#gepetto

[abyssalcleave]

some of the new ghost shells have lore; i think this one is my favourite <3

[hollypolllyy]

Inside Monstro 🐋

[boothillpurin]

LOPTOBER DAY 24 - Father

[raquitiko]

“His cold steel fingers… they tremble in fear.”

A weird take on pinocchio I drew, as a steel and wood rusty automaton

[lies-of-fox]

Holiday card trade with @veilnebuula 🎄💞

Some photos of it~

[pheere]

GEPETTO 2, GEPETTO 1, 1999 Margi Geerlinks, b. 1970

COURTESY OF Stux Gallery, New York

[asha-mage]

Round 8 is just. Revealing the utter cowardice of Fromsoft by showing how good this kind of game can be when you aren't afraid to be put in real characters and a real story and be sincere in your themes.

One of the reasons I really didn't care for Elden Ring is because it might have a trendy open world, but that world is so shallow and lacking in depth and nuance and complex characters. And the reason I bounced off Shadow of the Erdtree hardcore is because it was just that but...more. No one was more complexly explored then a few mysterious lines and some lore scrawled in an item description box. That isn't storytelling. It's barely even a vibe.

But Lies of P and now especially Overture man. The way Lea's central conflict is built up and so heavily explored and the way the story treats her with respect and agency, the way the depths and complexities of Gepetto's various crimes are shown, the way Carlo's death so tangibly impacts the other characters and the entirety of the story while they can barely bring themselves to speak about it, and how that mirrors P's direct impact on the story through his actions and the way everything revolves around the same core philosophical questions, tying back into those central themes of person hood, grief, technology, and humanity.

All of it has an emotional resonance that you can't get when your entire game is just. Vibes. Fromsoft has been substituting vibes for having something meaningful to say for years and getting away with it under the auspices of 'that's just how Souls games are'.

But Lies of P is an incredibly Souls ass game and a genuine work of sincere art that blows anything Fromstoft ware has done for years out of the water.

[joyfuljellysunshineziirrb]