Someone Made a Fake The Bear Video Game, and It Looks Like a PS2-Era Fever Dream

The Bear Season 3 dropped final week, so somebody determined to show it right into a online game… type of.

Created by Michael Kandel and Joe Miciak underneath their Hotel Art Thief banner, the animated video, which you’ll be able to view under, encapsulates a lot that viewers have beloved about The Bear thus far — whereas additionally turning it into one thing you may see in a nightmare. While the FX/Hulu present sees cooks like Carmy and Syndey rallying to prepare dinner and serve a few of Chicago’s tastiest dishes, The Bear “online game” options blurry floating heads, stellar voice performing, smoking and feeding mini-games, and a piece the place you run away out of your hungry mother.

“Dinner for mom,” Jamie Lee Curtis’ disembodied head says as she strikes nearer to the digital camera.

It’s… quite a bit, however in the event you’re a fan of The Bear, then nearly each second of the The Bear The Game video has one thing to snicker at. There’s even a canopy of Radiohead’s Let Down that performs when you fend off Chicago canine in your restaurant. You can see what it’s prefer to feed Richie on “No Rush” problem mode within the video under.

Speaking with IGN, Miciak says the concept for The Bear The Game did not initially spawn from the Jeremy Allen White-led dramedy. He says he merely “beloved the concept of an excellent nerve-racking online game the place you’re operating a restaurant like Cooking Mama, or Overcooked, however you’re really allowed to simply take it straightforward.” It was Kandel’s concept to tie in The Bear with the “eerily soothing” model they’ve utilized in previous tasks like their user:brian(box) sketch.

“We’re each large followers of the present, and it’s so in style on-line we figured it will be excellent to attempt to get it completed in time for Season 3,” Miciak says. “There’s one thing in regards to the present that appears like if it had been launched within the 2000s, there could be a PS2 recreation for it.”

The Hotel Art Thief duo says it took a weekend to edit the primary draft, just a few days to make these floating heads, and simply lower than three weeks to document, animate in Blender, and convey every little thing collectively for the ultimate package deal you see earlier than you. It was tireless work to place this fever-dream-like spin on The Bear right into a video, so do not count on to really saute onions and smoke with Syndey in a playable model of a The Bear online game anytime quickly.

“Mike and I do wish to strive to determine add online game storytelling to our reside sketches we do as Hotel Art Thief, with audiences collaborating in a choose-your-own-adventure kind group recreation,” Miciak mentioned. “So possibly it should proceed to reside in on in spirt on stage sooner or later.”

Miciak and Kandel aren’t ruling out a sequel to their The Bear sketch, however they’d prefer to no less than watch Season 3 earlier than even making an attempt to make a follow-up.

“But we often prefer to all the time preserve individuals guessing. I’m positive we’ll no less than do a religious sequel,” Miciak added. “Mike and I are all the time speaking about individuals we’d prefer to see as 3D floating heads in our cinematic universe.”

The Bear The Game is, sadly, not playable. On the brilliant facet, The Bear Season 3 is now accessible in full on Hulu. We gave the nerve-racking cooking sequence’ newest batch of episodes a 7/10 in our evaluation. We mentioned, “The Bear nonetheless swings for the fences in relation to progressive storytelling, however Carmy going deeply inside this season throws the present’s steadiness and ahead momentum out of whack.”

Michael Cripe is a contract contributor with IGN. He began writing within the trade in 2017 and is greatest recognized for his work at shops similar to The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx.

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