12 Bizarre Japanese Video Games You Won’t Believe Exist
11. Mister Mosquito (PlayStation 2)
Maybe the real reason we despise mosquitoes - whining in our ears and siphoning our blood - is because we actually want to be them, or something. This PlayStation 2 game fulfils that secret fantasy, and its universal appeal is evidenced by the fact that it was actually brought to western markets by Eidos. As you can imagine, your general mission in the game is to fly around and piss everyone off by attempting to land on peoples' flesh then taking a pinch of their blood. Kind of a neat idea, and yet there's just something uncomfortably sexual about the whole thing. Among your victims are sleeping girls with short skirts and, at one point, a busty young woman having a bath. Sure, a mosquito is indiscriminate in its victims, but then where are the old people washing themselves out on a bidet? As pervy Japanese games go, this one's relatively innocuous, so maybe I should just embrace it and enjoy the sights.
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