I’m Sorry: 7 Bizarre Video Games Courtesy Of Japan

Oh, man, Japan. Yes, Japan remains a source of bewildered amusement for peering western eyes. Sure, a lot of what we think about Japan is probably a load of old hyperbole, but it's not just the neon lights, dinner-serving robots, and school girls that throw about the peace sign like it's the actual law that makes Japan seem so at odds with western civilisation... it's the strange and otherworldly practices that the country seems to embrace as if they're, like, normal.

T.J. Barnard

Published: Dec 6, 2012 01:00 pm

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6) Muscle March (2009) (Wii)

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Muscle March is an exercise in insanity, a Japanese video game so “Japanese” in its makeup that it might be used as propaganda against the country should a war break out or something. Muscle March can only be described as a “super-camp racing game”, one in which you play as a choice of semi-naked bodybuilders (or, if you like, a Norwegian polar bear) whose objective is to make holes in walls as you speed around tracks so colorful that even Hello Kitty! would vomit.

Eventually, you’ll have to squeeze through these same holes using motions from your Wii Remote. Besides that, the whole game is drenched in a bizarre, flamboyant atmosphere, and is set in a world where a Giraffe is telling you what to do. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Giraffes are people too. Except they’re not.

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