10 Video Game Genre Flips That Blew Our MIND

Certainly, most gamers worth their salt are fully aware of this critically lambasted game’s (2.0/10 from IGN) weirder-than-weird redemption arc. But for those that don’t: it was a terrible game with a story was so full of adorable quirks and goofiness that it became a so-bad-it’s-sort-of-charming white buffalo of gaming (think The Room of video games).

Blatantly ripping off the premise of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s iconic Twin Peaks TV show, it has special agent Francis York Morgan arriving in a small American town to investigate a nefarious murder, only to discover dark supernatural elements. It reads quite genric actually.

Well, cult developer Swery65 then proceeds to throw every popular genre of the late 2000s - survival horror, dating sim, open-world action, life sim, detective mystery - into a blender and flicks it to purée level. What comes out is a funky-smelling paste that does all of these things, and absolutely none of them particularly well.

Amazingly, you tolerate the bad, because the game is filled with such adorably odd characters and dialogue that you can’t help but sort of like it - and want to see how its ludicrous plot unravels. It has to be played to be believed... but you all know that by now.