- Can we guess what these crazy Japanese video games are about?
- Let's talk about that.
♪ (theme music) ♪
-Good Mythical Morning! - Video games. They enrich our lives
and take us to other dimensions within our minds. They're basically books, but
better. Today... - You heard it here. (laughs)
- Yes. Today, we have found some of the craziest video games ever, and of course
they're all from Japan. - Yes.
- And we're gonna play a game and reveal some of these to each other and to you.
- So this is how it's gonna work. We have each prepared a short clip from the game.
It might be a section of the game trailer, it might be some of the gameplay...
- Yeah. - We're gonna show that and then using
nothing else but that we have to then guess what the game is about, and based
on how close our answer is to reality, we will award each other points.
- Okay, let's do it. - Alright, Link. Here's your first game!
- Oh my. These men need to get clothed. - (laughter)
- Musclemen, and there's a bikini-top. - There was a woman in there.
- And a sheep? (character yelling in Japanese)
- What's that, an announcer? - Look at this.
- Okay you're running through walls, and going 135 kilometers an hour, I can't read that.
How to play, I did read it! There's a football player, oh they're posing...
Okay they're chasing...oh and there's a heiney-shot. That guy ran..he's...they're...
they're hitting a wall and...he's tackling a football player. What is that?
(still Japanese yelling in background) - An alien.
- A ghost? - That was an alien. There's also a polar
bear in there. I don't know if you saw that. - I didn't even see the polar bear, I am
so overwhelmed. If the gameplay is as nearly that frenetic, people are gonna
have a heart attack playin' this thing. Bodybuilders.
- Ding ding! - Oiled down and chasing a football
player who has stolen what I believe to be like a protein powder pack.
- Whoa! - I do think, I thought it was a football
and then I looked closely and it had a lid on it, it's like okay, protein powder.
- Wow. - Okay so. Football player steals protein
powder and they bust holes through walls trying to tackle him in a set amount of time...
- Are you sure you haven't played this game before?
- Without losing their G-strings, or whatever it is.
- You are almost completely right. But you missed the main part of the game
play which is, as you're chasing the football player who stole your protein
powder... - Yes.
- ...you and all your roided-out buddies are going through the town and you have
to do certain poses to pose your way through...
- Ohhhh! - ....through the walls.
- Templates! Like somebody busts through and then you gotta fit.
- Yeah but you know what, that's a pretty good answer. I'm gonna give you a 7 out of
10 for that, because you basically got everything right except for the main
part of the gameplay which is the, you got the concept of the game right.
- Alright! - You're off to a, whoa, you're off to
a good start. - Alright, let me show you one here.
Check this out, see if you can decipher it. (upbeat video game music)
- Chickens? No that's not chickens, that's candy with faces on it.
(1, 2, 3! 3, 2, 1! in background) - Four shrimps. P. I see a "P"...
The P is still there. You. You are the animals? You are waterbugs, learning
about the letter P. (noises in music coincide with the beat)
P. Now you're on a date. With two, cheering... Is that a blimp?
- That's a blimp. That's a rocket-blimp. - There's still a P for perfect in the back.
In the upper left hand corner. - Alright Rhett, obviously you know what
this game is about, right? So, see if you can get it. I'm gonna give you
ten points if you can get it all right. - It's an educational game, about letters,
apparently only about the letter P. Teaching children about the letter P
which apparently is important in Japan. - I would...
- Because it's in the middle of the word! - I would not go the educational route...
- Japan! - ...if I were you.
- Okay, and um, it involves multiple sets of animals. Probably something to do with
cloning. Because there was sets of all of the animals. Teaching children about
cloning, the letter P, and there is some kind of Guitar Hero-ish element to it
because they were doing it to the rhythm, to the beat. So, there's a beat thing, and
it's educational for children, the letter P, maybe other letters but you just showed me
the P section. (crew laughter)
That's my answer. - Okay. Alright. This is called Rhythm
Heaven Fever released in July 2011 for the Wii, course out of Japan. It is like
a Guitar Hero rhythm game, so that's the majority, so you got the baseline right.
I haven't deciphered anything educational about it. I do not know what the P stands for.
- Japan! - The P in Japan?
- Yeah, right. - That's what it stands for? So I'm gonna
give you some points for guessing what P is 'cause I still don't know what it is.
You, there's different levels and you gotta like, you gotta hit the rhythm. So,
I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a 8 out of 10 on this thing...
