Humanity
Among Humanity’s many assets, the Goldy might just be its secret weapon. These statuesque figures resemble sentient Academy Awards and function like Super Mario stars: you needn’t necessarily go out of your way to collect them all, but unlocking each chapter’s ultimate challenge requires you to have gathered a certain number. And in Tha’s spellbinding puzzler they quickly become an obsession, transforming the way you play. Ostensibly cast as a benevolent god, you’re tasked with guiding crowds of mindless humans to a light marking the exit from a stage, taking control of a luminous shiba inu that drops commands in their path, each turn and jump order issued with a bark. But bringing these gilded automata with you often demands you lead the humans into harm’s way.
You might neglect groups that are marching toward the edge of a stage, or even deliberately direct them off it to make the crowds more manageable or to ensure no stragglers get in your way. And yet we find ourselves racing to the rescue of each Goldy we spy striding blithely toward their doom. Truly, history’s greatest monsters have nothing on us. Not really, of course: you’re told early on that humans respawn when they fall. A Goldy, however, does not, and thus you grow more protective of them.