![]() ![]() Anyway, the Happiness Parade gets called off when a giant evil dragon plunges the land into darkness, and I remember thinking, "Oh God, this is all going to turn out to be a metaphor, isn't it? Like Billy's dead, or in a coma, or retreating into fantasy to escape horror in the real world?" And long story short, yeah, it was one of those. At the start of the game, Billy's in Sparkly Rainbow Land, about to join the Happiness Parade, but as you take control, he's standing right next to a wiggling garbage bin with eyes and a huge, happy grin that says, "I feel like trash!" when you talk to it, and so, right off the bat, we get this almost imperceptible vein of cynicism running through the game, like an earthworm in a tube of Life Savers. It's also got an artstyle somewhere between Cuphead and I believe it's called "CalArts" you know, that style all the new cartoons use where everyone's got mouths shaped like beans.Īnd like Cuphead, there's something unaccountably sinister about the bright, cheerful aesthetic. I'm this close to reviewing Microsoft Word, and how efficiently it enabled me to type up my suicide note.Īnyway, Rainbow Billy is unashamedly a Paper Mario clone in fact, you know how, in Paper Mario: Origami King, there was one chapter where you explore an ocean, and I said this feels like something that could've structured a whole game? That's what Rainbow Billy is, just with the Mushroom Kingdom replaced with the land of make-believe or whatever they called it, and with Mario replaced with the weird kid from primary school who refused to take off their Teletubby balaclava and had to be physically prevented from shoving felt tips up their nose. I don't think there's ever been a worse post-E3 summer games drought than this one I've already used up this year's two ideas for space-filling ZPs. It came out last year, and evidently, someone felt it had been criminally slept on with enough passion to get them to gift me it on Steam last week, and frankly, that's as good an incentive as I need at this point. They ban abortion, and the space gets filled up with preventable death and wire coat hangers.Īnd ever since Nintendo tacitly expressed they have about as much interest in maintaining the Paper Mario series in the manner in which it was at its peak as they do in industrial-level alpaca husbandry, the indie sphere has moved in to take its place, as was the case with Bug Fables from a while back and today's subject, Rainbow Billy and the Curse of the Leviathan from not quite a long a while back. Look at Prohibition they tried to take away alcohol, and the space hole got filled up with crime instead. Nature is like a nervous dog or a piece of gravel on a carpet, in that it abhors a vacuum the departure of anything significant will result in something else rushing in to fill the gap. This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan. ![]()
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