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Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina Developer: Capcom (original), NeoBards Entertainment (remaster) Publisher: Capcom Release date: May 23, 2025 Platform(s): PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC Genre: Action-adventure Price: $29.99 (US), €29.99 (EU), £24.99 (UK) Store links: System Requirements (PC)​ Minimum OS: Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i3 8350K, AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Memory: 8 GB Graphic card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 (VRAM4GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX560 (VRAM4GB) DirectX: 12 Hard drive space: 25 GB Recommended OS: Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i3 8350K, AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Memory: 16 GB Graphic card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (VRAM6GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX570 (VRAM4GB) DirectX: 12 Hard drive space: 25 GB Click to expand... Click to shrink... Troubleshooting guide & Issue reporting (Steam): Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny :: Steam Community steamcommunity.com About the Game​Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny was originally released on the PlayStation 2. Although it's a sequel to Onimusha: Warlords, the game features a complete new protagonist and supporting cast and the game can be enjoyed without prior experience of the first game.The game improves on various aspects of the original Onimusha: Warlords, increasing the action and replay value thanks to featuring 4 additional playable characters and a branching story. The remaster updates the game to HD format and brings various quality of life changes and extra features. Story & Cast The game tells the story of Jubei Yagyu and his revenge journey againts Oda Nobunaga and his demonic Genma army for the massacre of his clan. During his journey Jubei will meet and cross path with the mysterious woman Oyu, the young ninja Kotaro, the master spearwielder Ekei and the gunslinger Magoichi, they each have their own aims and their own connections that will lead them to fight each other, and sometimes fight together. Experience 100 different scenarios across the game's branching story. Completionist note: it's imposible to see all scenarios in one playthrough, for more details click here. Gameplay Like in the original Onimusha: Warlords, the game features a mix of exploration and combat but now to a greater degree. The player fights using a normal sword but as they progress through the story they will collect an assortment of short and long range weapons, from diverse element-based weapons to bows and firearms. Defeated Genma monsters will provide the player with demon souls that they can absorb to obtain various benefits depending on their color. Yellow souls will restore your health, blue souls restore magic power, red souls can be used to upgrade your gear and the rare purple souls can be used to unleash your 'Onimusha' transformation after absorbing five of them. The player can build and deepen Jubei's relationship with each of his allies by performing certain actions and exchangin gifts of their liking with them, this will unlock special scenarios and eventually giving you control to play as them during certain points of the story. For more details about the Gift Exchange system, click here. New Features & updates​ New "HELL" Mode : an extremely difficult mode where you die in a single hit. Gallery: the gallery from the original now supports higher resolution & zoom functions. Over 100 new special artworks have been added. You can listen all 43 songs of the original soundtrack. All assets updated to high definition Switch between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio on the fly during gameplay. Easy Mode is now available by default. All cutscenes can now be skipped from the start. Mini-games available from the start. Alternative costumes available from the start Added auto-save feature Weapons can be swapped without having to open the menu. Bonuses ​You can get a special outfit for Jubei if you have save data from Onimusha: Warlords. To switch Jubei's outfit select Special Features → Jubei's Outfit and select between Normal and Special from the title-screen menu. This will only alter the appearance. Your status will be the same as the armour you equip in-game. By pre-ordering the game you get the Onimusha 2: Orchestra Album Selection Pack. It includes five tracks selected from the Onimusha 2 Orchestra Album Taro Iwashiro Selection. Select Special Features → Gallery → Original Soundtrack to access these tracks from the title-screen menu. This product is also available as part of the Onimusha bundle. (Acquire this bundle before July 1, 2025, 04:00 (UTC), to receive a limited-time bonus!) You also get a pack of items that contains 3 herbs, 2 medicines, 1 secret medicine, 2 special magic liquid, 1 perfect medicine, 1 talisman and 10,000 red souls. The content will appear after meeting Takajo in the early game. If you have already met Takajo, the content will appear when you select "Load Game". While you can only get this item pack once, you can also get the items in-game. The content listed in the DLC may become available separately at a later date. Bundle ​You can purchase Onimusha: Warlords and Onimusha 2: SamuraI's Destiny together. Bundle links: Media​ Announcement Trailer​Pre-order Announcement Trailer​ ​ Message from the Director​Gameplay with the Director​   Last edited: Yesterday at 8:21 AM Threadmarks Gift Exchange guide New Index OP OP Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina Gift Exchange​ A core gameplay mechanique introduced in Onimusha 2 is the Gift Exchange. Alongside the player's standard item inventory, there exists a separate inventory exclusive for gift items that can be given to Ekei, Magoichi , Kotaro and Oyu. A total of 125 gifts can be found throughout the game, and each will elicit a different response depending on who it is given to. All 125 Gift locations (items name may differ in the remaster). View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BopXanIz40 As said above, gifts will elicit different response to each character depending on how much they value it, for example the Vodka gift will have an A-rank value for Ekei but a B-rank value for Magoichi. As detailed in the video above, each character has a pool of unique gifts/items per rank that they can give you at random in exchange for a gift of that rank. The video and doc below details what rank value each gift has per character. Doc with each gift rating value (item names may differ in the remaster): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kYJJ7yifduP0IcRArk-xuBqTEVJKnOadTfEdagBEu1I/edit?usp=sharing View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiGmPPmrPAw  Last edited: Yesterday at 9:36 AM New Index Threadmarks Scenario Route guide New Index OP OP Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina Scenario Route From the Onimusha wiki: While there are many scenarios that are guaranteed to occur throughout the game, many other optional scenarios can be triggered by raising the friendship of one or more characters by repeatedly giving them gifts that elicit positive reactions. These optional scenarios can provide additional character development of a certain sub-character, reward the player with additional items, and can unlock playable sections for those characters, though the playable section for Oyu is mandatory regardless of her friendship. While some optional scenarios can occur on their own, others are a part of a split route, with only one out of multiple scenarios being possible to trigger per-playthrough (E.g: Three separate characters can aid Jubei in the Imasho Gold Mine, but only one can do so per playthrough). However, there are restrictions to this system. Due to the split scenario routes, it is not possible to trigger all scenarios in a single playthrough as there are multiple instances of split scenario routes that can only trigger a single scenario, with it even being possible for none of them to trigger in one case. Another restriction is that even if the friendship level of all four sub-characters is at the minimum level required to trigger their optional scenarios, only one sub-character can have most of their optional scenarios triggered per playthrough, this depending on which sub-character has the highest friendship. The only exceptions are each sub-character's playable sections and some scenarios that also involve whoever has the highest friendship (E.g: Chapter 7-10 only requiring either Ekei or Magoichi to have high enough friendship). As a result of these restriction, at least four separate playthroughs are required to trigger every scenario in the game. -------------------------------- Note: the Scenario Route keeps track of all the scenarios you triggered in previous playthroughs so you can just focus on the ones you missed, you still have to meet their requirements to trigger them in your subsequent plays. The following guides contain spoilers, recommend to read after your first playthrough or for returning old players.   