Puppeteer (video game)
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| Developer(s) | SCE Japan Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Gavin Moore |
| Producer(s) | Takashi Mizutani |
| Designer(s) | Kazunobu Sato |
| Composer(s) | Patrick Doyle |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Puppeteer (パペッティア) is a platform video game developed by SCE Japan Studio for the PlayStation 3 It is directed by Gavin Moore, who served as lead animator on The Getaway, Forbidden Siren 2 and Siren: Blood Curse. The game was released worldwide in September 2013.
It is playable in both traditional 2D and in 3D. Gavin Moore says Puppeteer plays better in 3D than other games because the camera doesn’t move and his team used a method of 3D that hasn’t resulted in a reduced frame-rate.
Puppeteer is a side-scrolling platformer in which the player controls the character 'Kutaro': a boy changed into an animated puppet, and immediately decapitated. Throughout the game, Kutaro obtains various heads to replace his own, each enabling access to certain animations, and referring to the adjacent scenery. If Kutaro is damaged by an enemy or obstacle, he loses his head. Should the player not retrieve the head within a few seconds, it will disappear. Kutaro can hold three heads at a time, and when they are all lost, he restarts from the last checkpoint. The player can earn an extra life by collecting 100 "Moonsparkles" in a given section of the game. Throughout most of the story, Kutaro is armed with a pair of magical scissors, known as 'Calibrus', enabling him to cut through some portions of the scenery, and thus to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. His stated object is to acquire the shards of 'Moonstone' from the game's villains (in the process removing their influence from the scenery) and to free the souls of children like himself, from the malevolent figures containing them, all the while saving a Goddess in distress.
The game is playable by one or two players. If two are playing, the second player controls Kutaro's companion (initially a ghostly cat named 'Ying-Yang'; later the fairylike 'Pikarina'), who can examine foreign objects and find interactables, moonsparkles, and new heads for Kutaro. In single-player mode, the two analog sticks on the joypad each control a character. At some points of the story, Kutaro acquires four more weapons:
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