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@100Servings8 ай бұрын
I still say you should take a look at Orgone energy, after the Orgone Ghost demons in the original Devil Summoner. It's an interesting topic of pseudoscience that I think your audience may like. Mister Tachyon did an episode of his show on the subject if you need a reference.
@KrankuSama8 ай бұрын
HP Lovecraft would have loved the Megami Tensei wiki because it's very efficient at categorising races.
@BlankPageEmperor13348 ай бұрын
I HATE HOW CORRECT THIS IS
@tuckernutter8 ай бұрын
Shiiiit
@changvasejarik628 ай бұрын
Wonder what he would have thought of morgana.
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
This is so true
@klaus.sfc01official308 ай бұрын
@@changvasejarik62 demon spawn just a demon spawn worse than lucifer worse than the worst being in any religion ever. Morgana telling you to go to sleep is the worst suffering that can be unleashed upon a human being.
@windego648 ай бұрын
The way he added Sonichu so casually 😭
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
Shoutout to horrors beyond mortal comprehension
@giovanniprovost8 ай бұрын
Chris Chan truly is the prophet of the GREAT YELLOW ONE. @@Tony4You
@Fermin-hw5pd8 ай бұрын
Tony has been spicing the editing on his videos lately, I love it xd
@SecretRareJinzo18 ай бұрын
@@Tony4YouPlease, make a video about my first two videos. Anyway, the name of channel is called, "Joe Titanium!!" I created a ORIGINAL superhero and a ORIGINAL super heroine, who can one-shot all of the gods of H.P Lovecraft. This IDEA has NEVER been done BEFORE!!
@lhfirex8 ай бұрын
The Kaneko design sure is something. Maybe he drew it like that because he didn't want to tip anyone off about belonging to the cult of Cthulhu.
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
This explains so much...
@Abd0_258 ай бұрын
He didn't want to "tip"...
@maskedsaiyan17388 ай бұрын
HP Lovecraft was a master at existential horror. I want Cthulhu or Azathoth for Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance.
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
Sadly I don't think they have the guts to make Cthulhu in to a 3D model considering the contents lol
@anders63268 ай бұрын
Azathoth in Royal was pretty tight. They even evolved into the perfect man, too.
@rubenjacobs3348 ай бұрын
They could have Doi come up with a new design like he did for Artemis.@@Tony4You
@Mitarari8 ай бұрын
Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't play P5/P5R yet.
@costelinha18678 ай бұрын
@@Tony4You Couldn't they just... make another design? Cthulhu wouldn't be the first, nor only demon in SMT to have multiple different designs.
@mariofan1058 ай бұрын
Need that Tony audio Book
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
One day I want to do audiobooks, it's a dream of mine!
@SeruraRenge117 ай бұрын
Not that many of Lovecraft's protagonists actually go insane. What usually happens is they learn about something that completely shatters their conception of the world from the perspective of a white dude living in 1920's New England, and they just become really scared and paranoid about what might be out there. It's not so much that gaining forbidden knowledge drives you crazy, it just makes you wish you never learned about it. It's like if you discovered that Hell is real, but Heaven isn't, and that we all go there when we die. You'd wish that you had never learned that and feel utterly powerless to do anything about it. And it should be noted that everyone else sees you as crazy, but in your own mind you're completely lucid and rational in your thoughts. Lovecraft always explained what was going on in excrutiating detail, there's a story where Yog-Sothoth just outright talks to the main character and tells him what's going on. Nyarlathotep plainly states how he's been roaming around human society for millenia fucking with people basically just for his own amusement. Threats in his stories were never unknowable, and the fact of the matter is NOT knowing is infinitely less scary and less dangerous for someone living in that setting. Do you know what happens to the plucky adventurer who shoots a Deep One, has no idea what the fuck is going on, and leaves thinking he did his job? He goes home and nothing bad happens to him, he's unironically too stupid for all this cosmic shit to get to him. The researcher with him understands that the monster represents some utterly insane shit and loses his mind, being forcefully committed to an asylum as he's become a gibbering madman trying to make people understand the horrors that mortal minds fear comprehending and that we're all fools for thinking reality is what we claim it is. There's not really such a thing as "the unknowable", there can just be motivations that you can't understand how they logically reached that conclusion. When Lovecraft made something "unknowable", he wasn't saying we CAN'T understanding it, but rather we SHOULDN'T because it's so horrific that to understand such a truth brings one to madness. The entire point of cosmic horror is to show out pointless our existence is in the grand scheme of the universe and we could all be consumed by a giant space squid tomorrow with it just viewing us as another mouthful on his fork.
