UK-based Onion Soup Interactive’s Nippon Marathon has a bit. That bit is somewhere in-between “Japan is wacky” and “bad, on purpose, is actually good.” After spending time with it over a weekend, I’m still not sure if I don’t “get” it, I’m not buying what it’s selling, or if I fell into a time portal to a distant, meme-y past. Wherever the truth lies…
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Full committal to the bit
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Occasional funny humor when it leans into non-sequitur jokes about silly things like narwhals
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Lazy "lol Japan" jokes in a world that loves Persona and Katamari
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Floppy, awkward gameplay that relies on the humor to work
