Japanese Mythology Expert Reacts to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

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  • Hi Gamologist and welcome and welcome back to another exciting episode of Experts React. Back at it is Michael Crandol, who specializes in Japanese horror films, and the mythology of Japan.
    Today he is going to react and share his knowledge with us on the game Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice. What is his opinion about The Seven-Branched Sword?
    Does he believe in Japanese Ghosts ? and many more questions to be answered on this episode of Expert React.
    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by From Software and published by Activision. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in March 2019, and for Stadia in October 2020. The game follows a shinobi known as Wolf, who attempts to take revenge on a samurai clan that imprisoned him and kidnapped his lord. The gameplay is focused on stealth, exploration, and combat, with a particular emphasis on boss battles. It takes place in a fictionalized Japan during the Sengoku period and makes strong references to Buddhist mythology and philosophy.
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  • @singami465
    @singami465 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    My man just said Sekiro is made by a "western developer". I understand that he's not a gamer, but Gameology could provide at least a little bit of context for him.
    Also, his analysys felt very surface-level. I read a bit about Sekiro lore and he doesn't seem to recognize anything past basic, pop-culture mythology.

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      I blame Gameology. They aren’t giving him content to react to that really aligns with his field of study. I suggested Nioh 1 and Nioh 2 which are HEAVY on the mythology side especially concerning yokai and such

    • @bassax7045
      @bassax7045 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@loneshinobi2682 like a dragon Ishin would be ideal for this guy to show his knowledge

    • @TheAtlasReview
      @TheAtlasReview ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@loneshinobi2682 Yeah, he really wasn't given much to work with even if he had been familiar enough with the game's lore to pick it apart.
      The part with the shamisen warrior was the closest thing to his specialty on ghosts, and he literally says of the clip that we don't get a good look because the player died trying to get close to it. Really poor video.

    • @DJWeapon8
      @DJWeapon8 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      That's been an ongoing issue with Gameology.
      The 1st video of the game they show off to the expert/s always lacks a ton of context and useful information for the expert to set their basis onto.
      Like the "idealized Japanese architecture" actually being set in a divine location that has become run down due to corruption.
      The "ghosts" not actually being ghosts, but humans that have been mutated and corrupted by immortality. Hence the much older equipment.
      The samurai monster warriors being the same kind of mutated and corrupted human, but are all women.
      And then there's the fact that FROM SOFTWARE games have really barebones stories, plots, and character development, and go out of their way to hide the actual lore and worldbuilding in their item descriptions. So the context in these clips become practically nonexistent.

    • @Solt-sd3km
      @Solt-sd3km ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yep, the best part of the video was with the corrupted monk where he had something to say about it, but he was just off the mark a little bit because he had no context of the games lore with how it's about immortality. She was based on Yao Bikuni, who ate a fish with a human face caught by her father and gained immortality, she then had to watch her father grow old and die so she wandered and became a Buddhist priestess. After having to watch everybody she had ever known grow old and die, she eventually died despite her immortality because she had lost the will to live. We know that because some ingame text says her name is priestess yao.
      Had he known a bit more context with the game being about immortality and the boss fight being a women he might have caught onto that.
      I'm also disappointed we didn't see anything about the giant snake. Would have also loved to see more of the more obviously yokai-like mini-bosses like o'rin of the water or the great carp, maybe also long arm centipedes.

  • @exaq
    @exaq ปีที่แล้ว +102

    gamology should honestly just do a part 2 and give michael more information about the devs and the games lore (like many other comments have suggested)

  • @nathandaniels4823
    @nathandaniels4823 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    Did someone eventually tell him the game is a Japanese game made by Japanese devs?
    I’m sure there’s a lot of Samurai film nods in Sekiro (possibly less directly Kurosawa than he’s thinking, especially since it’s not a western title), but there is so much in Sekiro that’s more directly from Japanese folklore.

  • @reveredrogue9725
    @reveredrogue9725 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Kinda sad that you didn't show the final deathblow Wolf gives to Isshin as it pretty much follows the style of Seppuku as after the samurai had cut their abdomen, an assistant with their katana ready from behind would decapitate them in a single strike.

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Missed opportunity as well not showing him the headless mini bosses

    • @kirank287
      @kirank287 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep.

