wraggster
January 27th, 2013, 20:20
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C454Xye_W0 has reimagined popular TV series Downton Abbey as a 16-bit Super Nintendo game in the brilliant fake trailer below.
While sadly not playable, Kiley should be commended for not only composing a totally catchy chiptunes cover (http://billkiley.bandcamp.com/) of the show's theme, but finding a way to convert the drudgery of service in a posh English estate into tried-and-true game mechanics in a way that totally fits the fiction.As a new footman, you'll have to collect missing cigars for a dinner party, help Mary Crawley spy on Mrs. Patmore - whom she suspects is trying to poison Matthew with her cooking - and aid Anna in fluffing pillows so you can read a letter from her jailed husband. Even setting a table recalls the climax of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where you have to deduce which of several spoons is meant for bouillon. All the while the comforting, self-assured Mr. Carson saves your progress, as every good butler should.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-25-downton-abbey-reimagined-as-an-snes-game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C454Xye_W0 has reimagined popular TV series Downton Abbey as a 16-bit Super Nintendo game in the brilliant fake trailer below.
While sadly not playable, Kiley should be commended for not only composing a totally catchy chiptunes cover (http://billkiley.bandcamp.com/) of the show's theme, but finding a way to convert the drudgery of service in a posh English estate into tried-and-true game mechanics in a way that totally fits the fiction.As a new footman, you'll have to collect missing cigars for a dinner party, help Mary Crawley spy on Mrs. Patmore - whom she suspects is trying to poison Matthew with her cooking - and aid Anna in fluffing pillows so you can read a letter from her jailed husband. Even setting a table recalls the climax of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where you have to deduce which of several spoons is meant for bouillon. All the while the comforting, self-assured Mr. Carson saves your progress, as every good butler should.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-25-downton-abbey-reimagined-as-an-snes-game