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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3766427" data-attributes="member: 21938">Damn, someone beat me to the Scarlet Johansson comment!The now defunct UK gamaing magazine of the late 90s, 'arcane' (non-capitalisation deliberate), published a little freebie game called Puppetland which was kind of cool.Basically, the player characters are puppets in a sort of dark fairy-tale land ruled by the tyrannical Mr Punch and his Nutcracker soldiers. As I recall player character choice ran the gamut from the tiny finger puppets to marionettes who had the best manipulation skills but were vulnerable because of their strings.There was a wonderfully subversive atmosphere around the loss of innocence - the puppets were like children in their wonderful little fantasy land made by The Toymaker, but Mr. Punch had rebelled against The Toymaker, some say killed him, and brought about an end to the puppety Eden with his totalitarian regime. Reading between the lines, it would seem that in the real world outside the toyshop was Nazi occupied Eastern Europe and perhaps the Toymaker was a gentleman of the Jewish faith.I must admit to never having played it but it seemed like a fun little mini-game. Character damage was charted by removing pieces from a jigsaw picture of your character, for example.</blockquote>