shadthechad
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Hey there! I don't post a lot, so here's something ULTRAKILL related I made over on youtube!
Lyrics are NOT by me, they're made by the lyrical genius ExactlySandwich, but I liked them so much I had to give them a go!
I haven't played DmC: Devil May Cry, and never will purely because of aesthetic choices, but these are great articulations of why this game isn't really a Devil May Cry game, even if it shares the same title.
Okay, time to list out all my problems with DMC:Devil May Cry.
What sucks about it, is that it probably would've been very well loved by a specific audience if they just didn't make it a DMC game. Change all the names, and you'd have a probable cult classic, but we're looking at this as a DMC game so here's my problems with it.
-Very 2012-2013 start with the whole Dante is a Cool Guy who goes to Strip Clubs and Drinks and Has Sex
-Immediate insult to gamers/fans who like Dante's OG look by having a white wig land on him and him check his reflection to say "Not in a million years."
-Kat being the first woman character introduced with powers who isn't kicking ass and taking names. From everything we know about several minutes into the game, the fact she's aware of demons means she should be packing a glock at minimum. Not a good sign for what they will do with her.
-Vergil is introduced with 0 drip.
-Retconning of Dante and Vergil being half HUMAN half demon, by making them half ANGEL half demon. As if this doesn't just sort of spit in the face of every single devil may cry game before it. The entire point of DMC3 alone was Vergil doing all he can to abandon his humanity. The underlying point of every single game DMC1, 2, 3, and 4 is Dante clocking the humanity in others, resonating with it, and finding it worth the effort to save or protect. And they just toss all of this out for them to be...half angels which still doesn't even add anything to their abilities because their demonic abilities from being half demon alone with what's always been utilized. It's just a stupid and unnecessary plot change that does more harm than good.
-Too much cussing. Cussing isn't a bad thing, but there's so much there's absolutely no space for clever wordplay because "fuck, shit, piss, slut, etc" are in constant rotation.
-Kat's entire dialogue with Dante where she explains she's always had these special abilities, and they tried to make it go away and control her via giving her medication. I don't think I have to elaborate on how poorly the messaging around this aged.
-Dante's hair turning white being his devil trigger form is such a lazy character design move when we get cool monster form, again, in every other game before this one.They don't even utilize visual story telling for this one. They could've made it where when we meet Vergil, who has white hair, we then see the flashback of them as kids where their hair is both brown. But since Vergil has white hair as a child, it can't even be used as a "Vergil is always in devil trigger" sort of storytelling. Like, had kid Vergil been shown with brown hair like Dante, that would've been a nice little warning to the audience that something was up with him. Yet. Nothing.
-The voice actor for Dante should've had his lines redone for his fight sounds. It was very bland to listen to, especially when doing repetitive moves.
-Dante is not having fun at all during this game. Like, he's not. There's not a single boss fight, even after he's done, where he looks like or acts as though he's having a remotely good time. He's annoyed or pissed off 90% of the time which is just...that's not Dante.
-The way the two main women are framed and treated in this game is so misogynistic I think I'd need a separate paper to examine everything, but I'll summarize it as a dudebro's mantra of "There's only 2 types of women. Dedicated housewives and ugly sluts."
-More poorly aged jokes centering around people being fat or ugly.
-Vergil's literally a pussy who's ass you gotta cover for until you have to fight him in the last boss fight.
-Severe lack of stupid bullshit. Every DMC game needs stupid bullshit to be entertaining, and this game is taking itself way too seriously.
-Enemy design had the same issues I had in Bayonetta 3 where all of them look the same except for one small change because someone on the crew didn't want to get creative.
-Normally in DMC games you only get the "here's the plot and what's going to happen" dialogue from the bad guys, but in this game it's every single person every time they open their mouths.
