How THIS Symbol Inspired the Greatest Video Games Ever

Special thanks to Indi for the amazing thumbnail art! And special thanks to Eliza for providing me with the Devil May Cry footage.

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1. Introduction: 0:00 - 1:22
2. Three Quick Things: 1:23 - 2:26
3. Apocalypticism and Enoch (Dragon's Dogma, Drakengard, El Shaddai): 2:27 - 6:33
4. Merkabah (Xenogears, Xenosaga, Persona, SMT): 6:34 - 8:34
5. Hekhalot and Metatron (Silent Hill, SMT, El Shaddai, Xenogears): 8:35 - 10:19
6. Kabbalah's Links to Gnosticism (Final Fantasy X, Lies of P, Xenogears, Xenosaga, Persona): 10:20 - 12:21
7. History and Function of the Sephiroth: 12:22 - 16:11
8. Sephiroth in Video Games 1 (Devil May Cry, Haunting Ground, The Witcher): 16:12 - 18:18
9. Sephiroth in Video Games 2 (Xenogears, Persona 5, SMT3, SMT5): 18:19 - 21:54
10. Final Fantasy VII: 21:55 - 23:15
11. To Embrace or Reject God: 23:16 - 24:49
12. Outro: 24:50 - 25:33

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Group 2

Group 3

[maxderrat]

What games should I cover for a hypothetical part 2?

[taihounaishi]

Wait till you hear about Project Moon games (Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina and Limbus Company) in which Sephirotic Tree and Hebrew symbols are the key design factors of the core faction that basically brought hell on earth...

[Thornewynn]

You may or may not have alerted THE Horde

[Pirouyy]

Library of Ruina fans do be breathing heavily when they see the cabal in a thumbnail -

[dylangreen]

Project Moon not mentioned, sleeper agents activated anyway

[rubyplace]

Project Moon fans being summoned once again

[maidenlessjessofchaos]

Max, I've been a gamer my whole life, and you always find something that makes me feel like an uncultured beginner

[joshk]

Xenogears was a real consciousness-awakening game for me when I was a kid. I want some sort of remaster or remake so bad.

[ericwijaya]

"It's not here... not behind any of these doors... my path remains in shadows... my path is...!"
- EGO Corrosion Dimension Shredder Outis

[BaldingClamydia]

I'm still in the intro- I just wanted to express how cool it was you thought of the people who just listen! Sometimes I don't even know I've missed something, unless they have a moment of silence for the words on the screen :D Thanks for that

[ripcurl]

Congratulations! you have now been conscripted to the Project Moon rabbit hole. Please do not resist.

[kermitwithamustache]

We need a part 2 to this video! the story behind those religious lore books is very interesting. its a whole rabbit hole of icebergs from here

[dpolaristar]

Other occult traditions also interpret said Kabbalah as well.

BTW Jung and shows up in a lot of LN franchises as well.

My favorite being Toaru.

[Limbus-Fox]

As a Project Moon fan, I love how my community is both annoying, amazing and based at the same time. Truly one of the best 🗿

[ghoulkinggruul]

If you're interested in more games that utilize Kabbalah and the Tree of Life wonderfully, I highly recommend the works of Project Moon, notably Lobotomy Corporation.

[MutSoy_Oomer]

Holy hell is that the library floors map from library of ruina no way

[xdf]

I gotta say, you are by far the best channel on YouTube, I've learned about many things that I don't think I could ever come across, you rock Max Derrat

[ericraululyeetusdelyeetus]

No Project Moon mention, it's so over

[Theotheralt]

25:14 You have to have one of the cleanest and most professional setups for a channel I've ever seen.

Absolutely love the audible notification for when a visual is important to the conversation and how you shout out when your organized references are relevant for further research.

[georgelebron]

You are such an amazing person. You are a blessing and a miracle to this planet and it’s people