It was a pair of nail clippers that got me. In a game about seeing a person’s life through unpacked items, there’s so much that can strike you. Those clippers came out of a box in the bathroom, and I chucked them in a junk drawer alongside some perfume, a shaving razor, and a couple of hairbrushes.
What surprised me was just how clear the clippers looked – how clear everything looked. It’s vital to the game that this bundle of pixels needs to be recognisable as nail clippers at a single glance. The way the pixel art stays out of the way of the world the story builds and manages to look wonderfuk made Unpacking such a success.
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