    • @nakagawayuuki7452
      @nakagawayuuki7452 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Common Gamology Intern Behaviour

    • @beartrap3400
      @beartrap3400 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      This is how this channel has always been. These videos are good ideas but they put like half the effort into making it and skimp out on very important parts.

    • @Ray_Shabaz
      @Ray_Shabaz ปีที่แล้ว

      Before I learned what Seppuku was while playing this game, I thought Sekiro just slashed Isshin deeply in his back

  • @radojerkovic3059
    @radojerkovic3059 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    For being an expert, this really doesn't seem to go far beyond surface levrl knowledge. He waves most things off as just being a kurosawa thing instead of providing any real extra info and he doesn't go that far into detail.

    • @zacharytaylor5360
      @zacharytaylor5360 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      His comment on shinobi doing the dirty work of samurai isn’t wrong but fails to tell the audience that ninja/shinobi were typically samurai themselves

    • @Sir.Alonne
      @Sir.Alonne ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I'd blame the video format. He can only give us surface level knowledge because all he's got to go on is surface level gameplay footage. If he did a longform lore analysis I'm sure he'd have much more interesting stuff to comment on but that's not really what this channel does.

    • @radojerkovic3059
      @radojerkovic3059 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Sir.Alonne I've seen other history/myth experts on gamology provide much more interesting observations. I don't think it's the format at fault when like half the dude's expert opinions were just saying Kurosawa and leaving it at that.

    • @Sir.Alonne
      @Sir.Alonne ปีที่แล้ว

      @@radojerkovic3059 Aye, fair enough.

    • @Trollkiller
      @Trollkiller ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@Sir.Alonnereally it'd just be a lot more detailed if they also had someone explaining the story and lore of the game world to the history expert. Great example during the beginning temple part someone who's played the game could elaborate on the fact you just rode a giant made of rope into the divine realm and the enemies are actually okami who invaded generations ago and were defeated.

  • @TheAtlasReview
    @TheAtlasReview ปีที่แล้ว +188

    Don't want to belittle this guy, but everything he commented on was either aesthetic or surface level.
    I wish he was familiar enough with the game to comment on the dwarfs, immortality-worms, carp, buddha-carvings, asura, headless warriors and nobles, which all have a basis in Japanese mythology. Granted souls games don't make any of that stuff easy to learn about, but the game is seeped in lore that an expert could dive into.

    • @Brian-tn4cd
      @Brian-tn4cd ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Immortality worms are definitely more inspired from manga than anything majorly folkloric, kinda specifically "Blade of the Immortal" and its more than a reach because a character in Sekiro is a direct homage, and Miyazaki has been known to reference manga heavily before.
      Edit there are precedents say from Chinese medicine and ritual that eating insects could prolong your life

    • @TheAtlasReview
      @TheAtlasReview ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Brian-tn4cd From the lore discussions I have seen, the centipedes are Mukade, and they represent the corrupted, poisoned form of immortality that has accumulated in the fetid waters far from the divine realm. They are, as I understand them, an enemy of dragons and so the use of them to gain immortality shows how far the monks have fallen from the divine dragon.

    • @basicname1555
      @basicname1555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that isnt really his fault as much as it is just gameolgy not giving enough info so its possible he just didnt think anything about it. If they told him it was a Japanese game that actually has alot more mytholgy related stuff he could have talked about it. But stuff like the immo worms you cant no anything about those without lore which is the same for most of these

    • @slendydie1267
      @slendydie1267 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FromSoft tend to have horrid storytelling so im not surprised if most people that have played Sekiro dont know this either.

    • @katana6058
      @katana6058 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@slendydie1267 ur just dumb

  • @loneshinobi2682
    @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Gameology needs to show Michael Nioh 1 and Nioh 2!
    He would have a field day reacting to those games!!

    • @fireaza
      @fireaza ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That game is particularly neat, since the idea of a white samurai isn't fiction. It's very loosely-based on William Adams, who was an Englishman who went to Japan and did indeed end up being given the status of samurai.