New Index shadowman16 Member Oct 25, 2017 41,569 Magoichi you swine! (for some reason that's been stuck in my head for decades... I love the cast for 2). Very excited to replay this one, it was always one of my absolute favourites in the series... Half because of Gorgandates (legend) and half because I felt legit robbed when you never got to defeat Nobunaga in Oni1.  KyouG Member Oct 26, 2017 642 I loved Onimusha HD, and I have been greatly looking forward to playing this. Will make use of the gift guide on my second playthrough, lol.   Tengrave Avenger Oct 26, 2017 1,108 Great OT! The best Onimusha.   ramenline Member Jan 9, 2019 1,673 Started playing the PS2 version yesterday, I played Oni 1 a few months ago and enjoyed it overall. Nice and breezy with great backgrounds. Will probably save 3 and 4 for when we're closer to Way of the Sword dropping  Aeana Member Oct 25, 2017 7,573 I love this game so much. Super excited.   Sumio Mondo Member Oct 25, 2017 10,746 United Kingdom A PS2 classic returns! Can't wait to play it this weekend.  Western Yokai Member Feb 14, 2025 172 This will not get a physical release, right?   RayCharlizard Member Nov 2, 2017 4,475 Western Yokai said: This will not get a physical release, right? Click to expand... Click to shrink... There isn't one announced but who knows if this gets a Limited Run or something down the line.   AlexDS1996 Member Jul 14, 2022 3,958 Excellent thread! Looking forward to playing it at midnight.   demi Member Oct 27, 2017 16,574 My name is Goooogandantessss   Sumio Mondo Member Oct 25, 2017 10,746 United Kingdom Tengrave said: Great OT! The best Onimusha. Click to expand... Click to shrink...   Chackan Member Oct 31, 2017 5,451 "Juuuubeeeeeeiiii" Fucking finally. Played Onimusha 1 HD when it came out on the Switch, and have been waiting since then for this one! Hope they don't take another 5 or 6 years with Onimusha 3...  ResinPeasant93 Member Apr 24, 2024 2,489 My favorite Onimusha. Still have my PS2 copy   Koivusilta Member Oct 30, 2017 629 Finland The best Onimusha and one of my overall favorite PS2 games, so glad it's finally getting a re-release! Can't wait to dig in tomorrow after work. Completed Clair Obscur just in time, too! Looking at the Motohide Eshiro gameplay video, I'm glad to see they changed the Onimusha transformation so that it's now manually activated like in Onimusha 3, so you don't waste your transformation if you accidentally collect the fifth purple orb. Attack charging is also a bit different now, since the game originally used the pressure sensitive shoulder buttons for it. PS. I really wish they go back and add Genma features into the Warlords remaster, even if it was paid DLC.  G_Shumi One Winged Slayer Member Oct 26, 2017 7,650 Cleveland, OH Great OP! I recently played Onimusha 2 & 3 on PS2 last year, so I'll probably wait for a sale (or an eventual physical release please!). But I do have one sage advice for Onimusha 2: rotate the analog sticks in order to open the heavy door! If you get far enough in the game, you'll know what I mean.  Tagovailoa Member Feb 5, 2023 1,586 Love this game! Just beat Oni 1 remastered in one sitting yesterday while home sick from work. Looking forward to getting to this sometime this weekend. I have beaten this game 5+ times and never got 100% scenario completion.  RiZ IV Member Oct 27, 2017 933 Wow, I didn't realize this was coming out tomorrow. Onimusha 2 was one of my favorite PS2 games. Will definitely pick this up.   GwyndolinCinder Member Oct 26, 2017 5,703 JUBEIIIIIIIIIIII   coldsagging AVALANCHE Member Oct 27, 2017 8,077 Tengrave said: Great OT! The best Onimusha. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Facts.   The Silver Member Oct 28, 2017 11,584 Haven't replayed this in so long. Hope the bring back and expand on the structure of Oni 2 in the new one, it has a lot of potential   Annie85x Member Mar 12, 2020 2,949 Oni 2 was my fav. Super excited to jump back in over the weekend 😍   Timodus Member Oct 27, 2017 383 My first and favorite Onimusha. I'm glad I can finally play it with the Japanese voices.   OP OP Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina https://x.com/OnimushaGame/status/1925673157190463524 @OnimushaGame said: Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny launches tomorrow. Prepare to reclaim your destiny! Today, we're celebrating with this amazing piece from @hieumayart featuring our protagonist, Jubei! Click to expand... Click to shrink...   thetrin Member Oct 26, 2017 10,725 Grand Junction, CO Awesome game. Loved it when I played it on PS2. I am curious to see what people who are playing it with fresh eyes think of it.   stn Member Oct 28, 2017 6,414 Definitely getting this! I started playing the OG on PS2, but the controls are so bad that I'll play this instead.   OP OP Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina https://x.com/OnimushaGame/status/1925703394737467771 @OnimushaGame said: The web manual for Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny is now live. Check it out to prepare for tomorrow's release! Access the manual here 👇 https://manual.capcom.com/onimusha2/ Click to expand... Click to shrink...   Zor Member Oct 30, 2017 14,095 So I was going to replay the first game before this as I own the remaster, but I just realised I own Genma Onimusha and never ever actually played it. Is Genma considered the best version just for people that like a more difficult experience or do its benefits/improvements range beyond that? Just wondering which the best version of the first is.  LetalisAmare Member Oct 27, 2017 4,363 Just started. The 16:9 is zoomed in or cropped whatever you call it. I'll stick to 4:3.   OP OP Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina Zor said: So I was going to replay the first game before this as I own the remaster, but I just realised I own Genma Onimusha and never ever actually played it. Is Genma considered the best version just for people that like a more difficult experience or do its benefits/improvements range beyond that? Just wondering which the best version of the first is. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Yeah, Genma is the best version of Oni 1 and it's an overall harder game than the OG, it has one new location, 2 new bosses (one of them is a RE-Nemesis type stalker).   Count of Monte Sawed-Off Member Oct 27, 2017 5,057 Best Onimusha.   Zetta The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 8,521 Buying it just to show support and will eventually play it much later on. Hoping this sells a lot so we can get 3.   Jawmuncher Crisis Dino Moderator Oct 25, 2017 44,845 Ibis Island Great OT, fixed the title though. No need to include the platforms in the title since they're in the OP   giancarlo123x One Winged Slayer Member Oct 25, 2017 28,013 $30? That's easy money.   TΛPIVVΛ Member Nov 12, 2017 4,125 Surprised its out! Just crept up on me! View: https://youtu.be/D9joJuEcJAw  Type VII Member Oct 31, 2017 2,980 Downloaded on PS5 and ready to go when I get home from work this evening. It's a shame there's no physical release, but between this and Capcom Fighting Collection 2, I'll be partying like it's the early 2000s all weekend.   Aske The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 6,318 Canadia Golden Evil Statue!!!!!!   AlexDS1996 Member Jul 14, 2022 3,958 I've just played a little over an hour and it's perfect. That counter attack is always satisfying. The game looks great to me and the sound is really nice too.   Tagovailoa Member Feb 5, 2023 1,586 Aske said: Golden Evil Statue!!!!!! Click to expand... Click to shrink... New players are not going to have a good time  Zolbrod Member Oct 27, 2017 3,965 Osaka, Japan By far the best game in the series! Can't wait to play it again!  NovumVeritas Member Oct 26, 2017 11,143 Berlin I just played a little bit docked on Switch, this looks very oversharpend, any one else? Is that the use of the AI filter they used?   Hystzen Member Oct 25, 2017 2,674 Manchester UK It's best onimusha for a 1/3rd of game then they ditch the hub concept and character interactions it turns rushed and bland   OP OP Lucia Member Oct 18, 2021 2,437 Argentina I wish the 4:3 ratio also applied to cutscenes.   Pez Member Oct 28, 2017 1,422 If this gets a physical release, I'm there. Will hold out until then.   joyfoolish Member Aug 25, 2024 197 I was wondering if the PS4 version looks good on PS5? Is it at least 1440p?   Rust Member Jan 24, 2018 1,443 What the heck is this stupid random mini-game? I think I've died more often opening a garage door than throughout the rest of the game. I really enjoyed the first one - samurai game ala Resident Evil? Sign me up! Whereas this one started okay, now it's turned into an incredibly linear experience. I'm hoping it'll change back, but I'm thinking it's entering the final act.  Jawmuncher Crisis Dino Moderator Oct 25, 2017 44,845 Ibis Island Pez said: If this gets a physical release, I'm there. Will hold out until then. Click to expand... Click to shrink... No Physical release is a big hit on this. Especially after they did the 1st game. Not even a Japanese Physical is surprising. Capcom was one of the stronger JP publishers still doing that at least, so it's a shame to see them seemingly ditching it.  Pez Member Oct 28, 2017 1,422 Yeah, they never did them for the DMC games on Switch either. There's a good chance this never gets a physical release. We'll see!  

