I can see her writing the score, and Miyazaki just pops his head over her shoulder, slowly caressing the side of her face. Then whispers that exact line "make it freaky", and then slipping quietly back into the shadows.
As a buddhist, I really appreciate just how messed up the Senpo temple is, the way monks play with immortality is such a perverted interpretation of Buddha's teachings.
@@noxus7462 as the worst example it's them sacrificing children (their corpses are scattered all over), but basically using any means possible to achieve immortality, even becoming completely infested with giant parasitic centipedes
@@noxus7462 its been a while since i played so i could be wrong about a lot but the jist of of it is that there are two types of immortality. One that is divine and "good" (not really it comes from a lot of sacrifices) and another form which uses weird gross blood worms which grant it, which the monks use. But in Buddhism the whole point is to break the cycle of suffering and reincarnation and death the "samsara" and move beyond it and achieve nirvana, so the monks are doing the opposite by prolonging their lives and not even attempting to achieve peace and nirvana
@@noxus7462 The monks abandoned the pursuit of spiritual immortality (nirvana) in exchange for physical immortality. They also ditched all noble virtues, righteous conduct, etc by sacrificing children. All in their extreme attachment to material life. It's the polar opposite of Buddhism, like how satanism is to christianity.
I am catholic and find it to be just kinda cool looking. It’s a sick perversion of Christian beliefs, allows you to reflect a bit on what it all means. I like it.
@@ProfessorShnacktime So, I know it's not a direct 1-1, but there _are_ a lot of interesting parallels. If one thinks of Gwyn as the 'first man, of the earth, earthy,' the being representative of the old order that requires continual renewal, put to death by the cross and replaced with a new order that stems from the 'furtive pygmy, so easily forgotten' (the stone that the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone), who even shattered his own soul into infinite fragments so it could be everywhere and a part of humanity, so it could _be_ humanity, (if a seed doesn't fall into the ground and dies, it abides alone, but if it falls into the ground and dies, it brings forth much fruit), it can be easy to see what Gwyn does as a parallel to the preservation and clinging to of the old law, and a rejection of the offering of life. You even kill his ally, the great dragon who is, essentially the source of sorcery, you slay death itself, the primal witch of chaos which created a mockery of life. . . some of the imagery has definitely been changed, but a lot of the same ideas are there. Gwyn and his Way of White have essentially departed from natural law, and the power of the furtive pygmy sets things to rights.
@@ProfessorShnacktime Healing church from BB and the Cathedral of the Deep does feel like a twisted catholic church. Like how Mozgus and the Holy See from Berserk is a fucked up (might actually be accurate to medieval era) catholic church. Honestly it's really cool to see these symbols of divinity twisted in the fucked up world of post-eclipse Berserk.
@@stupidanon5941 Someone made a video about how dark souls is basically the telling of a myth of a hero's journey such as Jesus from the bible or Buddha, it even has a lot of similarities with other myths such as Prometheus stealing the flame and serpents commonly being a vessel for change such as frampt, and that bloodborne was the reverse of that. Its very interesting its called "how bloodborne transforms the myth"
Well the lore in dark souls is parallel to Saturnian Sun Worship, in terms of the gods... Saturn is an interesting deity because little is actually known about Saturn. Especially that we changed the name of the sun over history from Saturn to Sol. Our history is obscured by our present desires for innovation. It has led us to see myth as only myth and unable to view the true complexity of reality. However the idea of astrotheology (cosmic bodies are gods) is as old as our oldest religions
Just like how Nasuverse turned Buddhism into a sex cult in Fate/Extra CCC where its leader is Kiara Sessyoin, a depraved nun who would eventually become worse than Mara.
damn is it really that messed up? i’ve never been hugely interested in Sekiro but i’ve always been really fascinated by Buddhism so maybe i should check it out
@@morgboat744 imagine if a bunch of buddhists twisted their own faith because they became obsessed with immortality and started experimenting on people (including children!) to achieve it thats senpou temple
@@morgboat744 Someone in another comment thread pointed this out but from what I understand there are two different means of achieving immorality in Sekiro: The "good way" (divine immortality) which isn't really good because it requires a lot of sacrifice. The other way involves having your person occupied by a parasitic centipede. The monks at Senpou were attempting to achieve immortality through sacrifice, defying the Buddhas teachings by forgoing the pursuit if spiritual immortality granted through Nirvana. The evidence of this sacrifice can be seen in the dozens of corpses of children scattered throughout the temple grounds. There are also signs that countless more children were sacrificed. Even by Fromsoftware lore standards, this is pretty grim.
From Soft's games are interesting, because they've always flirted with a lot of Buddhist concepts, but Sekiro makes it so much more overt. Everything rots. All existence is suffering, and immortal existence is unending suffering. Even paradise will rot, turn to hell, drive all its inhabitants insane with its endless meaninglessness. NOTHING is meant to last forever, not even the gods and the spirits themselves. The only thing that is truly unending is the cycle of life and death, and you can try to stop that machine for a little while, but it will inevitably mangle you in its gears all the same.
@@timl. But the only way to do that is to let go of all attachment, and remove yourself from your temporal existence. Life and death are simply fluctuations in the continuum of the world. They only have meaning to the people clinging onto scraps of it When you achieve Nirvana, you become part of the entire world itself, no longer bound by life or death but flowing with them, back and forth, eternally. That's the immortal existence. The cycle itself is eternal.
@@timl. I believe Narokkurai was referring specifically to a Tendai Buddhist belief called _hongaku_ (本覺) which implies that all beings have inherent Buddha nature. I will not argue with your specific criticisms since I am not an expert in Buddist teachings, but I will remind you that Buddhist beliefs vary significantly and not all sects of Buddhism regard the same texts as canon.
@@dewok2706 it’s true. It may be a little bit of a hyperbole ( probably hundreds not thousands) but every pinwheel in Senpou represents a child sacrifice.
It is so incredibly screwed up that you have to farm psychotic, fanatical old men who murder children by the hundreds, _for candy._ From Software, ladies and gentlemen!
As somebody who has almost very little knowledge of buddhism I loved these elements of Sekiro. We're so used to Christian based horror in the west, it was so interesting to see horror elements based on a different religion.
@@davidnewhart2533 I wouldn't say so. They don't really believe in a higher power. If you want to get more specific, you could argue that Buddhism is a non-theistic religion, but many people believe that to not even be a real term. Just depends on how you look at it really.
@@Urien. Buddhism can be both a philosophy and a religion, it depends on which branch. Theravada Buddhism is treated more like a philosophy, while pure land Buddhism, Tibetian Buddhism, and other Mahayana branches are religions.
