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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Triplets of Belleville is something I haven’t thought of in a long time. Thanks for the reminder, time for a re-watch!
Oooh, Kubo was really fun I forgot about that one. I liked it a lot
Lots of good music in the triplets movie
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.
You can turn that off in the settings, at least in the Switch version. First thing I always do when starting a new run ;)