Post by kullagain on Aug 9, 2017 11:28:03 GMT -5
I know I made an "influence missed" thread on Howard, but I feel this game and its overall relationship to weird fiction and Lovecraft-inspired works warranted it's own discussion:
Came across this on YouTube. There have been quite a few of these extensive videos done on the game. However this one stood out for how he related it to the hero's journey and Christianity. Furthermore, his intro promised to demonstrate the ability of Bloodborne to more effectively explain Lovecraft's cosmic views than even Lovecraft himself.
However I am severely disappointed on the following counts:
1. His opening also includes a preview to how Lovecraft heavily figured mythology into his cosmic creations. This was curious since Howard was well versed in his dressing of myths as (fictionally) being human encounters with the weird and cosmic. But alas the content creator simply spoke to the consistent and continued lampooning of Christianity by Japanese game developers--wah wah. (Other souls games, final fantasy etc).
2. The The idea of the amygdales representing entities beyond the ken of the player is insanely preposterous. Your character can FIGHT and DEFEAT a greater version of these. They look at your character when he/she approaches. And lastly they symbolise the (b) animal part of the brain. See where I am going with this?
3. He claims that Lovecraft was somehow the one who believed in the inescapably bestial nature of man when that was completely REH's side of his arguments with HPL!!!!! Characters in Bloodborne sink into abysmal beasthood when striving to contact more cosmically grand natures--absolutely they do. But Howard was the one with the quote: "...break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red- handed." How oh how is this ascribed to Lovecraft.
I have vowed off Lovecraft due to his sick perception of heredity, sex, race and life itself, but nothing I have seen or read indicates HE was the one to pioneer this latter notion among Werid tales and the Lovecraft circle. If I am somehow inaccurate please educate me.
In any case what do you guys think of the game and it's relationship with the Lovecraft circle.
Came across this on YouTube. There have been quite a few of these extensive videos done on the game. However this one stood out for how he related it to the hero's journey and Christianity. Furthermore, his intro promised to demonstrate the ability of Bloodborne to more effectively explain Lovecraft's cosmic views than even Lovecraft himself.
However I am severely disappointed on the following counts:
1. His opening also includes a preview to how Lovecraft heavily figured mythology into his cosmic creations. This was curious since Howard was well versed in his dressing of myths as (fictionally) being human encounters with the weird and cosmic. But alas the content creator simply spoke to the consistent and continued lampooning of Christianity by Japanese game developers--wah wah. (Other souls games, final fantasy etc).
2. The The idea of the amygdales representing entities beyond the ken of the player is insanely preposterous. Your character can FIGHT and DEFEAT a greater version of these. They look at your character when he/she approaches. And lastly they symbolise the (b) animal part of the brain. See where I am going with this?
3. He claims that Lovecraft was somehow the one who believed in the inescapably bestial nature of man when that was completely REH's side of his arguments with HPL!!!!! Characters in Bloodborne sink into abysmal beasthood when striving to contact more cosmically grand natures--absolutely they do. But Howard was the one with the quote: "...break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red- handed." How oh how is this ascribed to Lovecraft.
I have vowed off Lovecraft due to his sick perception of heredity, sex, race and life itself, but nothing I have seen or read indicates HE was the one to pioneer this latter notion among Werid tales and the Lovecraft circle. If I am somehow inaccurate please educate me.
In any case what do you guys think of the game and it's relationship with the Lovecraft circle.
