Hello friends! I'll take a wolf to hydrate!
Since I've only played Dark Souls 3 and Only Wolves, I don't know if alcohol is an important inheritance of the Soul Lineage, but the drinking between the Onion Knight and the Lord of Ashes does create a classic story in the game.
In "Only Wolves", the types of wine have also been further expanded.
In Japan's Sengoku period, which was biased toward the "real world", drinks were probably an excellent means for those who were originally silent to be able to speak more.
"Spit out the truth after drinking", this statement is not false.
In "Only Wolves", which focuses on "fragmented narrative", almost every paragraph of text has substantial value in the game.
In this article, we will talk about what kind of story is hidden behind the drinks when the protagonist Wolf drinks with three friends.
And what these plots do for the whole story.
In the course of the game, the plot must theoretically be triggered
The story of the first toast to the three characters
One is the Buddha carver
Theoretically, when the dragon cough was cured for the first time and the Buddhist carver recovered, Yongzhen would give the wolf a bottle of "reed wine" and let the wolf give it to the Buddhist carver as a "tea" to celebrate his recovery. If we give wine to Yongzhen, we will be considered very strange people by Yongzhen.
Here, I suspect that perhaps "ninjas" have "prohibition" ordinances in informal settings. Therefore, the Buddhist carver and Yongzhen will tacitly call "wine" "tea".
Usually, this is the first "toast" session in the game, and this story also briefly tells the relationship between Daoxuan, Yongzhen, and the Buddha Sculptor, and why the Ninja Hand was created, further deepening the connection between Yongzhen and the protagonist, and putting a question mark on the potential relationship between Yongzhen and the Buddhist sculptor.
The corresponding plot afterwards is the reason for the Buddha's carving master's broken arm, paving the way for the appearance of Dao shun, the brother of the medicine master Yongzhen, and the relationship between Chang Ruoshui and Xiang Ichiro is further led by Daoshun.
This plot plays a role in leading the entire branch plot of the game in the game.
The second is the name of the reed
After defeating Ichiro for the first time, The Wolf needs to see Rei in order to advance to the next step. Seeing Reed's heart, it is necessary to first trigger the event that tengu commissioned the wolf to kill the rat and granted the "Reed celebrity".
"Wolf" is the name given to the wolf by the tengu.
It is also through the name "only wolf" that the wolf finds that he has already had a relationship with Reed.
This bold old man would give the wolf a bottle of his favorite turbid wine at this meeting, but the wolf returned it to Yixin, which made Yixin think that the young man in front of him was quite interesting.
In this conversation, the two talked about the special move of "Rei Nashi ichiro", "Ba Zhi Lei".
This leads to Ba, a yoga beauty warrior who has a relationship with genomiya, in which dance-like sword techniques, strange moves, and deep eyes as deep as water depict her characteristics.
After the middle period, the story of "Ba and Zhang" in the story line of "Ba and Zhang" and the existence of "Gennoya" were further paved.
The Buddhist carver's "reed wine" and the "turbid wine" of the heart all play an important role in opening the next chapter of the story. This is why the game will intersperse these two "wine giving" plots in the two main plots.
The third is eternal truth
There is a very deep relationship between Yongzhen and the wolf. But this relationship was not a friendship until the wolf really knew Yongzhen.
Yongzhen is only for the sake of one heart, to complete the tasks he has given. And the wolf only used Yongzhen as a help to save the Son of God.
The wolf can feel the sword qi on Yongzhen's body, which is manifested in two places in the story, one of which is that when Ichiro is defeated, the wolf makes a defensive posture for the first time.
At this time, the wolf did not know what Yongzhen's intention was, whether he wanted to use the wolf to defeat Shinichiro, and then attack him again, from which to obtain the benefit of the fisherman.
The second time, when the wolf gave Yongzhen "turbid wine", when the wolf asked who Yongzhen's swordplay teacher was, he also showed the sword qi emitted by Yongzhen's body, not like just the degree of hobby.
Among the three, only a toast to Yongzhen is a follow-up plot, and it can be said that after the wolf confirms his alliance with Yongzhen, he can do things.
The summary of the story behind the drink and the reciprocal care between the story
There are a total of 4 kinds of drinks in the game, and the drinks also have a certain directionality to the content of the characters.
Because of the turbid wine for the reed name of a beloved. Therefore, the content of the turbid wine is related to Ichishin himself.
Ape wine and Buddhist carvers are very close, so when you give ape wine to any one of the three people, what they discuss is related to the Buddha carver.
The specific content is briefly summarized as follows:
Because in the game, the narrative given by the text is neutral and objective.
However, the content spoken in the mouth of the character may be due to the deviation of his own memory and the angle of narrating the event, due to his subjective emotions, resulting in the lack of information (or thinking about different contents through his own perspective).
Therefore, these four drinks correspond to the stories in the mouths of the three characters, and several of them take care of each other. In this way, a plot is completed through the perspectives of different people.