@@Urien.belief in a higher power is NOT what makes something a religion. Religion is simply the belief in some sort of metaphysical concept, or series of metaphysical concepts, which Buddhism does in fact believe in. The fact they believe in reincarnation (unless you reach enlightenment) proves that
I like how divine abduction instakills them. Buddha is clearly unhappy with the path they took. edit: Actually, it is the gods of the land who are pissed with them. Buddha is too chill.
@@lazyinsight5614 It kind of hints at it in the tools description. Basically how the fan spirits away someone temporarily and abducts their spirt/soul where normally they’re instantly returned but just turned around. But someone who’s already lost their spirit can never return. And since the sins and terrible things the monks did for immortality they lost their souls already and it just instantly kills them.
Same! There is a particular kind of buddhist that is particularly obsessive about rebirth, and hasn't seemed to have gotten the memo that rebirth is what we DONT want. They would take the immortality path if they could, and to me sekiro is a damning picture of what that mindset does to people.
One of Fromsoft's strongsuits has always been to take the bad sides of any form of Religion or Spirituality and increase it tenfold. That being said, the way they did it with the Senpou Monks in Sekiro and the Healing Church in Bloodborne is quite possibly the most messed up they've managed...
As someone who is Buddhist and grew up Buddhist, Buddhism is can be pretty harrowing. Even ignoring the context of the game, this feeling this music invokes isn't far off from say a group of Tibetan Monks chanting and playing instruments.
the context of the game is that they're pursuing physical immortality through any means necesary, including child-sacrefices, the exact oposite of buddha's teachings.
@@XiELEd4377 "spiritual immortality" is not an aim within buddhism or something buddhists claim to possess, one of the primary teachings is in fact anatma: the rejection of belief in a spirit/soul
If we are to transcend the cycle of death and rebirth, we must make death impossible. Ironically, by experimenting and killing possibly thousands of children. If it's in pursuit of ending the cycle of suffering, its good karma. These kids will be reborn, anyway. Clearly they would have survived if Buddha believed them virtuous enough.
I like that this theme gets the attention it deserves. When I first heard it I was blown away. My favourite non-boss fight music out of all the from soft games
@@samaritan29 Eh hard disagree, Sekiro may be my first FS game but it's too short, and lacks gameplay and build variety. I did love the bossfights tho.
It's honestly appropriate, consider one tenant of meditation in Buddhism is peering into death and impermanence (it's not unusual for monks to observe these things as a form of meditation). It almost feels like that was the inspiration for this whole area. So a corrupted buddhism could be represented by beings stuck in an undead immortality.
For real I think there was some damning commentary on some branches of Buddhism IRL going on with this game. The monks in the game are depicted as evil since they are actively seeking immortality rather than acceptance of death, and have allies themselves with a regime that brutalized people to do so... Some Buddhist sects have absolutely gone all-in with spirit worship and obsession over an afterlife, and have allied with brutal regimes IRL. The attempt on the dalia lamas life was conducted by one such sect, who was more than willing to ally with a government that has actively persecuted other Buddhists to so. Buddhist quite rightly has a reputation for being a peaceful and loving religion, but sadly they are not immune to the fanaticism that haunts all religions.
@@DisgruntledPeasantdon’t forget that the current regime in Myanmar is Buddhist-affiliated, and their ongoing genocide against Rohingya Muslims is one of the most widely-publicized genocides of the 20th century so far.
@@sarantsogtmunkhbaatar6974 Practices such as Patikulamanasikara and the ritualistic instruments made out of human body remains specifically in tibetan Buddhism are kinda creepy, and very cool in my opinin
@@sarantsogtmunkhbaatar6974 To be fair, veneration of the remains of saints in both cathoic and orthodox Christianity gives me same vibes, stuff like the capucin crypts etc. One of my favorite aspects of From software's games is the reflection of bizarre religious traditions which I'm sure they drew from real world inspirations.
You can tell that Sekiro's OST was a passion project for Yuka Kitamura. She went absolutely all out with it. Probably helps that it's a different change to the stuff she usually works on.
A little heretical? My man, comparing the shit the monks in game do to the actual teachings of the religion is like comparing a galaxy sized black hole to quasar. It's wild.
Melodic dissonance and a strange uncomfortable time signature. So odd how music can almost force you to feel a certain way while hearing it. Uncomfortable achieved this is brilliant.
"uncomfortable time signature" no offense, but it's 4|4: AKA common time - the same time signature heard all the time in almost every music, especially pop. I mean, TBF, it does have an unusual rhythm.
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk interesting, I thought I heard some syncopation in there for certain sections. As well as additional beats where the measure should've ended in some places. I'll give it another listen ☺️
The risers used in this track were the main riser in Elden Ring's theme as well. You can listen to 0:25 then have a listen to the very beginning of Elden Ring's theme.
When Ishin calls them degenerates, I thought he was exagerating. How wrong I was, this and Fountain Head Palace with the granny quest were such powerful moments. Anime made me forget how rich is japanese culture
Buddhism is especially scary in Japan, given the existence of the Sohei (Warrior monks), while some are revolutionaries (Ikko Ikki), bloodthirsty Mercenaries (Miidera,) or corrupt gangsters (Enyrakuji), they also possess the same killing potential that was on par or even surpass the Samurai at times. Also the almost of monk-type yokai in Japanese folklore is numerous, most of them are hostile maneaters. Like the Onyudo and long necked monks.
@@zeonmx Not really, Korean Warrior monks are only involved against Japanese Occupation. Both Medieval and Early modern Chinese Monks rarely involve themselves in battle and favoured the quarterstaff, due to the non lethality. The biggest battle the Shaolin and Chinese Monks engaged in was when the Ming hired them to counter Japanese Wako Pirate Raids in Chinese Coastal City. After one major casualty battle, the Chinese Monks decided to return to a life of tranquility and divorced themselves from conflict. So only the Japanese Warrior Monks are considered to be actualy warrior monks, and arguably the most corrupt and violent ones.
The whole zone just remind me of some things I read about what Tibetan sect of Buddism used to be like. All the human sacrifices and hiding extremely disturbing stuff under the guise of enlightenment.
@@lightbel18 human sacrifice was a component of religion in pre-buddhist tibet, and continued, hidden, in heterodox schools of buddhism and among some of the population who continued to be non-buddhist
Even today the Vajrayana traditions they practice there have some... Interesting components, to say the least. Such as the drinking of 'bodily fluids'. Buddha originally said his teachings would last a thousand years before being corrupted, or 500 if women were allowed to practice. It may have lasted even less than that!
I still listen to this track every now and then. This along with other Buddhist themes in the game made me curious of the actual religion and jump-started my Buddhist studies. Thank you From for making me look into this beautiful belief system!
@@SpicyDeddy >one sect going rogue means that the entire religion is rendered null your mental gymnastics are impressive. You ever think of trying out for the olympics?
