Sentences with phrase «japanese mythology»

This unique Zelda - like adventure title plunges you into a gorgeous cel - shaded world based on feudal Japan, complete with creatures and deities straight out of Japanese mythology.

Some are based on Japanese mythology and culture, others are narratives based on players nicknames and some are created from popular sayings from the game of basketball.

Next, God Wars: Great War of Japanese Mythology has been announced, with the Switch as one of its platforms.

Creators of Critically Acclaimed Indie Shoot -»em - up «Astebreed,» Edelweiss, to Bring Japanese Mythology - Inspired Action Platformer + Rice Cultivation Sim Hybrid to PlayStation ® 4 and Windows PC Torrance, Calif. — May 31, 2017 — XSEEDRead More...

The game takes place during the Bakumatsu era in Japan, and incorporates various elements of Japanese mythology (with a heavy emphasis on the symbology of the Four Symbols).

Developed by Edelweiss, the talented indie creators of the highly rated sci - fi shoot -»em - up Astebreed, and revealed last year in Japan at Comic Market 90, Sakuna offers a genre - defying mixture of side - scrolling action with the complexities of rice cultivation set against the mystical backdrop of Japanese mythology.

In addition to serving as a love letter to Japanese mythology, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is an ode to the artistry of cultivating rice, and features an engrossing simulation of the craft behind the agriculture.

[Platform: PlayStation 4 and Windows PC; Release: 2018]-- Developed by Edelweiss, the talented indie team behind the acclaimed shoot -»em - up Astebreed, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a side - scrolling action platformer inspired by Japanese mythology that breaks up the action with rice growing sim gameplay.

Not only does it have some of the most beautiful art that I rarely see in games of its time; it also has a beautiful take on Japanese mythology, giving you twists and turns, always keeping you engaged.

Each and every character in the game is pulled from Japanese mythology and history.

Samurai Warriors 4 is an incredibly fun game which, having an original storyline based upon Japanese mythology, a sizeable roster of unique characters and some of the most fun mechanics I've ever experienced in a hack and slash game, will not bore players quickly.

We like lots of deep, rich RPG stories, with Japanese mythology, and they won't buy that.

Classic action - adventure steeped in Japanese mythology Ōkami has been reduced by 20 % at Green Man Gaming, following the release of its long awaited remastered form earlier this year.

Kadokawa Games has announced in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu God Wars: Great War of Japanese Mythology for PS Vita,

The Godheads themselves are all based on real - life mythological Gods, ranging from Irish folklore to Japanese mythology via the Greeks, and the visual representation of each is akin to their representation in their respective worlds.

An exploration Hack - N» - Slash game in a 3D - Impressionist world, with a story that combines elements of Japanese mythology, game development, and the relationship between siblings.

Japanese Mythology Guidebook — A 200 - page guidebook filled with elements that make up the God Wars series, including artwork, scenarios, and messages from the developers.

Onmyoji is an original IP from NetEase developed with a focus on Japanese mythology studied in Japan by NetEase staff.

This has allowed the game to continue performing well in China where the Japanese mythology and anime graphical style has made It a hit among ACG (Anime, Comics, Games) fans.

In it, players take control of a number of samurai who are on a quest to destroy the oni and yokai, who are supernatural creatures and demons from Japanese mythology.

It's also notably different than your prior work — it's seeped in Japanese mythology, rather than western fantasy.

And I was somewhat nervous to use Japanese mythology, so there's more Buddhist theology in the game.

In Japanese mythology, it's the land of death.

The title Takama - Ga - Hara, which roughly translates as «The Field of High Heaven,» refers to a place in Japanese mythology where gods dwelled.

The book, Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime, takes a scholarly approach of analyzing films with such themes, including anime like Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and the aforementioned Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, and the live - action Onmyoji, Onmyoji 2, Dororo, Mushi - shi and Departures.

Two of the monsters that haunt the island of Kokoro - Jima in the novel The Emperor Of Any Place are borrowed from traditional Japanese mythology.

An epic story that begins 1000 years prior takes you through villages and dungeons and places you as the wandering samurai Shiren alongside figures straight out of Japanese mythology.

