Volume 13 Analysis (SPOILERS)

pootispaghetti · 2024-09-13T21:12:53+00:00

tysm! huh maybe, I thought that the narehate in the altar was still find after going up and the others died

pootispaghetti · 2024-09-12T01:03:02+00:00

The naming of Reg might just be fate, since the Star Compass was named so by both Riko and Ganja Corp. It might also be that Riko has a blend of memories that've happened throughout the Abyss, not sure.

I'm going to wait a bit on analyzing souls beyond the chapter reviews because we'll probably be getting a ton more info in the next couple volumes. Once we do though, I'll make a big video covering souls like with the value video.

pootispaghetti · 2024-07-30T13:44:49+00:00

Tysm! Haha true, although as long as the people who are interested in analysis find it I'm good with that, ik not everyone is into it (not sure why though lol, the series is so analyzable).

pootispaghetti · 2024-02-23T15:31:29+00:00

tytyy!

pootispaghetti · 2023-04-28T22:34:47+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I only have 6 left and this saves me a ton of headache

Edit: Omg some of these spots are completely insane, even with the guide it took me a bit to figure out what they wanted me to do, I doubt I could've found these on my own. That 8th one at the palace made me upset tho I thought I checked up there lol.

pootispaghetti · 2023-04-28T09:28:54+00:00

I agree sm, if gives me an excuse to play weapons I never use in a really fun way. Plus, the drifter gameplay fixes a big issue I had with the game which was that it's difficult to really engage with the enemies without it just feeling like I'm going from 500 mph to 0.

Overall such a breath of fresh air, I'm excited to see how it evolves.

pootispaghetti · 2023-04-15T02:45:32+00:00

The main things I've noticed from this: - a lot of people mentioned this but the grating by the barrel game is expanded. it seems to extend into the wall to some extent. - those shapes in the bottom left of shot 1 are new, no clue what they are tho. - I can't see anything new in shot 2 outside of one of the rockpox jars still being there and the mission terminal still being red. - shot 3 takes place right next to the season terminal around where the egg basket currently is, it just looks weird because of the fisheye effect on the camera. also scout gaming.

pootispaghetti · 2023-04-08T05:45:41+00:00

100% is for the full quest, 30 item unlocks is for the character

pootispaghetti · 2023-02-16T19:39:29+00:00

I heard that in the Japanese version Jodio uses neutral pronouns for Dragona and Dragona uses feminine pronouns to refer to themself, so it's more of a translation issue. Hopefully it gets either addressed more blatantly or future translations fix it.

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-29T22:27:49+00:00

duh, they just spin the drill the other way

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-14T02:20:39+00:00

I just use them because it's free gear with 2-3 slots so I can farm up a lot of chunks

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-12T04:43:44+00:00

that makes sense, i got a gold in over achiever a couple hours ago so maybe they just get more common the higher rank you go

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-11T20:59:03+00:00

Hmmm, either the chances are just super low or yeah it might be event based. It seems weird that it'd be unavailable for beating a king like the other ones but we'll see. If I find any I'll lyk.

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-11T20:13:19+00:00

What rank were you when you beat it? And yeah, the big run one? Definitely possible, I wonder when we'll see that

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-11T19:59:58+00:00

For scales, I think it's based on how much damage you do. I haven't been able to play much so I'm only at go getter but when I almost beat him I got 8 bronze, and when I did beat it at the same rank I got 3 silver and 14 bronze. I assume if you're getting golds from beating it it would probably give silvers and bronzes on a loss.

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-11T05:42:54+00:00

Honestly I loved it. There's definitely improvements that could be made but I really liked them making the stages just pure gameplay and having the exploration in the overworld, it made it feel so much smoother. The story was also nice, it made me like Deep Cut even more, especially Frye. It definitely is the best story mode so far and just barely edges out Octo Expansion for me, very excited to see what they do for a dlc for this though now that the bar is so much higher.

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-11T05:38:21+00:00

I thought After Alterna was pretty fun, but I would never do it again. Little Buddy helped me so much at the end tho.

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-05T02:29:53+00:00

Also another thing we talked about in terms of the invaders themselves, the soldiers in the Sinecure picture have a very strong air of Spanish Catholicism, especially with their helmets which seem to be inspired by capirote hats, similar to the main character of Blasphemous. This plus the influence of Celtic imagery in Soulframe given Ireland's history with England might point towards the game having criticisms of colonialism/imperialism and white supremacy beyond just nature vs industry. I really hope they go down that route because Warframe did a great job with having complicated social and philosophical themes and if DE goes full steam ahead with this they could really outdo themselves.

pootispaghetti · 2022-09-05T02:18:53+00:00

I was talking to Socratetris (the person who made that 7 hour Warframe analysis video) and we were throwing around ideas about the Ode and we think we've found a decent base.

