Forces. (Kunitsu-Gami GMV)

It's not lore accurate lol but I liked the idea and felt like making a shorter one too.

This is the third Forces one I made but the first I've decided to post. The very first isn't complete yet. Or rather, I'm not satisfied with it yet.

A simple thumbnail.

Making this video is actually when I noticed that when Soh's powers are stolen by Batsu, it's affecting Yoshiro too. Her silhouette 'doubles', as if she's being pulled.

I make GMVs for myself so I often sit with them for months even years, before posting them. Most times I never post them.

It's just very satisfying to see something actualized.

I hope you enjoy it.

Kunitsu-Gami Game Design Commentary 8: Mukadejoro 百足女郎むかでじょろう

■第8回　技術は凄い！が調整大変！！百足女郎　
企画から百足モチーフのボスの提案がありました。這う蟲の災のイメージ行ける！分かる、必要よね、ははっ。次の瞬間、あれ、これ作るの色々大変なのでは？どうすれば、この大型敵を上手く作れるのかな～と必死に考えながら、デザインに入りました。… pic.twitter.com/9gEz7LAlHy

— 【公式】 祇（くにつがみ）：Path of the Goddess (@Kunitsu_Gami_JP) May 4, 2026

 ■第8回　技術は凄い！が調整大変！！百足女郎　

企画から百足モチーフのボスの提案がありました。這う蟲の災のイメージ行ける！分かる、必要よね、ははっ。次の瞬間、あれ、これ作るの色々大変なのでは？どうすれば、この大型敵を上手く作れるのかな～と必死に考えながら、デザインに入りました。

本体、足（連続部分）、尻尾という感じで構成して、本体の動きに追従するように関節くっつけて、アニメーションの負担も少し減らして…等々構成を考えるの先でした。

所謂、女性を連想させるデザインは本作には少ないので良さげかなと思い意識しつつ、足は設置とか細かい事が気にならない様に、ブヨブヨで大きくし、エフェクトで良い感じにしてもらい。

全体的に垂れた塊と外骨格のコントラストをつけ完成。

その間にも技術進歩もあり、床を歩く以外にも壁にも上り、天井に張り付く等想定以上の動きを見せてくれました。

■Round 8: The Tech is Amazing! But the Adjustments Are Tough!! Centipede Lady  

There was a proposal from the planning stage for a boss with a centipede motif. The image of a crawling insect disaster works! I get it, it's necessary, right? Haha. The next moment, wait, isn't making this going to be really tough in various ways? How can we create this large enemy smoothly~? I desperately pondered that as I dove into the design.  

I structured it with the main body, legs (continuous parts), and tail, attaching joints to follow the main body's movements, slightly reducing the animation burden... and so on—that was the first step in figuring out the composition.  

Since designs evoking women are rare in this work, I thought it might be a nice change and made a conscious effort, while making the legs plump and large so that placement and fine details wouldn't be noticeable, and had effects added to make it look good.  

Overall, I created a contrast between the sagging mass and the exoskeleton to complete it.  

In the meantime, tech advancements happened too, and it showed movements beyond expectations—not just walking on the floor, but climbing walls and sticking to ceilings.

Plaque Lore:

昔々、洞窟どうくつで暮らす女がいた。 その姿を見た者の村の田畑は蟲害ちゅうがいを受けるという言い伝えがあった。 時は進み、その言い伝えを恐おそれた村人は洞窟どうくつの中にある巨大きょだいな柱を祀まつった。 その柱には人骨があり、不憫ふびんに思った村人が埋葬まいそうしようとするととても信じられないほど巨大きょだいな百足むかでの姿へと成り果てた女が現れて、 瞬またたく間に柱を登って行ってしまったという。

Long ago, there was a woman who lived in a cave. According to legend, all those who laid eyes on her would soon find their fields infested with plagues of insects. As time passed, the villagers began to fear the legitimacy behind this tale and started to worship the large pillar of fossilized bones found in her cave. Full of pity, the villagers made to lay the old bones to rest, only for a woman in the form of a tremendous centipede to scurry its way up the pillar.

Kunitsu-Gami Game Design Commentary 7: Rosokuro(ろうそく老ろう)

第7回　モーションキャプチャーの面白み！！ろうそくろう
ここまで、敵の機能が出そろえば次はバフキャラが必要。主人公サイドもレベルアップするので敵側も強く出来るような性能を考える。… pic.twitter.com/IZ7WVBtgIh

— 【公式】 祇（くにつがみ）：Path of the Goddess (@Kunitsu_Gami_JP) May 1, 2026

第7回　モーションキャプチャーの面白み！！ろうそくろう

ここまで、敵の機能が出そろえば次はバフキャラが必要。主人公サイドもレベルアップするので敵側も強く出来るような性能を考える。

ミーティング中に「火を灯して煽る感じだね」と出たので、それを元に呪詛唱えて力を与える、ロウソクで火を分け灯す感じから現在の形に落ち着く。法衣を来て、その首が伸びてシルエットはロウソクっぽく、舌が芯になり灯がともっている。喉はふいごの様に動く。

色々出来上がった後に気づく、そういえば火ふきってもの居ましたね。

モーションキャプチャー時は上の人と下の人で同時に撮影する様にデータを組んでおり、普段の撮影とは違い非常に面白味がありました。

Round 7: The Fun of Motion Capture!! Candle Row

Up to this point, once the enemy functions are all in place, next we need buffer characters. Since the protagonist side levels up, we think about performance that can make the enemy side stronger too.

During the meeting, someone said, "It's like lighting a fire and fanning the flames," so based on that, it settled into the current form of chanting curses to grant power, sharing the flame by lighting it with a candle. Wearing robes, its neck stretches out and the silhouette looks like a candle, with the tongue becoming the wick and the flame lit. The throat moves like bellows.

After everything was finished, we realized, oh right, there was this thing called a fire-breather.

For motion capture, we set up the data to shoot the upper and lower parts simultaneously with two people, and unlike regular shooting, it had a lot of interesting flavor.

Plaque Lore: 

異界について記された書物との出会いをきっかけに畏哭いこくを操る術を求めて 山中を歩く中、異界にまぎれ込こんでしまった老人の成れの果て。異界の中で念願の畏哭いこくを操る呪炎じゅえんの術を習得するが、 その姿や思念は目的に取り憑つかれた異形と化していた。 己もまた畏哭いこくへと成り果てたことに気づかないまま、 今も喜々として畏哭いこくに呪炎じゅえんを与あたえ続けているという。

There once was a man so entangled with his work, that it devoured him alive. Upon finding a tome detailing the other world, he sought for the power to control the Seethe. His chance eventually came when he was spirited away from the mountain, where he threw himself into his research in the other world. Possessed with manic ambition, he finally mastered the art of the cursed flame.

However, joyous in his newfound powers over the Seethe, he does not realize that he has become the very creature he sought to control.

The other world mentioned here is what I was hoping we'd explore in the DLC. :(