Two years ago, InnerSloth released a game called Among Us, in which colorful astronauts try to keep a space ship running while at least one member of the crew is an Impostor whose goal is to violently eliminate the other players. One fan of Among Us named Landonardo posted two videos to YouTube featuring anime-inspired death animations.
In between his letsplay videos, Landonardo has been making parodies for shows like Sword Art Online and Rick and Morty on YouTube since 2012, including a live-action Fall Guys video with his friends. These latest creations are completely animated, and curious fans can watch the archived art stream on his channel if they want to know how he created the shorts.
Among Us reached 3 million concurrent players recently, and the indie game has been exploding in popularity on Twitch. Fans have latched onto it as a good party game both to play and watch, and it can be just as fun to play one of the potential victims as it is to be the villainous Impostor. Successful Impostors know how to play innocent and strike at the right time.
The game is easy to pick up, but that does not mean it is necessarily an easy game. Crew members in Among Us need to work together to survive, calling emergency meetings whenever a dead body is found to discuss who among the crew could be the Impostor. The winning scenario for crew is when the last Impostor is ejected into space by popular vote.
Artists often find colorful party games like Among Us inspiring, because the relatively simple characters and animations can be adapted to tell dramatic stories, or in this case recreate scenes from popular fandoms. The thing that makes these two videos stand out in particular is that any one of these finishing moves could fit in with the normal gameplay without being out of place. Represented animes in the short sequences include Naruto, One Punch Man, and Death Note.
Fans in the comments speculate whether custom finishers like these could be modded in. Considering that Among Us has crossplay between PC and mobile, and the title does not have a Steam Workshop or mod database, that seems unlikely at this time. Perhaps InnerSloth could open up functionality for players to create their own “finishing moves” as they expand Among Us in place of the cancelled Among Us 2.
Among Us is available now for Mobile and PC.
Source: YouTube
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