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"Minishoot’ Adventures is a delight, questionable apostrophe use in the title and all," we wrote back in 2024, in a roundup of the year's great crop of metroidvanias. Compared to its contemporaries Animal Well and Nine Sols, Minishoot' Adventures didn't get a ton of attention two years ago, but it was a realhead's hidden gem pick for 2024 thanks to its clever amalgamation of ideas. "Exploring Zelda-like dungeons as an increasingly mighty little spaceship is such an inspired genre mash-up that I keep having to pause the game to applaud and throw flowers at it," PC Gamer contributor Abbie Stone said.
"Lovely. I'd play that," is how I presume a normal person would react to reading about Minishoot' Adventures.
"That apostrophe is going to haunt my dreams," is how I (not a normal person) reacted to Minishoot' Adventure. And it has haunted me, for two years now. This is my personal Papyrus: a creative choice so brazen and inexplicable my mind cannot grasp it no matter how many times I look at it.
Why isn't it Minishoot's? Or Minishoot?
Thinking myself sane, I've spent the last couple years waiting for Minishoot' Adventures developer SoulGame Studio to explain itself in the form of a 13-minute "We need to talk" YouTube apology, or for another journalist to blow this controversy wide open. Neither has happened. When Minishoot' Adventures was ported to the Nintendo Switch 2 in March and received a new wave of critical acclaim, I rolled up my sleeves and vowed to get to the bottom of the mystery myself by spending six entire minutes writing an email.
Steel yourself: My findings may shock you.
It turns out SoulGame Studio developer Séverin Larose, one half of the indie duo that developed Minishoot' Adventure, is not a supervillain who chose confounding grammar as his instrument of destruction.
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He's just French.
"To try and ease your bafflement I can only add that my attempt was to contract both Minimalist AND Shooter to create a portmanteau word: so Minimalist became mini, and Shooter becam...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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"Minishoot’ Adventures is a delight, questionable apostrophe use in the title and all," we wrote back in 2024, in a roundup of the year's great crop of metroidvanias. Compared to its contemporaries Animal Well and Nine Sols, Minishoot' Adventures didn't get a ton of attention two years ago, but it was a realhead's hidden gem pick for 2024 thanks to its clever amalgamation of ideas. "Exploring Zelda-like dungeons as an increasingly mighty little spaceship is such an inspired genre mash-up that I keep having to pause the game to applaud and throw flowers at it," PC Gamer contributor Abbie Stone said.
"Lovely. I'd play that," is how I presume a normal person would react to reading about Minishoot' Adventures.
"That apostrophe is going to haunt my dreams," is how I (not a normal person) reacted to Minishoot' Adventure. And it has haunted me, for two years now. This is my personal Papyrus: a creative choice so brazen and inexplicable my mind cannot grasp it no matter how many times I look at it.
Why isn't it Minishoot's? Or Minishoot?
Thinking myself sane, I've spent the last couple years waiting for Minishoot' Adventures developer SoulGame Studio to explain itself in the form of a 13-minute "We need to talk" YouTube apology, or for another journalist to blow this controversy wide open. Neither has happened. When Minishoot' Adventures was ported to the Nintendo Switch 2 in March and received a new wave of critical acclaim, I rolled up my sleeves and vowed to get to the bottom of the mystery myself by spending six entire minutes writing an email.
Steel yourself: My findings may shock you.
It turns out SoulGame Studio developer Séverin Larose, one half of the indie duo that developed Minishoot' Adventure, is not a supervillain who chose confounding grammar as his instrument of destruction.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
He's just French.
"To try and ease your bafflement I can only add that my attempt was to contract both Minimalist AND Shooter to create a portmanteau word: so Minimalist became mini, and Shooter becam...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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