Gaming's most ludicrous storylines
Drunken space 💧deities, per♋versive cameramen and 100ft babes... madness abounds in our crazy roundup
Sept 21, 2007
Videogames are, on the whole, nuts. But we love the ludicrous excesses of our games - after all, they're not textbooks, they're entertainment. Yet when it comes to the actual storylines, some games are far more barmy than others.
Mario, for instance, is pretty straightforward when you get down to it - man saves princess. It's just wrapped up in a cohesive fantasy world.So⭕metimes, though, the line between 'fantasy' and 'lock me up please nurse I'm a nutjob' isn't so much crossed as obliterated completely.
In some games the plot is so gloriously unhinged, the story so incredibly wrongheaded ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚor the narrative so irrationally𝓰 stupid that you just have to smile in befuddled amusement. Mario might push the realism-envelope, but the following games take ridiculousness to a whole new level...
SIMPLE 2000 SERIES VOL. 50: THE DAIBIJIN | PlayStation 2
'Experimental' doesn't go far enough to cover this tale of a God🅰zilla-esque beaut♏y who wreaks havoc across Japan.
The short version
A giant menace is terrorising south♐ Japan, destroying everything it finds. But it's no humongous fiend - this skyscraper-sized threat is Riho Futaba, a young girl clad in nothing🧜 but a skimpy blue bikini!
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Some strange and myste🍸rious force has inexplicably caused her to grow to the towering height of 48 meters (miraculously enlarging her swimsuit in the process) bestowing her with both a destructive beam that shoots from her hands and a bad temper monstrous enough to match her mammoth form. It's up to you to slow her down by piloting a variety of Army vehicles, then take enough photos of Riho's semi-naked form to discover what caused her to become so gigantic.
The short version, shortened
B🐟ikini-clad girl colossus runs riot. Can you ♍resist the urge to gawp at her zeppelin-sized norks in order to save Tokyo?
Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a 🅠different era of video games.