#GHRIAN STUDIO

[satoshi-mochida]

Action strategy game BURGGEIST for PC launches this fall

From Gematsu

Action strategy game BURGGEIST will launch for PC via Steam this fall, publisher Kodansha and developer GHRIAN STUDIO announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via its official website:

About

With the walking fortress Burggeist at your command, fight back the enemies and build “the Tower.”

Tower to Morrow

Years have passed since Lucile had become motionless. Her husband Ignace, a mathematician from Galacia, was in search of the cure but still completely in the dark. One day he caught his stepdaughter Etoile writing to someone and receiving the messages out of nowhere in her notebook. After some back and forth, the “someone” wrote to her, “To free Lucile, you shall build a tower that reaches the heavens.”

Build and Fight

With the walking fortress Burggeist at your command, fight back the enemies and build “the Tower.” Burggeist is a real-time action strategy that features the use of height differences and the terrains as part of your tactics. Move around the field, quickly analyze the situation, choose the effective move to create and defend your Tower.

Aliscans

A vast no man’s land, Aliscans. Players can roam freely around diverse landscapes of Aliscans. Through various encounters and discoveries, you’ll get access to a variety of abilities that will further expand your combat strategy.

Combat

Build a Tower – Find a suitable construction site scattered around Aliscams and start building your tower. Fight off enemy attacks that appear in response to your tower construction.

Fight on High Ground – Get ready for an attack by observing the direction and number of enemies approaching. The attack becomes more powerful when launched from a high position.

Command Burggeist – You’re able to give orders to Burggeist to move itself and initiate the attack. Finding a high vantage point is key to provide spot on instructions to Burggeist. Equip Burggeist with various weapons and increase power to dominate the battle field.

Exploration

Meet Visitors – People will come to visit the tower you have built. Most of them have some kind of problem, and each of them has their own story. They are rather eccentric, but there is a lot to be gained from interacting with them. Try building towers in various locations.

Collect Artefacts – As you wander the fields, you will come across strange objects and structures. Some of these are collectible and useful in battle. If you somehow recover them, they might be of your great help on your journey through Aliscans.

Cast

Ignace (voiced by Minami)

Eto / Etoile (voiced by Kanon Fujimura)

Lucile (voiced by MIKIHO)

Gwenael (voiced by Katsuki Monma)

Margrave (voiced by Ouka Kamimura)

Herzeleide (voiced by Popono Kumai)

Asav (voiced by Yuto Mimura)

Iron Egan (voiced by Yuki Aizawa)

Usqiss (voiced by Tsukasa)

Aunty Halja (voiced by Tsumugi Shimizu)

Investigator (voiced by Tamaki Fujii)

Marius (voiced by Takahiro Okamoto)

Geluud (voiced by Akihiro Kawamoto)

Baronne Elanier (voiced by Marika Oishi)

Watch a new trailer below.

Trailer #1

English

Japanese

[scotianostra]

Happy 42nd Birthday to the Gaelic Folk sing Julie Fowlis.

Julie Fowlis is a multi-award winning Gaelic singer who is deeply influenced by her early upbringing in the Outer Hebridean island of North Uist. With a career spanning five studio albums and numerous high profile collaborations, her ‘crystalline’ and ‘intoxicating’ vocals have enchanted audiences around the world.

Nominated as ‘Folk Singer of the Year’ at the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and ‘Best Artist’ at the Songlines World Music Awards, Julie is a warm and engaging live performer who has graced stages around the world, from village halls in the Highlands to stages in New York, The Philharmonie de Paris and Shakespeare’s Globe in London.  Recent invitations to perform have included a return to world-class Festival of Voice in Cardiff, the World Festival of Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco, to collaborate with the BBC Concert Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall for the Proms and to support Scottish icons ‘Runrig’ to an audience of 50,000 during their farewell concert weekend in August 2018. She sang live at the closing ceremony of the Ryder Cup in Chicago in 2012 to a TV audience of 500 million, an event that was only eclipsed by singing live at the opening ceremony of the Glasgow XX Commonwealth Games in 2014, to a TV audience of over 1 billion people.

Since of the release of her otherworldy album ‘alterum’ in 2017, she has been in demand – touring with the world-class Transatlantic Sessions, sell-out shows in London and throughout the UK, and is currently working on a major new 14-18 commission with celebrated Highland musician Duncan Chisholm, commemorating 100 years since the ‘Iolaire’ tragedy.

She will forever be recognised for singing the theme songs to ‘Brave’, Disney Pixar’s Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning animated film, set in the ancient highlands of Scotland. The track was recorded when Julie was eight months pregnant with her second child, and has since been a worldwide smash hit, and the song ‘Touch the Sky’ was indeed long listed for an Oscar nomination in 2013.

Julie’s most recent studio album received glowing reviews, and over the years she has been nominated and won several BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and Scottish Traditional Music Awards.  She also made history as the first Gaelic solo artist to win a Scottish Music Award in December 2014.

Julies voice sends shivers up your spine, I have chosen this spine tingling rendition of her at Thiepval Memorial in France singing "An Eala Bhàn" ("The White Swan) , written in the trenches during WWI by Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna of North Uist.

I think it only fitting I post the lyric for the song, first in Gaelic then the translation....

