Who gave this old man a gun?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I don't know a lot about guns, but I am still pretty sure it shouldn't be able to shoot three times without reloading. I don't think he ever reloads it, honestly. Maybe he's just got a bunch of them in his inventory and does high tier PvP menuing to swap them out.
Song used: Kakariko Village (Day) - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild OST
In addition to these variants, there are cutscene-specific versions of Isshin in the white robes and Sword Saint Isshin. They're a little bit shorter than the actual gameplay versions, and probably have slightly higher fidelity face models for close-ups. I debated whether to say three or four main versions, so I went with three based on the model IDs. Depending on how you choose to count them, there's technically around seven distinct forms of Isshins.
Could you make a similar video with divine dragon? Always wanted to see his model detailed
Interesting... 🤔
Seven you say, like the seven Ashina Spears, deepest lore
Where there is one Isshin, there are more in the walls.
Show Dancer's face without mask please there is no such thing in the internet even after 6 years since ds3 came out
Simple: this is a trick weapon that transforms between a gun and a bench
BLOODBORNE 2: THE OLD BLOOD DIES TWICE CONFIRMED?
After watching this video I firmly believe that Isshin stays strapped
New Bloodborne DLC the eastern hunters. Featuring new trick weapon the Blasting Bench.
Isshin, after watching Emma fall to Shura:
"Shit, shoulda brought the bench.."
haha
BB
reference
I really love these close up looks, just shows the attention to detail that Miyazaki wants his team to focus on.
I also adore all the Zelda tracks you put in your videos, I'm a massive fan.
bro really said "call an ambulance, but not for me"
holy shit that gun model is REALLY GOOD
it's even got that channel for the powder that the flint ignites
Tuberculosis perhaps.
Blue nails from oxygen deprivation, And on the inside of his tengu mask, there is blood around the mouth, indicating coughing.
was expecting another jumpscare from the pipe of the gun at the end
Man got stabbed with something big, ouch
Judging by Isshin's skin color (and his love of Sake) it's probably something to do with kidney/liver failure.
some comment up mentioned the scar too
The pistol has the shape of a Tanegashima, Sengoku-Early Edo Period matchlock pistol, which would make sense for Sekiro's time period as it's during the Sengoku Period.
That said there is something off about it,
It's matchlock firing mechanism has been replaced with a flintlock.
A matchlock firing hammer would be longer and have a rope serving as the match to burn the gunpowder when the trigger is pulled.
The you can see thr flintlock, as the hammer is also a clamp, held by a screw squeezing the flint in place.
Which wouldn't be around for another 220 years at the earliest.
If anyone's curious about a trigger or trigger guard they wouldn't have had a trigger guard at the time and the triggers were pretty small, Some were farther back, as the Tanegashima were inspired by portuguese arquebuses who had triggers closer to the middle finger on the grip.
That's weird. Gun looks closer to a flintlock, yet he fires it like a glock.
I legit thought he just had a glock.
It certainly looks like a gun of the period. However its downright impossible a single action flintlock would be able to fire 3 shots in succession like how it does in gameplay.
seeing as it doesn't have a trigger, no, this is not a functional design. However, it is whipped out for exactly 5 miliseconds, so I never noticed it in game, which means it really doesnt matter. he probably would be using a system that has multiple gunpowder charges to allow rapid fire, which makes sense with the rather bulky design.
You right, it is a pretty cool gun
"Maybe he's just got a bunch of them in his inventory and does high tier PvP menuing to swap them out."
Totally agree with Zullie on this.
Thats some Doom tire weapon swapping
@@crimsonstrykr basically lord inquisitor victor saltzpyre
@@Minority119 Fuck, you beat me to it.
Where does she say this?
Edit: it's in the description, it didn't load for me the first time. I think youtube's page design is uniquely designed for probably decent reasons, but fuck if it doesn't have a myriad of loading issues
@@GuagoFruit thanks, the description didn't load for me the first time.
the guy who spent time making his nails dark to signify illness: *slams table* THANK YOU
FromSoft, always taking their sweet time on stuff most people won't ever see
I mean all in all slightly changing the coloration is super easy, I'm more impressed by the gun modeling or the scarring in the back, which you are never in a million years seeing in game but they still bothered to model and texture.
@@matheuscruz8574 guess they know dataminer (is it the right name?) exists, maybe will also put easter eggs here and there hahah
Regardless of how easy or hard it is to do, it's the fact that they did it at all, the detail of it, is what's impressive
i really wish they had a photo mode or model gallerie in bloodborn i always had the glasses item to zoom to see things better
I’m surprised how much detail they put into a gun you’d probably never get a good look at.
i was thinking the same thing during that part. but now im convinced developers do this as a sort of reward to the more visually observant part of the user base.
Maybe at one point it was going to be another trick weapon or they planned to have it visible amongst Isshin’s things?