- (laughing) What?! - Yeah 'cause basically it's just a bunch
of rhythm games and you got that part. - Thanks, Link!
- So. - Oh, and I didn't even tell you the name
of your game was called uh, Muscle March. It's also a Wii game.
- Okay. - 2009.
- Alright. - Okay. Wow, I'm beating you. I shouldn't be.
- You said a lot more that was wrong, maybe I should have taken some points
away. But, you got everything right... - Okay.
- ...and you made up a bunch of junk. - I'll take my 8 points and run through
the wall like
- Okay. Okay, money, cats, 50 grand, okay, cat disappeared, oh there's the cat
in the front, oh the cat is, singing? Ooh! (music and dinging in background)
Attacked by the cat, and now, okay it's a race game. And the cat has a laser...
(driving noises) ...what is that, a vacuum cleaner?
- Maybe. - And, okay so it is a racing game. But
then...the, you're in an office building..... (meowing noises)
...and you're trying to catch cats. Dodge cats. Okay.
- Uh huh. - Where the cat gonna come from
next? The box again. Okay. Eh, come here kitty! And then the cat attacks you.
- Wow, doesn't that look like fun? - Um.
- Good game, huh? - Again, there's a racing component,
there's a dodging component, there's a stealing money from cats component,
I think that this game is just, um, a world where cats have taken over and
you're the last human on Earth. - Hmm.
- And you've gotta steal their money, drive their cars, and not get sucked up in
their magical vacuum cleaner. Or, don't go in their office building 'cause they're
gonna tackle you...game. - Okay, uh, you're not that far off.
This game is called Delinquent CEO Rina. It's, you work at a place called Cat Queen
Incorporated and Rina is the boss. - So I got office.
- Uh, and you basically do a bunch of mini games like playing piano with a cat,
taking money from a cat while it's not looking...
- Got it. - ...driving a cat around while it has
a vacuum cleaner on the back... - Got it.
- ...and in general just making the new CEO, cat CEO Rina and her co-workers,
happy. So, it's a business that has been taken over by cats, not an entire world but...
- Oh. - Uh, you're pretty close so I'm gonna
give you, I'm gonna give the 8-10, I'm gonna give you 8.1. 8.1 out of 10.
- (laughter) Alright. Thank you. - Congratulations, Link.
- Thank you. Alright, uh watch this one. (deep bass music)
- Legs. What? What were those two things that....what?
- That's a clue right there. - Is that the game being played? The
thing coming from his crotch and going into that weird tunnel?
- Yeah. - There's the sun. No, it's a man's face.
It's a green man. Now, hold on. Did I see like a hourglass? This is like a...
you're goin' inside of his ear. Okay. And there's a little gingerbread man in there.
(crew laughter) - Or is it?
- Okay, the first thing. I'm taking issue with this being a game and I'm saying
that this is a Bjork music video. (Link & crew laughter)
- So, is that right? - I'm taking issue with your pronounciation
of Bjork. - Oh, B-zhjork.
(laughter) - This is a Bzhjork music video.
- So how does it work, Rhett? - I have no idea. You go inside a
green man's head, uh... - Hmm.
- ...and there's a little gingerbread man. You throw things, you throw pinwheels
from your crotch. (crew laughter)
- Why? - Because Bjork wants you to. (laughs)
(crew laughter) - That is not why. This game called
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nu was released in 1994 on the Macintosh
computer. - Oh, see, a computer.
- You are Rin, a guy who wakes up one day and his soul has been stolen. Um, so you
go to the mysterious island of Tong Nu where your soul is being held. Of course
Tong Nu
- That's the island. You gotta go inside of his head...
- Sign me up! - ...and find your soul, and bring it back out.
- My soul looks like a squished pancake? - I don't know if that...
- A square decorated pancake man? - I don't know...it looked like an owl to me.
- I hope so. (crew laughter)
So how many points do I get? - Just for getting inside of the head
I'm gonna give you 2 points, but you're getting no more than that.
- Pfff...okay. - You're gettin' 2 out of 10 for that, man.
- Great for me, okay... - Eastern Mind: Lost Soul.
- Here's yours, Link. (upbeat music)
- Hmm. A boulder? - Some nice Ska music.
- Oh there's a... - Remember when that was in style?
- Oh this is moving fast. Pink. Panda. Chills. Helicopters. Explosions. Old woman
on a surfboard. Snowboard. - That was a snowboard.
- Speed! - That was snow.
