#zettel #gaming sourced from: [[Kirby Canvas Curse]] # Canvas Curse's Rainbow Paint Brush as a Player Stand-In It's really interesting how the rainbow paint brush is a player stand in. It's acknowledged in the credits in particular, and it makes me think about my relationship with Kirby. Especially so since this is the first Kirby game where you don't have a direct, one-to-one means of control over your character (Kirby). The paintbrush also vanishes when you beat the game, signifying the end of the player's involvement in the game. In that way, Canvas Curse wants to evoke a sense of player involvement here. To lean on the fourth wall. I know that in the commercials in the United States, there was the finger walking along with Kirby, as if to introduce the idea that you, yes YOU have an influence on Kirby. ## Related Thought - Really fascinating to consider how this game does the same thing [[Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team]] where "once this character's duty is done, they left this universe", as a metaphor of the player no longer playing the game. - [[Kirby and the Rainbow Curse]] doesn't seem to do this as much?