annoyed that with the list thread format I probably shouldn’t go on one of my trademark developer-perspective diatribes on the contexts of the hells in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
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the confusing realm of modern touhou afterlife cosmology… hues very close to but doesn’t really directly feature any hellscapes, and uses the Buddhist narakas as cyclical temporary reincarnation locales anyway. still, probably worth comparing?
- Perfect Cherry Blossom has a Netherworld purgatory
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View has some Styx/Sanzu river of judgement directly to the realm of the judges of the dead
- Subterrean Animism has an exiles-filled underground “Former Capital of Hell” followed by a re-activated “Remains of Blazing Hell” (a shift due to overcrowding, you see (???))
- Unidentified Fantastic Object visits that elusive Makai as the folkloric home of youkai used as sealed demon realm?
the PC-98 Highly Responsive to Prayers and Mystic Square also spend some time off in these hells, for whatever incidental theme-application and abstract those games had. meanwhile, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody has some formless realm of unperception and Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom finds some cross-China/Japan Shinto/etc pantheon on a hidden moon, for some companion heavens thread.