#baroque game

[mushroom32x]

Baroque is a game.

(Friend gave me this silly idea.)

#my art #baroque game #sega saturn

[bloodlyst]

cataclysm

#baroque ps2 #baroque game #baroque #archangel #twelve #my art #fanwork #2023 #baroque spoilers #gore

[johannakyon]

great news! plissken, the person behind the baroque ps1 english patch has released another patch, this time for the original sega saturn version of the game!! so exciting! you can download it and patch your own copy by following the link in the tweet or get a prepatched version at cdromance.

#baroque syndrome #baroque game #i wasnt involved with testing this version this time around im just sharing the link cos im happy its out :~)

[silenthillii]

From the Baroque PS2 manual (via The Manual Project)

#baroque #baroque game #playstation 2 #ps2 #horror game

[kmnco8]

#baroque #baroque ps1 #baroque game #baroque 1998 #bennylalabears

[savingthegeneration]

"Take the Angelic Rifle and purify the Creator and the Preserver!"

Baroque (1999) dev. Sting Entertainment

#baroque #baroque game #baroque spoilers #gamingedit #gamediting #baroque ps1 #literally obsessed with this game's vibe

[jisyakuumao]

My fav game’s protagonists.

#fan art #off game #smt strange journey #hylics #deltarune #undertale #yume nikki #re 8 village #everhood #baroque game #omori

[lycantropy14]

quick baroque sketches

#baroque #baroque game #my art tag

[pngheavy]

Use it. There is meaning in you using it.

#baroque game #archangel #fan art #my art #eye strain #he's so..... ugh

[aiillust]

2023年12月

CLIPSTUDIOPAINT

BAROQUE～歪んだ妄想～

#二次創作 #fanart #baroque game #clipstudiopaint

[the-gaping-wound-of-christ]

the malkuth tarot deck (1/2) + instructions

unfortunately i cant read japanese and i know the resolution isnt very high but i wanted to include this regardless...maybe someone out there will find it useful

#baroque game #baroque #baroque ps2 #THE FACT THAT THEY PUT TWELVES COFFIN ON THE TWELFTH CARD (CLUTCHES MY HEAD) #i dont know if i could pick a favourite card but i think judegement is absolutely top tier btw

[angelkissedface]

a little bit of baroque fanart. we all get one super-niche old video game to be obsessed with i think

#art #2024 #fanart #not sure if anyone has ever heard of it but GOD i want to play it so bad #im not the world's biggest fan of roguelikes / roguelites or dungeon crawlers #but everything about it is so up my street ahaha #one day...ONE DAY #kicks the archangel. this guy is hilarious!! #baroque game #blood //

[bloodlyst]

#baroque ps2 #baroque #baroque game #archangel #twelve #fanwork #2023 #my art #gore

[rude-harmonixer]

I was originally going to write on Twitter but character limits are too much of a bother so here I am. This will probably be very messy but I'm dealing with media that probably 10 people are familiar with, so... Whatever!

I've recently found this site: https://nervetower.neocities.org/analysis.html

It has a bunch of translations and essays on the game Baroque, originally released on the Sega Saturn.

This specific bit of info has made me OBSESSED with thinking about the game.

Sure the game was literally written in burst of inspiration by drawing tarot cards because the writers had a deadline and writer's block at the same time, and the protagonist being canonically trans was only in a draft for the prequel material, but the game is surprisingly consistent with its themes and the symbolism can still be read through a trans lens.

And because it's not confirmed and ambiguous, the protagonist can be read through multiple gender povs.

But like, why is this such a big deal? Well, Baroque and its prequel material just so happens to have one of the most incredible anti-bigotry narratives I've ever seen in a game. Specifically anti-ableism and anti-eugenics, among probably some questioning of organized religion and how corporations use it to further alienate the public into a cycle of oppression towards marginalized people. etc.

The protagonist is mass produced and manipulated by the Archangel to "purify" whatever he deems should be "purified", using guilt (the Christians/Catholics favorite thing) to do so as the protagonist is made to not remember anything besides their immense guilt over something.

For the game to progress the protag must regain their memories and find out they're a copy of who knows how many other copies, a human made into a product basically, made to feel special because they won't be distorted by their desperate delusions to escape a world destroyed by corporate greed like all the rest and have the power to "purify" things, when in reality they're just emotionally and genetically manipulated into being that.

A perfect pawn.

Now where is the trans symbolism? Well, aside from how little bodily autonomy the protagonist has, here's where things really get interesting:

In Baroque, God is presented as a woman. Before the Great Heat (aka apocalypse), God's Sense Spheres (her omnipresence, transferring data like the world is a body) assured that no great distortion would come to the reality humanity lived in, God would feel pain and know there was a wound to heal. Then the Archangel, who's really just some scientist, started fucking with the population's mental health on purpose because he wanted to kill God and create his own perfect little world. That's the short summary anyway.

