@@Tony4You TBH, I'm comparing notes. My wife and her family worship Radha-Krishna, but I'm a Christian. I need all the help I can get to start making sense of what I perceive.
Even though my family is mostly comprised of Kali and a few Shiva worshipers, Vishnu has always been my favorite god to read about. There’s a dizzying amount of stories that vary from region to region which used to really frustrate me as a kid because I wanted to find out what was canon lol. Now I’ve learned to appreciate the unique variations and what they have to offer. Anyways, great video and looking forward to more!
SMT, one of the only games where you can cap a religious, godlike deity with a Glock 17. Best JRPG series ever, and the grandfather of the creature collector games.
@@GoProGamer447 The dungeon crawling thing is an interesting part of JRPG history. Megami Tensei came about during the time JRPGs were basically split between being inspired by Ultima or Wizardry, but the Wizardry style became niche after the success of Dragon Quest and FF.
imma be honest, i stopped watching yer vids since smt fatigue got a hold of me, plus school, but seeing vishnu in my notifications brightened my day. this was a amazingly well documented breakdown of my favorite deity and i cannot thank you enough.
@@Tony4You Vishnu could see protag as a disruption to remove. For example, if Vishnu had a prominent role in a hypothetical SMT V on the Destroy Throne path he could be like yo destruction is Shiva job gtfo, for law route he could be like maintenance is union work no scabs!
@@Tony4You maybe when you try to destroy the world he must protect. And after you defeat him and destory the world shiva will fight ypu cause you steal his job.
You know, despite playing him for so long, I never understood exactly why Vamana grew to giant size for his ult in SMITE. Thank you for explaining that!
Brahma is still MIA though. I like Vishnu, he's a cool dude, and I also like how he is given nuance through his various avatars, which makes him quite deeper than just a goody two shoes god of protection.
"If there's a quality that makes a good man, Krishna has it." OK, sounds pretty cool. "If there's a quality that makes a good human being, Krishna has it." Now I just feel called out. How did they know I'm actually a trickster demon?
funny timing, Just made Vishnu for the first time today in Nocturne a couple of hours before the vid P.S I would love to watch a vid of yours breaking down who Aciel (and abaddon), Skadi and Albion are
Hey, you're video was just suggested to me by the YT algorithm and I'm so glad I found it. I'm a huge mythology buff and while there wasn't too much in your video that I wasn't already familiar with, it's really cool to have some looking into the Personas/demons/etc. backgrounds and how they compare to their real life origins! Subbed and will definitely be checking more of your videos!
Vishnu also appears as the loading screen in the first Persona game and is also one of the strongest Personas within said game (although under the name Ashura in the English version). ... Matt from the Super Gaming Brothers also made a funny running gag within their Persona 1 let's play speaking as Vishnu during the loading screens with an Indian accent.
SMT4A's Krishna has been a nameless presence in Japan for a long time. And when Buddhism was introduced to Japan, he was worshiped by people as Mahakala. However, in 1595, Mahakala was sealed as Krishna, due to a fight with Flynn's previous life, a young man. The sealed place is of course Kanda-no-Yashiro, but Kanda-no-Yashiro is also a shrine that enshrines Ohkuninushi. Ohkuninushi is also a god identified with Mahakala in Shinto-Buddhism syncretism. I watched this episode and thought SMT4A's Krishna had a great setting. (This episode is published as a short story in the SMT4A official setting material book)
This story was written by SMT4A main scenario writer Yusuke Miyata. He left the company in the middle of the production of SMTⅤ. It's too bad he's gone from Atlus.
Hindus and Buddhists both believe in Vishnu and some other gods. Granted its been a while since my Asian religions class, but I'm next to certain. Though I suppose DDS checks both boxes
I absolutely love the battle against Vishnu-Flynn in SMTIV-A. I love Hindu aesthetics in general they really were just like "yeah our creator deities have a shit-ton of arms and weird skin colors and they have other-worldly drip."
Actually their multiple arms shows their multiple responsibilities as a deity. Vishnu has 4 arms each of which are knowledge, authority, kindness and power or something along those lines, either ways they represent 4 qualities of a king and so Vishnu is considered as the king of kings. As for otherworldly drip, I'm sorry to say only Vishnu has that but hey there is a ton of cool stuff in hindu myths.
