The Egyptian god at first was Neith , the lava dog was Fenrir, then Thor obviously😂 then the green one was Guan yu 😁

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We should’ve guessed Fenrir. Very cool 🤩

19:13 Cthulhu is a Great Old One from H.P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos. He is something of a priest for the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods. Communicating trough dreams he inflicts psychosis and madness. 5:28 This funny fellow is Baron Samedi, a Loa, supernatural entity in the voodoo cult, and one of the lords of the dead. He likes to drink, tell dirty jokes and party. ;)

@lordmortarius538

2 жыл бұрын

Baron Samedi is colloquially known as the god of rad graveyard parties :D

@michaelfourie

2 жыл бұрын

I once had some spiced rum named after Baron Samedi. it was the best spiced rum I have ever had

@thatsmuggamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelfourie Sounds about right

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We’re down with Baron Samedi 😎🤟🥳 👻

@tweestable

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Fun fact: Bwonsamdi, in the WoW videos you guys watched, is based off of Baron Samedi

For all the smite players out there: how many of you guys realized that long trailer was all about taking fire giant and then using the buff for the final push lmao??

The goddess you thought was Athena is called Bellona who is a Roman goddess of war and is not the Athena equivalent of Rome. The squid face one called Cthulhu (Pronounced kuh - thoo - loo) is a Great old one from the Lovecraftian pantheon.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😀

I think Heimdallr with the giant horn is really cool. Mythologically hes a much bigger deal than he tends to be portrayed as. I hope they'll put Beowulf in the game, I still really like that animated movie they made about him. Especially if they get Ray Winstone to voice him again.

@Skullkaiser

2 жыл бұрын

My guy I hope that either the Celtic pantheon or the Slavic pantheon are worked on because come on they need more.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Really surprised Beowulf isn’t in the game already 😯

@skodedickinson6544

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skullkaiser we did get cliodhna not long ago to be fair - this year is very much also focusing on other overdue pantheons (Polynesian, Voodoo and Hindu are all getting some love). It's prob Mayans most overdue for next year IMO

Good ol' squid face is the H.P Lovecraft made god cthulhu (said typically as coo or ka-th-oo-loo)the Roman goddess you saw was bellona! (She's the goddess of war!) They have very recently been adding straight myths (such as Baba yaga) and don't worry Athena and isis are in the game!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the info 😀🙂

@ramraider4159

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames no problem!! I love loads of mythology and play the game somewhat regularly

@ramraider4159

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames could there be a potential for a few mythological Mondays? I know a channel you could watch for lots of basic information about a lot of myths and gods

I know some of the videos say who they are, but im doin it anyways! so at 0:56 we got our guy Thor, Norse God of Thunder! 1:02 we have Neith the Weaver of Fate, an Egyptian Goddess 1:15 is Guan Yu, the Chinese Saint of War 1:28 is Fenrir the Norse Wolf God 4:20 we got Ymir, the Norse Father of the Frost Giants 4:55 is Hades the Greek god of the Underworld 5:29 is Baron Semedi, the Voodoo God of Life and Death 6:35 is Bellona the Roman Goddess of War 7:21 is Sun Wukong, the Chinese Monkey King 10:30 is King Arthur, of Arthurian Legend 12:03 is Merlin, also of Arthurian Legend.........duh lol 13:19 is Jormungandr the Norse World Serpent 13:58 is Set, Egyptian god of War, Chaos and Storms 14:01 is Horus, Egyptian God of War and Sky 14:51 is Olorun, Yoruban Ruler of the Heavens 15:54 is Persephone, Greek Queen of the Underworld 17:01 is Heimdallr, Norse God who keeps watch for invaders and the onset of Ragnarok 18:18 is Baba Yaga, the Slavic witch of the woods 19:01 is Cthulhu, one of the Great Old Ones, the Elder God of Madness 19:33 is Zeus, Greek King of the Gods, obviously :p 20:01 um....they did a cross over event with Avatar the Last Air Bender, certain Gods got skins of characters from the show 20:36 is Tsukuyomi the Japanese God of the Moon 20:41 is Amatarasu the Japanese Goddess of the Sun 21:23 i dont need to explain the TMNT lol 22:29 is Danzaburou the Japanese Tanuki of Legend 25:52 is Tiamat, Babylonian Goddess of the Salt Sea 26:22 is Gilgamesh, Babylonian King of Uruk and theres like, a ton of other playable Gods and Goddesses, this was like, 1/3 or 1/4 of the amount of playable characters, as there are currently 119. i LOVE mythology and smite is one of my favorite games, im glad you got to see some of it!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for going over the characters for us 😀 Glad you are a fan of this game and can help us along the way as we explore it more 🙂

Awesome. Simply awesome. I love how you got Ymir's name right lol

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

One of the few we got, but we got him 😛🤗

The development team actually are doing a really nice job in researching these gods so they can make the design and skillset as lore accurate as possible.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍🤩

The one who basically destroyed Zeus, the half octopus half dragon is cthuhlu hes an Elder God from hp lovecraft mythos and basically take one look at him and you go mad because you cant comprehend what your seeing.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😯😨

The Roman Gladiator Goddess is my first pick in Smite, Bellona, Roman Goddess of War. I also love playing Tiamat. Cthulhu is from the Lovecraftian Mythos. Smite saw a massive popularity surge when he released.