Embedded within Japanese mythology, Toukiden charts the ongoing war between the demonic hordes of Oni and slayers — humans charged with protected the last remaining bastions.

Kubo and the Two Strings seems to place in a fantasy landscape inspired by Japanese mythology and imagery and the result is the kind of thing you really don't see in American animation.

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It's when the Kentucky character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a book all about Northwest Native American mythology.

Japanese eroge, also known as H - Light novels or hentai games, have their origins in the early 1980s, when Japanese companies introduced their own brands of adult mmo, adult mmorpg, mythology / fantasy sim notes for memory triggers: Between the 10th century BC and the beginning of their exile in 586

It's a history lesson about Japanese culture and mythology.

Melville took lone warrior mythology from Japanese culture, married it with the tough guy angles of»40s gangster movies, and, along with John Boorman and Point Blank, ushered in a new age of neo noir.

Earlier in the week we reported that Atlus has released a Japanese demo of their upcoming Vanillaware - developed, Norse mythology - themed action RPG,...

Understanding what could be meant by the title of the series goes some way towards understanding the structure of the story's cosmology, here a future - scape where the only distinct characters are bounty hunters and the fugitives that they hunt, sometimes with the help of a gloriously cheesy television program that apes reality shows on the one hand (and the Japanese have a long history of outrageous television that no number of «Fear Factor «s can approach), but more trenchantly, the Japanese infatuation with the mythology of the American Old West.

Terra Feminarum, released on Kalevala day, may not be as important in the cultural scale but it's an uncanny marriage between Kalevala mythology and Japanese danmaku shoot»em up (bullet hell shooter).

I feel that ULTIMO combines the very best of Western mythology with the very best of Japanese manga.

Traditionally, tengu (they feature in both Shinto and Buddhist mythology) take their name from a dog - like Chinese demon called Tiangou, and their name means «heavenly dog» in Japanese.

Laura has actually done workshops on Japanese folklore and mythology at several conventions, giving her a perfect platform to mention that she's also written novels that draw heavily on said mythology.

These creatures are inspired by corpse - eating ghosts from Japanese Buddhist mythology.

Vanillaware has once again returned to the gorgeous hand - drawn art style that made Odin Sphere such a visual delight, drawing inspiration from Japanese rather than Norse mythology.

Speaking with Siliconera, Bettenhausen said, «We felt the game was deeply steeped in Japanese tradition, mythology, and culture that trying to dub it, trying to make something more Western is really not a service to the product.»

It was Koizuma - san who came up with the name Epona, after the goddess of horses and fertility in Celtic mythology, having apparently been briefly called «Ao», a Japanese word for a blue - green colour with no equivalent word in English, associated with horses because of the exceptionally rare blue roan coloration.

The guide also features a myriad of combat options and strategies as well as history and mythology of Japanese culture.

The expansion adds the Japanese (along with its more than interesting mythology) as a new faction to the base game's Norse and Greek line - ups, along with Hamlets — non-factional building constructions that enable several powerful new abilities.

Dark Souls» lore is a unique mix of Japanese spiritual mythology and Arthurian legend, rarely explicit and unexpectedly poignant.

The Battle of Olympus, the first original title from Japanese developer Infinity, mixes up the side - scrolling RPG action of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link with the fertile settings of Greek mythology.

From the partners behind Dead or Alive and the iconic modern Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Nioh graced the PS4 earlier this year as a direct challenger towards Bloodborne as one of the console's most difficult exclusive titles; hints of Bloodborne and Dark Souls influence are less than subtle in the challenging hack - and - slasher from Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja, but rather than opt for medieval and gothic mythology, Nioh thrusts players into a world stirred with European, feudal Japanese and demonic motifs.

I have always felt that Japanese history and mythology has been largely untapped in the gaming world, especially in a period setting like this one so it is super cool to see.

Some subjects that Joan Jonas has touched on over her fifty year career (in no particular order): nature, her dog, animism, Japanese Noh theatre, the moon and the sun, insects, masks (metaphorical and literal), ghosts, landscape, Hopi mythology, the female body, the female artist, the nature of presence versus representation, memory, her home in Cape Breton.