Oh Japan welcome to watchmojo.com
and she’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 super awesome super weird
Japanese games it’s no secret that some
Japanese video games can walk the line
between bizarre and batshit crazy
while we’ve definitely seen enough weird
content to last about a thousand
lifetimes some of that strangeness ends
up being well awesome even if it makes
us bit uncomfortable
[Music]
number ten takeshi’s challenge
some people dream of working on
videogames we’re not sure if that was
the case with this comedian slash actor
/ director Takeshi Kitano
but he certainly has some interesting
ideas both of these commercials were
actually cryptic hints on how to
complete difficult parts of the game the
biggest challenge here is figuring out
what the hell is going on quitting your
job getting a divorce
hitting everyone in your path
nonsensical puzzles none of this made
sense and yet that’s what makes it so
intriguing being able to conquer the
game has become a badge of honour of
sorts is that the entire point well
we’ll probably never know number 9
WarioWare series through this dance you
channel the quiet dignity of a circus
clan Oh Mario you money-hungry
motorcycle-riding farting disaster of a
man you love yeah you’re the exact
opposite of Mario in every way even your
video games are unorganized time wasters
so what’s the point of WarioWare spoiler
there really isn’t one it’s just a
series of micro games strung together
that you have a few seconds to complete
and that’s it and these aren’t exactly
award-winning games we’re talking
flipping eggs jumping rope picking noses
yeah you heard that one right you’ve got
five seconds to pick a note and by the
way it is the most intense five seconds
in Nintendo history all right it’s not
but it’s still fun
number eight mystical ninja starring
Goemon da gamba
while goemon has a slew of games in
Japan he only has a handful in the US
and this n64 classic is undoubtedly the
best one an action-adventure game kinda
similar to the likes of Mario 64 or
Ocarina of Time going on bases villains
who arrive in a peach shaped spaceship
with a dastardly plan to turn Japan into
a theater
oh no not dancers quick to the
rollerskating robot but it’s quirky
humor catchy music and fun gameplay
women may have been odd but he was in
fact awesome number 7 I’m sorry can you
imagine a game like this being released
today here’s the premise Japan’s former
prime minister
Kakui tanaka is out collecting gold bars
and punches whoever gets in his way
he’s not defending the world or even
protecting the country because all he
really cares about here is money while
the title makes you think that he’s
apologizing for his greedy ways it’s
actually a play on the Japanese word for
prime minister sorry we’re not sure if
the balls enos of calling out a former
prime minister is what makes this game
awesome or the fact that some of the
enemies included Madonna and Michael
Jackson
I’m number 6 geek aru man we wish that
more people would solve their problems
with music after all who doesn’t like a
guitar wielding hero with a talking dog
you one was just an ordinary boy with an
unordinary named Vic Thanh my classmates
ignored by his dream girl the only one
who saw his greatness was Puma the
talking dog we just mentioned here you
won Hey
the pup teaches you one how to play
guitar transforms into a boombox and
gifts you one with the legendary guitar
ooh which turns the boy into an epic
guitar playing hero for years before
harmonics ever made a cool number 5
Catherine from here on out
Fraser on your own there’s a guy who’s
uncomfortable with the thought of
marriage who cheats on his girlfriend
did we mentioned that this was developed
by Atlus well cue the weird shit so a
nightmare world where men are sheep
check the main character traversing
strange puzzles and nothing but boxers
and horns check disturbing bosses like
giant babies and weird but creatures
double check your girlfriend being named
Katherine with a cane while the woman
you’re having an affair with is named
Katherine with a C that’s just a
coincidence and also she’s a succubus
with challenging gameplay memorable
characters and an unsettling atmosphere
it’s exactly what we expect from Atlas I
win number 4 see man
because I’m part fish I must be cold
insensitive and creepy with a face like
that you’re likely not gonna forget
about your sea man the way you forgot
about your neo pet ooh
sick burn sea man it may not look so hot
to you but you should see yourselves
through my eyes the sea men are some
sort of strange aquatic species with a
surprisingly in-depth backstory about
reincarnated beings who spread knowledge
across the land but enough about that
let’s tap the glass have a conversation
with our significant others and watch
our seamen interact with one another
well as bizarre as this game is much
like neo pet it sucks you in before you
realize that you’ve been talking to a
