And while I'm not painting Nintendo as the Evil Overlords, I still wish that a lot of these fan games could just be left alone, as they are (mostly)
obvious loving homages to Nintendo franchises fans love, including the fan game creators, and the creators don't (typically) ever try to charge a dime for them.
Not exact matches
Transferring all of the familiar action cliches and plot devices to rural England was a masterstroke, and Pegg's
obvious love of cult film and TV offers up a wealth of targets for
homages, from Bad Boys II to The Stepford Wives to The Wicker Man.
An exquisitely crafted
homage to
love among the marginalized, del Toro's Cold War fairy tale is apparently more celebrated on the West Coast than the East this season, whereas Nolan's epic yet concise re-creation of the British military's desperate stand against advancing Nazis at Dunkirk has a more
obvious transatlantic appeal.
While the unsettling violence and cold ambivalence of Huppert's performance here certainly recalls her work with Haneke (one scene in particular is an
obvious homage), it is arguably just as much indebted to Chabrol's
love of seedy melodrama and his signature affection for the moral spectacle of social transgression.
Jumping from the Robert Howard - inspired Nanoc The Obliviator to the Jack Kirby - influenced Improbable Paper Pals to the manga - styled Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids, Comic Jumper plays like an
homage to the classic side - scroller Gunstar Heroes filtered through the developer's
obvious love of comics.
When Lei expresses her
love for the Ace Attorney series, the
homages in Butterfly Soup's dialogue become
obvious.
From the
obvious homages to the most esoteric of references, Sonic Mania oozes an unmistakeable
love for all things Sonic (well, all the good things), and lives up to the very best games the blue hedgehog has ever starred in.