The music used in this short: soundcloud.com/machoboyanim/petty-puzzle

I love the designs so much!!!! Even the voice acting! it really sounds like those old games!! and the animation when the button is pressed is soo good!!!!! Press 6 for >: (

can we even call it a net zero game mechanics gain? she didn't learn what she was meant to, but that's probably one of the most powerful things, what she just learned by accident

0:05 So, what I think Risk thought Anna was supposed to do was: - Push the block towards the cannon - Lift the block and load it inside the cannon - Grab 1 fire on a stick from the campfire - Aim the cannon towards the target - Light the cannon - The block hits the target and falls on the button - The door opens If this was supposed to be a tutorial level, it IS too challenging for a beginner like Anna.

I love how bouncy it is, if only more retro art let the characters squash and stretch more

The moment where Anna jumps off and lands on the button is some of the most satisfying animation I’ve seen recently.

what the hell is this extremely charming artstyle and character design?.. amazing

I liked when she got yelled at and turned into a living 🥺 emoji for a second. Relatable defense mechanism.

1:20 I love how distressed he is. Like he REALLY wanted her to do it correctly before moving on

This was super delightful!!! I love the idea of an animated series that not only authentically looks and feels like an old N64/PS1 game, but is set in one. Scratches my brain in a really nice way.

I love the use of the Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom sound effects. Really adds to the cute and cartoony quality of this amazing animation.

Everyone’s talking about the animation (which is fantastic don’t get me wrong), but I’d also like to point out that the vocal delivery of the last section was really great. Risk coming in with “ANA!” was perfect, you can hear the immense worry in his voice.

0:48 really captures the feel of playing an old ps1 game, not being able to Jump over small obstacles.

Love the duality of Risk and Reward! Ones a triangle pointing down the other is a triangle pointing up, one has keys on them and the other has key holes, as well as the fire and ice thing! Characters that are designed to be next to one another are simply peak!!

I hate when an animation makes me want to play a game that doesn't exist. This looks like it would be an incredibly charming retro puzzle game!

Never have i been emotionally invested into a character this fast

Also for people who did not know what Risk said when Anna ran to get her reward: "This is not how its done!, This is not how it supposed to go!"

Maybe this was accidental maybe this was purposeful but I like how the characters voices are compressed! Really encapsulates the old game quality vibe! Also, Anna is precious.

Now THIS is how you do a PS1 graphic series without using an underlying "horror" theme. Just lovely animation with quirky characters and a wholesome welcoming aesthetic. Please have it be like a new puzzles for anna to solve while goin on her adventure to beat her game!

Man, the design of each character is just so incredibly charming, their personalities well displayed too. Anna just RADIATES n64 protag energy with how they're built with spheres, having that process of testing everything and eventually breaking it like a real player would. Risks points and fires really sell the dangerous nature of who he is and how he motivates others by giving them a push, as well as the kind of developer that carefully constructs his game to ensure that there's a certain way it's supposed to be done. Reward is a much more relaxed overall design like she's the kind mother to Risks passionate fathering, she also embodies that kind of developer that's genuinely happy to see things get done in creative never thought of before ways. You can really, REALLY see this when that flag is thrown, Risk is confused and shocked that his expertly planned level was so easy to break, whilst reward looks excited to see this entirely out of the box thinking being done by Anna. Overall a fantastic animation!

I love how she's as curious as a newborn child

this is incredible, all these character designs are simply fantastic. i especially love all the expressions you gave ana and all the little effects that animate around the buttons and when she spins and such. you're making something great here!

1:05 Wario World's Button Pressing Sound.

This is the best animation i've ever seen! Never before have i seen 64 bit characters be so expressive!! Thank you for giving this era of gaming the attention it deserves!

0:40 my heart

I love how the name of the boss guy could refer to In house development, with Risk and Reward obviously refer to the oldest form of gratification for playing video games and how their movements reflect their elements with Risk moving wavily like fire and Reward flowing like water. Very cute, excited to see more from you!

I can tell this series is gonna be a praised by everyone

Im so happy how this turned out and also happy i could help :D

I love how Risk(?)/the fire guy, yells out to Anna in the fashion of "Wait! You didn't learn the right lesson, come back!"