@@gottesurteil3201 chakravartin itself as a word means ''ideal ruler'' but it applies to anything, in his true form, Vishnu has infinite arms, I believe this form is called Vishwaroop or Virat Roop, Vishnu showed this form only to one person called Arjuna but another person called Sanjaya also saw it since he had divine eyes. Apparently one needed to be worthy enough for Vishnu to let them even know he has such a form and Vishnu had to gift them divine eyes to be able to see it. According to Arjuna's description ''With Vishnu's head in the center, each side of his head had the head of another auspicious deity, each worthy of worship with infinite arms that each possess a different quality and an item showcasing that quality, it is marvelous to see the lord in this form but oh supreme soul, Vishnu, I can't help but feel afraid as well, do revert to your form as my friend Krishna. This is the humble request of your devotee.'' Chakravartin as a character is partly fictional but partly real since it's inspired from Buddha but Buddha is also an avatar of Vishnu but as a term Chakravartin is used to refer to an ''ideal king''.
If I had to pick a favorite Avatar it would definitely be Narasimha, Him and Buddha are the only Ones I like visually, and He's the only One I call upon. I also really like a couple songs dedicated to Govinda, but I'm not sure which One of the Ten He is.
@@Tony4You Narasimha isn't portrayed as intelligent but more as a father, vishnu took a whole avatar just for saving 1 devotee who was a demon by birth, clearly shows vishnu's undiscriminating love and primal rage targeted to the person who harms his devotee.
@@mythicalsoulz4709 in all his forms Krishna is intelligent. And nobody knows Krishna's intelligence. The demon Hiranyakasipu was trying to kill his very own son Prahlada, because he was a devotee of Visnu while simply his Father was a demon tyrant controlling the entire universe, making attempts to kill his son but all attempts failed and resulted in Hiranyakasipu's timely death from Narasimha jumping out of a pillar, and started playing with Hiranyakasipu like a Lion that keeps it's prey between its nails before it finally decides to annihilate and devour it.
You said Vishnu is accompanied by snakes, but thats not true. Its 1 snake with many heads. And he always accompanies Vishnu in every incarnation. The Snakes name is Adishesha.
Actually, the 9th avatar of Vishnu is Balarama. He's like a brother to krishna and he was also born a human. Other than that, amazing video! Keep it up
@@Tony4You with flaming sword on a white horse. Yup, fits the description. This reminded me of old Indian cartoon about Vishnu's avatars (named "Dashavatar" from year 2008). Animators practically gave him lightsaber.
@@Tony4You correction: Kalki, and yes you are right, Kalki's main role is saving the good to start the new age. Kalki is indeed like Shiva but with more accuracy but the thing is Shiva has been there all along doing his job, Kalki doesn't take over it, he supports it since the realm of destruction is still under Shiva, remember that Vishnu's role is being the preserver and how can you preserve what is necessary if you can't remove what is unnecessary?
Kalki will just follow Mahadev Shiva's order's. He will be evolved at his peak and he knows that he don't have to think too much and just listen and follow his father ❤❤
Outside the ones Tony4You referenced, the tales get increasingly apocryphal, I have found. Chronologically, Indra seems to appear in the Vedas long before Vishnu worship took off, so my bias would be to assume not. Then again, some scholars tracked Krishna to two separate tribes, with no reference to Vishnu for centuries. It's a twisty set of tales, I guess I'm saying.
@@Tony4You Actually indra is a deva(pronunciation = dev) Means deity Lord Vishnu is the supreme god And devas are lower rank Deitys But also respected Indra is The deity of rain and thunder and rides on his elephant Airavata(pretty sure he's in megaten games too) Airavata is the king of elephants Indra isn't a avatar og Lord Narayan(Vishnu)
B'coz Gandharvas a class of semi divine beings young and artistic and fighters too are Hindu Elf.. And Vishnu is called the Gandharvaraj ,that means king of gandharvas..
@@SerbianSpark19because they design it that way , in actuality they don't look elves at all , just a divine being in human form painted blue or black .
@@mr.hazamayukiterumi humans make up some crazy shit; it's just surprising that out of all the polytheistic religions we know of, this one is still alive and well
Hinduism isn't actually a polytheistic religion We hindus actually believe in one single God (Ishwar), there is no Vishnu or Shiva, there is only one God that we see as different beings, but it's actually just different aspects of Ishwar.
Pretty much every religion is like this (including mainstream abrahamic traditions), so I have no idea why you are singling out Hinduism. If you think this is unusual, you are probably a really boring person.
@@rphb5870 heck nah, it's a major religion in the world followed by large populations in the world. You ignorance clearly shows you are from USA or China, what if I say your religion is new in comparison to Hinduism so it is made up and not authentic
@@mythicalsoulz4709 It is pagen, understand what that word mean, like Thor and Zues. It basically mean that they believe in magical superheroes in the sky, that control the environment, it is very irrational, that does not mean it is not big. Atheism is the worlds biggest religion and it could not be more irrational.
@@rphb5870 by that logic all religions are pagan, they all have supernatural things going on. pagan means something going against conventional beliefs, Pagans believe in god but not in the religious form, they are close to atheists but not atheists, hinduism has pagans but isn't pagan itself.