The Egyptian goddess you saw at the beginning is Neith, the goddess of war and weaving, and also wears the crown of lower Egypt. In some myths she is the creator of the world and mother of Ra, the sun God. The Roman gladiatrix-esque goddess is Bellona, the Roman goddess of war. She's kinda like Athena, but not the "equivalent," that's Minerva (don't worry, Athena is in the game). The lady with the katana and floating mirror is Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of the sun, and the guy she was fighting was Tsukuyomi, the god of the moon, and also her brother and husband. The big tentacle guy is Cthulu, a cosmic God of some sorts created by H.P Lovecraft, there's a whole mythos about the monsters he wrote about. And yes, the game plays very similarly to League of Legends, just from a different camera perspective. There are about 120 Gods in the game right now, most of the really popular ones are in there. Some of my favorites are Chang'e (Chinese goddess of the moon), Neith, Mulan (yes the movie and legend), and Morgan le Fay (the antagonist of the legend of King Arthur, though she wasn't shown in the trailor). If you want to see more gameplay and lore on specific gods, the official Smite KZread channel has Smite God reveals which go more in detail.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍😀

@bmont524

2 жыл бұрын

the god that was talking about God not knowing about death was hades.

Its crazy I actually started playing this back in the closed beta in 2012! 10 years ago. I don't play it as much today, but it's has a very very very special place in my heart. It's a Moba similar to League. My entire pantheons knowledge comes from this game. I went out of my way to learn all the god lore for the characters I liked and those close to them. That goddess you thought was Isis(renamed to Eset, because you know terrorism) is Neith. That video with Bellona (sword/hammer woman) used to have a really cool soundtrack on it, but their license for it ran out. I actually prefer it a lot more with the old music over it. that same trailer they weren't possessed. In the game there's a big objective called "The Fire Giant" the team that kills it gains an insanely strong buff that gives healing and damage, which why their eyes are red in the big battle part of that cinematic. Oh and the reason Wukong didn't die is because he has an ability that lets him go invisible, jump on a cloud and in his stead he puts a clone. Fun fact Cuthulu is the larges playable character in the game and with his ultimate he becomes even bigger.

@AmadeyAzalin

2 жыл бұрын

I considered to return since Lol doesn't bring joy anymore. Is Smite still decent?

@CatteYokai

2 жыл бұрын

@@AmadeyAzalin Imma be honest I don't know. They radically changed a lot of items and removed boots. For a vet like me who only plays every so often that breaks my flow a little, since I can't use my old builds anymore. Though if you plan on "maining" the game for a while it shouldn't be too hard and still fun. Last time I played I just picked my mains and used the recommended builds, so I was doing fine with just muscle memory.

@AmadeyAzalin

2 жыл бұрын

@@CatteYokai that should work, thanks a bunch

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Glad we are starting to cover another game that you play a lot. Means you can help us along the way when we miss stuff ☺️🤗🥳

Whoever designed this game has done their homework on mythologies, that's for certain! I've seen a few comments below that cover the various characters, from Sun Wukong to Cthulu (and how to pronounce it 😁), but two stood out to me that don't seem to have been covered. First is the turtle-looking king who got sold the illusionary saké. I don't know of a god like that, but the character is definitely a kappa, a Japanese water demon. Legend goes that they can't survive for long away from their pool, so they keep a small amount of its water in an indentation in their head. They are crafty, and will eat you given the chance, but they can be beaten with simple manners. If you bow to a kappa, he will bow in turn... spilling his water stash and leaving him weakened enough to escape from! The second is Tiamat. Most people who know that name these days know her as a character from Final Fantasy or Dungeons and Dragons. The original Babylonian myth is kinda cool, though, or at least I think so. In the first half of the Babylonian creation myth, Tiamat was a goddess of the sea, who mated with Apsu, god of groundwaters, and from that union the first gods were born. Later, believing that the gods were plotting to overthrow him, Apsu attacks the gods and is slain. Tiamat, taking on an aspect of the primordial chaos of creation, attacks the gods, and also unleashes upon them and their world the many monsters of those mythic cycles, including the first dragons; Tiamat is sometimes pictured as being a great dragon herself. She ends up being slain by the young storm god Marduk, who procedes to make the heavens and the earth from the remains of her body. At least, that's what I can remember 😊 Hoping that was interesting

@nuvalewa

2 жыл бұрын

The turtle king is Kuzenbo, King of the Kappa. He's already been in the game for a while.

@jezmerritt

2 жыл бұрын

@@nuvalewa Ah, cool... is he just a character for the game, or based on an actual myth? I've not really read up on much Japanese mythology, it's something I just haven't got around to

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping us out with some characters that hadn’t been explained fully yet to us 😀

@ASM12598

2 жыл бұрын

@@jezmerritt All 100+ characters in the game are based on actual myth and legends

@jezmerritt

2 жыл бұрын

@@ASM12598 Except for Cthulu, of course 😊

YOU TWO TOGETHER HAVE SUCH A GOOD CHARM I LOVE IT :D

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

🥰 Thanks! 😊🤗

you guys should definitely do a part 2 to react to the newer releases as well! we got morgan le fay, charybdis, cliodhna, atlas, and the two newest ones are shiva and now as of the last week the jade emperor yu huang! this makes my mythology nerd geek out so much

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We plan to check out some more Smite in the future 🙂

I’ve played this game for 7 years and I can say with complete confidence to say their art team has truly evolved over the years. And not just in their trailers but their in game cosmetics as well. They do truly have some of the most talented art teams I’ve seen 😁👍 Edit: they also did a trailer for a Monster Cat battle pass as well as a Transformer Battle Pass

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We have to hunt down the Transformer one 😂😀

@ixhatexneutella186

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJ6EmKqOkcevico.html here u go lol. Easily one of the best battle passes they’ve released Oh yeah. They also did a stranger things battle pass

I’ve been waiting for months for this and I’m so happy it’s finally here!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

🥳🥳😀🤗

Eyyy, I love SMITE. Mostly because I'm a mythology nerd, and I have to consume all that is related to it. But yeah, bumping up Noah's comment - their God Reveals videos are definitely worth watching.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍😀

I was hoping to see your reaction to Morgan Le Fey’s trailer since she’s one of my favorite characters but I loved seeing people react to these trailers!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We have more we need to check out we heard which sounds good to us 😀🥳

