Kunitsu-Gami Game Design Commentary 12: Enenra(煙々羅えんえんら)

■第12回　顔をリロード！！えんえんら
遠くから呪詛を唱えて、プレイヤーからNPCへの干渉を塞ぐ。という機能をまず考える。
ゲームとしては、接敵しにくくなるから分かり易くしないと。ミーティングの中でラフ画と共にお焚き上げと言うワードが出現。… pic.twitter.com/TnLswcpt0m

— 【公式】 祇（くにつがみ）：Path of the Goddess (@Kunitsu_Gami_JP) May 13, 2026

■第12回　顔をリロード！！えんえんら

遠くから呪詛を唱えて、プレイヤーからNPCへの干渉を塞ぐ。という機能をまず考える。

ゲームとしては、接敵しにくくなるから分かり易くしないと。ミーティングの中でラフ画と共にお焚き上げと言うワードが出現。

それだ！頭から延々と煙が出ている。近所の神社で節分の時に神社で見るあの感じ。

罪人の顔を模したものを頭に装填して燃やす！顔自体は”受け皿や襟”に見立て高尚な雰囲気に見える様に造形。

リロードする素材は腰にぶら下げてて、大事そうに他の手で押さえている。顔が装填されると見た目的には完成。

独特な舞が非常にかっこ良い。

■Round 12: Reload the Face!! Enenra

Chant curses from afar to block interference from players to NPCs. First, let's think about that function.

As a game, it makes it harder to engage enemies, so it needs to be visually clear. During the meeting, the word "offering to the fire" came up along with rough sketches.

That's it! Smoke endlessly billowing from the head. Like the sight at the local shrine during Setsubun.

Load a likeness of the sinner's face onto the head and burn it! The face itself is shaped to resemble a "receptacle or collar," giving it a refined atmosphere.

The reload material is dangling from the waist, carefully held in place by the other hand. Once the face is loaded, it looks complete visually.

The unique dance is incredibly cool.

Plaque Lore:

大勢のお経の音と共に現れる。 身体の周りには蛇へびのように巻き付けた経典、腰こしには生前に仏門で悪事を働いた坊主ぼうずたちを模した呪面じゅめんをぶら下げており、その呪面じゅめんからは不気味な念仏が唱えられ続けるという。 呪面じゅめんから発せられる煙けむりは宗そうと仮面の力を抑おさえ込こむ力を持ち、煙けむりが消えると腰こしにぶらさげた呪面じゅめんと取り換かえることで再び煙けむりを発するようになる。

The Enenra have snakelike sutras coiling around their bodies, and the cursed heads of Buddhist monks who committed evil acts during their lifetime hanging from their waists. The heads chant ominous sutras, which can be heard as the Enenra approach, and produce a cursed smoke that suppresses both Soh's own powers and the powers granted through Soh's mask. If one head extinguishes, an Enenra can replace it with a fresh one hanging from its waist.

When we're in Defiled State, we can't guide the villagers or change occupations. The Command screen is unavailable. 

But it says it 'suppresses Soh's own power and the power granted through Soh's mask'.

We bestow power using the mask but suppressing Soh's own power...must be the inability to control the villagers. Which is said to be Yoshiro's power.

When I pasted Soh's plaque into Google Translate App, this came out:

A messenger of the Mountain Deity, an entity that, across the generations, has guided and watched over a world steeped in chaos. Descending into the realm of mortals, it has bestowed guidance upon each successive generation, and, through the lineage, granted power via the medium of a mask.

It's not translating Soh's or Yoshiro's names yet doesn't this make perfect sense in the context of the game?

Each Yoshiro is guided by Soh and through Soh's mask, she grants powers of the masks upon the villagers.

But what 'own power' of Soh's is being suppressed?