Spend the entire year inside watching Curiosity Stream: http://www.curiositystream.com/superbunnyhop
Hades is on Steam at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/
BBC Documentary footage from: Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUcUcXJ_UCk
Theogony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obUIM5Q7itY
Metamorphses: http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.html
City of God: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45304/45304-h/45304-h.htm
Greece drone footage from Standard Broadcasting
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— Xenophanes —
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own."
I legitimately didn't even register that Athena was portrayed as black in this game until you drew my attention to it.
Normally I'd say that's a mark against my observational skills, but I've been playing this thing since it's first days in Early Access. I think a more accurate answer is that I just didn't care what the colour of the gods' skins are. They're gods, they can assume any visage they choose, why not?
The comments that boil down to "What? Black people exist?" crack me up here. Follow your leader.
About the similarities of beliefs…
You should Google Solar Christ myth.
Even the religious of today are copies of ancient ones..
George says trans rights 🙂
Left overs from Troy reviw mayhp?
Really cool to see you channel your reading and current history fascination into these videos. This is a great overview of greek culture! (From someone with a degree in classics here)
Ton’s of luck to have a big budget game about the greek bronze age release shortly before this one, so you could get this all out in chronological order. Good stuff!
Good job
another great deep dive well beyond the game. Not knowing what insights George brings is all the more the reason to watch.
this company's games have always been overrated.
Apparently not even Airplane Mode can save you from death.
Zagreus also fit another Camus quote : "T rebel, therefore I exist"
Good to hear your voice again, man.
This was an unfortunately whiny and meandering video.
damn ol' Gorg has been reading Camus, I'm impressed
Tell me more about how shamelessly horny I am.
As cringy as always George, keep on spewing your pseudo intellectual mind rot
If you wanna keep talking about Mythology, talk about the La-Mulana games! Those are good 😀
Hey man, just thought I'd let you know that I've been watching your videos for like, almost 7 years now and I just wanna say thanks for putting out consistently quality content. I truly hope your channel blows up and you get the recognition you deserve.
I am Greek. Black gods were NOT a thing. I find it offensive,because I feel that it tries to ignore and delete my cultural image. We are mediterraneans , our skin is white but tanning easily and not burning,not black. So stop black washing us for fucks shake.
GREEK GODS ARE AND ALWAYS WERE OF LIGHT SKIN. The end.
So I guess he liked the game?
You're so smart George
Thanks for the vid. Always great.
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Wait, you tricked me into watching a clip about history and religion? Hm, okay.
Is there a place where you share your text sources, too? Really interested in the whole mythology-culture thing myself.
IDK if Aphrodite was that warlike. In Homer's Iliad, at least, she's depicted as pretty meek. At one point, she tries to save some dude by carrying from the battlefield unarmed only to get stabbed and injured. I'm pretty sure there's a line or two about her not belonging in combat because she's not a goddess of such things. Maybe it's different in Roman mythology, or maybe the spear is just a phallic symbol or a metaphor for love piercing one's heart or something.
NGL I kept only seeing drawings of the male gods and people thirsting over them in twitter, so I thought it was some action game with a shitload of yaoi.
Not trolling but I think George should take the critical reception of this reception into regard. People want analysis of interesting games, not obscurantist wikipedia-ing and navalgazing. It's just not interesting.
Don't mind me, just back a second time to judge his gameplay skill level…
Oi YouTube this is like my favorite channel why didn’t you tell me this video came out
You spent more time complaining about a controversy I’ve never even heard of without any post/thread/article to back up, and take up nearly 70% of the video lecturing on how Greek gods were black, to make a le epic racist rebuttal rather than talking about the themes of hades, I don’t even have a problem with that because people still could’ve learned from it, but I feel like you should change the title of the video to better reflect it.
Your channel name is “Super Bunnyhop”. Are you able to bunnyhop? (Quake, Counter-Strike, etc.) And of course, rocket jumping. Air-strafing. Beautiful things.
To think that greek mythology as we know it is basically the equivalent of a Marvel-DC crossover event.
Do you know the difference between Sub-Saharan Africans and North Africans, George?
Sorry to butt in like this after an entire month but Aphrodite's boons are mostly defensive (weakness/charm) with the only ones that increase your damage being the attack ones – a common effect among all gods.
Also, uh… Hades is about finding a reason to try again? But… Zagreus never tries to do that. He always has that reason. I don't understand how you'd play this game and arrive at that conclusion instead of the far more obvious trope of the rebellious son.