The fact that it has the same pattern as the bench and we can see Isshin’s tengu outfit near him makes me think they could have had it hanging there at some point?
Granted From Software is the king of including a fair bit more detail than is probably necessary so who’s to say?
@@AK-tr6lo makes me think it’s a reused texture sorta.
Same. I never expected it to have such an ornate design.
@@65-bitgamer perhaps it’s a pistol design from Bloodborne they scraped?
2:03 The gun design looks plausible. Its the repeated fire that its not.
Anything is possible for a gun saint.
There is actually a (admittedly short as fuck) overlap between revolver pistols and samurai, so it depends on when Sekiro is placed in time, since they have fairly easy and fast to reload rifles, it isn't a huge stretch for Isshin to have a few revolvers in his belt.
Y'know, 230 of them...
Other than there appears to be no trigger it seems good enough
@@jelleluyten5017 Early 17th century, isn't it? I thought the Ministry was Sekiro's version of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Well he's been resurrected and has immortality and an immortality-killer sword (besides casually being able to summon lightning). It seems logical that he can also have a gun with repeated fire
It’s nice that “parry this” isn’t a joke in Sekiro.
Funny thing is you can actually parry all of the bullets
@@franacha I think that's why it isn't a joke
@@franacha reading comprehension skill is defeat.
AND YOU DO!
@@franacha "Parry this you fucking casual"
"As you command!"
Regarding his scar - given his comment about Tomoe and how it's the closest he's ever come to death, it looks like a deep gash, and the exit wound scar on his back is smaller than the scar on his stomach, I think it's safe to say Tomoe must've cut him deeply and then ran him through. It could also explain his illness - a wound that deep must've invariably damaged his organs, possibly leading to circulatory complications later, hence the skin and blackened fingernails. It seems for sure he lost at least a kidney and perhaps some intestinal tract.
That makes so much sense. I was sure that it must have been the sculptor, but isshin did say tomoe was the closest he had come to death
Yeah,losing a kidney could perhaps explain the sallow skin for example
Given the scar on his back, his spine must have been cut, pls the way the skin bends around the huge wound... no one could survive this. Not even in modern times. Maybe there where some immortality shenanigans involved in Ishiin surviving Tomoe? And because Ishiin resents those he separated from them, wich causes his health degradation? In that case, shura Ishiin would be fighting with a slowly re-emerging gutting. That‘s some paincontrol!
@@ragnerschwarzmane3412 his spine couldn't of been cut, considering how he was walking around long after tomoe was gone. Unless you mean it was just nicked and not completely severed.
I doubt there were any immortality things having to do with him surviving. There are only two ways to achieve immortality and one of them is a psuedo because you have a giant centipede controlling you. More than likely ishiin just has mastery over his body but as we can see he still dies in the end. You're right though a wound like that no one is surviving except sekiro himself for obvious reasons.
Isshin realises there is an easier way to win the duel and pulls out his Glock
Everyone says to not bring a knife to a gunfight but Isshin already three steps ahead bringing a gun to a -knife- sword fight
"Parry this you fucking casul" has never been a more true statement.
@@100Peterll "I Am Four Parallel Universes Ahead Of You" - Isshin said calmly
“And so Isshin did what Indiana Jones did to that one Arab sword guy and shot him dead because guns are effective and swords are for people who only fight other sword people”
Just like the enemies in the bonus level of Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven.
Fun Fact: there is blood on the inside of the tengu mask around the mouth
That makes sense,he does cough at least once with the mask on
THAT is some incredible detail.. nobody would ever see it during normal gameplay
Whoa! Thanks
His girl was on her period
@@SlabOfSteak wow.
More than just restoring his vitality I always assumed it was literally a younger version of him, from when he was in his prime from the stories that made him famous, his most ferocious, where the other fight shows him having had time to perfect technique despite being physically weaker, which I think is a, super cool idea for a boss/character, and a sword wielder.
The memories (attack ups) seem to suggest this theory. But that gun is hella advanced for the age of wolf and emma. Back in isshins glory days it would have been impossible
It is, yes. The game says that a person is resurrected at the height of their prosperity, and here we see a middle-aged Isshin with his skin and hair looking maybe like a healthy 40 instead of a near-dead 80. I agree that it's cool he has a few moves like the big circle throw as an old man that he didn't have - or need - as a young(er) man. And he has so much more strength, he doesn't really even need it. Now the question is, does he not use Dragon Flash as an old man because he lacks the strength? Does he not use -Ashina Cross- One Mind as a younger man because he prefers Dragon Flash, or because he lacks the skill?
@@TheMisterGuy It's been awhile, a replays in order.
Fun to think about.
So I'd think as he got older, focused on and refined technique, he came to rely less on certain moves in favour of the ones more based in technique.