When I was 5 or 6, I used to be scared of Buddhist temples, pagodas or even statues; I mean, the atmosphere inside those buildings was oddly constrictive, and the statues just looked too unsettling. I was even afraid of the sound of the bronze bell, which was unexpectedly loud and prolonged for some reason, like it had unknown power to it. The soundtrack completely captures that vibe for me. P/s: I am no longer afraid of those places and they seem peaceful to the older me.
I love how the major themes in the souls games always go for "x religion/culture, except scary", and and it works incredibly well every time. With demon souls we got "general european fantasy, except scary", then there was dark souls with "european folklore, except scary" moving into "christianity, except scary" through the series, then we get bloodborne with "christianity and lovecraft, but scarier", sekiro with "japanese folklore and buddhism, but scarier" and finally "george rr martin, nordic mythology, bit of christianity and also lovecraft, but scarier" with elden ring
A lot of people have a point though and I kinda agree...She doesn't have that many epic songs but when she does make something amazing it really is amazing. For example Elden Ring main theme is amazing while the rest of ost is just ok.
@@initiald3748 what do you mean by not many epic songs? Sir Alonne Gael Midir Lorian and Lothric Lady Maria Divine Dragon Isshin Owl Corrupted Monk And many more are absolutely masterpieces. Her work on Elden Ring was just right but not because she isn't good but because she wasn't the main composer this time. Big mistake imo since DS3 is still the game with the best music by far.
@@aquasomnus That’s a slight problem. Notice how all those songs are spread apart a large franchise and that’s all we can name. In truth, a lot of songs fall under our radar because they’re not that note worthy. She’s not a one hit queen where track she makes is a banger, but the good ones are damn good.
Knowing context from the Sengoku Jidai, I can say you can bet your ass given how groups like the Ikko Ikki existed, there would be a group of monks that would do what Senpou Temple did if they knew it could work.
They didnt refuse to follow his path, the point of their religion is to escape from the constant cycle of rebirth, they think gaining inmortality will break the cycle
The thing about the monks is that they corrupted Buddha's teachings, they no longer seek to achieve nirvana. They only seek physical immortality and for this they committed horrible crimes such as the kidnapping and sacrifice of probably hundreds of children. You know they are degenerates when Isshin tells you directly and very seriously
I love that while immortality is usually in the background in Soulsborne, Sekiro decided to spin it's whole story around it. Genichiro wants immortality, Owl wants immortality, monks want immortality, pot nobles want immortality and all of them and willing to get their hands very very dirty. And then there are those who are immortal but it sucks. The warrior in the shrine wishes to finally die. Ape is angry about outliving it's mates. Palace nobles are immortal but still age so they suck youth out of people. Kuro has a target on his back. The old guy seems happy about not having to feed the immortal carp anymore.
@@broadbandislife “Alright, I wiped out the Ikko Ikki.” *turns army away only for a huge rebellion to sprout up, occupy a castle and reinstate the clan* “Well then.” *turns army around and charges back in*
No you didn't hear this music in other Japanese games! Everything in a From Software game is original, high level design that other companies are only barely able to imitate even if they came up with the idea decades ago! (/sarcasm)
Going from a religion where we consume the flesh and blood of our murdered god... ...to a religion where existence is a never-ending cycle of suffering and oblivion is the ideal ending
The fact that buddhism is actually kind of like this: Yes I'm a Buddhist. Edit: Not the actual buddhism , but the chants of tibetan buddhism are similar.
Ordinary Buddhist monk chanting can be creepy sounding ngl. Also in chinese buddhist temples they often do it for the dead during funerals and long after when ppl visit graves/memorials. Or if ppl need smt/someone to be exorcised
Sekiro was my first fromsoft game and this theme made me very afraid while fighting. I found the monks very terrifying. That whole temple was terrifying
I read an Article that they were gonna do an elden ring 2 but it isn't gonna start until that George r martin or whatever his name is beats margett the fall. I hope that ain't true lol.
Daym, until this video I thought that these voices of monks in the background were not from the music but from the npcs and always searched for them....
ngl, first time i got into a fight in senpou temple, i thought another monk was closing in behind me doing all this chanting while he's charging up those spinning kicks
Never played Sekiro, but I’ve always been fascinated with all the horror inspired by Christian religious trauma. This just made me realise religious trauma originating from other faiths is a thing and there’s dope horror inspired by it too 🤔 Edit: just for clarification because I'm already seeing people fighting in the comments, I don't mean religious trauma from religious persecution. You don't need to be oppressed by other religions to feel it, just living your life being told there are deities watching you is enough to conjure up some fucked up mental images and I think that makes for some really cool horror concepts that's it alright now pls stop starting shit here and go find who asked
Following Jesus Christ isn't a religion. 99 percent of what you know about Christianity is wrong and most people don't even know the difference between Catholic and Christian.
@@NobodyInTheVoid Christians around the world are persecuted and killed for their beliefs everyday, people like to bring up the Crusades but that was the Roman Catholic Church and they also killed Christians that spoke out against the hypocrisy of the Roman Catholic Church. Jesus said "the world will hate you for my names sake" and he was right.
Okay, I don't scare easy... but this track is TERRIFYING me somehow. The chanting, the otherworldliness of it all... there's some kind of primal fear that's being triggered in me.
I love these interesting ideas on religion and using it in a way that's very out of this world thing in games. Makes things more mysterious and dreadful.
Things like this makes me relaize that a cool twist on Hinduism can never be possible in games and media because of heavy repercussions on companies by religious authorities
It’s funny you say that when depicting an evil variant of Hinduism was literally the whole premise of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the variant in question being based on a real-life sect known as thuggees (where we get the word “thug” from) which was infamous for sacrificing people to the goddess Kali, albeit not usually in as brutal a manner as depicted in the film. Granted, a lot of Hindus have criticized that movie, but even then I think it was more because the narrative implied that Kali is considered evil in regular Hinduism whereas the actual religion considers her to be benevolent even in her destructive role.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 oo I didn't know that but animal sacrifice to Kali is common. My grandmother in her younger days used to organise goat sacrifices to Kali which would then be eaten by the devotees
I like to imagine the music is based from the perspective of Sekiro himself. Dude's just a loyal doggo trying to keep a smol dragon safe. And then you got these monks doing a buncha bullshit and child sacrifices for the rejuvenating waters, of course it's gonna sound messed up when he has to fight these "people."
As if Miyazaki wouldn’t have rubbed his bloodstained hands across Kitamura’s face and whispered “make it freaky pal”
Made me laugh out loud, not gonna lie
I also laughed out loud. Thank you for this, boy I needed it today.
That's so fucking metal
I can see her writing the score, and Miyazaki just pops his head over her shoulder, slowly caressing the side of her face. Then whispers that exact line "make it freaky", and then slipping quietly back into the shadows.
@@Terror_Official Yuka Kitamura is a woman.
