10 Loading Screens So Good You Forgot You Were Waiting To Play

10. Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad

Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad is a hack and slash action horror game that was released for the Xbox 360 in 2009. The game is styled after 1970s exploitation cinema, and if the name doesn't give away the campy story, you may want to read it again. It features over-the-top violence, gore, bikini-clad sword-wielding ladies, and everything you might want from such a title.

The game was not well received when it came out, and that's pretty much due to the fact that it's not very good. As IGN's review put it, it's "a digital disaster in nearly every way. It’s ugly, sounds awful, handles poorly and has a premise that is as shallow as they come."

If the game's so awful, why bother highlighting its load screen? As it happens, the load screen is arguably better than the game itself and seeing as there aren't many titles that can make that claim seriously, it had to be included for that novelty alone.

When you head into a loading screen, you drop out of the well-rendered 3D imagery and find yourself controlling a small 8-bit character who then goes on a zombie killing spree against a hoard of enemies that look a bit like Papa Smurf. It's endless, it's pointless, and it's more fun than the game you're distracting yourself from playing.