I haven't played Smite in such a long time. I should return to it someday. I'm surprised you've never heard of Cthulhu. Funny enough, when you said you didn't recognize him my first thought was that you were talking about Zeus and I was like "it's Zeus, isn't it obvious??" It never came into my mind that Cthulhu could be unknown one.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, we also didn’t know Steve from Minecraft 😂 wonder which one is more well known 🤔🙃🤗

I didnt expect this video to come out this fast, i remember commenting on another video asking for smite not too long ago; thanks for reacting to this

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure 🤗

Ooo Smite cinematic reaction is such a shock and surprise. One of my favorite MOBAS and the only one I still kind of play. So to identify some gods, first one from the first trailer was of course Thor (or Tor) the nordic god of lightning. The second one was Neith, the weaver of faith. She was an Egyptian goddess of the hunt on the early days of the kingdom. But later generation of Egyptians couldn't identify what she was a good of, and the symbol on her head looked a bit like a weaver. So she become the goddess responsible for weaving the world. Now so is she more associated with the hunt I think. But Smite decided to make her a hunter and use that version of her but have some nods to her weaving goddess stories too. The "Lava Werewolf" as Kent so gently called it is the beast Fenris. A beast from Nordic Mythology, a spawn of Loki and a giant. This mighty wolf could not be chained by normal chains but the dwarfs had to make a special ribbon to hold him. There is a lot of stories involving him and he is the reason Tyr only have one hand. It's also said that at Ragnarök so will Fenris devour Odin, slaying the Alfather. And the forth one is Guan Yu, a well know general from the Chinese story "The Three Kingdoms". Last one from the first bunch did Kent correctly identify as Ymir, a giant (not always frost). From which his body so was the world molted, things like his skull became the sky and his flesh the earth. The "do not fear death" guy is Hades. Then we have Baron Samedi, a vodoo god of death and life and the inspiration to the bad guy from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog." Then we have Bellona a roman goddess of war. The monkey man was Sun Wu Kong. And the dual dagger guy is Loki (Loke). Pretty sure the guy who emerged from the Lava in that trailer is Surtr but he has not been confirmed in the universe so I am unsure. After that so did we have the legend of King Arthur and the Wizard Merlin (which honestly I am not a fan of them in the game). After that so was of course Jörmangandr another child of Loki, thrown into the sea as a child. He grew large until he reached the size to wrap around the world. Just as Fenrir will slay Odin on Ragnarök so is Jörmangandr legend to slay Thor, but not before being bested in combat. Dying from the serpents venom. Followed by Horus and Set. Two of the mightiest Egyptian gods. Olorun is from the Yoruba pantheon, based on traditional African gods and goddesses. His title in game is Ruler of the Heavens. Listing all of these gods and their story is gonna be a bit to much. But let me touch on a few more. The monster with tentacles hanging from his face is Cthulhu. A god from Lovecrafts universe. A being so powerful a mortal would go mad simply looking at him. And only a dead piece of him can make mortals start to worship him. Followed by Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, the god of the moon and the goddess of the sun in Shinto (Japanese mythology). Wife and husband and of course as in many mythologies brother and sister. They do have a third brother. Susanoo, god of the raging storms. The big turtle is Kuzenbo the king of Kappa's (Japanese turtle monsters who wants to drag your soul out through your butt. I am not joking) and Danzaburou a tanuki. Aka same thing as Tom Nok in Animal Crossing. After that so do we have Tiamat and Gilgamesh, from Babylonian legends. Of course the epics of Gilgamesh is consider the first story. Of course there is so so so so so so much more I could write out. But this is a condensed (?) version of a lot of the trailers. Most of this have I learned by playing and watching smite videos.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you helping us out in deciphering who is who and also a little backstory for some of the ones we missed or didn’t know as much about 😀

@dwell7315

2 жыл бұрын

the fire giant cinematic is just showing how Bellona's team killed the Fire Giant objective in the Conquest map and the buff from doing so helped them win the game (Except Sun Wukong ulted, the cheeky bastard)

I love Smite, it’s one of my favorite games! I have Twitch prime so I got a ton of exclusives, my favorite crossovers are the Transformers and Stranger Things crossover

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Those sound like some fun crossovers for sure 😀

@shaokahn1576

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yeah you should check out all the cross over trailers

The First animation with the Skeletons is Baron Samedi, the Loa of Death of Vodoo culture

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

👻👍🥳

In Smite you pick your god from a selection of pantheons and myths and form a team and work together to fight another team. Both teams try to destroy/ capture each others bases. New mythologies and heroes are added every now and then.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving us the breakdown of gameplay 😀

that tentacle face is Cthulu, a god from the Universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. His works inspire a lot of the entertainment medium you see today when it comes to the weird, sci-fi, horror and fantasy genre. Cthulu is a cosmic entity that watches over all the other ancient cosmic entities while the slumber in some story lines at least I'm sure there are others.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving us a quick rundown on Cthulhu 🙂

SMITE is a MOBA like League of Legends or DotA, but it's a 3rd person, over the should view rather than top down. I've been playing since the Xbox beta in like 2012. It's come a LOOONG way, with both the game and cinematics. They've got over 100 gods and goddesses and mythological figures, from Thor, Odin, Ymir, to Artemis, Zues, Hades, to King Arthur and Merlin, to Gilgamesh and Tiamat, to Scylla and Charybdis, and they add a new one every few months, usually about 4 per year. They just added Atlas and Shiva, they'll be adding the Jade Emperor and Lancelot soon. Some speculate Robin Hood as well. It's not my favorite game, and it's on unreal engine 3(a very outdate game engine), but it's still fun to come back to when I'm bored with other games and they keep it alive well enough. Athena is in the game, the goddess in the trailer with the sword is Bellona. The bow user is Neith weaver of fate. Isis is in the game, but they renamed her to Eset due to the negative stigma of the name Isis, plus KZread doesn't like people saying Isis.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍🙂 Makes sense the name rebrand. Didn’t realize that about KZread, but that also makes a ton of sense. Glad our video didn’t get flagged for saying the name but maybe that is because we said the word goddess beforehand 🤔🤗

@trav_esty

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I'm not sure if they flag it, or if they just lower it's priority in the algorithm. Idk, honestly, I just know a lot of content creators would say, "Oh no they have a 'mumble' on their team" when referring to her. But hey, for us subscribers, it matters! Lol. Anyway, enjoy the reactions as always, thanks for the content!

