Kistru is a Polish music producer, most notable for creating fan-songs based on the Gothic games. The songs have vocals made up of re-cut lines from the games, and have Machinima music videos recorded in Gothic.
All the videos can be watched in this playlist
. The songs are all sung in Polish, but also have subtitles in English.
This creator's works include the following tropes:
- Art Evolution: "Me and My Golem" has a music video created partially in Garry's Mod rather than Gothic, which results in much smoother and better-looking animations and camera work.
- The Diss Track: Kistru created two songs, "Pyrokar Diss" and "Diss Xardas", in which the mages Xardas and Pyrokar from the Gothic games insult each other while bragging about their power.
- Hourglass Plot: The video for "Me and My Golem" has this happen twice in a row. Babo starts off as a bullied, downtrodden monastery novice. Then he finds a golem summoning spell, and with his new golem, promptly takes revenge by bullying other novices in the same way he was. This lasts until his golem is destroyed by the head mage of the monastery. Babo is punished and forced to sweep the floors. However, he finds a way to acquire a veritable army of golems, which he uses to beat up all the mages and take over the monastery.
- Impact Silhouette: In the "Cebulowa Zemsta" video, the hero runs through a brick wall to escape the chasing enemies, leaving behind a human-shaped outline.
- Ladder Physics: Gothic's troublesome ladder physics are humorously referenced in "The Greatest Enemy", where the humble ladder is claimed to be the protagonist's most dreaded enemy, because of how often he falls off it.
- Overly Long Name: In "Djinn from the Chest", the titular djinn's name is Abuyin ibn Djadin Omar Kalid ben Hadji al Sharidi (an actual name of a Gothic 2 NPC). Nearly the entire chorus is taken up by the djinn saying this name.
- Sanity Slippage: "Everywhere I See The Mask" describes the hero's gradual descent into madness and paranoia, due to being stalked by a mysterious masked figure. This escalates to the point where he kills several townspeople because he hallucinates them as masked beings.
- There Was a Door: In the "Cebulowa Zemsta" video, while running from enemies, the hero comes across a brick wall, which is actually a door openable by a lever right next to it. He proceeds to ignore the lever, and crashes through the wall instead.
- Wasteful Wishing: In "Djinn from the Chest", the titular djinn offers the hero three wishes. The hero uses the first wish to ask for the Djinn's name, the second wish to ask for his name again (much to the djinn's disbelief and irritation), and the third wish to turn the djinn into a bottle of water (because a quest giver had asked the hero to "swap a bottle of gin for a bottle of water").
