A Minecraft Movie trailer reminds everyone of the games' most evil moment: "Kids cried on Christmas day that we killed the pig"
Sep. 6, 2024Minecraft: Story Mode was really something else
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A Minecraft Movieis certainly, urm, a thing that exists. While the pig-looking sheep mutant thing above is trying its best to distract from our every waking thoughts, at least the blocky adaptation’sfirst weird trailerhas fans reminiscing on the series' weirder moments.
Minecraft itself keeps its world-building on the softer side. You play as a blocky guy. You bash blocks. You craft blocks. Eventually you enter an Upside Down realm with more blocks and dragons and cosmic, teleporting Endermen, but most of Minecraft’s more tangible narrative bits come from the spin-offs.
Minecraft Legends and Minecraft Dungeons did their best to give the survival classic some named characters, villains, events, and lore, but it’s perhaps Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode that pushed the envelope the furthest.
“I don’t care how good or bad this movie will be; They will never top Story Mode in doing this shit,” the tweet reads - although, I probably wouldn’t bet against a movie that somehowmakes Minecraft sheep look like nightmare fuel.
Since A Minecraft Movie’s trailer got the clip trending again, one person who helped manage the pig aftermath has also looked back on the now-infamous scene. “I had to read so many upset fan letters that holiday season from kids who cried on [Christmas] day that we killed the pig,” former Telltale Games community manager Allen Ortegatweetedshortly after.
A Minecraft Movie is drawing unfavorable comparisons to Borderlands and its $90 million box office flop.
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.
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