I've been wanting to make this topic for a long time. Here's the Neverhood thread! The thread you can talk about both the Neverhood,Skullmonkeys, and Armikrog! I discovered the Neverhood this May and I've loved it ever since. Then I discovered Skullmonkeys which I loved just as much. I haven't played either of them but I've seen footage that makes me love both games. The soundtrack is my favorite soundtrack for video game of all time. It bursts in variety and is very fitting for such a surrealistic game. I also love the animation! It's fucking claymation! I loved this form of animation ever since I was a wee lad! And Doug TenNaple made this game! He made Earthworm Jim for crying out loud! These games are just so awesome! And its spiritual successor, Armikrog, is being developed too. So that's something!The Neverhood is part of the creative issue of Doug TenNapel, creator of such games as Earthworm Jim. It is a claymated puzzle adventure Point-and-Click Game starring Klaymen, who wakes up in a locked room with no knowledge of what he's doing there or where he came from. There are very few other characters, and for most of the game Klaymen is alone, but fairly early on you begin discovering videotapes, apparently some kind of weird fairytale narrated by one Willie Trombone, the same person whose letters keep showing up in your mailbox...
A PlayStation port of The Neverhood was released exclusively in Japan, where the game became unexpectedly popular under the title Klaymen Klaymen: Neverhood no Nazo. This eventually led to a technically unofficial Gaiden Game, Klaymen Gun Hockey, made by the the Japanese publishers of the game, River Hill Soft, also not released outside Japan.
The game's developers, also known as The Neverhood, produced two other clay-animated games for the PlayStation before disbanding: Skullmonkeys, a sequel to The Neverhood but in a different genre, and the Fighting Game Boombots, unconnected to their other games aside from the presence of Klaymen as a Guest Fighter. The game's Spiritual Successor, Armikrog, is currently in Kickstarter phase.
Anybody else a fan or familiar with these games?