Asura wrath characters
His wife is the sister of another demigod.
His daughter is the high priestess that leads the mass prayer. The game further humanizes them by briefly showing what their culture looks like outside of war. By removing the creator/creation aspect from this relationship, it humanizes the demigods to such a degree that makes them seem less like divine beings and more like special humans - like superheroes, people who just so happen to have special powers and decide to use those special powers to defend the rest of the world from a special evil. When humanity prays, they pray because they understand that their help is needed to protect the world, not out of worship. The demigods didn’t create humans, so they don’t feel the need to be worshiped by humans, and humans don’t feel the need to worship them. What’s most interesting about this relationship is that there’s no mention of a creator. It’s a system of checks and balances that forces the two groups to exist on an equal footing. They’re as dependent on humanity as humanity is dependent on them. Without prayer, the demigods are useless. A high priestess guides the world in mass prayer, which gives the demigods their power. This idea is further made literal with the introduction of the concept of prayer in the game. The eight demigods are protectors, and like all protectors, they’re subject to the desires of those that they protect. They fight because they understand that these monsters are a destructive force. This power structure makes literal their moral goal of saving the world. They’re employees - high ranking employees - but still subject to the whims and laws set by the Emperor that is above them in station. The Generals serve in the Emperor’s army, meaning they work under a human being. This prologue goes to great lengths to humanize them and showcase the symbiotic relationship that they have with humanity. Yet for all their power, they’re not actually treated like gods. When the planet sized Mama-Gohma bursts out of the earth, our hero Asura destroys it with a single punch. They’re clearly the most powerful beings in this universe. They’re demigods, and they fly around without spacesuits punching, cutting, and kicking the Gohma in an exuberant and absurd show of force. When the battle begins, the human starships are wiped out with ease, but then the Eight Guardian Generals appears and turn the tide of war. Their enemy is a species of monster called the Gohma, who appear in various forms ranging from the somewhat familiar (giant monkeys, turtles, or space-faring fish) to the utterly bizarre (some Gohma just look like flying pyramids). Starships hover around the planet, outnumbering the stars themselves, waiting for their enemy to appear. The game opens with a massive space battle. The game presents us with several fake divine beings that are dishonest, manipulative, violent, and greedy, but then it presents us with a true divine being who is even worse. Behind every myth is a writer, and that writer can be motivated by any number of things. It argues that any religious myth is so malleable that it can’t be taken at face value. In between (and even included in) the grandiose fight scenes is an uncompromising criticism of religious belief and the entire concept of faith itself.Īsura’s Wrath questions the core reasons behind religious worship. But that’s okay because Asura’s Wrath has a lot to say. In other words, you’ll spend most of your time watching the game. There’s a long cut scene, a few quick-time events within the cut scene, a short fight, and then the cycle repeats. By the standards of most games, it’s not very interactive. It’s told in the style of a Japanese anime show, split up into episodes, even going so far as to include commercial break bumpers at dramatic moments. Asura’s Wrath is an ambitious action game.