Rhina Aguirre (20 May 1939 – 30 October 2021) was a Bolivian disability activist, politician, and sociologist. An opponent of the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, Aguirre was an early activist in the country's human rights movement. Exiled to Ecuador by the regime of Luis García Meza, she collaborated with Leonidas Proaño's indigenous ministry and worked closely with the country's peasant and social organizations. Blinded in both eyes by toxoplasmosis, Aguirre took up the cause of disability rights, joining the Departmental Council for Disabled Persons upon her return to Bolivia. In 2009, she joined the Movement for Socialism and was elected to represent the department of Tarija in the Chamber of Senators, becoming the first blind person in Bolivian history to assume a parliamentary seat. This photograph of Aguirre was taken in 2014. Photograph credit: Chamber of Senators; edited by Krisgabwoosh Recently featured: Chester Cathedral El Tatio Short-beaked echidna Archive More featured pictures

Silverhand Member Oct 26, 2023 3,035 AC Odysseys real ending was in the DLC. Is Valhalla the same way or can I just play the base game? I put in over 200 hours in Odyssey before I had to force myself to just do story missions. I'm trying to keep that in mind for Valhalla. Will I handicap mysel by not collecting all the treasure and mysteries etc? How about mini games? Already the rhyming one seems important. Is Mirage something I will need to play? Thanks!  StrangerDanger Member Jul 18, 2018 6,694 200 hours wtf.... i guess multiply that by 4 for Valhalla. The definite ending is part of a free DLC called "The Last Chapter" for the game.   UnluckyKate Member Oct 25, 2017 11,906 I'd recommend Ireland and Paris DLCs if you enjoy the main gameplay and characters but you can ask yourself this question in 50 hours. Have fun. Don't linger too much in Norway, don't burn yourself on completion, just push through at your own pace and do what you feel like doing. No random drop in this game, everything is unique so go explore.  nihilence nøthing but silence Moderator Oct 25, 2017 18,947 From 'quake area to big OH. Mirage didn't seem to add anything memorable.   Arsene no Kiseki Member Oct 25, 2017 5,619 Canada I bought all the DLC for Valhalla but by the time I finished the base game + free epilogue DLC I was too burnt out to even look at the paid DLC. You should probably just wait until you finish the base game first lol.   Son of Sparda "This guy are sick" says The Wise Ones Member Oct 25, 2017 17,285 do I need the DLC? Click to expand... Click to shrink... God no. I forced myself through the first DLC and it was super mediocre. Didn't even bother with the rest of the season pass stuff even though I owned them. For reference I platinum'd Odyssey and finished and really enjoyed all of its DLCs. Valhalla just gets very boring after the first 20 or so hours.  dancingphlower Member Oct 27, 2017 13,201 I found Mirage to be the better game tbh   coldzone24 Member Oct 27, 2017 920 Cleveland, OH If Odyssey took you 200 hours, good luck with Valhalla. I finished the first two DLCs, but couldn't bring myself to do the big Ragnarok expansion. There is just too much game.  Xalbur Member Mar 30, 2019 716 You don't NEED the DLCs but they are pretty fun and add some decent variety to the adventure, story wise they are pretty much just side content. The Ragnarok DLC was a bit of a miss for me personally but might be fun if you really like the mythical stuff. I think you can wait until you are further into the game to decide if you want more, the game is already very long (too long in fact). Mirage doesn't really add anything to Valhalla's story, I found it to be worse than Valhalla and I'm already not a huge fan of it, worst of the RPG games.  carlsojo Shinra Employee Member Oct 28, 2017 37,544 San Francisco Ireland was pretty fun and self-contained.   Hasney One Winged Slayer The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 23,201 I liked the Ireland and France DLC packs. The free ending DLC was the most unsatisfying shit I have ever played, both in terms of the "gameplay" addition and the story content. It honestly would have been better to just leave it open ended.  OP OP Silverhand Member Oct 26, 2023 3,035 StrangerDanger said: 200 hours wtf.... i guess multiply that by 4 for Valhalla. The definite ending is part of a free DLC called "The Last Chapter" for the game. Click to expand... Click to shrink... I never left an area until I cleared all the markers. Then more would pop up!  beanman Member Apr 11, 2025 42 Arsene no Kiseki said: I bought all the DLC for Valhalla but by the time I finished the base game + free epilogue DLC I was too burnt out to even look at the paid DLC. You should probably just wait until you finish the base game first lol. Click to expand... Click to shrink... This is exactly what happened to me. Paid for the season pass and never touched any of the content from it. The base game and free epilogue DLC wraps up the story nicely. Thank god I didn't pay for the additional DLC centered around the mythic stuff, I'd be even more annoyed with myself in that case.  Linus815 Member Oct 29, 2017 24,082 Ireland and Paris are worth it, great DLC's.   Eevea Member Sep 23, 2022 456 The Ireland and Paris DLCs are good. But I didn't care for the Ragnarok DLC all that much. You don't need the DLCs right away though. You can get them at the end of the main story if you want and see if you still want more game. I wanted to spend as much time as I could in the world though. Female Eivor is my fav mc they have done of the AC games I've played(which is just the modern ones admittedly).  OP OP Silverhand Member Oct 26, 2023 3,035 Ive gotten to the town and talked to the Jarl and reunited with my "brother". I have a weird feeling due to the guy/girl thing and stuff like having a Raven and Odin Sight, I am either Odin or possibly Loki.  OP OP Silverhand Member Oct 26, 2023 3,035 So I just arrived in England. So the game isn't even really set in Norway? That's kind of disappointing. Having fun with it though. I kind of miss Odyssey. Loved the setting, everything looked amazing! And Black Flag (isnt there a remake coming?). I sort of need to play the Enzio stuff as well. And Syndicate?  OP OP Silverhand Member Oct 26, 2023 3,035 In England. Game is boring as hell. Was Origin and Odyssey like this and I just don't remember? I remember like both of them. Loved Odyssey. Valhalla has no interesting characters. I don't even know what the plot is aside from "Upgrade the town and make friends with other leaders". When do I go Assassin Creeding? I mean yeah I can but so far I was just handed a stealth blade for next to no reason and told to go have fun. So far the actual Assassin stuff seems regulated to a side quest AFTER I build his house in the town. Again, am I misremembering the previous 2 games and actually becoming an Assassin? So far Im just a Viking who stealths good.  Walker_Boh Member Oct 25, 2017 2,370 Boise, Idaho Silverhand said: In England. Game is boring as hell. Was Origin and Odyssey like this and I just don't remember? I remember like both of them. Loved Odyssey. Valhalla has no interesting characters. I don't even know what the plot is aside from "Upgrade the town and make friends with other leaders". When do I go Assassin Creeding? I mean yeah I can but so far I was just handed a stealth blade for next to no reason and told to go have fun. So far the actual Assassin stuff seems regulated to a side quest AFTER I build his house in the town. Again, am I misremembering the previous 2 games and actually becoming an Assassin? So far Im just a Viking who stealths good. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Soonish. Valhalla's start is extremely slow and the plot felt half baked. It's the worst of the RPG AC games.   Eoin Member Oct 27, 2017 7,260 Silverhand said: Game is boring as hell. Was Origin and Odyssey like this and I just don't remember? Click to expand... Click to shrink... No, I would say not. Compared to Valhalla, Origins was a more focused game with a better idea of what it wanted to achieve with its setting, characters and game mechanics. Compared to Valhalla, Odyssey was a more varied and interesting rollercoaster with a ton of mechanical depth and flexibility.   