I'm glad Miyazaki finally stopped with his "Catholics are scary" and finally moved on to "Buddhists are scary".
Can't wait to see what else Miyazaki finds scary!
@@proxy90909 Feet.
which is just eastern catholicism
@@FarremShamist they say you attract what you fear...
@@FarremShamist Nah I think you're confusing 'scary' with 'sexy' bud.
As a buddhist, I really appreciate just how messed up the Senpo temple is, the way monks play with immortality is such a perverted interpretation of Buddha's teachings.
Can you explain for someone who hasnt played Sekiro?
@@noxus7462 as the worst example it's them sacrificing children (their corpses are scattered all over), but basically using any means possible to achieve immortality, even becoming completely infested with giant parasitic centipedes
@@noxus7462 its been a while since i played so i could be wrong about a lot but the jist of of it is that there are two types of immortality. One that is divine and "good" (not really it comes from a lot of sacrifices) and another form which uses weird gross blood worms which grant it, which the monks use. But in Buddhism the whole point is to break the cycle of suffering and reincarnation and death the "samsara" and move beyond it and achieve nirvana, so the monks are doing the opposite by prolonging their lives and not even attempting to achieve peace and nirvana
@@noxus7462 The monks abandoned the pursuit of spiritual immortality (nirvana) in exchange for physical immortality. They also ditched all noble virtues, righteous conduct, etc by sacrificing children. All in their extreme attachment to material life. It's the polar opposite of Buddhism, like how satanism is to christianity.
@Bingo I see you tried to put a gigantic worm in your head as well. Didnt fit in?
I wonder if this is what the Japanese fans feel like in all the Dark Souls locations inspired by Catholicism.
I am catholic and find it to be just kinda cool looking. It’s a sick perversion of Christian beliefs, allows you to reflect a bit on what it all means. I like it.
@@ProfessorShnacktime So, I know it's not a direct 1-1, but there _are_ a lot of interesting parallels. If one thinks of Gwyn as the 'first man, of the earth, earthy,' the being representative of the old order that requires continual renewal, put to death by the cross and replaced with a new order that stems from the 'furtive pygmy, so easily forgotten' (the stone that the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone), who even shattered his own soul into infinite fragments so it could be everywhere and a part of humanity, so it could _be_ humanity, (if a seed doesn't fall into the ground and dies, it abides alone, but if it falls into the ground and dies, it brings forth much fruit), it can be easy to see what Gwyn does as a parallel to the preservation and clinging to of the old law, and a rejection of the offering of life. You even kill his ally, the great dragon who is, essentially the source of sorcery, you slay death itself, the primal witch of chaos which created a mockery of life. . . some of the imagery has definitely been changed, but a lot of the same ideas are there.
Gwyn and his Way of White have essentially departed from natural law, and the power of the furtive pygmy sets things to rights.
@@ProfessorShnacktime Healing church from BB and the Cathedral of the Deep does feel like a twisted catholic church. Like how Mozgus and the Holy See from Berserk is a fucked up (might actually be accurate to medieval era) catholic church. Honestly it's really cool to see these symbols of divinity twisted in the fucked up world of post-eclipse Berserk.
@@stupidanon5941 Someone made a video about how dark souls is basically the telling of a myth of a hero's journey such as Jesus from the bible or Buddha, it even has a lot of similarities with other myths such as Prometheus stealing the flame and serpents commonly being a vessel for change such as frampt, and that bloodborne was the reverse of that. Its very interesting its called "how bloodborne transforms the myth"
@@Ronnie-Bagpipe 'Buddha from the Quran' 💀💀
Such an iconic song, perfectly portraits the anxiety in the situations where you have to fight a bunch of zombie monks
zombie kung-fu master monks*
@@Necrotaku999 Khai..
Same
You would mean to say, "portrays," the anxiety, etc etc
@@XxCHRISchaosxX its dumber to correct someome im yt comments where we can use the most informal of registers than to be the one that needs correction
I really like how Fromsoftware takes the most peaceful, tranquil looking areas, and gives them the most fucked up lore possible.
😂🤣
Well the lore in dark souls is parallel to Saturnian Sun Worship, in terms of the gods... Saturn is an interesting deity because little is actually known about Saturn. Especially that we changed the name of the sun over history from Saturn to Sol. Our history is obscured by our present desires for innovation. It has led us to see myth as only myth and unable to view the true complexity of reality. However the idea of astrotheology (cosmic bodies are gods) is as old as our oldest religions
Just like how Nasuverse turned Buddhism into a sex cult in Fate/Extra CCC where its leader is Kiara Sessyoin, a depraved nun who would eventually become worse than Mara.
You may want to learn a few things about actual Buddhist mythology. For example, Naraka.
Just like real life🙃which is… say it w me now: basically Dark Souls!!!!!
For those wondering the chant is saying "catch these hands" 💀💀💀
@Diavolo Jaegar yeah catch them all...on ya face *smack smack smack*
*Parries blade with Bare Hands*
And graft them!
@@thewintermute7964 BEAR WITNESSSSS!
@Diavolo Jaegar Was it in Journey To The West where the tallest mountains in the five farthest corners of the world are buddhas fingers or something?
On the contrary, Miyazaki would have SPECIFICALLY called for nightmarish music for this place
Yeah, I don't think any aspect of Miyazaki's games is done without intent.
Wow, two really dense mfs here
No shit lol
@@borbo23 a lot of. coz they dont have time.. EVERYTIME.
I think it works pretty well for some of the most messed up stuff in FromSoft.
damn is it really that messed up? i’ve never been hugely interested in Sekiro but i’ve always been really fascinated by Buddhism so maybe i should check it out
@@morgboat744 imagine if a bunch of buddhists twisted their own faith because they became obsessed with immortality and started experimenting on people (including children!) to achieve it
thats senpou temple
@@dumbsterdivesalso killing thousands of children while experimenting
@@morgboat744 Someone in another comment thread pointed this out but from what I understand there are two different means of achieving immorality in Sekiro: The "good way" (divine immortality) which isn't really good because it requires a lot of sacrifice. The other way involves having your person occupied by a parasitic centipede. The monks at Senpou were attempting to achieve immortality through sacrifice, defying the Buddhas teachings by forgoing the pursuit if spiritual immortality granted through Nirvana. The evidence of this sacrifice can be seen in the dozens of corpses of children scattered throughout the temple grounds. There are also signs that countless more children were sacrificed. Even by Fromsoftware lore standards, this is pretty grim.
@@morgboat744 yeah
The monks took Buddha teachings and distorted them, the whole point Is, if they are Immortal, they broke the reincarnation cicle
From Soft's games are interesting, because they've always flirted with a lot of Buddhist concepts, but Sekiro makes it so much more overt. Everything rots. All existence is suffering, and immortal existence is unending suffering. Even paradise will rot, turn to hell, drive all its inhabitants insane with its endless meaninglessness. NOTHING is meant to last forever, not even the gods and the spirits themselves. The only thing that is truly unending is the cycle of life and death, and you can try to stop that machine for a little while, but it will inevitably mangle you in its gears all the same.
