History Quotes / QuirkyWork

-->-- '''WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd''', referring to ''VideoGame/AttackOfTheMutantPenguins'', "Atari Jaguar (Part 2)"

-->-- '''WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd''', referring to ''VideoGame/AttackOfTheMutantPenguins''

->"...I love anything that feels like it questions the accepted orthodoxy, in either story, visuals or gameplay design. Whether it be Creator/EdmundMcMillen coming out of the lawless {{Platform/Newgrounds}} era of online content asking why a platform hero couldn't be [[VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy a sentient cube of wet meat]], or ''VideoGame/Persona5'' asking why an in-battle interface couldn't be an explosion of radiating smears rather than a neat list of options, or ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}} deconstructing the entire concept of an RPG, or of course ''VideoGame/CrueltySquad'' defying every imaginable rule of aesthetics and game design to create something weirdly captivating in the middle.\\

I wonder if my liking this kind of thing is something to do with being British]]. [[BritishStuffiness The British have a much deserved reputation for being stuffy, emotionally repressed authoritarians]], but with culture must come counter-culture, and so there's always been a matching undercurrent of anti-authoritarian resentment there that loves to see those of high status brought down a peg or two. Thus the strong presence of UsefulNotes/{{Punk}} in the 70's British music scene, the alternative comedy movement in the 80s, and in the gaming sphere, the British bedroom programmers on their Platform/Commodore64's and Platform/ZXSpectrum's in the dawn of home computing eschewed the traditional mazes and alien shooters of early video games to realise weird, anarchic, satirical concepts like ''Hover Bovver'', ''Bozo's Night Out'', and ''Attack of the Mutant Camels'', games respectively about mowing a lawn, stumbling home drunk from the pub, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an attack by some mutant camels]].\\

Oh and hey, you know what's another first-world island nation whose people have a reputation for being uptight? ''Japan!'' And I also love Japanese subversive comedy like ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' and ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' [...] and one of my favourite Japanese game developers is of course Goichi Suda, or Creator/Suda51, creator of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' and whose work more or less embodies what I think of as post-punk.

->''...I love anything that feels like it questions the accepted orthodoxy, in either story, visuals or gameplay design. Whether it be Creator/EdmundMcMillen coming out of the lawless {{Platform/Newgrounds}} era of online content asking why a platform hero couldn't be [[VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy a sentient cube of wet meat]], or ''VideoGame/Persona5'' asking why an in-battle interface couldn't be an explosion of radiating smears rather than a neat list of options, or ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}} deconstructing the entire concept of an RPG, or of course ''VideoGame/CrueltySquad'' defying every imaginable rule of aesthetics and game design to create something weirdly captivating in the middle.\\

->''[...]I love anything that feels like it questions the accepted orthodoxy, in either story, visuals or gameplay design. Whether it be Creator/EdmundMcMillen coming out of the lawless {{Platform/Newgrounds}} era of online content asking why a platform hero couldn't be [[VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy a sentient cube of wet meat]], or ''VideoGame/Persona5'' asking why an in-battle interface couldn't be an explosion of radiating smears rather than a neat list of options, or ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}} deconstructing the entire concept of an RPG, or of course ''VideoGame/CrueltySquad'' defying every imaginable rule of aesthetics and game design to create something weirdly captivating in the middle.\\

-->--'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] discussing the cultural context of quirky works in "An Explanation of 'Post-Punk' Games", ''[[WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic Semi-Ramblomatic]]''

->''"Japanese cartoons are weird, man. Though I may be on to something with that [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]]."''

->''A [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue-haired]] girl with bat wings - who I presume is the titular Remilia - produces the [[Myth/NorseMythology Gungnir]] and throws it in the air. It falls on a sleepy red-haired [[AnimeChineseGirl girl wearing stereotypical Chinese clothing]]. She almost manages to block it, but the sheer force of it still pushes her to the sky and she falls on what looks like a one-horned {{oni}}. The oni [[AmusingInjuries stabs the Chinese girl in the forehead with her horn]], and they then fall into some underground facility, where they are greeted by a black-haired girl [[WingedHumanoid with corvid wings]]. She suddenly produces [[{{BFG}} an epic-ass gun]] and shoots them with it.''\\

->''"Combine equal parts VideoGame/SuperMario64, Japanese soap opera, Series/Teletubbies, and LSD freakout. Shake (don’t stir). And pour into your Nintendo. This will approximate the effect of [[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Mystical Ninja]], the most incomprehensible of incomprehensible anime games I have ever seen."''

