"Shrek 5", which has not been heard from for ten years, is now "taken away" in Steam

Since its inception in 1994, DreamWorks Studios has presented audiences with many classic animation works, such as Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon.

Personally, my favorite is the Shrek series. Since the first film came out in 2001, this unusual green monster has been attracting everyone's attention. After the release of four canons and a spin-off film, the series disappeared. The fifth part has been delayed, and its release date is also uncertain, delayed again and again.

Recently, however, everyone was surprised to find that this long-awaited "new work" actually appeared last year, but it is not a movie shown on the movie screen, but a game on Steam.

Bait and switch?

When I first saw this so-called Shrek 5, I began to think that something was wrong with it. In the cover image, which is grossly out of proportion to the screen, Shrek has an innocent expression and looks ahead in a daze, as if to apologize in advance to those who want to try.

After starting the game, the next screen confirms this ominous premonition: what appears on the screen is not Shrek, but a game called Scram.

Since the names are not correct, the next content has nothing to do with Shrek: birth, picking up things, shooting explosions. If it weren't for the pictures and names of the Steam interface, you wouldn't have been able to relate this somewhat rudimentary-looking shooter to the famous Shrek.

After discovering that the game they were playing had been "skinned", scram players began to post surprised posts in the community, hoping that the developers would quickly restore the game.

"What about my game?" "How did scram become Shrek 5?"

While everyone was anxiously waiting, steam's official anti-piracy iron fist came first. Apparently, this copycat Shrek 5 neither cooperated with DreamWorks nor obtained the relevant licenses. As a result, players quickly discovered that scram, which had become Shrek 5 in their library, was officially locked and removed from the store.

Although scram is very simple to play and the graphics are even a little rudimentary, the pure shooting and explosion experience still makes it attract some fans. The news of the game's direct removal made them very stunned, and in Steam and the community, fans began to get together in addition to disappointment, exploring why developers wanted to make this strange joke with everyone.

"Why would a developer do this to Scram?"

But there was no result in the discussion, and the developers of the game never explained the matter, so everyone finally came to the conclusion that "the developer may just want to make a joke". Scram itself disappeared into steam's vast game and was completely forgotten by most players.

How does the Old Terrier King come to life?

Looking at the whole thing, in addition to the fact that the plot of "Scram" being skinned is a bit nonsensical, the high popularity of the "Shrek" series itself is also an important factor that can be known to everyone. As the famous old "Terrier King", this is not the first time Shrek has been out of the circle.

When "Shrek" was first released, this movie, which was a tribute from head to toe, successfully conquered the audience at that time and won everyone's love with the subversion and spoofing of everyone's classic impression.

In the movie, for example, the seven dwarfs, who should have been carefree, became victims of oppression.

Pinocchio, who was supposed to live with his father, was abandoned by his old father for five shillings and became a prisoner of the soldiers.

The person standing in front of the magic mirror changed from an evil queen to a chattering dwarf king.

As this work was loved by more people, some people began to use the harmless Shrek of humans and animals to create a rotten stem, almost making it a source of evil that everyone avoided;

In 2013, a user posted a post titled "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" on the famous foreign anonymous forum 4chan, although the title is very warm, but the content surprised everyone. In the story, a 9-year-old boy who is obsessed with Shrek begins to pray to Shrek after arguing with his father. Shrek, who answered the prayer, walked away after doing something indescribable to the little boy.

"I prayed to Shrek, and then he appeared in front of me..."

This post, which now seems very evil, did not have much attention at first. After a community made the story into a video of the same name and posted it online, things began to turn crooked. Relying on the high popularity of Shrek itself, this "children's cult" soon became the object of unanimous accusation and scorn. After the community was blocked and the video was taken down, the matter came to an end.

Someone deliberately organized the up master of YouTube to watch this video and explain its harm through everyone's reaction

Although Shrek has been synonymous with rotten stems for a while, for more people, this does not prevent them from crazy love for Shrek, and many people are in love and carry out various activities.

In 2014, the news that "someone will hold a Shrek Festival in the United States" began to go viral online. While it quickly proved to be a well-intentioned joke, the idea quickly became a reality with the full support of a veteran filmmaker and avid fan, Duffrin.

People began to get together to celebrate this festival that belongs only to Shrek fans through performances, fun competitions, and cosplay.

In addition to offline activities, with the epidemic of the new crown epidemic in recent years, online secondary content has become the new main force of Shrek Festival.

Although there are both stream-of-consciousness abstractions and first-class live-action performances in fuhuadao, the content of these unevenly layered two creations is consistent with the Shrek film itself: he is not a monster, just the kindest side of people's hearts.

Today, Shrek will also use the annual "Shrek Festival" and the spoof news of being skinned by "scram" to bounce in everyone's field of vision from time to time. But compared to these peripheral news, I would like to ask a question:

When will Shrek 5 be released?