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Bonsoir,
On est sur Twitch avec #Deedlit pour parler du #j2s #DiceThrone
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Demain soir, cela vous dit que l'on parle du #j2s #DiceThrone ?
À partir de 21 h, je serai accompagné de la « spécialiste internationale du monde régional » : #Deedlit 😍
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On fera une critique du jeu et on parlera bien sûr de son parcours avec ce jeu 😉

For people who regularly stumble on my blog, you guys must be familiar already with my obsession with anime elves. Long-time anime watchers must have known this one, the classic and well-loved Record of Lodoss War, which features an elven character, Deedlit. Little did I know, there’s a game revolving around her, Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth.

This game is a 2D platformer with sprinkles of action and puzzles. You play as Deedlit, who got suddenly teleported into a labyrinth. Immediately, we encounter the main villain of the anime, Karla. After a few dialogues, we are free to explore the massive labyrinth.

A Metroidvania Experience

Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth intro

Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth is described as a metroidvania game. At first, the preview on its steam page reminds me of games like Hollow Knight.

Admittedly, I am more familiar with 2D platformers like Metal Slug or Mario. Those games are more linear and straight forward. However, metroidvania-style games often have a wide and elaborate map to explore.

It’s quite a big labyrinth

It made me think, is metroidvania the predecessor to 3D open world? Look at my current progression, I suspect there are more locations and zones to discover. I think its backtracking feature is a pretty neat core in metroidvania. It reminded me of CARRION, a small horror game that I really like with the same gist.

We start out with the weaker cannon fodder enemies. But overtime, we meet other stronger enemies, and the bosses. Oh, the bosses. Speaking of which, let’s go over the game’s combat.

Interesting And Challenging Combat

Got this screen too many times

I guess there is no hiding it, I suck at platforming games. Oh man, the amount of times I made Deedlit curls up and dies after failing to avoid enemy attacks.

In hindsight, the enemies’ attack patterns are quite obvious and predictable. But, when it comes to the bosses, I struggle quite a lot. Nerf time? Haha no. This kind of games is more rewarding when we actually defeat the enemy after multiple attempts.

Combat Control And Enemies To Defeat

One of the enemies in the labyrinth, a minotaur

Once I got the hang of it, the combat control is actually very intuitive. However, I must recommend you to change the control input to the ones you’re most comfortable. Don’t stick to the default control.

The enemy variety is quite diverse, in my opinion. There is no boring floor to fight through. From lowly wolves, and imps, deadly man-eating plants (Laios would love this one), to the tricky shadow stalker.

After a bit of browsing, there are 68 types of enemies. I haven’t even encountered them all. Each of them has a weakness and immunity to certain attack types, we’ll get into that later.

Carving Your Way Through The Enemies With An Arsenal Of Weaponry

I was stuck at this boss for a while

This game will gradually introduce you to more weaponry. The most basic attack is the melee, of course. Upgrading melee weapons is a must in this game.

At first, we can scavenge from low-level enemies like the imps and goblins. Later, there is quite the wardrobe of options once we meet Ghim, who is the weapon seller in this game. Too bad I can’t always use Deedlit’s iconic rapier.

On top of that, later on, the game gives us access to a bow, which we can use as a long range attack or to solve puzzles. However, I think the game’s magic system deserves the spotlight.

Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth And Spirit Magic

Switiching to your Salamander is faster than reloading your Sylph.

We are no stranger to elemental attacks in games, whether they’re magic spells or elemental weapons. Similarly, Record of Lodoss War – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth has spirit magic.

As Deedlit, you’ll encounter various spirits and take them with you. I found switching the spirit type mid-battle is difficult at first. But, once I got used to it, there are perks that’s maybe the core of this game.

You see, the enemies will attack with certain types of element. If we match their attack with the spirit we currently have, we take zero damage and gain mana instead.

Also, we can level up a spirit by defeating enemies with another spirit. Once, the idle spirit gets to level 3, simply switching to it will regain our health bar. So, it’s possible to do a no-death run, though I imagine it will be hard.

A Must-Try for Elf and Fantasy Fans

Hey! It’s Pirotess

Again, I can’t emphasize enough how I love gushing about elves. The first time I watched Record of Lodoss War anime was a blast. And, Deedlit quickly grabbed my attention as she is a strong and well-written female character.

Although metroidvania isn’t my comfort zone, I found myself to be enjoying this game nonetheless. Certainly, it’s a breath of fresh air to my steam library, which is full of management and colony games.

If you’re a fan of elves in anime, like me, or a fantasy fan in general. I highly suggest you watch Record of Lodoss War and play Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth.

https://seinenrider.com/2024/07/08/trying-out-record-of-lodoss-war-deedlit-in-wonder-labyrinth/

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Record of Lodoss War Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth

Recently, I’ve been catching up on Dungeon Meshi, and I’ve been entertained by how Marcille reacts to Laios’ dietary ideas in the dungeon. Her panicky and rather frantic personality is so opposite of Frieren. As if it’s not apparent enough, each of them has their own quirks.

Frieren loves weird magic spells, procrastinate almost everything for months, and enjoy her own company. So much so, she was oblivious to Himmel’s attention years ago when they were in an adventuring party together. However, Frieren is still at least more sociable than Elda from Otaku Elf.

If we think about it, the elves in recent anime are far from the typical fantasy elves. Elves, in these past few seasons, have been receiving a new-found love in the community. Where the usual elves of fantasy world are often mystical, sacred, or even evilish in nature, what we’ve gotten so far are some of the quirkiest elves ever.