@fishoto3677

2 жыл бұрын

@@trav_esty yeah they really flagged stuff, smite changed it because of content creators asking for the change, since saying her name would be enough to remove monetization for the video.

5:19 That, that is Hades. Haven't played smite in so many years but he was my main and I absolutely loved just wiping the whole enemy team with his ult. xD

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice 😎😈🤟 His mentioning Ragnarok thew us off 🤗

@ravaana7093

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames was part of an event line, huge map changes and a bunch of stuff.. So they made an event called Ragnarok, and decided that Hades would be behind it all

When Baron Samedi came up 😂😂😂 such a dramatic change of pace

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Right? 😛

Smite is filled with not just Gods, but also legends and monsters that one can play as Neith, the Fateweaver, is an Egyptian goddess Fenrir is one of Loki's children, doomed to devour Odin at Ragnarok Thor is, well, Thor of course lol. The big ice giant dude is Ymir, the progenitor of all giants, who was killed by Odin, Vili, and Ve to create the world. The green guy with the sword-spear is Guan Yu, a legendary Chinese general The creepy dude with the glowing eyes in the hood is Hades, Greek god of the Underworld. The dance number is brought to you by Baron Samedi, a voodoo loa of the dead and rad graveyard parties. Bellona is the sword/shield lady, the Roman goddess of Battle, and currently Smite's poster girl lol That cinematic also depicts a Fire Giant fight (the FG is a big neutral objective that the teams can fight over, whoever kills it gets a BIG damage/mitigation buff for 3 minutes for everyone alive on their team.) Arthurian legends are included, (King Arthur, Merlin, and Morgan Le Fay currently, with Gawain soon to come), as well as Lovecraftian gods like Cthulhu, and recently new pantheons added like the Babylonian god Tiamat and hero Gilgamesh. The game itself is a MOBA, so like League, but better. It's third person view, instead of top down, and it actually requires skill with aiming as ranged basic attacks and many abilities are skillshots. It's got an ongoing story as well, and some really cool battle passes with great skins (my favorite, as an 80's child, was the Transformers one). I stream this on Twitch too if you're interested to learn :P

@lordmortarius538

2 жыл бұрын

Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos, which is essentially cosmic horror: unknowable 'gods' that lurk in the outer reaches of space and time, that cause humans to go insane just trying to fathom their basic nature. Cthulhu is like a priest of the Outer Gods, and has been sleeping under the waves for millennia, in the sunken city of R'lyeh, he lays dreaming. Tsukuyomi is the brother of Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess, and he is the god of the moon. He wields tonfa named Mangetsu and Shingetsu, after the phases of the moon. Danzaburou is the legendary Tanuki trickster of Japanese legend, and it's particularly hilarious how they did his skin in Smite because in the lore he has extremely large testicles that hang visibly down, so Hi-Rez replaced those with two dangling jugs of sake hanging from his belt LOL

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving us some more info on the characters we saw in these trailers 😀

This is my favorite game ever I've been playing it for 7 years I'm so happy ur checking this out

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Glad we are finally getting around to it 😀

Baron Samedi's trailer is still my all time favorite lol 😆

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

Olorun is Yoruba supreme creator god in and Christians in Nigeria and parts of west Africa actually used the name as their translation for GOD. Tsukuyomi is the Kami of the Moon and was fighting megami of the Sun Amaterasu.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping us with who Olorun is. Was one we were super curious about 🤩

They do try to design facets of a gods kit around their lore as well which is interesting from design. Odin got a rebalance a few years ago where his passive got added to his ultimate and he received a new passive that gave him a temporary buff whenever a god dies to mark his role in the norse afterlife.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

It’s nice to that they try to make it as accurate as possible to real lore instead of going off what we all think of a character from popular media 🤩

@soulstealer5625

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames theres always been a few design hiccups here and there. An example would by scylla and charyobdis. Monsters from greek mythology where Charyobdis was depicted an a huge whirlpool with a maw of teeth at the centre and scylla as a mob of tentacles (i think) that would grab ships and sailors that ventured near her cliffs. Smite depicted both as little girls which some saw as copies of annie from league (i think thats her name), but their arguement was it was supposed to embody their callous disregard of life and monstrous laughter. They still incorporate monster aspects at least with their ultimate mirroring each other (both turn into monster form, do a massive attack and gets to do it again after if gets kill with it) and charyobdis turning into a whirlpool with teeth during her third ability.

Awesome Smite is on some Gods of Lovecraft type STORY

I may not play as much as I used to, but , Smite has a special place in my heart. Mainly because it was released on my birthday YEARS ago. There is so much I could go on about for you with this reaction. Someone suggested watching the Character Reveals and I agree, but I also recommend watching the Nevercake Smite animations as well, they are adorable. (Everyone who know with me now: "Ooooo ahhhh ooo")

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Have both of those in our request list for Smite 🙂

Cthulhu is a Great Old One from H.P. Lovecraft books. He's jailed in his sleep in sunken city in Pacific Ocean, and his awakening would bring world destruction. As many other eldritch things from Lovecraft, anyone that sees him instantly goes insane, because human mind can't apprehend this creatures, so that's what happening in his trailer. Whole Cthulhu Mythos is largely popular in media, like some gods from WoW and Elder Scrolls take inspiration from it, or Bloodborne, which is literally "Lovecraftian Dark Souls". I would recommend Call of Cthulhu 2018 for gaming introduction, as it kinda new, easy to play and Cthulhu is main god of story

