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Tomato, Sony Announce PS2 Title, Other Weirdness?

Posted by simoniker on from the mmm-playstation-i-love-you dept.

Thanks to Game Science for printing details of UK design house Tomato's forthcoming Sony Music Japan-published PlayStation 2 title, an abstract "software toy" called 'wordimagesoundplay'. Tomato, who include members of electronic music group (and soundtrack authors) Underworld, says the abstract title "is not a goal-driven experience." Meanwhile, 1UP has an in-depth feature on Sony Japan's weirdest self-published PlayStation 2 games, including such memorable titles as Space Fisherman ("[a] space fishing action adventure") and Kuma Uta ("you're the manager for a performing bear, which specializes in singing bland... enka music.")

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  1. Missed one of the oddest: by Thedalek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stretch Panic, from Treasure, no less.

    A demon comes along and turns all of your sisters into possesed caricatures of their former (egocentric) selves. Meanwhile, you have to battle bikini-clad women with impossibly large breasts. So big are these breasts, that these women spin them around and fly with them, as though they were helicopter blades. To defeat them, you need to grab part of their bikini and snap it.

    And, amazingly enough, it was sold here in the States.

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    1. Re:Missed one of the oddest: by Two+Scoops · · Score: 5, Funny

      But there's always been weird games. Look at Nintendo, they thought a game with a magic-powder sniffing midget would sell. "Hey Shigeru what should his sword shoot?" "More swords!"

  2. Weirdness is good by SamSim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Weirdness is good. Better than predictability, anyway. I'm much more intruiged by the idea of "space fisherman" than I am by FIFA n+1. I like imaginative things. Super Monkey Ball - though scoring roughly 1 out of 10 on the Japanese scale of weirdness - was a pretty unusual release for this country, and it was also fantastic.

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  3. Re:I'd like to see Britney Spears make a video gam by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its been done allready, duh!
    Or should that be "Doh!"?

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  4. Comments... by Canar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The odd thing about this is that it was released by a British company. Underworld's known for being very, very off the wall, so as this comes from Tomato, their design company, I'm not particularly surprised. I'm excited for it, though; I'd be interested in buying it if it meant more Underworld tracks. I wonder what CD of theirs it's most reminiscent of.

    But to play a videogame based on their music... wow!