@@timl. But the only way to do that is to let go of all attachment, and remove yourself from your temporal existence. Life and death are simply fluctuations in the continuum of the world. They only have meaning to the people clinging onto scraps of it When you achieve Nirvana, you become part of the entire world itself, no longer bound by life or death but flowing with them, back and forth, eternally.
That's the immortal existence. The cycle itself is eternal.
@@timl. i must thank you for your very insightful and thorough reply.
@@timl. I believe Narokkurai was referring specifically to a Tendai Buddhist belief called _hongaku_ (本覺) which implies that all beings have inherent Buddha nature. I will not argue with your specific criticisms since I am not an expert in Buddist teachings, but I will remind you that Buddhist beliefs vary significantly and not all sects of Buddhism regard the same texts as canon.
Posers with their dunning-kruger induced pop knowledge of buddhism absolutely and eternally btfo. Holy smoke.
@@timl. wow it’s nice to see an actual Buddhist out there nowadays instead of the watered down new age types
Well that place DID sacrifice hundreds, if not thousands, of children. So everytime i see a monk, i kill.
that's bullshit but i believe you
@@dewok2706 You should revisit that area. Every little pinwheel represents a kid that didn't make it.
@@dewok2706 it’s true. It may be a little bit of a hyperbole ( probably hundreds not thousands) but every pinwheel in Senpou represents a child sacrifice.
@TheLastSteakBender no they were straight up ganking kids left and right. Thousands is the correct number.
Not only they were sacrificed they were experimented on with inmortal centipides who ate their bodies away leaving a carcass behind
Haven't played this game in a couple years and this music is still burned into my head after hours of farming the monks for the candies
It is so incredibly screwed up that you have to farm psychotic, fanatical old men who murder children by the hundreds, _for candy._
From Software, ladies and gentlemen!
Same.
What game is it?
@@rimuruchan2164 late but its sekiro 10/10 game never completed cuz its hard 🔥
Even more eerie to know that the sutra being chanted at the start is the sutra to deal with grief ,death ...
What sutra is it?
@@JohnMMC Bro... Maybe its just me but you're slightly late. Lol
@@medianinitiantion1058 better late than never
@@JohnMMC True.
@@JohnMMC The main principles of Buddhism teaching from Buddha himself, and his 5 great students such as Sariputta or Ananda.
That's how biblically accurate Buddha sounds like.
This sentence sounds beyond funny.
I need that weed you're smoking bro
Not as bad as halal Jesus though.
I too remember when Buddha and Jesus joined and tag teamed Satan into Hell WWE style
@@calasay2688 I only remember the anime...
Sekiro: They’re unarmed. Should be easy.
Senpou Temple Monks: Namu amida butsu, bit*h
Lmao
Me who just spammed attack and they died with little resistance:
"catch these handds"
Demon slayer reference?
@@prateekbhurkay9376 thats a buddhist chant from long before the brain that formed the thought of demon slayer existed
When I first heard the chanting I thought I was surrounded by enemies I couldn’t see
You were.
You *are*
They're in your walls, OP
We're here
We have arrived. PRAYING STRIKES
🤚💥🖐👊🤚👊💥✋️👊🫸💥👊👊✋️👊🤚👊💥👊🖐💥👊🤚🫸‼️🦶👊💥👊🤚✋️💥👊🖐👊✋️💥✋️👊🤚👊✋️🖐💥
As somebody who has almost very little knowledge of buddhism I loved these elements of Sekiro. We're so used to Christian based horror in the west, it was so interesting to see horror elements based on a different religion.
Buddhism is a philosophy not a religion but yes u are right
@@Urien. Buddhism is a religion though.
@@davidnewhart2533 I wouldn't say so. They don't really believe in a higher power. If you want to get more specific, you could argue that Buddhism is a non-theistic religion, but many people believe that to not even be a real term. Just depends on how you look at it really.
@@Urien. Buddhism can be both a philosophy and a religion, it depends on which branch. Theravada Buddhism is treated more like a philosophy, while pure land Buddhism, Tibetian Buddhism, and other Mahayana branches are religions.
@@Urien.belief in a higher power is NOT what makes something a religion. Religion is simply the belief in some sort of metaphysical concept, or series of metaphysical concepts, which Buddhism does in fact believe in. The fact they believe in reincarnation (unless you reach enlightenment) proves that
I like how divine abduction instakills them. Buddha is clearly unhappy with the path they took.
edit: Actually, it is the gods of the land who are pissed with them. Buddha is too chill.
Divine Abduction: Literally Buddha grabbing them by the shirt all, "You don't even understand how hard I'm about to slap the mortal shit out of you"
It does? That's amazing.
@@lazyinsight5614 It kind of hints at it in the tools description. Basically how the fan spirits away someone temporarily and abducts their spirt/soul where normally they’re instantly returned but just turned around.
But someone who’s already lost their spirit can never return. And since the sins and terrible things the monks did for immortality they lost their souls already and it just instantly kills them.
@@zyriantel9601 LOL
They abandoned the pursuit of nirvana in favour of prolonging their material lives. 'Pissed' would not even BEGIN to describe it.
pov: you pissed on the pillar
You asked for the temple's wi-fi password:
POV: you broke out of the furnace
POV: you ate all the peaches from someone's garden
Black Myth: Wukong gonna be lit bros
I'm so proud that I understand this.
as a buddhist ive always considered theres an important dark side of it and sekiro brings it to life as a beautiful nightmare.
Same!
There is a particular kind of buddhist that is particularly obsessive about rebirth, and hasn't seemed to have gotten the memo that rebirth is what we DONT want.
They would take the immortality path if they could, and to me sekiro is a damning picture of what that mindset does to people.
One of Fromsoft's strongsuits has always been to take the bad sides of any form of Religion or Spirituality and increase it tenfold. That being said, the way they did it with the Senpou Monks in Sekiro and the Healing Church in Bloodborne is quite possibly the most messed up they've managed...
One of my favorite track of the game, it's fits so perfectly.
what is the track's name ?
Seekers @@ShivaM-dc4xe
@@ShivaM-dc4xeSeekers
As someone who is Buddhist and grew up Buddhist, Buddhism is can be pretty harrowing. Even ignoring the context of the game, this feeling this music invokes isn't far off from say a group of Tibetan Monks chanting and playing instruments.
As someone who grew up in a Buddhist country I gotta say Buddhism is really fucking scary sometimes
the context of the game is that they're pursuing physical immortality through any means necesary, including child-sacrefices, the exact oposite of buddha's teachings.
