And compared to the enormous industry that is Minecraft-related merchandising, a character skin pack almost seems quaint by comparison.

In the end, who am I to judge? Sometimes a kid just wants to dress up their little block-person avatar as a Chocobo. Running for top spot in the weirdness rankings is probably The official Stranger Things pack (covering both seasons, Ghostbusters costumes and all), with the Doctor Who and Magic: The Gathering packs coming in second and third. Of course, this is nowhere near the strangest skin pack to be produced for Minecraft - it's a fairly iconic bundle of broadly liked characters from a presently popular game. Yes, the gigantic sea-serpent, now balanced precariously on two tiny stubby little fin-legs.

While some of the secondary villains are less recognizable when boiled down to a handful of bricks, most are immediately familiar, up to and including some more esoteric choices such as Leviathan. Much as it would behoove me to be a grumpy old git and roll my eyes at this silliness, I must admit that they've gone above and beyond with this skin pack. In this case, it's the boys, girls and monsters of Final Fantasy XV, as they make a cameo appearance in the Windows 10/Cross-platform edition of the game. Every now and then, something recognizable pokes out of a window and you're forced to re-assess your outlook on the world. Like a towering skyscraper, the mind stops recognizing it as a place for humans to inhabit, and it just becomes part of the landscape. Minecraft is a strange phenomenon in gaming.

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