Quico interacts with chalk drawings and symbols on the walls of his imagined world of Brazilian favelas.

This is a puzzle platformer game in which a large part is learning to harness Monsters emotions, including his addiction to frogs. Papa & Yo is mostly based in an imaginary world created by Quico to understand his reality, however parts of real world make their way into the game as the story progresses. It is a direct allegory for Vander Cabellero's childhood and his father's alcoholism. Many of the themes in the game are standing for real life struggles and occasionally the veil shifts and the game uses accurate graphics to depict what had happened instead of the surreal visuals it usually uses.Papo & Yo (pronounced 'Papo y Yo') was developed by Canadian studio Minority, with Vander Caballero as creative director. The game is an allegory for the teenage years of its creator and what he had to endure under his alcoholic father. The player character is unarmed and all interaction is done by manipulating the environment through levers, simple (but surreal) contraptions or by guiding the monster with fruits.

The city morphs and shifts, sometimes on the player's command, to create or solve puzzles and make new areas accessible. The game is set in a very surreal world modelled after the suburbs of an ordinary South American city. Joining Quico on his journey are Lula, his trusty doll, and the mysterious girl Alejandra. Frogs, that turn the monster violent and angry, whenever it consumes one. His best friend is a huge and dangerous monster which has a terrible addiction to poisonous frogs. In the game, the player character is the young boy Quico. Papo & Yo is a unique puzzle-platforming game with a very personal story.

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