He is sick right, and by the end he's resting, practically on his death bed, so I imagine as Sword Saint, his power is derived more from technique than athleticism and strength like you say - so I'd guess that Ashina Cross would require less physical exertion since he's now a master, where when he was young he was wilder, and like you say, stronger (which in turn I'd think would mean at that point he's likely not perfected the Ashina style to be as deadly as when he's in his twilight years, because he didn't need to really).
So younger, I'd guess he could do it, but maybe not to the level where it surpassed Flash, where later, I think it would probably take a lot out of him, and at that point he'd probably dropped a lot of his more gimmicky and brute force techniques in favor of focusing on perfecting the Ashina style?
He uses no elements as sword Saint, the fire being stirred by the wind from his strikes, so it makes sense to me that he learned to be a master with the sword and dropped the rest at that point (including the anochronistic glock haha) .
@@temetyly especially seeing as he has one mind ( the anime-esqe multi slash move) which would require alot of mastery where as not as much required strength as something like dragon flash
@@donaghwilson7715 not really, guns were introduced pretty early in the sengoku era (like before Nobunaga was an adult) so there could be pieces like that hanging around from some exceptionally skilled craftsmen.
The pistol looks like the appropriate style for Japan at the time, except that it has a Miquelet style flintlock mechanism instead of the appropriate snapping matchlock. Japan does not have a lot of flint, so they stuck with the matchlock until they got more modern foreign guns when they were forced to open in the mid 1800s
Or, rich head of a powerful family bought an expensive flintlock pistol for greater reliability, and to flex on his enemies.
It could be an import. Like, they acquired a flintlock pistol from abroad and then transferred the mechanism on a Japanese style pistol.
Open the country. Stop... Having it be closed.
miquelet style? Is this from the catalan Miquelets?
@@elodin857 That seems to be the case.
To those wondering:
The gun is a Tanegashima Samurai Pistol. The larger barrel was common for the Samurai to use because their pistols were of larger calibur and the gun was of higher quality than the normal matchlocks. As for the "lack of a trigger", a lot the Tanegashima pistols didn't have traditional triggers the way we have them today. The Tanegashima kind of had this switch/button/trigger thing that would be more closer to the ring finger than the index finger.
thats tight asf that they payed attention to that
The more you know
The idea of samurai with pistols is as funny as the idea of knights with pistols. Thing is, knights used them too. Even on horseback. It's pretty funny to think about but also really fascinating.
Doesn't explains How he shoots so fast when those things could only hold one bullet
@@CoffeeSnep Late 16th century Polish cavalry also used Pistol Axe hybrids, they're neat as hell
I forget where, but I believe there is a quote by Miyamoto Musashi, the swordsman who was known by his two-sword style, and for being an overall martial badass, that went somewhere along these lines: "The gun is the most powerful weapon on the battlefield, until after you fire it, then it becomes useless."
People tend to forget that samurai are men of war.
They don't care about what weapons they use, for said weapons are tools to achieve victory in the battlefield. In this regard, Isshin pulling his five shooter on you is absolutely something that is in-character for someone of his status.
Isshin, the Glock Saint indeed. :)
PS: There was a completely missed opportunity for Isshin to have a pepperbox-style pistol. Revolvers at this time didn't exist, but they could've made an experimental sort of firearm beffitting Isshin, and the ability for him to shoot 5 bullets in quick succession.
Considering that there's a mechanical arm the exists that seemingly attaches to the nervous system and is better than anything we've created in the modern day, I'm surprised they didn't just give him a revolver. That's a lot easier to make.
Most stuff about honorable katana duels was Edo period romanticization. Samurai used what they found useful, the dominant weapons were polearms and bows with the katana being a backup weapon. There also weren’t the class restrictions on owning a katana, at least not on the same level as the Edo era with it’s disarmament of the civilian population.
Even sohei warrior monks were utilizing firearms at some point.
@@InternetHydra yeah, katana was mostly used to gameend peasants, since it was made from trash tier iron and couldn't penetrate armor, kek.
“Parry this then”
It’s also incredibly ironic that a guy known for using a katana, probably one of the most weakest swords known to history made with crappy iron, is saying that shit
@@InternetHydra Yeah, in the sengoku period, honour wasn't "I'm going to fight fair and nice and never use an unfair advantage", back then being honourable was obtaining power and wealth for your lord at any cost. If you need to ghetto blast some fools to win a battle for your lord, then so be it.
Sure Isshin was the lord here, but that doesn't change much here. Especially when the game tells you that the Ashina style he created is about winning battles first and foremost.
This object duplication you used could technically allow us to see in detail every NPC and boss of the game, correct? I've always been curious about the Headless, but I'll watch literally anything. You make such interesting vids.
Like... Does the headless actually have a butt hole to shove your soul into when they hit you with the grab attack.
On second thought, skip over this idea, I think I'll pass on seeing that.
@@SifArtorias Huh? I know the kappa take the soul from your behind, but they don't actually stuff them up their own, right?
