went underground after a failed rebellion in the mid 1600's and had ~30 000 members at the time that the ban was lifted (not all of whom rejoined the Catholic Church).

These days, ~1% of the population of Japan self identifies as christian.

EponymousMrYar posted:

Regarding Torahime's design, pay attention to what she (and Kisuke) say. She's leading ghost samurai to war against the shogun, atop a horse.

Reminds me an awful lot of Three Kingdoms Cao Cao, which means to me that her design is basically 'Archer Priestess who has donned the guise of a Samurai Warlord.' And that helmet is 110% Samurai Warlord, only missing the face mask.

It is exaggerated, but it ties in to the armored waist and skirt (of which the skirt is not standard Archer Priestess accoutrement.)

FractalSandwich posted:

The Japanese name of the Cherry Blossom Blade isn't really "Sakura", but it does have "zakura" in it, so I'll let it slide.

And since since you were asking about this a few episodes ago: the Japanese name of the Dark Resurrection Sword is 相模反魂黒光 "Sagami Hangon Kuromitsu".

Chimera-gui posted:

In terms of physical appearance they leaned more towards the fish end of the spectrum and were usually repulsive though more attractive ones were not unheard of, particularly following the end of the Edo period and the opening of Japan to the West as the more conventional mermaid elements that we're familiar with were introduced. The most unique attribute of the ningyo though that their flesh is believed to grant eternal life and youth to those who eat it which is featured of many folk tales. Catching one was believed to bring storms and misfortune however, so fishermen who caught these creatures were said to throw them back into the sea and ningyo washing onto the beach was seen an omen of war or calamity.

Skippy Granola posted:

Sengoku era and previous Samurai were archers first and foremost weren't they? I recall hearing something to the effect of bragging about your swordsmanship was a nasty self-burn because it meant you were such a pitiful archer you needed to close the distance. The whole Samurai-As-Swordsman thing was a post-gunpowder conceit.

I can't cite a source on this - maybe it was the Civilopedia in Shogun: Total War.

Chimera-gui posted:

Changing which hand is holding your weapon I understand but having gloves, sleeves, and the like change sides for no reason a little less acceptable since it's still lazy.

Ubiquitous_ posted:

It's the same thing between the two versions, basically, but the Vita version is using Latin. So Arachnida Interficere roughly translates to Spider Destroyer/Killer.

NGDBSS posted:

You didn't mention it on the video, but there's one aspect of Torahime's attire that bears mention nonetheless. Notice how one arm is bare, while her other arm is clothed with some sort of gauntlet? (Which arm is which isn't constant throughout the video, but I presume that's just a result of sprite limitations.) That's a standard style of dress for archers, at least when one's clothing is otherwise loose. Generally your arm holding the bow would be bare so that the released bowstring wouldn't catch on anything, which might injure you and/or throw off the shot. In contrast your draw arm wouldn't have such issues for the most part, except for your draw hand. Holding and then releasing a bowstring tends to be very damaging to the fingers if you aren't protecting them in some way, and thus there exist numerous examples of protective equipment such as finger tabs (for a three-fingered Mediterranean draw) or thumb rings (for a thumb-based Mongolian draw) to ensure that something else takes the brunt of a bowstring moving at over a hundred feet per second. In particular, Japanese-style archery (kyudo) employs a three- or four-fingered deerskin glove known as a yugake.

IMJack posted:

I think hiding behind the stone piles in that boss fight wasn't meant to shield you from the boss's rage attack as it was to stop the boss from seeing you to launch the attack in the first place. Once he got into flip-out mode he would throw that attack again immediately after he finished if you decided to stay in sight. Also the way the little imps piled in behind the stone piles, really only attacking you if you were hiding in the same place. They scared.

FrankZP posted:

I'm pretty sure the spirits rebuilding the stone piles in the demon boss battle are the souls of dead children. They haven't accumulated enough sins to deserve complete damnation, but they didn't have time to perform enough meritorious acts to be allowed into heaven either, so they're stuck at the entrance of the underworld with nowhere to go. There's this demonic hag called Datsue-ba who tells them to build stone piles that they'll one day be able to climb to reach heaven on their own, but every once in a while she knocks the kids' piles down and laughs at them because, well, demonic hag. Fortunately, the reason the Buddhist underworld's entrance isn't choked with millions and millions of dead kids fruitlessly piling up rocks is that occasionally, the Buddha or some other saint or deity (typically Jizo) will smuggle the children into heaven out of sheer compassion.