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fireaza yep, I’ve put probably an unhealthy amount of hours into both games but Nioh 1 remains my favorite of the two (not saying Nioh 2 is “bad” by any stretch it’s excellent. Always have to clarify that for some folks lol)

    • @animeanime7849
      @animeanime7849 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same he should check out nioh 1 or 2 preferably 2

  • @Kurt20051YT
    @Kurt20051YT ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I've been studying samurai and feudal japanese history for about 4 years and he has many facts correct but there's a few things that are incorrect here-
    2:23- Ninjas weren't peasant soldiers, the ashigaru (peasant footsoldiers) were. Ninjas also weren't assassins, although they could perform assassinations, they were more like spies.
    2:33- Bushido was never historically what it is today, there wasn't anything considered too "dishonorable" for a samurai. For example, betrayal was highly common for the samurai, loyalty could change like the weather. If a daimyo ordered a samurai to kill someone, the samurai would do it. Backstabbing was not considered dishonorable.
    Some ninjas were actually samurai. Being a samurai was primarily a social status in feudal society. Being a ninja was just a job.
    I recommend watching The Shogunate and Metatron to learn more about samurai history.

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Underrated comment. This one needs more attention. I love Metatron and Shogunate, both excellent channels and swell guys who really know their stuff

    • @Kurt20051YT
      @Kurt20051YT ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@loneshinobi2682 Thx bro, and yeah both are amazing channels. I wish they'd upload more often lol

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kurt20051YT agreed lol

    • @Chippaization
      @Chippaization ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well good thing he said peasant warriors and not peasant soldiers as those are two different things

    • @Kurt20051YT
      @Kurt20051YT ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Chippaization From my knowledge, unless you're referring to the warrior class, peasant soldiers and peasant warriors are the same thing. Maybe the difference would be training? As the peasant warrior could be more of a professional warrior that trained for the majority of his life, similar to a samurai, just without the social status and service to a lord/clan. Either way, a ninja was never a peasant soldier or peasant warrior but commonly a samurai who's job was espionage or sabotage. I'm sure peasants could have been employed under a clan lord as a spy but they would likely have little to no training.

  • @gamelover1779
    @gamelover1779 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    I could be COMPLETELY wrong, but i cant help shake the feeling that he doesn’t really know about japanese folklore as much as he claims he does lol. Like there are so many variations and almost endless conent of it, like the marvel, dc or star wars universe. But he doesn’t seem to be that too in-tune to it.

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Dunno, but I think that he misjudged the armour and architecture as they are after the Sengoku Jidai (as many movies, the game is anachronistic)

    • @Alabeem
      @Alabeem ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ok so I'm not the only one who caught that.

    • @DR_REDACTED
      @DR_REDACTED ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True😂💀

    • @DJWeapon8
      @DJWeapon8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@edi9892 not necessarily.
      Ashina forces use older style equipment, while Interior Ministry forces (Tokugawa) use more "modern" equipment.
      Then there's the Okami Warriors who use much older equipment and have much older architecture because they are centuries old due to their immortality.

    • @RachelNicholsChair
      @RachelNicholsChair ปีที่แล้ว +29

      It honestly felt like he was trying to dumb it down. Going onto the internet. Trying to explain shit you know a frick ton about without being boring or going on for too long is a tough balance to carry on your own. I appreciate when they have multiple guests on so they are able to bounce ideas and thoughts off of one another. Or he's bullshiting haha.

  • @Warptrail
    @Warptrail ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I feel for him. Definitely knows his stuff but, as others have stated, From Software games need a bit of background to get the full breadth. The centipede, for instance, is a recurring thing in Sekiro and, if i am remembering my own studies well enough, were one of several icons devoted to the idea of immortality through transcendence. Usually in a negative connotation. Poison devouring poison until eventually it becomes the cure. Or a curse. For sure FromSoft took liberties, but there is a lot there to parse.

    • @DJWeapon8
      @DJWeapon8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a major problem when showing footage of FROM SOFTWARE games to people for reactions.
      Their games have extremely obscure lore and worldbuilding, and have barebones stories and plots.
      Unless the reactor is playing through at their own pace and reading every single item description, or has the wiki up and reading them there, there's not much they can get out of it.

