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[TOMT]What if the Japanese figure in this image ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/tipofmytongue

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I've forgotten it's name and I also think it might be referenced in one of the super Mario odyssey levels as well iirc

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you looking for the game you saw it in, or the actual cultural item? Gyroids are the Animal Crossing items based on the Japanese Haniwa.

Gyroid (Lloyd) in the front, Haniwa in the back:

They're kinda cool either way. I find it fascinating how often Japanese games take influence from esoteric stuff like alleged alien encounters, weird artifacts, etc. For an example, Sableye is based on the Hopkinsville Goblins, it's speculated that "They" from Majora's Mask are based on the Flatwoods Monster, and so on (I swear I saw a really cool article recently that had a long list of weird, esoteric things in Japanese games, but I can't find it :c).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I was looking for the haniwa