missfabb said:
freshly-picked tingle's rosey rupeeland is pretty strange .
That's just because you can't accept that a carpenter would wear spandex and hump the air when he successfully builds a bridge. Or that any amount of money would be enough to convince someone to hang out with Tingle.
Meanwhile, I'll repeat my answer from the very similar thread in the other consoles forum.
You see, back in the day (that would be the 1980's that I'm referring to, for the record) we didn't normally have things like the internet or even usually computers to check out the viability of a game. We had Nintendo Power, and we had the box to the game. And if you were lucky, a friend who already had the game.
Anyways, I would every once and a while buy a new Nintendo game. And I was (and always will be) as big a fan of horror as of video games. Imagine my 10 year old impressionable mind walking into a supermarket, and seeing a game that had Dracula and Gillman on the cover, hanging out with several other unidentifiable, lovecraftian beasties. And it was called
"Monster Party". Oh, this game had to be awesome!.
I was in no way prepared for what I was in for. The opening has a typical Japanese kid walking home in his short-shorts from little league. A big purple bird-man in armor appears like a scary predator (the Dateline kind) and whisks him away to fight bad guys on his far off planet. This is done through playing the platformer as the kid with just his small wiffleball bat swinging at such miscreants as electrified schoolboys and butts sticking out of the ground, while the platforms laugh at you. Occasionally you'll find pills to pop that transform you into the bird, who can fly and shoot motherfunking lasers from his eyes. Also, you have to go into random doors on the levels to fight bosses. Fight all of them, and you get the key to the next level. The first boss starts out as a bleeding onion ring that hops around after you while in the background the teleporter from the 80's version of "The Fly" sits for no apparent reason. As the battle drags on, the "monster" morphs into the whole TGIFridays appetizer sampler. The second boss you encounter apologizes, as it's already dead. Complete with a fly buzzing around the room.
The game only continues to get stranger as it goes. To the point you realize that the game is deliberately trying to eff with you.