Why is Garten of Banban a Literary Masterpiece? An Analysis. I'll write a full essay on this eventually, but here's just one point of my thesis. Also, spoiler warning for chapter 3. This game cares deeply in expanding and building upon its characters, giving them depth and humanizing them beyond just spooky monsters, experiments, or dead children like some franchises. Over these past 3 chapters, the Euphoric Brothers have put careful work into not only introducing us to new characters and planting seeds for their development, but into making it's cast of characters into people with desires, motivations, and flaws. This series does an amazing job at displaying three types of villains, something that Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, another recent piece of media, was said to have been a masterpiece for. These two stories both convey sympathetic villains, evil villains, and forces of nature. For example, Big Jack Horner is a villain who exists only to oppose the protagonists, this is the same case for Tamalaki & Chamalaki (the chameleon/turtle thing). Their only purpose is to oppose you, proving an obstacle preventing you from connecting and bonding with some of the more sympathetic villains. However, their fate after falling into the abyss is unknown, and therefore it's currently unseen if they get redeemed in future chapters. Banbaleena is also an example of this type of villain. She’s given no reason for what she does, but she’s not entirely evil either. She has her reasons, but we don’t know them, and she still chooses to do overtly bad things like killing the player. However she’ll also work together when needed, such as in Jumbo Josh’s prison, where she works with the player to escape. This series also has a wide array of sympathetic villains. Starting with the first introduced, Nabnab. Nabnab is a blue spider with a huge mouth full of teeth, and first seen in chapter two. His presence is slo