Thanks to my Racketboy Secret Santa, I have been enjoying all of the BIT.TRIP games. BIT.TRIP RUNNER is my favorite, but they are all have an "Atari 2600 on angel dust" aesthetic.
Also - and I am surprised that no one has mentioned it - Killer7 is a very odd game.
EDIT: I would also nominate the last few hours of Metal Gear Solid 2. Without spoiling it, I will say that the game went delightfully off the rails at the very end...
The whole game is dreamlike and surreal... but there is one particular part where you fall into a pool of water but end up at a sunken highway with a car crash, however you're never quite sure if it happened to you in the past or is happening in now.
The Sega Saturn is home to many of these. Nights into Dreams should be high up on that list.
Several levels in Darius Gaiden have trippy backgrounds, along with the chill techno music, and the fact that your fighting giant mechanical space fish.
Gamerforlife wrote:If this doesn't sound like drug induced dialog I don't know what does
Nick - "Juliette, where do those rainbows when you slice zombies in half with your chainsaw come from?"
Juliette - "From awesome"
Sounds a lot more like shitty writing from a twelve year old more than anything else.
Says the guy adding Kingdom Hearts to the thread (if you want to talk about shitty writing from a twelve year old) and citing a game based off of Disney kids movies as "trippy"
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:
EDIT: I would also nominate the last few hours of Metal Gear Solid 2. Without spoiling it, I will say that the game went delightfully off the rails at the very end...
I didn't have the patience to sit through the 30 minute cutscenes when I tried MGS2 despite the fact that I loved the first one, but I've got to say that some of the codec conversations I've seen on youtube definately fit the bill. It's that dreamlike surreal athmosphere, cryptic dialogue and things like that what I am looking for, not just games that are visually weird. I haven't played Lollipop Chainsaw yet so I can't personally judge it, but I remember that Yahtzee said in his review of it that it felt kind of forced at times, ie the game tries too hard to be weird and crazy. Coming from a guy who has said in one of his other reviews that Killer 7 is one of his all time favorite games.
My WTB thread (Sega CD/Saturn games)
Also looking to buy: Ys III (TG-16 CD), Shadowrun (Genesis) Hori N64 mini pad and Slayer (3DO) in long box/just the long box
prfsnl_gmr wrote:
EDIT: I would also nominate the last few hours of Metal Gear Solid 2. Without spoiling it, I will say that the game went delightfully off the rails at the very end...
I didn't have the patience to sit through the 30 minute cutscenes when I tried MGS2 despite the fact that I loved the first one, but I've got to say that some of the codec conversations I've seen on youtube definately fit the bill. It's that dreamlike surreal athmosphere, cryptic dialogue and things like that what I am looking for, not just games that are visually weird. I haven't played Lollipop Chainsaw yet so I can't personally judge it, but I remember that Yahtzee said in his review of it that it felt kind of forced at times, ie the game tries too hard to be weird and crazy. Coming from a guy who has said in one of his other reviews that Killer 7 is one of his all time favorite games.
Yahtzee has good reviews, but you do need to take most things with a grain of salt He only views games on the extreme ends of amazing or horrible. All the games he calls bad, he generally points out the main flaws and picks one or two that really grind on him and capitalize on those for the rest of the review. Like I said, with a grain of salt.