-The environment moving around to stop your way forward was cool in concept, but since the game is so linear it doesn't really encourage creativity with finding alternative ways around. On top of that, the concept of purgatory seemed like an unnecessary barrier because it supposedly keeps Dante and the demons from accidentally or on purpose harming random human bystanders. Yet, their actions have an effect on the environment so shit around the humans are getting destroyed regardless??? People are getting hurt and killed from the collateral damage so why make purgatory a thing at all? The removal or purgatory would've made it more effective by showing how strong Mundus' control was that he could have demons running around chasing Dante, get his little newscaster guy to placate the people, and nothing be done about it.
So yeah. It's a game very much of it's time, especially with having Ninja being the dev team. Had this been any other franchise, almost all of my complaints wouldn't even exist. It being an attempt at being a DMC game, a reboot nonetheless, is what's holding this thing back.
I think the only good thing they managed was explaining why RedGrave looks Like That at the start of DMC3, but that's all.
She hola on my como until i estas
my headcanon is that deimos is mexican
For a deimos request-
Why do they call it an oven when you of in the cold food of hot out eat the food?
first fuckin' try sorry this took like a year to get to, i forgor
Sojourning On (MADNESS Piece)
So, awhile ago, I wrote a piece for a oc x cannon piece from the perspective to Hank sort of reflecting on his time with an oc (props to you if you can guess who it is, hint: it isn't mine). Recently, the creator uploaded and I was inspired to voice it for Tumblr's listening and reading pleasure. Enjoy.
"This was the only way it could’ve ended. My life has been especially cursed. It was foolish of me to even try to bring you into it. Or try to be in yours, rather. I had a feeling that this might happen. I continued on anyway, hoping I was wrong, purely because of the happiness that you brought. I was right though, and it ended the way it always ends.
I died. You died, and it’s my fault. I was so relieved to see you when I came back. Right up until you told me what was on your mind. I was so ready, so ready to be a part of your life. I wanted to tell you that you were wrong at that moment. But I didn’t, because I knew you were right.
I had to let you go, because I love you. I let you go because you’re better off without me. It still hurts. You won’t even look at me now, and I think you loathe my existence. Me too, honestly.
Since it ended the way it ends, I sojourn on, alone, only living out of spite and because others find use out of me, but not because I am loved. I miss those talks. Those card games we played together. The time we spent basking in each other's presence. I wish I never hurt you, or even implied for a second that I hated you. I never hated you. I love you. I miss being loved.
I miss you."
GO LISTEN TO MY FRIEND THEY'RE AWESOME
Hey! This is outside of my usual stuff but I did a cover of some lyrics someone on youtube wrote for an Ultrakill song.
His channel is just called Sandwhich or @/alsoactuallysandwhich and he is working on a bunch of vocaloid lyric covers for the Ultrakill OST. I chose this short segment in particular because I thought it sounded pretty. :3
Feel free to check out more of his work if you're a fan of Miku/Teto work!
Also here's the thumbnail art on its own in full quality:
dude this shit is so awesome i love this
lay all your love on me
i love the doc doodles!!
if mail got delivered on sundays i’d have my doc plush.
Torture the Machine [8/19/24]
"Mankind is dead.
Blood is fuel.
And Hell is full."
Here it stood. One lowly machine in the center of Heresy, scanning the red sky for any sign of life only to snuff it out.
Without chaos, blood, war... V1 would be nothing. All purpose would be gone. So it does only what it knows to do. Kill.
It's yellow lense quickly pierced the view of a Filth wandering aimlessly. If it didn't have a gun it could've easily decapitated the poor thing with just it's gaze. The machine wasted no time in slaughtering him, leaving nothing but bloody waste of the armless creature.
There wasn't much left but these Filth in Hell now. The only reason this old machine stays within Heresy is because this is where it fought Gabriel. Only the right hand man of God was a fulfilling fight to it. Something deep, something primal was triggered during their battles.
It's been searching ever since for that same primal feeling. You can only do so much with what little life is left in Hell. Yet it creates more. Only keeping the engines running and the chaos ever flowing, simply for it's own sick enjoyment.
