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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Cho Aniki
Have you heard of the Cho Aniki shoot-em-up game series? I never did. But with the release of the first game in the series (Cho Aniki for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 CD) yesterday on the US Wii Virtual Console I was pleasantly exposed to this surreal Japanified gaming series.
Cho Aniki is a slightly creepy/funny game where you fly around as a regular looking dude or girl shooting stuff. It's kind of like Gradius or Life Force but you're controlling a shooting person instead of a shooting spaceship. Beyond the atypical visuals and music, the game is through and through a traditional shoot-em-up. About the weirdest thing is a powerup where you have two musclebound dudes with lasers shooting from their heads helping you kill enemies.
Those musclebound dudes were popular enough that they became the focal point of a sequel called Ai Cho Aniki. That's where things got fascinatingly weird. As you control one of the 2 muscle dudes, he does muscle flexing poses that shoot sparkles at enemies over some of the intentionally cheesiest J-Pop tracks you could ever imagine. Subsequent sequels became weirder and crazier with many half naked baddies shooting strange things like pee pee rays and bulgy-eyed fish with flexed biceps.
Since us Americans just got the first game on the Wii Virtual Console, I'm crossing my fingers that we'll get the wackier second one. I can only hope!
Ai Cho Aniki (The Musclebound sequel):
Sega Saturn Version (Japan Only):
The Less Interesting Original (Available via Wii Virtual Console in EU, US, and JP):
Comments
ZEES
Monday, September 15, 2008
Is there really anything better than homoerotic space shooters?
I absolutely want a Wii now if you can play this game on it.
Muttpop Bob
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
GOBI:
I had a feeling you'd dig this. I'm postive it was an influence on Katamari Damacy. Look at those faces!
Rawls:
I've been practicing. ALMOST there!
-MPB
Rawls
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I wish sparkles flew out of my muscles when I flexed. :(
GOBI
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
INCREDIBLE, probably the best game concept I've ever seen, I was already a great fan of a weird konami shooting game called parodius that inspired me a lot in my work, but this one geez !!!.....
Actually i'm quite hysteric seeing the first vidéo because the soudtrack is from denki groove, my favourite band (I have a denki tatoo on my arm), I almost have the enormous discography of Denki Groove, but I was always wondering from where the "aniki" tracks was coming from, seeing the visual concept of the game i'm now wondering if denki groove didn't take a part in the design, because it's quite close of their universe.
anyway, thank you to put the light on this stuff, it puts a light on my day.