(Personal) Trash Canon
Video games that are not good but that have cemented themselves in my mind as particularly memorable, either through being a whole other level of dogshit, being important to me growing up or having some bizarre redeeming/interesting qualities.
25 Games
A fucking horrendous fighting game (you have to play the story mode to unlock special moves? Some moves can just permanently trap someone in block if you get them in the corner and keep spamming it) but it is commendable on two fronts: firstly, the bizarre psychoanalysis the game provides to describe you based on who you pick on the character select screen, and secondly, the time and effort put into lovingly animating the one female character in the game doing sexy nubile yoga (also on the character select screen).
growing up my sister was fucking obsessed with That's So Raven. My parents bought her an MP3 player and there was not a second of music on it based on what I overheard on car rides; it was just filled with audio of That's So Raven clips that she would laugh at because she had the show memorized beat for beat and could sync up the visual gags and dialogue in her head. When I first got my GBA (she had one for a few years prior to me) she gave me this game as a birthday gift and told me I could keep it. That may seem wildly out of character for someone who loved Raven's misadventures so much (this game lets you reenact certain scenes form the show!) but it makes sense when you realize: it is a very bad video game. Remarkably so! It has stealth sections! I think it kind of accurately captures the spirit of the show but I don't care for That's So Raven so that's sorta lost on me.
Charlotte's Web is a story that is important to a lot of people and I read it as a small child. When I remember the events of the book, they don't appear as the illustrations that accompanied them; they take the form of the stages in this game. Charlotte's Web, within my memory, is a story about a lovable pig who has to make several perfectly timed consecutive jumps or else he'll be slaughtered. I don't even remember what the spider does
I have a personal history with this game that I will not go into. It's not notable for doing anything particularly interestingly or strange, it's just aggressively terrible and unpleasant to play. No one remembers it and it should remain that way.
Has perhaps the most offensive character in any fighting game I'm aware of, an SS officer who screams "NAZI!" with every punch he throws, who fucking heils every time he wins, and who has a move called "Super Secret Nazi Kill" where he shoots an energy swastika at you. It's godawful but you cannot deny that it's memorable.
the Ones may be forgotten, but this game and the PewDiePie quote EDM remix you can trigger in the intro area will never leave my memory
a horribly controlling, playing and feeling action RPG that somehow manages to have astoundingly cool art direction and a Les Claypool soundtrack. It genuinely rules that The Spore Wars exists so that there's a pretty good game that includes those things as well!
A bonding experience for you and whoever you're playing it with. A disastrous mess that's just bearable enough to be playable and uniquely awful enough to be a blast to experience with other people
imagine how excited I was when I discovered as a child that they made my favorite game at the local arcade into a game I could play on my Wii! Imagine.
PS1 Hagrid
JK Rowling knew I was going to grow up to have gender dysphoria so she made the Game Boy version of this game to try and hurt me
you can get the bad ending in this game by not trusting and aiding a character that you spend a section of the game proving is a registered sex offender
I spent like 3 months trying to finish this as a child, loved every second of it, got to the end and felt nothing.
Haven't actually finished this one yet, gonna restart it when I have the time, but holy shit this is how you follow up Virtue's Last Reward. Just go the Saw route of progressively making your sequels worse while also somehow making them more entertaining by virtue of being more batshit. It's probably fitting that this is the most Saw-like entry in the series! I kinda love it for being an awful narrative failure that's trying too hard to be clever and surprising, and no amount of stilted animation or ridiculous delivery can change that.
Not actually a "bad" game per se, but it's at times incredibly sleezey and at others ridiculously stupid. It's at its most entertaining when it's being embarrassing, but it manages to deliver enough genuine drama and has a bangin' OST so it's honestly elevated a little above some of the other stuff on this list.
Racist, but in consistently interesting ways
God is bigger than the, boogeyman/He's bigger than Godzilla or the monsters on TV!
WarioWare but worse and with Nevil
a true wonder to behold. Mr. Neighbor will get stuck on the level geometry and just start screaming because the game thinks you're throwing things at him repeatedly. He'll walk in front of a bucket and punt it out of bounds. You'll try to solve a puzzle the way it was intended to be solved and the physics just won't work even slightly. A masterpiece. A defining work in its genre.
a competently made game where the target audience is primarily 6th graders with inattentive computer lab teachers, and where like all the content is generated by the playerbase. I think this game's community created levels are the single cultural micro-niche where people still care about hating Justin Bieber even slightly
a game entirely comprised of quick time events but if you fail them you usually get kicked directly in the testicles or farted on. I mean that's worth something right
which minigame was your favorite. I liked the one where Crash killed Spyro with dynamite
It's so fucking funny that they clearly wanted to have the Kim Possible opening play before the title screen but they couldn't fit it on the cart so instead there's just a clipped section of the last six seconds of it sloppily clipped and played at 144p
this one's free. Not interesting for its content, but interesting for the story surrounding its development and reception.
after all this time, I still don't know what "Operation Penguin" really was. What were they trying to accomplish here
Erato_Heti
11 months ago