Atom Member Jul 25, 2021 15,302 Welcome to AC Valhalla.   ResinPeasant93 Member Apr 24, 2024 2,450 I liked Valhalla fine but I spaced that thing over the period of months, and that seemed to be the right call. Don't try to cram it, thats my advice.   Linus815 Member Oct 29, 2017 24,082 Silverhand said: In England. Game is boring as hell. Was Origin and Odyssey like this and I just don't remember? I remember like both of them. Loved Odyssey. Valhalla has no interesting characters. I don't even know what the plot is aside from "Upgrade the town and make friends with other leaders". When do I go Assassin Creeding? I mean yeah I can but so far I was just handed a stealth blade for next to no reason and told to go have fun. So far the actual Assassin stuff seems regulated to a side quest AFTER I build his house in the town. Again, am I misremembering the previous 2 games and actually becoming an Assassin? So far Im just a Viking who stealths good. Click to expand... Click to shrink... you were never an assassin in Odyssey lol  Josh5890 I'm Your Favorite Poster's Favorite Poster The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 26,460 I managed to get through AC Valhalla, but I couldn't imagine going back for the DLC. The main campaign was longer than it had any right to be.   MrBS "This guy are sick" Member Oct 27, 2017 6,739 I forgot I played the Ireland and Paris DLC until it was mentioned now. Then you've got Ragnarok expansion after that. I think I'm at 300hrs for Valhalla. Mirage being a 50 hr game to 100% was a nice change of pace.  

Recently a friend mentioned how much of a shame it was that, generally speaking, there are few of those backdoor “classic” reimaginings today like the ones we had growing up. And after thinking for a moment, I agreed. Children and teens of the ‘90s were treated to an embarrassment of riches when it came to the Bard and Bard-adjacent films. Nearly every week seemed to offer another modernization of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, or Geoffrey Chaucer, all retrofitted with a wink and a nudge to appeal to teenagers reading much the same texts in high school or university. But then when looking back at the sweep of 1990s cinema beyond just “teen movies,” it was more than only Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger vehicles that were getting the classical treatment. In fact the ‘90s, and to a large extent the ‘80s as well, was an era ripe with indie studios and Hollywood majors treating classic literature (if largely of the English variety) with the sanctity nowadays reserved for comic books and video games. It was a time when some of the most exciting or ambitious artists working in the industry sought to trade in the bullets and brutality of New Hollywood from a decade or two earlier in favor of the even more brutal constraints of corsets and top hats. Shakespeare was arguably bigger business in tinsel town than at any other point during this period, and we saw some of the most faithful and enduring adaptations of Austen or Louisa May Alcott make it to the screen. Why is that and can it happen again? Let’s look back at the golden age of period piece costumed dramas and splashy literary adaptations… Mozart and Merchant Ivory Since the beginning of the medium, moviemakers have looked back at well-worn and familiar stories for inspiration and audience familiarity. Not too many years after making his enduring trip to the moon, Georges Méliès adapted Hamlet into a roughly 10-minute silent short in 1907. And of course before Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier had Hollywood falling in love with the Bard… at least as long it was Larry in the tights. Even so, literary adaptations were often constrained, particularly in Hollywood where filmmakers had to contend with the limitations of censorship via the Hays Code and preconceived notions about what an American audience would enjoy. The most popular costumed dramas tended to therefore be vanity projects or something of a more sensational hue—think biblical or swords and sandals epics. So it’s difficult to point to an exact moment where that changed in the 1980s, yet we’d hazard to suggest the close together Oscar seasons of 1984 and 1986 had a lot to do with it. After all, the first was the year that Miloš Forman’s AmadeusA Room with a View. Considered by Forster scholars one of the author’s slighter works, the film had critics like Roger Ebert swooning that it was a masterpiece. In the case of Amadeus, the director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)—a zeitgeist-shaping portrait of modern oppression and control from about a decade earlier—was taking the story of Mozart and making it a punk rock tragicomedy. Based on a Peter Shaffer play of the same name, Forman and Shaffer radically reimagined the story, making it both funnier and darker as Forman strove to pose Mozart as a modern day rebel iconoclast with his wig resembling as much Sid Vicious as the Age of Enlightenment. Located atop Tom Hulce’s giggling head, it signaled a movie that had all the trappings of melodrama but felt accessible and exciting to a wide modern audience. It went on to do relatively big business and win Best Picture. While not the first period film to do so, it was the first in a long while set in what could be construed as the distant past (Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi won the year before but that was based on a subject matter in the living memory of most Academy voters). Otherwise, most of the recent winners were dramas or dramedies about the modern world: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Annie Hall (1977). They reflected an audience that wanted to get away from the artificiality of their parents’ cinema, which in the U.S. associated historical costumes with the (grand) phoniness of Ben-Hur (1959) or Oliver! (1968). Yet perhaps the movie that proved this was the beginning of a popular trend came a few years later via the British masterpiece A Room with a View. To be sure, the partnership of Merchant and Ivory had been going for more than 20 years by the time they got to adapting Forster, including with several other costumed dramas and period pieces. However, those films were mixed with modern comedies and dramas like rock ’n roll-infused The Guru (1969) and Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980). More importantly, all of these films tended to be art house pictures; small chamber pieces intended for a limited audience. Yet as the marketing campaign would later trumpet about A Room with a View—the ethereal romantic dramedy which introduced Daniel Day-Lewis and a fresh-faced Helena Bonham Carter to the U.S.—this movie had the “highest single theatre gross in the country!” (It’s fun to remember a time when a movie just selling out in New York every day could make it a hit.) The film’s combination of Forster’s wry satire and cynicism about English aristocracy in the late Victorian and early Edwardian era, coupled with the sweeping romance of Puccini arias and Tuscan countrysides, made it a massive success. It also defined what became the “Merchant Ivory” period piece forever after, including in future Oscar and box office darlings like the Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, and Carter-starring Howard’s End (1992), and Hopkins and Thompson’s reunion in The Remains of the Day (1993). These were all distinctly British and understated pictures, with Remains being an outright tragedy delivered in a hushed whisper, but their relative success with a certain type of moviegoer and Academy voter signaled to Hollywood that there was gold up in ‘em hills. And soon enough, more than just Forman on the American side was going up there to mine it. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! 