man based fish thing for hours we blame
Leonard Nimoy for this yes see Leonard
Nimoy you’ll witness before you a
phenomenon like no other my name is
Leonard Nimoy and I will be your down
know number three eastern mind the lost
souls of Kong No
it would kind of just be easier to play
a clip of this game instead of actually
trying to explain it but here we go
as Rin your soul is stolen by an entire
Island an island that happens to be a
giant floating green head you still with
us kinda okay well RINs friend
yeah Shiro gives him a temporary soul
because that’s what friends do it right
now Rin has 49 days to retrieve his soul
by going inside the head and then the
game just kind of happens that’s the
best way to describe it
whether or not it’s Trippier that Osamu
Sato’s other creation LSD dream emulator
is a question that still plagues us
number 2 Katamari Damacy series
this is probably the most colorfully
addictive game on this list there’s a
plot in there somewhere which the more
flamboyant version of the Burger King
mascot will fill you in on with elegant
words and complete nonsense
then he’ll proceed to obliterate you if
you fail and belittle you if you don’t
succeed up to his standards essentially
get a hundred points or be made to feel
like that piece of gum at the bottom of
your Katamari ball
[Music]
so roll everything up and we mean
everything and then watch as you grow
big enough to roll up the cosmos and
tend the king
before we get to our number one pick
let’s make things awkward with these
honorable mentions number one how to a
full boyfriend just something about
those feathers the sweet pick of the
fine beak and that cooing don’t get me
started in the grand scheme of this
otaku life
there’s boyfriends there’s husbands and
then there’s hatoful boyfriend seriously
how can anyone hate this game it’s a
dating sim with birds we live in an age
where birds have been given in depth
characteristics to the point of actually
caring about your relationship with each
one we’ve said it before and we’ll say
it again Oh Japan the Japanese are wrong
and I don’t want to be right well that
was my look at some hatoful boyfriend do
you agree with our list
what odd Japanese video game to you
keeping your gaming collection
four more strangely awesome top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
okay just getting set up here to stream
some hatoful boyfriend a game where you
find love at a school for birds
[Music]
and she’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 super awesome super weird
Japanese games it’s no secret that some
Japanese video games can walk the line
between bizarre and batshit crazy
while we’ve definitely seen enough weird
content to last about a thousand
lifetimes some of that strangeness ends
up being well awesome even if it makes
us bit uncomfortable
[Music]
number ten takeshi’s challenge
some people dream of working on
videogames we’re not sure if that was
the case with this comedian slash actor
/ director Takeshi Kitano
but he certainly has some interesting
ideas both of these commercials were
actually cryptic hints on how to
complete difficult parts of the game the
biggest challenge here is figuring out
what the hell is going on quitting your
job getting a divorce
hitting everyone in your path
nonsensical puzzles none of this made
sense and yet that’s what makes it so
intriguing being able to conquer the
game has become a badge of honour of
sorts is that the entire point well
we’ll probably never know number 9
WarioWare series through this dance you
channel the quiet dignity of a circus
clan Oh Mario you money-hungry
motorcycle-riding farting disaster of a
man you love yeah you’re the exact
opposite of Mario in every way even your
video games are unorganized time wasters
so what’s the point of WarioWare spoiler
there really isn’t one it’s just a
series of micro games strung together
that you have a few seconds to complete
and that’s it and these aren’t exactly
award-winning games we’re talking
flipping eggs jumping rope picking noses
yeah you heard that one right you’ve got
five seconds to pick a note and by the
way it is the most intense five seconds
in Nintendo history all right it’s not
but it’s still fun
number eight mystical ninja starring
Goemon da gamba
while goemon has a slew of games in
Japan he only has a handful in the US
and this n64 classic is undoubtedly the
best one an action-adventure game kinda
similar to the likes of Mario 64 or
Ocarina of Time going on bases villains
who arrive in a peach shaped spaceship
with a dastardly plan to turn Japan into
a theater
oh no not dancers quick to the
rollerskating robot but it’s quirky
humor catchy music and fun gameplay
women may have been odd but he was in
fact awesome number 7 I’m sorry can you
imagine a game like this being released
today here’s the premise Japan’s former
prime minister
Kakui tanaka is out collecting gold bars
and punches whoever gets in his way
