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ASapphicKitsune

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she/her 狐 + 人型 +レズビアン (キツネカスタム) Massive Shadow of the Colossus fan with an interest in development history, cut content and modding.

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · Jul 25

🧵🗺️ The different world eras of Shadow of the Colossus explained🧵🗺️

(I'm writing this for the second time because I accidentally refreshed the page, BSKY really needs to save drafts)

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3h

Here's a gif from Norshteyn's most famous work, Hedgehog in the Fog.

I NEED someone to make a game in this style

a hedgehog is standing in the middle of a forest in the fog .

ALT: a hedgehog is standing in the middle of a forest in the fog .

media.tenor.com

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3h

Also:

HOLY SHIT, THEY ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT ONNA GEH, DOUBTERS IN SHAMBLES.

It was revealed that it was artistically based on Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn's work (old soviet animator).

I had known about this for a while now but I'm so happy it's now public!

Also wow a secret third idea? A VR game

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3h

@icoshrine.neocities.org Just sent me this new interview that actually links to my attempt at recreating the NICO movie with the Spider-man OST that was originally used.

www.designroom.site/shadow-of-th...

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 18h

But that would be too easy!

It seems for whatever reason, the 1979 edition has 2 variants! One with red stripes on the spine and one without!

It took me so long to find the specific version Team ICO had ;;

I also might have purchased it...

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 18h

My autism has gone TOO FAR.

I just spent over an hour trying to track down a specific edition of a book just because Team ICO had it in their office.

This is the book in question:

The complete encyclopedia of illustration

After lots of investigating I found it is the 1979 edition.

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 20h

ステージのスケジュールを見られるのは、とても興味深く、クールなことだろう。特に慌ただしい状況だったのではないでしょうか。以前、チームが大規模なコンテンツ削減を終えた直後にプロジェクトに復帰されたとおっしゃっていたと記憶していますので。

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 20h

「ボスが引っかかるから柱を移動してほしい」

なぜかケルベロスを連想してしまうんですよね（笑）

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 20h

これらの資料は、上田さんとプランナー陣がボス戦の設計過程で使用していたものだったのだろうか。フィールドデザイナーがモデリング時に参照するための資料だと考えていたが、そうではなかったのかもしれない。もう一つ理解すべき点は、丹羽さんと鈴木さんがどのように関わっていたかだ。戦略上非常に重要なデザインである以上、ボス戦の計画段階に何らかの形で関与していたはずだからだ。
将来調査すべき事項...

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 21h

1ステージあたり2週間！？

こんなに短い時間なのに、ものすごい作業量ですね！

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 21h

@zackmannx.bsky.social がモデリングしたワンダステージの仕様書はまだお持ちでしょうか。公開されているものが実際のモデル形状とかなり正確に一致しているように見えるので、その仕様書がどれほど詳細で具体的だったのか、少し気になっています。

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 22h

I don't OVERCLOCK the EE, I don't enable half-pixel OFFSET, I don't SET blending accuracy to full. I EMULATE SOTC WITH BASE SETTINGS, and if it looks awful then I DON'T CARE.

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 22h

Video by the person who invented it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5L_...

Introducing Flick Stick in DOOM

YouTube video by Jibb Smart - Game Dev

www.youtube.com

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 23h

Flick stick is an incredible control scheme for controllers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_S...

Flick Stick - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 23h

Somewhat related, XBOX need to get with the times and add gyro support to their controllers.

Once that is done, shooters can finally remove aim assist and the mouse and keyboard vs. controller gap will be smaller and more fair.

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 23h

Just thought of a potential feature for a hypothetical SOTC PC port that would be incredible - Gyro aiming for the bow.

I NEED IT

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 23h

Ohmura-san and Fukui-san did such a great job with the ICO cover.

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 2d

New video is up! Today we try to figure out which of Spider's design came last.

This video is also fully subtitled in PT-BR for anyone who wants it!

#SOTC #ShadowOfTheColossus

youtu.be/z9AJP3XJNsY

Shadow of the Colossus - Which Spider came last?

YouTube video by ASapphicKitsune

youtu.be

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

Oh right! I think the idea of falling into the boss blood to find a surreal landscape came from the scene in Horus where he falls into a very surreal hole (odd description but I don't know what else to call it LOL)

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

I think diving into a pool of boss blood and getting sent to some sort of location to fight a secret boss would be cool.

I think the visual of a dive then being rotated to become the heroine launching out the "other side" of the pool and then landing on the ground came to me in a dream.

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

I've created some sort of animated storyboard for an idea I've had stuck in my head for well over a year now.

This would be something I'd put in to my dream sotc mod.

(Wander is just a placeholder since I have him rigged, it would be Mono this)

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

This started as just me finding everything referred to as 像（ぞう）but then expanded.

#ICO #SOTC

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

Today I learned that 「石板」 (stone slab) and 「石版」 (lithograph) are two different words that are both pronounced as 「せきばん」 (sekiban).

This makes things more confusing. Now I have to dig through the sheets to see if it's ever rendered in kanji...

I lean towards 「石板」 being the intended meaning though.

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

It's interesting how her expectation for the game to give a tutorial when something is relevant like it did earlier caused her to overlook a solution to a puzzle.

ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

I said "Well, you also have a bow."

She then said she didn't think to use the bow because she assumed the game would give a tutorial prompt when it was time to use it.

This is true and very strange, the game has no tutorial text for the bow controls.

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ASapphicKitsune @asapphickitsune.bsky.social · 3d

Finally got my sister to play SOTC.
She actually noticed something that I had noticced a while ago. While fighting the mammoth she asked me if the feet were the weak point and I said 'yes'. She then asked what to do with them since you can't hit them under the sword.

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