V1 wanted to go back to the chaos of war, but all it could do was feed off the little crumbs Hell would give it to keep it alive just a little bit longer. Never dying, but never living. Nothing to satisfy that longing for battle, for showers of bloodshed to power it's prowess. All it could do now, amongst the blazing red silence was repeat the simple phrase in it's code.
"Mankind is dead.
Blood is fuel.
And Hell is full."
i have legit been thinking about this post for like. 3 days.
Being autistic and also a Hyperpop/breakcore/ect enjoyer is really funny bc the sounds of being outside in the real world are often so tiring to me but if I wanna unwind and have a good time I will listen to the the most unnatural noises conjured up by evil computers and specifically designed to make your head explode. awesome
my voice was really fried before this, so enjoy
Hanks ultimate goal
got lazy on coloring, my bad
hank would definitely call them several slurs
Play fire with fire.
Problem has been resolved. I have access to my discord account again.
DISCORD COMPRIMISED
I fell for a scam like an idiot and I'm 90% sure that my discord account is hacked. If you receive any message from my discord at the moment, IT IS NOT ME.
Trying to figure out what to do from here.
DISCORD COMPRIMISED
I fell for a scam like an idiot and I'm 90% sure that my discord account is hacked. If you receive any message from my discord at the moment, IT IS NOT ME.
Trying to figure out what to do from here.
enjoy!!
"You're a fool to think you can kill Hank J. Wimbleton."
Frida's joined up with AAHW to kill Hank and the others out of revenge from killing her friend, Kaitlyn, who was also a AAHW agent.
she had an emotional turmoil when facing against Deimos and Sanford, then she ends up surrendering her defeat to them.
Deimos (who's fallen for her) wanted to give her a new sense of purpose, so they wanted to recruit her. (this is when she found solace in Doc's words when he confronted her)
"You're a fool to think you can kill Hank J. Wimbleton."
Frida's joined up with AAHW to kill Hank and the others out of revenge from killing her friend, Kaitlyn, who was also a AAHW agent.
she had an emotional turmoil when facing against Deimos and Sanford, then she ends up surrendering her defeat to them.
Deimos (who's fallen for her) wanted to give her a new sense of purpose, so they wanted to recruit her. (this is when she found solace in Doc's words when he confronted her)
do you have a sheriff impression at all?
I do, actually, I just don't practice it a whole lot This clip is pretty throw together, but I think it shows it off alright
cw: tinnitus sounds
"Repetition"
Original Comic by @keywhole
Voices by @shadthechad
This was a blast to voice, I genuinely had so much fun making this! Thanks @keywhole for letting me voice your kickass comic :)
very self explanatory voice work is done, still some other stuff i've gotta do but this'll do for the day
hi pssst i just saw your tags on my comic (thank you for enjoying it i AGREE we need more ptsd hank) and!!! if you wanted to voice it i’d be HONORED!!!!!!
OMG THX SO MUCH its going to be a bit before i can but i am going to eat this shit up :)))
hi pssst i just saw your tags on my comic (thank you for enjoying it i AGREE we need more ptsd hank) and!!! if you wanted to voice it i’d be HONORED!!!!!!
OMG THX SO MUCH its going to be a bit before i can but i am going to eat this shit up :)))
need more hank ptsd fr fr
i did, in fact, not put science shit there
based off of a headcanon i threw at my brother of hank having nightmares about dying and not being able to tell if they actually happened (they were playing roller coaster tycoon btw)
i love this madness oc!!
WOAH!!
WOAH‼️‼️
Heres a solo version :
Unfortunately I couldnt find a separate picture of tiny caitlyn 😔
so i tried doing a sans voice today, and this is how it went
Meant to post these yesterday, but I finished a couple pride pieces for (ofc) this lovely month! First one I made for myself and a close friend of mine while the second is a commission for someone else I know. Both were very fun to do and were used as an experiment with my style of shading and lighting. I'm very happy with how both turned out, I think in the end they both look very lovely. :3
☆ My commissions are also open!
LOYALTY (PART 7/?)