@kurenian8 ай бұрын
Great video! Would like to see the other Old Ones in SMT biographed
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
I hope to cover more for sure!
@RigalicReign8 ай бұрын
The first thing I think of when I hear HP Lovecraft is his cat, it had a funny name. I would like to pet it. Meme aside tho I think Cthulhu has become incredibly overhyped but by that same token being in the Narylethotep fan is becoming about as overhyped these days.
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
Nyarlethotep clears Cthulu but in terms of name recognition it is no contest
@masterseal04188 ай бұрын
If you're not black, don't mention it by name only.
@greasysmith31508 ай бұрын
I am black and i thibk you should say it. Shout it!
@miso.19938 ай бұрын
@@greasysmith3150yeah lol if they are bold enough to say that shit. im black too and i hope they dont
@DronesOverTheMoon8 ай бұрын
@@masterseal0418🥷Man
@NotCatchy8 ай бұрын
Honestly the Lovecraft entities are some of my favorite SMT designs.
@abekvt8 ай бұрын
fr they got drip
@Championoko8 ай бұрын
Oh nooooooooo when you know the design before watching the video!
@ocelot-sensei43848 ай бұрын
I had a little brainstorming session few days ago where I came up with a hypothetical setting for Shin Megami Tensei spin-off or perhaps even a numbered title or sequel where alongside Law, Chaos and Neutral there would be a fourth one dubbed "Void", which is represented by all kinds of Lovecraftian and Cosmic abominations hellbent on transforming reality itself into their own unfathomable image where not even gods or demons matter to them, unknowingly led by Azatoth, the one whose dream the reality itself is alongside Lucifer, YHWH and even the Great Will or Axiom as it's also known as are. The Law and Chaos alignment factions are at such a critical point where even they have to form a temporary alliance to oppose the Void faction as it alone is much more powerful than neither on their own. The main character of course can join this new alignment and in its ending, transcende into a conscious level of a Cosmic Abomination where no Earthly needs nor wants matter any longer. Makes a tyrant like YHWH seem like a bargain at that point, but this of course comes down to philosophical preference; are you able to sacrifice everything you've cherished and understood till that point for something that may lead to a new way of perceiving the entirety of reality itself.
@anders63268 ай бұрын
That’s one hell of a pitch - I love it! We would’ve actually gotten a great antagonist in Nyarly had Atlus chosen to remake the correct Persona game. But naw, we just got depressed high school simulator with no engaging plot for 1/3 of the game, instead. Hopefully, we get a new mature game with adults in the near future. Poor Baofu. ._.
@zeitcrystal44038 ай бұрын
The Dx2 story event for Cthulhu is really cool imo. The protag and two others get attacked in their dreams and the protag kinda goes crazy.
@darklordliam7 ай бұрын
And it ends with Cthulhu actually catching the protagonist, also seemingly letting us go (as if Cthulhu understood our role in that game’s approaching apocalypse) One of the better event storylines of that game, along with the Demiurge and Moloch stories.
@alucard002x7 ай бұрын
Great summary from The Cthulhus mythos, love Tony's thoughts about the book and how out of nowhere this little guy with a very noticeable stinger appears. Talk about whiplash! Anyways, Tony I think a Nyarlathotep video is mandatory at this point... Gonna be hype for sure.
@jasonblundelldobebussing8 ай бұрын
Cthulhu is uncle grandpa from 3rd Подъезда, located at Пушкина Street, Бабушкина House, 8.
@Fermin-hw5pd8 ай бұрын
Uncle Grandpa is Cthulu's far relative
@100Servings8 ай бұрын
This was a great one Tony! You covered so much, but still left plenty for fans to research on their own. I also appreciate that you focused on the monster, and not Lovecraft himself. He's become rather controversial in the modern day, but we're not here to talk about that. When I was in the Navy, my primary job was basically oceanography, which in the modern day meant I did very little oceanography and a lot of boarding operations. Regardless, we gather data all over the world as our ships go about, usually related to temperatures and depths. I read years ago that a Navy ship got strange readings while passing over the supposed location of R'lyeh. I've never looked into it more, but perhaps I should. Also, I still love the graffiti from the book Needful Things by Stephen King. Painted on a wall in spray paint is "Yog-Sothoth Rules", named after Cthulhu's grandfather. There's about a thousand questions about who made it and how it got there, but since Stephen King is a hack, he offered no explanation. Keep up the good work! I liked your religion seminar in KHC's Linda3 video. You just can't help yourself...
