168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Anger Foot, a new first-person shooter (first-person footer? foot-person shooter?) from developer Free Lives and publisher 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Devolver Digital, feels a lot like the cartoons I grew up watching as a kid. Not the nice ones, like The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh or House of Mouse, but the ones I watched with the volume low because I worried𓂃 they would freak my parents out.
Nickelodeon Was Animation's Wild West
One of the great things about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nickelodeon in the '90s is that it felt a little grimy. I love Bluey as much as the next millennial uncle, but it's a good example of how kids animation has been sanitized. It's a nice show with a nice clean look about nice kids hanging out with their nice parents.
When I was a kid, there were a lot of children's shows that I was not allowed to watch, and even more that my parents didn't know existed, but which I suspected would be verboten. I wasn't allowed to watch The Angry Beavers, Ah! Real Monsters, or Rocko's Modern Life, and I worried that The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (admittedly, a Cartoon Network joint) would get banned if my parents knew I was watching a gross little show about death.
Even the shows I was allowed to watch all seemed kinda nasty. The Rugrats looked dirty. CatDog was gross. The Wild Thornberrys had bizarre caricatured features. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:SpongeBob episodes often had those hyper-detailed, painted close-ups of characters that made them look like they were about to die. Disney was parent-approved, but Nickel💧odeon was a bit of a Wild West, where wacky animation that felt a little dangerous could flourish.
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Anger Foot Channels NickToons' Color And The Grime
Anger Foot feels like those shows. The world is extremely colorful, but that vibrance is matched with just as much grime. The apartment buildings your hero kicks through with his powerful green foot are littered with trash — pizza boxes, soda cans, old couches, random shopping carts — and stuffed with gangs of greasy guys who want to kill you (and a few who you catch sitting on the toilet, junk pixelated, pistol at the ready). The reason these legions of identical uzi-toting dudes are after you isn't particularly clear, but they mean business, and pour out of each room with the horde-like numbers you usually only see in a Serious Sam level.
Anger Foot isn't aimed at kids. It's bloody, and the lawless city where the titular hero lives is called Sh*t City. I don't mean lawless as in "a place where there is a lot of crime." I mean lawless as in "a place where there are literally no laws." There are four gangs who each represent their own vice, like Pollution or Debauchery, all aiming to keep Sh*t City sh*tty in their own particularly bad ways.
Screenshots From Anger Foot
It's all sketched in the slightly plausible, mostly impossible way that kids' shows like CatDog and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy do worldbuilding. Does it make sense that a society could function if all crime was A-OK? Well, does it make sense that the Grim Reaper would hang out with a dumb kid and his evil friend? Does it make sense that a cat and a dog would be born sharing one body?
All of this makes Anger Foot feel a bit like you stumbled upon a Saturday morning cartoon in a world where adults are the primary audience for Saturday morning cartoons. All the color, all the weirdness, none of the need to think of the children. Well, I guess that channel basically exists, it just airs late at night and is called Adult Swim. I imagine a lot of fans of Smiling Friends and Rick and Morty will find a lot to love in Anger Foot. They're mostly NickToon kids who grew up, right?
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