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

[0p3rati0n]

Damn topic title made me spill my drink and spit it into my monitor

you sir deserver a cookie for that spit take!

Spoiler: cookie

 

[Hayate_GT]

sounds like the gay version of a Katamari game...now i can't get the phrase "burstin with man juice" outa my head...im goin to go bathe now...

 

[qbanknight]

oh you crazy japanese

 

[MR T3D]

I can't not laugh at this.
this is quite amusing.
not my kind of game, but hey, it's not that violent, just some homosexually suggestive language.
I'm man enough to not be bothered by it, ARE YOU?

 

[bakonslayer]

I am very happy that the Cho Aniki series is coming to North America. It's been around for forever, better now than never for one of the funniest Japanese game series ever.

It's the politician's guilty pleasure game.

 

[The Great JT]

When will Japan learn that their pop culture is not like ours? We don't enjoy large, sweaty men in speedos.

Not all of us, anyway.

 

[Flour]

Now I'm just confused.

Some games are weird, but this goes to a whole new level.

I second this remark.

OT: It's like the devs got together and said, "Hey guys, let's see if we can make a game that will scare/disgust/confuse pretty much every gaming demographic at once". I actually can't see how this sort of game would appeal to people (and don't say anything about the gay market, because they actually have taste, which means they'll just view this as silly. Maybe fans of yaoi will like it, though.).

It's the latest game of a series that started on the PC Engine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16]. Of course, that doesn't say much since there are maybe five games(that I know of) with the one before this being released on the PS2. So for some reason people do buy these games, if only for the fact of owning one of the most horrible games ever made.(and it's great at parties, only risk is losing all your friends)

 

[bobknowsall]

It's like the devs got together and said, "Hey guys, let's see if we can make a game that will scare/disgust/confuse pretty much every gaming demographic at once". I actually can't see how this sort of game would appeal to people (and don't say anything about the gay market, because they actually have taste, which means they'll just view this as silly. Maybe fans of yaoi will like it, though.).

The Japanese development studios have always been afforded more artistic liberties by their publishers. Maybe because they don't have to deal with uneducated [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.165933-Frumpy-Mom-Says-Videogames-Made-by-the-Devil]morons[/a] [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97357-Frumpy-Mom-Responds-To-Attacks]attacking[/a] their work.

Regardless, this game at least looks more unique than [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/stolen-pixels/6802-Stolen-Pixels-145-Re-Your-Box-Art]Space Marines 7: Shooting Things in Space[/a], id est what most mainstream western developers are currently churning out. If it wasn't widely considered to be terrible in Japan, I might have bought it.

You see, I wouldn't mind "artistic liberties" if they produced something that looked halfway good. An intensely homoerotic side-scrolling shooter does not strike me as a particularly good idea. I mean, it's not even the homoeroticism that bothers me, but the way it's being presented. It's actually quite repulsive.

Wait a sec, the Japanese hate it? Hoo boy, it is going to get eviscerated here.

 

[bobknowsall]

Now I'm just confused.

Some games are weird, but this goes to a whole new level.

I second this remark.

OT: It's like the devs got together and said, "Hey guys, let's see if we can make a game that will scare/disgust/confuse pretty much every gaming demographic at once". I actually can't see how this sort of game would appeal to people (and don't say anything about the gay market, because they actually have taste, which means they'll just view this as silly. Maybe fans of yaoi will like it, though.).

It's the latest game of a series that started on the PC Engine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16]. Of course, that doesn't say much since there are maybe five games(that I know of) with the one before this being released on the PS2. So for some reason people do buy these games, if only for the fact of owning one of the most horrible games ever made.(and it's great at parties, only risk is losing all your friends)

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

 

[samsonguy920]

Well I definitely have new respect for the ESRB, with what they have to go through. Definitely off the wall lunacy in this one. I did get sudden flashbacks of Muscle March, tho that might be more because Tom was nice enough to remind us of that farce. Thanks, Tom.

 

[James Hueick]

Why would you even create a boss that's a man orgy, its like creating hot coffee, oh wait they did!

 

[Valiance]

That ESRB rating summary implies that the game is pretty, um, homosexually suggestive?

Granted, I'm sure it's all in good fun and is hilarious, but I think it's pretty funny that the game is seriously like "It's rated T because of man-juice and revealing outfits."

 

[Hallow'sEve]

I....I so want this game, I bet it'll be a real mindfuck : D

 

[Skops]

I don't know what i just read...

 

[ottenni]

Imagine playing that while listening to 'I want to take you to a gay bar'. That would be funny.
Other than that, well at least they get the liberty to do what they want, and i respect that.

 

[ultrachicken]

What we're those devs smoking?

 

[duchaked]

The ESRB has a tough job lately. First the organization had to face WiiWare's Muscle March [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97014-Polar-Bears-Flex-in-New-Muscle-March-Footage]...
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hahaha this made me chuckle...nice way of putting it

 

[Seven Bottles Of Gin On The Wall]

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?"

This just made my morning :]