He believed that when RPG Maker games break from tradition, they are more interesting. The game's focus on 'corruption' versus the 'perfect' graphics of the default RPG Maker was used by the developer to decry what he believed was a modern form of classicism for the RPGs of the 1990s, where people believed they were the 'peak' of video games and wanted to copy them as much as possible, instead of experimenting and trying new things.

Despite this claim, several websites have listed Space Funeral among games very reminiscent of Earthbound, including that interviewer's own site,. In a different interview, Murphy claimed to have played Earthbound in his teens but added it was 'kinda too late for it to have an impact' at the time of development. Space Funeral was stated in the same interview to have been largely inspired by the video games Bat Castle and Monster Party. However, a corrupted house from the original world still remains there, implying that it is not completely gone.ĭuring an interview with tumblr blog fuckyeahspacefuneral, developer thecatamites stated that the game's artstyle was 'based on the weird chunky pixel gore from Monster Party especially the way it could be hard to figure out what a wall of tiled bloody heads was meant to represent in game space.' The music selection of Space Funeral was stated to have been selected by 'pulling together things based on kind of superficially similar tendencies and almost creating a fake tradition in that way which could change how you progress from there.' Upon defeating Moon, the game is restored to the default appearance of an RPG Maker game, and the characters return to their normal selves, implying that its former appearance was the result of the corruption inflicted upon it by Moon. There, they discover Moon, a former artist who sought out the City first in order to be inspired, but realized that it was so perfect that she no longer had any more purpose as an artist, so she decided to corrupt the world to allow her to create again. Once players defeat the King of Crime, they make their way to the City of Forms, which is intensely glitched, and resembles a video game debug room, with the 'forms' referring to the game's sprites. Philip notices that certain objects appear as graphical glitches, which the denizens of the world are cognizant of and call 'errors', but do not remember what they once were before the 'Great Change'. It is then explained that Leg Horse's brother has been corrupt as well, and the group is ambushed by '20th Century Boy', the corrupt version of Leg Horse's brother.

It is eventually learned upon visiting Leg Horse's former home that he was once 'Prince Horrace', the ruler of the game prior to the 'Great Change'. The player eventually passes through the Blood Cavern, a cave housing the game's first boss, the Blood Ghoul, and arrives in the City of Thieves, a city home to a vast array of criminals (who, humorously, have a strong weakness to bibles). Philip departs the village, and soon meets up with Leg Horse, a horse made of severed legs who is later revealed to have formerly been Prince Horace, the prince of Space Funeral's world. The wizard states that the only hope for survival is to find the City of Forms, a perfect city from which all things in the game's world originates. Space Funeral begins with Philip, a perpetually crying pajama-clad purple boy, seeing a wizard in Scum Vullage who tells him that his world has been 'corrupted' and it does not have long left.

The game also has quirky status effects, such as 'buff' and 'sad' along with more typical ones, such as 'poisoned.' Certain enemies have absurd weaknesses such as silent films making some of them sentimental. This ability closely resembles 'praying' in Earthbound but with a far greater and more prevalent narrative focus. The game plays like a typical 2D turn-based RPG, although a 'Mystery' function that can only be used once per battle has effects unique to each enemy variety the function is utilized on. Throughout the game, players repeatedly encounter twisted, and often bloody creatures which take the place of NPCs in the game's world. Players control Philip (and during sections following the game's first major area, Leg Horse) as he departs from his home in Scum Vullage to search for the City of Forms, a city described as the origin of everything within the game's world.

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