00:19 "INTRUDER ALERT- THERES FIRE ON OUR HAND"

I would still ABSOLUTELY play a legitimate game like this. Get a team on it.

I love Risk's design. He looks like the best boss battle from an actual unreleased N64 game.

This is so adorable! And i live the character designs and animation! I just loved all of it!

0:58 Big brain moment

This is incredibly creative, I cannot wait to see your future animations!! I love how the camera moves like a game as well, when she hit the button it looked exactly like how I'd imagine it revealing the exit was unlocked

Ah yes, the classic "Loading screens that take advantage of being one frame to add as much detail as their PCs can handle"

KZfaq Recommended really hit it out of the park here. I love this artstyle and your animation style after seeing but one video. Cannot commend you enough.

this is literally a jackpot series, this is gonna take off like crazy.

Idk why but the fire dude acts like a dad to Anna while the girl acts like her weird sis

This really tells a story. Love the characters designs.

I love how expressive all their motions where, I am excited to see where this goes.

0:53 that's the angry facebook face

the fact that anna can just break the laws of a game by just throwing the spawnpoint into the finishing button is just so overpowered

2 months loading time is pretty good considering the puzzle and characters were designed and animated live while on the loading screen.

Absolutely no idea what any of this is but I really love it the animation is great and this whole thing is very charming You managed to capture the exact style and feel of these older type games while still managing to make it expressive and animated and i really love anna's 2d facial expressions‼️‼️

This whole animation feels so lively. All the movements and micro expressions perfectly communicate the personalities of these characters. I have know them for 1:28 seconds but love them all already. Its really inspiring to see a youtube journey like this. Making original animations for youtube for so long no caring about any trending topics but just doing what you want to do. And then finally after so long you make something that people truly connect with and which you also care about. I think that is the dream for many artists me included so i wish you the best and cant wait for more

I hope this video gets some millions of views it deserves

This is incredibly cute, and I love how it looks like something you'd see on a 5th Generation Console.

omg her run at the end... shes so precious

what a beautiful and charming animation!! i really love how the camera moves in 0:58 - 1:09 and the way Risk & Rewards animations freeze as soon as she hits the button - really gives it that game vibe!! the character designs are really lovely as well. thank you for making this and sharing it!!

This is like cheating in school Instead of learning the mechanics of the subject and solving the problem she just exploited a flaw to sidestep the puzzle

the fact that Anna's eyelashes are part of her pupils is kinda freaky methinks

I have an idea of how it went: 1. Push the ice block onto the fire pit and it will drop a match. 2. The match will immediately be lit by the fire so you need to quickly move and light the cannon before it goes out. 3. Aim the cannon up in the air, fire yourself towards the target and fall down onto the button. 4. If you either let the match burn out or mess up the cannon then the water fall you grabbed the ice block out from will freeze a new ice cube again and you'll have to start the process all over until you succeed.

The way she sprints but barely moves forward is a nice touch. Very early Sega 3D.

The cube is a ice cube which contains a cannon ball so she would have to carefully push it over to the fire and put in the cannon and aim it at the sign so that it's bumps off the sign into the button

I can't stop watching it, I think this'll be the 8 or 9th time

I love how the fire guy’s design has keys as a pattern and the water lady has keyholes as a pattern

Everything thing about this series is so cozy and charming that it’s just unreal. The style of the late 90’s-games is really perfect here and i can’t get enough of it. Also Anna is the most adorable thing since ever.

PS1/N64/DS Graphics just have so much charm honestly.. I love this artstyle!

i love everything about this about this so much, i am happy this got recommended to me on CHRISTMAS!

Most comments I see already cover whatever praise I could give, so instead I'll take a crack at the intended solution. Put the cube in the cannon. Point the cannon at the target. Use the fire to light the fuse. The cannon will fire the cube into the target and lower the walls, allowing you to simply walk onto the button and win. Am I close?

I love this so much! You did the old school 3D adventure game look and feel so well, it feels like it actually came from one, especially the way things sound. I'm excited to see where you go with this!

