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Dracula.

Yes to Dracula.

to turkish dracula

to Sang

Dracula numero dos

Yeah Sang was a mistake on my part as well. Let's just move on from it and agree the Headmaster keeps.

So let’s get this show fucking started.

Happy Halloween, and an RIP for Sean Connery.

What Is the Work?

Onechanbara Origins is a 2020 remake of the first two Chanbara games made for the franchise’s 15th anniversary. This is actually a good thing, since the first two games never made it outside of Japan and Europe, and information about them is incredibly scarce (though both English versions can be found on YouTube if you search hard enough). It’s even still published by D3, who are still around after all these decades (though granted, when your games cost about $5 to make…).

Taking parts from both games and cramming them together into one digestible product, the plot follows zombie hunter Aya, whose mother Tsubaki has been killed, her father Oboro has disappeared, and her sister Saki doesn’t like her anymore. But a new threat emerges from an organization called… The Organization (or Uroboros; the game at first says it’s the latter, but then it switches to the former, maybe it’s a subdivision of the Organization), who unleashes a swarm of zombies.

With the help of her newfound friend Lei (pronounced Ray, and is essentially a replacement for the character of Reiko from the original games), Aya must take down the zombies, the Organization, and her own sister Saki to save Japan from doom.

Who Is She?

Eva is the source of the zombies, the leader of the Organization, and the one behind the family’s dysfunction.

What has she done?

The one behind Tsubaki’s murder in order to take the Baneful Blood from within her, Oboro sets out to kill Eva, leaving his daughters behind. Eva takes the opportunity to caress Saki into joining her, manipulating her into believing that Aya and Oboro never loved her, and that she can bring Tsubaki back from the dead. Ultimately, Eva wants to use the Baneful Blood to make herself powerful. Eva also has expendable clones made to serve as her regular army, one of whom being Lei, who was sent to personally bond with Aya and Saki in order to kill them. But when she starts to slack off, Eva sends the clones to kill her.

But it’s not enough to send out clones to do her bidding. No, Eva also has zombies created in an attempt to kill our heroines. Eva sends out the zombies to wipe out a hospital, and later on an entire city, while also having experiments performed on them to make them stronger.

Defeating Oboro in a fight, Eva sends him to kill Aya and Saki, sadistically taunting them about how he was a weakling who lost. During her own fight with Aya and Saki, Eva promises the two that she’ll eat their hearts, and takes some Baneful Blood of her own to become ultra-powerful. But after she’s defeated, Lei shows up out of nowhere, tears her heart out, and shoots her out of the arena.

Redeeming Qualities?

Zero. Eva is a sadist who only cares about power, and is willing to destroy an entire family plus who knows how many other people for it.

Heinousness?

Since this is a remake and thus its own thing, Eva handily passes the standard. Lei is a massive jerk who wants to become the true Origin™ of the Baneful Blood zombies, but it’s mainly because she’s a wreck whose mind was broken from all the cloning.

Conclusion

I think she’s a keep.

Edited by therealjackieboy on Oct 31st 2020 at 11:35:41 AM

Eva

Eva.

So the first 2 games are on the PS 2...but No Export for You. This game is in the US...but not on the PS 2. Fuckers.

EDIT: Whoa, cool, it's on Steam.

Edited by ACW on Oct 31st 2020 at 2:42:34 PM

Yes to Eva.

Yes to Eva.

to Eva

Yea to Eva....and alright, my next Dracula!

What's the work?

Remember I said we had some odd translations? Here's the oddest.

Powers of Darkness, or in Icelandic, Makt Myrkranna was a 'translation' of Dracula serialized in Reykjavik newspaper Fjallkonan...it's a little unclear who rewrote Bram's novel, quoting Wikipedia:

The first book edition was in 1901, mentioning "Valdimar Ásmundsson as "translator" for the first time. The book was published by Nokkrir Prentarar, which simply means "various printers" in Icelandic. Nokkrir Prentarar published only one other book, and it is unclear who the actual publishers were; possibly, Ásmundsson himself participated in the enterprise"

Let's talk...Dracula

who is he?

Dracula, but not as we know him in the books. Here, Dracula is a lusty monster out to dominate the entire world, with lots of dark eroticism, Jonathan Harker being kind of a horndog who comments upon a lot of bosoms and rushes into the darks of Dracula's brides. Dracula here? Not only kills babies, he runs a Satanic cult.

Yes, that's right. Dracula is the devil's emissary here. Running a mass cult for power, Harker sees the Count presiding over the human sacrifice of his victims, killing several maidens in a virgin sacrifice and drenching himself in their blood. Now, in this version, Mina and team arrive in Transylvania to see what's going on...and the body count is higher in this one. Dracula kills a ton more people, and has a bigger Social Darwinist philosophy. Dracula intends to throw Harker to the 'Countess' here.

So, yeah, things proceed as we basically know: Dracula kills people, sacrifices people, but here, he intends to overthrow the worlds' government into a social darwinist hellhole and continue human sacrifice across the world, as the reigning emissary of the devil. Thankfully defeated, the heroes/Harker, etc. put him down and destroy the wicked count.

Any mitigating Qualities?

Nah, not really. It's Dracula but it's the worst of the major novel ones. Dracula is pure evil, lusty, rapacious and in the Icelandic one...with mass human sacriice, attempted mass murder and world domination? Yeah, we're good here. I know this one's shorter, but I'm gonna take a break to let anyone else catch up with my final Dracula later.

Conclusion?

Another easy keeper, and thanks for bearing with me, guys!

Edited by Lightysnake on Oct 31st 2020 at 11:45:19 AM

Yes to Dracula.

to Icelandic Dracula

Dracula

Didn't bram stoker himself help with writing this translation from what I've heard ?

to the Demon, Turkish Dracula, Eva, and Icelandic Dracula.

