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TONITE we play the 2002 Skittles licensed RPG "Darkened Skye", which was exclusive to GameCube.
Come explore a world where Skittles are used for magical spells & there are no snakes (this was an actual stipulation by Skittles)..
7PM EST @ http://twitch.tv/socpens
Take my hand. Join me, on the journey through a bonkers Wikipedia page for a Gamecube game...
Sounds good.
Sure, yeah.
Kinda rote, but, why not? I love realms.
Uh-huh.
Wait, hold on. I must have skipped a line.
Oh, no. I read it fine. I just don't know how this world is real.
I could not contain myself while reading this sentence. A+
I can't actually eat Skittles due to an allergy. So I've been missing out of magical spells like a sucker all this time.
I like how this makes it sounds like this was a bolt of pure inspiration. We've all been there. Sitting around with our friends, passing the bowl around, being like "Why haven't they made a Corn Nuts game?"
Skittles wasn't even their first choice?! Skittles was the rebound lay?!?!
I can't believe I'm saying this, but...boooooooo. You can't be The Skittles Game and then be like..."But, no, I'm so shy." Was Skittles pissed? Were(?) Skittles pissed? It's a company name, but it's also plural. Did Phil Skittle tell them to fuck off?
Phil Skittle's wife left him for a herpetologist and he's been real fucked up about it ever since.
Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #60
Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave
Who is the best ginger character?
Little Thunder (Yakari)
Mara (La Quête de l'oiseau du temps)
Maximilien David "Max" Fridman (Max Fridman)
Tinka (Zilverpijl)
Skye (Darkened Skye)
Jenny (Les Nombrils/The Bellybuttons)
Mephistopheles (Welcome to Hell)
Dr. Elizabeth “Mac” Macmillan (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries)
Billie (Le métier le plus dangereux du monde)
Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice 2005)
Pictures below the cut
If it’s evil... it’s over! ‘Darkened Skye’ Gamecube
5 Video Games That Were Just Commercials
Thanks to product placement, virtual worlds have been invaded by real life problems. But a few retro titles go far beyond product placement, and in this installment of Retro Gaming Freak Show, we look at Pepsiman, Darkened Skye, and other games that were nothing more than playable commercials.
Random thought, but you know what I wanna see return? Advert-Games.
No, not the ham-fisted “hey look, our hero drinks *insert brand* to get power! Aren’t they COOOOOL!” or the “Hey! btw take a good long look at this *insert brand* logo on our hero! Totes cool, right?”
I mean games like Darkened Skye.
Sure the game was buggy as hell, but it had a self awareness that I loved. It was an advert-game for Skittles, so what do they do? They make Skittles literal pieces of magic being horded by an evil king. Fairly generic, right? But the beauty comes from the characters and the writing.
The game is stupid. It knows it’s stupid. And it embraces this. Main character, Skye, has a sidekick that is constantly breaking the fourth wall. My favorite example: There is a puzzle you can encounter looooong before you’re supposed to solve it. If you try to interact with it Drack(iirc), Skye’s sidekick, will stop you and say “we can’t solve this right now” or something to that effect. Skye askes how he knows this and he replies “I read the script-- I mean, I had a SACRED VISIONNNNNNNNN!”
Skye herself had great moments as well. She was snarky, clever(sometimes), and was 100% done with EVERYTHING. One of my favorite quotes is her response to Drack questioning her inability to swim: “I’m a warrior hero adventurerer goddess WHO CAN’T SWIM, OKAY!” She also kept a journal that the player could read if they forgot what they had done or where they needed to be. Some notes were of great importance. Then you get sh!t like this gem: “Cold and wet. These are words used to describe a dog’s nose. I am not a dog’s nose. Man it’s chilly!”
There is so much more that I could add, but what it all boils down to is: I miss stupid games that knew they were stupid and went with it.
