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Without watching through the anime as I did, I’d still be lost. While very useful, it is an information overload for newbies to the series. The game itself provides a very detailed synopsis within the first hour and a half of gameplay. So, for all those out there who have a tremendous backlog, yet want to at least enjoy part of this wonderful series, there you go. I did go back and watch the False Faces up through episode 8 to get a little more background story, but you can do pretty well just watching those without having to play Mask of Deception. I knew who all the characters were, where Kuon was, and could piece together what happened from the events unfolding. I restarted the game and this time it made a lot more sense than before. It was right then that I realized that Mask of Deception and Mask of Truth were both telling the same story from False Faces, but in a substantially more involved visual novel means of storytelling. This time, we were focused on the same characters as in the game, Kuon and Haku.
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Then, I watched five episodes of the new Utawarerumono: The False Faces and was amazed at how some of original series was interwoven in new ways throughout the episodes. I watched until episode 10, and with that I re-discovered how the country of Tusgur came be, the central characters which appear in Mask of Truth, and a great deal of insight into the camaraderie between them all. It helped a great deal to get a grasp of the world and original characters once again. I stopped right there and decided I needed to watch the original anime a bit, the one released in 2006 ( 2002 in Japan). How I got about to fast tracking Mask of TruthĪfter playing Mask of Truth for about 30 minutes, I quickly realized I was completely lost, with barely a clue about what was going on.
I’ll explain how I went about it and what I thought of the game a well. So, I decided to see if I could catch myself up without playing the 50+ hour long first game, Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception.
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Honestly, it’s more than I expected, sort of like dropping into Star Wars III as a first movie and having no clue what any of it was all about. With such a large backstory, I was at a complete loss as to who was who and what had occurred.
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The game follows much of the same story as the anime, but with even more detail than the actual TV show. This anime is the basis for the previous game title, Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception, and this second game installment, Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth. Once again, the anime follows the course of relationships and dramatic events. Kuon quickly names him Haku, which is odd since that is her father’s name, but he sticks with it. From here, we focus on a new character, Kuon, who is the princess of Tusgur, along with a mysterious stranger with no memory whom she chances upon in a forest. It was the ties to friends and family that set it apart from similar action anime, giving it a bit more of a drama feel than the standard issue battle focused episodes of many other anime series.įast forward to 2015 and a new continuation of that original anime series debuts with Utawarerumono: The False Faces.
Yet, what struck me the most was the focus on relationships. It wasn’t exactly typical for an anime and created a varied world where people have animal tails and ears along with creatures that are mysteriously overgrown. I watched the original anime Utawarerumono about eight years ago and rather enjoyed the story of forging a new country with a masked man at the lead. There is intrigue in subterfuge, you can’t help but wonder who is hiding behind that mask and whether there are physical or psychological scars covered up underneath. The idea of a person behind a mask is not a new one, whether it be Batman or the Phantom of the Opera.
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