At the risk of being the common sense party pooper, I’m pretty sure that if somebody went “it’s King Kong and you’re some guy trying to rescue the girl while the gorilla throws garbage at you” I would have gotten it pretty quickly.
I mean, I may have asked if we could have a level where we fire at the gorilla from a plane, but lawyers and programmers would probably have shot that down pretty quickly, so hammering barrels it is.
If one wants to be facetious I bet it was weirder to go “we lost the Popeye license” and get back “what if Bluto was King Kong and you are just some guy with a moustache”, but honestly, reskins like that were a dime a dozen even then.
At the risk of being the common sense party pooper, I’m pretty sure that if somebody went “it’s King Kong and you’re some guy trying to rescue the girl while the gorilla throws garbage at you” I would have gotten it pretty quickly.
I mean, I may have asked if we could have a level where we fire at the gorilla from a plane, but lawyers and programmers would probably have shot that down pretty quickly, so hammering barrels it is.
If one wants to be facetious I bet it was weirder to go “we lost the Popeye license” and get back “what if Bluto was King Kong and you are just some guy with a moustache”, but honestly, reskins like that were a dime a dozen even then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing-in-itself
And Yet a Trace of the True Self Exists in the False Self