Strange Finds- Non Sense!

Holy God, how high am I?

Parodious: Non-Sense Fantasy
1992 Konami
SNES (maybe others but I'm not sure)

A lot of crazy ideas come out of the land of the rising sun, Japan. From porn cartoons (that I love) to comic books for grown up, eccentricity is never in short supply, America still has yet to realize the potential for great hentai.

Video games is one of the main mediums that tell us that a Japanese mind for creativity is a very active place. NO idea is too weird for them. This is in no way me insulting them, in fact this is me THANKING them for coming up for ideas that are weird and fun as hell to play.

Mario is a fantastic example. Adventures of an Italian plumber that squashes killer mushrooms, travels underground and risks it all to save a princess from a giant turtle. Drug fueled? It has to be. The best music comes from drug use, why not video games? The latest Mario games have hula dancing jelly beans and Mario flying after eating a special mushroom. Jimi Hendrix never had trips so good.

Strange ideas are universal and not new, enter Parodious:Non-Sense Fantasy. Appropriately titled, because NONE of it makes sense, but that is the charm to it all. Remember the game Gradius? well this is a shump game just like it, a space ship based shotter that take you into the deepest reaches of the galaxy and throws you line after line of ships. But this isn't a typical shump, oh no this game falls into a different set of genre, a genre that I just can't fuckin explain.

This game gives you spaceships pick, or a flying octopus, or a bird. These objects fly through space and shoot at the following:

Penguins

Monkey heads

Las Vegas Showgirls

Alien space craft that look like treasure chests

Giant pirate ships with kitten faces

the list goes on and on...

Weird weird weird. You gather power-ups along that way that give you the serious things like the Gradius 3 'options' that circle around your ship, or you get special weapons, like a giant horn on the from of your space ship that sound out and spells things like:

No sushi tonight!

Toaster overheated!

Huh! Garlic Breath!!!

This game doesn't have that 'stage' style of gaming that pauses, its very very linear and fast moving. Cute sounds assault your ear with explosions and kiddy voices in Japanese accents that let you know when you've scored. There is so much hellishly odd shit going on with the screen that you can die simply by getting distracted with all the pretty colors. I love this game and yet I can only take it in small doses.

No story, no sense. If you want to play something that totally will blow your mind, make you laugh or help you get through those bong hits that you ripped while messing with your SNES- play Parodious: Non Sense Fantasy.