Why are Japanese developers so obsessed with making the protagonist of their game a manlet?

Why are Japanese developers so obsessed with making the protagonist of their game a manlet?

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maybe they don't actually give a shit and just do what's easier to animate

So it doesn’t look off putting when he dies a million times because you are shit

Historically accurate.

Because Miyazaki's a manlet

What is?

If they didn't then this thread would say "Why do Japanese developers make their characters taller than they are in real life?"
Just admit you're an oestronaut and want to bitch instead of posting anything of value

Everything.

Because they love perseverance. A manlet getting thrown around 100 times but succeeding through sheer willpower is the ideal protagonist in their culture.

I'm going to say the N word.

It's more tense when enemies are bigger than you, and you're just a small dude with a sword fighting giants.

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>average japanese adult male height: 140cm
>average japanese adult woman height: 112cm

gee I wonder why

To fit being a hero. A hero doesn't have to be perfect, so him being short "negative" and skilled "positive" makes a balance.
If Sekiro was tall that would just be stupid. You need to feel inferior to other strong enemies.

This. It's the typical underdog David vs Goliath trope.

>Why are Japanese developers so obsessed with making the protagonist of their game a manlet?
Because they made contact with the west and understood certain basic facts.

That can't be real.

If I had to guess, considering you're usually facing your characters back and also need to be able to see what the enemy is doing, being smaller than the one you're fighting makes it harder for your character's frame to hide enemy movements.

There is nothing wrong with being smaller than a woman or being a manlet. Fuck off with this meme.

The camera angles wouldn't work properly if the enemies weren't bigger than the player brainlet-kun

Yeah it's okay. I too have a small penis humiliation fetish.

Because they know manlets are superior

Because being smaller is more becoming of a warrior who practices techniques of stealth. Same reason Big Boss went from 6'4 to 5'10.

There is no excuse, however, for Wander being 4'10 in Shadow of the Colossus. That shit is just hilarious.

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False.
I'm 5'5 and my girlfriend is 5'7 and used perfectly happy with my height and dick.

An antagonist doesn't have to be tall and big either. but they all are in this game. there have been many evil manlet conquerors in history,why can't everyone in this game be of average height?

just make the camera taller

>112 cm
IMAGINE

Because they're easier to animate and make hitboxes for, probably. Enemies being larger than the player also makes them more imposing.

False.
I'm 5'5 and my girlfriend is 5'7 and I'm perfectly happy with her height and dick.

I'm not taunting you. I seriously have a small penis humiliation fetish.
Now post sph related pics.

>average japanese adult male height: 140cm
>average japanese adult woman height: 112cm
kys bait

It's (disputably) more spectacular if an enemy is larger than the player character. It's also easier to observe their movements and accordingly learn their telegraphs and attack patterns.
Within reason, obviously. If they're so big they don't fit on the screen, then you've overdone it.

He's JAPANESE, of course he's short

more like 170 and 160 idiot

But i don't want to get banned user!

god I wish I had a small gf

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t. seething dicklet

>Dante is a manlet

Wolf seems like 5'10
training guy is just tall

>wolf
>underdog

should you kill the training guy?

wtf just looked it up some say he's 6'5
he looks a solid 6 and no more

Country Average male height Average female height
Japan 171.2 cm (5' 7.4") 158.8 cm (5' 2.6")

don't talk to me or my son ever again

>170
pfffffffhahahaha this is supposed to be impressive? lmao

Wrong

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t.175

NINJA!

>Because being smaller is more becoming of a warrior who practices techniques of stealth.
But he's the shortest Ninja/Shinobi in the game. All the other stealthy people are tall. Owl, his Mentor, is a giant. Wolf is just short.