First care
For example, the ape wine plot of Reed's one heart and the turbid wine plot of the Buddha's carver state the fact that Reed's one-hearted severing of the Buddha's carving master's arm through two angles, blocking his "cultivation".
When Yongzhen drank turbid wine, he stated that he had studied under Reed and practiced swordplay in order to slay ghosts.
This text not only paved the way for the end of the wolf Shuluo, Yongzhen against the only wolf, but also paved the way for Yongzhen to discuss with the Buddhist carver in the future whether he needed to cut him with a knife when he was cultivating, in order to repay the kindness he had once done. Otherwise, these two plots will appear slightly prominent in their respective ways.
At the same time, when drinking ape wine, the mention of the shadow of Shuluo in the eyes of a wolf also points in two directions, one of which is the "shuluo" of the wolf. The second was that after killing the righteous father and choosing to break the route of never dying, the shadow of Shu luo in his eyes faded.
Second care
Yongzhen Ape Wine, along with the Buddha's Sculptor's Dragon Spring, from their respective perspectives, tells the story of the Buddha's sculptor who found and adopted Yongzhen on the battlefield. Only from a narrative point of view, Yongzhen watched the Buddha sculpter eating group, his heart was full of resentment, and his face was expressionless.
The Buddhist carver found that the little girl looked at her own meal ball and felt that it was troublesome, so he shared the rice ball with Yongzhen.
However, according to the meaning of the wine, the important person in the heart of the Buddhist carver is Yongzhen, and the important person in Yongzhen's heart is Shinichiro. Such a structure makes people feel that the Buddhist carver and Yongzhen are somewhat similar to the father-daughter relationship in reality.
The father raised his daughter, and the daughter is the father's heart.
Although the father's position in the daughter's heart is important, the daughter cannot accompany her father for a lifetime.
Third care
The Ryusen sake feast event mentioned by Reina Ichijin, and The scene of Ichirō Seiichiro practicing his sword, sneaking out quietly during the event. This is the respective memories of Rei's Ichishin and Yongzhen, evoked by Ryuzumi.
In the previous article, I wrote in detail that Yongzhen's swordplay is very similar to Thatoichiro's in the "Forbidden Drug Spike", and the starting style of "Four Consecutive Chops" is quite similar to The starting style of Shōichiro's "Flying Floating Boat".
Perhaps a long time ago, Yongzhen looked at the teenager who wanted to protect the name of the reed and had a secret feeling.
It's just a later story that pulls the two people farther and farther apart. In the story, Yongzhen is a doctor who only wants to save people. However, in order to win, Shinichiro actually experimented with people and used a crooked brain that changed into water.
And for the reed who is about to die, it is right and wrong, and it has long been drifting with the wind. His most memorable days were when he drank with the reeds.
When the wolf gave Reed a heart of Reed wine, he mentioned "reed's thieves", and the name "thief of the country" was originally despicable to outsiders, but along the way, the people the wolf met, whether it was the ghost shape department or the Hirata samurai three years ago, were proud that they had participated in the "war of the country".
Yixin, the initiator of the war of the pirate state, gave the wolf the answer to the "robber country".
The so-called pirate country is nothing more than the "stigmatization" of the reeds defending their land, but this group of people who are despised by the inner government have defended the land of the reeds through their own strength! This is something to be proud of.
The form of crisis mentioned in Ichigo's mouth hints at the subsequent invasion of Rei by the Uchiha.
Important plot
Of the three characters, I think each of them has a very important bottle of wine that gives us a very important "message."
I will analyze the information given to these three bottles of wine one by one.
Rei name Ichishin Dragon Spring Sake
After drinking Longquan wine, Reed will mention those who were once reeds. It contains the Phantom Butterfly, Dao Xuan, the Ghost Shape Department, and the Owl (the wolf's righteous father).
Dao Xuan holds a wine glass in one hand and fiddles with the ninja hand with the other, which actually corresponds to the plot of the Buddhist carver Rei Ming wine, when the Buddhist carver has been cut off by Rei Ming yixin, and Yongzhen shouts, asking Dao Xuan to make ninja hand for the Buddha carver.
The Phantom Butterfly's use of illusion to steal wine hints at the event that the Phantom Butterfly steals the "cherry dew" or wants to use the Son of God to make him immortal.
The Ghost Shaped Department drinks alcohol and also holds the cross gun in his hand (this gun has been transformed by the Aisle Genki when meeting the wolf), which actually corresponds to the plot of the "Ten Characters" of Tamura's main meal to the ghost-shaped department with the broken spear. This shows the treasure of the Ghost Shape Department for the gifts given by yixin. It also shows the strength of Tamura's main meal from the side.
Even more for the final armageddon, Yixin took out the Ten Words of Tamura to make a preparation. Show that this is a precious weapon of god.
The final evaluation of the owl is a fool with a false appearance.
This may just show that the owl is loyal on the outside and cunning on the inside.
And the evaluation of his fool shows that he is now old, and he can't let go of his reputation and longer life.