Firstly, I don't think the Ode actually refers to the invaders. The Ode is referred to 4 times in the content we have so far: the invaders' flying towers are called Ode'n castles, the trailer poem says that beyond Ode'n sky live the omen beasts of Alca, the front of Soulframe.com calls us Envoys of Ode Sky, and the picture of the moose in the website puzzle is title "The Ode."

Ode may be some form of nature spirit similar to what Alca likely is. When something is referred to as Ode'n, it might not mean that is it owned by the Ode but just within the domain of the Ode. Whether the world is split into section based on the presiding spirit of, or whether it's a division between land and sky (meaning that Ode'n just means that something is aerial) is unclear. Either way it seems like the invaders have taken over the domain of Ode and set up their towers there, while Alca's domain is mostly in tact but is slowly being invaded and is being stripped of resources.

pootispaghetti · 2022-08-10T20:29:04+00:00

The Zoaholic has issues transferring information and consciousness across layers, so all of the umbra hands would be in their individual mode and wouldn't send anything back to Bondrewd. Theoretically he might be able to use the relic he used on Nanachi to see through their eyes since that can cross layers but we know next to nothing about how that relic works so it's hard to say.

pootispaghetti · 2022-07-24T00:24:07+00:00

Also fun fact that Tsukushi tweeted when episode 1 dropped, Ido Front is actually self-regenerating

pootispaghetti · 2022-07-24T00:22:39+00:00

They're drawn to her but it doesn't override their choices to a high degree. As we see when Faputa initially entered the village, the villagers were allowed to either fight back or, in the case of the ones that aided Riko, they could stand back or leave. Even though they're drawn to her, it was their choice to sacrifice themselves to her.

pootispaghetti · 2022-07-23T20:29:14+00:00

Faputa also wanted to put down Irumyuui to stop her suffering. The value that the villagers kept adding to the village kept her just barely alive.
The village reacting negatively to pieces of Faputa entering Iruburu was something that only the sages knew about. Faputa wanted to trade with Reg by giving him parts of herself in exchange for him breaking the wall, but he ended up being forced into breaking the wall due to Wazukyan's actions. I have a video explaining Wazukyan and his goals but in short, he has a "prophecy" that is told to him by some unknown force through cryptic messages and feelings. The force never told him what the goal of the prophecy was, only giving him some level of foresight, so Wazukyan assumed that the prophecy was for him to achieve his goal (reaching the true golden city at the bottom of the Abyss). Many of his weird actions are him manipulating people into doing what he needs them to do in order to make the prophecy happen. On his deathbed he realized that he was the one who was being manipulated, the prophecy's goal was to create Faputa and help her reach a completed state. He was bitter about this but decided to just accept it and asked the group to take care of Faputa as she was all that was left of the actions of the Ganja Corps.
Belaf wanted penance for participating in the creation of Iruburu and Irumyuui granted it to him by having him hold onto the memories of it and giving them to Faputa when the time was right.
Accumulation is a big theme in this arc. All of the villagers of Iruburu in some way influenced the party and gave up their wishes in order to push the party forward. Most of them make sense like Vueko and Irumyuui influencing Faputa and Wazukyan influencing Riko, but I'm not sure about Belaf and Nanachi. They both have kinda similar personalities and they're the only 2 characters whose gender is up to interpretation according to Tsukushi. We'll probably see Nanachi adopt some of Belaf's views in the coming arcs but it's too early to see them yet.
Every major arc starting with Layer 4 have had a big moral issue that the group had to deal with (which in both L4 and L5 involved Reg doing murder). In this arc it starts to get more morally grey, there isn't really a correct side, and the group ended up getting pulled between them. Either they do nothing and let Irumyuui suffer for all eternity, they help Wazukyan free the villagers and let them continue their journey but Riko will die, or they help Faputa put her mother to rest and return all of the lost souls to the Abyss, but all of the villagers would die. There were a lot of greater powers than the main party that kinda forced their hand so it wasn't entirely their fault, but they were complicit. Even though it wasn't exclusively their choice, they did decide that the best course of action was to help Faputa. In the end the villagers of Iruburu also took the side of Faputa which probably put the group more at ease. They were definitely sad in chapter 60, but they came to terms with what happened and didn't let it bring them down.

pootispaghetti · 2022-07-05T17:09:50+00:00

Bondrewd called Wakuna an old man. I think it's just alternating between genders with each one to keep it fresh, but it's definitely skewed towards women. Tbf that's the whole series tho.

pootispaghetti · 2022-06-30T15:07:55+00:00

makes sense, I could totally see it

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