Question 1: Why do some customers change their appearances?

Answer 1: In books, cartoons and video games, character evolution is bound to happen, and we totally embrace that idea here at Flipline Studios. It’s always interesting to look back on how characters change with time like early black-and-white Mickey Mouse cartoons or a pixelated “jumpman” who would soon become Super Mario. We feel the world of Papa Louie is alive and moving forward. The customers are like everyday people, trying out new hairstyles, getting new jobs, or dropping everything to pursue a lifelong dream.

Question 2: Why doesn’t Papa Louie or his customers talk?

Answer 2: The main reason why Papa Louie and his customers don’t talk is simply file size. Music and sound effects files are very large, while webgames need to be fairly small in file size. So when making a game for the web, we have to strategically choose just how much sound and music we can fit into the game before it gets too big. It would also be very complicated and potentially budget breaking to find quality voice actors for the 70+ customers we have. Plus now that we have gone so long without voice acting, we feel our fans already have imaginary voices for the customers, and if we tried to add voices now, it might be too jarring and weird. Much like how Link never speaks in Zelda games. But who knows, in the future files size might not be a factor, and voice acting might fit into a budget.

Question 3: Is Sarge ever going to seek revenge on Papa Louie and/or his restaurants?

Answer 3: Sarge has been out of action for a while! One of our early ideas for Papa’s Pizzeria was to have more elements of the “food world” like the onion enemies crossing over into the restaurant world, but in the end we decided to keep them separate, so he hasn’t made an appearance since the original Papa Louie game. Sarge does make a cameo as the mascot of the Oniontown Crushers baseball team in Papa’s Hot Doggeria though. A few years ago, we were actually planning to give Sarge his very own game where he would gather troops of onions to make his comeback. We had to stop working on the game when Remnants of Skystone filled up our schedule, but maybe someday he’ll make his triumphant return!

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