@GxdBless7

2 жыл бұрын

Cthulhu is characterized as the priest or leader of the Old Ones, a species that came to Earth from the stars before human life arose. The Old Ones went dormant, and their city slipped under Earth's crust beneath the Pacific Ocean.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Call of Cthulhu is actually one of the many games in our request list. Seems like we need to check it out for sure now to learn a bit more 🙂

Yo ive never seen someone react to these trailers before! Ive played the game for many years and its interesting to see the reactions of people who’ve never seen the game. Enjoyed the vid!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! We take suggestions from the community and they wanted to see this so we finally got to it. Also plan to check out more in the future 🙂

I remember that I had pretty much never played a game of Smite until Cthulhu was announced. Cthulhu is in my opinion hands down the most badass god in the game

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

The skull head guy with the jazz band is the Voodoo god of death.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

👻🤟🥳

Smite is probably not the most regarded MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena, like League of Legends), but there were a couple of things that drew me to it. One is that it is played in 3rd person, not too-down, so it feels more immersive. The other was the link to mythology, which I just love.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We dig it 🙂

New gods and Heroes and monsters are added every so often for old pantheons too.

I can't believe yall reacted to Smite! It's my favorite game!! Thank uuuu lol

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure 🥳🥳😀

My favorite of all time was Persephone's release, she was amazing at that time

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Her trailer was badass 🤩

To me the best is Cthulhu 18:50, I love the Lovecraft's mythology and the cosmic terror Cthulhu is one of the primals gods in this mythology. I recommend the games of Cthulhu: the call of Cthulhu and the sinking city.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We do have those games in our request list to check out 😀

@blackfoxdraco1585

2 жыл бұрын

Then they ruined it (he got 1 shot by Tiamat)

@Repsolthefirst

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackfoxdraco1585 Literally lmao. Did my boy dirty

Totally stoked you guys are checking Smite stuff. There are other similar ones that were not in this playlist that you should totally watch as well. As others have suggested, if you like the look of the characters and would like to know more about them, check the god reveal videos for them, almost all of them have one and there are 120 already, so you got content there if you like them; you could only check the lore section and maybe the abilities as well. Another recommendation I would make is checking the series "Smite Lore" by Nevercake, except for the new ones, every god has a small video where they explain the lore via media, gaming and meme references

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info on the Smite Lore vids 😀

@edy1198

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yes pls watch them, they are alot, but little by little it goes, and they are very good

I agree that it was pretty fun to guess which gods were which. The warrior lady had me stumped for a little. I knew she was Roman from her armor and shield but I just couldn't place her. Genuinely surprised you guys didn't seem to instantly know Cthulhu or Baba Yaga. I also thought that it was Anubis and not Set but they both have canine-like heads so it's easy to mix them up.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Only know Baba Yaga from the Antman and Wasp movie actually 😂

@bloodphoenixab

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I never watched the Ant Man movies. Guess I have to now. They always put such weird twists on mythological beings.

I've been playing smite for quite a long time, so I'll let you know of all the stuff I know. The game is a MOBA like League of Legends but it's a Third Person version. All gods have 4 abilities the first 3 are basic abilities and the last is their ultimate, they all also have passives that make them all unique in terms of gameplay. You have Health and Mana, Health is typical how much health you have before you die, Mana is basically your special abilities juice if you have it you can use special abilities. Abilties once used will go into a cooldown time before they can be used again as with most MOBA's so it's key to know when to use certain abilities at the right time. Damage is separated into two types, Magic and Physical and there are 5 archetypes in general. Assassin, Assassin gods are fast melee based gods that deal physical damage they have low defense but their abilities allow them to deal a lot of damage to single units while also applying Crowd Control or CC to weaken or cripple their targets. Hunter, Hunter's are ranged physical units that can attack from a distance, Hunters are used to either weaken or pick off weak fleeing enemies and often have abilities that increases their attack speed or puts various CC on enemies keep in mind though since it's range you have to be very good at aiming and predicting where an enemy might go they are often very Crit heavy. Warrior, Warriors are unique they are melee units that can be played either very tanky or very offensive or a mix of both warriors have abilities to help deal damage primarily. Mage, Mage's are magical dealing ranged units, Mage's have very low defense but very high magical damage. Mages can either be all out damage dealers or support units that can heal and apply various debuff's and CC to enemies. Finally there is the Guardian, Guardians are magic attacking tanks and they are both support and tanking units to help the team by soaking up damage or by using their abilities to apply powerful CC on enemies. Guardians are built to take punishment but those that decide to go offensive with them can make guardians even more dangerous than a mage in terms of damage. The goddess with the Sword is called Bellona she is the Roman Goddess of War she is unique in that she is the only goddess to have 4 weapons tied to her abilities, she has a sword, sword and shield, a hammer, and a bladed whip. If you really want to get to the meat and potatoes of the game I'd watch the gods Reveal there is over a hundred gods but the videos are not super long they're about 5-6 minutes and they also help tell the story of the game more as well as show how the god or goddess works in game. That being said some gods are changed or 'redesigned' to a new form so that other gods can be made. So you might think you're seeing a god twice but in reality it's just an old god remade into a newer one while another god takes the old god's place. This sounds confusing but you'll understand if you see the God Reveal trailers.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting us know about the design changes so we don’t get too confused when we check out the God reveal trailers 🙂

@Netsaver

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames happy to help

They have a playlist where you can react to all the gods in chronological order

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍😀

The frost giant you named him spot on that was crazy 👌👌

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! We got one right 😀

@ethanmeadows1908

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames most of the names you guys said were right as well it always nice to see a quality video from you guys keep it going ❤️👌

never heard of this game but being a mythos nut i am absolutely loving this

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟🤩 got a lot of cool designs right?

