The recent film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for instance, features a thunderbird being released to its native habitat of Arizona. Outside of their presence in the folklore of indigenous tribes of North America, the thunderbird has popped up here and there in different pieces of popular culture. The thunderbirds, on the other hand, are a little less common, which makes them a unique subject for a Darkside Detective case. Creatures so common you’ll immediately recognize them (and the specific riffs on them that we do in our games for comedy.) And true to form, The Darkside Detective has featured protesting ghosts, emotionally drained vampires and gangster zombies in the cases of the first two games. Ghosts? Vampires? Zombies? These are kinds of creatures that jump to the front of your mind when we start talking about the kind of magical world the Darkside Detective takes place in. Thunderbirds are a little bit off the beaten path for mythological creatures. While the thunderbird shows up in folk tales from all across North America, it’s particularly associated with the Algonquian tribe of north-eastern Canada and the United States as well as a number of different cultures in the Pacific Northwest, where the thunderbird is commonly carved into tall totem poles. Whether the thunderbird was a force of nature, bringing storms, wind and rain a shapeshifter, looking to blend in among the humans or a spiritual guardian, protecting humanity from the dark creatures of the underworld depends highly on whom you’re hearing the story from. And in the same way that the mythological traits of dragons or unicorns vary from kingdom to kingdom in Europe, the different legends from different indigenous peoples afforded the thunderbird a wide variety of traits and abilities depending on that legend’s individual source. In the folklore of indigenous tribes of North America, the thunderbird is a massive avian whose wingbeats create thunder and whose eyes spark with lightning. That problem is a thunderbird, a giant, electrified bird threatening to zap and sizzle anyone getting too close. If you watched the trailer above, you’d be able to see that a thunderous egg and bird caw hint pretty strongly that there’s a problem that only McQueen and Dooley can sort out. “ One Flew into the Cuckoo’s Nest” (this is the name of the case, the cuckoo is the thunderbird, do you get it?) takes place at Twin Lakes’ botanical garden. Join them in this frighteningly funny point-and-click adventure as they investigate six more standalone cases bringing them to a carnival, the local retirement home, an amateur wrestling circuit and even as far away as Ireland as they do what they can to keep the Darkside at bay.I’m Buddy, the Community Manager for Akupara Games and today, we’re releasing a new case for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark!And I wanted to take a second to peel back the curtain on The Darkside Detective to give you a sneak peek into the mythological inspiration for the new case, the thunderbird. Picking up after the events of The Darkside Detective, McQueen has to save his usually-present (in body, if not mind) sidekick Officer Dooley from the Darkside, so the two can get back to what they do best - investigating the city’s many strange, often paranormal, always paradoxical goings-on. No, he doesn’t smell of fish - it’s a phrase, come on. Whenever you hear a bump in the night, feel a tingle up your spine, or smell something fishy, Detective Francis McQueen isn’t far behind. That’s where The Darkside Detective comes in. Cursed enough that somebody has to deal with it… It’s roughly in the middle of the cursed scale, is what we’re trying to say.Ĭursed enough that it’s a nuisance. Less cursed than say, “Demons are tearing it apart” but more cursed than “always loses its keys” or “often steps in puddles”.
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