Animal Crossing... are you a grave robber?
polycounter lvl 18
copied from vgcats:
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Found this funny.
"In regards to your latest strip, I just thought I'd put another spin on this spooky mystery. Stop me if you've heard this one already.
The gyroids are based on haniwa, which are clay dolls that the ancient Japanese used to mark dead people's tombs way back in oh, let's say the fifth century or thereabouts. Which basically means that your entire animal Crossing town is built on top of a one-and-a-half-millenia-old graveyard, and the creepy dancing statues you dig up are actually creepy dancing funerary relics, which, I can only assume, are haunted by the restless and vengeful spirits of those whose graves they once adorned.
Say what you will about Nintendo's squeaky-clean image. I only wish I could say Animal Crossing was the only Nintendo game where the ampant desecration of graves is a popular pastime. Now where did I put that shovel...?
Liam N. "
So we're desecrating grave sites? Ah cultural sensitivity.
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Found this funny.
"In regards to your latest strip, I just thought I'd put another spin on this spooky mystery. Stop me if you've heard this one already.
The gyroids are based on haniwa, which are clay dolls that the ancient Japanese used to mark dead people's tombs way back in oh, let's say the fifth century or thereabouts. Which basically means that your entire animal Crossing town is built on top of a one-and-a-half-millenia-old graveyard, and the creepy dancing statues you dig up are actually creepy dancing funerary relics, which, I can only assume, are haunted by the restless and vengeful spirits of those whose graves they once adorned.
Say what you will about Nintendo's squeaky-clean image. I only wish I could say Animal Crossing was the only Nintendo game where the ampant desecration of graves is a popular pastime. Now where did I put that shovel...?
Liam N. "
So we're desecrating grave sites? Ah cultural sensitivity.
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Of course plenty of games have you defiling graves, THAT'S WHERE ALL THE COOL STUFF IS!
Interesting thing in animal crossing just as you can dig things up, you can also bury things - with very interesting results! (how I got some of the rare items)
The way they were drawn in the VGCats strip they reminded me of the Cactuars from Final Fantasy...