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The Gogolithic Mass haunts the Scythian throughout her errand, and serves as a constant reminder of the threshold between the Earthly and the supernatural through which she travels. The deathless spectre is a liminal being, neither completely natural nor fully supernatural. Let us then consider the Gogolithic Mass. At first I did not much care for this mix of pixel graphics and gradients, but as I played the game I came to realize that just as the pixel graphics represent the natural, the gradients represent the supernatural. Even the shine on the Scythian's sword (shown above) uses a gradient. The sky, and especially the moon are rendered with gradients, as are the Sylvan Sprites that the Scythian releases. The smooth gradient looks out of place in the otherwise 8-bit world, but it is hardly the only high resolution graphic in the game. The Gogolithic Mass is drawn as a smooth black gradient with blocky pixel hands and horned skull. In Mingi Taw the Scythian encounters a deathless spectre known as the Gogolithic Mass. Within the game itself there is also a center/periphery relationship between where the Caucus mountain people live, and Mingi Taw where the Scythian must venture to complete her errand. The fact that the Scythian is referred to by where she is from (Scythia) and not her name (which we never learn) indicates that she has already journeyed far away from her center. Sword and Sworcery uses this idea of center/periphery in two ways. The center is your home, and the farther into the periphery you go the more likely you are to encounter the supernatural, and the stranger things get. A concept we have been discussing is that of center/periphery.
One of my classes this semester is focused on legends. The jagged pixelated graphics come to indicate all that is Earthly and natural. We accept that we are to the Scythian as the Fates are to us. The game makes it very clear that the player is not the Scythian, but rather a divine influence over her. We guide the Scythian on her woeful errand through a strange land. We are introduced to the game world by a Jungian Archetype who explains that we are entering a mythopoetic experiment. Superbrother's Sword and Sworcery EP deals heavily with the supernatural.
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