![]() ![]() ![]() Scott Pilgrim is a 16-bit styled, side-scrolling beat ‘em up, with art directly inspired by Bryan Lee O’Malley’s books (with artistic liberties delivered in the form of over-animated bouncing boobs and Ramona sans pants for some reason), featuring an original soundtrack by the iconic chiptune band Anamanaguchi. The World: The Game (hereon referred to as just Scott Pilgrim, for brevity). Around the time the movie came out, the graphic novel series was just wrapping up, and Ubisoft added yet another companion piece to the saga in the form of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World really spoke to me as a directionless, twenty-something musician who thought he had everything figured out until he realised there’s so much more he still needs to discover about himself. ![]() It’s not necessarily because it dangled video game iconography in front of our faces as a means to bait us with nostalgia (I’m looking at you, Ready Player One), but more because it oozed about as much style as Edgar Wright could have possibly squeezed out of a comic-book adaptation. Back in 2010, one of my favourite films ever came out. ![]()
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