Abstain on the Headmaster.

to Sang.

Yeah, Stoker did give a foreward to one, IIRC, and may indicate he could've helped with that one.

OH, Bram, you poor, sexually frustrated bastard.

Dracula numero tres. Did not expect Satanic Dracula and his erotica of darkness™ to make an appearance here, but there you go.

Yes to Horndog Drac.

to the unnamed demon, Vlad the Impaler/Dracula, Eva, and Makt Myrkranna's Dracula. A weaker to Chris too.

Abstain on Sang and the Headmaster, barring more details to see if there are redeeming factors to either of them.

Dracula. Again.

Also I finished reading one of two Halloween transcripts, and to be honest ? Michael leaves much to be desired here; sure he's killing people as usual, but he doesn't really do much of anything new or spectacular aside from setting a house to explode with himself inside on the off chance it could take out his target. I just feel it doesn't have much going for it.

Edited by Beast on Oct 31st 2020 at 11:59:24 AM

Yes to rapey Drac.

I'll hold off on expanding the Jinmen EP until tomorrow.

Eva and other Drac.

So I refreshed my memory. Just to have it here, and to lay out all information, here is my re-EP:

What's the work?

Seven Mysteries is a Vietnamese RPG Maker horror game with a remake- however, I will be focusing on the original game. It stars Tuan, a boy in a Vietnamese school, as he hears from a girl called My of mysterious illusions/incidents in the school. It is a mystery-type game with a central mystery to solve, with several viewpoint characters and reveals. The first three chapters feature three characters- Sang, My, and Lio- all experiencing the illusions said to center from a curse, while the rest of the game has Tuan investigate directly. Said illusions are caused by Thuy, the local onryo, who was said to be responsible for seven murders in life. However, she actually isn't our candidate. The real mastermind?

Who is the Headmaster? What does he do?

The Headmaster is, well, the headmaster of the school. So a bit of background. Turns out Sang, the boy who was the protagonist of Chapter 1, had killed a girl named Thuy, telling Linh she was the culprit of the mysterious seven murders beforehand. It is suggested he framed her. The ghost of Thuy, enraged, haunts students with illusions, and so students become terrified and wanted to transfer out. But the Headmaster doesn't want to lose his job by having to shut down the school- so, having caught Sang and Linh in the act of killing Thuy, he gathers evidence and decides to blackmail them into killing people for him instead. Anyone who gets too close to the truth of the curse or wants to transfer out, the Headmaster marks for death while Sang does the killing. In this way, the Headmaster keeps the school from shutting down by keeping the truth of the curse and deaths from reaching the outside world. They then dump the bodies inside a secret room behind a mirror- Tuan, in the last chapter, can see the pile of corpses they created. Linh, meanwhile, finds the whole thing distasteful and doesn't want to do it, but is forced by the Headmaster to aid in the killings.

Their fate is different depending on the ending. In Bad End 1, Tuan decides he has had enough and wants to transfer. He tells the Headmaster he would like to do so. Of course, the Headmaster leaves him there and presumably orders Sang to kill him, which he does. In Bad End 2, Sang pretends he has a way to lift the curse to lure Tuan to the room only to push him inside. In Bad End 3, which continues onward, Sang eventually returns to the room and kills Tuan. The Stinger shows several new students entering the school and being welcomed by the Headmaster, with the heavy indication that he and Sang (who is also there) will be killing them soon enough. In the True End, Tuan fights back and seemingly kills Sang, only for the Headmaster to frame him for the murders and have him Wrongfully Committed to an asylum.

But there is a happy ending. In said Happy End, Tuan uses a pen and stabs Sang after fighting him off. Although he still succumbs to Thuy's curse, he leaves enough evidence for the police to arrest the Headmaster and shut his school down. Linh gets away, but then again he was never really anything more than an unwilling accomplice.

Heinousness?

Big Bad, sets it. The Headmaster may not directly kill anyone himself, but he is the one ordering Sang around and marking people for death, at least after the first seven murders, and since Sang's body count is in the double digits, this means that the Headmaster is responsible for at least ten murders. Plus, he blackmails Linh into being his unwilling accomplice and, in the True End, personally has Tuan framed for the murders and carted off to an asylum. And in Bad End 1, he is plotting to have several more students killed, with the indication that, without Tuan getting in the way, he will be continuing for quite a while. Thuy, meanhwile, assaults students with horrific illusions... but never kills anyone, always leaving them alive.

Mitigating Qualities?

Unlike Sang, nothing. He orders the killing of his own students just to keep his job and reputation, and his kindness is skin deep. He acts nice to Tuan, telling him he understands that he is going through something and leaves the room to get his school report, being very understanding... just before ordering Sang to kill him. He tells Sang “good job” after the deed is done... because he is pleased that Sang is being so obedient. Remember, he is actively blackmailing Sang- if Sang disobeys, the Headmaster can and will pin all the crimes on him and get away unscathed. He tells several students in Bad End 3 that he wishes them the best... but he clearly doesn’t care about his students, given how he is willing to have them murdered to keep the secrets of the school.

Verdict?

So this guy I am sure keeps. Just to be totally transparent, here is Manly Badass Hero’s Let's Play of it, in case you want to see for yourself.

Edited by MasterN on Oct 31st 2020 at 12:08:05 PM

Dracula

Eva

Vlad Dracula

I'll say sure, leaving aside my scepticism of parts of the case I think the principal pushes for enough further murders he's not out-heinoused even if he had nothing to do with the original murders, as he willingly pushes for them to be covered up and continued to save his reputation.

to the Headmaster