>tfw right in the middle

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>and dick

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>Wolf seems like 5'10

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It just feels so much fun to kill people much bigger than you in video games. The peak is when you're a short kid obliterating monsters that take a quarter of your screen but being a short normal man in a world of lanky creatures like in the soulsborne series is cool aswell

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LMAO you manlet

>Wolf not an underdog
How?

from software has a weird fetish of making MC fight against giants

Anything under 190 is a woman wearing man clothes desu

I guess it makes reading the enemies moves easier.

isn't Wander just a kid?

you sound a little insecure, manlet

he's pointing out the pun

>112cm
please be real

why are americans so obsessed with height?

how tall is he?
nah being taller than 6'5 sucks
6'-6'4 is peak

Because they’re all manlets under 6ft. Combine that with 300 pounds they all weight and you will see they’re wider than taller.

Why are you so obsessed with height you faggot? Quit thinking about tall men it's pretty gay

reminds me of the 137cm jav

Americans are proud of things they didn't have any hand in all the time.

>112cm

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If enemies are bigger than you they are more intimidating, which is good for immersion, and it's easier to see what move they're making, which is good for gameplay.

Blizzard said they made Arthas bigger than other Human characters to make him seem more threatening & you weaker, makes the challenge of defeating him seem greater than it actually is

From & others likely think the same

Coping manlets

Only manlets prefer tall characters

People ate just abnormal large in the souls-borne universe.

maybe being immortal has something to do with it

He's not immortal. There are actual immortal characters in game, and Wolf isn't one of them. I guess it's all semantics on how one defined "immortality".

OOF

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Gook propaganda.

There are a few thematic reasons for why wolf is small in stature.
>smaller people are harder to detect which goes well with the stealth genre
>having enemies larger than you gives the player a david vs goliath feeling.

bs
those things must have been way taller back then

and?

COPE

post fem peen
he's the most badass shinobi in the game?

gooks are slaves of Xianbei, Manchu, Chinese and Japanese so of course they should be big.

every kind of immortal in sekiro is immortal there's no ambiguity here. several characters cannot die. Wolf is one of them. That makes him immortal.

Nice try, manlet.

wolf is a medium build
his frame is pretty good just not giant
he's average sized

>he's the most badass Shinobi in the game?
The Lone Shadows are cooler. Also being 'badass' doesn't negate underdog status.

Wolf dies though, dumb ass. Play the game. He actually dies in universe. Immortals never die at all, they can't die then revive, their lives just never extinguish. Wolf actually dies.

Because gooks are turbo manlets

How does that help your argument? They're both manlets.

I think they deliberately shrank him so it'd be easier to see your foe during combat.

Protagonist is always small in souls games

Literary who?

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>average japanese adult woman height: 112cm

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>5'11" vs 6'0"

the strong should fear the weak

It's not. Avergae male hight in Japan is 170cm and female 155cm

weebs = manlets

You're retarded, you don't get to make up the rules for what specific type of immortality counts as immortality. Wolf and several other characters can die and come back to life yes, this counts as immortality in universe and out. Immortality is not a real fucking thing so it could be portrayed in any variety of ways. Google the Immortal Jellyfish. Wolf is immortal, he cannot die.

too bad they cover the fucking foe with a giant moonrune when an attack is incoming so its pointless anyways

>You're retarded, you don't get to make up the rules for what specific type of immortality counts as immortality.
You're a fucking retard.
Immortality is being able to live for an eternity. Never dying as a result of it. The game even spells this out for its own in universe lore. Hell, Wolf even says he dies all the time and basically claims that he isn't immortal, yet people are doing things in universe for spoiler reasons to get immortality, like the centipede monks. They are actually immortal, they never die and they can live forever. Wolf dies. He says it and everyone else says it. He isn't immortal. Hell, the only reason "his power" works is because he isn't immortal. If Wolf was immortal that the power he has wouldn't even be useful.
>yes, this counts as immortality in universe
The game unironically states otherwise you fucking retard. Maybe you should play it for once.

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Well. Go on.

