![]() ![]() Thus when the story is finished the only option for the both characters is to fight. ![]() The conflict isn’t direct it is subtle and builds as the story of the Demon is told. The crux of Aragami is one man telling his story to another man and as the story unfolds the man listening becomes more and more aware of just what is going to be asked of him. If 2LDK is an example of direct conflict and confrontation between 2 parties in the form of adrenaline and violence, then Aragami is the antithesis of that as it relies more on dialogue. This is the exact opposite of what the focus of the movie is. ![]() ![]() One would think that this would lead to a masterful duel between 2 samurai in the moonlight. The conflict is that the Demon wants to die and pass on its immortality to the samurai, simply because the Demon has grown weary of its life as unstoppable killing machine. The longer the conversation goes the more the fleeing samurai realizes that he is not so much talking to Musashi, but an immoral Demon that believes itself to be the “Invincible God of Battle”. What unfolds is a conversation on mankind’s propensity for violence and cruelty. What transpires from there becomes the tale of the surviving samurai meeting a man claiming to be Miyamoto Musashi. The set-up of Aragami takes 2 injured samurai seeking shelter in a cave. Trust me, it is has action but the layers that Kitamura gives in Aragami are magnificent because it relies on narration by one of its characters to tell a story within a story. For him to have made a movie about a samurai fighting against a malevolent and ancient power that lives for battle may not sound as cerebral as I might make it out to be. You know that movie about the escaped convict who fights undead Yakuza members and discovers that he is part of a cycle of reincarnation that is supposed to decide the fate of the world. The man gave us a low-budget masterpiece in VERSUS. I mean we are talking about Ryuhei Kitamura here. It is the more cerebral half of The Duel Project, which is kind of interesting given its director is known for making more straightforward action films. This is very frustrating because Aragami is actually a very straightforward film. The problem is that, even though I have watched Aragami multiple times, I honestly cannot sit down and recall the movie in a way that makes it easy to write about. I was all set to write a long rambling diatribe about Ryuhei Kitamura’s Aragami, I really was. We have no idea what he is planning on writing about right… Oh that FUCKER! He wrote the Aragami review! We are NOT amused!) We’ll give him some time to dig up a copy of the movie. We here at Brave Blog blame the author for being a twit. Of course the schmuck lost his copy of the movie and the damn thing isn’t available for streaming on Netflix. What our blockhead of a writer failed to mention is that he needs to re-watch Aragami because it has been well over a year since he last sat down and viewed it. (You were possibly expecting to read a review of Ryuhei Kitamura’s Aragami. You can catch a glimpse of all the above in Microsoft's latest Games with Gold run-down trailer.Aragami - Because Sometimes When We Touch. Lastly for this month, and available between 16th November and 15th December, is developer Decoy Games' floaty side-scrolling underwater shooter Swimsanity, which features both co-op and versus modes for local and online play. Gold subscribers can pick it up between 16th November and 30th November. This one gives Steven Spielberg's classic movie trilogy the familiar Lego game treatment, transforming Indie's pulpy globe-trotting adventures - and occasional brushes with the supernatural - into raucously enjoyable, and reliably hilarious, kid-friendly co-op platform action. Pandemics Studios' acclaimed 2004 action-strategy effort Full Spectrum Warrior is this month's original Xbox offering, and can be downloaded from 1st November to 15th November, and that's followed by the Xbox 360 version of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. Aragami comes to Games with Gold in its Shadow Edition guise - which bundles up the Xbox One base game and its Nightfall expansion - and is available to download between 1st November and 30th November. Xbox Games with Gold soldiers onward in November with four new offerings, this time in the form of Aragami, Swimsanity, Full Spectrum Warrior, and Lego Indiana Jones.įirst up is developer Lince Works' stylish supernatural stealth game Aragami, which follows the titular undead assassin, armed with the ability to manipulate shadows, as he attempts to thwart the Army of Light. ![]()
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