20th Century Studios Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, and the Auteur’s Costumed Drama In 1990, Michael Mann was one of the hottest creatives working in Hollywood. As the executive producer and sometime-director on NBC’s edgy (by ‘80s standards) police drama, Miami Vice, he played a direct hand in proving American television could be “gritty” and artistic. Even the episodes he didn’t helm were defined by the standards he insisted upon—such as never putting cool guys Crockett and Tubbs in a red or brown car. It would clash with the neon-light-on-celluloid aesthetic that Mann developed for the series. As that series was winding down by 1990, Mann was more in demand than ever to make any film project he might have wanted—something perhaps in-keeping with Vice or gritty crime thrillers he’d made in the ’80s like serial killer thriller Manhunter (1986). Instead he sought to adapt a childhood favorite for the screen, James Fenimore Cooper’s 19th century American frontier novel, The Last of the Mohicans. Certainly a problematic text in its original form with its imperial-fantasy riff on the French and Indian War (or Seven Years War) where Indigenous tribes in what is today upstate New York were either reduced to the noble or cruel savage stereotypes, the text proved a jumping off point for Mann to craft a gripping, primal, and prestigious film. He also made a movie that far exceeded its source material with The Last of the Mohicans being an often wordless opera of big emotions played in silence by Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, and Wes Studi, all while Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman’s musical score looms like thunderclouds across the mountainous landscape. It is an elevated action movie, and a beautiful drama that did bigger business in the U.S. than Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Tom Cruise vehicle A Few Good Men in the same year. It also would create a precedent we’d see followed time and again throughout the rest of the decade. Some of the biggest and most respected filmmakers of the moment, many of them praised under auteur theory, were looking to literary classics for an audience that craved them. After the one-two genre punch of Goodfellas (1990) and Cape Fear (1991), Martin Scorsese made one of his most ambitious and underrated films: a stone-cold 1993 masterpiece inspired by an Edith Wharton novel, The Age of Innocence. It’s a story that Scorsese argues is just as brutal, if not more so, than his gangster pictures. Indeed, The Age of Innocence remains the best cinematic representation of the Gilded Age in the U.S., capturing the lush pageantry of the most elite New Yorkers’ lifestyles in their robber baron heyday, as well as how class snobbery metastasized into a ruthless tribalism that doomed the romantic yearnings of one conformist attorney (again Daniel Day-Lewis) and this would-be divorcée love of his life (Michelle Pfeiffer). It might not have been a hit in its time, but Ang Lee’s breakout in the U.S. a year later definitely was. The Taiwanese filmmaker was already the toast of international and independent cinema via movies like The Wedding Banquet (1993) and martial arts-adjacent Pushing Hands (1991), but it is when he directed a flawless adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility in 1995 that he became a Hollywood favorite who would soon get movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Hulk (2003) greenlit. Sense and Sensibility benefits greatly, too, from a marvelous cast with Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, and Alan Rickman among its ensemble. It also captured the sophisticated satirical and melancholic underpinnings of Austen’s pen that most previous Hollywood adaptations never scratched. It set a standard that most of the best Austen adaptations to this day are measured by, be it Joe Wright and Keira Knightley’s cinematic take on Pride and Prejudice a decade later, various attempts at Emma from the 1990s with Gwyneth Paltrow to this decade with Anya Taylor-Joy, or even Netflix’s recent Dakota Johnson-led Persuasion adaptation. Columbia / Sony A Dark Universe of Gods and Monsters Meanwhile, right before Columbia Pictures greenlit Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence and later Gillian Armstrong’s still delightful (and arguably definitive) interpretation of Little Women in 1994, the same studio signed off on its first period piece with Winona Ryder attached to star. And it was Dracula. Considered a folly of hubris at the time by rivals who snickered to Variety it should be renamed “Bonfire of the Vampires” (in reference to a notorious Brian De Palma bomb from 1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula was Francis Ford Coppola’s lurid and magnificent reimagining of Stoker’s definitive Victorian novel. Published in 1897 with on-the-nose metaphors for London society’s anxieties over foreigners, sexual promiscuity and disease, and the so-called “New Woman” working in the professional classes, Coppola saw all of that potential in the well-worn and adapted vampire novel. He also correctly predicted there was a box office hit if he could bring all those elements out in an exciting and anachronistic fever dream for the MTV generation. Love or hate Coppola’s looseness with Stoker’s novel—which is pretty audacious since he put the author’s name in the title—Coppola crafted one of the most sumptuous and expensive depictions of Victorian society ever put onscreen, winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka an Oscar for the effort. He also made an unexpected holiday hit that played like bloody gangbusters alongside Home Alone 2 and Aladdin that winter. It set a standard for what can in retrospect be considered a pseudo “dark universe” of classic literary monsters getting ostensibly faithful and expensive adaptations by Hollywood. Coppola himself produced Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), a film that is actually in many ways closer to the thematic letter of its author than Bram Stoker’s Dracula ever was. It was also a worse movie that flopped, but it looked spectacular as the only major Frankenstein movie to remember Shelley set the story during the Age of Enlightenment in the late 18th century. Yet while Frankenstein failed, Tom Cruise and Neil Jordan would have a lot of success in the same year adapting Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. The book admittedly was recent, having been published in 1976, but the story’s roots and setting in 18th and 19th century bayou occultism were not. It was also a grandiose costumed drama where the guy who played Top Gun’s Maverick would sink fangs into young Brad Pitt’s neck in a scene dripping in homoeroticism. This trend continued throughout the ‘90s with some successes, like Tim Burton’s wildly revisionist (and Coppola-produced) Sleepy Hollow in 1999, and some misses. For instance, did you remember that Julia Roberts at the height of her stardom appeared in a revisionist take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde where she played the not-so-good doctor’s maid? It’s called Mary Reilly (1996), by the by. The Samuel Goldwyn Company The Resurgence of Shakespeare Of course when talking about classic literature and storytelling, one name rises above most others in the schools and curriculums of the English-speaking world. Yet curiously it was only in the 1990s that someone really lit on the idea of making a movie directly based on the Bard tailored almost exclusively for that demographic: Baz Luhrmann in 1996, who reconfigured the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet into the visual language of MTV. He even stylized the title as William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. That proved the tip of an anachronistic iceberg whose cast included Leonardo DiCaprio at the height of his heartthrob powers as Romeo and real-life teenager Claire Danes as his Capulet amore. Their Verona was a Neverland composite of Miami, Rio de Janeiro, and the nightly news, with hyper music video editing and frenetic neon-hued melodrama. Some older scholars viewed Luhrmann’s anachronisms as an abomination, but as a Millennial, I can attest we loved this thing back in the day. Many still do. But it was hardly the first box office breakout