It is then explained that Leg Horse's brother has been corrupt as well, and the group is ambushed by '20th Century Boy', the corrupt version of Leg Horse's brother. It is eventually learned upon visiting Leg Horse's former home that he was once 'Prince Horrace', the ruler of the game prior to the 'Great Change'. The player eventually passes through the Blood Cavern, a cave housing the game's first boss, the Blood Ghoul, and arrives in the City of Thieves, a city home to a vast array of criminals (who have a strong weakness to bibles). Phillip departs the village, and soon meets up with Leg Horse, a horse made of severed legs who is later revealed to have formerly been Prince Horace, the prince of Space Funeral's world. The wizard states that the only hope for survival is to find the City of Forms, a perfect city from which all things in the game's world originates. Space Funeral begins with Phillip, a perpetually crying pajama-clad purple boy, seeing a wizard in Scum Vullage who tells him that his world has been 'corrupted' and it does not have long left. The game also has quirky status effects, such as 'buff' and 'sad' along with more typical ones, such as 'poisoned.' Certain enemies have absurd weaknesses such as silent films making some of them sentimental. This ability closely resembles 'praying' in Earthbound but with a far greater and more prevalent narrative focus. The game plays like a typical 2D turn-based role-playing game (RPG), although a 'Mystery' function that can only be used once per battle has effects unique to each enemy variety the function is utilized on. Throughout the game, players repeatedly encounter twisted, and often bloody creatures which take the place of non-playable characters (NPCs) in the game's world. Players control Phillip (and during sections following the game's first major area, Leg Horse) as he departs from his home in Scum Vullage to search for the City of Forms, a city described as the origin of everything within the game's world. Space Funeral is notable for its parodies of the horror and role-playing game genres, its crude art style, and frequent use of blood in dialogue, graphics, and thematics. The short game was created using RPG Maker 2003, and centers around a boy named Phillip, who leaves home to save his world from a mysterious corruption. Space Funeral is an independently created role-playing video game and art game by Irish developer thecatamites, Stephen Gillmurphy.

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