Is Sekiro a Lovecraftian game?

There's also a direct easter egg, the basket dude tells you that there lives a hunter in the Mibu village who hunts beasts for a living and uses fire to scare them.

Your idea of what constitutes a Lovecraftian story is surface level at best. I feel like this is bait.

No, zoomer.
Nobody likes your forced meme. Don't push that shit.

I think it's more of a kafkaesque lynchian experience

I missed this, are you serious?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-Branched_Sword

Yes...

Not to mention slow-burning and atmospheric.

Just to get one thing straight, people claim this an dthis to be truly Lovecraftian, which are more often than not subjective rules and preferences. It's as simple as with inspiration from any other source. There is a number of elements that Lovecraft used in his writing and there are no rules on how many or few have to be present to constitute anything. As for Sekiro? Hadn't really thought about it, there are some of the elements, enough to call it really Lovecraftian? Maybe not. Enough to call it somewhat Lovecraftian, top of my head going to say probably. Despite what many might say, Bloodborne has a lot of the Lovecraft elements, enough that you instantly think about it if you are familiar with his writing. There's no ruleset for definition, it's all subjective and if anything there are degrees.

*Hits pipe* The true intellectual actualizes the quintessence of Lovecraftian influence whence thyne he named his cat nigger lol

This is actually wrong, the cat was named Niggerman and he inherited it from his dad

you retarded motherfucker not everything with the same concept is suddenly lovecraftian.

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Miyazaki is unironically a footfag

>fat
>balding
>neckbeard
>angry
>oversized clothes
Is that the Japanese depiction of a weeb?

i hope you wet the bed tonight

aldritch's dream about the age of the deep

nioh is more lovecraftian

I always figured the coming deep was a great deluge meant to contain the corruption of the abyss taking place in Lothric. You know, water serving as a bulwark and all that.

i felt bad backstabbing those girls

anyone who thinks that the fishing hamlet was muh inssmouth is a fucking retarded surface level depth tier autistic toddler who never even read the fucking story and just heard about le spooky CRAAB PEOPLE. The part of bloodborne that is heavily similar to inssmouth is fucking central yharnam with the obviously beast transformed townspeople screeching at you to fuck off while trying to get you

You posted your own photo?

To be honest, Crash Team Racing is the most Lovecraftian.

>dark souls 3

To be honest, having sex is the most Lovecraftian

@477754697
It's not a photo, is it?

>bloodborne invented hunters, beasts, and animals being afraid of fire
fucking lol

Central Yharnam is a rich and sprawling big city, while Innsmouth is a tiny and half-ruined fishing town.

Couldn't take this boss seriously because his sword looks like a plastic cartoon cactus.

You're just an autismal contrarian, it's obviously an easter egg about his previous game.

Why are all the "blades" rounded smooth?

You seethed so hard that you learned proper spelling?

innsmouth is a fucking industrial town and it practically looks like a slice of any big city, central yharnam is transilvania crossed with innsmouth. The fishing hamlet has nothing to do with innsmouth beyond the water theme which is a skin deep association. Its much more like a cosmic chernobyl and probably the furthest from the concept of "willing" transformation that was central to the innsmouth story and completely defines yharnam with the obsessive use of alien blood

Try reading the fucking link

yeah that an interesting way to look at it

but you have to also remember that aldritch= eldritch

Smooth blades for smooth brains.

prove it

@477755446
Sentences in english require auxiliary verbs bitch
Learn that

>innsmouth is a fucking industrial town and it practically looks like a slice of any big city
Yep, talking out of your arse.

This post makes no sense, leave and come back when your seizure is over.

shit i meant questions
oh well

Nah, tonally it doesn't really fit but Miyazaki is a HUGE Lovecraft fan so there's definitely some level of influence. I think he probably blew his H.P. Load with Bloodborne, though people loved Bloodborne so the team might have incorporated some atmospheric and thematic elements during planning.
Interesting post, OP. Too bad it's on the brainlet board.

>actual Japanese folklore only gets the slimmest representation in the form of ghosts

Confirmed for not knowing shit about Japanese folklore. The game is literally a giant reference to every wierd folktale or mythical creature that Japan ever made up. You can't name somthing that isn't some ancient Japanese meme in this game.

Herp da derp

>mfw a headless pulls out a magical ball from your anus
yup, that's japanese folklore alright

Pretty much everything you're interpreting as Lovecraftian is actually just eastern folklore.

>implying its not

I don't know much about Japanese folklore but every folk story I have ever read from Japan is represented in this game.

>not knowing that the headless are Sekiros Kappas

How fucking unweeby are you?

im not implying it isn't i'm saying that's an actual thing

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no, it's actually goku who went beyond super-sayan

It's Sekiro's Moonlight Greatsword.