186cm sekiro looks a minium of 178 cm

Also
>look up the immortal jellyfish
This isn't even remotely similar, because they can die. They have the biological ability to revert themselves back to basically infant status after reaching their sexual maturity. They aren't "immortal" in the sense that they can't die you fucking retard.

he's immortal and he slays everything he comes across
he's way cooler than the lone shadows

This is the actual answer.

It's amazing hearing all these idiots come out with explanations when the simple reason is that it's just there so your character isn't blocking 80% of the view of your enemies.

see

so you feel like the underdog you dumb faggots.

google 137cm jav

your retarded if you believe he's less than 5'0 that wouldnt look ri

He's a manlet.

wasn't the hoonter like 5'8? doll was 6'8 if i remember correctly
i assumed all souls protags where 5'8

The fact that you're willing to make a thread about it says a lot more about you than about them

david vs goliath archetype.
beating someone bigger feels better than beating monkeys and dwarfs all day.

Heard sekiro was scaled down because of hitboxes issues, it's also why platforming can get wonky sometimes.

Just look at the final boss.

There's no way that a human would be that large

Source?

Every time I see one of these threads all I can think about is that one Flying Circus sketch with the archaeologists being dismissed for being too short and then jumping on each other's shoulders.
It's not any less dumb in this instance.

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reeeeeeeee
why?
well i hate sekiro now
ruined the game

Hearsay from datamined stuff, might be bs kind of sense tho i can see why they would have done it with some bosses.

it's bs
that's to stupid
wouldn't have done anything to make him a couple inches taller

The only enemies smaller than him are the treasure trolls with the giant hats. The fucking chickens are larger than him.

>They are actually immortal, they never die and they can live forever.
just fucking contradicted your own post. Wolf can kill them and they come back to life. Retard.

>mantis lords are female

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He doesn't kill them, dumb ass. Play the game.

telling me to play the game when you clearly havent fucking touched it. go ahead and deathblow them. They die and then get back up, EXACTLY like wolf does. You're just upset that you realized you fucking contradicted yourself and now have no ground to stand on. Wolf is immortal. Centipede monks are immortal. Hanbei is immortal. Utter retard can't believe I wasted this many posts thinking you were serious.

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So how are lorefags coping with the whole "Travel 3 years back in time in a memory and get items from there to the future" together with changing things in the future changing the past?

>they die
But they don't you fucking retard. The centipede inside of them makes them unable to die. They don't die until they get stabbed by the Mortal Blade, which Wolf can pull out right after knocking them unconscious, and guess what? They start moving again right after they get stabbed by it, even if they "die" after getting killed by the Kusabimaru. Not only that, but the game makes a clear distinction between actual Dragon Heritage and false dragon heritage. Like I said, play the fucking game before screeching at people about things you clearly don't know.

dude stagnation lmao
You can kill them with the death blade, at least until you reset at the idol

That’s another search query to add to my list

>all the weebs getting baited by this shitpost

>you don't get to make up the rules for what specific type of immortality counts as immortality
When you make up your own fantasy world, yes you do. God you are a fucking stupid contrarian.

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THANK YOU. i thought i was the only one bothered by that.

my headcannon is that he relives his old memories, like a simulation or bloodborne dream

he looks medium build
around the same size as the blue robed samurai

Characters in these kinds of 3d action games tend to be shorter than enemies so they don't block as much of your vision of the enemies when fighting.
It's one of those video game things, like the huge doors you see in 3d games that don't match actual door sizes.

He doesn't actually travel back in time. It's a vision Buddha showed him. And Sekiro can't even be sure if what he saw is actually what happened.
Don't know how to explain gaining items though.

Wouldn't being shorter help you sneak better and being less weighty? I don't think he's too small I just think he's around average a lot of the basic enemies look around his height. I don't know why it even matters anyway because it's barely noticeable.

The actual reason in the souls type games is to make it easier to see the enemies.

I guess you could argue that he gathered those back then and he just remembers he has them.

