Three person invasions.
Three separate wars.
And all these years later, no one has found it. The tusk of Ganesh.
So this one is called Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and it's
actually the last game that came
out. So this is just from 2017.
So the thing we just watched was from 2009. So this you'll notice
this looks a lot better.
So also this one is entirely set
in India, so I figure you'll
also have probably a lot.... a lot of thoughts about it.
Good or bad.
I see a little market scene in front of your temple,
interesting. I usually get
really annoyed with like Indian
inspired background music, but this is actually kind of good.
Is this the same character as the last one? Yes, that's Chloe.
Chloe, with the smoky voice.
And then sarcastic demeanor.
You don't need me. Chloe knows everything you need about Hinduism.
Or she has at least read the Wikipedia page for Ganesh. 
So you do see right outside of temples throughout India sort of
market stalls that have been set
up that sell, you know small
deities to devotees as they come in. Food and drink, and different
things. So it's sort of a realistic scene that you would
have outside of the temple, which is nice. So her Kurta
is interesting. It looks like it's like bandhani dyed so
it's like a really interesting way to dye
the cotton. OK. It's sort of where "Bandana" comes from that we
talk about. So it's sort of this like tie dye for lack of a better term
that's used to create it and
it's often that red with white.
It's a nice kurta. I'd wear it.
Shiva Nataraja that's nice- dancing Shiva. A wooden
form It looks like. I think there was like a
recognizable Indian painting but like in a
large canvas form instead. So they probably like mined
some art history books so I've
got some sort of like
abandoned temple structure.
Which is pretty cool. How often is it that there's female
protagonists in video games like is this quite unusual that
they'r...that it's both women?
I think the fact that it's both
that it's two women is
definitely pretty unusual. Like
for this series, it was
definitely a first.
She seems to know what
she's doing.
Is this is this common in
Indian architecture?
You don't need to be an archaeologist
daughter to see there's a relief in the wall, surely.
Now they're they're going to
see the relief, yes, yes. So
they opened up the code with Parashurama? yeah.
This is definitely having more
of like that Indiana Jones
vibe, right? Because of all the
sort of reclaimed by jungle by
 And yes, they
did. The Hoysala did have a knack for stonework.
Actually not so much for War. They're
remembered more for their
architecture and art than sort
of military prowess. It's cool 'cause also in India you see the
different kinds of stone that's
used in temple architecture. And
so some of the most intricate carving is from the Hoysala
dynasty. And it's, you know,
it's a light, soft, supple stone
that was easy to carve. So you
had the opportunity to do that,
whereas anywhere that used like a granite or harder stone.
It often doesn't have as many details in its
ornamentation. Where are they now? are they in like a church it
looks like? Like yeah, it's another temple structure.
There's more of that.
This is definitely not what you see within medieval
temple architecture. No?
It would make pilgrimage much more interesting though wouldn't it?
Are they trying to say that they're in Parashurama's temple
because it's Rama with an axe. Or... That was the first time that
I was like, Oh, you haven't seen an Indian temple. Like the rest
of it, I feel like they've
actually been dealing working
quite well within known and recognizable iconography. I think
there's points where clearly
somebody was like, OK, we gotta
do something fun here.
And that's when it gets a
little bit like over the top
and crazy with moving statues
and things. Yeah, yeah.
Why couldn't they just do that... well.. who knows 
why... you had to do other things first. OK,
yeah, exactly 'cause you
need things to do in games.
whoah
Hard to believe it's real. It is
hard to believe it's real, yeah.
Yeah, I assume this was not
you probably never seen
anything like this in India. Well, I've never been to Karnataka
So perhaps there's these giant Ganesh sculptures, but...
Uh, I think I would have heard about them. Yeah, probably. 
I feel like this would be... if these existed. there would
also be like a million
tourists around them right now
too. Yeah, it would be like
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Oh, that's interesting
carvings that she just
passed. Uh, huh, look like
they're referencing another
area in South India. They look more like Mahabalipuram.
they're beautiful and they still sort of resemble Hoysala
style of sculpture. Even
these sort of gigantic
Ganesh forms which is
interesting. That sort of
very heavy, heavily
ornamented and decorated.
So I mean, I do think that like
studying Indian art and
architecture is a very sort of
like physical activity in the
sense that I remember when I was doing my research for my Phd, I
was sort of on the back of
motorcycles and clamoring over
walls to visit abandoned temples
to see paintings like wall
paintings and stuff. It wasn't
quite this physical, I must say.
But it is sort of I don't know.
And then you can see the Hoysala in like the crown
Ganesh's Crown that he's wearing in this.
This one did seem to
Speak to recognizable iconography in really 
interesting ways. This whole like covered in you know, like being
reclaimed by the jungle aspect
to it. You know there are
temples, absolutely, that that are in the middle of the jungle and
are much more abandoned that are
that are overgrown in that way
and the way you see like Angkor
Wat. All those pictures in
Cambodia of temples being sort
of reclaimed by trees. It's very
much a sort of sort of Western
Centric viewpoint right of this
idea of like these.
Ancient civilizations that are, you know, crumbling until we rediscover
them and and so... that's I mean, that's an interesting I think
think layer to to view these
These games with. They were a lot less problematic than I
was expecting. I kind of
thought it would be a little
bit more cringeworthy. So it's good. I'm glad that that that you
know, it's speaking to a 21st century audience, which is, you
know, a more global, a more global world. It's good and they were
interesting. I really want to
find out what they were
looking for and how they found
it.
