/jp/ - Otaku Culture

What the fuck are those green things while you're fighting Meiling in EoSD? I remember playing years ago and wondering, but now I see them again after trying the game out a few days ago(which by the way, it won't go into windowed mode anymore for some reason and have no idea how to fix) they look weird as shit and not like trees that I assumed them to be. I mean during the fight the screen changes to this red carpet/lake background with these... green stacked spheres. Are they really supposed to be trees?

Also why does the screen fade out and become blurry/distorted on the sidebar except the numbers, except when I'm pausing or something? Did it always do that? The way it fades into that makes me think it's some weird setting that got stuck on.