the trailer with devona, loki and ymir against wukon, thor and neith had a change of music because of copyright ending. you can still find the other version with the original song on youtube. im sure you will like the song. the trailer is smite to hell and back on the xbox chanel

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍🙂

Y'all should definitely check out the newer trailers and the SMITE God reveals, they're super fun to watch

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Plan to continue with some more Smite 🙂

So the god, who's name you could not say was the creation of a pulp horror writer from Maine named H. P. Lovecraft. His Lovecraftian stories would show how small mankind was in the greater plans of the gods of the universe . He who's can not be said, Cthulhu (Kuh-thoo-loo) and not the hardest name to say. I say that knowing that I do not say the name correctly, becouse the first short story about "Call of Cthulhu" was printed in a pulp horror magazine in 1928. We do not talk the same then as now. Oh it 2:30am here , 30 more minute and I get to crash for two hours, if things stay quiet a little longer. So loved the trailers and your reaction. So before I crash and burn, have a great day (night) and Stay Safe.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting us know the pronunciation and for staying up late to check out the vid before you crashed 🤗

Kinda sad ya didn't find my playlist, it's much more complete but I'm still Hella stoked to see smite cinematics here

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

There are like 5 missing here right? Other than god reveals 🤔

I first started playing this game when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Pass was active. It's been a hell of a ride with this game so far, and I've loved every second of it.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! 😀😎🤟 Sometimes gotta bring people in with what they are familiar with like that tmnt one 😀

@kevinnorwood8782

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Well, truth be told, I didn't even realize that Battle Pass was active until I started playing. It was seeing Tsukuyomi going to be added that made me go, "Okay, I need to start playing this." I had actually heard of Smite several years earlier, when actor Kevin Sorbo did a commercial/promo saying he was going to be providing the voice for one of the alternate skins of the character Hercules (who he was famous for portraying in the live-action TV series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."). But I didn't truly get interested in Smite until around 2019, when I learned that King Arthur and Merlin had been added to the roster.

DefNotDef suggestions: - Full Metal Jacket Opening Scene - Memories of phantasm openings & episodes - Popeye vs Saitama, Jon vs Sabrewulf, Jinx vs Harley, Ganon vs Dracula, Guts vs Nightmare death battles - Omori trailers (if they exist)

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Full Metal Jacket. Classic 😎

I also found Persephone's trailer to be my favourite one! It's what made me start to play the game. The character's design and gameplay is a lot of fun, the voice acting is on point and the personality is just so badass and sassy. And their take on her backstory is so interesting I love it! The character basically gets a 10/10 for me :p

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Great taste in characters and trailers ☺️🥳

Yes I’m so excited for the smite reactions!!!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear! 🥳🥳😀

The SMITE god reveals are a must see since you watched this!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to it. Just gonna take us like 50 years because there are so many 🤯

Yup first cinematic is Fenrir, Son of Loki, Fighting the Egyptian goddess of War and Weaving. Followed by Thor the Thunderer, and the Chinese God of War, Guan Yu. And then finally the King of Frost Giants, Ymir.

@kevintucker2592

2 жыл бұрын

Third Cinematic featured Baron Samedi from the Voodoo religion, Loa of Death and Deals.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍😀

the woman fighting wu kong is Bellona, Roman goddess of war i believe, i may be corrected on this, my personal favorite character to use :)

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct from what we heard others say as well 😀🥳

The one that you called "Athena's Roman equivalent" is Bellona, a roman goddess of war and bloodshed, is said to be Mars' consort, Greek equivalent is Enyo. Athena *is* in the game though. Interestingly enough, in this game canon, Roman and Greek gods are one and the same, some prefer to be called by their roman name like Bellona or Discordia (Eris) while others prefer to be called by their greek name, like Zeus or Hades

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that the Greeks and Romans are same in this game 😯

Cliodhna is a fairly new goddess and her cinematic was really cool. I actually got the creeps watching it and it fits her so well. I recommend watching that one for sure

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the rec in more Smite to check out 😀

What distinguishes Smite the most is the vast array of choices we have in the game currently. Smite has Around 118 different Gods from 16 different pantheons... But yes, its a more immersive League of Legends due to the gameplay being 3rd person instead of 2nd Person Omniscient

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍😀

6:23 Ah, Baron Samedi, one my favorite Gods of any mythologys, games, movies and so on.

they down played Cthulhu, and down played Tiamat, but for those two alone I may have to check if I can play them.....Good to see you KIds

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Heard Cthulhu was a big draw for many to the game 🙂

@brianstocks8049

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Cthulhu is one of my favs. The Mrs. seem to be a rather literary person, H.P. Lovecraft has some great writing that lead to the legend of Cthulhu. Most are short stories, but they are Creepy. Give him a ready, you won't regret it, H.P. was a great writer

Technically, there is a story; it gets played out over each season and builds upon the last. But when it comes to gameplay, it's basically an over the shoulder MOBA like LoL, but you use wasd instead of mouse clicks to control. They is no need to know the lore or story to play. The Roman goddess was Bellona, the Roman goddes of war. She is/was brutal in the game before I stopped playing. I would suggest a video that introduces each character and make a short 4-5 video series if you're interested in knowing who all is in and such. But when I played my three primary being I played was Ymir the Frost Giant, Medusa the Gorgon, and Cabraken the Fat Loki.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Playing as Medusa would be fun as hell 😁 (we imagine)

@brycelacy3545

2 жыл бұрын

Cabrakan the fat Loki 🤣

#DefinetelyNotDefinitive that Athena you thought is Bellona or known in Greece is Enio, daughter of Zeus and Hera. That Surtr you thought was God Hades at the beginning. Olorun is a Yoruba God!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Would’ve guessed it was Hades but the mention of Ragnarok threw us off 🤗🙃

