even if in a different context you could only see the ugliness. When everything looks like this it also sets a bar for things to surprise you by being genuinely cute. i can agree and empathize with that feeling harry du bois, explicitly, would also prefer not to be harry du bois. like, finally the dysmorphia i feel when forced to play as any human video game character is acknowledged as an appropriate response. for some reason there's something satisfying about playing as a weird ugly guy who is pushed to his limit trying to survive a weird ugly world. He is also kind of wretched in the same way the protagonist of disco elysium is wretched. i'm not the first person to make this observation but peppino's constant state of being stressed the fuck out is very courage the cowardly dog-esque. you can really go all-out with conveying emotion when you're not afraid to have it get a little ugly. The grotesque character designs add to this feeling i think. on a level that even wario land 4 or wario world don't quite reach there's so much primal energetic physicality!!ĭuring my playthrough the other day i kept thinking about the patrick gill video about how luigi's mansion 3 feels like a jackie chan movie and how peppino is so satisfying to play as because he is obviously struggling. This kind of deranged western style animation is something i always pretend not to like but it really grips me in a visceral, psychedelic kind of way.
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