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

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

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

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

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Lots of good music in the triplets movie

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

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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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Laika Studio movies are so good. Kubo is my son’s all time favorite movie. They put out a bunch of their models and set pieces in an art museum for a bit and that was a cool experience.

Everything you listed looks gorgeous. I’m gonna look into all of it!

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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.

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