for Shakespeare in the ‘90s. When the decade began, the helmer of another cinematic Romeo and Juliet classic from a different era, Franco Zeffirelli, attempted to make Hamlet exciting for “kids these days” by casting Mel Gibson right in the midst of his Lethal Weapon popularity as the indecisive Dane. To the modern eye, it is hard to remember Gibson was a heartthrob of sorts in the ‘80s and early ‘90s—or generally viewed as a dashing star worthy of heroic leading men roles. Nonetheless, there is quite a bit to like about Hamlet (1990) if you can look past Gibson’s off-screen behavior in the following decades, or the fact Zeffirelli cuts what is a four-hour play down to less than 2.5 hours. Gibson actually makes for a credible and genuinely mad Hamlet (perhaps not a surprise now), and Zeffirelli mines the medieval melancholy of the story well with production design, costumes, and location shooting at real Norman castles. Plus, Helena Bonham Carter remains the best Ophelia ever put to screen. Hamlet (1990) would eventually be overshadowed, though, both by Gibson’s awful behavior and because of a much grander and bombastic adaptation from the man who became the King of Shakespeare Movies in the ‘90s: Kenneth Branagh. Aye, Branagh might deserve the most credit for the Shakespearean renaissance in this era, beginning with his adaptation of Henry V (1989), which featured the makings of Branagh’s troupe of former RSC favorites turned film actors: Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, and of course his future wife (and ex), Emma Thompson. Together the pair would mount what is in this writer’s opinion the best film ever based on a Shakespeare play, the divine and breezy Much Ado About Nothing (1993), a perfect encapsulation of perhaps the first romantic comedy ever written that features Branagh and Thompson as the sharp-tongued, dueling lovers Benedict and Beatrice. It also features Denzel Washington as a dashing Renaissance prince, Kate Beckinsale in her breakout role, and a gloriously over-the-top score by Patrick Doyle. It would define the style of Branagh’s following ‘90s efforts, whether they went off-the-rails like in the aforementioned Frankenstein, or right back on them in the 70mm-filmed, ultra wide and sunny adaptation of Hamlet he helmed in 1996. Avoiding the psychological and Freudian interpretations of the Danish prince chased by Olivier and Zeffirelli, Branagh turns Hamlet into a romantic hero spearheading an all-star ensemble cast. At the play’s full four-hour length, Hamlet (1996) is indulgent. Yet somehow that befits the material. Branagh would also star as Iago in Oliver Parker’s Othello (1995) opposite Laurence Fishburne and reconfigure the Bard as a musical in his own directorial effort, Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000). It paved the way for more outside-the-box Shakespeare movies by the end of the decade like Julie Taymor’s deconstructionist Titus (1999) and the A Midsummer Night’s Dream from 1999 where Kevin Kline turns into an ass and makes out with Michelle Pfeiffer. CBS via Getty Images The Birth of the Teenage Shakespeare Remix (and Austen, and Chaucer, and…) As popular as the Shakespeare movie became in the ‘90s, what’s curiously unique about this era is the simultaneous rise of movies that adapted either the Bard or other highly respected literary writers and turned them into a pure teenage dream. We’re talking moving past modernizing Romeo and Juliet like Luhrmann did, or repurposing it for high New York society like Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim aimed with West Side Story. These were straight, unapologetic youth films that also proved clever reworkings of classic storytelling structure. Among the best directly derived from Shakespeare is the movie that made Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger Gen-X icons, 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), a happily campy update of The Taming of the Shrew set in a fairytale high school also populated by future Christopher Nolan favorites like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and David Krumholtz. Stiles would, in fact, do this kind of remix a number times in the more serious-faced modernization of Othello, O (2000), which also starred Mekhi Phifer as a tragically distrusting high school sports star instead of warrior, and Michael Almereyda and Ethan Hawke’s own Hamlet (2000), the third Hamlet movie in 10 years, albeit this one set in turn-of-the-century NYC. Ledger also returned to the concept by adapting another, even older literary giant, in this case the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer, for A Knight’s Tale (2001), an anachronistic blending of the medieval and modern where peasants grooved in the jousting tournament stands to Queen. There was also the strange attempt to turn Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Dangerous Liaisons from 1782 into an erotic thriller for teens (the ‘90s were weird, huh?) via the lusty Cruel Intentions However, easily the best of these remains Amy Heckerling’s CluelessEmma from the Regency period to a fairytale version of 1990s Beverly Hills. Foregoing modern fads and simply inventing her own—with the assumption anything she wrote in 1994 would be dated by ’95—Heckerling create a faux yet now authentically iconic language and fashion style via Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a charmed SoCal princess who is so well-meaning in her matchmaking mischief that she defies any attempts to detest her entitlement or vanity. You kind of are even low-key chill that the happy ending is she hooks up with her step brother (Paul Rudd). It’s a classic! And the Rest There are many, many more examples we could examine from this era. These can include the sublime like the Gillian Armstrong-directed Little Women of 1994 starring Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Kirsten Dunst; and they can include the wretched like the Demi Moore and Gary Oldman-led The Scarlet Letter (1995). There were more plays adapted, a la Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (again with Ryder and Day-Lewis!), and then those that just had some fun with playwrights, as seen in the over-celebrated Shakespeare in LoveBraveheart (1995). More than a few of these won Best Picture Oscars as well, including Braveheart, Shakespeare in Love, and James Cameron’s little 1997 movie you might have heard about elsewhere: Titanic. And yet, this type of film has by and large gone away. Once in a while one comes along that still works, such as Greta Gerwig’s own revisionist interpretation of Little Women. That beautiful film was a good-sized hit in 2019, but it did not exactly usher in a new era of literary adaptations. Now such projects, like everything else not considered four-quadrant intellectual property by studio bean counters, is mostly relegated to long-form stream series. Which in some cases is fine. Many would argue the best version of Pride & Prejudice was the BBC production… also from the ‘90s, mind. But whether it is original period piece films or adaptations, unless you’re Robert Eggers (who arguably isn’t making films for the same mainstream sensibility the likes of Gerwig or, for that matter, Coppola were), period piece storytelling and “great adaptations” have been abandoned to the small screen and full-on wish fulfillment anachronisms like Bridgerton. This seems due to studios increasingly eschewing anything that isn’t reliably based on a brand that middle-aged adults loved. But in that case… it might be worth reminding them that ‘90s kids are getting older and having children of their own. There may again be a market beyond the occasional Gerwig swing, or Eggers take on Dracula, for classic stories; a new audience being raised to want modern riffs inspired by tales that have endured for years and centuries. These stories are mostly in the public domain too. And recent original hits like Sinners suggests you don’t even need a classic story to connect with audiences. So perhaps once again, a play’s the thing in which they can catch the conscience of the… consumer? Or something like that.

