Garten of Banban Fanart/ Expression Sheet #1 - 3
I like sh^ty games and sh^tty movies because they make it so much easier to take and mould into what I want (or need). Garten of Banban for example is a pretty bad game for multiple reasons (disjointed plot, annoying mechanics, horrific 3D models (not to be confused with horrifying 3D models) to list a few). But for me, it has potential. Characters are easy to make into something fuzzy and smushable.
So, the working title for this is Garten of Banban - Fluff Version. The characters are genetically engineered fluffy and child-friendly mascots with (dubiously given) consciousness and feelings. But, the head scientist in charge of creating them, like so many parents, was an emotionally distant workaholic. After discovering that he would have to care for or teach the creatures of his own creation how to process such icky things as emotions, he closes the front of the lab (the kindergarten), discontinues the project and locks all the creatures in the abandoned building.
I know there was a lot of discourse regarding "Child Horror" or "Mascot Horror" like Poppy's Playtime or Rainbow Friends, and this version would probably not make things better on that front. But, hey! I am not pitching a new horror game, I am making a softer version of a bad story in which the main character can fix things.
The MC in question is a patient called "23", who, after escaping a medical facility nearby and breaking into the abandoned kindergarten, shrugs and becomes a Janitor of the facility, trying to fix the place and its occupants. At the beginning, he gets killed. A lot. But, since he was a medical escapee, turns out, he has super healing. Neat! Now Banban can feast on his favourite pancreas without feeling bad about killing someone!
The rest of the Garten Crew suffers from a lack of understanding of human anatomy/ childcare, lack of enrichment causing aggression, ill-equipped habitats and various other issues, which the Janitor tackles one by one. Before being a medical curiosity, he worked in the zoo, and really, it is not that different.












