Top 10 Video Games that Stand Out as Being the Weirdest of an Already Extremely Weird Series
It's debatable whether or not Undertale actually is part of the Earthbound series, so that one's being left out for now.Literally the only way Wario Ware could have gotten weirder; make you have to tilt your Game Boy Advance (or preferably DS) in literally every possible two-dimensional angle imaginable in order to play it
(also, Wario's superhero outfit, also featured as his Final Smash in SSB Brawl; no more needs to be said)
They look derpy
First five stages of Parappa 1: Parappa gets rap training from the local karate dojo (ruled over by an anthropomorphic Chinese-mustached onion, of course),
gets his driving lessons from an angry drill-sergeant moose, crashes his old car and goes to a smelly old reggae-singing stoner frog's flea market to get a new one, then bakes a seafood cake, then raps about how he has to take a dump after eating it
First five stages of Parappa 2: Parappa cooks burgers with the morbidly obese and wizard-bearded ghost of an alarmingly narcissistic old Scandinavian man with a butt fetish, French-kisses a teddy bear, is grown to planet size (mostly through leg length, no less) alongside Barry White in ant form, goes to literal boot camp (complete with giant boob jump-ropes) with yet ANOTHER angry drill-sergeant moose who wears a tutu on top of her military uniform while also wearing rollerskates, then goes to the local ambiguously homosexual stereotypically Mexican anthropomorphic ...more
The game has an actual level in which Jim dons a salamander costume (that somehow causes him to transform into an ACTUAL salamander, no less) and swims through an anthropomorphic stomach's summer home (made out of water-flooded intestines with a very unhealthy number of pencils and pinball bumpers with his and his own archnemesis' faces emblazoned upon them, on a planet with a seemingly infinite number of moons judging from what Jim can see through the windows, no less) while shooting exploding sheep-balloon antibodies with a ray gun that he's holding with his feet...
which, of course, leads him into a hilariously rigged quiz game in which mostly all of the answers are basically the exact opposite of what they should be and the guy giving the questions is a one-eyed decapitated human head. Seriously, no more needs to be said.
Between the general look and feel of the cutscenes and the concept behind the actual gameplay itself, I'd say that this game is PRETTY flipping far beyond saving
If you think the regular game is unsettling, just TRY playing the Undertale creator's Halloween Hack of it
DISCLAIMER: Though Undertale technically isn't part of any non-fangame series yet, it's actually a MUCH weirder game premise-wise than this is for the most part; it just doesn't have nearly as off-putting and bizarre of a tone (again, for the most part; looking at you six in particular, Omega Flowey and the Amalgamates)
Between the art style, the CD tracks, the boss designs, the incredibly bizarre distortion effects on the music, the face minigame, the "Wario's mom" ending, Wario's "amusing injury" abilities, some of the level premises, and quite a few songs from the main game, there's almost as much weirdness in this game as there is in ME (which is not only REALLY saying something but also probably has quite a bit of historical truth to it, as this IS in fact one of the games that I grew up with the most out of all of the ones I've played)
THE most hilariously awkward example of "Rule 34 in space shooter form"
One of the first and most hilariously awkward examples of "Rule 34 in Space Shooter form"; also (for whatever asinine reason) feels the unbearable need to classify such ridiculous things as giant blue penguins (without any muscles or genitals whatsoever, and also shaped just like King Dedede) with toilets on top of their heads as "sexy"
The one game in the series where I can safely say that pretty much EVERYONE in the character cast (besides Fuyuhiko, Chiaki and maybe Gundham) is a total creep in at least some way or another; the "Total Drama Island meets Five Nights At Freddy's meets Persona meets Phoenix Wright meets The Matrix" storyline doesn't exactly help the game's weirdness either (nor does the return of Junk Food For A Dashing Youth AKA 100 Mile Junk Food Dash into its soundtrack, for that matter)
Very, very weird game, and Mario Land is kinda weird
Trust me, the game's Bowser vore fetish is just the beginning (I wanted to put Dream Team instead, but the fact that its premise is executed so boringly and generically keeps it from being top 10 material in my opinion)
But it was also my favorite of the series