Strikerrr Member Oct 25, 2017 2,842 N² (@4nt1r34l) the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @Bungie @josephacross xcancel.com Here are bigger versions of the examples that she lists: This isn't the first time Bungie has been using art without crediting the artist. A similar situation happened in Destiny 2 a couple of years ago. In that situation, Bungie at least reached out to apologize to the artist and worked out a deal to compensate them Destiny 2 makers apologize for ‘mistaken’ use of fan art in cutscene Bungie says it will compensate the graphic designer www.polygon.com I hope ANTIREAL can get some similar recognition and compensation at the bare minimum. I'm curious how common this kind of art theft is within the games industry.  Zebesian-X Member Dec 3, 2018 25,231 Yeah that seems… pretty blatant. Bungie's gotta make this right   StarsAreStuff Member Feb 16, 2021 1,757 seeing as this art was all posted around 2017 really aligns with the Marathon production timeline start. gross stuff Bungie, disappointing as hell. BSKY link View: https://bsky.app/profile/antire.al/post/3lpa4gamtzs2l N² (@antire.al) the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net bsky.app   ResinPeasant93 Member Apr 24, 2024 2,420 It seems to be more common than one would think. Don't ask for permission, and don't ask for forgiveness either, unless by a court order.   AgentStrange Member Oct 25, 2017 5,001 Yeah, this is like the third instance of Bungie doing this this now I think. Pretty sus to say the least.   Ant_17 Member Oct 28, 2017 2,902 Greece As if we need more reasons to hate this game.   Sanders21 Member Sep 3, 2023 339 AgentStrange said: Yeah, this is like the third instance of this now I think. Pretty sus to say the least. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Fourth, based on this Verge article.   vixolus Prophet of Truth Member Sep 22, 2020 70,590 Yeah I just saw this come up on my bsky feed. It's literally ripped 1:1 in many areas as shown, not even just "inspired by"   Kinthey Avenger Oct 27, 2017 25,412 Straight up copying "Aleph Dark Space haulage logistics" is wild. Should be pretty open and shut. Like usually you could make some excuses about "Well, a double arrow symbol is going to look similar etc." but that's just a whole ass sentence copied, no ifs or buts.  NameUser Member Oct 25, 2017 17,190 They better make it right. Cut a check, put the artist in the credits.   Uhyve Member Oct 25, 2017 1,279 So the only part of Marathon that interests me was blatantly plagiarised. Modern Bungie makes me sad.  Smash-It Stan Member Oct 25, 2017 5,652 I saw the thread title and thought "AGAIN??" this has happened MULTIPLE times...   Audiblee Member Mar 14, 2025 1,386 Bungie's roll of negativity and self-owns continues. Compensate this artist.   The elusive man Member May 19, 2024 787 Damn they didn't even change it a little.   Crespo Member Oct 27, 2017 6,088 Sucks to see that.   LinguisticGoblin Member Jul 19, 2020 1,280 That is incredibly blatant looking   Suntzupp Member Mar 26, 2022 3,490 Bungie, the fuck is wrong with you?   Praedyth Member Feb 25, 2020 8,566 Brazil Yikes. This is blatant.   fiendcode Member Oct 26, 2017 26,291 Garbage company.   7thFloor Member Oct 27, 2017 7,268 U.S. Probably a single person responsible, that sucks   Remark Member Oct 27, 2017 4,135 The fact that Bungie has done this multiple times shows they seriously don't care lmao. Hope they get paid.  SolidSnakeUS Member Oct 25, 2017 12,072 Bungie... just come the fuck on. How about we don't fucking do this and be better... That is just blatant.   PimentaGui Member Jul 29, 2021 982 Fuck Bungie, wtf   Tagyhag Member Oct 27, 2017 15,119 Someone should get fired   TheRed Member Oct 31, 2017 3,176 The Aleph thing is just crazy to me lol just a straight copy   Temperance "This guy are sick" Member Oct 25, 2017 6,977 [NO 2FA] Remark said: The fact that Bungie has done this multiple times shows they seriously don't care lmao. Hope they get paid. Click to expand... Click to shrink... You say Bungie but who'd be responsibility for the actual actions of theft. Is it more Bungie artist department looking more and more sus? absolutely   banananahammock Member Aug 15, 2022 1,195 Uhyve said: So the only part of Marathon that interests me was blatantly plagiarised. Modern Bungie makes me sad. Click to expand... Click to shrink... this  Stencil Mailing His Own Damn Business Member Oct 30, 2017 13,474 USA Gross. Has anything come of the other three instances in which they've done this?  Nida Member Aug 31, 2019 15,091 Everett, Washington 7thFloor said: Probably a single person responsible, that sucks Click to expand... Click to shrink... Do they keep track of who does what exact art?  Dever Member Dec 25, 2019 5,830 Yikes lol. "Aleph Dark Space Haulage Logistics" totally sounds like it would be some minor part of the game's lore. But it's just copied and pasted from somewhere??   Falchion Member Oct 25, 2017 44,340 Oof, definitely looks like a copy + paste job.   7thFloor Member Oct 27, 2017 7,268 U.S. Nida said: Do they keep track of who does what exact art? Click to expand... Click to shrink... Internally? Yeah probably, and I imagine they're going to be in trouble for this   flyinj Member Oct 25, 2017 11,883 7thFloor said: Probably a single person responsible, that sucks Click to expand... Click to shrink... The question is- is it the same person who did it four times before  nihilence nøthing but silence Moderator Oct 25, 2017 18,908 From 'quake area to big OH. You could make a case for coincidence, except for the ALEPH thing. Yikes   DoradoWinston Member Apr 9, 2019 8,355 How am I not surprised the only part that seemed remotely interesting did not come from Bungie. That shit is blatant copy and paste holy   super moustique Member Oct 31, 2017 9,761 Hopefully, she'll get both the recognition and money she deserves for her (indirect) work on Marathon.   cowbanana Member Feb 2, 2018 16,331 a Socialist Utopia This is extremely blatant with the 1:1 ripping of exact design elements. There's literally zero excuses in this case. But I wouldn't call the overall design language very unique/original, it's very "Designer's Republic" going back to the 90s. They could just have made their own take on this style of design and they'd be fine, if unoriginal. But straight ripping elements makes Bungie look insanely bad in this case.  Nameless Hero Member Oct 25, 2017 23,330 Dever said: Yikes lol. "Aleph Dark Space Haulage Logistics" totally sounds like it would be some minor part of the game's lore. But it's just copied and pasted from somewhere?? Click to expand... Click to shrink... I'm 99% sure Aleph is part of the Marathon lore. The (fan) port of the original game is called Marathon Aleph One  Muffin Member Oct 26, 2017 10,751 nihilence said: You could make a case for coincidence, except for the ALEPH thing. Yikes Click to expand... Click to shrink... That logo row is already bad enough imo   maze001 Member Sep 18, 2024 584 Wow, I was not expecting it to be such a blatant case of theft. They literally copy pasted and rotated her art and called it a day. Crazy shit!  pittman Member Aug 15, 2019 252 Theres nothing wrong with being inspired by something. But whole sale lifting this stuff is nuts. This stuff was definitely on some mood board for the game and filter it's way through everything   Hong Member Oct 30, 2017 855 Literally stolen. Absolutely shameless. Imagine all the art that hasn't been recognised as stolen.   Kiyamet Member Apr 21, 2024 3,563 I dont know about Bungie's art director situation but often when I worked on assets I would be given mood boards for inspiration and be expected to basically, well, do just this Its most likely multiple layers of contract work that allowed this to happen I wouldnt put it squarely on Bungie for happening, though it is indeed on Bungie to fix it  cyress8 "This guy are sick" Avenger Oct 25, 2017 6,015 being broke, to being semi-broke. Straight copies. Guess they need to hire her and fire the person leading the art dept. Massive screw up.  PlanetSmasher The Abominable Showman Member Oct 25, 2017 132,602 Dever said: Yikes lol. "Aleph Dark Space Haulage Logistics" totally sounds like it would be some minor part of the game's lore. But it's just copied and pasted from somewhere?? Click to expand... Click to shrink... nihilence said: You could make a case for coincidence, except for the ALEPH thing. Yikes Click to expand... Click to shrink... Aleph One Aleph One is an enhanced open source version of Marathon 2: Durandal's game engine.[1] The game engine has been in development since the year 2000 when Bungie released Marathon 2's source code prior to its acquisition by Microsoft. The game engine has made many improvements to Marathon 2, such... bungie.fandom.com   Threadmarks Bungee Art Director follows Artist New Index Cian One Winged Slayer Member Feb 17, 2018 676 Joseph Cross, Marathon's Art Director, has followed her for years, but never reached out.   New Index Turnabout Sisters The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 2,704 Wow wasn't there just a story about someone suing Bungie for copying something in some Destiny 2 stuff?   Vic Tokai Member Aug 9, 2018 207 Wow. The art & graphic design style of the game was the only thing interesting to me about it (I'm simply too old for competitive multiplayer games, I would rather spend my time doing literally anything else that doesn't involve getting yelled at by 12 year olds online), so now I'm just gonna go to the source for that art. Just followed this artist on Bluesky and will definitely buy prints of their work, if they sell any. EDIT: Was just scrolling through images on their site, and damn. There's my next decade of phone wallpapers sorted...  Last edited: 59 minutes ago LiK Member Oct 25, 2017 34,452 Considering they had laid off so many artists, I can def see this happening. I had zero interest in Marathon and this just makes it easier to ignore.   Uhyve Member Oct 25, 2017 1,279 7thFloor said: Probably a single person responsible, that sucks Click to expand... Click to shrink... While it might have been one person responsible for the plagiarism, the art style for the entire game ended up riffing on this persons art seemingly without credit. It's just kinda bizarre that they presumably built their style guide ripping the artist off, and then also directly ripped the artist off. 