Smite made a really good name for itself when Arena games got super popular, and they made that name by paying as much attention to PvE as PvP. They also picked a lot of gods that aren't as popular in pop culture like Bellona (the feisty sword chick) so that players could have a big variety of chars to pick through. They also pick characters from modern mythology, like Baron Samedi (the voudon party guy) and C'thulhu (whom is pretty much an anti god,he was created in the early 1900s by HP Lovecraft) and also "ascended" characters like Guan Yu (the green guy with the fancy staff) They do have videos for all the characters, you guys might have them as Friday staple in batches of like 5 or so.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoy pve but the trend is more and more pvp unfortunately. The move from pve to pvp is what killed Marvel Strike Force for me 😢

As others mentioned, the short-haired woman with the sword and shield isn't Athena. That being said, Athena is very much a playable character in the game! This is her splash art if you're curious about what she looks like: static.wikia.nocookie.net/smite_gamepedia/images/d/d7/SkinArt_Athena_Default.jpg There are tons of other playable ancient Greek characters in the game, ranging from the Olympian gods to legendary monsters from myths and even great heroes such as Achilles. And that's really only scratching the surface of what SMITE has to offer. My interest in mythology is in no small part thanks to this game! If you're interested, there are a number of newer cinematics (from last year onwards) that weren't included in the playlist you were watching. If you liked what you saw here, these other ones might also be worth a shot!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That’s cool that the game got you more interested in mythology. 😀 We can see why as the designs for the characters are fantastic 🤩

Sword lady is belona and she basically is roman Athena 😅. She doesn't have a Greek equivalent. But she is the wife of Mars. And her personality is very much like Athena. The more tactical side of war.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍😀

Woah, I didn't expect you to react to Smite, noice!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😁🥳

If you guys are interested in more cinematics like these, there have been 5 (almost 6) releases since Gilgamesh!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks for letting us know 😀

Yessss I love smite! Hope you like it as well!!!♥️

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We dig the mythology and character design was really creative 🤩

18:46 I was so happy when I saw Baba Yaga in SMITE, characters from our slavic mythology are not often participate in any media, like Gods of Olympus or North Gods, and in such moments it feels.....so nice!

If you guys want to play Smite it is available for download on play station online.

SMITE is my favorite game, glad I found this

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it too! We plan to check out some more Smite in the future 🙂

The one you thought was Athena is actually Bellona. She is the Roman God of War, but she is not Athena's Roman form. The Romans change Athena to Minerva. The one you thought was Isis is actual Neith, a much older and stronger Egyptian goddess of fate. That said, both Athena and Isis (now called Eset because KZread demonitization) are in the game.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍🙂

I have to say, I LOVE smite and have played it for a long time, but one area LOL has them beat by a long shot is their cinematics. Not in quality, SMITE's are great, but in quantity. SMITE could do SO MUCH MORE with cinematic trailers. Not only just showing off their characters and how they'd interact (like, say, "A New Dawn" from League), but also their own lore (like "Awaken" from League). I think a lot of non-SMITE players aren't even aware that there's meta-lore within the SMITE "universe" that would be really interesting to show in a longer videos. And yes, I know a number of recent god teasers (Cthulhu, Tsukuyomi, etc) have had some lore involved, but those are often

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We have to second this. Would love some more quality cinematics from Smite to check out 😀🤩

I play this, my favorite character is the wolf that appears in the first scenes, his name is Fenrir

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

As a previous player of League of Legends since 2013, I got into SMITE in...2019? 2020? My at the time girlfriend's husband wanted me to play, and I was hooked. Then...the next year, a new god was announced, and I was beyond excited! Discordia!!! Goddess of Chaos, usually spoken of as Eris in the Greek pantheon I have honoured Eris as my Goddess before all others since I was 16 or 17. Not only was I able to play as my deity, BUT...she turned out to be my best character!!! I want to hear the exact reasons that the Xtian deities haven't got included at all. I have few match ups that I would love to play out.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Perfect timing for you joining the game. Like it was meant to be ☺️😎🤟

Cthulhu is the deep one, it's not a mythological god, but a fictional one created by author H.P Lovecraft back in the 1920s that's become a cornerstone of media and inspired a massive legacy of works that all reference and play with the themes H.P put in his works. Cosmic horror, unknowable deities, the insignificance of man, amoral continuity (the idea that not everything can be examined as good or evil, which mainstream Jude-Christianity at the time was pushing into almost every piece of fiction) etc. Works like Alien (Prometheus especially), Bloodborne, the cosmic backstory of WoW, the cosmic beings in League of Legends like Aurelion Sol are highly inspired by the idea that "God" is unknowable and uncaring, a higher cosmic power that only suffers us because we are irrelevant. It's one of those fictional progressions that if you don't know about it beforehand, you would never see that it was significant because everything that came after it refined what it was going for. Like if you were to watch the OG Star Wars trilogy today for the first time, it doesn't seem that special, it's just the heroes journey, but in space. At the time though it was groundbreaking for its special effects work and simplified approach to world building. Cthulhu is just basically the idea of a God older and greater than God himself which is why it became such a relevant idea in the 1920s

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Like how you explained not only Cthulhu but also it’s cultural significance 😊

Smite has insanly good trailers and teasers

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We enjoyed checking these out for sure 🤩

There are so many gods and it’s so much to learn from that game. I used to play the game and each of the gods have their own lore and story. The girl with the shield and the sword her name is bellona and the girl with the bow her name is neith. I enjoy playing as Hel and I just like her so much. She is the daughter of Loki and she has a second half of her. Anyways love the reaction c:

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Would like to see their design for Hel 😀

