I'll say--

[nekokoban]

I will totally catch up on comments and email stuff before I go to bed today. Rather than a new year resolution, this is a today-yes! resolution. Gwargh.

Also, so hey, an Idea: it would be totally awesome, in your usual RPG where you run around and hit monsters, to have a bakeneko as a random encounter.

And then should someone in your party die/be knocked out (but preferably die?) the bakeneko can have a certain spell that will "resurrect" that party member as a zombie to attack you.

--which probably means that it'd be one of those games where if a party member dies, you never get them back, and that always sort of sucks, but. Bakeneko!

More mythological monsters should be in video games, Y/N.

Comments

[anruik]

Ot could be a battle-only sort of situation if it were a turn-based RPG.

Now if it was active like KH or FFXII, you'd be watching your character walk away with the bakeneko as you're running 'cause holy shit why did the damn monster have to get the one that was high powered through leveling like whoa. XD

[nekokoban]

It could be battle-only, but I mean -- traditionally, bakeneko and nekomata controlled the dead, not the unconscious, so if it wanted to be mythologically correct, it'd have to be all-dead, not mostly-dead. XD

(You know that's how it would happen. It's always your strongest character you lose, never to use again. :< Curse you, Fire Emblem, you made me weep because of that!)

[anruik]

Doesn't that mean you could technically phoenix down them and they wouldn't be under their control anymore?

(I just keep imagining someone like Basch - no wait, Balthier, since he can shoot from a distance - getting caught and Vaan going "We're doomed. D:"

I still haven't finished Fire Emblem because of that. *mutters about pegasus knights*)

[nekokoban]

I forget, is FF the game where if you use healing items on the undead, it damages them? [ponders] But yeah, a revival item would be the counter! Unless it was a boss-level nekomata, then you'd probably have to fight your party member TO THE DEATH. Again.

(I don't know annnnything about FF12, I must confess. XD But yeah, any long-range sniper getting caught would suck fiercely.)

I lost wossname, Kent? In like the fifth battle and didn't realize he was thus taken OUT OF BATTLE and I went DDDD: a lot. I still shouldered on, though, and I was at, like ... chapter twenty-something? of Eliwood's story? and then my save file corrupted and I haven't been able to make myself replay yet. XD;

[anruik]

I do believe it is that series. *pauses* Wait, that means technically using a revive item would kill the dead. But how much deader can you get? *ponders this*

(OH OUCH THAT HURTS! D: Kent of all people.

I think you got past the chapter I've been stuck at. I can't get past that danm pirate ship when they're being attacked.)

[nekokoban]

You don't kill the dead, you resurrect them! So, the "killing" the dead would be bringing them back to life; thus, they would not be the dead any more!

(Yeaaaaaaah. D: He was one of my best! AND THEN NO MORE.

I forget the details, but I know I was in the chapter past where Eliwood has his Touching Reunion (?!) with his father. Er.)

[kawaiigami.livejournal.com]

Y! Definititely Y! XD Video games need more mythological monsters. Though I'm only more familiar with the traditional type: kitsune, tanuki (though those are more tricksters than monsters), kappa, tengu, etc. Bakeneko is a new one to me.

[nekokoban]

I am so, so, so damn weak to mythology where it makes sense -- it's why I love Okami so much, where every single character you run into, practically, is someone from folklore, complete with at least some sort of visual/plot-related cue that will hearken back to their role in stories.

And bakeneko are like they sound -- monster-cats. Related to the nekomata, they're cats who've reached an older age (like foxes who grow old and powerful enough to gain new tails). They have split tails and tend to walk upright, and like many Japanese monsters, they're very proud and disdainful, and they have the ability to manipulate the dead, so if they feel insulted by someone, they'll torment the family with dead loved ones until they've been properly apologized to.

The Obakemono Project is a really awesome reference, if you're curious. :)

[kawaiigami.livejournal.com]

I'm a folklore nut, too. From what I've heard and seen, I'd love Okami but don't want to start it while I've got KH still unfinished and KHII and the Katamari games waiting.^^;;; Someday! Someday I will have the time to do everything I want. Haha I wish

Thank you for the link! XD Most of the stuff I read doesn't really delve into anything but the more well-known monsters. That's all well and good, but the obscure stuff is neat-o, too. Plus, I'm the crazy one who thinks you can learn a lot about a culture by looking at it's monsters.

[sarraceniaceae.livejournal.com]

I think you should totally go into videogame design now. I want more games with mythological monsters.

And if you want it to be mythologically correct but not too inconvenient, you could always have a bakeneko boss right after one of your party members dies for the plot. Do it right, and you can make everyone bawl at the screen for making poor character A fight his dead unconsummated love. Except then the fandom might be overrun with necrophilia fics. Ew.

[nekokoban]

Dude, me too. Mythological monsters that make sense, too, and don't just have the name slapped onto them and just a vague nod to design. You could make it an M-rated game, and then tanuki could slap their balls at you.

... ew. XD

[ponders] Given that necrophilia fics will pop up in any fandom that's been around long enough, is large enough, or busy enough -- who knows. XD One could always kill character A, have him "resurrected" to fight, and then tragically, I dunno. Totally have his body incinerated so there's nothing but ash.

Which, if there's a kink for that, I really don't want to know. XD

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Funny, bpal just had a limited edition bakeneko scent.

[nekokoban]

I think I remember seeing that!

But this was actually inspired by a conversation last night, about Japanese vengence ghosts and considering a nekomata's full powers. XD

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Hummm~ More mythological monsters in video games, that would be very sexy.