  • @bunny-usagiiVT
    @bunny-usagiiVT ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was my professor :D
    I followed his film class earlier this year, it was great!
    I didn't expect to see him on my TH-cam feed xD

  • @elvinmacospag6989
    @elvinmacospag6989 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love the reaction, though I feel you could've given Mr. Crandol a bit more context.
    Hoping you get him to react to Nioh 2, next. Especially with regards to the designs and their take on Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

  • @AdamMerlin
    @AdamMerlin ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The way he describes what Shinobis do so that Samurais dont have to sully their image is exactly what Sekiro does. Awesome!

  • @herrscherofflamescion4167
    @herrscherofflamescion4167 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i believe Orochi is an eight-headed snake, not a dragon

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yamata - no - orochi, yes. Actually the final boss in Nioh 1 lol

  • @azraelfaust487
    @azraelfaust487 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    should have showed him the demon of hatred, the enemies on the rooftops with the spinning blades and feather capes, sekiro finishing off isshin, isshin getting ressurected from genichiro's body etc, so many missed things

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed

    • @noamias4897
      @noamias4897 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      AND told him it was made by a Japanese studio, not a French or western one

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noamias4897 for sure. I enjoy a lot of what Gameology puts out but they’ve been dropping the ball recently with some of these experts react clips

  • @cvampaul
    @cvampaul ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please do a part 2 with a little bit of background for the expert

  • @shaikhroman9764
    @shaikhroman9764 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why is it so saturated?!

  • @cvampaul
    @cvampaul ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Headless grab not included?

  • @danild2002
    @danild2002 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so short review, if you have killed corrupted monk there was a description of who she really was, they say her real name is Yao, i thought you would explain her mythology too

  • @elliottstride791
    @elliottstride791 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    While Sekiro would not be a forgiving start point for a non-gamer this shows a real weakness of the just show clips style to the expert. With this he misses how Sekiro wears it's Buddhist influence on it's sleeve and even elaborates on the Buddhist philosophy that informs Fromsoft's previous titles even though they are set in western inspired fantasy scenarios. He also misses a lot of subtleties such as an item description for the Monks memory that ties her to the folktale of Yao Bikuni which has great tie in to Sekiro's theme of stagnating immortality.

  • @leurunner4764
    @leurunner4764 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Isshin actually uses mostly non-magical weapons.

  • @gamester512
    @gamester512 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd like to see him react to Nioh & Nioh 2 at some point. Those games delve much more deeply into Japanese folklore and Yokai are at the forefront as one of the primary enemy types. And in the second game, the protagonist themselves is a half-Yokai and thus has supernatural powers of their own.

  • @Natoo711
    @Natoo711 ปีที่แล้ว

    If they can do older games for experts to react, I'd like to see what they think of Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, a fantastic and beautiful game for its time, around Japanese mythology.

  • @richardsonrichly8456
    @richardsonrichly8456 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sekiro and berserk are very alike in the accuracy in the sense that if you took all the supernatural stuff
    It's pretty much an irl historical setting

  • @bloodangel19
    @bloodangel19 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The shinobi were like CIA spooks.

  • @bigpmp4491
    @bigpmp4491 ปีที่แล้ว

    the monk on the bridge is based of a tale about a broken hearted women or something the mask alone is one of the most famous traditional Japanese folklore he couldn’t even see that not to mention he kept calling the 7 BRANCHED sword the wrong name

    • @kontou.
      @kontou. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its misleading to say that true monk is based off of its mask. The Hannya mask is meant to represent a sad and jealous woman in Noh theatre. While this could leave room for interpretation of the Monk, we arent fed much information on her backstory. Its likely the placement of the mask could also be a stylistic choice, as the Hannya mask is a very popular piece of folklore.

  • @DanteGuerrilla
    @DanteGuerrilla ปีที่แล้ว

    He should react to "Okami". Lots to cover in that game.

  • @Neo2266.
    @Neo2266. ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jeez, there's so much more you could have shown him. Start with the normal human soldiers and just show off the fighting style, then show more mythical enemies, show the Headless kappas, show the snake, show the enemy shinobi equivalents Lone Shadows, have him listen to the soundtrack, Show the weaponry the ministry uses at the end of the game, the Demon of Hatred, come on.

