YMMV / Takeshi's Challenge

• Common Knowledge: You don't have to sing "Rain of Tears" three times in a row at the karaoke bar, as there are three other songs you can choose: "Cat Experience", "Okinawa Yunta" and "Hato Poppo"—any combination of three songs will progress the game.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Takeshi Kitano making this game where the player can kill anyone (and getting killed) became this if you consider his role in the film version of Battle Royale.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The creator of the game in the ending basically takes a jab at people who dedicate so much of their time just to finish a video game and find all of its secrets no matter how bad the game is.
  • The idea of Takeshi Kitano hating video games is pretty funny considering he would go on to play a character in Yakuza 6.
• Magnificent Bastard: The old man appears before the salaryman at a karaoke bar to hand him a treasure map. Using the salaryman to solve the map’s arbitrary riddle in order to reveal the treasure’s location, should the old man not be killed, he will secretly follow the salaryman to the treasure, killing him at the end of his adventure so that he can claim the riches for himself.
• So Bad, It's Good: This game's a fairly well known kuso-ge, confessing right on the title screen to being created by a man who hates video games, and it's well known for being completely unfair and requiring the player to do a long series of purposefully obtuse actions. It was also intended by Takeshi Kitano to be purposefully bad, and is basically just him trolling the player the entire game.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It may be a generic looking Famicom game, but with all the stuff you can do in it, it's not something a kid will really understand.

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