- Now the man's on a surfboard. - There she is again.
- Okay, and there's a clam with human eyes, and drama? And, a UFO. Oh and a
panda shaped hole in a building. Oh my goodness, suspense. Uh...
- Oh my goodness, suspense. (crew laughter)
- I, I'm so overwhelmed by these. Like, I'm not...
- Pretty fast paced. - I'm scared to play these things, but, okay.
A giant pink panda has taken over Tokyo... - Whaat!!!!!!
- Thanks for giving me some time to think. That hadn't happened in awhile!
- No. - And businessmen and women are competing
to try and take him out and a key thing that you gotta do is get the oyster with
the unicorn horn and the human eyeballs in order to defeat...
- Wow, you paid attention. - ...the pink panda. But you also have to like,
put dynamite on a subway? It's like that's not, that's not...
- I'm gonna stop you right there. You're wrong on most all of that.
- Oh, really? - All that happened is they forgot
grandma's birthday. (crew laughter)
It's called Incredible Crisis, 1999, PlayStation game. Uh, they forgot
grandma's birthday, so, it's a mom, dad, and boy and girl, and they all have to get
to grandma's birthday, and they have to overcome a lot of obstacles INCLUDING a
giant pink... - Panda.
- ...teddy bear that is taking over the city. - What about the human eyed oyster?
- I don't know. It's something grandma wants for her birthday, I guess.
(crew laughter) - I don't get points for that.
- We gave my grandma oysters one year. - Everything I observed, happened.
- You did observe the thing taking over the city and some elements. I'm gonna
give you a 4 out of 10 for that, but you missed the main reason of the game which
is to satisfy grandma's birthday urges. (laughter)
- Wha? How? Okay. Alright. Alright, lemme show you. Is it my turn?
I'll show you this last one. - Don't forget grandma's birthday.
- Okay. You're a fly. (jazzy music turns on)
A fly who cuts the stereo on! Girl - "Why? Why?"
(music stops) - (imitating girl) Why? Why?
Girl - "What?" - This woman is confused. I feel like
this woman is acting right now. (laughter)
- That's how I feel about this game. Why? What? Why are you sleeping on top of the
covers with your boxer-briefs on? - Watch this.
- What? It goin' in her nose? (serious music)
Battle? What? Girl - "I've had enough!"
- Her clothes changed. - She's had enough.
- Relax? - Alright, Rhett. This one's pretty obvious.
It may be I don't know. - Okay. So you're like a fly, uh who,
you've got a confused, irritated woman, and you're trying to relax her.
- Aren't they all. - You're a psychotherapist, fly. No that's...
I guess you're just a fly in some girl's apartment and she needs to relax.
Why do you relax her by biting her? - Good question.
- You need to relax the woman. It's called, Relax, Woman.
(crew laughter) - It's actually called Mr. Mosquito, released...
- Oh, it's a mosquito! - ...June 2001. This is a PlayStation 2
game, uh, you are Mr. Mosquito and you must, so you're not a fly...
- Okay. That makes sense. - ...you're a mosquito.
- There was no buzzing. - You must suck your blood quota from
the Yamata family but you can only feed from designated body areas at designated
times without maxing their "stress meters". And if they see you, they go into battle mode
and they start swatting at you. - And that's where the relax comes in.
- And you gotta get 'em to relax. So you can suck their blood while they're relaxed.
Get the blood quota. - Okay, so.
- You didn't even get mosquito! - Well, I mean, mosquitoes don't have
green wings, neither do flies though. - Flies can't start stereos, but mosquitoes
can. - True.
- Can you tell me anything you got right? - Uh, you're a bug and you're trying to get
somebody to relax. That's pretty important. - Alright I'll give you, I'm gonna give you,
I'll give you three points for that... - Oh come on!
- ...because, alright I'll give you 4 points! Just to be, just to be generous.
- Okay, so where do we stand at the end of points-giving?
Stevie - Umm...Link is uh, really in the lead. (Rhett & crew laughter)
- I'm good at this. - Okay, I don't...you've won by a lot. Congratulations.
- Alright, and what do I win? I win I get to play this game, one of these games
before you do in Good Mythical More. - Oh.
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on the WIi. Let's play! - Airdrumming that turns into a fight.
- (drum noises) - Hmm! (drum noises)
- (cymbal and drum noises) Together - (nonsensical drum noises)
(slapping sounds) Aghghgh! Ow!
- That was a fight. (crew laughter)