A few summers ago, when the culture was moving through micro trends as fast as they could be Instagrammed, Cottage Core was born. The trend, which came out of a Covid-influenced romanticism for living close to nature (but not ruffing it, à la gorpcore, fashion’s cousin trend), inspired an infusion of chintz and whicker-filled interiors, and, of course, lush English-style gardens.Flash forward to 2025. All those cottage gardens planted in early 2020—rustic, sophisticated, chic—are at their peak. And there really is something to an outdoor space that merges with the indoors, is there not? On a warm summer evening, when the bougainvillea is in bloom, and the grass is a bit damp, what could be more appealing than a home built to nestle into a fantastical garden.Here, we’ve collected some of our favorite cottage gardens. They range from fairy house gardens to campground landscape, historical (Anne Hathaway’s famed cottage that has inspired Shakespeare devotees the world over) to contemporary compound gardens in the woods.While we may have a specific notion of a cottage garden, but they are—and should be—as unique as the people who tend them. One lesson for planting your own? A small space is an asset rather than a limitation.Below, you’ll find 15 of our favorite cottage gardens from Marin County California to Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.William Jess LairdThis Amagansett cottage was literally designed for “summertime snoozes.” It’s also a good reminder that a delicate slate garden pathway can take you far. Designer Melissa Lee noted how “unexpected” the whole place felt, surrounded by the many mansions of the Hamptons. As she rightfully notes, the charm is in the surprise. A suggestion of mystery always adds to a cottage! Think The Secret Garden or the unexpectedly expansive Weasley Family home.Noe DewittVines climb up this 1920s English Art and Crafts style cottage in the Hamptons. The elegant and eclectic cottage was re-designed by Nick Olsen to emphasize outdoor living with comfy couches, a tiled patio and a pool.William James LairdThis pink cottage kitchen looks out over a garden in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Designer Clive Lonstein’s work is vibrant and unexpected, particularly for a modest Connecticut cottage built in the late 1800s. In a way though, the bright colors all throughout the house are a reflection of the original design for the house. The architect, Ehrick Rossiter was known for his own whimsy, and even included a turret in this design. This cottage is a great reminder to leave the door open all summer long.Stephen Kent JohnsonThis former fishing shack in Provincetown proves that a sprawling garden can fit into a small space. From Windex yellow fox gloves to arching lavender, this is a bucolic slice of heaven. A classic shingled home, complete with flower boxes and a white picket fence, it has a deeply cottage-core sequence backstory. It was used as an artist studio for William Maynard until his death in 2016, and when it was sold, prospective buyers were asked to write why they wanted to live there.Rachael SmithWe love an indoor / outdoor cottage garden. Ideally, you have a branch that grows through a window, like this one in Suzie de Rohan Willner’s English Country Garden. It is a charming marriage of dynamics: English and French, contemporary and historical, and, of course just as eclectic as a cottage should be. Willner notes, “The whole house is a collection of things from each period of my and my husband’s lives. I love to pick up bibs and bobs and it all comes together very happily.”Chronicle / Alamy Stock PhotoKate Middleton’s Adelaide Cottage conjures images of an Arthurian fantasy. The Wales family made this their Windsor home since 2023. Built in 1831 for Queen Adelaide (the German-born wife of William IV, who was the Uncle of Queen Victoria). It went through a transformative renovation in 2015 which left the historical decorations in tact. Fun fact: the Wales family pay market rent for their use of the home.Photo 12//Getty ImagesThe poet, actor, and playwright Anne Hathaway’s famed cottage and accompanying garden must have inspired her husband’s plays (that would be Shakespeare). This might be what comes to mind when you think of a cottage garden. Now open to the public daily, it was originally built more than 500 years ago, and is the site of Hathaway’s own birth in 1556.CostcoThis Costco (yes, Costco!) shed turned cottage is an ideal backdrop for your cottage garden fantasy. If you’re feeling very DIY this year, start here. Priced at $6,499, it measures 12’ x 24’ feet, a perfect amount of space for your own summer hide away or gardening shed.Richard PowersThis glass house is a reminder that a cottage garden doesn’t have to follow a prescribed style. The Amagansett cottage, originally built in 1960, is a marvel of mid-century design, an aesthetic reflected in the mod-furniture choices. Again, we love a stylistic mix in an updated cottage. Japanese Maple Trees complete the woodsy vibe.© David Hockney, Photo By Jonathan WilkinsonDavid Hockney illustrated his own cottage garden during the Pandemic. His drawing is illustrative of the benefits of an English garden: a bit wild, extremely lush, and more green than anything else. If we could, we’d jump right into this scene like Mary Poppins on a rainy day.John M. Hall for ELLE DecorHere’s a rule of thumb: trust Ina Garten. This cottage-like structure, on the grounds of the East Hampton home Garten shares with her husband Jeffrey, is perennially perfect. Note, too, the green and purple color scheme here. This is perhaps the dream cottage garden and something of a childhood playhouse. It has just enough space for a cozy chat and is a reminder that you can build your own little cottage on a very small plot of land.Photo 12//Getty ImagesMarie Antoinette’s Hamlet on the grounds of Versailles still sets the standard for the cottage garden with a thatched roof, hedges, and roses straight out of a fairy tale. During the former French Queen’s reign, her hamlet was used as a faux farm house, where she and her young daughter, Princess Marie Thérèse, would dress as idealized versions of French peasant farmers and milk cows. The interior, though, of this modest cottage, is appropriately grand with silk furnishings and canopy beds.Douglas FriedmanA garden that proves succulents and cottages are a match made in heaven. This one, in Marin County, California, adds a bit of desert flair. On the other side of this cottage is a water way and a perfect little dock for launching paddle boards. We love how the greens liven up this side of the house and create a completely different, almost modern desert-like, aesthetic. As with any great cottage garden, there is a distinctly transportive factor.Michael CliffordA light wood sauna and cold plunge on the grounds of Jenni Kayne’s Hudson Valley farmhouse are hidden behind shrubbery for a sense of privacy against a wide open landscape. We love the idea of adding a spa-like ambiance to a cottage garden as well as finding inventive ways to use the space. This is exactly where we want to be in the summer!Getty ImagesThis is sort of cheating, but Bunny Williams is a necessary inclusion! Williams’s Oak Spring Garden in Upperville, Virginia continues to inspire garden and cottage enthusiasts the world over. Rather than one cottage, the grounds of Williams’s large estate feature a guest cottage and a basket house, both of which are charming in the extreme.Dorothy ScarboroughDorothy Scarborough (she/her) is the assistant to the Editor in Chief of Town & Country and Elle Decor.