What exact percentage of unacknowledged irony is it when a digital game wants to sing the praises of paper-based art in the context of a story about fighting off a "blight" of digital creatures?
If you were serious about that moral, Hirogami, you'd actually be printed on hammered-down treemulch. I decry thee, pretender!
You're one of the very electronic critters you want me to battle. On the other hand, you do let me transform into an origami armadillo which can roll around like a pinball.
Here's the announcement trailer. "Hirogami is a 3D action platformer inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami (paper folding)," explains the Steam page. "Everything you encounter has been crafted to convey the physical, often fragile, natural world of paper, amidst a story interwoven with threads of wistful intrigue." You play Hiro, a valiant sheet of paper with the ability to transform into a lanky jumpman, a ground-pounding frog, a block-pulling ape and more besides.
Your job is to "cleanse the mind-warped inhabitants" of a world whose "delicate natural balance" has been swayed by the aforesaid blight. "Explore every nook and cranny and discover all the world's hidden secrets," the Steam blurb continues. "Unfold into a sheet of paper to ride fiery updrafts, or to slide under deadly traps.