@gustavocolomaoporto20558 ай бұрын
i love hp Lovecraft, i wish horrors beyond my comprehension where real
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
One day we will see them, I believe!
@tinybee77808 ай бұрын
The unique designs that H.P. Lovecraft managed to come up with is definitely one of my favorite things about the mythos, especially those inspired from the creatures of the deep ocean. I really hope we get to see Soejima's interpretations once they decide to incorporate more H.P. Loveraft creatures or gods, or themes in SMT.
@ahmedfalahy93378 ай бұрын
There is a dungeon crawler RPG called *The Lost Child* featuring The Old Ones, including Cthulhu and the others, as the main bosses Design is very interesting, look it up when you have the chance
@LassBisharp7 ай бұрын
Can you do a video on Cthulu's brother? The King in Yellow himself? Hastur?
@EinSilverRose7 ай бұрын
Cthulhu and the other gods don't immediately destroy a human if the person sees them. In some of Lovecraft's works a human does indeed see the true form of a god and they survive. It's really only a matter of whether or not can handle seeing such a colossal and strange looking being. Someone has even seen Azathoth and was only bed ridden in a hospital for a few days. Another example is how Nyarlohotep has a familiar who acts as his Earthly avatar and the only way to banish it is for someone to see Nyarlohotep's true form and not go insane which has been done a few times within the Lovecraft works.
@Stray_waif8 ай бұрын
Banger video as always!!!
@klaus.sfc01official308 ай бұрын
Today i learned that cthulhu is in SMT because of course it is :) Can i just state how SMT manages to make every religion work at the same time without disregarding anything? I just love that about this series.
@rexailos4758 ай бұрын
I did not watch the video yet but I have a feeling it's gonna be a hit in terms of views. Keep it up!
@stuntmankelp31988 ай бұрын
Tony? For me? (I think this every upload and it never gets old)
@bubbletea_8 ай бұрын
looks like villgax from ben 10, although he was pretty intimidating (in the original series at least).
@PyrZero728 ай бұрын
As a huge Lovecraft fan I look forward to you covering the other outer gods and great old ones.
@angwelio8 ай бұрын
If sonichu and Cthulhu got into a fight Which one is the most incomprehensible being for the human mind
@EhurtAfy8 ай бұрын
Great video, also SMT V Vengeance hype 😁
@JackieJKENVtuber7 ай бұрын
Please make a video on the gods and demons of Catherine!
@ANIpJs3 ай бұрын
I would love for mainline SMT to do more with Lovecraft. It would be an interesting wrinkle to add into the stories.
@harryhewson23824 күн бұрын
Oh man, that whole third chapter is lifted straight from The Boats of the Glen Carrig by Hodgson. No wonder he used it as inspiration for Cthulhu
@messmass25733 ай бұрын
I just saw IX and Sonichu in the same video. I've never felt the need to bash my head into a nearby wall for just a small chance of wiping that imagery.
@kakizakichannel8 ай бұрын
"When HP Lovecraft's name is said, the first thing you think of is probably Cthulhu" Haha....
@czms9227 ай бұрын
Hp Lovecraft when he runs into XP HATECRAFT
@fireorb28 ай бұрын
I think it's amazing that such a guy who had an emotionally depressive life, in addition to a deep fear of the ocean, created something that basically was true to his own personal fears and anxieties.
@boyyladd7 ай бұрын
Now I need a video covering Nyarlathotep :)))
@alang.bandala88635 ай бұрын
Ironic, a great old one powerful enough to drive to madness everyman... its slayed by a boat
@grandsome17 ай бұрын
To be fair Cthulhu looking grotesque is pretty much on brand you're suppose to say WTF when you see a Old One...then be afraid and then lose your mind.
@Lilfoofoopuffs8 ай бұрын
Teehee you said dripping 3:27
@dragowolfraven38068 ай бұрын
H.P Lovecraft would love the SMT series. I have a book full of his stories. Waiting for SMT V: Vengeance.
@cgcurctct8ccottccricorc8rc867 ай бұрын
Hp lovecraft characters losin their mind bcuz they saw a big fish
@giovanniprovost8 ай бұрын
Can you please explain Scathach mythology and her relationship to the other dieties in that area of the IRL world? Love me some floaty thigh witch. :)
@Fermin-hw5pd8 ай бұрын
Explain every irish mitology in 1 video Tony, we dare you
@johanandersson82528 ай бұрын
A big squiddly boy 🦑
@AlonzoTompkins3 ай бұрын
Wish they’d use Lovecraft more in the games.
