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Inspiration Corner - Greek Mythology

At present I'm going to start this blog by saying something a scrap controversial; The Greek and Norse gods were the best gods.

I'm sad, information technology'southward but truthful.

A few months ago I started reading some of the tales from Greek and Norse mythology to my son. What's better than a bit of blood and vengeance before bedtime? Information technology's what every v yr old needs for a good nights sleep, right?......RIGHT?

Hmmm, ok, I take your signal, Merely, 1 affair for sure is that the stories really are good, but for very dissimilar reasons. In today's blog I'm going to await at the tales from Greece, and why in particular they especially suit an gamble game like Röki.

One villain you'll know is Medusa, the chick with the snakes hairdo and the 'turn y'all to stone' stare. You probably know that she was defeated by a mirror, or more than specifically a shiny shield, simply can you remember any more than that? Honestly, I'd forgotten the other details. I couldn't recollect that the guy who killed her was Perseus. I definitely couldn't call up why he did it, and I'd never really thought of it in terms of game until I read information technology again recently.

Benvenuto Cellini's 1545 statuary sculpture of Perseus

Let's requite our retentivity a break and examine some of the 'facts' from the story:

• Perseus is the son of a king Acrisius and his wife Danae.
• Earlier he is born, Apollo tells Acrisius that one day his son will kill him, so he locks Danae in a tower to finish her having whatsoever children.
• Unfortunately Danae is visited past a god, and has a babe (whoops!)
• Acrisius is extremely annoyed, so he locks Danae and baby Perseus up in a trunk and puts it out to sea (equally you practice).
• Perseus and Danae wash up on Seriphus, an island ruled by Polydectes.
• Perseus grows up to become strong and pretty badass.
• Meanwhile Polydectes takes a shine to Danae and plots a way of getting Perseus out of the motion picture.
• In a fake wedding ceremony Polydectes demands that all guests bring a gift, knowing that Perseus cannot afford one. Instead, and to brand upwards for his lack of souvenir, Perseus offers to get anything that the king asks of him.
• Polydectes casually asks for the head of Medusa, pretty much condemning Perseus to death.

DUN, DUN, DER! Now already in the story, we've established two bad guys for Perseus to overthrow in lodge to save his mother. Nosotros've had Perseus growing upwards - cue preparation montage. We also have a seemingly impossible quest for him to complete. Let'southward continue:

• Perseus doesn't know what to do, so he starts exploring (yes, the game map has opened up at this indicate).
• He tin't find the Gorgon's layer, simply he does meet Hermes, who is in fact his half blood brother, equally their father is none other than Zeus (turns out Zeus is a bit of a man about town).
• After Perseus discovers this (through a dialogue puzzle no doubtfulness) Hermes gives him some pretty sweet flying sandles, and a badass sickle that some dude used to kill someone else. Nice work Perseus.
• Next up, after some more than exploration, he meets his sister Athena. She gives him a shield, which Perseus tin can employ to avoid Medusa's glare. She also gives him a hint of where to go next (basically the game map simply unlocked an actress bit).
• And then Perseus goes to Grenae where in that location are three women who share an eye between them. They know where some more swag is which tin help Perseus. He eventually figures out that he has to grab their eye to blackmail them into revealing where the next magic items are.
• He then visits the Nymphs in the north to get a cap of darkness and a magic bag....

Let's break for a second. At this point Perseus's inventory list is starting to fill up. He likewise knows where to become to defeat Medusa, but needs to figure out how to combine or utilize his items. Classic Chance game stuff right there.

• Then, to cut a long story short, he uses the greatcoat to become invisible and the sickle to chop off Medusa's head, before placing it in the magic pocketbook. He does all this using the shield so he doesn't get turned to stone. He also wakes Medusa'south sisters, who are pretty miffed, but is able to escape quickly using the winged sandles. Non bad at all!
• On his way back to Seriphus he has a bunch of adventures, some using his new Medusa's head item. These are a gamble for him to level up and do using the head. For example, he manages to rescue a woman called Andromeda by turning a monster to rock. She's understandably grateful and marries him in return.
• Before they get home, they make one final stop on Larisa, where Perseus takes role in a games tournament. He accidentally kills an erstwhile man past hitting him on the head with a discus - and estimate what - the old man is his dad, Acrisius - crazy correct? The prophecy was truthful! Anyway that's ane bad guy defeated!
• Finally they render home to discover that His mother had been taken as the King's handmaiden. WTF?! thinks Perseus and storms the palace. He tells all of his friends to shield their eyes, before whipping out Medusa'due south head and turning the King and everyone else into rock. Yesssss! Game Completed!

François Lemoyne, Perseus and Andromeda, 1723

Now Perseus and Andomeda go on to accept a skilful life. They also accept a son called Hercules, who later gets his ain part in a Disney moving-picture show. After their death, they are turned to stars so that they can forever be immortalised in the night sky - now there'south something to aim for! Joking bated though, there's a lot of really good stuff in the story; there are puzzles to solve and objects to discover, there are enough of bad guys and at that place'southward a cool game world to explore with lots of side missions to add variety.  The structure of this and a lot of stories from Greek mythology are really informative in terms of their pacing and excitement. (Odysseus and his render home from Troy is another good one to check out). Nosotros may non accept anything straight from these for Röki, but they're groovy to have in the background silently informing other ideas. Everything yous come with is probably subconsciously spawned from another thought or memory, so the more cool stuff you can cram into your brain, the better!

Until adjacent time,

Tom & Alex

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Source: https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/blog/2017/8/4/inspiration-corner-greek-mythology