Puppeteer (PS3).

The 2D perspective allows Japan Studio to be especially lavish with the sets, realising the animation, characters and backdrops with exceptional detail. “I hate 3D cameras,” says Moore. “It takes a really, really good coder to get a very good camera working in a game. Here, it’s fixed – and it meant that suddenly we had all this CPU power we could use to create other things, like full theatrical lighting and real-time shadows.” In the absence of a camera, the right stick controls Yin Yang, a flying witch’s cat with headlamps for eyes who accompanies Kutaro for this early part of the game, mewing advice in Cheshire-cat-style honeyed tones.

Unlike many artistically inventive 2D platformers of our time, Puppeteer isn’t a digital-only release. “It’s a full-release blu-ray disc, so expect the amount of content that you’d expect from that. It’s more than you would imagine, I will say that,” Moore confirms.