At one point, with a lot of brainwashing using God's screams of pain, he created the Order of Malkuth to help him. But later the members woke up from the brainwashing and organized a desperate attempt to stop the Archangel: they would fuse Koriel number 12 (presented as a boy) with God so she could communicate in data that humans could understand. What they didn't expect however is that Koriel 12 had their own problems, and with Archangel interrupting the fusion, those problems were very amplified.

Koriel 12's guilt over being alive and God's suffering made shit hit the fan for good with the Great Heat.

And that's how the protagonist becomes mute and receives the power of God and anim- I mean, "purification".

The game begins and despite Koriel and God being now two parts of the same being, the Archangel tells Koriel to go to the bottom of the Nerve Tower, where the "Mad God" is basically imprisoned, and "purify" her with a rifle (with ammo made from the embodiment of her pain hormones).

The Archangel is literally making Koriel kill a part of themselves that's already literally buried deep into a mind tower that goes down instead of up but still has the image of a tower instead of a hole. He's basically forcing Koriel to bury the closet with them inside it because the closet isn't enough apparently.

Koriel also can't speak for themselves anymore but their thoughts can be read by the Horned Woman, which she just says out loud without explaining anything and unless you're thinking about it you won't even recognize those are "your" thoughts being spoken by another person.

Jumping ahead, when Koriel gets to the bottom of the tower, you can either do what the Archangel tells you or can just walk towards God and unite with her.

When you do this after some dying and finding out, you'll receive the true ending, in which it is made clear that while it is in a state at which it's harming everyone, the "distortion" is actually the natural way of the world, everyone needs to cope at least a little to survive, the Archangel's eugenicist campaign was the greater problem here, not the people "distorted" into representations of their suffering and coping mechanisms by his actions.

This is primarily focused on ableism and particularly the stigma around mental health.

With a trans reading, it forms a bridge so it can also just mean bigotry in general too.

Why? Well, since the 70s or something, trans people basically have to be diagnosed with a disorder to be granted legal access to transition, that's even truer for Japan, which literally puts it on paper as a disorder. And overall, transphobia and ableism go very hand in hand.

This game is now the closest I've come across to finding a game that's secretly about trans people too like The Matrix.

And this has greatly developed the brain worms 👍

#baroque game #my gaming ramblings #if you're insane enough please try the game #not the ps2 or wii versions tho they're terrible and even if you don't care about most changes you'll most likely care about- #it more than doubling the amount of floors from the psx version which already was bigger than the original and like #please don't do that to yourself the game is already not that fun don't subject yourself to those versions #spoilers i guess but really who even cares #it's not like the surprise really does anything in-game really #you'd just be very confused playing it 100% blind trust me #also there's a whole lot I didn't talk about this is just an incoherent rambling which some might decipher maybe #if you've read all this you're very based and I'm so sorry ahsbsjenzbx

[kaushibael]

hi everyone!! so for the past 2 weeks i’ve been helping to playtest an english patch for PS1′s baroque - distorted delusions! it’s finally done so you can try it yourself :~D

baroque is a dungeon crawler where you kill god. you play the amnesiac mute koriel 12, sent on a quest to purify a mad world in the aftermath of an apocalyptic heat event, plagued by a guilt you can’t place. people have become distorted, retreating into themselves to cope with what’s become of the world, and monsters roam the nerve tower, getting stronger and stranger the lower you go. the only way to survive is to keep your feelings alive.

hold Baroque inside yourself.

https://twitter.com/Plissken___/status/1547601925880745986 <- the very talented person who hacked the english translation into the game. and as always a special thank you to nervetower on neocities for translating the game’s text in the first place :~)

linkz:

https://mega.nz/file/0NUFnCAR#Cc35QA1s3tNwaED0Lz6VBI_5w6zZlJh45uBPbxb6xno (patcher for if you have a jpn copy already)

https://cdromance.com/psx-iso/baroque-jpn/ (prepatched)

check it out!!! and you can join the discord here: https://discord.gg/n9vp4yhs5r

(also if you’re using epsxe like me, give it a minute to load. it works just fine but takes a hot second to kick into gear)

#baroque #baroque game #baroque syndrome #ps1 #psx #this was my exciting post.. hope you all think its cool hehe

[strangersyndrome]

give it up for the fucked up twins obscure jrpg dudes with blue hair and pronouns💥💥💥

#gu-l #nanase takaya #takaya nanase #baroque #baroque game