Death looks a little different in Tuesday. Instead of the standard appearance of a cloaked, skeletal man, this Grim Reaper takes the form of a parrot, albeit one that’s grungy, filthy, and looks like he’s halfway dead too.

Grudgingly, Death (voiced by Arinzé Kene) makes his way from one victim to the next, called to each person by their dying words. Those words never stop, echoing in Death’s head like constant white noise, until one day, Death arrives to kill Tuesday (Lola Petticrew), a terminally ill teenager whose lungs are about to give out.

Realizing that she’s staring Death right in the face, Tuesday suddenly interrupts his creeping approach with a joke about a car full of penguins. Death laughs, and the voices stop. And thus begins the odd, lovely, and enchantingly strange directorial debut from Daina O. Pusić.

The Nintendo DS Lite is, to this date, the most popular handheld that Nintendo has ever made. It’s arrival in June 2006 couldn’t have come at a better time for Nintendo.

The worm had turned on the storied developer’s inventive, family-friendly gameplay in favor of the mature and increasingly online gaming experiences offered on the PlayStation and Xbox; the GameCube wasn’t really cutting it.

But despite losing the home console battle to the PS2 and Xbox, Nintendo continued to win with handhelds. The DS represented a clear alternative path away from where the industry was heading, and the sleeker and more DS Lite was proof the dual-screen handheld could be popular if the hardware looked more like an Apple-designed gadget and less like a toy.