I'd also like a closer look at the Shichimen Warriors too
@@louieberg2942 they absolutely do. I was both repulsed and amazed when I learned about that lol. Try it in your game and look closely.
This attention to detail from FromSoft is amazing. Just imagine - they've took into consideration what NAILS their NPC have.
miyazaki just loves the human anatomy being the hands and feet
No it isnt when he shoots a flintlock pistol semi-auto like a modern pistol lmao
@@Duran762
So parrying swords like a rhythm game, using a wooden prosthetic arm just like a regular arm and being able to ressurect yourself was all fine, but shooting a gun the wrong way is where you draw the line?
@@Tulip_bip yes
hey, you gonna have to model the nails anyway, might as well do it right
Imagine being a graphics designer at FROM knowing that whatever you make in Elden Ring, Zullie will scrutinize every inch of it and show hundreds of thousands of people on the internet
A character artist is in charge of designing and making the characters as far as I know though 🤓☝️graphic designers certainly work in how the character is rendered and lighting and shit
From's attention to detail is crazy.
I cant believe they actually took time to model the flint on the gun, thats very cool
Well with samurai, if it is not affecting your honor, they will take any advantage
I too, am a totally different person when I've gotten comfy.
Isshin is such a badass that he semi-auto shoots a flintlock pistol
This reminds me of my favourite comment ever on that speed racer "go speed racer go" which is a minute of him dropping fools with guns as it almost seems appropriate here:
"He's so fast, he makes that lever action rifle seem automatic."
A gun with no trigger no less. His badassery defies logic!
@@Kinoksis It's a flintlock, the trigger is on the side, not the bottom.
It could be that there are actually multiple charges stuffed in there, such that one pull fires them all at once
@@nicov1003 Wouldn't that just fire the furthest back charge first, and either just spit them all out in a pile a few meters away from the gun, or jam horribly?
No one seems to be talking about the scar, but that was coolest to me and kind of head scratch inducing... Does that not look like the kind of scar you'd get from seppuku? I find this incredibly cool, it's as if he resurrected after an honorable death, but kept the marks to show it
It does look like a seppuku wound (although he used a long ass blade to get it out his back lol) but isn't it the wound from where we "killed" Genichiro since Isshin bodysnatches him as part of his resurrection?
@@No_Plays_Hand_Empty That's actually a really interesting idea.
@@No_Plays_Hand_Empty but didn’t zullie mention that all models have this scar?
@@poochiebar all the models have the scar, but it is only ever visible withou datamining on sword saint iirc, so that model may have been made first and used as a base for the others, with the scar covered
@@jefflevy606 Yeah, but the nails tho. They show some great attention to detail, so while it is plausible it is also unlikely
Considering how fast he moves with the One Mind technique, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was rapidly switching flintlock pistols with each shot.
New York reloads before there was a New York
The Kakariko Village theme makes this so much better
1:48 probably a scar from committing sepuku and surviving
the gun mostly makes sense, but the bore is fucking enormous, and because it looks from a design that predates rifling it lacks it. all in all the gun would probably kick like a fucking mule but would waste a lot of its energy, not properly transferring the energy to the shot, whether that be a single musket ball or some grapeshot variant; meaning it's range would be fairly limited as well.
That's why he uses it as an extended melee weapon!
I don't think prime Issin is going to have a problem with gun kick back, all things considered, and he usually only fires the gun to approach close enough to attack with his spear, so he doesn't use it that far away
@@sunnyextraordinaire5065 we are talking about kickback that could break your arm, or simply send the gun flying backwards into your face.
@@benjaminrosiek5007 We are talking about Prime Isshin, he can handle it.
The kick wouldn’t be as bad as you’re thinking. It’s black powder which doesn’t produce recoil as severe as smokeless.
Gun expert chiming in here: That's a gun.
So I watch alot of forgotten weapons. I'm not an expert but I like firearms history.
It is a flintlock, much more advanced than the simple stick handguns used by the Valley Dwellers. It was probably imported from the west. Flintlocks were invented in the early 1600s, and would become widespread by the 1700s. The Tokugawa Shogunate closed Japan between 1635 and 1639. The Dutch were a limited exception, so odds are the weapon was Dutch made.
The barrel and wood are both gilded. This indicates that the gun was very expensive and was most likely made for a noble either as a gift or bought outright.
The action is shiny and well maintained, showing that whoever owns it takes good care of it.
Notably the barrel of this weapon is quite wide. This caliber definitely indicates that it used to be a two handed weapon.
Further that ramrod looks like it had been cut down
The grip looks to be cut from a full stock, however the barrel doesn't show signs of cutting. It could be that the octagonal bit on the end was added to cover up the cut marks though.
The furniture (wood) has 2 holes on either side, indicating that it originally had a sling to make carrying the weapon easier that is now lost. Notably these holes cut into the Gilding, which means they were added after that process.
