ᴄᴀʀʀʏɪɴɢ ᴀ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ʙᴜᴛ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀ ɴᴀᴍᴇ, ᴀ Fɪɢᴜʀᴇ ʀᴜɴs ᴀᴄʀᴏss ᴛʜᴇ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴs ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ.

Oh, ᴀ ᴍᴇssᴇɴɢᴇʀ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇɪᴛʏ ʜᴀs ᴄᴏᴍᴇ!

❀ Previous Theory(until I write about my new, current one)❀

Kunitsu-Gami lore as its own entity: looking at myth of the mountain god and new ideas on Cursed Soh's identity.

Monday, 18 May 2026

Kunitsu-Gami Game Design Commentary 14: Hidarugami(ヒダルがみ)

■第14回 両面フロントの憑き物、ヒダル神!
村人達の力と同じ様に、逆の力に作用するお面として考案。
お面だけだと、インパクトに欠けるので、お面から人の身体が生えているイメージへ。
頭をすっぽり覆って二人羽織状態になって操る!背中は無く両方前として作っています。
村人の手足を奪い、操り人形的に考えていたので手足自体は触手、軟体感が出るようにしました。
二人羽織はIK等、非常に大変になりそうな空気と取り憑かれている状態が視認し辛いかも?を察知したので、シンプルに顔だけに取り憑いて、上に上る印象になって分かり易くなり解決。
■14th Round: The Possession of the Double-Fronted Hidarugami!
Conceived as a mask that exerts an opposing force in the same way as the villagers' power.
Since a mask alone lacked impact, we shifted to an image where a human body sprouts from the mask.
It covers the head completely, creating a two-person costume state where it manipulates! The back is absent, designed with both sides as fronts.
Since we were thinking of it as seizing the villagers' limbs and treating them like puppets, the limbs themselves are made into tentacles to give a soft, invertebrate feel.
We sensed that the two-person costume would be extremely challenging with IK and such, and the state of possession might be hard to visualize, so we simplified it to just possessing the face, giving an impression of rising upward, which made it clearer and solved the issue.

Plaque Lore:
人間に憑依ひょういし極度の疲労感ひろうかんや空腹感をあたえてりつくとされる畏哭いこく。ヒダルがみの正体はかつて同じくヒダルがみりつかれた人間であるとされ、憑依ひょういされた者の周囲では徐々じょじょに生気をうばわれるといった現象が発生する。これは自身が味わった苦しみを他人にも味わわせたいという人間の悪性が顕現けんげんしたものとする説もある。
The Hidarugami will possess humans, inflicting them with severe hunger and fatigue. Legend states that they are born from humans whose life force was completely drained by another Hidarugami. But some believe that they are actually the manifestation of unfortunate humans who wished for others to experience the same suffering.
So the way it looks when possessing Yoshiro the first time was the original idea for it?