In the Trier original, ghosts (representing childhood traumas) ceaselessly haunt the big-mouthed main character. There is no way to win and no points to collect. Pac-Man is repeatedly raped by former childhood friends.
Mario 64 (N64)
Working class plumber Mario faces conspires to embarrass bourgeois Princess Peach by staging an elaborate kidnapping with his cantankerous friend Bowser (also represented by an angry dog chained to the castle tower).
Things go awry when Mario's staged rescue attempt is hampered as he loses himself in an ever expanding labyrinth of the Princess' castle while being filmed by an invasive camera crew. After completing a series of 15 mysterious painting themed levels, Mario comes face to face with Bowser only to find the princess brutally raped and murdered. Mario hangs himself while Bowser lands a prominent job as the assistant attache to the Minister of Finance.
Fresh Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (DS)
The game is more or less unchanged up until the point Tingle gets his trademark costume. Tingle never meets Old Man Rupee and instead lives a long meaningless life in a world consumed by greed.
Tingle is shot by a random drive-by-shooting in the last three minutes of the game.
Gears of War (Xbox360)
A team of space marines land on a distant alien planet to do battle with a terrifying alien force. You control each team member as they split up into mobile teams. Throughout, instead of aliens, the team ends up in terrifying dreams from their military past. Consumed by madness, and unable to distinguish reality from fantasy they slowly kill one another off until only a handful remain. Alyssa, the straw-haired slim optimist of the group tries to get them to work together to overcome the all-encompassing madness. She is ignored and raped by each of the remaining marines in turn and then forced to watch while her father and children are forced into the white slave trade.
Eventually the slavering alien hoards do come, and it turns out Alyssa is one of them. In the final epic boss fight, Alyssa and the aliens methodically tear to shreds and eat each of the remaining marines. Their families hang themselves.
I get it, there are a few people in IRC who got it. Pretty clever. I wouldn't expect you to get many comments from people who do though, as you said it's "obscure", as such it's not widely known and won't be widely understood.
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aaaaaand...that's two blogs in rapid succession that make no sense whatsoever.
My thoughts exactly.
This one makes perfect sense if you've seen a little Lars Trier. The last one is called Reductio Ad Absurdum.
Although maybe I'm on the wrong site for obscure game/film references.
I get it, there are a few people in IRC who got it. Pretty clever. I wouldn't expect you to get many comments from people who do though, as you said it's "obscure", as such it's not widely known and won't be widely understood.
I laughed but I am pretentious.
Ha, okay, good enough for me.
What? How is it possible that so few people heard of Lars Von Trier? Christ, he's one of the most well known directors of the last centurty.
Great blog! Riket is the shit btw.
Bjork is hung at the end of each game.
And am I the only one that actually thinks some of these are awesome game ideas?