But then you have the problem with dragonrot, dying in a vision changes the present? You resurrect in a vision?

Killing the giant carp changes the vision? Like what?

>amputee
>orphan
>disgraced Shinobi; lost the one person he's supposed to protect

I don't believe that even for a second

I thought dying in the vision didn't make dragonrot progress? At least it didn't progress for me when I died like 50 times to granny (did her before even reaching Gyoubu Oniwa in the main game).
Can't remember if I got any dragonrot from my earlier deaths in the vision though.

He's also the best

I'm 99% sure it progressed when I was dying to shinobi hunter

what giant carp? and he also has his cripple arm in the vision
also why doesn't everyone slice an arm off in this game? that's the coolest protehtic arm ever

>Don't know how to explain gaining items though.
Buddha

this
he's a medium build

Endgame spoilers.

You can kill the giant carp in fountainhead palace, to do so talk to the guy in the pot in the river after having spent some scales on him, he will give you some bait, if you feed that bait to the carp it will die and appear where you fought the ape, that turns the guy in the pot into a carp, somehow.

he's the best in the game
aint short he's average
he's around the size of the blue samurai

fuck
aint gonna read that yet since i'm just at the castle invasion but i will come back and read it user

>112cm
we're hitting levels of IMAGINE that shouldn't be possible

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>aint short he's average
He's a fucking manlet, bro. He's shorter than a 5'7" japanese folding board.

Manlet allows for better FOV while having a close camera. I will typically go womanlet in 3rd person action for that negative shoulder width if there is character creation.

what does the carp guys mask do?

how do i get a 4'6-4'11 gf?
6'1 bear btw

>112cm

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lets you upgrade damage with skill points
but it costs 5 points so it's not worth it, you're either going to miss all the skills or grind forever

no way he's below 5'6 he has to be 5'6-5'10
those boards just have to be to tall

the whole game

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It might have done that for me too. Maybe granny is special or the game goes easy with the dragonrot if you do a difficult boss 'too early'.

dunno seems easy to grind at ashina castle and even 1 attack point makes a lot of difference to me

5' or shorter = short
5'1'' - 5'5'' = average
5'6'' - 5'9'' = tall
6' or taller = too tall, no girl will feel attracted to such a lanklet

doll is still best girl

the protagonists of life are manlets

>5'6"
>tall

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Fuck off china

not all tall guys are lanklets some have really wide shoulders and torsos

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Wolf is god tier husbando

Hey so I got Asshin castle should I go to the top or should I go back to the beginning of the game? I fought some dude there and it lead me to the underground but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to go there or if it's completely optional

welp i'm gonna have to shut off my pc so i can actually play the game guys
already wasted hours here
is there anything i can miss before i make the choice?

I can't beat beast of hatred.
>tfw filtered at the end of the game
I'm sure the final boss will be easier right haha

The dragon mask? It lets you exchange skill points for attack power at idols

>5'1'' - 5'5'' = average
>5'6'' - 5'9'' = tall

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wolf seems bigger than most grunts so i dunno what everyone is complaining about

Man he sure is an ugly son of a bitch

which other from game would you say sekiros ost is most simular to? sounds demon soulsish

Can you repost this with readable units like feet and inches?

miyahacki is cute

have you used the whistle, it stuns him
and just stay close to him because his fire attacks wont hit you there

the fuck was up with gyoubu after the drunkard fight? and why is he much smaller 3 years ago

The only enemies smaller than Wolf aren't human.

I read a theory on Yea Forums that said the Chained Ogre is in fact just a normal, regular sized western man and that the rest of the cast are teeny tiny azns.
Miyazaki confirmed this to be canon

>Miyazaki confirmed this to be canon
Source?

ape would have been a GOAT boss if it wasn't disgusting
wtf it just shits on you

His height

Where was he? I didn't even notice him in the vision.

