ESRB Rates Cho Aniki Zero "T" for "Man Juice"

[The_root_of_all_evil]

This seems odd to me. Well, far more than odd but hear me out.

This is a Japanese game, if I'm getting the vibe right but it talks of over-muscled, over-oiled men...which apart from Sumotori, I doubt exist in Japan at all.

So where did they get these ideas from? Baywatch?

 

[Scrythe]

Would anyone expect any less from the Cho Aniki series? Every single game featured all kinds of weird shit like this. Seriously, just do a quick search on YouTube and bring plenty of mental bleach.

I first heard of it from this [http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/naughty05.htm] article, and it serves as a constant reminder that no matter what anybody in the world makes, there will always be a group of Japanese guys who will go to great lengths to make it weirder.

 

[Jared]

To quote the great Desmond Miles: "What the fuck?"

Indeed! Only in Japan could something like this make sense lol.

Although I admit the title is still giving me giggles now

 

[Dogmeat T Dingo]

I really think speedos should be banned...

Only on guys who can't pull off the look, IMHO.

 

[Bat Vader]

AHHH NO!
I THOUGH I HAD FINALLY FORGOTTEN YOU!
NOOOOOOOOO!
(Seriously, this game is messed up, just watching a vid of it on Cinimatech freaked me out)

I remember that show, when TechTV used to be good.

On Topic:This game is rated T and Jack Thompson hasn't said anything about it? It looks like the gaming world is improving.

This game looks really weird.

 

[HuntrRose]

Gay much?

 

[Jandau]

I'm imagining two of the developers talking to each other at the games release, stone-faced, saying "We will never speak of this again. Deal?"

Cho Aniki is a whole series of games so I'm guessing they spoke about it, again and again...

 

[jamesworkshop]

I wonder if Rammstein played cho aniki before they made the video for "mann gegan mann"

 

[BehattedWanderer]

? What...the...?

Wow. I'm just...speechless. That poor ESRB bastard...

 

[Archemetis]

I want to play this.
It sounds hilarious.

 

[Racistman3d]

This game looks like it's going in my shameful games that I play section but don't want anyone else to know about....

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

What's this "Muscle March"?

Is it anything like this?

Edit: I did a search. TO WIIWARE!

 

[Leroy Frederick]

Yeah, this game is pretty gay but it would also make a great joke gift to get for someone on at Christmas or on their Bday that isn't into man-muscles, speedo's and the all important man-juice.

I did a blog which included this and muscle march. I also included a youtube video called Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend to the list, which while I don't think it's Japanese, it's certainly in the same vein and flavour in terms of gayness stroke hilarious weirdness (3rd in the list)
http://mostlydailyfeedly.blogspot.com/2009/12/only-in-japan-daily-feedly-muscle-bound.html

 

[matrix3509]

Meh, this is pretty much par for the course in Japan.

 

[Allan Foe]

I did a blog which included this and muscle march. I also included a youtube video called Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend to the list, which while I don't think it's Japanese, it's certainly in the same vein and flavour in terms of gayness stroke hilarious weirdness (3rd in the list)
http://mostlydailyfeedly.blogspot.com/2009/12/only-in-japan-daily-feedly-muscle-bound.html

The Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend is obviously Japanese as it includes a lot of memes and in-jokes that only Nico Nico Douga [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Nico_Douga] users would understand. The naked men riding each other in that video are obviously a reference to Billy Herrington [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Herrington], the girl with the steamroller is Vocaloid Rin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rin_Kagamine#Kagamine_Rin_and_Len] and the cacophony in the background is a mash-up of sound from the popular videos relating to these two.
I know things no sane nerd should know!

Japanese find muscle-bound westerners and gay stereotypes associated with them invariably amusing, it's a cultural thing.

 

[Vinticore]

...Fap fap fap?

 

[_Cake_]

I already love this game.

 

[Flour]

I'm not surprised that it's bad, but is it really that bad?

The graphics suck, the music is horrible and the gameplay is average at best. But it's like an accident or an Uwe Boll movie, people know it's horrible but for some reason you can't stop looking at it, so these things will be bought as long as they're made.

 

[bobknowsall]

I'm not surprised that it's bad, but is it really that bad?

The graphics suck, the music is horrible and the gameplay is average at best. But it's like an accident or an Uwe Boll movie, people know it's horrible but for some reason you can't stop looking at it, so these things will be bought as long as they're made.

Ah, so my suspicions were correct. Man, they do sound pretty godawful. It'll be fun to see how the critics over here react, though.

 

[Poomanchu745]

Best game ever? I think so people...i think so.