It was slated to release on June 15th but will launch on August 29th for PS4, PS5 and PC. The decision could have been to highlight the fact that they are non-binary and/or feeling like they don't belong.Goodbye Volcano High, KO_OP’s narrative adventure about anthropomorphic dinosaurs, is delayed again. Don't know if a reason was given for his removal but Fang is still the only non-dinosaur so far in this setting (maybe there could be a Dimetrodon?). Interestingly, it was also confirmed that a scrapped character was a liopleurodon, a non-dinosaur often paired up with dinosaurs in media. While I suppose a "flying" ending sequence could still work, I'm doubting it will happen because it wouldn't be as impactful if flying is normalized in this setting. So characters here are allowed to be more like their animal counterparts even if they are still mostly abstract humans (though this wasn't necesarily always the case, as some concept art shows a more "realistic", hairless Naomi). Makes sense that Naser would drive a car since one of his wings is smaller (and it would be strange to go out of their way to give him a disability that doesn't play a role in this setting, wich made me doubt the theory). It's been confirmed that the characters DO fly, but they need a licence like with driving. Being rebelious and punk also fits into all this. Dimetrodons and plesiosaurs are other examples.įang being non-binary could be related to how they aren't a dinosaur in a setting full of dinosaurs, even if it's not spelled out. But pteranodons are not dinosaurs, even if society and popular culture tend to put all prehistoric reptiles under the "dinosaur" label. Everyone has said several times that the setting is filled with "dinosaurs". Did it actually happen in-universe? Doesn't matter. Maybe there could be a scene near the end where they realize their dream, where they play one final song to a cheering audience and in that moment, Fang takes to the skies. Even if the other pteranodons have given up.įangs' feathers bring attention to the fact that they have wings, They reminds us of a bird, wich we associate with flying, in a setting with featherless pteranodons we know don't fly. For what we know so far, even though they reached adulthood, are expected to "grow up", their friends are considering moving on to other things, and they don't have much time left to live, Fang still clings to their dream of making it big with their band, of truly expressing themselves.įang dreams of "flying", so to speak. The protagonist Fang has high dreams of becoming a rock star. To have them fly would distract from the fact that they are like us. This is why I believe we won't see the pteranodon characters flying with their wings, instead we see the aforementioned Fang and Naser driving a car in the trailers. They are essentially humans facing certain doom. The characters are dinosaurs because the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is about to crash. Aggretsuko and (for the most part) BoJack Horseman come to mind tough stories like these may, from time to time, still have the characters act like the animals their designs are based on, for comedy or for something else. Other times, however, the anthopomorphic animals are essentially humans, and their animal-like appearence is an abstraction of something (usually they share the personalities we associate with the animals). Different sizes, diets, ways of transportation, It's like watching an alien world. When it comes to anthropomorphic animals in fiction, sometimes the story embraces the fact that they are animals, it asks "how would that work". This being a game about humanoid dinosaurs the developers are bound to take creative liberties, but the somewhat-accurate placement of feathers in the velocirptor characters, plus the complete lack of feathers in the other pteranodon character Naser, says that Fang has a more bird-like appearence for a reason. Something about Fang having those feathers puzzles me.
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