The women dragging the sword is called Bellona

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ash! 😀

The story of Persephone and Hades is complicated, as there are a lot of different versions. But in this one she isn't a victim of Hades at all. In some stories of the greek gods and the underworld, Hades is actually one of the better gods. A much better person then Zeus ever is. Zeus, Persephone's father, helps Hades kidnap her after he promises her to his brother, but Persephone's mother, Demeter, didn't like that and appealed to Zeus to get her daughter back. Zeus, told Demeter and Hades that Persephone would spend one half of the year with her mother, and the second half with Hades, her husband whom she actually loved. Also, in some of the older stories about her, she is referred to as Queen of the Underworld before Hades was even mentioned at all as the ruler of the underworld. It is actually thought by some that Hades was made up to take the place of Persephone, who was the original ruler of the underworld.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving us some other stories about Persephone other than the mainstream ones we’ve learned. We dig this Persephone for sure 🤩😀

The goddess you thought was Athena was actually Bellona the Roman goddess of war and that silly animated zombie voodoo trailer was of Baron Semidi god of death and voodoo

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Baron Semidi seems like a fun god 👻🥳

this is such a great game, so many awesome gods to play

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE 😭✨

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😊🤗

@ldnns6302

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames please, make some videos on it at least. 🥺✨

The man you saw play with skeletons is baron samedi the voodoo God of life and death

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Ah okay. Name sounds familiar now 🙂

You should check the new cinematics out too. Their quality improved dramatically during the last year

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Look forward to seeing the new cinematics 😀

Yeah, you had it fairly nailed down for the most part. SMITE is a MOBA style game in the same general spirit as stuff like League of Legends, only with all the playable characters being gods and heroes from mythologies the world over. A few of them (like Arthur and Merlin for example) aren't explicitly GODS, but they are myths in their own right. I used to play a TON of Smite, I've sampled a few MOBAs and generally enjoyed myself overall but I think Smite is my favorite one. It stands out a bit too as the first of its kind I believe to have gone with a tighter third-person over-the-shoulder style interface as opposed to the isometric top-down of most MOBAs before it. I've always loved mythology (particularly Greek, though it's all cool IMO) so getting to step into the roles of some of my favorite gods and goddesses was a lot of fun for me. A few noteworthy mentions to pick out: 1 - The "Athena" type character with the dark hair and the large sword who showed up a few times was Bellona, the Roman goddess of war. There are some similarities between her and Minerva (the Romanized version of Athena) but Bellona seems to be more of an Ares type, a legit incarnation of war (while Athena/Minerva is largely more related to wisdom and strategy). I'm pretty sure the Latin WORD for "war" is based on her name. It may interest you to know that Athena and Ares themselves are also both playable characters in the game. :) 2 - C'thulhu not being a name you recognized was a little shocking, as he's one of the more well-known "contemporary" deific entities. He's kind of a standout in Smite as he's one of the few characters who's NOT from ancient myths or history, but rather the subject of a pretty well-known author H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft is kind of the father of "cosmic horror" as a genre, inspiring a LOT of things to come after. Possessing a similar kind of clout as authors like Tolkien, his supernatural horror stories revolve around grand cosmic entities from the Beyond that have either touched on or rooted in the Earth, beings so immensely beyond our limited ability to conceptualize that they're known for causing madness in those who've glimpsed the eldritch secrets they guard. C'thulhu in particular is known to be a sort of high priest of one of the greater entities, and he lays slumbering beneath the oceans with only his dreams occasionally spreading to the mainland to infect the minds of humans and cause them to go insane. 3 - Not a big deal, but the shadowy character talking about death and Ragnarok and all that in one of the early cinematics was Hades (albeit their oldest representation of him, he got a bit of a rework later). I can see how he'd be a little hard to identify and easy to misinterpret as Loki though, seeing as we don't associate Hades with Ragnarok...but I guess since they were kind of having all mythologies overlap it kinda makes sense that they'd relate. Some other comments have suggested checking out the God Reveals for the game, which is certainly an option if you guys have a decent timeslot available, but there are QUITE a few (over a hundred) and they're largely just an introduction to the way the character looks and plays in the game with a bit of lore thrown in. If it happened to be something that piqued your interest, I know for sure I'D watch those videos, but I can imagine y'all have a lot of other stuff on your list to get to before that would come along. :)

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

So the god reveals are kind of like the spotlights for Dbd and gameplay trailers for League? 🤔 we were hoping they’d be more cinematic. And we definitely won’t be able to get to all of them in one vid haha. Hades threw us because of the Ragnarok thing for sure 🤗

@ericmartin8870

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Closer to the League versions, DBD can be a little shallow on how much info they give on the abilities and lore. Smite's God Reveals are a couple minutes each, starts with a little lore narration and then goes into the abilities and some in-game scenarios of how to utilize them or show their weaknesses. They're neat, but not groundbreaking. Good for getting a taste for who they are and what they do. :) The intro lore talks are usually pretty cool at least, they tend to do kind of a scrolling 2D art crawl not HUGELY unlike stuff like the art-oriented WoW shorts (Burdens of Shaohao etc) but in the game's own signature art style. Very dramatic, lol...but neat. :) It's a dive for sure if you want to plunge into all that Smite has to offer about its characters, but if it tickles your fancy it's pretty neat. I always thought it was cool.

Cthulhu is from H.P. Lovecraft's pantheon of horror gods.

"Horus" Wow, she actually knows her... "Anubis" .-. Just joking, love the video

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤗

the animation for To Hell and Back lost its music which made the animation so much better

Im gkad you guys watched some if these you should do the rest !😂💙 the female with with sword was Bellona

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We plan to do more for sure now that we are into the game finally 🙂

SMITE AHHHHH, I LOVE YOU TWO SO MUCH 😭😭😭💖💖💖 SO MANY GODS AND GODDESSES HAVE FUN, KEN AND BETHANY :3

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We had fun with this and plan to dive more into the game 🙂

@DjZeroGalactica

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yes :3

you guys should do JUMP FORCE. really nice cinematic ultimates

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Do plan to check those out eventually 😅