La-Mulana Lore: Gate of Guidance
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La-Mulana's entire existance is based around the culmination of various ideologies, mythologies, cultural icons, extinct creatures and many other fascinating things. This video isn't necessary for the LP, but it helps to flesh out the story by rooting the game's plot in some real-world context.
Today we explore Gate of Guidance and its connections to the La Venta Ruins in south america.
Sources:
La Venta ruins trivia and images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Venta
Chi You trivia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_You
Shuriken trivia and images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuriken
Snouter trivia and horror slide show: http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Stumpke/book_en.htm
Aztec Calender, SMT depiction of Chi You and the Holy Grail examples are all from Google Image Search
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La-Mulana Statistics For Highwang
Currently, Highwang has 229,644 views for La-Mulana across 51 videos. The game makes up over 1 day of published video on his channel, roughly 4.91% of La-Mulana content that Highwang has uploaded to YouTube.