This probably indicates multiple owners, as it's unlikely someone would deface a decorative gun to give it more utility.
The wood itself looks cubical, and lacks the ergonomics (efficient grip) of alot of other European firearms. Perhaps it was added later.
I'll have a look at other guns in sekiro and see what comparisons I can dig up. I haven't looked too closely at them.
Apart from the ability to shoot multiple shots at once, the gun - along with other guns in Sekiro - is fairly period accurate. Japan was actually a fairly early adopter of guns in organized warfare, although it would take a long time before even a trained musket specialist would be anywhere near as efficient as a skilled warrior or samurai with a bow. While it was a lot easier to give a man a musket and teach him to point it in the vague direction of his enemy than it was to train him to hit a mark with a bow, it was a lot quicker to draw, nock and loose multiple arrows in the time it would take him to reload. The overall power and accuracy of such weapons was also questionable compared to the bow, which, in the hands of skilled user, is a fairly reliable tool.
The Japanese actually did a lot to remedy this, though, inventing a very early cartridge ("bullet") out of bamboo, containing a satchel of gunpowder and a metal pellet.
Many, including the popular power metal band Sabaton, regard the Battle of Shiroyama in 1877 as the true end of classical Japan and the era of the samurai, as roughly 500 rebel samurai, dedicated to their ancient lifestyle and beliefs, faced off against a rifle-armed imperial army, about 30.000 man strong. As their lyrics would have it, this was where the sword met the gun and it ended the ancient ways. True to their nature, the Samurai would ride out in a brave charge against the superior force, supposedly claiming as many as 30 imperial soldiers before meeting their end.
500 took 30 with them. Brutal.
I've been playing a lot of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and this checks out
@Luis Martinez he said supposedly. In relation to a well known event. About which many people suspect the same thing. There is only one dumbass here and I just replied to them
@@TiredTransbian Charging with swords drawn at 30.000 rifleman, it's not even that bad. But you of course have to consider the sheer amount of imperial soldiers who would have refused to fire at the samurai purely out of respect, superstition and honor.
As far as I am aware, in that battle it was more a case that the rebels knew they where surrounded and had run out of ammunition, so they decided to make one final charge with their swords, rather than surrender. They certainly did make use of whatever modern equipment they had access to, but weren't nearly as well supplied or equipped as the newly formed Imperial Army. They didn't oppose the use of modern weapons when they were clearly superior, the main reason for the rebellion was that the entire social structure of Japan was being redrawn and reformed.
It would be amazing to see this same detail search on other bosses. Genichiro, O'rin and the red guards of end game probably have intricate details on them too
Remeber Zullie, The mortal blade that resurrects Isshin so you can fight sword Saint takes them from when they were at their prime, hence why he doesn’t have sickly skin or nails anymore.
The scars have opened up another line of questioning though, never noticed those. Nice video!
He was probably stabbed there because there are scars at the front and back
@@kakashihatake326 More likely he survived a seppuku - or that's what I'd like to believe - seeing how the scar goes horizontally.
@@lenny6997 The front scar is 100% in the correct place to have resulted from Seppuku, although Isshin surviving Seppuku would honestly be kind of an insult more than anything else. My thought has always been that it somehow got something to do with the Black Mortal Blade - Isshin's eavesdrop dialogue towards the end of the game makes it seem like the blade is specifically siphoning *his* lifeforce even though Genichiro is wielding it. Perhaps Isshin has been a sort of "undead" this whole time?
@@blak4831 Genichiro and Isshin are a mirror of Sekiro and the Sculptor in this way: Dragonrot spreads to the Sculptor first and foremost, and I think the Black Mortal Blade is eating at Genichiro's lifeforce in a similar way. It should kill him, but he can't die, so it saps the lifeforce from Isshin instead.
Isshin being sort of immortal is the only way that the seppuku scar makes any sense - he couldn't have survived that otherwise.
That sounds about right to me - I was going to mention Isshin and Tomoe, but supposedly that’s a mistranslation.
It'd be interesting to see how the scar on his stomach lines up with the deathblow. Clearly Sekiro didn't cause it, but it looks to be in roughly the same place.
Tomoe "the closest I've ever been to death".
2:32 Never NEVER look down the barrel of a gun
It's a game
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I can tell from his looks that he knows a miracle build.
You know that the man went through shit in life; suitable for the bearer of the viable miracle build
mechanically the gun looks almost identical to a standard flintlock mechanism. which, while extremely modern for this period would not be fully automatic.
It's a double action flintlock!
@@kylekillgannon That makes so much sense
I love how this game has a 300 foot long snake, a headless ape with a giant sword, immortal monks infested with invincible insects, WOOOOOOOOOOO bird ninjas with homing shurikens, jelly people, zombies, a gigantic bull the size of a bus, enormously fat guys who attack you with their vomit, demons, a grappling hook that defies the laws of physics and many more fanciful things....
and the ONE thing, the ONE THING that everyone cannot stand for being too unrealistic is a semi-auto pistol.
