![]() ![]() And so he does, beginning with a simple bit of preemptive protection against his initial stabbing, continuing on to investigate four distinct eras and get to the bottom of who or what Homunculus is and exactly why he’s so interested in Eike. Providing our hero with a device called a Digipad, Homunculus explains that it is possible for Eike to defy his fate by manipulating events in various time periods. The first time this happens, Eike encounters an androgynous, somewhat sinister being known as Homunculus (voiced by Charles Martinet of Mario fame, fact fans), who, of course, has a proposal that will result in Eike being able to prevent his own murder. In Shadow of Memories, you play Eike, a young man with implausibly long legs who, over the course of the game, finds himself repeatedly getting murdered in a variety of increasingly convoluted ways. So I deliberately chose a game I knew absolutely nothing about as my first PS2 game, then sat down to play it and found myself utterly entranced by something quite unlike anything I’d ever played before.Ĭombining elements of traditional adventure games, visual novels and even open-world exploration, Shadow of Memories remains a highly noteworthy title in the PS2’s library, and well worth exploring even today. I’d wanted a PS2 for a while, but even back then, I felt like I didn’t want to pick up a game that I felt I already knew all about from reading about it in magazines. Museum staff, volunteers, and interns are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.The first game I ever played on the PlayStation 2 was Konami’s Shadow of Memories, also known as Shadow of Destiny in the States. Several cultures mixed together in celebration of Halloween, creating the iconic pumpkin faces we still know today.Īndrew Huntley is a Gallery Experience Presenter in CMNH’s Lifelong Learning Department. Pumpkins themselves were introduced by the Indigenous Peoples to Europeans as early as the 1600’s, when tales of Jack first began to be told. (There are also several French recipes for a pumpkin soup that suggest carving pumpkins for decoration as early as the 1760’s). They arrived in America to celebrate Halloween and were able to find a very particular new world crop that was much larger and easier to carve than their root vegetables of home the winter squash, the most famous of which is a pumpkin. As with most immigrants also had a role in traditional jack-o-lanterns. The waves of immigrants created by the Great Potato Famine of the 1840’s. Occasionally these would be carved with faces, a tradition that continues to this day in Britain and Ireland. As it was naturally dark in pre-industrial revolution Ireland, many would carve turnips, potatoes or other root vegetables and add coals or candles to create makeshift lanterns to help guide those celebrating. ![]() Many people in those areas also continued the Gaelic celebration of Samhain, with its rituals of going from house to house in search of food and drink (these are the origins Trick or Treating). These two legends began to intertwine-when many people in the moors of the British Isles saw the naturally occurring marsh gas, they attributed to Stingy Jack. False fire is an actual occurrence- scientifically, ignis fatuss, is known as marsh gas and occurs during the spontaneous ignition of methane created by decaying plant matter in marshes or swampy areas. There is also other folklore from this time surrounding what’s known as ignis fatuus, or false fire. Stingy Jack was sentenced to roam the Earth for all eternity with nothing but an ember given to him by the Devil to light his way. Some longer versions of the story have the Devil being tricked 3 or 4 different times.Įventually though, time caught up with Jack and he was unable to trick the Devil again. Jack then offered the Devil out of the deal in exchange for not taking his soul for a long time. The most popular version of the tale involves Jack first tricking the Devil into changing his form, then trapping him in his transfigured state. In the early 1600’s, the legend of a shadowy figure began to arise known as Stingy Jack (Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flakey Jack, and other names are also in the folklore and can be used interchangeably). To know the origins of jack-o-lanterns, we have to go all the way back across the Atlantic to the fens, or marshes, of rural Ireland. ![]() You may be wonder how jack-o-lanterns became so popular, or why we carve them out of pumpkins. Suddenly you find yourself hyper aware of every sound around you, and you start as you realize you see a pair of eyes glowing at you…until you realize it’s a jack-o-lantern. The wind blows through the branches, bringing a chill that isn’t necessarily due to the temperature.
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