/vr/ - Retro Games

Oh No! is yet another of those supremely weird Japanese games. For some reason, the father of a typical Japanese family decides to go without clothes and starts walking around in his underwear. His son happily follows suit. Eventually the underwear craze seems to catch on around the neighborhood, so three underwear-donning men burst out of their homes and start parading down the street.

In Oh No! you control three characters who are constantly moving up a vertically scrolling 3D stage in urban Japan. You must change the formation in which the three characters move to avoid obstacles, nab tasty hamburgers (watch out for the dangerous puffer fish hamburgers), and eventually make it to the finish. The game also has a multi-player battle mode and a "Love" mode where boys duke it out with girls.

The whole game is presented in a likeable cartoon aesthetic and the characters themselves move like flat paper cut-outs, similar to games like Paper Mario or Parappa the Rapper, which is fitting for Oh No!'s whimsical sense of humor. It requires no Japanese knowledge to play.