@@demondays3956 Yes, I didn't imply the monks were practicing in line with Buddadharma.
@@demondays3956 they rejected spiritual immortality and pursued physical immortality
@@XiELEd4377 "spiritual immortality" is not an aim within buddhism or something buddhists claim to possess, one of the primary teachings is in fact anatma: the rejection of belief in a spirit/soul
Kitamura: Aight sweet, lemme just pull out my demon strings…
I love the atmosphere of "scary" Buddhism.
If we are to transcend the cycle of death and rebirth, we must make death impossible. Ironically, by experimenting and killing possibly thousands of children.
If it's in pursuit of ending the cycle of suffering, its good karma. These kids will be reborn, anyway. Clearly they would have survived if Buddha believed them virtuous enough.
Religion is quite scary in itself
@@joshuabruce9599 that's not how it works. What a perverted comment on Buddhism.
@@malithaw I think he's commenting from the monks' point of view
@@tenebraemachina Bro's way too cool about it, Im betting money on that guy is just a psychopath
I like that this theme gets the attention it deserves. When I first heard it I was blown away. My favourite non-boss fight music out of all the from soft games
You may not know, the monks in Sengoku Jidai are brutal, search Ikkō Ikki for more information
ok
The spirit of Bishamonten has risen.
Uesugi Kenshin approves
Oda Nobunaga did nothing wrong
damn warrior gun monks
Hearing this music makes me want to play the game again. Those rhythms really get the blood pumping.
You’re not the only one.
sekiro > elden ring
@@samaritan29 L
@@samaritan29 sadly. covid hit elden ring hard. i admire FROM, they almost made a miracle. Hope they would continue their path.
@@samaritan29 Eh hard disagree, Sekiro may be my first FS game but it's too short, and lacks gameplay and build variety. I did love the bossfights tho.
It's honestly appropriate, consider one tenant of meditation in Buddhism is peering into death and impermanence (it's not unusual for monks to observe these things as a form of meditation). It almost feels like that was the inspiration for this whole area. So a corrupted buddhism could be represented by beings stuck in an undead immortality.
For real I think there was some damning commentary on some branches of Buddhism IRL going on with this game.
The monks in the game are depicted as evil since they are actively seeking immortality rather than acceptance of death, and have allies themselves with a regime that brutalized people to do so...
Some Buddhist sects have absolutely gone all-in with spirit worship and obsession over an afterlife, and have allied with brutal regimes IRL.
The attempt on the dalia lamas life was conducted by one such sect, who was more than willing to ally with a government that has actively persecuted other Buddhists to so.
Buddhist quite rightly has a reputation for being a peaceful and loving religion, but sadly they are not immune to the fanaticism that haunts all religions.
@@DisgruntledPeasantdon’t forget that the current regime in Myanmar is Buddhist-affiliated, and their ongoing genocide against Rohingya Muslims is one of the most widely-publicized genocides of the 20th century so far.
Corrupted esoteric budhissm would be very scary
Simple uncorrupted Esoteric Buddhism is quite scary as it is lol
@@haoyunzhang4094 why? what do they do?
@@sarantsogtmunkhbaatar6974 Practices such as Patikulamanasikara and the ritualistic instruments made out of human body remains specifically in tibetan Buddhism are kinda creepy, and very cool in my opinin
@@haoyunzhang4094 kinda? thats out right satanic
@@sarantsogtmunkhbaatar6974 To be fair, veneration of the remains of saints in both cathoic and orthodox Christianity gives me same vibes, stuff like the capucin crypts etc. One of my favorite aspects of From software's games is the reflection of bizarre religious traditions which I'm sure they drew from real world inspirations.
You can tell that Sekiro's OST was a passion project for Yuka Kitamura. She went absolutely all out with it. Probably helps that it's a different change to the stuff she usually works on.
I'm not a Buddhist, but I am somewhat positive that temple is just a little bit heretical and not in line with standard Buddhist teachings.
A little heretical? My man, comparing the shit the monks in game do to the actual teachings of the religion is like comparing a galaxy sized black hole to quasar. It's wild.
@@duskdeadman4333 I was going for comedic understatement XD
It is, perhaps a smidge, maybe somewhat fanatical, yeah
A slight deviation of Buddhas ideas ☺
Just a bit.
One positive aspect of speedrunning this game is that I don´t have the time to get terrified from that
I always found Sekrios story and world way creeper than the other FROM games, has a very demonic vibe in some places
the headless always made me so uncomfortable to fight haha
Headless be like "I GOT JOE'ASS!"
Not many other "Apparition-type" enemies in Fromsoft games fill me with dread like Headless does.
@beef5able Color fact, Genichiro will probably become a HeadLess too
you ever play any Onimusha games? those had that vibe down pat.
Gotta love Yuka Kitamura. She's one of my favorite composers.
Melodic dissonance and a strange uncomfortable time signature. So odd how music can almost force you to feel a certain way while hearing it. Uncomfortable achieved this is brilliant.
"uncomfortable time signature"
no offense, but it's 4|4: AKA common time - the same time signature heard all the time in almost every music, especially pop.
I mean, TBF, it does have an unusual rhythm.
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk interesting, I thought I heard some syncopation in there for certain sections. As well as additional beats where the measure should've ended in some places. I'll give it another listen ☺️
@@FighterPhish the rythm of the percussion is a bit weird but as the othe guy said its 4/4
@@elkmeatenjoyer3409maybe there’s some kind of polyrhythm goin on? Those are common in some forms of Asian music after all.
The risers used in this track were the main riser in Elden Ring's theme as well. You can listen to 0:25 then have a listen to the very beginning of Elden Ring's theme.
Oh shit
Dark fucked up buddhism is one of my favorite aesthetics
It’s even creepier when you fight the monks that have the giant centipede coming out of it.
I can still remember the shock upon encountering those undead monks, they have one the the creepiest grab attacks.
When Ishin calls them degenerates, I thought he was exagerating. How wrong I was, this and Fountain Head Palace with the granny quest were such powerful moments.
Anime made me forget how rich is japanese culture
well if you like manga and japanese culture i HIGHLY recommend Vagabond, it actually gets a lot of historical stuff like this accurate
anime made me remember how rich japanese culture is
You must be watching the wrong things.
Isshin, probably: "I don't just call them shit because I don't like them, kiddo, they are _actual_ shit."
Seinen anime and manga will make you remember.
Buddhism is especially scary in Japan, given the existence of the Sohei (Warrior monks), while some are revolutionaries (Ikko Ikki), bloodthirsty Mercenaries (Miidera,) or corrupt gangsters (Enyrakuji), they also possess the same killing potential that was on par or even surpass the Samurai at times.
Also the almost of monk-type yokai in Japanese folklore is numerous, most of them are hostile maneaters. Like the Onyudo and long necked monks.
