Posts tagged Scott Pilgrim

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: A Case Study in the Rebuild Approach

Let’s start with the basics. I’ve talked previously about how the role of the protagonist can warp things: with the way that we construct stories, it’s very easy for people to sympathize with and focus on the actions of a protagonist and realign their understanding of right and wrong – at least within the context of a story – to the protagonist.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 21, 2024Rebuild, Scott Pilgrim, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Dune, Frank Herbert, Star WarsComment

This Loser is You: On Ackk Studio’s YIIK (The Nostalgia Trap, part 6)

YIIK very much wanted to be a new version of Earthbound, the seminal 16-bit RPG that was essentially John Carpenter’s Peanuts, mixed with Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series. It has the same quality of self-consciously blasé psychedelia, but can’t seem to match the thematic weight of its source material.

Game Reviews, The Nostalgia Trap, Written by: CameronCameron SummersOctober 30, 2019YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, video games, Scott Pilgrim, Earthbound, psychedelia, Nostalgia, Masculinity, Toxic MasculinityComment