20 Weirdest Licensed Video Games EVER
11. The Ring: Terror's Realm
Partly responsible for launching J-Horror in the West, Koji Suzuki's Ringu franchise is one of the most beloved and highly-regarded properties in Eastern horror. Originally starting out its life as series of novels before garnering international acclaim with the 1998 film, Ringu has lived a life far beyond what its creator originally envisaged.
And like any highly popular IP, it wasn't long before the video game world came a-knockin', which resulted in The Ring: Terror's Realm, a Dreamcast exclusive that hit the shelves in 2000, two years after the original film's release.
For those amongst you that are expecting the creeping dread of the film to be present in the game, you're going to be highly disappointed as Terror's Realm is the very definition of generic survival-horror - complete with clunky controls, infuriating combat mechanics, poor voice-acting and puzzles that barely get your neurons firing.
On top of all that, the game seems to be bear very little resemblance to the books and film that inspired it, with players having to battle a variety of under-designed monsters in drab environments. For both fans of the franchise and those who just enjoy old-school survival horror, this is definitely one to avoid.