• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Monster Party: A game which has nothing to do with Suda51

So, I watched this vid on game informer, and they brought this nes classic to my attention.
Monster_Party_Box.jpg


I did an entire playthrough of this thing, and it was quite a trip.
It's a side scrolling platformer, with a focus on boss fights.
You play as Mark, a baseball player sucked into a monster world, who's fused with a demon named Bert. Bert acts as a transformational power up. It's actually a pretty decent game all together.

monster%20party.jpg


But that's not why we're here. For those who don't know, this is one of the nuttiest video games ever made. Despite looking like a generic halloween themed game, it's loaded to the brink with craziness. You have bosses that apologize for already being dead before you can fight them. Zombies that only want you to watch them dance, and...
monster-party-u073.png

This thing. Yeah, A fried shrimp boss. He's got three forms btw, and no, none of them make sense.

Also, the most mind f*cking opening level ever. [I'd watch the whole thing, for the full effect, but skip to
3:30 or 3:40
to just get what I'm talking about]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vzxyVkIos34
Monster_Party_by_Kappa02.jpg


But, where am I getting the Suda connection, you might ask?
suda0927.jpg


Well, he didn't actually work on the game. But, his first company that he was involved with, Human entertainment, did. And, purportedly, Suda was even mentored by the head of the game's dev team.
Not to mention, the game contains a multitude of 'Suda' tropes. Like bosses you can't fight, punk culture, references to old movies, and scorpions.

So, pretty interesting, right? [I hope this hasn't been done before here, but I couldn't find it. Lock if you have to, mods.]
 
Oh my god, that makes perfect sense. Even when I originally traded in my NES, as a kid, I still kept my copy of this game.

You fight a shrimp.

A SHRIMP.
 
Really great game. Just got a new copy recently.

When I first "fought" the boss that said "sorry, I'm dead", I knew it was something special.
 
So now he's getting his name slapped on stuff retroactively we know he didn't direct. Splendid.
 
Played the crap out of this when I was a kid. Probably the funniest crouch-walk animation in a game.

Is this a Suda joint, or is it the joint that influenced Suda?
 
I rented this game all the time as a kid. I loved the hell out of it but always felt like I was doing something wrong while playing it. I wish developers were able to make such random things for me to play still.
 
IIRC some of the weird shit were meant to be parodies that they had to change out for whatever reason. Like the venus flytrap boss in a prototype version of the game was straight up Aubrey from Lil Shop of Horrors
 
*blink* *blink* Wow... 5 year old me really missed out! Thanks for bringing this to my attention, OP - must try and track down a copy now! Looks absolutely fantastic.
 
I... am a slowpoke

The game kind of sucks really, but it's definitely one of my most memorable childhood games and still worth playing for novelty's sake
 
Top Bottom