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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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

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      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.

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

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      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.

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