Congrats, you just described medieval era East Asian Buddihst warrior monks who were involved in thousands of battles and wars, not just in Japan.
@@zeonmx
Not really,
Korean Warrior monks are only involved against Japanese Occupation. Both Medieval and Early modern
Chinese Monks rarely involve themselves in battle and favoured the quarterstaff, due to the non lethality.
The biggest battle the Shaolin and Chinese Monks engaged in was when the Ming hired them to counter Japanese Wako Pirate Raids in Chinese Coastal City.
After one major casualty battle, the Chinese Monks decided to return to a life of tranquility and divorced themselves from conflict.
So only the Japanese Warrior Monks are considered to be actualy warrior monks, and arguably the most corrupt and violent ones.
@@bosunbill9059weren’t a number of regular samurai practicing Buddhists themselves as well?
The whole zone just remind me of some things I read about what Tibetan sect of Buddism used to be like. All the human sacrifices and hiding extremely disturbing stuff under the guise of enlightenment.
They used to hide what kind of disturbing stuff?
@@lightbel18 human sacrifice was a component of religion in pre-buddhist tibet, and continued, hidden, in heterodox schools of buddhism and among some of the population who continued to be non-buddhist
Well, fuck I thought Tibet was mostly peaceful, I guess not
Even today the Vajrayana traditions they practice there have some... Interesting components, to say the least. Such as the drinking of 'bodily fluids'.
Buddha originally said his teachings would last a thousand years before being corrupted, or 500 if women were allowed to practice. It may have lasted even less than that!
@@pupyfan69 Could you point me to some articles/books where I can read up on that? That sounds extremely interesting.
I still listen to this track every now and then. This along with other Buddhist themes in the game made me curious of the actual religion and jump-started my Buddhist studies. Thank you From for making me look into this beautiful belief system!
Buddhism hate women
YO SAME!
“Beautiful” huh yeah the Tibetan monks would like a word with you
@@SpicyDeddy >one sect going rogue means that the entire religion is rendered null
your mental gymnastics are impressive. You ever think of trying out for the olympics?
You know a music track is FIRE when the entire bar under video is highlighted as "*Most Replayed*"
When I was 5 or 6, I used to be scared of Buddhist temples, pagodas or even statues; I mean, the atmosphere inside those buildings was oddly constrictive, and the statues just looked too unsettling. I was even afraid of the sound of the bronze bell, which was unexpectedly loud and prolonged for some reason, like it had unknown power to it. The soundtrack completely captures that vibe for me.
P/s: I am no longer afraid of those places and they seem peaceful to the older me.
There wasn't any unkown power in the bells. You only felt that because you were scared
Samsara intensifies.
I love how the major themes in the souls games always go for "x religion/culture, except scary", and and it works incredibly well every time.
With demon souls we got "general european fantasy, except scary", then there was dark souls with "european folklore, except scary" moving into "christianity, except scary" through the series, then we get bloodborne with "christianity and lovecraft, but scarier", sekiro with "japanese folklore and buddhism, but scarier" and finally "george rr martin, nordic mythology, bit of christianity and also lovecraft, but scarier" with elden ring
Elden Ring is more accurately "Germanic mythology but scarier"
Buddha be like: Welp, they failed.
Absolutely my favorite track from Sekiro. It's a perfect mix of creepy and intense.
Which soundtrack is it ?
@@tatianitsaful I think it's called "Seekers"
@@LauncherSpiderMk7 Thanks!
And yet people call her work nothing but "mediocre".
Goddamn fools.
A lot of people have a point though and I kinda agree...She doesn't have that many epic songs but when she does make something amazing it really is amazing.
For example Elden Ring main theme is amazing while the rest of ost is just ok.
@@initiald3748 what do you mean by not many epic songs?
Sir Alonne
Gael
Midir
Lorian and Lothric
Lady Maria
Divine Dragon
Isshin
Owl
Corrupted Monk
And many more are absolutely masterpieces.
Her work on Elden Ring was just right but not because she isn't good but because she wasn't the main composer this time. Big mistake imo since DS3 is still the game with the best music by far.
@@aquasomnus You litterally proved my point Those were amazing but out of all the games she composed that is just a fraction.
@@initiald3748 the only track of elden ring i remember
@@aquasomnus That’s a slight problem. Notice how all those songs are spread apart a large franchise and that’s all we can name. In truth, a lot of songs fall under our radar because they’re not that note worthy. She’s not a one hit queen where track she makes is a banger, but the good ones are damn good.
Knowing context from the Sengoku Jidai, I can say you can bet your ass given how groups like the Ikko Ikki existed, there would be a group of monks that would do what Senpou Temple did if they knew it could work.
That thing in the back that spits out crickets.
I mean if you just look around the area near Senpou temple, you'll see numerous corpses of children with their limbs forcibly tied on the ground.
Thanks to this video dude I discovered Yuka Kitamura, dude's a legend in the making broo
Fr, I love her music
Yuka kitamura consulting with the Devil to make the sickest most horrifying music possible
Wouldn’t it be Yama in this case?
if they refuse to follow the path of Buddha, who are they praying to?
Buddha, in their own way...
Just like every extremist do..
They didnt refuse to follow his path, the point of their religion is to escape from the constant cycle of rebirth, they think gaining inmortality will break the cycle
The thing about the monks is that they corrupted Buddha's teachings, they no longer seek to achieve nirvana. They only seek physical immortality and for this they committed horrible crimes such as the kidnapping and sacrifice of probably hundreds of children. You know they are degenerates when Isshin tells you directly and very seriously
Btw ost from limbus company for "my form empties" is also great (also scary buddhism)
PROJECT MOON MENTIONED
PROJECT MOON MENTIONED
PROJECT MOON MENTIONED
SUMMON THE SLEEPER AGENTS
PROJECT MOON MENTIONED
I love that while immortality is usually in the background in Soulsborne, Sekiro decided to spin it's whole story around it.
Genichiro wants immortality, Owl wants immortality, monks want immortality, pot nobles want immortality and all of them and willing to get their hands very very dirty.
And then there are those who are immortal but it sucks.
The warrior in the shrine wishes to finally die.
Ape is angry about outliving it's mates. Palace nobles are immortal but still age so they suck youth out of people.
Kuro has a target on his back.
The old guy seems happy about not having to feed the immortal carp anymore.
This and the headless apparition's themes are embedded into my memory like a childhood trauma.
I love it.
