ショック！
Posted on June 2, 2004
SPECIAL COMBO UPDATE!!1!
So my old journal thing was on a server that exploded like a thousand lonely suns, but some raw text entries recently got recovered, so here follows the only worthwhile one:
So there’s a really weird series of games out there. Cho Aniki. There is no way to explain how these games are, you must experience them. The most..tame(?) entry is the semi-offshoot shmup Gynoug. You’re a little angel guy shooting things and one of the bosses is well…strange looking. Next we go to Ai Cho Aniki. By this point you might guess Cho Aniki means “super big brother.” The series takes a total turn into left field (as if we could get any stranger) with Cho Aniki Cho Bakuretsu Hen. Its a-ok, its still a flying game I guess. But its also a fighting game. The speedo quotient goes way down, but only to make room for more insane characters. We get another little twist with Gourmet Sentai Bara Yarou, a Final Fight styled battler where you make food. You also get a pose button. POSE DOWN!!! The latest edition (on PS2 no less) is Cho Aniki Sei Naru Protein Densetsu. You have to protect a protein…man from all the big muscle men that fill the game. Wow.
Apparently there is just a genre of games in Japan called “kuso-ge” or literally “shit games.” These are games made specifically to be bad, which is like…totally up my alley. Just because they are considered “shitty games” doesn’t really mean they’re bad. Part of the appeal is the badness. There are some games that are just horrid, with no redeeming value. Some of the old WWF games (In Your House to be specific) spring to mind. Then again, thats probably just my perception. To someone, its a kuso-ge thats totally worth playing. And isn’t that what makes the world go ’round?
emily
On June 4, 2004 at 10:42
i used this in that paper i wrote about you last year. i got an A.