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The hell of being Mario
The uniquely hellish ramifications of Mario 64’s start screen.
The uniquely hellish ramifications of Mario 64’s start screen.
The Tender Cut is a game that asks a question that cannot be answered: “What the heck is going on in this guy’s head?” The guy has a name. It’s Luis Bunuel, one of the pioneers in surrealist cinema. His first film, 1929’s Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), is infamous for its shocking opener of a woman getting her eye sliced in half with a razor blade. There’s an extreme close-up just when you think the camera is about to cut away, the vitreous humor oozing out from her expressionless face, and into your nightmares. It’s gross and unexpected.…
“The goal is to give [the] player this short and strong experience of cutting [an] eye.”