itch.io

Honestly, I want to put this comment on a plinth. You Get it. I feel so seen, and am so glad to hear I captured the essence of it for you. Everything just seemed to synthesise so well!

I am...honestly not very confident in my ability to write lyrics or poetry (and especially rosc, which are considered pretty fiendish in the scholarship I've read) that stands up to any scrutiny at all. I agree it would absolutely complete a work like this, and am considering it for the second installment, but if done poorly would detract more than it would add, so I'm not sure if I'll go for it.

(And oh hey,  my current keyboard actually doesn't like diacritics either, something I keep meaning to fix.)

Thank you for your kind words! Nice to meet someone possessed by the same thing.

And it's...tricky! A lot of translations are outdated or hard to get, and it can be hard to tell retellings from translations (and there's nothing wrong with a retelling, I'm kinda doing some here, but when they advertise themselves as authentic...)

I'm gonna do a dev-diary blogpost about this soon, but you can find a lot of medieval Irish texts here--just, again, often quite old translations, and shorn of any real context or indication as to how they relate to each other:

https://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html

For a slightly more coherent experience, I would recommend the story that I gleefully steal from for this, Mac Da Tho's Pig, as an entry point:
https://iso.ucc.ie/Scel-datho/Scel-datho-text.pdf

And then if you can find a copy of Jeffrey Gantz's Early Irish Myths and Sagas, that contains a couple other good ones, The Intoxication of the Ulstermen and Bricriu's Feast.

And I should mention, this ongoing podcast by a highly-qualified Celticist scholar in fact covers some of these exact stories in audiobook format, along with some really useful explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/@Guth-Podcast

Now thinking about how no-one is quite sure if the chariots in medieval Irish lit are a memory of their ancient actual use /there/, or if the writers just copied it from Homer...

It was made with...well, if not love, at least understanding, I think.

Honestly this anime is an obscure enough spinoff I'm not confident Fujimoto has seen it, but Makima definitely feels like some kind of Ryo Asuka for this generation, and she sure gives me something like the Ran Asuka Emotion.

Thank you so much for saying so! She really gets her hooks in you, right?

Incredible series, truly enjoyed all these.

I love this!! Let it be known for the sake of my ego that I did it without checking a guide. There's probably at least one screen I didn't find but still! Anyway I really enjoy the way the music shifts when you make the breakthrough.

Really enjoyed the cute storybook feeling!

This was really sweet! I'll have to play the other routes sometime for the full experience! Love the range of appeals you've captured here.

Funnily enough, it almost was!