Gorgeous Games of 2012: Papo & Yo

We’ve gotten to this point where graphical fidelity can only take you so far: To make a visually memorable game, you have to have a imagination as well.

The Magical Realist favelas of Papo & Yo had that in spades.

Continuing in our series of cinemagraphs of some of 2012’s most gorgeous games is Papo & Yo: a little game who’s visual beauty is found not in big-budget effects, but in the subtlety of it’s expression.

Originally written and published by Chris Person at Kotaku. Click here to read the original story.