by CENSORED » Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:05 pm
I think it's related to a motif that is present in most games, where people who "live their life on the line" or have generally abandoned the lull of society for a world of bloodshed seem to have a deeper connection to the spiritual world. It may have originated with moonlight syndrome, where most of the characters who come in contact with Mithra seem to be deranged on some level or another. (I can't say for sure until that game gets translated though.)
In The Silver Case, characters who can see remnant psyches/spirits are all people who have seen some shit, either because they went through the shelter as kids, or because they're just that badass like tetsugoro lol. In TSC they called it criminal power, though in more recent stuff (like the remake of the 25th ward, kurayami dance and travis strikes again) they define it as bloodlust. Obviously I don't need to mention the Killer7, and even Travis becomes able to commune with his master's spirit after he dies in the original.
Anyway to get to the point, the whole cult of ulmeyda is based around the idea of overcoming the limits of humanity. Ulmeyda himself does it by infecting himself with viruses, but by giving Clemence the car, he's giving him some sort of test where he wants to see if he'll survive the drive. That's why he says "if he makes it, he wins". Clemence ends up surviving, thus "surpassing the limit" so to speak, and in the end he's able to see Ulmeyda's ghost or remnant psyche passing the torch on to him.
In Kurayami Dance, I can't pretend I understand everything that's going on in that story, but I suspect the bulk of it doesen't actually takes place in the "real" world, or at least that the protagonist doesen't percieve it normally. He seems to have broken some sort of barrier into a different world, and the spirit that haunts him or accompanies him is reminiscent of a remnant psyche from silver case or Killer7.
Shadows of the Damned and Kurayami Dance originated from different rewrites of Kurayami, and in SOTD driving past the sound barrier in a motorcycle is what leads Garcia to the world of the dead. I'm not arguing that these games are canon to one another or that it's even that relevant but it's interesting to note
I think it's related to a motif that is present in most games, where people who "live their life on the line" or have generally abandoned the lull of society for a world of bloodshed seem to have a deeper connection to the spiritual world. It may have originated with moonlight syndrome, where most of the characters who come in contact with Mithra seem to be deranged on some level or another. (I can't say for sure until that game gets translated though.)
In The Silver Case, characters who can see remnant psyches/spirits are all people who have seen some shit, either because they went through the shelter as kids, or because they're just that badass like tetsugoro lol. In TSC they called it criminal power, though in more recent stuff (like the remake of the 25th ward, kurayami dance and travis strikes again) they define it as bloodlust. Obviously I don't need to mention the Killer7, and even Travis becomes able to commune with his master's spirit after he dies in the original.
Anyway to get to the point, the whole cult of ulmeyda is based around the idea of overcoming the limits of humanity. Ulmeyda himself does it by infecting himself with viruses, but by giving Clemence the car, he's giving him some sort of test where he wants to see if he'll survive the drive. That's why he says "if he makes it, he wins". Clemence ends up surviving, thus "surpassing the limit" so to speak, and in the end he's able to see Ulmeyda's ghost or remnant psyche passing the torch on to him.
In Kurayami Dance, I can't pretend I understand everything that's going on in that story, but I suspect the bulk of it doesen't actually takes place in the "real" world, or at least that the protagonist doesen't percieve it normally. He seems to have broken some sort of barrier into a different world, and the spirit that haunts him or accompanies him is reminiscent of a remnant psyche from silver case or Killer7.
Shadows of the Damned and Kurayami Dance originated from different rewrites of Kurayami, and in SOTD driving past the sound barrier in a motorcycle is what leads Garcia to the world of the dead. I'm not arguing that these games are canon to one another or that it's even that relevant but it's interesting to note
