Weird Among Us Cosplay Lets You Be All 10 Players At Once An Instagram user is making "low-cost" Among Us cosplays using his own body parts to represent the crew members of the beloved multiplayer game. An Instagram user has found a bizarre way to cosplay multiple Among Us characters at the same time. The social deduction game has taken the internet by storm despite being largely ignored when it released in 2018. The game has reached such incredible amounts of popularity that the developer cancelled a sequel to focus up on developing the current game. Among Us, like the similarly explosive Fall Guys before it, owes much of its success to its adorable, minimally designed characters. The astronauts in Among Us are small, beanlike creatures, decked out like Skittles in bright primary colors. Like in Fall Guys, players can purchase cosmetic accessories for their astronaut, including hats, and even little pets that can follow them around. While players are mostly interested in Amo...
Among Us 3D Short Film Gives Strong Killer Bean Vibes
A new Among Us animation adapts the famous crew of color-coded spacemen into an Adult Swim-esque short film that's full of charm and Rayman hands.
A new animated short posted to YouTube may be the best translation yet of the 2020 smash indie game Among Us. There have been many content creators attempting to jump on the Among Us bandwagon, from streamers playing the game on loop to YouTubers incorporating it into their regular output. The game's simplistic art style lets creative souls imprint whatever they want onto the basic structure, which might be one of the reasons why the game captured the imagination of so many in 2020. Well, that and the simple truth that yelling at friends over the Internet is always a good time.
While Among Us certainly came out of left field when it shot to stardom last summer - two years after its initial release - anyone with a bit of media savvy can start to piece together the trends that pushed it to the top. Before Among Us-mania hit the streets, gamers were all about Fall Guys another colorful multiplayer-focused game with characters that are more bean than man. Before those two games, certain strains of the Internet were obsessing with Killer Bean, an anthropomorphic coffee bean character that similarly gained momentum years after debuting. There's just something about this concept that's hitting in the 2020s, and it's hitting hard.
While there are plenty of opportunities to adapt Among Us to other scenarios, YouTuber CKVFX decided to instead create an Adult Swim-esque direct translation of the source material. The resulting video is a fun romp that depicts the colored space travellers of the game as bumbling but dedicated crewmen. The fully realized 3D designs of the characters (complete with floating Rayman-style hands) really compliment the comedic take on the situation and captures the tone of a group of friends trying to get through the intruder scenario together. The voicework is reminiscent of something that might have hit the Internet decades ago, but if Red vs. Blue can still garner a big audience in 2020, there's obviously still room for that style of short.
Much like Red vs. Blue, this Among Us short is capitalizing on the game of the moment and bringing a new personality to the proceedings. The game the short is based on does have much less to work with in terms of lore, but that's never stopped content creators before. Even in just 15 minutes, it's easy to pick up on character dynamics and foresee further adventures, although a few of the characters might need a bit of medical attention in any proposed sequels.
Some might even say that the cute characters of Among Us are reminiscent of Funko Pops in that they're completely adaptable to any situation. That's really the element something needs to hit it big in a time when every niche imaginable is already filled and mass audiences are splitting into ever-smaller groups. Much like Hollywood blockbusters lean on huge wordless action scenes for a spectacle that has global appeal, video games have discovered that cartoonish and faceless avatars can become popular with players of all ages, races, and creeds. For a multiplayer game of any description, that's the ideal, and players can expect many more Among Us-style casts of color-coded cartoons in the future.
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