-->--'''A Website/YouTube comment''' on ''VideoGame/TouhouProject'' FanVid [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcB69TXMIg0 Remilia's Dangerous Gungnir in Gensokyo]]

->''A [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue-haired]] girl with bat wings - who I presume is the titular Remilia - produces the [[Myth/NorseMythology Gungnir]] and throws it in the air. It falls on a sleepy red-haired [[AnimeChineseGirl girl wearing stereotypical Chinese clothing]]. She almost manages to block it, but the sheer force of it still pushes her to the sky and she falls on what looks like a one-horned {{oni}}. The oni [[AmusingInjuries stabs the Chinese girl in the forehead with her horn]], and they then fall into some underground facility, where they are greeted by a black-haired girl [[WingedHumanoid with corvid wings]]. She suddenly produces [[{{BFG}} an epic-ass gun]] and shoots them with it.''
->''We cut to a girl with long blue hair sitting on a huge rock with a short blue-haired girl with icy wings stuck under said rock. [[StuffBlowingUp Suddenly there's an explosion]], the rock flies high into the sky, and the icy-winged girl [[CameraAbuse crashes into the camera]]. the rock falls onto [[ShrinesAndTemples a Shinto shrine]], [[BerserkButton pissing off]] [[{{Miko}}the local priestess]], who suddenly turns '''manly''' and proceeds to assault the girl with the long blue hair with [[PaperTalisman cards]] and Tao orbs. The blue-haired girl crashes through a doctor's office and ends up on some green-haired girl's flower garden, which gets ruined in the process. The green-haired girl [[BerserkButton gets pissed]] and [[MegatonPunch punches the blue-haired girl into the sky]], chases her down, and punches her again, destroying a mountain in the process. She then throws her into the sky and attempts to annihilate her with a rainbow beam from her mouth.''
->''We then cut to a different green-haired girl who is piloting a [[HumongousMecha GIANT ROBOT]], [[RuleOfCool HELL YEAH]], and showing off its moves. Suddenly the blue-haired girl hits the robot's head and it crashes into the ground. In panic, the robot's pilot accidentally presses a button that launches its [[RocketPunch rocket fists]]. One of them flies to the town and wrecks shit up, until it falls on top of another shrine. That shrine's priestess immediately [[SuperStrength throws the fist away from the shrine]], and it then flies to Remilia's house. Remilia's [[{{Meido}} maid]] immediately casts some sort of a spell that allows her to escape the scene, leaving her mistress alone [[LaserGuidedKarma to face the wrath of the giant metal fist.]]''
->''Did I miss anything?"''

->''"For those unaware [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] was actually in VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin, wielded the Lance of Longinus and [[spoiler:was actually [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]] in disguise]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I did not make any of that up.]]"''

->''"''{{Manga/Karin}}'' suffers from an issue I like to call JYAW syndrome. It stands for 'Japan, You Are WEIRD,' which is something I have to say every time I utter a plot summary like ''{{Manga/Karin}}'''s, and it means the principal reason shows like ''{{Manga/Karin}}'' ever get watched or obtain a following is simply based on their alien premise. Japan just has a knack for coming up with new types of just plain weird."''

-->--'''[[Manga/SailorMoon Queen Beryl]]''', ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''

->Wow, this could not be any more Japanese.

-->-- '''{{MovieBob}}''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2_zNrN8NE reviewing]] ''Attack of the Super Monster''

->''"There are now {{shonen}} action series being written about everything. Somewhere in the depths of a Tokyo manga café there even exists one such series about... [[YakitateJapan baking bread]]. [...] On the surface, nothing could be more stupid. And yet, it is [[NarmCharm charming.]] All because of the unmistakably Japanese thought process that might lead a character to shout, in amazement, '[[MundaneMadeAwesome I HAVE NEVER SEEN A YEAST SUCH AS THIS!]]'."''

-->-- '''[[WebVideo/VinesauceTomodachiLife Vinny]] describing ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife''

-->-- '''Justin Freeman''', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/hikaru-no-go/vol-1/by-justin-freeman reviewing]] ''HikaruNoGo''

->'''DanielRemar:''' Don't ask why. Ask why not.

->''"''{{Karin}}'' suffers from an issue I like to call JYAW syndrome. It stands for 'Japan, You Are WEIRD,' which is something I have to say every time I utter a plot summary like ''{{Karin}}'''s, and it means the principal reason shows like ''{{Karin}}'' ever get watched or obtain a following is simply based on their alien premise. Japan just has a knack for coming up with new types of just plain weird."''

-->-- ''[[http://thelastexit.net/cinema/main.html#FLCL The Great Celuloide Massacre]] on {{FLCL}}