  • @chavo8989
    @chavo8989 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bring him back to react to the yokai in Ghost Wire Tokyo

  • @neelmishra2320
    @neelmishra2320 ปีที่แล้ว

    We need one expert on abhramic mythologies as well.

  • @naughtmouth9781
    @naughtmouth9781 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can tell they didn't give him any context on like who developed the game

  • @parkeranthony00
    @parkeranthony00 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do I submit clips for y’all to look at??

  • @Heavenly___9
    @Heavenly___9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gamology, please get this man to review nioh or nioh 2

  • @VangLobo32
    @VangLobo32 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He IS the right guy to do a REACT to Ghost of Tsushima.

  • @rizalkhafidin1471
    @rizalkhafidin1471 ปีที่แล้ว

    The snek, the fish

  • @fabristan
    @fabristan ปีที่แล้ว

    "So forth"

  • @andyxia2005
    @andyxia2005 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have watched a series of video for background story analysis (videos that this one should looks like) for a total time length of 5 hours and half (not a playthrough, each video that I watched is all analysis), so I believe that I am quite familiar with the game background. I can say that the guy is somehow mislead or offtrack with two examples: The corrupt monk is based on a immortal or close to immortal female monk, her name is simply said in the battle memory that you acquired after kill the corrupt monk. And the guy said the fight is based on a warrior with a male monk, so clearly the guy seems to focus on the fighting instead of background story. The second example is that most area have their "local god", the ape for the buddha valley, the snake for the main city and sunken valley ("the sniper valley" if I got the name wrong), the carp for the fountain head palace (the dragon is just an exception who is not local at all). And my third point is: the guy totally didn't talk about "shura" which is a demon or monster like thing who went crazy on killings, I believe shura might be on the top broad that got people confused and wish to find out about it.

    • @schmarzel8342
      @schmarzel8342 ปีที่แล้ว

      it is a react. he hasn't played the game and is therefore neither familiar with the story nor any details you mentioned. he can only go off of what he is being shown. if he were to actually play the game, be able to take a good look at everything, take in all the details, even research certain things, he'd be able to pick up on a lot more stuff, just like the people in those lore videos you watched. nonetheless it is a react and he doesn't have much to go off of. you are expecting too much from him, though i can understand being disappointed to not learn anything new here.

  • @u-law8149
    @u-law8149 ปีที่แล้ว

    whaat system it's on

  • @CrazeeAdam
    @CrazeeAdam ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pretty sure much of Sekiro is based on actual lore...

  • @jamesmontana1881
    @jamesmontana1881 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am first to comment.......
    oh my god, oh my god.
    What do I do, what do I do
    😲😢🤣🤮😬😭🥰😍🥳😜🤪😇🤬😱😤
    Oh & thank you for the content, absolutely awesome 🙏 💙💜💙

  • @Homeowner7
    @Homeowner7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    RIP to Michael Crandall when he realises the game developers are Japanese 😢

  • @depresespres4214
    @depresespres4214 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As usual, the expert needs more context

  • @metal_bocchi
    @metal_bocchi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool.

  • @AntiBellum
    @AntiBellum ปีที่แล้ว

    Am I crazy or does this guy kinda look like David Hayter lol

  • @zoom8449
    @zoom8449 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do nioh1 or 2. He wants yokai and demon cats!

  • @ethanfynn3044
    @ethanfynn3044 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do wo long next

    • @whims5301
      @whims5301 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing game but that's Chinese

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wo Long wouldn’t be a good fit for Michael. Wo Long is inspired by Chinese mythology and romance of the five kingdoms if I’m not mistaken.

    • @ethanfynn3044
      @ethanfynn3044 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@loneshinobi2682 oh ok Thanks for telling me

  • @r.s.fletcher7066
    @r.s.fletcher7066 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think his soul would be hurt knowing a Japanese company developed this game

  • @brunopelletier5701
    @brunopelletier5701 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does he know sekiro developer are japanese....

  • @kingpoxy2289
    @kingpoxy2289 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He keeps mentioning that the game was made by a western developer which is not right at all

  • @Adamantian9
    @Adamantian9 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Western developers? Does he know fromsoftware is a japanese company or no?

