12 Bizarre Japanese Video Games You Won’t Believe Exist
2. LSD: Dream Emulator (PlayStation)
Receiving only a limited release in Japan, Dream Emulator is more of a mind-bending psychedelic experience than a game as such. You travel around various dreamscapes (which have different randomly generated elements on each playthrough), touching objects that then take you to other dream-dimensions. You'll be wandering along a multi-coloured sky-bridge into a woman's mouth one moment, then avoiding creepy demonic babies in an area that looks like the insides of a human being, before walk around a Japanese town filled with pagodas after that. It's utterly bizarre, yet kind of mesmerising, as you literally have no idea what to expect next. Some scenes are kind of beautiful, while others are the stuff of nightmares; fitting, given that the game is based on the dream diary of its designer, Osamu Sato.
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