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Video games about shapeshifting

  • Kingdom HeartsKingdom Hearts began with a chance elevator meeting between a Square producer and a Disney executive.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 action-adventure game from Nintendo, owes part of its identity to a strange dream. Its director, Eiji Aonuma, dreamed during an overseas business trip that he was a wolf locked inside a cage.…
  • Kirby (series)Kirby is a media franchise created by Masahiro Sakurai and owned by HAL Laboratory, and it began as a rough prototype. Sakurai drew a ball-shaped character as a stand-in. People liked it so much that the stand-in became the final design.…
  • Cardcaptor SakuraCardcaptor Sakura begins when ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally opens a book in her basement. The book was made by a sorcerer named Clow Reed, and it holds a set of magical cards that now scatter into the world. Unless she gathers…
  • Among UsAmong Us, an online deduction game from the American studio Innersloth, arrived in June 2018 to an audience of roughly 30 to 50 players online at any one time. In late September 2020, the same game peaked at 3.8 million concurrent players.…
  • Black Myth: WukongBlack Myth: Wukong is a 2024 action role-playing game from the Chinese studio Game Science. On the 22nd of August 2024, more than 2.4 million people were playing it on Steam at the same moment. Only PUBG: Battlegrounds had ever drawn a…
  • Dead by DaylightIn Dead by Daylight, four Survivors fix generators to escape one Killer who tries to hook them all.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskA grimacing moon looms over the land of Termina in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Nintendo released the game for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. The moon is predicted to strike at dawn on the day of the Carnival of Time, an annual harvest…
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the NightCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 1997 action role-playing game made by Konami for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Its most talked-about moment is a trick of architecture. Deep into the adventure, the entire castle turns upside…
  • Touhou ProjectOn the 15th of August 1997, at a large dōjin fan convention called Comiket 52, a university student released the first Touhou Project game. According to its creator, who goes by ZUN, only 30 copies were sold. Touhou Project is a bullet…

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