... Feudal Japan never fails to impress when it comes to acid trip tier fables. Fins and ruskies give them a run for thier money but Japan always has somthing...more Japan. Ya that is how I will phase it. More japan.

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>Fins and ruskies give them a run for thier money
Please explain how, because I'm not seeing it.
t. Russian

I feel like russia had a lot of children getting taken to the woods to be eaten in gruesome detail stories with a little extra flavor. Or is that German shit? I'm starting to doubt myself now that I am thinking about it.

It's Russia, but also Germany, France, or any other country that has or used to have large forests. The need to keep the kids away from the woods is universal. Japan as well, actually. The most gruesome fairy tale for kids that I know of is Japanese. It's about a tanuki who skinned a girl alive and wore her skin to trick her grandmother.

I wish the Emma boss fight was its own thing instead of playing the same role as Genichiro in the last boss fight for immortal severance.

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I wish Emma was barefoot

What about the sinking city?

Boss fights with several completely different bosses just suck. It sucked back when it was Ludwig as well, but people didn't notice because of the awesome music.

>you get to kill eldritch abominations
No.

yeah, native Americans have all kinds of spoopy innawoods stories to scare kids as well - skinwalkers, wendigo, forest cannibals, witches (also skinwalkers), etc

>the sinking city
what about it?

Ludwig was fine. It only shit the bed in DS3 when multiple healthbars started appearing and we got shit like Sister Friede

What is Dunwich Horror?

Friede is the same boss fight throughout that only gets more moves, the second phase is so easy that it can be disregarded

The only God Tier being in Sekiro is the dragon and you don't kill it

To be fair, it's some pretty fucking epic music.
I wish they'd just done two separate health bars so it doesn't feel like such a grind beating down his health, especially in first phase when he's shrieking and charging constantly.

Charge is always shit in all From games, it's almost as bad as dogs

He doesn't kill it, but it's certainly implied that Wolf could have if he wanted to. Also, you kill the giant snakes, which are living gods in their own right. But not in the Lovecraftian way, such that killing them would sort of seem "ungodly".

there's also the snage

I do think that some remnants of Bloodborne seeped their way into Sekiro.

Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness would like a word.

It's too Japanese to be Lovecraftian.

Killing an abomination with a spell is different from stabbing it to death
even if the sword is magical

Absolutely, excellent points. But keep in mind that a lot of those themes are present in Berserk, one on miyazaki's biggest aesthetic influences. He might not have been directly influenced by the stories written by lovecraft.

>He doesn't kill it, but it's certainly implied that Wolf could have if he wanted to
Dragon is the avatar of immortality, it can't be killed by anything

>Ask about the villagers prompt: [What is wrong with the villagers?] ...Hmm, no idea. All I know is, they all fear fire. For a while, I too was in the same daze. And I felt the fear too. An unquenchable fire... Even now, the thought of it gives me chills! [An unquenchable fire...] The hunter Inuhiko started burning pine resin and locked himself in his house. His pine resin burns for a long time... It's a real nuisance. Inukio is the village outcast. He likes eating wild animal meat and the sort... That's why the head priest doesn't give him any sake. [Where is Inuhiko's house?] Oh, on the other side of the pond. Inuhiko's is the last house on the path.
That's not even remotely a Bloodborne reference.

I don't know, the fact that the Mortal Blade was able to cut the dragon's flesh could indicate that it could do more damage. But you're right, the dragon's immortality is on a different level compared to the undying and infested "immortals" that the Mortal Blade can slay.

>he likes eating wild animal meat
>and the sort
We found Yamamura's brother guys

what happened to his arm?

>Lovecraftian

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Planted on the castle grounds to become the Everblossom.

Shit, you got anything to back that up? It would make lots of sense.

no

I feel like you're stretching.

Also your dismissal of Bloodborne because it's too on-the-nose is kind of retarded. Lovecraft's stories aren't subtle. In visual media, a part of is IS about aesthetics.

That said, I do enjoy Sekiro's design and the idea that it could take place in the same universe as BB. Not eveerything needs a lovecraft stamp. its doesn't need to be a badge of honor. From created it's own aesthetic and in my opinion, thats even better.

This reminds me of when Destiny players tried to claim their game was an MMO like it's something that needs to be established as a point of merit (its not)

>grabs you from across the map.

just jump behind her

Weird fiction
Not everything is lovecraftian. There are numerous other prominent weird fiction authors pre lovecraft.
Ffs

You say obvious as if it's not intentional but the entire game is clearly inspired by classic horror literature. The Lovecraft inspiration is there but the game is far more than just Lovecraft