Pixel art of Skid, Pump, The Eyes of the Universe, Moloch and Dexter Erotoph (?) in the Plok style, attached to a tweet by Sr Pelo thanking SilvaGunner for making Spooky Month in Plok

just made this

might work on it later

Oh no, you're controlling the protagonist! They aren't in control of their actions- no, wait, they are, they just let you control them because they're lazy and if you try to do something they wouldn't want you too, they just refuse.

The characters all know they're in a game, but they don't mind, they prefer it in here instead of out there because they're comfortable. Hey, it's real to them.

I'd imagine the plot is similar to that of Plok!: simple, yet absurd. For reference: an angry little man made of clothes that think's he's the king runs around killing fleas because someone stole his flag. Imagine THAT but a Meta Game.

Y'know what, I think this would be perfect for a video game adaptation of Garfield. Not the mildly butchered CGI Garf from the Frank Welker (The Garfield Show & the Garfield Gets Real DTV Trilogy) era, but the Garf from the Lorenzo Music (Garfield and Friends & Garfield TV Specials) era.

Imagine a high-quality Garfield Meta RPG that parodies the likes of Undertale, Deltarune, Off, and In Stars and Time. I'd play way too much of that.

Imagine they pack it full of Mythology Gags. There's a chapter that takes place on U.S. Acres, there's a side quest for Lyman, there's a secret boss fight against Binky the Clown, or maybe the Buddy Bears. They could have Arlene and her expy Penelope meet, same with Squeaks and Floyd. There'd be a sequence that parallels that arc of Halloween comics that made everyone theorize that Garfield was a schizophrenic or dead all along for YEARS. That'd be nuts.

What would the final boss be? Du-dum... THE NETWORK (or the alien lasagna folks from The Garfield Show if they feel like playing it safe).