  • @Slayer_-qs1mk
    @Slayer_-qs1mk ปีที่แล้ว

    If he says he aint got a giant centipede on him, not to be rude tho but... was he there? He should respect Sekiro😡

  • @castform57
    @castform57 ปีที่แล้ว

    Developers sure did get inspired by japanese media like Kurosawa's material, because fromsoft are definitely not japanese, nope, the directors Hidetaka Miyazaki and Kazuhiro Hamatani don't sound japanese at all, no sir.

  • @TORREYTHEPROUDTRIBALWARRIOR
    @TORREYTHEPROUDTRIBALWARRIOR ปีที่แล้ว

    👀

  • @Zephyr_Prashant
    @Zephyr_Prashant ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm tired of gamology bringing in experts but not giving them any context of what they're watching. Its honestly infuriating. There needs to a person to give them context and ask questions to make it more of a conversation than just surface level reaction. Please do better.

  • @ihsaniap6410
    @ihsaniap6410 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just got started playing this game....I played so many action games and I think this game can be classified as the hardest ones.....

  • @istvanfarkas1660
    @istvanfarkas1660 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now do a Part 2, but with Vaati as a guest!

  • @gimme.shelter
    @gimme.shelter ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There's a joke written itself somewhere about japanese mythology experts being white

  • @PhsykoOmen
    @PhsykoOmen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didnt showcase much of any mythology in this to really title it as "expert" I'm sure he is knowledgeable in history as I can tell but only surface level mythology. But again, the video didnt do enough for me.

  • @DR_REDACTED
    @DR_REDACTED ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Again "expert" if that's all you need to know then i guess im one too😂

  • @samvaz4082
    @samvaz4082 ปีที่แล้ว

    Japanese mythology expert is a Caucasian male, this video is a JOKE

    • @michaelk4896
      @michaelk4896 ปีที่แล้ว

      The man is a university professor and what are you again? Just another blind white people hater -- a racist.

    • @shiramaro
      @shiramaro 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@michaelk4896 he is white lol

  • @ashtonturner2862
    @ashtonturner2862 ปีที่แล้ว

    I respect Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and it's players, but Ghost of Tsushima over Sekiro all day.

  • @shikitohno47
    @shikitohno47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓" the video

  • @DevineDumbass
    @DevineDumbass ปีที่แล้ว

    This game isn't made by western developers.. lmao. It's a Japanese game studio

  • @Thiccness_Is_Delicious
    @Thiccness_Is_Delicious 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did......did he just really say we didnt know anything about shinobi when in fact we know quite alot.

  • @Akakikukaku
    @Akakikukaku ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It's kinda ironic that the viewers knows more from playing the game and mostly vaati videos than the expert, just on this one particular video
    Kinda sad though, miscommunication much?

    • @Chippaization
      @Chippaization ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I mean vaati is just rereading the Wikipedia page and 4chan/reddit posts

  • @NightKing--82
    @NightKing--82 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I heard him say something about French game developers or Western game developers being inspired by Japanese lore does he not kno Sekiro is made by From software a Japanese company lol I mean I feel like that's something someone should have told him when they reached out to him to do this great game tho definitely one of my top 5 favorites.

  • @ThePeteriarchy
    @ThePeteriarchy ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Interesting thing I learned about the optional Headless fights, the grab move that they have where they teleport behind Wolf and reach up his butt and pull something out of it seems to be a reference to the "shirikodama", apparently a hardened ball inside people's anuses that contain their soul, and is particularly coveted by kappa, who like to pull it out violently. Great story to scare kids into not going out late at night. Utterly disgusting grab move, does a lot of damage, and I absolutely died to it a few times during my first run, but it's kinda hilarious that it actually had something to do with yokai folklore lol

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The kappa in the nioh games will actually do this to William/Hide as well lol

    • @beartrap3400
      @beartrap3400 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This comment right here was more educational than this entire video. I had no idea about the shirikodama. I don't even blame expert here, I blame gameology for (in their usual fashion) doing the bare-minimum when it comes to creating content.

