The allure of Noh theatre reaches the world of videogames. The new release of the popular Tekken features a stage on a Noh stage – along with an interesting soundtrack with nohkan and ko-tsuzumi. At first I didn’t realise, then I zoomed a little and… check out the soundtrack and the pictures below. I am trying to figure out what play it is – judging from the costume and what look like candles on the headpiece my guess is Kanawa.
That's great. Beautiful environments (the stage, etc.), and very cool music, with some real energy to it.
Environments look good. I find this kotsuzumi rather annoying, though..
Very interesting: I teach video games for a Media Studies course, and in the same way – in my scant experience – that evil is not entirely vanquished, but only suppressed, in a Noh narrative, one finds that the same holds for a video game – thus compelling the player to return. Given that one could say that the Japanese were pioneers of video gaming, it’s a link that is likely worthy of explanation.