Just Cause 4’s best trailer stars a clumsy Japanese otter mascot

You’ll have seen those Just Cause 4 trailers, yeah? Explosions, clips of dramatic dialogue, Inception bwamps, music building to a drop… video game trailer stuff, right? Turns out, Just Cause 4 has a wholly delightful strand of marketing too, for Japan. Chiitan, the energetic but accident-prone otter mascot of Tokyo’s Akihabara district, stars in a series of videos attempting to recreate the dramatic stunts of Rico Rodriguez and… they do not go well. It is good when they do not go well. I am glad when the otter’s hopes and dreams crash into the realities of swinging on grappling hooks, running through storms, and gliding with a wingsuit.

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