Designing For | The Childish Terror of Wizpig -- Designing For Nostalgia @DesigningFor | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Designing For is a series which looks at a level, boss, or theme in gaming and analyzes the core message of it. In this episode, we break down the final boss of Diddy Kong Racing, Wizpig, and how such a stupid villain manages to be scary, challenging, and invoke the simple joys of growing up and facing challenges as a kid that we all faced, invoking his own, weird, but special brand of nostalgia.

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Director/Writer/Voice Over/Footage: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong (twitter.com/pyrrhickong)

Video Editing/Additional Direction/Script Editing: AuthorMan (youtube.com/c/AuthorMan)

Intro Animation By: youtube.com/channel/UCb4-84eJw6K6Ij7EIsIBJpA

Intro Theme By: soundcloud.com/phildeejay/tracks

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Also check out our full breakdown on Diddy Kong, and how the little guy went from a video game nobody to a headliner of the whole video game world, and how time's made that all come crashing down again - youtu.be/zT4NQtkjGS8

Or our episode on Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled, and how its new tracks toy with and improve upon the previous game's deeper mechanics - youtu.be/N2n78aFwFq4

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