216: "I Wanna be the Garfield" by Square Root of Castlevania
| "I Wanna be the Garfield" by Square Root of Castlevania |
 Made by: Hyruleboy |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The Castlevania entry referred to is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. In this strip, Jon takes Richter's dialogue while Garfield has Dracula's lines. In the game, Dracula continues by answering his own question: "A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk... Have at you!" At this point in the cutscene, Dracula throws his wine glass, but as it's a cutscene, Richter is unharmed. Here, the conversation is cut short, and Garfield's "wine glass" is a dish of cat food.
The incredibly hard freeware game I Wanna Be The Guy also includes this scene, but plays with it a bit: for one thing, the glass is now one of the many things that kill you if it touches you, but on the other hand, it's now incumbent upon you to dodge it. Players expecting cutscene invulnerability quickly learn that it doesn't apply here, leading to a Game Over, as shown here.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Original Idea by Lucas EB2. Executed by Hyruleboy.
This one is using the famous "what is a man" conversation from Castlevania, which was also used the really hard freeware game, I Wanna be the Guy, which is where the game over screen was ripped, and it might take playing that game to get the punchline.
Original comics: 2009-09-06, 1979-04-13, 2001-09-30, 2007-12-21, 2001-04-14.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: Die monster. You don't belong in this world.
Garfield: It is not by my hand that I am once again given flesh.
Jon: Tribute?
Garfield: I was called here by humans, who wished to pay me tribute!
Jon: You steal men's souls and make them your slaves!
Jon: Your words are as empty as your soul.
Garfield: Perhaps the same could be said of all religions.
Jon: Mankind ill needs a savior such as you.
Garfield: What is a man?
SFX: SPLAT
Caption: GAME OVER
Caption: Press R to try again
