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McGwee posted:Isn't Enoch the name of another important biblical character? I'm not that sure but it does sound familiar. Enouch is important to a lot of apocrypha for the fact that his appearance is basically a description of how long he lived, then 'And Enoch walked with God, and was no more, because God took him.' Tradition then holds he was one of the few people not to actually die, but to be assumed up into Heaven alive. This leads to an apocryphal book (the Book of the Watchers/The Book of the Parables of Enoch) about Enoch being brought into Heaven and told about the Watchers, the rebellious angels who lay with the daughters of man and produced the giants mentioned during the beginning of Noah's story (which lead God to flood the earth). This game is basically a stylized retelling of the Book of the Watchers and is surprisingly well thought out if I remember right. Like, Japanese takes on Western religion (much like Western takes on Eastern religions) are usually heavy on appropriating cool symbolism but not too heavy on the meaning/accuracy to the myths. And then they make a game about an obscure apocrypha (well, it's canon to some sects of Ethiopian Christianity) written by guys worried the world was fundamentally disordered during the 2nd Temple Period and while there's a ton of artistic license, it's pretty clear they actually know the base story and are adapting it to their plot.
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RealSovietBear posted:That was my impression as well. Despite some of the really weird moments later in the game, it's obvious the developers did their homework. I got no beef at all with artistic license when it's clear it's coming from a place of building on the mythology they're working with, which is the impression I get here. It's just baffling to me that among the thousands of 'secret catholic blood cult vampire hunter X' animes and stuff, something based on such an obscure part of biblical apocrypha gives the impression of actually knowing anything about what it's based on.
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