音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

↓ This could be done much earlier, but unfortunately I was playing too much Nioh2..
But also thanks to Nioh2, that further inspired this remake, sort of.
Nine tails, so cute that I fell in love immediately. But never really got a chance to equip since Nioh1. Before I needed the running speed up and stamina recovery speed up from the golden bird, and soon I was bound to use Nekomata and Hakutaku, the lovely and knowledgeable elders.

At least, I decided to have two accompanying nine-tails in this remake.

客人まれびと綺想曲 / Marebito Capriccio
originated from Yorlga's KitsuneTsuki by Mitose Noriko + Hirota Yoshitaka
I doubt there's a word equivalent to Marebito so maybe it's better to use as what it is.

The initial version was done 10+ years ago, hard to believe but true.
The idea of remaking it also came out suddenly, when I played that album again after quite a long while. One reason was the initial version barely has a proper background, plus I was in a blank period without new inspirations (I do have one but not in the right mood to start), thus this (huge) remake was triggered.

However, during the draft stage I never thought about how the background would be like, and accepted whatever turned out after reading the lyrics many times.
One key concept could be the "異界の門口", entrance to the other world. So I blended elements of three seasons, combined with Torii gates that usually served as a connection. The lanterns are merely decorations -- originally I drafted stone lanterns, but then I was attracted by the wooden ones I saw in Nioh2's DLC1 (in the mount Kurama mission) and changed my idea -- thanks Nioh2 again!
But it's still a shame I had no chance to blend some winter.
Finally, I did struggle a bit for its title, but not for too long. Because I just recently noticed it's in an irregular time, combined with 3/4 and 4/4 and probably 2/4 (that's why I usually messed up myself in terms of tempo while listening to this song), Capriccio would be a good fit. (Seems it's becoming a habit that I try to give titles of a musical form for works that were inspired by a song.) Although I still don't think the first half suits the best, I have no more motivation to find a better one. (Trying to make the title writes in a [not really] Nioh-ish font is fun -- Thanks Nioh2 the third time!)

**final raw file size: 460MB?!

-- Hopefully there's Yorlga III sometime.
and I'm going to clear Shura difficult this week!

Next plan: Möbius Mechanisms II (°ω°彡)

Never being a Cthulhu fan -- while I still have to rely on google to spell "Cthulhu" right -- I got a slight interest in The Sinking City from an article before its initial release. For many times I was considering to get it but eventually not, $80 was apparently not acceptable judging from that I'm not sure how the actual experience it might be. Then I came to the discount in May for $25 only, and gradually cleared it in the past month.

First impression, environment is great, that I was soon linking it to the Fishing Hamlet. No much memorable BGM though. Still, most building interiors are exactly the same, not attractive and confusing.
However, combat is near rubbish that I didn't want to get mad and quickly set to easy. It's not happy to fight while you can't lock. The character can move backwards while facing the front, in a dashing speed, but he can only climb when right facing a higher object, otherwise he doesn't move (stupid). Comparing with this, Psycho Break's slight aiming delay action is much better (I'm not saying I don't like PB, but its combat sometimes do make me angry). Plus, even though from the tips it says ammo is scarce, when you reload crafting materials will respawn.. meaningless. (Well, it's my fault to play it as doing Silent Hill.)
Riddle (not literally riddle though) isn't hard at all, and turned this game to a 80% map finding one. ... at the cross between X and Y, fine, tedious but still endurable. The collection of hints and evidence is okay, but for a few times it's hard to look past information (which cost me lots of time finding where the cemetery is because I didn't visit it in an earlier chapter -- it's reasonable to just ask a local person but the game doesn't let you do it). In addition, you can't really look for any piece of info at an archive without pin the evidence first on the search page, also it's not possible to visit a place (e.g. church) without searching at the archive first even though you may have known the location when you passed by earlier. This flagging system is too stubborn. Otherwise I have no complaints and liked to track down to the final decision.
About decision, your choice wasn't ending-affecting nor serious at all, kind of dissatisfied. Most cases are fun to run though.
Last, the endings are interesting in terms of content: 1. you sacrifice yourself, and the yellow king welcomes the next newcomer (could be Mr. Reed again?!); 2. you enter the sea anemone-ish thing (can't spell its actual name) and the Oakmont (probably the whole world too) is engulfed by tsunami; 3. you're left the city and a few years ago the yellow king shows you a newspaper front saying "catastrophic flood", immediately after, water enters the bar where you're drinking. which again link me to bloodborne endings. But, the cutscenes were way too short.. shorter than a boss cutscene in DS3. I do like how it saves your time by allowing you saving right before the end. At least give more info, I still don't know what's going on underwater and the difference between endings 2 and 3, except where you end up with..
Finally, the ending credit is a long list of names (that I skipped). It's funny just like when I read a one-column research article. At least divide into who made the story, who made the program, etc.!

Now I quite understand and agree with its overall 6-7 out of 10 marks, it's fair (fairer than the new naughty dog title ¬_¬ [another truth, I never played nor watched "1" either]) even when it's just a $25 buy. At least I don't think it's a waste and really enjoyed it.
Time to run through bloodborne again as a reflected decision!

It almost rained for a whole day, not bad, although sadly that I didn't smell the earth from indoors.

Even though I tried to "keep records" more frequently, so far it seems it's still going by month instead of a few days. But behind this, I'm indeed keeping a daily piece of writing, regardless of long or short, meaningful or meaning less, while being much more private than this site for sure. Plus I let google's blogger handled everything, it's more time-efficient and I nearly forgot I still have this public one...

Anyway, I'll see if that's possible for me to keep two types of records, from the beginning of next month!
also time to resume the German for Dummies book.. ^^;

A more important note, I'm also resuming my drawing project, remake of "kitsunetsuki". Under Nioh2's influence, I'm trying to have a pair of 9-tailed foxes compared to previous single white fox! but really, I more wanted to draw sunekosuri cats... >///<
Meanwhile, I also have another project that I started drafting in Feburary, which was actually initiated many years ago: Project T (not T virus of course!). Still, this one also has undergone many changes, as I mentioned before, from 78 down to 22 only. not only because I'm lazy, it's more of an issue of no knowledge in that field, and having no motivation in knowing more.
-- but 22 is decent enough, isn't it!