Dr. Video Games 0156 posted:

I think you might be able to get that one big soul if you did it while you still had your sword drawn and could do the dash move thing

wiegieman posted:

I bet you could Cyclone up to that soul you couldn't reach, or use some other sword power.

Akujiki posted:

Mzbundifund posted:

This is a really good LP, thanks for doing it. I would totally watch an Odin Sphere LP too, that stream was great.

NGDBSS posted:

(it's there in the background)

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Also I think the Raijin/Fuujin thing is just doing a play on common modern Japanese fiction tropes.
If you do notice, Some NPCs speak in a Cadenced, very distinct style, which, iirc, is also a trope which the Japanese Employ when voicing or acting historical Japanese Characters.
It's most noticable with (something) Bishamon, where he Kabukis the poo poo out of his lines. [e]: Oh And Muramasa himself. iirc his cadence and speech is much reminiscent of plays and historical biopics.

Akujiki posted:

something something commentary about conflating concepts across religion and region in commentary. There's so much here that I want to talk about but I've already spoken about my opinions on trying to make direct comparisons across religions and mythologies and don't want it to become any more tedious.

EponymousMrYar posted:

Finally got around to watching the Odin Sphere Leifraser Stream and dang Highwang, you need to learn when to disengage. Not just the 'hop back a bit, wait a second and then dive right in' style, but the 'you just summoned a huge pillar of fire that is raining boulders of bile and hate, we're fighting way over here now' style.

EponymousMrYar posted:

That's the lesson Cornelius' epilogue in the original ingrains into your brain with dozens of oozes that he can only deal more than 1 damage to via offensive potions. Interesting to see if/how that changes with all the additions to the combat system.

Goggle Fox posted:

Your bonus with "It Was But A Scratch!" was apparently known as Returning Conqueror in the Wii translation. Your health was flashing red and you still pulled through and defeated that enemy pattern while weak. It seems to be set off by just that; hitting near-death health and defeating the enemy regardless.

I see no problem.

Chimera-gui posted:

Fun Fact: The reason those clouds you brought up are black is because they're storm clouds, hence all the electricity shenanigans.

U.T. Raptor posted:

Well, if there's any place you'd expect to find souls in trees, a forest at the base of Mt. Fuji would definitely be it.

Omobono posted:

My interpretation is that Jinkuro was pleading for Momohime's life, but he has a street cred to maintain, you know? So he had to fake the jerkass façade; and then the God of Wisdom calls him on it because wisdom is his job description.

mateo360 posted:

This game is on sale on PSN for $7.50 right now.

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/muramasa-rebirth/cid=UP1024-PCSE00240_00-OBOROMURAMASA000

Akujiki posted:

Kisuke, leaving the tails is poor form. 3/10 on that tempura.

On Kisuke's ending: I'd really argue against your interpretation of his ending sequence. It's not a revenge plot or anything. It's a very period drama-esque ending in a way[...]

Chimera-gui posted:

You said that this was Kisuke's worst ending but technically the first ending for both characters is their worst one.

mateo360 posted:

I.... Blame.... Youuu....

Liffrea posted:

There was an interview with one of the creators back when the game first came out that said that all three endings are canon, and it was up to the player to decide which one they liked the best. IMO, the third endings are definitely supposed to be the "best" but all three are valid and fitting endings to the story.

Seyser Koze posted:

Well, only Rajaki and Miike play sort-of like the original characters, so you have to learn entirely new people from scratch.

Focus on kunai as Arashimaru, they make everything easier. Except his final boss.

Seyser Koze posted:

Yeah, you don't get money as Gonbe, that's why there's an trophy for amassing a relatively piddling amount while playing as him.

In Gonbe's case, the charge attack on the hoe is probably going to be your workhorse. That, and try to keep your buddies in the fight as much as possible.

Chimera-gui posted:

I want to assume that these boss fights aren't actually canon for Momohime since she has no reason to fight any of them and especially not her own sister. Same with Kisuke fighting the Momohime story bosses.