El ogro de las americas

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Hop in

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wtf so could a large western man just go over there and take the country?

he just starts yelling and prentending he killed the drunk guy after you did

Well, yeah. I mean that's literally what happened in the world of Dark Souls. The world was all dragons and arch trees. Until the white man awoke, that is.

Imagine if this was a black person.

>those hands and feet
How fucking big was his dick?

Yeah I totally missed that.

They do it to make enemies feel more powerful or something. Size=power

>5'10 - 5'11 missing

Is this truly the Height of Greatness

he's attractive because of his superior brain

Jokes aside, it's not just Sekiro. Bloodborne had this exact same size-difference between you and regular enemies, like the corrupted guys in Yarnham participating in the hunt. Even though they had a stooped posture, they still stood over you. I think people notice it more in Sekiro because it's somewhat more realistic and less supernatural than Bloodborne.

Makes better gameplay, character doesn't block screen to much

Because there's going to be a multi-player dlc

Sekiro is very literally canonically immortal. Kuro asks him "how many times have you come back to life? Too many to count?"
All your deaths in the game are canon

Are you retarded? That poster didn't make the fantasy world, FromSoft did, and according to them Sekiro is immortal

The answer is that it makes enemies appear more imposing

Because Jackie Chan is short

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Buddha exists and gives those items as a divine boon once fit wake up in the real world again

Sizequeen obsessed with height, you Probbaly post BBC too, yikes!

couldn't have happend withought seaths help and nitos

game would be shit
>black
>person
pick 1

It's the punch out principle. It's easier to see what the enemy is doing when they are bigger than you. Same thing with Dark Souls and Monster Hunter, and even Zelda.

This is why characters of a similar size, like Emma, are so difficult to dodge: you can't tell what they're going to do.

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he's a hack and he didn't even work on sekiro

i want a game where we play as a big daddy muscle bear

big if true

*antagonists

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>mao
>5’9
I guarantee this is propaganda

no way they where that tall

What happened in 1989?

Because japs are manlets, and they know the foreign players of their games are too

Quite a lot

>the guys who ruined the USA and South Africa
>protagonists

I don't care how faggy it makes me, the HFY vibes from ROOOOBEEEERT! game me a chubby. Even if the guy was a total pushover, champ made his point and that point is fucking power.

Yes, he died. Learn how to read, nigger. Wolf is not immortal.

that's the filename you stupid sack of shit

It's okay to like your men like you like your coffee I don't judge, just get out of my face with your gayness.

Why are lanklets so insecure?

Their height is all they have.

why are inceIs so obsessed with making threads about height?

why are manlets so insecure

t. makes a thread complaining about a video game character being small

considering that thing exists in the realm of tall dudes it's kind of a bad comparison

Who cares? Why does it bother you so much?

I know this thread has derailed completely but I think people need to remember that Ninjas are REQUIRED to be small. It makes it easier to hide, climb and squeeze into small gaps/holes. Good luck clinging to to a shadowy corner in the rafters when you'r 6 feet and 200 pounds.

Cope.

The entire country is comprised of Manlets you uneducated twat

Owl is not small

How am i supposed to enjoy my escapist power fantasy when the person i play is shorter than me?

You're right but Owl probably uses magic to compensate or some shit.

The point is: Real-ass Ninja were ALL manlets.

Because Japanese males on average are pretty short

>mandela
>a good guy
thats a yikes and a cringe from me senpai

is there anyway to enable SLI support without causing glitches? or is it up to NVIDIA or fromsoftware? REEE

it's easy just git gud

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I like to believe that all the heroes in souls games are normal sized men, fighting giants and their offspring in a pre-flood world.

Funny thread, but I laugh at Hairlets more. It's the bane of wh*te people.

Quasimodo tier

Why are insecure gamers so obsessed with the height of fictional characters?

From games remind me of One Piece where there are normal humans, humans who just happen to be 8' - 16' and nobody says anything, a couple 20'+ humans who people do recognize as big, and THEN giants - who are 39' - 60' (not including what's apparently a family of 200' ones).