Putting the few remaining lives on the pursuit of those nihilistic things, because the life of one heart is already very complete, and the single heart is willing to give up "immortality" and accept the normal life, old age, illness and death of human beings, in the eyes of one heart, the insidiousness and persistence of the owl are like fools.
Eternal reed wine
In the story told by Yongzhen Reed Wine, many players point to this story to the "Buddha Carver".
But I think the story that Yongzhen tells about "Reed Wine" should point to the "wolf".
First of all, this story is divided into three paragraphs, the first paragraph is Yongzhen telling that "wine" is very delicious, wine can be disinfected, and when I was a child, I hated the taste of wine.
In the second paragraph, it is recounted that in the past, in order to help his father Daoxuan, he and his brothers competed to heal the wounded, and there were many knife and arrow wounds in this world.
The third paragraph is the troublesome patient—a ninja who encounters a taciturn ninja who seems to have nothing to do with his injury.
First of all, Yongzhen's name for the former Buddhist carver is ape, and the current title is Buddha carver.
The wolf was initially called "ninja", the first official meeting was also called "ninja", and the second time they met, the wolf was called "Wolf Lord".
When the Buddhist sculptor retrieved the wolf, he first called the wolf "the failed wolf", but when asked how to call the wolf unsuccessful, he always called the wolf "OMA Aisang" Chinese the translation is "you". This should be mutual respect between ninjas. For those who are not given a code name, they are not referred to by code name.
In the game, the wolf never tells anyone his code name.
Then, Yongzhen knew the code name of the wolf, and it was likely that he got the information from the Buddhist carver. This proves that Yongzhen and the wolf were not familiar before.
Corresponding to the taciturn point, the wolf and the Buddha carver are in line, but between the Buddha carver and Yongzhen, although there are few words, it is not enough to be silent.
The Buddhist carver did tell Yongzhen that he didn't need to care about his words when the dragon coughed, but when he took the "coughed blood", he still cooperated. When the severed arm hurts, it will also cover the broken arm, and will tell the wolf the reason.
Both the action and the language do not quite fit yongzhen's description of "injuries seem to be as if they don't care about themselves".
And this conversation "What do you say?" "Nothing, nothing. ”
It is a more common bridge section in Japanese dramas: the heroine is telling the story of the male protagonist, but the male protagonist is slow to react and does not understand the meaning that the female protagonist wants to express, and the female protagonist says "nothing, nothing."
So in this plot, the main message is that Yongzhen has healed the wolf after becoming a doctor.
But because of the taciturn personality of the wolf, as if it was not himself who was injured, Yongzhen felt that this person was so strange, so he had an impression. But the wolf, because of his amnesia, forgot about unimportant people and things.
From Yongzhen's point of view, the setting of "wolf" was completed.
After Nagamasa learns more and more about this silent ninja, he has complex emotions about the death of "Guro" and "Wolf" (returning to the ordinary human line).
Ape wine of the Buddha carver
Finally, let's talk about the Ape Wine of the Buddhist Carver.
This paragraph actually corresponds to two stories in a specific game. These two stories are cross-narratives.
While drinking, the Buddhist carver recounted that when he was young, he practiced in the Bodhisattva Valley, and he practiced with himself and accompanied him to the weeping ghosts.
It's called a crypiper because she wears a strange ring around her slender finger, and when she whistles, there's a mournful sound that echoes throughout the valley. But it is strange that the Buddhist carver actually likes this sound.
And when we defeated the lion ape, we found this delicate finger in its belly. Combined with its use effect of "driving the beasts crazy", we can guess that the female ninja named "Kawama" has been buried in the belly of the ape because of the whistle.
It is the name of the item "Slender Finger" of the Cicada that proves that the large knife cut into the neck of the lion ape is not what the Cicada holds.
Follow the instructions of the lion ape's guarded perfume water lotus and the lion ape's battle memory.
It seems that this ape has become lonely and lonely because of his immortality, forever losing his love. And it used a large knife to end its life, but it was until its neck was scarred, and the knife grew in its neck, and it was also powerless to seek death.
But the ape that lost its lover eventually took the love of others' hearts.
Upon learning of the cicada's death, the Buddhist carver simply inquired about its provenance (because of the hole in the finger, which can be identified) and mounted it on the wolf's ninja hand. As a ninja, he cannot and is not good at expressing his emotions. At this moment, the Buddha carver thought in his heart only he knew it, right?
And in the story, the weeping ghost ring that restrains the "Wraith Spirit" is the voice that the Buddhist carver once loved to hear the most.
When the Buddhist carver transformed into a Shura, he felt pain after hearing the voice of the weeping ghost.
I don't know if it was the Weeping Ghost who played a role in the Shura of the "Wraith Class"?
Or was it the grumbling tone that evoked the Buddha's carver's memory of her...
Conclusion: At this point, I have finished telling the whole story of the four kinds of wine in the game corresponding to three characters. Wolf is a very interesting game, its dialogue is not much, but every piece of copy seems to have worth studying. Perhaps in other corners of the game, there is something worth studying.