Last year didn't bring us the Switch 2, but it certainly brought us something very interesting and unexpected. 2021 saw the release of, not Breath of the Wild 2, but a brand new NES game called Slow Mole.
Slow Mole is known for anything but slowness, as the game has garnered a reputation among the speedrunning community for being extremely fun and challenging. Created by animator Erik Rosenlund, it's free to play and download, and you can even emulate it on original hardware. There's also a physical cartridge release also in the works — which you can read up on over on Erik's Patreon.
But Erik is returning to his main passion in order to create a fun and bizarre-looking project — a movie for his game! Erik released a short trailer for the upcoming motion picture, which sees a claymation mole get increasingly frustrated with the game, even throwing his NES controller at the TV!
How the platformer will translate to the big (or small) screen, we don't know, but the short trailer does give us a glimpse at a buzz saw and a pretty small brick platform. Give the trailer a watch and let us know what you think!
If you haven't tried Slow Mole out yet, you can download the game over on itch.io. If you have played it, share your thoughts with us in the comments!
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It looks like what would happen if Eraser Head's baby grew up and got into gaming.
It's a work. Whether it's a work of art remains to be seen. The game itself looks really fun though, clearly NES inspired but with some added modern flair, I like it.
Reminds me of the Tux and Fanny game, that game has a full length bizarre film on YouTube and a series. Plus the game has the entire book of Moby Dick (it's even in the demo, and a long demo too)
@Fizza It's an NES game, not NES inspired.
lmao rage quit break controller and TV!! GO MOLE!!!
@Wurstsemmel753 The Neverhood?
Sonic Movie who? Nah, this is the new cinematic masterpiece of a video game film!
I want a Rex the Runt game.
Indie claymation is always so fascinating to me. I love ***** like this.
@Franklin I had a dream that Aardman's IPs were getting adapted to video games by Kojima Productions and CD Projekt Red.
The main project would be a collab between the three that would be a massive crossover between everything Aardman, and it would be an open world Strand-type life sim.
A Trapdoor point and click adventure could be good.
That was nice, I'm always down for some claymation.
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