    • @ThePeteriarchy
      @ThePeteriarchy ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@beartrap3400 Yeah, seems to be an ongoing theme with this channel lately... In this case, I'm mostly disappointed that they didn't show him more of the Senpou Temple area. He might've been able to catch the disturbingly large amount of jizo statues there that represent all the children that the monks did their immortality experiments on, which is the whole theme of the game: people getting corrupted by abandoning the pursuit of spiritual immortality in Buddhism in favor of physical immortality. And a lot of it is shown in this game via the environments. Literally just walking around that area without doing any flashy moves could've led to a whole discussion based on the guest's expertise.

  • @LadyMoonboy
    @LadyMoonboy ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was disappointed that the Headless's grab attack wasn't featured in the video given that it's based on japanese mythology.

  • @adamatsuzhao2277
    @adamatsuzhao2277 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    The "sword saint" title (Kensei in japanese ) is a special title given to the best swordman of japan. One of the most known was Sasaki Kojiro who was defeated by Miyamoto Musashi. They can be only one Kensei at once

    • @DR_REDACTED
      @DR_REDACTED ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was gonna comment that. Nice expert they got right?😂

    • @Mangaka_Library
      @Mangaka_Library ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Titles are rightfully earned by the actions of that person...
      Kensei was given to Miyamoto Musashi because he won over 61 undefeated duels..
      One including with Sosaki Kujiro, A samurai who was Deaf...
      Fools only give themselves the titles by thinking themselves the best...
      Titles are Rightfully earned by being given it by the people...

    • @slenderman6925
      @slenderman6925 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Mangaka_Library As far as i know, Sasaki Kojiro is only deaf in Vagabond, in real life its debated if he is even real

    • @Mangaka_Library
      @Mangaka_Library ปีที่แล้ว

      @slenderman6925 well..
      Yeah they did exist at the same time..
      But Musashi had only given and written two books, Which were the Book of Five rings and Dokkoido (only he gave Dokkoido to his Best friend before his death)
      Apperently they only say that Kojiro was with Lord Hosokawa at the time before his Duel with Musashi..
      Either because Kojiro was Political and he wanted to fight Musashi to the death..
      And was Killed by an Overhead strike of Musashi's Bokken..

    • @slenderman6925
      @slenderman6925 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mangaka_Library im not saying they didnt exist at the same time im saying we dont know if kojiro existed at all and if he did, he wasnt deaf

  • @khandakerrahim7010
    @khandakerrahim7010 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    not showing a headless fight was a missed opportunity

  • @gangly_gamers1279
    @gangly_gamers1279 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Please do something like this for Nioh2 too

  • @andryuu_2000
    @andryuu_2000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think you guys should've told them the game is not made by Activision but From Software, which *is* japanese.
    It's almost as if he was commenting on Spirited away without knowing it was made by a japanese studio.

  • @noamias4897
    @noamias4897 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think the “shinobi code” owl speaks of is just rubbish he made up to use Sekiro as his tool

  • @杉乃かふん
    @杉乃かふん ปีที่แล้ว +2

    From is a Japanese company, but they use metaphors that even Japanese people don't understand.
    A famous example is that sekiro's headless ghost is a kappa.Kappa is a Japanese yokai with a plate on its head. A severed neck would be even more similar, wouldn't it?

  • @macisr
    @macisr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It irks me that when it's a western fantasy everyone clearly knows it, and you just have to speak about its meaning, but when it's eastern fantasy suddenly it's always something they believe in and everyone has to debunk it, like if it wasn't fantasy as well. It's so stupid. It's so dumb. It's as if someone was talking about how evangelism and Catholicism isn't real. I's stupid as hell just thinking that you have to debunk it.

  • @zombiewarrior225
    @zombiewarrior225 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My man saw French subtitles and assumed it was a French dev.

  • @joshuasanchez9257
    @joshuasanchez9257 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He looks like he did a fat J before this vid

  • @khalifabinhendi6107
    @khalifabinhendi6107 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "We don't know too much about the real shinobi."
    Welp, they were stealth soldiers, tasked with staying out of sight, as though they were never there to begin with. Looks like they are living up to that.

  • @jonhstonk7998
    @jonhstonk7998 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I mean shinobi was a job not a class: there were commoner shinobi and samurai shinobi like famous Hattori Hanzo, there were even samurai clans who specialized in being shinobi, it was not thought of as dishonorable to perform shinobi tasks at least not during the sengoku era as honor was about getting the job done and serving your lord not about “fighting fair” that notion was conceived later in the relative peace of the Edo period.
    But then again this man is a specialist in Japanese mythology not Japanese history and while they overlap it’s still is a pretty common and honest mistake to make when it comes to the shinobi.