@BlankPageEmperor13348 ай бұрын
TONY 4 MY PERSONAL INTERESTS TONY FINALLY EXAMINES /MY/ PERSONAL BELIEFS IN A REASONABLE, ACADEMIC, AND SYMPATHETIC MANNER *capslock off* but I am definitely very sorry about H.P. Lovecraft. You know why.
@nahidahamed17428 ай бұрын
finally some HP Lore
@adidassmith67563 ай бұрын
Hp lovecraft is one of my favorite franchise just under creepy pastas and that's just under the scp foundation
@Vailsiren8 ай бұрын
man, watching this video is like watching a masteful shitpost with the funkopop, sonichu, honkai star rail's nihility Aeon (IX), and of course Lovecraft's Cat... well done Tony4You, very based
@diavolo59978 ай бұрын
I would love to see an actual SMT game where the typical forces of chaos are replaced with the gods of Lovecraft such as in The Lost Child.
@absoul1128 ай бұрын
So I wasn’t seeing things, and that was a phallus in the design.
@mps512978 ай бұрын
"The first thing you think of when it comes to Lovecraft is probably Cthulhu" Nah it's what he named his cat for sure 😂
@someguy48528 ай бұрын
Does Chathulu only appear in Dx2?
@AlonzoTompkins6 ай бұрын
Still one of my favorite lesser used mythologies in SMT. Not enough love for the cosmic horrors in games.
@jasonblundelldobebussing8 ай бұрын
Tony4Cthulussy
@dimis_plays7 ай бұрын
I had to do a double take when I saw sonichu show up
@ancaryvan4811Ай бұрын
🧐 Paust at 11:38 !!!
@magnawaves8 ай бұрын
Uhhhh biased much Tony? I don't see you digging up any old works with this much DEPTH about mara or imp! Lovecraft? More like you love crafting tall tales to buff up your videos! (I'm playing Tony please don't sacrifice me fr fr no cap)
@TheGajknight8 ай бұрын
Everyone always asks who is Cthulhu but no-one ever asks how is Cthulhu. 😢
@deviantknight70093 ай бұрын
weiner octopus could go "head" to "head' with Mara :D
@jasonblundelldobebussing8 ай бұрын
Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada - vs. Cthulhu in SMT when? 😂
@scientistservant8 ай бұрын
I want Sonichu in SMT
@thekidnexttome18 ай бұрын
Tony4Youlhu
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
Shoutout great old ones!
@JahleelSingh8 ай бұрын
Do not look up HP's cat's name!!
@natenamaxisbored8 ай бұрын
Sorry man ama huge SMT fan, but when I hear Chutulu I think South Park 😂
@TheStrongestLaPaz8 ай бұрын
Shin Megami Tensei/Persona is temporary. Lovecraft is Eternal.
@anungunrama88828 ай бұрын
Boat >
@Se7enBeatleofDoom8 ай бұрын
Japanese game devs tend to get Lovecraft more than Western devs.
@Alexander-q9h6pАй бұрын
Grey white shark is the deadliest sea creature this is fake megaladon might be real there is a small chance though if your hear kracken this thing and you know what I mean the big sea monsters that don’t seam real
@ssjsylver8 ай бұрын
As I'm watching this the video has 666 likes.... yeah that makes sense
@bullblood_fan178 ай бұрын
they should add lovecraft's cat as a new demon in smt vengeance, it had a nice little name
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
Lovecraft sure had a way with names
@jasonblundelldobebussing8 ай бұрын
Cthulhu is the original, immortal name of the first cat of Lovecraft. Do you know his cat's REAL, MORTAL name? 😂
@xanderevert-l9x3 ай бұрын
Y’all believe this stuff?
@megansturino8 ай бұрын
Cthulhu? more like Cthu-you
@Barquevious_Jackson8 ай бұрын
Lovecraft is so mid. He has to be the most overrated author of all time.
@BlankPageEmperor13348 ай бұрын
He would agree with you lol
@Tony4You8 ай бұрын
Kinda agree to an extent, but his monsters sure are interesting
@kakizakichannel8 ай бұрын
I would argue the monsters are the least interesting part of Lovecraft
@costelinha18678 ай бұрын
@@BlankPageEmperor1334 to be fair, from my experience, pretty much every author/artist under the sun is extremely insecure about their work so.... yeah, probably...
@dantemustdie008 ай бұрын
I'm hoping Doi can do hom justice with a proper redesign, cause yeah Kaneko's version ij u st looks like something different