In anime and western media, they do have a bit of difference. I think anime elves are more playful compared to the other. This is true even in older anime. I finished watching Record of Lodoss War (the 1990 one) a few weeks ago, and in that anime there is the best anime elf so far, Deedlit. To me, she shows the best of a character with a charming personality blended in the typical elven myths and stories.

How Elves Are Usually Depicted Anyway?

Deedlit by Yutaka Izubuchi

Elves have been associated to mystical tropes since the earliest of its depiction in literature. As I was doing the research for this, what tickled me is that elves were thought to be the possible cause of a sudden twitching in an old English medical text.

The elves like we know today might be closer to those in Norse mythology. They even have terms for two contrasting type of elves, Dökkálfar (Dark Elves) and Ljósálfar (Light Elves). Just like in Record of Lodoss War with Deedlit who is a high elf, and Pirotess who is a dark elf.

Of course, modern media like anime takes inspiration from myths and folklore. But, some are more faithful to the olden legends, so to speak. For example, Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel in LOTR pretty much exudes the expected sacredness and beauty a traditional elf would have.

Tsundere Elf from Isekai Ojisan

However, anime is more playful with their idea of elves. There are no shortage of elves with the typical anime tropes like the tsundere. Take Elga from Isekai Ojisan for instance. She’s a tsundere, but with her full name Suzailgiererzegalnelvzegilreagranzelga Elga, there is a bit of “classic mythical elf” trope in her.

Plus, she wields ancient artifact armor and weapon. Still, when it comes to today’s elves, they’re just so different from those who preceded them. Let me explain for a bit.

Today’s Elves Are Way More Relatable

Now this is “literally me!”

Now, elves feel more like a group of people we could stumble upon anywhere, in random bars, perhaps. If anything, they are more relatable than ever. We might admire elves like Deedlit and Galadriel, but I see less way we can say, “she’s just like me” in them.

Some people are picky eaters, some are introverts who enjoy their figurines. Some would just hyperfixate on their hobby and by the time they “wake up” they’re already sixty, so are our elves in these anime I’ve mentioned.

Marcille from Dungeon Meshi

Frieren, Marcille, and Elda are much more relatable. If we had to eat monster meat, of course, we would have the same reactions as Marcille’s. If we have lived for a thousand years, of course, we’d think of time differently, like Frieren. And for some people, spending the day the way Elda does, staying inside and not meeting anyone, sound like heaven.

What does raising their relatability do to elves? Does it simply make them more captivating to the audience? Are we taking advantage from the parasocial fans who get overly attached to the characters? Not really, in my humble opinion, making these elves more relatable means highlighting very human stories.

Humanizing The Long Ears Folk

Twelve more hours, please.

The big thing with relatability is what kind of audience the anime is trying to bring in. We don’t live in a fantasy world, so of course, all the relatable problems will be humans problem.

Frieren touches themes of grief, death, and regret. Something heavy, yet every one of us will or have experienced them at one point in our lives. Despite that, this anime lightheartedly shows the usual daily life of hers. It adds to the relatability, after all.

By showing her not able to wake up early, fumbling the best man to ever lived, really makes her feels very human. After all, those are common issues that we have as regular people. Even if she’s supposed to be a thousand years old great mage, there is an imperfect side of her that we can all see, relate, and empathize.

Losing The Mythical Aura

If you tell people who don’t watch anime that this stuck-in-a-mimic-elf is the world’s savior, they’ll look at you weird.

There is one downside in twisting the usual elf trope. In old stories, we mostly see them shrouded in a mythical aura. Take Skyrim for example, the high elves are the most attuned with magic, thus the Thalmor often see themselves to be superior to others. The dunmer, or dark elves, have to live with a curse after the event of Oblivion. And, the wood elves are a tribe of ritualistic cannibalism lorewise. There is so much lore to discover behind the elves of Tamriel.

There is something creepy yet enticing in each type of elves in Skyrim. The feeling that I get from them is like when I first learned about the lore of Predator and the blooding ritual, especially when it comes to the wood elves. It’s something that lacks or even outright nonexistent with the relatable elves.

Maybe, this is an inevitable trade-off. When we strip the myth out of fantasy characters, they’ll appear as the human who wrote them. If there is an anime that showcases the daily life of a mythical elf, the elf would have extremely different lifestyle and culture, rendering them to sound out of touch from humanities.

https://seinenrider.com/2024/02/17/the-elves-in-todays-anime/

#Anime #animeTropes #Deedlit #DungeonMeshi #Elf #fantasy #Frieren #OtakuElf #RecordOfLodossWar #TropesInAnime

#Deedlit from #RecordOfLodossWar is kind of the archetype for a lot of #anime #fantasy #elves who came after. I like her character design for the most part but not the biggest fan of her outsized armored shoulder pads... She is very #pretty though.

The final part our Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth livestream is now on YouTube. We push toward the end and fight a lot of dragons. But is Deedlit's tale really over? #RecordofLodossWar #Deedlit https://youtu.be/uFoERXGWKuw

Part 1 our Drew's livestream of Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth is now on YouTube. Everyone's favorite fantasy elf gets her own Metroidvania style game. #RecordOfLodossWar #Deedlit https://youtu.be/RRETrgTZ-Ww

[#Analisis #Videojuego] Nos adentramos en el laberinto de #Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, distribuido por @SelectaPlay y desarrollado por @ladybug_happy6

"... algo arcaico en opciones de combate, pero que deja buen sabor de boca..." por @convdebizcocho

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