he’s not defending the world or even
protecting the country because all he
really cares about here is money while
the title makes you think that he’s
apologizing for his greedy ways it’s
actually a play on the Japanese word for
prime minister sorry we’re not sure if
the balls enos of calling out a former
prime minister is what makes this game
awesome or the fact that some of the
enemies included Madonna and Michael
Jackson
I’m number 6 geek aru man we wish that
more people would solve their problems
with music after all who doesn’t like a
guitar wielding hero with a talking dog
you one was just an ordinary boy with an
unordinary named Vic Thanh my classmates
ignored by his dream girl the only one
who saw his greatness was Puma the
talking dog we just mentioned here you
won Hey
the pup teaches you one how to play
guitar transforms into a boombox and
gifts you one with the legendary guitar
ooh which turns the boy into an epic
guitar playing hero for years before
harmonics ever made a cool number 5
Catherine from here on out
Fraser on your own there’s a guy who’s
uncomfortable with the thought of
marriage who cheats on his girlfriend
did we mentioned that this was developed
by Atlus well cue the weird shit so a
nightmare world where men are sheep
check the main character traversing
strange puzzles and nothing but boxers
and horns check disturbing bosses like
giant babies and weird but creatures
double check your girlfriend being named
Katherine with a cane while the woman
you’re having an affair with is named
Katherine with a C that’s just a
coincidence and also she’s a succubus
with challenging gameplay memorable
characters and an unsettling atmosphere
it’s exactly what we expect from Atlas I
win number 4 see man
because I’m part fish I must be cold
insensitive and creepy with a face like
that you’re likely not gonna forget
about your sea man the way you forgot
about your neo pet ooh
sick burn sea man it may not look so hot
to you but you should see yourselves
through my eyes the sea men are some
sort of strange aquatic species with a
surprisingly in-depth backstory about
reincarnated beings who spread knowledge
across the land but enough about that
let’s tap the glass have a conversation
with our significant others and watch
our seamen interact with one another
well as bizarre as this game is much
like neo pet it sucks you in before you
realize that you’ve been talking to a
man based fish thing for hours we blame
Leonard Nimoy for this yes see Leonard
Nimoy you’ll witness before you a
phenomenon like no other my name is
Leonard Nimoy and I will be your down
know number three eastern mind the lost
souls of Kong No
it would kind of just be easier to play
a clip of this game instead of actually
trying to explain it but here we go
as Rin your soul is stolen by an entire
Island an island that happens to be a
giant floating green head you still with
us kinda okay well RINs friend
yeah Shiro gives him a temporary soul
because that’s what friends do it right
now Rin has 49 days to retrieve his soul
by going inside the head and then the
game just kind of happens that’s the
best way to describe it
whether or not it’s Trippier that Osamu
Sato’s other creation LSD dream emulator
is a question that still plagues us
number 2 Katamari Damacy series
this is probably the most colorfully
addictive game on this list there’s a
plot in there somewhere which the more
flamboyant version of the Burger King
mascot will fill you in on with elegant
words and complete nonsense
then he’ll proceed to obliterate you if
you fail and belittle you if you don’t
succeed up to his standards essentially
get a hundred points or be made to feel
like that piece of gum at the bottom of
your Katamari ball
[Music]
so roll everything up and we mean
everything and then watch as you grow
big enough to roll up the cosmos and
tend the king
before we get to our number one pick
let’s make things awkward with these
honorable mentions number one how to a
full boyfriend just something about
those feathers the sweet pick of the
fine beak and that cooing don’t get me
started in the grand scheme of this
otaku life
there’s boyfriends there’s husbands and
then there’s hatoful boyfriend seriously
how can anyone hate this game it’s a
dating sim with birds we live in an age
where birds have been given in depth
characteristics to the point of actually
caring about your relationship with each
one we’ve said it before and we’ll say
it again Oh Japan the Japanese are wrong
and I don’t want to be right well that
was my look at some hatoful boyfriend do
you agree with our list
what odd Japanese video game to you
keeping your gaming collection
four more strangely awesome top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
okay just getting set up here to stream
some hatoful boyfriend a game where you
find love at a school for birds
[Music]
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