Holy shit this is good. Like the charm! The character designs! The animation! The artstyle! 11/10

Im so glad i found this

The voices are honestly perfect for this. They're very *amateur, but that adds to the charm in this case because it fits the whole concept as an early 3d video game. It has the feeling of that ambitious studio going a bit over its own head and not having the resources to polish everything.

This is the first thing i’ve seen on your channel cuz it was randomly in my recommended.. And I do not regret watching it at all. This is amazing

1:11 No way that is the Kaze Emanuar style Mario 64 font.

I love these character designs

Everything about this is fantastic. The animation is extremely fluid and expressive without overdoing it. The character designs are so fun to look at. I love the way the characters talk in this. The line delivery and audio effects are very time period accurate, and the way the blue character’s VA delivered the lines is so pleasing and soothing to listen to. Oh man and the pre rendered loading screen?? Aaahhh I need more!!

One thing that is impressive specifically is the facial rigs. Anna’s expressions are so unique and thorough. Even comparing this upload to the title screen! 👏👏👏

SHE'S SO CUTE

This animation just screams PS1 energy, the characters are so well animated and just oozes charm and personality. Also, you didn’t tell me that Fireboy and Watergirl were gonna cameo in this video 😂

This is so charming and adorable! I love the retro vibe!

Super nostalgic for a person like me who grew up with the PS1/Dreamcast, awesome job.

This is AMAZING! As a huge fan of classic games, as well as games emulating the classics of old, this is right up my alley!

I love the way the camera turns at 1:06, it feels so familiar

i swear i cant believe how you only have 42.5k subs, this animation is SO fluid yet so entertaining. i could watch this forever and not be bored. 10/10 animation man.

incredible animation style! also the art used for the intro and outro is really amazing too, as well as the music!

Bro this is looking so fire the animation is super!🔥🔥 The voice actors for risk and reward are great! Also the way Anna jumped off the cliff after realizing what she had done was fantastic😂

The charm and weird nostalgic feeling have made me watch this like 8 times already. Very well done, and here's to hoping for more of Anna's adventures. Lol

oh my gosh, this is what i wanted digital circus to look like! you have that 90s game cutscene movement down pat! ❤❤❤

Lord I want so much more of this content, never stop!

Do you rememeber Fireboy and Watergirl? 0:22 This is how they look like now. Feeling old yet?

I love how you actually included that Anna's loading render would be different from her in-game (or I guess in-animation) model, like how almost all PS1 Box Art or Promo renders always have more polygons than the actual game, and love the glossy heavy shadows look on that render, it's accurate as all hell

I definitely want to see more of risk and reward, their designs and voices are so good

As usual, no idea how i ended up here, but this is an instant favourite- everything about whatever this is ticks a lot of boxes for me. Great work.

Anna is so adorable... GAH MY HEART_

Mate, you could totally be the next big Indie Animation star! A series inspired by obscure experimental PS1 games that are so full of charm would be awesome to see as a full-blown webseries!

this is almost like someone just trying to figure out a game, and then they do it right just not how indented. i love this so much

I like the artstyle of it being a classic 2000s videogame. Amazing work! Hopefully this will be brought to a game sometime!

0:12 YEET

The idea of manipulating where your check point was and moving it somewhere so you can solve the puzzle honestly sounds so interesting as a game concept. Like throwing your check point flag for example to a higher elevation and then intentionally fall off the ledge to spawn back at the flag sounds like a fun mechanic for puzzle solving and thinking outside of the box. I would honestly like to see that as a fully realized game and seems like fun to play.

I can't get over this, I love the character designs and their voices!

I applaud this animation. I love the style, it's cute and adorable! It makes me wanna bust out the Dreamcast again and play it! ❤ 🥺

Can’t wait wait to see if there is going to be more

When this series takes off, expect someone to make a fan game that tries to recreate the feel this animation gives off, like Little Runmo! ...or don't. That way, you aren't disappointed when no one decides to make a game.

I love this animation style and texturing so much :D

that camera movement towards the end is for some reason nostalgic as hell

oh this looks amazing i love this

diives, minus8 and other r34 artists: *slow motion group walk*