Grotesque or Sublime Beauty?
Hmm.
I talked to a friend once about video games... maybe we were talking about Clock Tower, not sure about it... Anyway, (I think) she said that she objected too bloody a murder, even in video games. I think she said that she preferred the murders to be done quick and clean. I told her that to me, it didn't really matter how the murder was done, it's the after-care that mattered. Like, the murder itself can be quick and clean or gory and messy, it doesn't matter; it's how you arrange it afterwards that mattered. To which she reacted:
Her: ......you're a follower of sublime beauty?
Me: What's that?
Now I know what it means, though.
It's not actually that I follow any particular kind of art, it's more about the thrill. Like, if you play a survival-thriller game where you see lots of corpses... if the corpses were just... well, dumped on the floor, it wouldn't incure as much fear as if the corpses had been arranged neatly and creatively, as if the murder and the after-care was an art in itself, a ritual. I think... such thing will make us think that we're facing something we'd rather flee from. A mere murderer will kill and leave a scene of carnage, but a psychopath will kill and leave a scene of bizarre, grotesque-ness in perfection. A murderer will kill fast, but a psychopath will *enjoy* the kill itself. Shortly speaking, a murderer is a better option to meet than a psychopath.
Anyway, returning to the topic, if it's a survival-thriller game, then I'd stand in my opinion that the game designers should spend more time on how to turn a scene of carnage to one of grotesque perfected.
On a sidenote, yes, I do realise that the theme of blood appears far too often in my drawings. I also often try to write stories with 'beautiful deaths' in it.... Blame it on Yuki Kaori and her Angel Sanctuary; that's one series that damaged my mental imprint years ago. Yuki Kaori, can be said, made me think about how deaths can be made beautiful, while... MPD Psycho made me realise what impact you can cause using grotesque perfected. I suggest you not to read both series together. When you come to respect/value both series, it might change your mind irrevocably, like it did mine....
I talked to a friend once about video games... maybe we were talking about Clock Tower, not sure about it... Anyway, (I think) she said that she objected too bloody a murder, even in video games. I think she said that she preferred the murders to be done quick and clean. I told her that to me, it didn't really matter how the murder was done, it's the after-care that mattered. Like, the murder itself can be quick and clean or gory and messy, it doesn't matter; it's how you arrange it afterwards that mattered. To which she reacted:
Her: ......you're a follower of sublime beauty?
Me: What's that?
Now I know what it means, though.
It's not actually that I follow any particular kind of art, it's more about the thrill. Like, if you play a survival-thriller game where you see lots of corpses... if the corpses were just... well, dumped on the floor, it wouldn't incure as much fear as if the corpses had been arranged neatly and creatively, as if the murder and the after-care was an art in itself, a ritual. I think... such thing will make us think that we're facing something we'd rather flee from. A mere murderer will kill and leave a scene of carnage, but a psychopath will kill and leave a scene of bizarre, grotesque-ness in perfection. A murderer will kill fast, but a psychopath will *enjoy* the kill itself. Shortly speaking, a murderer is a better option to meet than a psychopath.
Anyway, returning to the topic, if it's a survival-thriller game, then I'd stand in my opinion that the game designers should spend more time on how to turn a scene of carnage to one of grotesque perfected.
On a sidenote, yes, I do realise that the theme of blood appears far too often in my drawings. I also often try to write stories with 'beautiful deaths' in it.... Blame it on Yuki Kaori and her Angel Sanctuary; that's one series that damaged my mental imprint years ago. Yuki Kaori, can be said, made me think about how deaths can be made beautiful, while... MPD Psycho made me realise what impact you can cause using grotesque perfected. I suggest you not to read both series together. When you come to respect/value both series, it might change your mind irrevocably, like it did mine....