Oscar-nominated movie The Banshees Of Inisherin has been reworked right into a free Pac-Man fashion arcade recreation, which duties gamers with getting Brendan Gleeson’s character Colm Doherty to the pub with all of his fingers.
Titled Banshees The Game, the 8-bit online game adaptation has been created by Cogs & Marvel (by way of Rock Paper Shotgun).
The objective of the sport is to navigate Colm by means of an Irish countryside maze, accumulating all of his severed fingers earlier than making his strategy to the pub within the centre. Along the best way, Colm is hounded by the island’s locals, together with “boring Colin” who desires to know why Colm doesn’t like him anymore, Barry Keoghan’s “local gobshite” Dominic, and even Jenny the donkey.
The 8-bit online game adaption will be performed by means of browsers right here.
“Now you too can experience the chills and spills of Irish cultural repression in 8-bit,” reads a weblog submit saying the sport.
In the weblog, Cogs & Marvel’s artistic director Jon Hozier-Byrne described telling “a complex story in the simplest narrative form” as an “interesting challenge”.
“St Patrick’s Day, like the film which inspired us, is an exploration of Irish socio-cultural identity,” added Hozier-Byrne. “For one day a year, political and historical baggage is cast aside, leaving only bright green hats and drinking. We wanted to apply the same kind of dramatic over-simplification to such rich cultural material.”
“There was something really fun about taking such a dark, atmospheric piece of storytelling and representing it through the saturated optics of retro gaming,” he continued. “That juxtaposition is very entertaining to me.”
Though The Banshees Of Inisherin and its forged had been up for 9 Oscars on Sunday (March 12), the critically-acclaimed movie didn’t handle to win any of the awards it was nominated for.
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