Gur duilich leam mar tha mi 'S mo chridhe 'n sas aig bron Bhon an uair a dh'fhag mi Beanntan ard a' cheo Gleanntannan a'mhanrain Nan loch, nam bagh 's nan srom 'S an eala bhan tha tamh ann Gach la air 'm bheil mi 'n toir A Mhagaidh na bi tursach A ruin, ged gheibhinn bas- Co am fear am measg an t-sluaigh A mhaireas buan gu brath? Chan eil sinn uile ach air chuairt Mar dhithein buaile fas Bheir siantannan na blianna sios 'S nach tog a' ghrian an aird Tha 'n talamh leir mun cuairt dhiom 'Na mheallan suas 's na neoil; Aig na 'shells a' bualadh - Cha leir dhomh bhuam le ceo: Gun chlaisneachd aig mo chluasan Le fuaim a' ghunna mhoir; Ach ged tha 'n uair seo cruaidh orm Tha mo smuaintean air NicLeoid Air m' uilinn anns na truinnsichean Tha m' inntinn ort, a ghraidh; Nam chadal bidh mi a' bruadar ort Cha dualach dhomh bhith slan; Tha m' aigne air a lionadh Le cianalas cho lan 'S a'ghruag a dh'fhas cho ruadh orm A nis air thuar bhith ban Oidhche mhath leat fhein, a ruin Nad leabaidh chubhraidh bhlath; Cadal samhach air a chul Do dhusgadh sunndach slan Tha mise 'n seo 's an truinnsidh fhuar 'S nam chluasan fuaim bhais Gun duil ri faighinn as le buaidh - Tha 'n cuan cho buan ri shnamh.

The white swan.

Sad I consider my condition With my heart engaged with sorrow From the very time that I left The high bens of the mist The little glens of dallaince Of the lochans, the bays and the forelands And the white swan dwelling there Whom I daily pursue.

Maggie, don't be sad Love, if I should die - Who among men Endures eternally? We are all only on a journey Like flowers in the deserted cattle fold That the year's wind and rain will bring down And that the sun cannot raise.

All the ground around me Is like hail in the heavens; With the shells exploding - I am blinded by smoke: My ears are deafened By the roar of the cannon; But despite the savagery of the moment My thoughts are on the girl called MacLeod

.Crouched in the trenches My mind is fixed on you, love; In sleep I dream of you I am not fated to survive; My spirit is filled With a surfeit of longing And my hair once so auburn Is now almost white.

Goodnight to you, love In your warm, sweet-smelling bed; May you have peaceful sleep and afterwards May you waken healthy and in good spirits I am here in the cold trench With the clamour of death in my ears With no hope of returning victorious- The ocean is too wide to swim.

[angsty-fell-blog]

OH HEY LOOKS LIKE I’M ONE TWO DAYS LATE FOR UNDERTALE’S BIRTHDAY...

Well that sucks.

Either way, i’m FINALLY GOING TO SHOW MY OLD (Some older than others) TRADITIONAL ART!

YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY...

Art listed in order;

1 -- Art I made for @v0idless when they had first created their ECHO animation... And it’s only just now getting to them!...  If they see it that is >->  This is my oldest piece of art i’m showing today.

2 -- Graphite, who is Ink and Undertale Sans’ child.  ((Headcanon, not canon Ink/Sans))

3-4 -- A page of just a ton of AUs.  Each AU will be credited (To my best ability) down below.  This piece is my most recent out of all of them.

5 -- Blue ink, a ship of...  Well, Blueberry and Ink sans.  If you don’t like the ship, then ignore it.

6 -- Geno Sans.  And no, not Geno Sans by @loverofpiggies, i’m talking about Geno and Sans.  Geno from SMRPG...  ((I’m so alone in the SMRPG fandom...))

7 -- GENO...  FIGHTING GENO!!!...  I dunno man, i think Geno’s gonna win...  This piece was purely made upon the impulse reaction of learning that they’re both called the same thing.  so that’s nice.

CREDITS  (Please tell me who certain artists are if you know cause I'm clueless.)

UNDERTALE by Toby Fox, (c) 2015

GENO (SMRPG) BELONGS TO SQUARE ENIX

Ink!Sans by @comyet (AKA @myebi)

Error!Sans by @loverofpiggies

Geno!Sans by @loverofpiggies

Lust!Sans by @nsfwshamecave (NSFW Blog)

Flowerfell by Sanei

Underfell Belongs to the AU community

Ganz by @golzy

Reaper!Sans by @renrink

Raven!Sans by N/A

Original Gaster!Sans by @borubou (correct me if i’m wrong)

Echotale Variant of Gaster!Sans by @yoralim

Horror!Sans by Sour-Apple-Studios (DA)

Dream!Sans by @jokublog

Nightmare!Sans by @jokublog

(Flowey) Possessed!Sans belongs to the AU community

Outer!Sans by @outertale

Cat!Sans belongs to the AU community

Shardian!Sans by BlackDragon-Studios (DA)

Mafia!Sans by N/A

Abyss!Sans by Meta-Kaz (DA)

Reborn!Sans belongs to @reborntale (NSFW Blog)

Swap!Sans by @popcornpr1nce (Occasional NSFW)

Nega!Sans by N/A

Silk!Sans by N/A

Draky!Sans by Zenoo001 (DA)

GasterBlaster!Sans belongs to the AU community

Sugar!Sans is co-owned by two artists.  @sugartalesans and @alainaprana.

Melon!Sans by @missladytale

SMRPG-Geno!Sans by @two-angsty-fells

Graphite by @two-angsty-fells

Ghrian!Sans by @ghriantale (AKA @two-angsty-fells)