Honestly i can understand why Souls like game are hard. How the heck am I supposed to kill 2m+ monsters when the character is just 1.50m?

He does go back in time. Two examples.
If you kill that patches merchant in hirata, he dies in present ashina.
When you kill owl at ashina, you get an ever blossom with no leaves. When you kill owl in the memory, you get the everblossom with leaves

is there anything you should do before confronting the owl?
just killed training fren

>pre-flood world.
wat

one piece is dumb

how is the merchant anything like patches?

I M A G I N E

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>mandela
>not an antagonist

Propaganda does wonders to the amerimutt's brain.

>manlets are easier to animate
retard

It's not a beauty contest you superficial brainlet

>112cm

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can someone explain why the same dude that helps you with the rats and drinks sake the whole game with you is also the final boss? the whole game has a straightforward story and then he just erupts from genichiro wtf

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someone please just tell me the gimmick for the slashy centipede guy, I'm sure there is one but I'm getting sick of trying to figure it out

pedos

>and appear where you fought the ape

how the fuck did it get there

'tis what I thought, perfectly put into words.
Good job, user

Generally it is a perspective thing. If the game is third-person then if the player-model were 1:1 with the rest of the world, from the player's perspective he would look huge or at least disproportionate.

The question you need to be asking is "Why do they use the same model, at the same proportions for cutscenes?"

okay went ahead and read
is that only after you buy everything? the fuck are the scales i'v killed every carp i'v seen
and is there missable stuff in this game? and you don't auto go into ng+ do you?

reeeeeeeeeee
why is the thread dead?

Once you have a skill point can it be taken away when you die or does dying only lose your progress to the next point?

>If the game is third-person then if the player-model were 1:1 with the rest of the world, from the player's perspective he would look huge or at least disproportionate.
wat

You can't lose full points.

it's a common trend to make enemies and NPC huge compared to MC, as 193cm it feels a bit off to me.

Every time you die you get .5 cm shorter

his not a manlet, his the avarage 5'6

Tops for ishinna?

youtube.com/watch?v=w9v1GpJfc4w

Why do zoomers have like no awareness of their surrounding? You can see this coming loud and a mile away. Yet they act like they got pranked.

so you can see the enemies retard

>why do people whose income relies on entertaining a young audience overreact
i don't know user

loli told me to look for a priest in the cave
did she mean the dead guy with the scroll or what?
and when do i get to kill the snek?

Would William tower over Sekiro?

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Hi, I'm an idiot and I forgot to read. Is all skill XP halved when you die, or just progress towards your next skill point?

no
bootleg geralt is a fag
wolf is way better

Protagonists is not a manlet. The enemies are larger than normal people in order to portray strong and fierce enemies. The enemies would not be as threatening if they were manlets or smaller than the player character, now would they?
Retard.

>The angry Dutchman

that is stupid
really stupid

help

the 10-40 foot tall humans in Dark Souls were made this big for exactly this reason, according to Miyazaki himself.

Yes get the scroll from the dead guy and give it back to her

Snake murder follows

Just progress towards your next level

it happens pretty fast if you aren't paying that much attention. i got killed by it because I let my guard down upon seeing no immediate enemies in sight.

so you can have more in common with him ya damn shortstack

I honestly was in too much shock and awe to react. It was so surreal I couldn't even process what exactly I was seeing.

Is there any downside to confronting memories for more attack?

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more like miyahacki
and the tallest humans in dark souls are like 12 feet
the giants are like 20 feet
nothing 40 feet tall

kratos is a big guy 4u and it has the same feeling
enemies are just mythical monster giants

No

Do none of them have any other phrase in their repertoire other than "What the fuck?" to react to something?

They bought the dex>strength meme years ago and still enforce it

Wander is a kid

Are you sure you aren't the girlfriend, user?

I don't want to end up on the NSA list user, just give a name.