  • @daezondario
    @daezondario ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Has he done ghost of tsushima yet?

  • @jawadunnoor803
    @jawadunnoor803 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    someone tell him it's developed by Japanese developers. He is talking about western developers

  • @samayoubi3408
    @samayoubi3408 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome reaction and loved learning and finding out Japanese mythology stuff

  • @nicholasnguyen5181
    @nicholasnguyen5181 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This game’s pretty interesting… . It’s not bad! 😀

  • @user-tm8jt2py3d
    @user-tm8jt2py3d 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    people complaining that he's just talking about pop culture and not seeing enough authentic history in it are going to have to come to terms with their own fractured weebiness. most of what you consume and think is historical is not. he's being incredibly kind to your fragile sensibilities and Japanophilic fantasies. Sekiro is as real to Japan as Bloodborne is to Britain.

  • @GatekeeperGuardian-wv3cd
    @GatekeeperGuardian-wv3cd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There were a few things I found weird about this beyond the "Made by a Western game developer" comment. In particular, my understanding of shinobi is that they were most definitely not just peasants. If anything they were usually samurai performing stealthy special ops or bandits hired by lords to do jobs too risky to waste valuable samurai on. The popular legends about shinobi from Iga province are supposed to be based on country samurai that were probably viewed as indistinguishable from peasantry but were still distinct from peasants.

  • @ねこるあ9
    @ねこるあ9 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He needs to study about Japanese religion, ``Snake belief''.
    ” You should study “Mountain Faith.”

  • @mushimaster1566
    @mushimaster1566 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just want to point out about the shinobi code bit. My personal reading of the use of the shinobi code in this game is a form of control that Owl uses on Sekiro. I believe that Owl, and to and extent Lady Butterfly, claimed that to serve the master (or father I don't remember which was said in the game) is the highest priority for a shinobi. I don't think the game claims that there is a universal shinobi code that anyone is following but it is invented by Owl to teach Sekiro to never betray him, even if it means betraying Kuro.

  • @OninHasan
    @OninHasan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should've provided him with proper contexts and at least the premise of the Sekiro lore so he can explore more of the Japanese folklore or mythology. Without these, all we can possibly expect is surface level information.

  • @greytakerrev7147
    @greytakerrev7147 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do Edgar Allen Poe Lovecraftian mythology expert reacts to Bloodborne.

  • @ultrajd
    @ultrajd ปีที่แล้ว

    Has this guy done Ghost of Tsushima?

  • @cademulcahey8928
    @cademulcahey8928 ปีที่แล้ว

    it’s a japanese game dev…?

  • @kickbrosmasher5155
    @kickbrosmasher5155 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was very surface level

  • @lightly_burnt
    @lightly_burnt ปีที่แล้ว

    You should have him do Nioh 2

  • @ghostronin3278
    @ghostronin3278 ปีที่แล้ว

    you should let him react to Ghost of Tsushima gameplay or the storyline in the game

  • @adambulmash6880
    @adambulmash6880 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please for the love of God have this guy react to Okami. It is the quintessential Japanese mythology game.

  • @miastrok
    @miastrok ปีที่แล้ว

    please do ghost of Tsushima next

  • @YourPalKindred
    @YourPalKindred ปีที่แล้ว

    PLEASE show this man Nioh!

  • @jaughnekow
    @jaughnekow ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is the best souls like game. even better than elden ring

  • @brutusmagnuson315
    @brutusmagnuson315 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did this guy do this last minute, or something?

  • @edi9892
    @edi9892 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aren't their armours and the architecture a bit anachronistic?
    I thought that they are a bit after the Sengoku Jidai.
    Many movies also feature late armour and hairstyles, that were at times even two eras later...

    • @loneshinobi2682
      @loneshinobi2682 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sekiro is said to be set specifically DURING sengoku jidai but ofc some creative liberties are always going to be taken since fromsoft wasn’t going for spot on accuracy here