Cosmic Boll

***Cosmic Boll*** (known in the UK as ***Mildor's Plume***) is a fast-paced indie beat 'em up platformer game designed by Yoritoshi where you take control of a cute little yellow ball who packs a real punch. The game is a remake of *Bolinha*, a game the creator developed back in 2006 that was itself based on comics he drew as a child in 1998.

As the little blob warrior Bolinha the Marblobo, the player must tear their way through the duck army that has destroyed his home.

## Playthrough

On October 29th, 2018, Chris, Zach and Lyle begin playing *Cosmic Boll*, which was recommended to them by Ding Dong. Zach immediately requests for the title to be changed to *Mildor's Plume*, which Chris rejects, saying it would be "mean to the guy who made it". They praise the sprite work, music and gameplay as they travel through the first level. Zach begins listing positives for "Mildor" (the character), including having a noble quest, caring about fashion and being a fascist. He also explains the "Plume" part of the title is the word quest in the Mildorian language, which only Zach and the Pope can speak. Being reminded of *Astro Boy: Omega Factor* for the Game Boy Advance, Chris asks the two if they've ever played the game, which he says is "fucking amazing". Zach asks how many "Beet Red Irate Gamer's" would he give the game out of seven, which make Chris and Lyle laugh.

The Bois find a statue of a pygmy, which makes Chris ask why they're not allowed to make fun of pygmies the same way people make fun of children and the Amish, while also wondering if pygmies call themselves pygmies, to which Lyle compares to calling Native Americans "Indians". This exchange makes Chris bring up *The Indian in the Cupboard*, a 1995 fantasy movie directed by Frank Oz where a kid gets a magic cupboard that brings toys to life. Zach immediately doesn't believe him, and the two get into a heated argument about the existence of the movie. Lyle tries to weigh in on the conversation, but confuses the movie with *Night at the Museum*. Chris eventually gets him to search up the poster, which he describes as "a boy with curly hair and stupid square ass looking shocked and grimacing at the little Indian man in his hand".

After all the drama, Zach asks if they've ever had a relative who believed the special effects in a movie were real, his example being his Grandma believing the monkeys in *Planet of the Apes* were real. Chris responds to this by explaining that it's impossible to convince old people that computer generated characters aren't real. This diverges into a conversation about movie urban legends, including one revolving around the 1896 silent film *L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat*, where the people in the cinema thought the train in the film was going to drive right into them, and in a state of panic, ran out of of the theater.

Chris tells a ghost story about Loftus Hall, a country manor in Wexford, Ireland, where a mysterious stranger is invited in by the Tottenham family (who was living there at the time). One night, while playing cards, the family's daughter Anne dropped a card and while bending down to retrieve it, she looked beneath the table and saw that the stranger had hooves instead of feet. The stranger shot through the roof in a ball of flames upon this revelation. Chris says he went to a tour of Loftus Hall and found it lame after having built up the story as the scariest thing imaginable his whole life. Zach recalls Chris showing him an animation of the story, which was in a papercraft style. Bolinha is defeated, which the Bois see as an opportunity to call it a night and quit the game. It turned out that the game had crashed at that exact same moment, which ended the playthrough.

## Trivia

* According to Yoritoshi, the game is largely based on GBA action games such as *Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure*, *Astro Boy: Omega Factor*, *One Piece* and *Tiny Toons Adventure: Busters Bad Dream*.
	+ Funnily enough, Chris was reminded of *Astro Boy: Omega Factor* whilst playing the game, which he considers to be amazing.

## Gallery

Mildor himself, as seen in the UK version.