I think it's because the game itself doesn't really have that many firearms, so the player just isn't *used* to dealing with enemies that go 'screw it' and try to fill you with lead. At least all the other stuff is consistent, even expected, but then the final boss whips out a glock with absolutely no warning (seriously, if I'm not mistaken there is zero hint that Isshin is packing heat until that moment) and the player just goes 'what the f&ck?'
Also, compared to all the supernatural stuff a gun is just really, really mundane, so it stands out more.
@@Jordan-wv2xzYou hit the nail right on the head. To me it seems this is just a milder, light-hearted version of some controversies (like that Battlefield game that happened a few years ago) that people also try to counter with the same argument
Whats really amazing is the amount of detail on the gun when you can't really see it during normal game play
For anyone wondering after two months, the color of his skin and his nails are probable signs of liver disease which may be jaundice.
What monkey booze does to a mf
In an universe where they have a prosthetic arm that can attach a bunch of stuff, including Batman's grapple Hook, a Flamethrower, a metal umbrella and more, and it still works as a perfectly normal arm, I'm not gonna complain about the gun. The fantasy elements are awesome enough
I mean, we just saw the dude erupt out of his grandson's shoulder - the semi-auto flintlock cannot be the most unbelievable part here folks
@@crimsonstrykr Yeah, but that is more of a magic stuff. The gun and the prosthetic arm are technologies, so we can compare to our reality, and that technology was already shown to be absurd in the start of the game
His gun is not semi-auto, he just has a bunch of it in his inventory and quickly swaps it
he is a meta dark souls 3 player and does swaps it all makes sense now
Just like the Watchers in Bloodborne emulating rolling naked, so too does Isshin utilize the legendary Gael Crossbow animation swap.
someone in the reddit discord channel found out that these portuguese guns had effectively some type of multiple shot ammo
Neato
Crazy to see the detail on the gun, something you'd never see without hacks, FromSoft love what they do!
I think the rapid fire capabilities are based on revolver matchlock weapons from the early 17th Century, which could fire with such speeds if the user can spin the cylinder fast enough. Unfortunately, I can't post links to show you, since UA-cam keeps hiding my comment when I try to do so. However, it is obvious that the model for Isshin's weapon is not this. Isshin's weapon seems to be loosely based on a Tan Zutsu, a type of matchlock pistol from the time period. However, unlike a Tan Zutsu, Isshin's has a miquelet-lock mechanism instead of a matchlock. As far as I know, there is no evidence the Japanese ever used miquelet-locks or any kind of flintlock mechanism type weapon throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, but I suppose it isn't entirely impossible that someone somewhere may have had one.
Some guy wishes to see the gun in detail and gets a full analysis. Now that's service!
The amount of detail From puts into these games is amazing - especially those subtle things that would almost be impossible to notice in game like the fingernails. This was really cool, thank you!
I think the Black Blade brings a person back at their peak physical point that was in their life. Sword Saint Isshin has the same body as when he killed General Tamura in the opening cutscene. No doubt his greatest feat as a swordsman.
His eye is bloody in the opening cutscene, so I'm pretty sure that's where he got that scar. His Sword Saint version includes the eye scar, so that means some time must have passed between then and the battle. If that period was when he was in peak physical condition, then the Black Blade would have brought him back with his eye intact, but since he came back without it, he must have gotten even more powerful afterwards.
the gun looks like a prototype flintlock that, i assume, fires a wad of pellets not unlike a shotgun. it would need to be manually reloaded after each shot, and packed with powder. VERY cool design.
Isshin is my favorite final boss from fromsoft. Gwyn would be close but hes eaay to cheese and ive always loved final fights between characters that have a massive amount of respect for each other and arent just fighting because "this bad" and "this good". Isshin is just such a great character
For me it's a toss up between Isshin and Gehrman
Seppuku scars! Amazing detail!
I am not sure if there is variation but I'm p sure seppuku is commited by splitting your belly hopen horizontally, and not running a blade trough
I was expecting a 007 joke at 02:32
That scar is pretty interesting, since it looks like what would remain of a seppuku done with a long sword. Stabbed through the stomach, out the back, and then cut to the side leaving a long scar on the front and smaller hole in the back.
... What I'm getting is that he's so badass he made a pistol out of his bench.
(Also, his belly scar reminded of harakiri. Since all of his models have it, it's probably just an old war wound, but now I can't get from my head that Ashina's fall might have been a much bigger burden to him than he let out (he always looked surprisingly chill for someone whose country is getting invaded) and when the invader forces arrive at the end of the game he choses suicide instead of seeing his home subdued once more.)
To be fairly honest that's very unlike Isshin's character, he's the type of guy who would headbutt an opponent to death if both his arms got cut off
@@generalkiwimydudes9765 "'tis but a scratch!"
