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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:

  • 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.

  • Kirikou and the Sorceress. Wonderfully weird with an interesting story

  • 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:

  • 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

  • Ōkami. 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.

[-] optissima@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 year ago

Kubo was a BAFTA winner and Okami was IGNs game of the year winner. The rest I agree with, but those two seem really popular for an "unheard of" list.

[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Triplets of Bellville was nominated for two Oscars. It lost Best Animated Feature to Finding Nemo.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What you are missing is that Okami bombed and capcom made no money with it, it's THE example of a great game that consumers ignored. It's more popular now than back then.

Maybe it's a regional thing then...? I'm in Germany and noone I know of has heard about either one. I wouldn't be surprised tho if those two got the attention they deserve in other parts of the world.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, Okami is surprisingly popular among my peers in Brazil, from highschool to university and employed.

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Triplets of Belleville wa Oscar nominated if I recall correctly, so might not be that obscure.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Oooh, Kubo was really fun I forgot about that one. I liked it a lot

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Lots of good music in the triplets movie

[-] DwightAllRight@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

Triplets of Belleville is something I haven't thought of in a long time. Thanks for the reminder, time for a re-watch!

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Okami won game of the year, it's certainly not obscure. It even got a Steam release after all these years.

[-] mars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I watched Kirikou in my high school French class! I liked it, but being teenagers, there were many immature jokes about the nudity.

[-] HonorIsDead@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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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