It's Valentine's Day - or at least it was when we published this - and, as our final acknowledgement of this most commercial of occasions, we thought we'd highlight some pretty humorous artwork that was published in recent days. It takes classic games and their characters and re-imagines them as covers on corny Romance novels; the effect is both brilliant and slightly horrifying.
These are the work of Shutterstock, which tasked illustrator Echo Chernik with adapting artwork and assets to produce mock-ups of these theoretic Romance novels - think Worlds of Power crossed with Mills & Boon. The franchises covered are The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Pac-Man and Duck Hunt(?!), with some crazy results.
We doff our caps to the illustrator, as these are neat spins and interpretations of the franchises. If you're sensitive about lore and abhor the idea of game characters in love, however, don't look any further.
If you think the idea is fun, meanwhile, they're all below for your enjoyment.
[source shutterstock.com]
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The dude in the Pac-Man version looks like Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...
Poor Weegee....
That third one tho!
the Street Fighter one makes me VEEEEEERY uncomfortable (no, not cause of what you think!)
What exactly is the Duck Hunt one implying?
This is the best thing ever.
@squidzilla
Exactly what I thought. Even the outfits made me wonder if someone made a Dayman video game...
Fierce Moves
@Philip_J_Reed
Damn, if only...
Omg, I love all of these and the titles.... LOL .
You got something here for everyone too: hetero, homo, androgyny... bestiality?
I'd read the hell out of all of those.
Poor Luigi gets no respect lol
I can't look at that Duck Hunt one without seeing the dog's head merging out of that duck's chest like some kind of horror from John Carpenter's The Thing.
@Megatonwhale A delivery man politely speaks to you "Hello, you have a big case of brownie points from a Mr. MagicEmperor. He loved your reference." hands over the points
WTH on the duck hunt dog. OMG that's messed up. Zelda, Mario, and Pacman are cool though. I like the mask aesthetic on the human couple instead of the usual bulbous yellow heads with arms, legs, but no torso approach.
Luigi life story right there
@Dave24 In the end he gets her.
awesome!
@Squidzilla Ha! Good call
There needs to be more of these made. The covers I mean. The actual "stories" should stay on the dark side of FanFiction.net
Yes. Just yes.
I'd read Fierce Moves religiously.
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