The level of detail in the models is just wonderful and beautiful
Fantastic work Zullie, seeing the details on the gun is really impressive. You’ll have a field day with Elden Ring ;)
Isshin associated with Dogen, the far-ahead-of-his-time genius who created the shinobi prosthetic (an impossibly advanced feat of engineering) and taught Lady Emma. If anyone in Ashina could make a rapid-fire pistol, I'd say that Dogen could. Perhaps Isshin's elaborately decorated pistol was given to him by Dogen?
Either that, or Isshin is just that good.
I'm guessing his spear is a recollection of the one he got from General Tamura (and later gave to Gyoubu). He seemingly pulls it straight out of the ground, and it disappears when he's defeated -- possibly suggesting that it's an apparition?
As a gunsmith in training. I showed this to my instructors. They said it seems somwhat realistic and the desgin of the engravings were impressive. Yet there is no way it would fire shots back to back like it does in game.
My guess is that Isshin doesn't actually fire the gun. He just points it and the bullets are so scared of him that they all just leave the gun as fast as they can.
Gun looks like a normal flintlock pistol, but it's a muzzle loader, so it's impossible to fire it as fast as isshin does. You'd have to pack the round in, load powder, pull the hammer back, and fire, all of which is a two handed job. The bore is also huge, looking like a blunderbus or an actual .50 caliber musket.
Isshin does actually use it as, what I assume to be, a blunderbuss upclose. How he switches from automatic glock to shotgun on a flintlock remains a mystery.
About the scar: its seppuku - a ritual suicide by belly cutting. It was practiced for restoring your or your family's honor.
Are we sure it is from attempted seppuku? The fact there's a smaller scar on his back makes me think Isshin may have been impaled on something, and the scar on his back is the exit wound.
@@davidepastore5600 It checks out. Seppuku isn't simply cutting through your abdomen: it involves impaling yourself on your sword, and then pulling it sideways to disembowel yourself. That would produce exactly the large wound on his front and the small wound on his back.
Usually, once you stab yourself and slash your midsection open, there is someone standing by to cut your head off to end your suffering, instead of letting you bleed out. So how did Isshin commit seppuku and survive??
I really want to see an LP by Zullie that goes over the lore of the games during the playthrough, and supporting factors. I have the feeling it'd be *the* most thorough LP in regards to lore.
Which is the reason I've yet to watch an LP of any of the games... they all seem to just assume viewers know the lore.
Have you watched ENB’s From the Dark Playthru of DS1 and German Spy’s Playthru of PS3 DeS? Easily my two favorite lore focused LPs of these games. I wish something like those series existed for the more recent titles too.
I actually didn't know that Tengu guy was Isshin.. I wondered where he went after disappearing... now I know lol.
"Seated Isshin has a unique chr ID"
Visions of Dragon Butts.
The scar in the stomach makes me think of Seppuku. Could Isshin have attempted Seppuku in the past and survived? If so, why? Did he at one point risk going Shura and so tried to kill himself?
I guess it could be a battle wound, but placing it at pretty much the exact same location and orientation of a Seppuku would be strangely misleading. Also, if Isshin had been wounded so badly in a battle, one would think he would have been defeated.
I love how often you use Zelda songs in your videos. They fit really well
About the gun:
It's a great model, and nearly perfectly faithful to the operation of flintlock guns, except for two things:
1.: It doesn't have a trigger.
2.: You can't fire a flintlock repeatedly in a quick succession, due to the lack of a magazine and the painfully slow reloading time. You fire it, and then either throw it away and search for a loaded one, or take the time, get to cover, and reload it.
call an ambulance call an ambulance
*pulls gun out*
BUT NOT FOR ME
Guns like this would of been invented towards the final era of the Waring states period (which Sekiro would taken place after), but how Issin use it is semi non-realistic for its time.
I know this comment is really late, but the gun is like a Miquelet flintlock (most probably spanish style). Which is weird from a Japanese gun cause they were all snapping matchlock until the late 19th century cause the grip looks like the one of a tanegashima teppo
Not too much of an expert, but the idea of iron sights on a flintlock-esque pistol in feudal Japan seems kinda out there. Also it seems to be fired via the pin next to the hammer, but he's holding it like a modern gun for some reason
I wonder if Isshin was suffering from Jaundice from a failing liver, given his love of strong sake
His liver probably was the problem. And it was probably struggling more with his seeming stab wound in his gut
Isshin's gun looks like is based on an O-zutsu and a Tan-zutsu gun. The first one were pretty much large caliber hand cannons used in sieges nd obviously were normally fired with both hands. . The second were just matchlock pistols. Both have no classic trigger or trigger guard. The trigger is protruding slightly on the back of the gun.
As for the large cut on his stomach, I could be mistaken but it looks like the disembowelment of Seppuku.
that looks like a big stab, correct me if I'm wrong but seppuku involves a single cut splitting the gut horizontally and not a stab thing
Isshin visited Yharnam before coming back to Japan.
