What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.
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Movies:
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Kubo and the Two Strings. Some of the story elements are a bit too obvious, but the overall story is charming and the art style (stop motion with puppet-like characters) is just plain cool.
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Kirikou and the Sorceress. Wonderfully weird with an interesting story
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Triplets of Belleville. The entire movie is "told" without words, except for a single sentence right at the start and one right at the end.
Games:
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Terranigma (SNES). Main characters revives / creates an entire world that was doomed ages ago. It's kind of bittersweet when you're done reviving the continents, plants and animals and then the humans start f*cking stuff up. Great music and visuals too, despite being 16-Bit style
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Ćkami. One of my all-time favorites but due to minimal marketing, not many people are aware that this game even exists. Charming art style and interesting gameplay concept.
I just recently played through Terranigma! It's the third of a unofficial trilogy of similar Enix titles that I played as a child: SoulBlazer and Illusion of Gaia. Terranigma didn't make it to the USA for some reason.
Okami won game of the year, it's certainly not obscure. It even got a Steam release after all these years.
Lots of good music in the triplets movie
Oooh, Kubo was really fun I forgot about that one. I liked it a lot
Triplets of Belleville is something I haven't thought of in a long time. Thanks for the reminder, time for a re-watch!
Triplets of Belleville wa Oscar nominated if I recall correctly, so might not be that obscure.
I watched Kirikou in my high school French class! I liked it, but being teenagers, there were many immature jokes about the nudity.
Okami was really fun. I will say that going back to play it now the NPC talking sound the murmuring gets really old fast. I still enjoyed everything else.
NPC talking sound the murmuring gets really old fast.
You can turn that off in the settings, at least in the Switch version. First thing I always do when starting a new run ;)
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