The 15 Cutest Chibi Spin-Offs of Popular Games
426Can you imagine a muscle mountain like Haggar (Final Fight), reduced to pocket size but delivering justice to the city's thugs just the same? Lovable or ridiculous? This is the eternal question of the chibi style in video games.
Super Deformed is a comic drawing style of Japanese origin, in which characters, human or not, are depicted with disproportionately large heads and very small bodies. Sometimes the size of hands or feet is also increased. It is often abbreviated as "SD".
Many typical anime character designs are characterized by having heads that are somehow larger than proportionally correct. Super-Deformed characters, or "SD" for short (also called "Big Head", SD Mode, "CB" or "Chibi Body" or "chibis" in plural) exaggerate this deformation in order to appear more adorable or funny.
Artists frequently "super deform" their characters to show an extreme change in the character's mood. Even if the character's mood changes from seriousness to anger, fear, embarrassment or feigned charm or any other attitude, the animators' goal is always sympathetic comedy. It is often done at the end of a joke to enhance its humor.
In most Japanese animated productions (Anime) the "SD" mode lasts only a few seconds, however there are some anime where the character designs are always completely SD, very often in cartoons or children's shows or in parodies such as "Scramble Wars".
In video games, a good example of this is Pocket Fighter, where Street Fighter characters like Ryu, Ken or Chun Li have been designed specifically with this childish look, or the previous Virtua Fighter Kids, based on Virtua Fighter 2. But there are many, many more examples in the history of video games! With this video we will show you good examples of chibi adaptations of very popular video game sagas.
We are sure that more than one of them will surprise you.
In this video you will find:
• A game curation with neat chibi / SD reimaginations of popular game sagas
• Information related to each game such as release date, developer company, game genre and system it was released on.
• Official game box arts with a 3D presentation.
• Educative and/or critical comments on the importance of the video game and why you should play it
Intro and Outro Music
Aries Beats "Synthwave Dreams 2020" is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: https://free-songs.de/synthwave-2020/
0:00 Intro
00:12 1989 Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (NES)
00:43 1989 River City Ransom (NES)
01:12 1990 SD Snatcher (MSX2)
01:45 1993 Mighty Final Fight (NES)
02:19 1994 The Great Battle IV (Super Nintendo)
02:48 1996 Virtua Fighter Kids (Sega Saturn)
03:25 1996 Pocket Racer (Arcade)
03:52 1996 Battle Arena Nitoshinden Playstation
04:23 1997 Pocket Fighter (Arcade)
05:08 1999 King of Fighters R-2 (Neo Geo Pocket)
05:38 2000 SNK Gals' Fighters (Neo Geo Pocket)
06:16 2000 The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny (Neo Geo Pocket)
06:51 2001 Guilty Gear Petit (WonderSwan Color)
07:36 2003 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Gamecube)
08:17 2006 Mega Man Powered Up (PSP)
08:48 Outro
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