Looks like a hilariously shortened tanegashima matchlock, only this one is obviously a flintlock. IDK when Japan got flintlocks, but it wasn't during the Sengoku era, or Edo period. A flintlock would have been considered crazy futuristic.
On a related note, that firearm is insanely detailed considering how fleeting and impossible to see clearly it normally is.
EDIT: I just looked it up and apparently the first "real" flintlock was produced in 1610, so was right as the Sengoku era was ending. Considering Japan's isolation afterwards, they probably didn't get flintlocks until probably a hundred years later.
I don't think this is a normal repeating pistol by normal terms. While the design seems plausible, the repeat fire almost certainly isn't. However, I'd imagine that Sword Saint Isshin, along with other characters, have access to a certain resource that Sekiro has from right after gaining his prosthetic: Spirit Emblems.
These Spirit Emblems seem to be capable of causing weaponry to act in a way that you normally wouldn't expect, like how the Shinobi Prosthetics are capable of achieving feats no normal tool would be capable of: Defending against supernatural attacks and attacks that would normally bring a man to his knees, if not knock him away, fuelling weapons like the Flame Vent and Divine Abduction and such.
Keeping this in mind, and recalling how our enemies are able to achieve similar feats (Genichiro with the Way of Tomoe and its lightning, or the Black Mortal Blade's attacks, etc), they're likely to be using the same resource we are: these karmic Spirit Emblems. The same could be said for Isshin: He's likely utilizing a form of Spirit Emblem or karmic power to enhance his attacks, thus allowing him to fire and reload a pistol like that in quick succession.
As for who made the pistol? I've heard that Dogen, the same man who created the Shinobi Prosthetic, crafted the pistol. If the Repeating Pistol uses the same "fuel" as the Prosthetic, then we might have just found our answer as to how Glock Saint Isshin fires the thing. I could be wrong, of course, but it doesn't seem too far-fetched that both Sekiro and his enemies would be drawing from the same kind of power to utilize their attacks and tools to great effect.
I'm with this theory. In the Inner Ishin battle he actually had and attack that's is like a shotgun when you're too close to him, this is most accurate for the type of weapon he is using. The spirit emblem may help him to change the type of shoots of the pistol like happens with the shuriken were u can change the speed of the attack.
And the emblems are stated as a sort of burden or bad karma. Genichiro was willing to do anything for ashina so he probably had a couple. But isshin.... in his long life. Way of tomoe and the gun are probably him not even cutting into his emblem stock
The real question is why does he have a flintlock pistol? Flintlocks barely existed by the end of the Sengoku period and wouldn’t have been common until the mid-1600s so there’s almost no way they would have made it to Japan even by the very end of the period, certainly not such an elaborate and decorative design. FromSoft even clearly know this as all of the other gunners in the game have matchlock weapons. As such we can only assume that this is deliberate and strongly suggests that Genichiro’s neck is actually a space-time portal to Yharnam!! Perhaps Isshin armed with a Mortal Blade was the one who bestowed the techniques used to craft Chikage and Rakuyo???
In short, Miyazaki is a genius.
As a certain German youtuber once said:
"no wonder isshin is sick if he's sitting here all day with the window open"
-Engravings- Golden paint... gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever. Unless, of course, it's in reverence to some sort of Shinto spirit, in which case your single shot flintlock pistol becomes semi-automatic.
The gold on the flintlock barrel looks to be gold damacene, while the wooden grip area looks to have either gold inlay or gold paint, but the most interesting addition is the use of Iron sights.
God the amount of detail Miyazaki puts into his games is insane! It's kinda a shame we don't normally get to see that stuff. From definitely needs to start putting photo modes in their games. Oh one can dream with Elden Ring coming out soon.
People meme on Isshin's gun, but he's terrible with it. Lazily strafe to his right and he will never hit you. That's where his good eye is, too, so he really has no excuse.
The game is set in the 13th century but the old man has a flintlock pistol, which wasn't invented till the 1500s.
This is just a guess. But I bet sitting Isshin being a separate entity has something to do with him being an immortal npc in that state, I wonder if Emma NPC and Emma boss are separate entity ids?
I don't get how a flintlock pistol fires multiple shots
this is really specific and dumb but I would love a closer look video of the blades in Sekiro. Was hoping for one of his sword in the shura ending in this video.
It's a nice gun, I'll give you that...
But the peacock engraving gives it no tactical advantage whatsoever.
gun you'll only catch glimpses of: *super high fidelity*
actually character textures: *mush*
My opinion on the gun, as a weapons expert:
The engraving gives no tactical advantage whatsoever.
That gun is a flintlock, which is a bit unusual for the time period, given that most firearms were matchlock. The only thing really implausible about it is that there's no trigger lol. Oh, and the fact that he fucking full autos it at you.