When i hear this it reminds me of waiting for an enemy to stop looking for me so i can get back to grinding
Meanwhile at Team Aces: "We must never let him know... of the ancient power" [guestures to box marked "Acoustic Flemenco Guitar"]
Men i stuck in the fight with armored anemy, and that ost stuck in my head now
I remember smoking my first few times being stuck in the temple tripping shit bc of this music😭
Lmao ain’t no way bruh 😭😭
lmaoooo gonna try this >:)
I had a similar experience with Bloodborne Ludwig's theme is nightmare fuel
Love that this got so many likes it was a genuine great/terrifying experience I miss it
@@shutupgames6721 The cutscene and music along with that wild ass move set I can see it 😂
Imagine being Oda Nobunaga, massacring a village of Ikko-Ikkis, turning around to ride away on your horse and then this music starts playing
_Aggravated sigh, pulls sword back out because apparently he's not done using it yet_
Sounds like the average _TW Shogun 2_ campaign if you start anywhere near the buggers.
oda nobunaga?!😨fate reference!!!😱
@@broadbandislife “Alright, I wiped out the Ikko Ikki.”
*turns army away only for a huge rebellion to sprout up, occupy a castle and reinstate the clan*
“Well then.” *turns army around and charges back in*
Kitamura is a genius
Never been to a funeral with Buddhist chants uh? Also heard similar music being used in Fatal Frame and lots of other Japanese horror games.
No you didn't hear this music in other Japanese games! Everything in a From Software game is original, high level design that other companies are only barely able to imitate even if they came up with the idea decades ago! (/sarcasm)
Going from a religion where we consume the flesh and blood of our murdered god...
...to a religion where existence is a never-ending cycle of suffering and oblivion is the ideal ending
any religion can be turned into cosmic horror if you can find the right words i guess lmao
When some portugese guy in a funny hat starts convincing all the fishermen to worship a middle eastern rabbi
The music in FS games always hit so hard
Theres an anime about smaurais called shigurui. The OST transmits that same "Dark side of Buddhism" vibe. Its insane.
gonna give it a try then 🧐🧐🧐
Thanks for the info dude. I will definitely be giving that a watch
"Life is suffering"
"Oh, you'll suffer alright..."
It's impressive that almost 2 years later after playing the game, I still remember this song. Degeneracy at it's finest.
The music always slaps in from soft games. BloodBorne music is sooooo good imo
The fact that buddhism is actually kind of like this:
Yes I'm a Buddhist.
Edit: Not the actual buddhism , but the chants of tibetan buddhism are similar.
So you guys too seek immortality huh
The whole point of the area is that the monks are completely anti-Buddhist though, seeing immortality through evil deeds and abandoning enlightenment
Ordinary Buddhist monk chanting can be creepy sounding ngl. Also in chinese buddhist temples they often do it for the dead during funerals and long after when ppl visit graves/memorials. Or if ppl need smt/someone to be exorcised
I think this is the best "non boss" fighting track in the whole game.
Sekiro's music always scared the fuck out of me. To me Sekiro is absolutely a horror game, but a palpable one.
The monks with bow staffs aren't a walk in the park, either, bud.
Honestly the music is so well done for the game sometimes what stresses me out the most is not the enemies but the music lmao
Never realized before how fantastic this actually is, thanks
Sekiro was my first fromsoft game and this theme made me very afraid while fighting. I found the monks very terrifying. That whole temple was terrifying
I hope Miyazaki is planning to make Sekiro 2 for their next game.
I read an Article that they were gonna do an elden ring 2 but it isn't gonna start until that George r martin or whatever his name is beats margett the fall. I hope that ain't true lol.
Just ocurred to me this is like the perfect soundtrack for a specific arc in Gantz lol
Daym, until this video I thought that these voices of monks in the background were not from the music but from the npcs and always searched for them....
ngl, first time i got into a fight in senpou temple, i thought another monk was closing in behind me doing all this chanting while he's charging up those spinning kicks
Never played Sekiro, but I’ve always been fascinated with all the horror inspired by Christian religious trauma. This just made me realise religious trauma originating from other faiths is a thing and there’s dope horror inspired by it too 🤔
Edit: just for clarification because I'm already seeing people fighting in the comments, I don't mean religious trauma from religious persecution. You don't need to be oppressed by other religions to feel it, just living your life being told there are deities watching you is enough to conjure up some fucked up mental images and I think that makes for some really cool horror concepts that's it
alright now pls stop starting shit here and go find who asked
then do yourself a favor and play Sekiro, IMO it was the best game From had ever made before Elden Ring
Uh, the Christians were the ones persecuted in Japan though
@@NobodyInTheVoid i'm marking this as off-topic
Following Jesus Christ isn't a religion. 99 percent of what you know about Christianity is wrong and most people don't even know the difference between Catholic and Christian.
@@NobodyInTheVoid Christians around the world are persecuted and killed for their beliefs everyday, people like to bring up the Crusades but that was the Roman Catholic Church and they also killed Christians that spoke out against the hypocrisy of the Roman Catholic Church. Jesus said "the world will hate you for my names sake" and he was right.
The senpou temple and the fountainhead palace are my favorite areas of this game.
FromSoft: "what if the Buddha was an orc screaming at you"
Okay, I don't scare easy... but this track is TERRIFYING me somehow. The chanting, the otherworldliness of it all... there's some kind of primal fear that's being triggered in me.
I love these interesting ideas on religion and using it in a way that's very out of this world thing in games. Makes things more mysterious and dreadful.
this and hell's paradise's buddism horror is something i never knew existed and needed to damn much
Cool track to listen to on its own, but it hits different when you're fighting for your life
Man I never even played Sekiro but Senpou Temple definitely is one of my favorite areas.
Things like this makes me relaize that a cool twist on Hinduism can never be possible in games and media because of heavy repercussions on companies by religious authorities
Sad
It’s funny you say that when depicting an evil variant of Hinduism was literally the whole premise of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the variant in question being based on a real-life sect known as thuggees (where we get the word “thug” from) which was infamous for sacrificing people to the goddess Kali, albeit not usually in as brutal a manner as depicted in the film. Granted, a lot of Hindus have criticized that movie, but even then I think it was more because the narrative implied that Kali is considered evil in regular Hinduism whereas the actual religion considers her to be benevolent even in her destructive role.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 oo I didn't know that but animal sacrifice to Kali is common. My grandmother in her younger days used to organise goat sacrifices to Kali which would then be eaten by the devotees
Man, this music IS creepy. I played Sekiro, but this is the first time I’ve actually paid attention to it. This could be used in a horror movie!
Is it true that Miyazaki doesn’t play his games? That seems like the most Dark Souls thing imaginable.
Sekiro storyline draws similar lines to the Anime Dororo (a must watch -2019 version)
not yuka kitamura making all of my favourite soulsbourne songs without me noticing it was one person
For anyone wondering, the soundtrack here is called Seekers.
I like to imagine the music is based from the perspective of Sekiro himself. Dude's just a loyal doggo trying to keep a smol dragon safe. And then you got these monks doing a buncha bullshit and child sacrifices for the rejuvenating waters, of course it's gonna sound messed up when he has to fight these "people."
The art-style is so similar to Prince of Persia Worrier Within.